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Wander in the Stars
03:25
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Picking up the pieces of a heart that’s just been broken
Or thinking back on something long ago
Our thoughts go out to ramble in the nighttime
Wishing that the pieces could be whole again
It’s easy to mistake a simple letter
For a pledge to keep on writing all your life
Words that speak some truth wash away in rising tides
A promise scatters easily in the wind
So who are we to wander in the stars
Dreaming becomes a reckless thing
Hearts in broken pieces cannot sustain a life
But voices soaked in sorrow still can sing
The quiet of the night invites confession
Open in the arms of those we wish to learn to love
But contradictions surface in the morning light
And we can never know which road we’ll land on
The magic of a moon and the softness of the starlight
Together send us spinning all around the sky
Looking for the answers of lovers long ago
Seeking something lovely for a little while
So who are we to wander in the stars
Dreaming becomes a reckless thing
Hearts in broken pieces cannot sustain a life
But voices soaked in sorrow still can sing
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Everywhere and Absent
03:34
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Only in imagination
Writing letters in the distance
We are not here
We are gone
Everywhere
Opening my world
Opening each other
Everything was merged my lover
Laughing dancing
Chasing music in memories
Pictures conjured up
I see you in the quiet chords and laughter
Playing at happy ever after
Everywhere and absent
We are everywhere and absent
Talk to me talk to me
Quiet in my mind quiet in the silence
You are not here anymore
I'm left here crying
Fearing pressing play
On what we listened to to start each day
I don't know what the music tells me
But it always brings me something
Everywhere and absent
We are everywhere and absent
Talk to me talk to me
Only in imagination
Find the limits of the distance
We are not here
We are gone
Everywhere
Universe expanding
Into endlessly unfolding music
Hear me as I hear you singing
Wanting tenderness returning
Everywhere and absent
We are everywhere and absent
In the ripples of your distant knowing
Hoping I will find you growing
We are not here
We are gone
Everywhere
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Musician's Waltz
03:22
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Hide our dreams in melodies
No one’s watching, but everybody sees
Who we are you and I
Going forward learning how to fly
Nothing stays, this we know
Moments in the darkness quickly go
Ask too much stay too late
We are drifting spiraling through space
Who am I who am I
My words wonder
Your rhythms hide
What you always want to know
In the nighttime these things show
The eyes of the audience are blinding
Little mirrors all over the crowd
Up above we can’t run away again
Left singing alone with the voice that can never be still
Who am I who am I
My words wonder
Your rhythms hide
What you always want to know
In the nighttime these things show
Hide our dreams in melodies
No one’s watching, but everybody sees
Who we are you and I
Going forward learning how to fly
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Paradigms and Prayers
03:22
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Can I write a melody you’ll hear
When the way that my words reach you isn’t clear
They get caught in paradigms and prayers
Falling off the spiderweb between us
Brushstrokes and a sweet embrace
Never are enough to build on
When the same foundation isn’t there
There are different reasons why we’re living
And they come between us when we’re leaving
Even loving hearts can only stretch so far
Hide behind a cross again
Neither God nor the Devil can conceal you
Look at the people standing on the street
Why must everyone know before you see
Tenderness is pouring from your fingers
And your hands are full of love
So be careful not to let it all run out
While you’re looking at the sky
There are different reasons why we’re living
And they come between us when we’re leaving
Even loving hearts can only stretch so far
So much that I’ll never understand
And so much of me that you’ll never know
Watch each other from another world
Sending something across ten thousand miles
There are different reasons why we’re living
And they come between us when we’re leaving
Even loving hearts can only stretch so far
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Ocean
03:46
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If this puddle of tears gets big enough
Maybe I can swim away
Through the rivers of my homeland
To the ocean
Salt water stop my bleeding
And the moon will guide my way
In your gently rocking cycles I will heal
Ocean take me
Ocean call me home
To your waters and your waves
Keep me whole and keep me safe
I’ve been crying
Mama told me to be cautious
And I watched her all my life
Suffer from the cost of waiting
Keeping quiet holding still
Well I leapt into the world
And set my body on the line
And I’m paying all the same
Ocean take me
Ocean call me home
To your waters and your waves
Keep me whole and keep me safe
I’ve been drifting
Can I travel where the ocean
Brushes lands that are not mine
Does my heartache stay beside me
If I take it far away
I don’t know which road I’m walking
Now you’ve left me on my own
But I’m used to going forward I’ll be fine
Ocean take me
Ocean call me home
To your waters and your waves
Keep me whole and keep me safe
I’ve been loving
There’s a cost to giving freely
That you never realize
Till the balance is upended
And the gifts are thrown away
But I catch the things that fall
And make them into little songs
Singing home to the water
Ocean take me
Ocean call me home
To your waters and your waves
Keep me whole and keep me safe
I’ve been learning
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Taylor Holland Boston, Massachusetts
Singer and writer Taylor Holland hails from the wild Pacific Northwest. “An artist who has the rare ability to connect directly and deeply,” she draws on her background in traditional folk music to craft quietly powerful songs reminiscent of Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Vashti Bunyan. ... more
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