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Touch of Frost
04:08
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whisper
she whispers in
a breath that hangs and waits
moment
her moment comes
when air and ice equate
silence
a silence when
she holds the earth in thrall
phragmites in the fields
leaves the winds have tossed
evergreens are sleeping with
a touch of frost
crackle on the pains
the dawn's repost
feathering the forest with
a touch of frost
treadfall
her tread so light
that not a blade is bent
silver
a silver sky
of murmuring consent
phragmites in the fields
leaves the winds have tossed
evergreens are sleeping with
a touch of frost
crackle on the pains
the dawn's repost
feathering the forest with
a touch of frost
with a touch of frost
with a touch of frost
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It was a dark and stormy day and she was glad
Because it matched down to each blowing leaf the mood she had
She had a dark and stormy way that made her smile
A little thunder for the chaff she swept away awhile
Leave me in peace
No I will not go to seek
What I've already found
Leave me in peace
As I sweep, sweep, sweep
Out with the old
In with the new year crowned
A crowd began to pass her by and still she swept
When they called out to her she stood and her own threshold kept
The crowd began to thin till she was left alone
To watch the sunset when the winter birds had all but flown
Leave me in peace
No I will not go to seek
What I've already found
Leave me in peace
As I sweep, sweep, sweep
Out with the old
In with the new year crowned
A star above her in the evening sky appeared
It shone as boldly as the ones before now disappeared
The star above her in the darkness burned so bright
Taking its place among a billion suns of love and light
Leave me in peace
No I will not go to seek
What I've already found
Leave me in peace
As I sweep, sweep, sweep
Out with the old
In with the new
Out with the old
In with the new
Out with the old
In with the new year crowned
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3. |
So Much to Say
03:32
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Today I went walking by the station
I never come this way anymore
Cuz it reminds me of you
And that day I came and met you at the station
We walked through the snow as the wind blew
And I didn't know what to say to you
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say as I walk by
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say
I know the miles that lie between us
Are measuring more than the distance now
And there's nothing I can do
You know I went and fucked this up completely
Maybe I'll find out one day if you missed me
And I didn't know what to say to you
No I didn't know what to say to you
Crows on the tracks today
Calling it out to the sky
Crows on the tracks today
They were calling it out to the sky
Crows on the tracks today
Calling it out to the sky
Crows on the tracks today
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say as I walk by
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say as I walk by
They were calling it out to the sky
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say as I walk by
Calling it out to the sky
Crows on the tracks today
They've got a lot to say
And I have so much to say to you
Oh I have so much to say to you
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4. |
Dusk Love Song
02:52
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Dusk is a purple light
that hangs like a chord that won't
resolve until all of time
dissolves away
resolves to stay still
Love is a fragment of the
whole like the pattern of the
scars that have crissed and crossed
the part of this
the scars have missed yet
Song is a temporary
spell like a touch that cannot
last but it reaches from
the past to hold
the last it told us
Tangerine and lemon creme
All the colours left to dream
Grey as doves and lilac gloves
These are February's loves
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5. |
Linger Longer
02:39
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I've been thinking about joy
and the kind they go to find
at the Marigold Hotel
in the heat and colour of the new
I've been thinking about time
and the way it tends to bend
around any truth we tell
with the ache and stutter of a few
Memory and sensation
linger longer than the choices do
I've been thinking about life
through the guise of ghostly eyes
at the boxes getting checked
on a list of happy coming true
I've been thinking about why
and the need to make it bleed
into probably just because
in a case of frankly wanting to
Ink and syncopation
matter more than all the voices
coming through
oh, they do
cuz they linger longer than the choices do
Would I lie to you?
Everything is gonna be alright in the end
and if it's not alright then this is not the end
Would I lie, would I lie
Would I lie to you?
Everything is gonna be alright
and if it's not alright then this is not the end
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6. |
Stuck in the Loop
02:29
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If I'm honest there are phases where I'm eaten up
Like a gibbous moon, pissed off that its time is up
If I'm honest there are memories that I wanna burn in a sadist fire
Line them up to wait their turn
Don't want tomorrow to be the same
Pricking my skin with these pins of blame
I've been worried there are places - bruises in my mind
Like the ice you see just above the water line
I've been worried my defenses - symptoms of the cause
Keep me swimming on in this anger just because
Don't want tomorrow to be the same
Pricking my skin with these pins of blame
Tomorrow doesn't have to be the same
Pricking my skin with these pins of blame
Stuck in the loop
It's easy to get stuck in the loop
If only I could go back
take back hit back lay back
hold back fade back step back
play that back again
Stuck in the loop
It's easy to get stuck in the loop
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7. |
Grow Wild
02:51
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A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere
A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere, I swear
Would you believe it?
There's mushrooms in your stew
I picked them just for you today
I'm pretty sure that
These mushroom aren't the kind
To make you lose your mind
One sec, lemme check
A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere
A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere, I swear
And when I asked you
To bring me in the plate
Out by the garden gate today
Had I neglected
To warn you of the plants
That kill you on first glance?
One sec, lemme check
A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere
A hedge witch without a hedge
Is like a shiny little knife without an edge
The potential to grow wild is there
Somewhere, I swear
Somewhere, I swear
Somewhere, I swear
Somewhere, I swear
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8. |
Party Hat
02:58
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Holidays are pressure points
in an otherwise calming sea of time
that melts the days together
if it weren't for the light and weather
Suddenly remember you gotta
dress it all up in pink balloons
to demonstrate affection
with a decorative confection
Commerce drives economy
and artists gotta eat
but I hate putting on my party hat
to say I love you
I can say I think about all the
beautiful hours wrapped up in
your arms that make me smile
by the fathom and the mile
Doesn't it sound sweeter without all
the ribbons tied up in a tangle
I just wanna be come undone
any season of the sun with you
Commerce drives economy
and artists gotta eat
but I hate putting on my party hat
to say it
Commerce drives economy
and artists gotta eat
but I hate putting on my party hat
to say I love you
I love you
I do
Chocolate is for every day
Wine's a daily drink
Cinnamon's the spice of life
no matter what they think
This calendrical regime
won't tell me when to tell you how I feel
I'll tell you when it's real
Here's the only card you'll get
cuz you already know my rebel self
can't let this go unchallenged
It hold my world in balance
Not gonna put on pretty clothes
and I don't wanna make it special
more than all the other days
cuz I always feel this way
Commerce drives economy
and artists gotta eat
but I hate putting on my party hat
to say it
Commerce drives economy
and artists gotta eat
but I hate putting on my party hat
to say I love you
I love you
I do
I just hate putting on my party hat
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9. |
No Matter What I Choose
03:30
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I know my friend likes cornflower blue
So whenever I see her I wear this dress
But when I see her brother he likes me much taller
So I always carry my heels unless
There's a drink in his hand on a Tuesday as planned
And I have to change more than my shoes
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to wear
I know my friend likes biking the paths through the city
So I learn to ride along
And when I see her daughter with princesses on her
I know to get ready to sing the song
Even though I'm afraid who I am is betrayed
When I stray very far from the blues
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to sing
You don't know walk-in closets until you've seen mine
A gallery of all the skins I've worn
Choices made and times I've stayed too long in some
You don't know walk-in closets until you've seen mine
A gallery of all the skins I've worn
Choices made and times I've stayed too long in some
That's why they're worn
I know the girl you met at the bar
Is someone you think you know better now
But when I see you coming I'm already changing
My hair and my clothes and my shoes and my smile
Nobody knows how I look with no clothes
Cuz I've never been naked before
And all of my mirrors and all I appear as
Are facets of hope that I'm yours
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to say
No matter what I choose to play
No matter how long I choose to stay
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose today
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10. |
Burn Bone Dry
03:37
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The tide goes out
At first it's all this gorgeous emptiness
Drying out to glitter in the sun
You go explore
And find the rock pools full of promises
Waiting for the water rise to come
It's only sand that's been abandoned
Left to burn bone dry
When the shore again becomes the sea floor
Does it miss the sky?
The tide comes in
At first the pressure is wet and delicate
Sinking in to wait expectantly
You hold your ground
And dare the shallows not to weigh you down
Beating with the rhythm of the sea
It's only sand that was abandoned
Left to burn bone dry
When the shore again becomes the sea floor
Does it miss the sky?
All the waves
Hundreds coming in
All the grains
Millions giving in
Millions giving in
Giving in
It's only sand that's been abandoned
Left to burn bone dry
But when the shore again becomes the sea floor
Does it miss the sky?
Only sand has been abandoned
Left to burn bone dry
But when the shore again becomes the sea floor
Does it miss the sky or does it say goodbye?
Does it miss the sky?
Does it say goodbye?
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11. |
Open Road
02:32
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I went to see the tumbleweeds
and the Joshua trees
and the pieces of me that stuck
I went to find the boundary line
with the rest behind
and a bottle of wine for luck
But I didn't need luck
cuz I wasn't stuck
It's the open road
with a hundred miles to go
before I get to where I'm going
that's gone
I went to where the salt sea air
and the sun on my hair
came to find me there I stood
I went to ask for another task
with an empty flask
If only I could fill this glass I would
And then I understood
that I always would
It's the open road
with a hundred miles to go
before I get to where I'm going
It's the open road
with a hundred miles to go
before I get to where I'm going
before I get to where I'm going
before I get to where I'm going
that's gone
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12. |
Quantum
02:16
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falling into
all I've lived through
the alchemical
melting down to
cosmic space brew
the echo of old
drafting new lines
reconstructing
every last thing
imagine it all
cells dividing
sweet uprising
ready to fall
atoms and space
fingers and face
arsenic and lace
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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario
Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more
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