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the dogs
02:37
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oh love believe me i know, i am as easy as a river to hold.
i see the state of your eyes, i see how truthfulnesses shape up as lies.
when i hear the words i issue, i feel sorry for myself and i feel sorry for you.
i know it's a burden to bear, and i do bear, oh i do bear.
oh how i'd love to clear your beautiful eyes,
come through in the end to everyone's surprise.
but when you leave here tonight,
you will know your heart is of the strongest light.
and i will hear myself tell you to go,
and i'll get back up to my old ebb and flow.
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the mississippi
01:32
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oh love you took it out of me.
we must have crossed the mississippi
a hundred times before the sun came up.
i fell for you every time.
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the dream
04:28
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and when i wake oh let it be
from your long face in a short dream
and when i call may it be true
that my words fall ever lightly on you
how long do i have to wait
i'll go up north i'll head for the trees
to look for the source and dirty my knees
oh the great loss of every fall
oh it is not lost on me at all
how long do i have to wait
and when i sleep may it be so
that it is deep that it's heavy and low
and when i wake oh let it be
from your long face in a short dream
how long do i have to wait
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the shadow
03:16
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and when the cold came that wind carried my name
and drew my breath in and like a medicine it coursed my veins
and when the night fell i heard her tongue dispel
a thousand curses whispered in verses and i heard it well
what evil the spark could run if issued from your tongue
see it clear and hold it dear before it has been wrung
then under dark skies and much to my surprise
shy onlooker the shadow took her before my eyes
didn't we try everything fire and alchemy
the water breather to break the fever it left in me
what evil the spark could run if issued from your tongue
see it clear and hold it dear before it has been wrung
silver spun oh dust of bone stand with it alone
take that spark and turn it around make with it a stone
and when the day broke long before i awoke
where rye and wheat grow thread through the needle and break the spoke
oh what was left of me no longer fiery
small sap-sucking reconstructing the diary
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the heavier
03:04
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you threw a rock across the rio grande
i watched the weight of it leave your hand
i saw the sun set heavy and low
landing with your rock in mexico
and in the autumn came a cold breeze
i saw your face fall quick as the leaves
i stood alone in the hallway
to wait for you to figure out something to say
doesn't it get heavier
now the pines are all covered in snow
sloped-shouldered they hang their heads low
i could have waited straight into the spring
to watch those pines shed everything
you're always quiet in the evening light
i watch the weight of it sink into the night
if it were you in the hallway
you know i would have figured out something to say
doesn't it get heavier
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the west
02:41
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when the sun first split the lowering night into two
it rose for you
rose for only you
oh a lonely west laid under an unending blue
it calls for you
calls for only you
and as if by the wind itself you rise up and begin yourself
as the furling waves do turn themselves anew
they break for you
break for only you
when the both my eyes have become ocean stone
they look for you
look for you alone
and as if by the wind itself you rise up and being yourself
when the sun first split the lowering night into two
it rose for you
rose for only you
oh a lonely west laid under and unending blue
it calls for you
calls for only you
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the dusk
02:52
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my heart exited me
i saw the river drain out of the sea
you say you love the light in the evening
most as it is leaving
my eyes of ocean stone
i felt marrow drop out of the bone
when you told me how the bird song in the morning
sounds to you a warning
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Dana Falconberry Austin, Texas
Dana Falconberry & Medicine Bow's new album, From the Forest Came the Fire, guides us past the forest's edge, beneath the surface of the water, and up the base of the mountain, leaving listeners awestruck at the meeting of natural landscapes and the supernatural forces that lay within them. ... more
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