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1.
Racer (5:10)
“Take it easy, take it slow, you don’t need to hurry so
You’ll get where you need to go, quit rushing.”
I heard these words every single day of my life
And they drove me crazy, cause there’s someone
Living deep inside, and she’s calling:
She sings out to me when I lay down to sleep
She raises me shaking from my head to my feet
She pulls me to the edge and she sound so sweet, I’m flying
There’s a racer inside me and I can’t slow her down.
“Girl, you’re gonna get in trouble, wild-eyed twitcher, taking stairs on the double
Chewing your fingers, go look in the mirror, now aren’t you shamed?
You’ll scare off any would-be mate the way you inhale food right off your plate
In a lonely hurry you’ll find too late you’ve got haste to blame.”
But these words mean nothing when there’s something screaming
To be heard and heeded, and this is no dream
And whenever I try and quiet her, it seems I’m dying
There’s a racer inside me and I can’t slow her down
She moves fast, but she sees everything
She won’t last, if I won’t let her bring
All that she can do into my life…will go with her
My hair is blowing, my nose is red-
My best friend told me that I look half dead
There’s a sweet wild song playing through my head again and again
They’ll take my running if they take me at all
I’m on the other side of the compound wall
I may stumble and sometimes fall but somehow
I know that little song is about my soul
Though you might think I lost control,
But the singer’s asking how it feels to be whole—well, I’m trying
There’s a racer inside m and I can’t slow her down
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2.
Black Crow (3:37)
Black crow, crossing a slate sky
Black crow, crossing a slate sky
Half the country’s burning down, we don’t know why
Brown water covering our town
Muddy brown water climbing up our town
Yesterday was tinder dry, today we’re about to drown
Forces way out beyond us are having a whirl
Asking us to decide to belong to this world
Sea green, bring it to our door
Sea green, bring it to our door
Take the poison in so deep, wash the sickness up on shore
Red scare, sneaking back ‘round
Red scare, sneaking back ‘round
Hate is bound to snowball, you’ve got to listen to the sound
Of white lies crossing a man’s lips
White lies crossing a man’s li[s
He’s supposed to win our trust, how far does he think we’ve slipped?
I heard you say we’re too smart to be in such a haze
If it’s so clear why are we still her feeling crazed?
Blue time, don’t linger too long
Blue time, don’t linger too long
Got to get the madness out, got to move to stay strong
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3.
Coming Clear (4:46)
How could I know that you loved me
You never so much as smiled
Your hears not exactly an open book
Wild, wary and wild
I have no savior’s ambitions
I’m not so noble these days
If you want to know me, the next move’s yours
You will find the ways
Yes, it’s hard, but no harder for you than it was for me
Once your heart danced, but it didn’t work out like you planned
I’ve gone so far past halfway that I met myself coming back
I won’t do that again for any lover or friend
So don’t you go ask me to read your mind
Or serve up enough trust for two
If I’m not worth taking a chance on love
Oh boy, then I don’t need you
I see your pain and your longing
I feel the pull of it all
But there’s something making me slow way down
It’s my own heart’s call…can you hear it al all?
How could I know that you loved me?
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4.
New Beltane Boogie (1:55)
Make a little fire (jump over it!)
Take a big leap (jump over it!)
Grab your baby’s hand (jump over it!)
This is the time for love
Write your troubles down
Fold ‘em up small
Put ‘em to the flame
This is the time for love
All through the world, blood’s running how tonight
This is the time for lovers all over the world
Caught your little wink
Twinkle and a smile
In the fire’s glow
This is the time for love
Any little kiss
Goes a long way
On the shortest night
This is the time for love
Love’s waited so long, whispered all through the day
Whispered “This is the time for lovers all over the world!”
Moon is so new
Time to start fresh
Chances are good
This is the time for love
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5.
Gotta Get Down (2:38)
I’ve got a fist full of airline tickets
Payment conveniently deferred
How come the less money I’ve got to spend
The more I’m a customer preferred
Do you think it might be some kind of set up
The way you’ve gotta get down to get up
Got phone calls at seven, the big interview’s at eight
Then there’s lunch with photographers at twelve-fifteen
Forget the nap or you’ll be late
But whenever this hustle gets you fed up
Remember you’ve gotta get down to get up
Go red, go green, go black, go white
Sometimes a body’s got to choose
Will I kneel and pray or stand and fight
Or just blow my final fuse
Poor planet’s crying uncle
You know, it’s all been told
It takes big teeth to bite the earth
And we’ve had a vicious hold
Now she’s shaking us until we let up
Saying “You gotta get down to get up!”
Turn me loose on my living room floor
That’s where I synthesize my blues
It’s just me and that sweet, sweet music
Reminding me how to move
It’s something I learned since we met up
You’ve gotta get down to get up
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6.
Persephone's Song (4:44)
Sun’s been shining for weeks on end
You say “ Isn’t that lovely, aren’t we lucky, my friend?”
But I want something more like the night
I’m so tired, tired of the light
I know you hope it stays
But I need my rainy days
So bring those heavy skies, roll ‘em right in
You can lay ‘em right on me with a chilly, wet wind
Let them open while I shut down
They drive me, drive me underground
I know these aren’t your ways But I need my rainy days.
I can’t dream with this hot sun gleaming
Or bury myself in a blanket or two
Can’t go in when the light is streaming
I mean way inside, many things to do
So many dreams to keep
It gets so quiet when I go real deep
My heart’s not broken, I’m fine and I’m free
So you can stop asking what is wrong with me
Too damn much color and light, that’s all
It numbs me, numbs me till I call
For the beauty, the beauty in the grays
And I need my rainy days.
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7.
Right From the Start (2:46)
I did not know you well, when we first kissed
Hell, I hardly knew myself before all this
Yours is the dearest smile, that I do know
I’d like to stay around, see how things go
I believe there are words, simple yet strong
When they are spoken true, they fall like song
Onto the waiting ear, into the heart
Just like those words you spoke, right from the start
People they’re leaving like trains every hour
So restlessly chasing those dreams that devour
Everything here and now waiting to show
The world in the journey of taking it slow
So here is some time, it’s not always so cruel
You take it with care and you’ll not be its fool
It’s the wasting then wanting that tears us apart’
When time has made room for us right from the start
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8.
Anniversary (4:12)
Uneven as the treeline, you and I
Ragged and reaching toward the sky
Traveling in circles, it’s the path of the heart
Sometimes circling closer, sometimes further apart
Marbles by the choices we have made alone
Grown stronger, but never turned to stone
Fears we each have faced alone in the night
Those we’ve shed together, startled into the light
I will never know you well enough
Joy so vast and yet such pain as we learn love
All the days and nights of fierce sweet dances our bodies chose
Still I wake beside you, love, and my wonder grows
Mind how the stranger’s touch can be filled with fire
How the unfamiliar may kindle desire
There’s no new encounter near as wild as this
When I dive into the ocean of your kess
So welcome is the angry word, if it be for gain
Kinder still than silence when answering pain
May such words be spoken that will heal us strong
May we trust the laughter as it moves us along
Uneven as the treeline, you and I
Ragged and reaching toward the sky
Traveling in circles, it’s the path of the heart
Sometimes circling closer, sometimes further apart
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9.
Want To Shine (3:22)
Every time that life gets hard
Everything is in my way
If you happen through my day—give me a sign
When I hold the joker’s card
But I do not get the joke
Quick, before my heart goes broke—throw me a line
This isn’t easy, I’ve never asked for help before
If you refuse me, I’ll get through
Hey, don’t I sound proud, how do I look way down here
Cryin’ it out loud, I need you
I have come a little scarred
To a place where light comes through
Now and then it comes from you—that’s just fine
Strength can be a prison yard
Running in the open air
Suddenly a wall is there—that one’s mine
All of the bad dreams, I wouldn’t say they’ve come true
But thee were some sad scenes, just the same
Well, I wouldn’t tell you, but you are standing right here
Seems like I must have called your name
When I do let down my guard
Knowing it will all go by
Then you’ll look into my eyes—you’ll see me shine
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10.
Visitor On Solstice Eve (4:21)
I woke up this day, heavy from my dreaming
Sleep was hard to shake, though the light was streaming
So the longest day opens strange before me
And I cannot swear that I feel its glory
Weary with dreaming the anguish and tears of the world
Scenes of starvation and death linger near but there was a girl
Quite a radiant girl, now that I recall her
Wrapped in yellow shawl, smiling in the squalor
Her eyes burned with love for all life around her
And it seemed she’d heal anyone who found her
I ran the dreamer’s run, seeming to stay in one lace
Sure she was lost to me, yet in a moment we stood face to face
I grew cold and weak though my heart was pounding
She took off her shawl and she placed it round me
Oh my heavy heart and my feet they left ground
And a garden bloomed everywhere they touched down
How could I ever have forgotten the sound of her voice
How could I waken in total despair with so clear a choice
I will take a rose and my wish accord her
I will kiss it once at the river’s border
In the deepest day as the long light withers
I will cast the rose in the willing river
The river is laughing the sweet yellow laugh of a girl
I hear my own voice singing loud a the sun as it dips from my world
I woke up this day with my spirit screaming
I lay down this short night ready for my dreaming
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11.
Tired of Going (3:54)
There once were eagles on Eagle Hill
Tired of going, tired of going
When the wind is willing, you’ll hear them still
Tired of going away
The winter maples are hung with stars
Tired of going, tired of going
One hold Venus, the other sports Mars
Tired of going away
The heart’s own light, it can ease the way
Tired of going, tired of going
When a midnight ramble can seem like day
Tired of going away
I’ve thrown all my locks in a roadside pool
Tired of going, tired of going
My windows stay dusty so the birds aren’t fooled
Tired of going away
You’ve seen the dance of a well-rooted tree
Tired of going, tired of going
Perhaps it’s the nearest to truly free
Tired of going away
I’ve flung my heart to an Island’s call
Tired of going, tired of going
If she’ll take me, there’s no need to stall
Tired of going away
Two eagles flew in my dream last night
Tired of going, tired of going
I woke up with a smile just before daylight
Tired of going away
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12.
Invitation To the Weep (3:54)
I feel a good one coming on
It’s been a while, but this is the real thing
Everything’s perfect—the weather, the music
I’ll get real comfy and let her rip:
I’m gonna weep till all that’s left to do is sleep
Won’t be a cheap weep—gonna be a deep weep
I’m gonna weep!
My phone’s unplugged, my roomate’s gone
Until next weekend in case I get rolling
I’ll prime the pump—the evening news, a little wine
Mountains of Kleenex at my fingertips
I’m gonna weep till I’[m a mildewed trembling heap
Won’t be a slack weep, but a good old choke-and-hack weep
I’m gonna weep!
It doesn’t have to be depression
That makes the tears so easily slide’
Just think of it as a big jam session’
For all those pent-up feeling deep inside…
(Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I got toweep till I get puffy eyes)
I generally do this all alone
But you seem so intrigued, I don’t mind asking
Wouldn’t you love it —no excuses—I see you’re sniffling
Follow that red nose on a little trip
Come on and weep, I won’t say you’re a wimpy creep
We’ll have great weep, a real first rate weep, com on—WEEP!
Come take that wistful soggy leap, get those ducts unblocked
We’ll make some soup stock—com on WEEP, just let those little eyeballs leak
We’ll have a mob weep, a sob-and-slobber weep
We’ll have a high weep, a don’t-ask-why weep
We’ll have a nice weep, so take my advice—everybody come on and WEEP
