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What Part of Love
03:36
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What part love don't you understand
It's one part woman and one part man
Think you got a good hold of it think again
What part love don't you understand
Need someone to see you when you're out of sight
Always be there for you in the darkest night
Don't be askin' questions just because you can
What part love don't you understand
What part love
Ain't good enough for you
What part love
Something you won't do
What part love
Makes you less a man
What part love
Don't you understand
Only thing you gotta do is treat her right
Don't leave her alone too many nights
If you gotta fight don't you raise no sand
What part love don't you understand
What part love don't you understand
The part about happy not feelin' bad
Moses never made it to the promised land
What part love don't you understand
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2. |
From the First Day
05:19
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If you were not mine
I would borrow you
If I got left behind
I would follow you
I will not let time
Rise up and swallow you
These things I know are true
Hear what I say
I wanted to be blind
And no longer see
On my own so long
Freedom's slavery
I never could belong
To anyone easily
But you had me
From the first day
If one thing was all
That ever stayed inside my mind
Just one vision living
For all time
It would be the first time that
You told me
You were mine
You were mine
I use to run away
From everything
Every single day
Tried not to think
The world just passed me by
Like invisible ink
I was on the brink
Of blowing away
The world would be the same
If I had never been
Free to chose the way
I been traveling
Trying to understand just a little bit
Before the rest of it
Fades away
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3. |
Heartline
04:29
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Turn the lights down low
I confess
You look so fine
Little black dress
I'll never know
why you chose me
but you just go
With what you see
ain't no stopping now
I don't care
I'm not layin' low
Too much to share
Gotta little love last forever
Never gonna go any place but home
So much grace together
Draw a heartline straight down to my soul
Soul, soul, soul
Wish we had met
At seventeen
Got to forget
The in between
You shine so bright
Burns my memory
Feels so right
Way it's supposed to be
Turn the lights down low
I confess
You look so fine
little black dress
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4. |
Leaning on Love
04:11
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100 miles from anywhere
100 years away
Memories may be forgotten
Some things stay the same
Words we have spoken
So awesome they are true
Promises never broken
Not a thing we do
You are taken as you are
And how you're gonna be
I know you can depend on
You'll do the same for me
Hope you will forgive me
If I ever let you down
Hope you don't forget me
Cause I'll always be around
I'm leaning on love now
To get me through
I got the know how
How to love you
I'm leanin' on love now
Night and day
I'm leaning on love now
The love we made
A sad girl said she believed
You're born and die alone
What happens to her in between
Guess I'll never know
Time ain't just a river
Something long and blue
It's more about the livin'
How much of it is true
In the presence of each other
Got no place to hide
No need for fabrication
We're on each other's side
Every bit of waiting
Every long hard night
Fate was on my shoulder
Brought you to my side
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5. |
Hold On
03:34
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Tried to stake a different claim
What was new was not less strange
Did not want to stay the same
But it hurts so much to change
Got in trouble don't ask me
How long is eternity
We'll just have to wait and see
No one can explain
Hold on to nothing
It's what remains
Might become something
Some day
Hold on to nothing
If that's all you got
Nothin' will ever stand
In your way
Got a gone spot n my heart
Kind of like a vacant lot
So long past just forgot
Like it was never made
Whisper secrets in my ear
Here's your chance to disappear
What was far now is near
Shadows guard the shade
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6. |
From the Noise
03:39
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Veins of desperation
Are full of blood
Full of blood
I'm told
Entire congregation
Misunderstood
Every color
Young and old
The seeds of inspiration
Survived the flood
I'm told
In my imagination
I'm never old
No matter what
I been told
In the middle of a hurricane you still can the sky
Harder it blows bigger the eye
Write it down in big old letters boys
Separate the music from the noise
Just let go
If you're seeking information
Go read a book
I'm not the one
You need
Trials and tribulations
Shine like chrome
Make you strong and free
Searchin' for salvation
Just burns my eyes
Save my place
For a member of the tribe
It defies analyzation
At least to me
Just give'm hell
Cause heaven's also free
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7. |
Early Rays of Daylight
04:23
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Smoke finds the mountain
Feathers line the fountain
South of the
Fourth of July
Bones of the ocean
Lie in blue motion
Dark and deep
As time
Nothing remains
Broken the chains
Stillness rides
The wind as it blows
Out the lights
Of old Mexico
Rise with me
Sweet innocence
Ride the tide
Of the Sea of Cortez
Sand shields the treasure
Real gift is measured
Hours minutes
Days
Alone all together
Birds of a feather
Never fly
Away
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9. |
Gino's Gone
04:54
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Gino said we're left for dead
Found somebody else instead
Some standup hero with something to lose
Golden boy always
In the news
Anybody but me
Down here it's warm never mind the storms
Everybody stays out late
In the neon find the map
One that tells us
Where we're at
Tells me where we're gonna be
Okay for you
You were goin' away
Never had to tell you what to do or
What to say
What am I gonna do
Is it gonna be ok
Promises they guide
My way
The best dreams they let you sleep
Kind of like company you keep
Floatin' softly ocean blue
Nothing ever touches you
Find an empty place to land
Gino's gone puddles on the lawn
Nobody on the street
Behind the window inside the door
Places I can't go any more
Takes a different kind of man
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10. |
I'm Gonna Run
05:04
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The once upon a timers
The reason and the rhymers
Tryin' hard to tell me what to do
They're through with realizing
Their way of fantasizing
Is going out and buying
Something new
Deep down in the stillness
Broken hearts and illness
Runnin' through their veins like a dose
Rakes and shovels
Up against the hovels
Never gonna find
The treasure trove
I'm gonna run
You can't catch me
I might be the one
You never see
Feels so auspicious
But I get suspicious
Especially when the lights
Are turned down low
Write a shorter sentence
Get a new apprentice
Never tell them
Everything you know
I don't need a callback
I don't have a six-pack
Least not the kind you cannot drink
Failed at mind reading
Despite very careful breeding
and I don't give a damn what you think
Dreamed I was the winner
Made it to the dinner
Everyone was wasted
In the end
Leave a neon label
Glowing on the table
Wrap it like a package
You will send
Write me a postcard
Tell me you tried hard
I'm your one and only friend
Don't tell me that you owe me
Cause I know you'll only
Find a way to break instead of bend
I'm gonna run...
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11. |
The Road to the River
05:33
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The road to river
Sure wish that I could
Just hear it running
Down through the woods
Luck ain't no liar
It just don't care
Just tries to tell you
Life ain't fair
Feel like I'm sleeping
On a bed of bones
I'm always dreaming
About being alone
Maybe forever
Just for a day
Night has its reasons
When it wants to stay
To me the real deal
It's not what I feel
It's not what I say
Not what I play
Everything I know
Don't matter no more
Everything's changed
Since the first came
And I'm never ever ever
Gonna get home
What I don't know
That ain't what hurts
Gonna find out
For better or worse
Can it be done
Without paying a price
Just this one time
Get to live twice
I'm down at the river
Like to get in
Somewhere far downstream
Gonna get out again
I know I'm supposed to keep myself dry
Maybe feel better
On the other side
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12. |
Inside Out Soul
04:29
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First came the fire
A Goddamned liar
Desire crawling in the ashes
Never saw a sign
It just was time
Get some satisfaction
he was kind
of out of his mind
the hard part
was over quickly
he was alone
inside out soul
nothing more he could be
one more sure thing this time
heard him say
don't forget the the sun and moon
are real far away
never had the chance to find
a better day
it don't matter where you might go
if you won't stay
what he once was
don't matter because
nobody livin' can remember
all things to some men
keep comin' back again
whisper by the door
while it's ending
so here's to the fight
turn out the lights
it gets dirty in the darkness
be sure that you try
real hard before you die
stars mark the trail
your heart leaves
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Levi Stevenson Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Here's what I know. Went to Asheville late summer 2006. Had mountains out my window till you couldn't see any further. Went to where rivers begin as drips off leaves and morning dew. Walked through streets that I realized I'd already seen many times before in my dreams… And when I got home, I was able to separate the music from the noise. ... more
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