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Hold Me UP
03:15
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(Singing)
Hold me up
For I feel like I am made of glass
And the wind
Is blowing so fierce and fast
If I fall
I may shatter into dust
Hold me down
For I feel the need to fly away
And I’m haunted
By the fears of yesterday
They ask me why
Why would I even stay
Hold me tight
For I feel like I may come apart
And this life
Is tearing at my very heart
It may stop
Its beat and never restart
(spoken)
Hold me up for I feel like I am made of glass
I am everything I fear
of sorrows and laughter,
I am the worst at what I am best
A denial, A gift, the heart of the blessed
I search to find my proper place
without wind or without breath
I am cold or I am burning
I am joy or I am hurting
I am distant yet connected
Fully alive yet hollow inside
set in my ways yet confused
Like a sunflower in the storms
every morning I claim as yesterday
as what was
for tomorrow
even tomorrow will soon enough be gone as dust as ash
Hold me up for I feel like I am made of glass
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2. |
Euphrates
03:11
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God said to Adam
You have the keys to the kingdom
The keys can’t get locked inside
Adam heard the rules
And the rules were the first to go
Adam said to God
I have a woman in the war
She walks in your prayers
Her eyes are like wine
Some days I can’t see her
You know I can’t let her go
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Adam said to God
I sleep
I sleep to wake
I wake to sleep
my waking slow
Slow to learn
Where I must go
“The smoke between
asleep and dreams”
the clear blue undertow
I saw myself far below
I saw myself far below
the sight of thin blue flames
over a polished mountain range
it all rests in the mother’s womb
it’s never late
and it’s never too soon
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There’s a fork in the river
It carves the rocks smooth
To shape our hands
To shape the moon
The water is clear as crystal
The reflection of you
From the river
We cup our hands to drink
From the river the trees drink
From the trees fruits will grow
From the fruit we eat we grow
From us the spirit will flow
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3. |
Frozen Eternal Water
02:35
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Cold shoulder, heavy heart
Don’t fall down, don’t fall apart
Sunshine shine down, shine on me
Sing my soul a melody
One foot in front
One mile behind
One flake of snow
One soul to find
One ember burns
One palm of ash
One sparkle left
One eyelash
The winter blooms low
Like white sadness
A dandelion
Beside a pile of branches
Looking out over
The sea of seven pedals
The ship prepares the night
On the lips
Of thousands of waves
To carry the remains
But lacking direction
It turns to sing
From one life to the next
The winter didn’t expect
It’s no accident to startle
Suffer isn’t the word
Suffer isn’t the word
Suffer isn’t the word
But listen…
Listen to how
As a drum in the rain
as the meadow
with a mouthful of snow
Its belly full of tears
in the most invisible voice
The earth says to give
to pass on life
As eternity reflected upon
The frozen eternal water
One more puddle
That just won’t dry
One more chance
To say goodbye
One more flower
Turns to ice
The lakes been frozen
Over twice
On the dock
Day by day
One more chance
To sail away
Time it turns
So Far away
Waiting for
Another day
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4. |
Clothes
03:25
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His clothes
were made out of dreams
At the stitch and at the seams
He said one day I will be more
I will rule and I will foresee
I will tell you the meaning
one day you will be
running back to me
He said you will reap
what you sow
He said I forgive you
don’t you know
His clothes
were made of pure diamonds
They shined like the stars
Bowing down to him
His clothes were soaked in bleach
Faded to snow
Faded to ghost
His clothes were lined in holes
At the knees
At the shoulders
At the heart
His clothes were a mural
Of filthy rags sown together
all the tragedy he encountered
And all the tragedy we encounter
Can lead to restoration
If we only open our eyes
He wore a coat that was woven
With the thread
and needle of suffering
The same thread that has woven our very own lives
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5. |
The Guitar
08:33
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The doors keep barking
at the front screen door
The dust keeps collecting
In the corners of the floor
The guitar of a woman
Shines soft in the light
Pouring in from the windows
As the art of the sound
And the rays spread wide
Over the walls and the ground
She said autumn is just around the corner and with it brings pain
But more so laughter
In the beauty of rain
I said as the memories fall
Like puddles in our hands
Let’s run far away
From the worlds demands
She picked up the guitar
And she strummed me a song
I said we can’t stay here
For too awful long
We could travel the years
We could travel the lands
As long as I’m not far
From the reach of your hands
The guitar of a woman
In between the strings
There’s a garden of trust
There is a heart full of dreams
I’m beginning to see
That home is where she is
Home sweet home
Home sweet darling
You are my only home
of all
of all the silence
I had wanted to say that silence sounded more like God.
soon after, we heard bells chiming gently in the distance.
Soon after the silence faded to the sound of rain,
also landscape, also wind
I had wanted to say that these hands of ours are more like cranes.
I had wanted to say that memories vary in distance as the space between the stars
I had wanted to ask the people
of what America do you know?
of all the nations caught in war,
will you one day know what freedom is for?
Of all the cities of slave brick streets
of a hunger inhuman
of all the homeless hugging the streets, my heart remains restless and homeless for you
Of all the hurt that you know,
I hope that you will let go
of all the misery
dwelling in your eyes,
You know
you've never looked surprised
of all the lonely and the weak looking to be at rest,
a longing inside your chest
may you live in steadfast glory,
may you never be in a hurry
may you be clothed
in patience and humility
of all those who spend days working for wages
and building paper house
of all the winter icicles
clinging to your bones
of all the ones who traveled too many broken roads.
of all the beauty found
in the darkest hour of pain
even in the darkness
hold onto the light
of all the silence
I told them that silence
sounded more like God
soon after we heard bells
chiming gently in the distance,
It echoed from our ears
to awaken our souls.
I told them these hands of ours
are more like cranes,
that could be used to lift things that are much larger than this world.
all the silence, we are
all the same, we are many
we are all the same, we are one
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1001 Columbus, Ohio
We are a band from Columbus, Ohio influenced by the sounds of folk, indie, singer-songwriter, and acoustic music. contact us: ecarr008@gmail.com.
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