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Old Flowers
04:12
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I wrote another song tonight, don’t even ask me why
Because, if I ever knew why, I’d never even try
I’m sad that I can’t talk to you, it’s just not meant to be
I could never get to you, that always gets to me
Don’t it seem like a thousand years can go by in just hours
And I hope you, you won’t forget me now like a batch of old flowers
And I hope it’s ok but I couldn’t stay
There’s numbers on your telephone, you call them right away
Think of me tomorrow — so far away
I’m sad that I can’t talk to you but it’s just not meant to be
I could never get to you and that always gets to me
Don’t it seem like a thousand years can go by in just hours
I hope you, you won’t forget me now like a batch of old flowers
I hope it’s ok but I couldn’t stay
I couldn’t stay,
I couldn’t stay,
I couldn’t stay…
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2. |
For What It's Worth
01:41
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Days go by
There’s still time to open your eyes
If there’s a road, a chance you feel that you can’t take
That choice, you could have made, just fades away
But if you’re wide awake
Wide awake
All of heaven and earth
is a footprint in the dirt
or a wrinkle in your shirt
Do you know, do you know what that’s worth?
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3. |
The List
03:49
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We are bound by dreams
They keep us together in this wind and rain
Everything you've said and all the things you've done
Keep you with us and make you live on
and how many, how many
how many... how many?
Fortunes lost
State lines crossed
Secrets kept
Walkways swept
Blind obsessions
True confessions
Falling stars
Abandoned cars
Hearts you've broken
Names you've spoken
Crosses carried
Friends you've buried
Times you woke in the middle of the night
Birds you've seenFlying
in the sky, in the sky, in the sky....
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4. |
To The Hills
03:50
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My love has been taken away
The one who has promised his name
And green were the hills on that day
Now the sun just seems lost in the gray
I pray for you stay by my side
But each night a piece of me dies
I don’t know how to feel
And I’m not who I thought I was
I don’t know what’s real
And I can’t let go of this love
Give me a sign or something
Just let me know that I’m not crazy
Because I can tell that they don’t know what I’m talking about
The ribbons have slipped from my braids
And the wind keeps on chanting your name
How I miss you when you are away
Remember the promise you made
I will never forget what you said
That no one can have what we had
I don’t know how to feel
And I’m not who I thought I was
I don’t know what’s real
And I can’t let go of this love
Give me a sign or something
Just let me know that I’m not crazy
I can tell that they don’t know what I’m talking about
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5. |
The Fall
04:11
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Long Days, hating pain
so down, nothing’s gained
go ahead, because you can’t go back - ever
you cold hearted snake
you took me for the best ride I ever had
well it’s so weird
I’m not even scared
what I hold dear
is not around here
something’s gone, I guess it’s been too long
when something goes wrong
you know I’ll be the first one to feel the fall
I want to be at peace now
I feel like leaving town
it’s like the old house like my heart
is ripping down, just ripping down
ripping down
long days, hating pain
so down, so down now
nothing’s gained
go ahead, because you can’t go back ever
when something goes wrong
you know I’ll be the first one to feel the fall
the first one to feel the fall
the first one to feel the fall
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6. |
Nowhere In Sight
03:22
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Standing out alone
When I thought that I could make it
In a way I knew it could never be
Well now I’m back to chump change
And I see how some could steal it
Am I killing time or is it killing me?
And oh I know the feeling
To lose, to fail or be deceived
And it’s all a big wheel
And it keeps coming down
To the ground that moves beneath me
Have you seen the fire burning in the eyes of the doomed?
living every moment like the next one is coming too soon
They’ll cry when they finally get to the end
But the end is nowhere in sight
A knife is in my back but I don’t have time to feel it
I could cry for a while if I wanted to
It’s always what you do and not just if they see it
The good and the bad comes back to you
I try to make sense and I wonder
Is it just a dime in the eyes of a con man?
you know I believed Anita
Is that really so hard to understand?
Have you ever had a liar try so hard to tell you the truth
They lie to you so well they think they got your hat, coat and Shoes
Until one day they find that they can’t tell what’s real
Part of me is gone
Well I hope it wasn’t wasted because it took some time to learn
How to leave in the end
When the storm rolls in what a waste of time to fake it
It’s too late to tell all my fairweather friends
But now I’m coming home and this time I’ll make it
Even if I’m bound for glory in a rental car~
I will carry all your secrets even though you couldn’t make it
It’s too bad for us you couldn’t get that far
Before we storm the gates tell me how you sleep through the night
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7. |
Over and Over
03:55
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Over and over
Repeating the lines in your head
You live in a past life,
But don’t try to make sense of the dead
I’ve seen the bones of your paramours, and they are not talking
You know where this leads to, you’re just a dead man walking
You better get it straight
You’re not as steady as you think
The rivers are rising
You better learn to swim before you sink
A man of letters, but they won’t arrange for you now
So much for the bedroom, just lay your reasoning down
Another pretender is stepping up to the throne
Yes, but you wouldn’t surrender, so now you’re on top all alone
All alone
You better get it straight
You’re not as steady as you think
Well the rivers are rising
You better learn to swim before you sink
Run, run for your life, make for the border
Pray for the souls of the innocent lives
You stole with your orders
You better get it straight
You’re not as steady as you think
And the rivers are rising
You better learn to swim before you sink
Yes, the waters are rising
You better learn to swim before you
Swim before you sink~
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8. |
Walnut Trees
02:47
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That was the night we sat beneath the walnut trees
and old California is disappearing
kind of like our lives
and we knew it was the last time
old California and the walnut trees
The stars were so close
you could touch them
with your hand
and the sky was so black
I just knew we could never go back
oh and you were all that I had left
and I lost you too
that sense of the world - so right
when the light’s comin through
kind of like my heart
when it sees you,
really sees you
old California and the walnut trees
Times change fast
things don’t last
lights go out
and trees come down
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9. |
The Hardest Part
03:47
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Shadows
Disappear
In the dark
seeing you
or not seeing at all
the hardest part is this
is seeing you
and it'll burn away by itself
and nothing you can do will help
you build it up to pull it down
you build it up to pull it down
you build it up to pull it down
the part you can't resist
you can't give it a rest
and the hardest part is this:
seeing you
and it'll burn away by itself
and nothing you can do will help
you build it up to pull it down
you build it up to pull it down
you build it up to pull it down
and savor what is left
I was born to fail your test
the hardest part is this
Seeing you...
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10. |
Love
04:59
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Love
Love stings my pride
When I realize
Across the great divide
Never once asked why
Love
Love robs me blind
Then gives me wings to fly
When I think I’ve lost my mind
Arrives in time to save my life
Love saved my life
Love saved my life…
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11. |
Rearrange
03:43
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Last night I heard you almost died
And that’s how far apart we are
I think of the years now more like miles
And I can’t believe I’m still driving in this car
Don’t, don’t take apart things you can’t change
There’s, there’s still a part of you
That just can’t stay away
I’m always trying to tell you things I could never say
like I’m shot down like a bird
I guess I’m gonna leave here sometime next year
And this might be the last song that you never heard
I won’t take apart things I can’t change
No I won’t take apart things I can’t change, change, change
Oh but you know I might just take it with me
If I can’t rearrange
you know I might just take it with me now
If I can’t rearrange…rearrange
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12. |
Long Live The Days
06:30
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And because
life is nothing but surprise
I'll turn myself around and say goodbye
and close my eyes
wait for the wave
the one that washes over me
takes me every time
alone?
Is that so?
don't you see.....
you are fire
aren't you fortune itself
don't you capture every spark
as it lights your way?
and outside it is hollow
and inside is a garden
and after it rains there's peace
follow me
Long live the days
Oh stay
or come back
it's a secret, it's fragile,
I know it's fractured but...
but this is life
sometimes it wraps itself around you and cries
it's a road
through a land
out of time
and I will hide, I will hide
I'll get lost in the tall grass
and make you come find me
and there is nowhere to go
kept safe, by what?
we'll never know...
let's you and I trip through the days
we're here anyway...
Long live the days
long live the days...
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Mia Katherine Boyle • MKB ULTRA Seattle, Washington
Solo material and collaborations with MKB ULTRA.
Also:
www.mkbultra.com
Playing With Strangers: playingwithstrangers.bandcamp.com/album/playing-with-strangers-session-no-10?
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