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Build Yourself an Ark
04:37
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Gather some gopher wood and
Build yourself an ark,
Gather the animals two by two.
Take along your loved ones,
They may not all want to go.
Don’t worry about your husband,
He already knows.
You’ll have to stay inside
Till it’s safe to come out,
Can’t really tell you how long that will be.
Prayers are good for hope,
But they won’t be enough,
Have faith in the truth, that’s faith in me,
Have faith in the truth, that’s faith in me.
Gather some melodies and
Build yourself an ark,
Gather the poems two by two.
Take along your paintings
And hang them on the walls,
Keep telling your stories
While the water falls.
Gather the teachings
Of those who came before,
Build the ark with wisdom
And able hands.
Don’t let the words you use
Destroy and divide,
Words are the way it all began.
You think this is to punish you?
That’s how you wrote the tale,
Couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read into rainbows
Whatever you will,
That’s just a story from your youth,
That’s just a story from your youth.
Gather the seeds of life
And plant them again,
The fate of the earth
Is in your hands.
Take care of your neighbor,
Take care of yourself,
Take care of the water and the land.
You’ll have to stay inside
Till it’s safe to come out,
Can’t really tell you how long that will be.
Prayers are good for hope,
But they won’t be enough,
Have faith in the truth, that’s faith in me,
Have faith in the truth, that’s faith in me.
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2. |
Old Habits
04:14
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Here we are now, back at square one,
All the rules we made becoming undone
Remind me of the times we found our way
And all the times we tried to stay,
It’d be foolish to try today.
So leave me, let me be,
Turn around now it's not fair to me,
But first say all the things you couldn’t say,
The worlds you silently prayed
To love me again one day
Ooh, Old Habits feeling like new,
Old habits feeling like new, feeling like
We’re never through.
Walk with me hand in hand,
For the last time, I understand,
Tell me it’s going to be alright,
The moon will still rise at night.
In the morning you’ll do what’s right.
You’ll have to be mean and cruel,
Learn to lie and play it all cool,
Put away those eyes, you cast a spell.
You do it to me so well,
But how do I make you feel?
Ooh, Old Habits feeling like new,
Old habits feeling like new, feeling like
We’re never through.
I can’t turn the radio on,
Not without hearing our song,
Everything that plays we’ve sang before,
Every note, every chord.
It’s more than my heart can afford.
You’re not gonna have me again.
Please know that, don’t pretend.
It’s getting hard to see you around
At the places we used to crowd.
In the morning it's quiet now.
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3. |
Rain on My Windows
03:33
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Do you know how much you're on my mind?
Do you know how much you're in my dreams?
I know you know the way your deep wide eyes
Catch the morning sunlight and they gleam.
But I don't care so much about your eyes,
And I don't care no more about my tears,
Eyes are only windows and tears like the rain.
I’m lost in rain on windows till it clears.
Rain on my windows,
I can't see a thing
Except the foggy memories
That keep me lost in the rain on my windows.
Rain on my windows,
I can't see a thing
Except the foggy memories
That keep me lost in the rain on my windows.
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4. |
Empty Bottle News
03:54
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Standing on the front porch,
Swelter of the night, nothing feels right.
Tell me that you’re leaving,
Tell me that we’re through, empty bottle news.
Holding on too tightly,
I try to play it cool, like I was in on it too…
Your flight is in the morning,
I’ll let you get some sleep, but you ask me not to leave.
And give me one last night
To let me in, let me in.
And when we say goodbye
Let me win, let me win.
You made me like the river
Running my mouth, singing every sin.
Carve out every word
Like water on stone, I’ll hate it when you’re gone.
And give me one last night
To let me in, let me in,
And when we say goodbye
Let me win, let me win.
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5. |
Somes Pond
04:00
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6. |
Childhood Song
04:15
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Two little good girls
Watchful and wise —
Clever little hands
And big kind eyes —
Look for signs that the world is good,
Comport themselves as good folk should.
They wonder at a father
Who is sad and funny strong,
And they wonder at a mother
Like a childhood song.
And what, and what
Do the two think of?
Of the sun
And the moon
And the earth
And love.
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7. |
Great Conjunction
03:49
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When the ground cracks and worlds collide,
I’ll be there with banjo on my knee,
With you on the old guitar shouting high,
Singing, “Oh Susanna, don’t you cry for me,”
“Oh Susanna, don’t you cry for me.”
I’ll stir my drink with a solid silver spoon,
I’ll walk on roads paved of gold.
Divine gazes down from the moon,
It'll be as the stars foretold,
It’ll be as the stars foretold.
Cause I’m waiting on the great conjunction
When Jupiter and Saturn align,
For its in the stars I see my fortune,
Holy fruit growing on the vine,
Barrels full of strawberry wine.
And when I’m ready for my final resting place,
Put me high in a constellation bright,
Sitting on a throne of diamond lace,
Cast white hot against the blue of night,
Cast white hot against the blue of night.
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8. |
Ger the Rigger
03:31
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9. |
Crack the Case
06:10
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I will do your interview
Try to explain what I'm going through
Give you something to read into
In a million different ways
A sick version of telephone
Starts at the clip of the microphone
A game we thought we had all outgrown
But still everybody plays
Ignoring all of the remedies
Believing all of the rumors
With their endless database
I wanna sit with my enemies
And say, "We should have done this sooner"
While I look them in the face
Maybe that will crack the case
I got a friend who's been thinking 'bout
Finally kicking her husband out
His second life as a talent scout
Finally got him caught
While she was throwing out all his clothes
She heard a voice from beyond the throes
"Punish him for the life he chose
But forgive the past that he did not”
It's really hard to hate anyone
When you know what they've lived through
And once they've given you a taste
She said, "This is for you to overcome
But I will always love you"
In her perfect state of grace
Maybe that will crack the case
Now that we're through with formalities
What is it you wanna ask of me?
I'll answer open and honestly
Whatever that means
Finding out that we occupy
Somebody else's opposing side
On the banks of some great divide
Two versions of a dream
Countless revisions of history
Tryin' to tell us the future
Between each commercial break
I wanna call off the cavalry
Declare no winners or losers
And forgive our shared mistakes
You can pick the time and place
Maybe that will crack the case
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10. |
After Our Fall
04:16
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Laying at Boothe, in the bright sun
The smell of roses that made us one,
Gravel trails, petals below,
Linger till evening, twilight glow.
Writing our song took thirty-some years,
So much laughter, so many beers.
When did it start to crumble and fall,
Tumbling down, Jericho’s wall?
Why does it take so long
To get through the love I had for you?
It’s been some time since we sang our song,
I still catch myself dreaming of you,
I still catch myself dreaming of you.
I had to let go, let go of it all,
Move forward after our fall.
It didn’t feel right to go on with the hurt
We were both going through.
Went back to Boothe, leaves start to fall,
Roses now thorns, the end of it all.
Gravel trails bare, petals all gone,
Tears in the car, how to move on?
Why does it take so long
To get through the love I had for you?
It’s been some time since we sang our song,
I still catch myself dreaming of you,
I still catch myself dreaming of you.
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Kat Wallace and David Sasso New Haven, Connecticut
Kat & David met playing hard and fast bluegrass with New Haven string band Five ‘n Change. Their shared background in classical music and affinity for all things trad brought them together to form an intimate and virtuosic duo. With fiddle and various mandolin-family instruments, Wallace & Sasso orbit traditional folk, original songwriting, and the ever-evolving boundaries of Americana music. ... more
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