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Oh Life
05:55
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Oh Life
Oh life, just let it
Oh life, you will get it
A hardship handle
To carry that weight
A habit the worry
Cradle to grave
A good place to stop now
Remember why you came
Why you came
Oh life, just live it
Oh life, you can get it
Change hard to follow
Skinny in the wind
But most always homeward
And have ever been
With pleasure still to pry up
If you find the place
Find the place
Oh life, not regret it
Hold tight, just let it
Dreams from the North now
Silence and space
Fair weather promised
Not breaking away
So, this now to follow
You can trust the way
Trust the way
B♭ G B♭ G B♭ E♭ capo 1
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Fish
05:43
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Fish
Holding her in my arms before leaving her there
I always wanted, was my intention
But I was stunned by how much she loved me
No denying, I couldn’t say it, I wanted to say it
But now the only thing that’s left is the cripple
And the sound of the seasons
Sad as winter
Fish that couldn’t swim
Bird that wouldn’t fly
Worm that couldn’t crawl
Man that wouldn’t try
I am
Home she called and wanted to be
An ocean and more away from me
Or some sign, just try
But facing back, hand to brow
Skin to shed and not knowing how
Floating islands and then some
Fish that couldn’t swim
Bird that wouldn’t fly
Worm that couldn’t crawl
Man that wouldn’t try
I am
Down in the valley below I wander
Likes to do it alone but no wonder
Eagle-eye glinting, picking my bits
But there she comes again, how you call it
A strong-box future or just falling
I don’t know, can’t let go
But creaking with joy, distempered laugh
She begged to go and I let her pass
Fish that couldn’t swim
Bird that wouldn’t fly
Worm that couldn’t crawl
Man that wouldn’t try
I am
E A C G G E
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Alive Inside
04:43
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Alive Inside
Seems no one’s there, home
Locked inside, alone
Collecting shadows, rocking chair
Connections crumbled, sitting there
Still the love, open givers
Reach sometimes rewards a glimmer
But branches bare now winter’s come
Memories all most lost to rust
And just like that lives crack
Wrinkles in the world
And can’t get back
He spoke so soft, she leaned in close
A picture of sadness, pale ghost
Mumbled words passed to the daughter
The little man stares, dribbles water
In the deepening silence comes the night
She carries that weight, prays for light
This is not easy, a slippery slope
Where Dad has gone now, she can’t go
And just like that lives crack
Wrinkles in the world
Try to say it puts it to death
Lay a claim on leads to forget
Cherry picking just out of reach
Pinged directions not what home means
But every morning a clean slate
He remembers their songs just not her name
Alive inside and what that brings
A sunny smile, no words to sing
And just like that lives crack
Wrinkles in the world
E G B G B E
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Doesn't Matter Anymore
03:35
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EADGBE
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Gone
04:44
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Gone
Away is the calling
Away then you’ll be gone
In the morning, with the dawning
One last time, then so long
Weep no more my darling
Weep no more you’ll see
There’s a song he’ll be singing
In that place he is bound to be
He’ll be across that ribbon of highway
He’ll be across that raging sea
Where fortune favors, pilgrims, sailors
Searchers, refugees
It will be good to leave that sorrow
It’ll be good to let go the need
All the wanting and regret
The longing to be free
Goodbye you lonesome stranger
Goodbye my old friend
Till next time I hear your laughter
For surely we’ll meet again
So away is the calling
Away then you’ll be gone
In the morning, with the dawning
One last time, then so long
Gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone
B♭ G B♭ G B♭ D
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Curve Away
05:32
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Curve Away
You don’t know what you will find here
Even crossed graves remain unnamed
Forget the past and her calling
Let them rest now unclaimed
Leveled sky close to falling
Winter rolls up fast here
Wonders why you came
Free of nothing road or river
And truth here you just don’t change
There is the comfort of knowing blind, stupid luck
Where you pencil in futures
And never have to give a fuck
I too wished it could be that way
An idea not unattractive
But that choice never mine to make
Or could ever even happen
And it’s not what I wanted
So, I curved away
It’s a generational slowdown
A twisting of the knot
Not even close to a wonderful
That happy chance forgot
A skeletal dance of clicking bones
Hot we are surely not
The truth and the matter with as always
The missing beat and plot
It’s not what we wanted
So, we curved away
Now, this road is hard on dreamers
With cover hard to find
Too many fall away, too far behind
But there’s the rub and hard to align
Answers to hold and know how to survive
Still, nothing lasts forever
And what’s lived is never lost
But surely with this fitting
We will learn about the cost
It’s not what we wanted
So, we curve away
Try to curve away
Need to curve away
E E B E B E capo 1
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7. |
Time Is A River
05:13
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Time is a River
Beneath the walls you’ve come undone
That itch you scratch, the wrong one
Hard way to learn, maybe not fun
But it got us both here and maybe that’s enough
A parade of sighs, reductions due
We agree about that, oh yes we do
What you say you never, it fools no one
Still, me just wishing never has changed much
It doesn’t matter much I heard her say
Time is a river now just running away
Knuckling hope from empty
Long at that job
Oh, my all the worry
Started when she called
But living at the edge
Thickens in the night
Meets you every morning
Looking to pick a fight
But eyes wide, woke
Should mean no pretending
Even getting on
Ever strong, unbending
There is always something left to do
Fences needing mending
Always chasing after truth
That work never ending
Reach down deep, got to find a way
Because time is a river now just running away
Maybe once was could just be hid
And we’d get it all back with one long kiss
But summer’s gone now we’re into driving rain
I try to hang on but everything’s changed
Not much I can do or really even say
Can’t make a change if she doesn’t want anyway
Not much I can do or really say
Time is a river
Time is a river
Time is a river just running away
Beneath the walls you’ve come undone
D G D G B D capo 2
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All Fall Down
03:22
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All Fall Down
Tribal fractures, the great divide
A brutal sun, the burning kind
And call backs, hard to find
Now fortune follows and we don’t control
Grandma’s home, all alone
At peace with any loss of treasure she holds
Thorn filled dark, sad song
Thin coin, too long
And here we are now and all of it showing
Knotting new rhythms of life into place
The gristle and bone affair won’t wait
And needs to be finished or won’t go away
Scorched-earth politics, the policies of cruel
Paranoia raised, the darkest of blooms
And hard to get around of the elephant in the room
Apprehensions grow, anxiety sure
But it’s just old folks and there is no cure
Time bomb and a hard wind blowing
It’s hard to swallow, I don’t know how
Falling ash, lazy town
Sentimental is in fashion and it’s fooling around
Brothers and Sisters falling
And there’s the leering clown
And we all fall down.
D# F# B F# B D#
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Terry Lee Hale Marseille, France
Currently a resident in Marseille, Hale has been releasing albums for more than three decades. Hale’s work is stubborn and transcendent of genres and deeply evocative in a way that only a true original can be.
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