1. |
May Morning
01:54
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2. |
Goodbye Before
03:47
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Flowers of farewell are blooming
In the wind
As we say how are you doing
Goodbye came before
You are the sea and the deepest
Blue I come to be
Let me join in this reverie
In and out we go
Like waves upon the sand
We breathe and exchange with the land
The bitter sweetest of them all
Goodbye but praise it after all
Sun shrink behind the last hill
So you can find
A place to stay to release the day
And then you’ll remind
Me of the parted day
The love I felt along the way
I thought there was something else to find
It passed me from behind
The shape and contours of my life
The hesitations and the strife
The clear and quiet scenic days
Were enough and make me in these ways
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3. |
By the Sea
05:06
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Come take a walk with me
I’ll meet you by the sea
Where quiet dreams are made
Where once as kids we played
The brilliant morning sky
Dawning in our eyes
What can fade away?
What will have to stay?
Flowing patterns in the water
Times will change and we must alter
Moving over lands
The shifting of the sands
Where you stand today
Wont always be this way
So take a walk with me
And forget what would be
And what hurt you before
Is given to the shore
Flowing patterns in the water
Times will changed we must altered
Theres no feeling thats final
Take my hand and walk along
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4. |
Distances
04:09
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The long road is calling
It’s calling me home
And answers in beauty
And bares my load
Ways out of the darkness
That slept in my soul
The light of the long night
Before me unrolls
Its alright
To speak out loud
Its alright
To make a sound
We’ll wander the wide world
Give sun to our hearts
And cherish the roots that
Give life to our parts
We’ll sleep in the meadows
Like angels in dew
And follow the calling
To distances new
It’s alright
To speak out loud
It’s alright
To make a sound
Please keep
A light on for me
Please show
The way we must grow
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5. |
No Bearing
04:54
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I wait behind my door
For you to come up through the floor
I know the colour of green
In the springtime symphony
The world is busy outside
Ten thousand faces pass me by
I watch the coming of things
All is beating with the wings
All is beating with the wings
As the butterfly flies
Watch her dancing for the skies
And though her time is brief
She is older than my grief
She is older than my grief
No bearing at all
A shadow cast on the wall
The sun is on my back
As I walk away from the track
As the road winds on
Distant lands will hear my song
Help the world to be
Free from its history
Are you free from history?
No escape anymore
The shadows are cast on the wall
The sun is on my back
As I walk away from the track
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6. |
Storm's Edge
02:20
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7. |
From Between
04:37
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Walk with me at night
And flare up
Like a flame
I’ve given you my hand
To lead me
Past the day
Step on cracks and hold me
As something
From between
Where my isolation
Is hidden
In a dream
Every silence sings you from the setting
I rustle in the breathing thats more than my own.
The slow working hands that shape my borders
Deepen the world I walk upon and roam.
I will trust the dark night
That stirs in-
Side of me
And reach into my world to
Pluck from a
Starry scene
And plant it deep in my heart
To ripen
In my dreams
Growing old together
This one night
Shines in me
Every silence sings you from the setting
I rustle in the breathing thats more than my own.
The slow working hands that shape my borders
Deepen the world I walk upon and roam.
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8. |
Skies in You
04:33
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Neighbour of night
Hold me in my dreams
And give them to the day
For all of life to be
The world that meets my eyes
works in you the same
As birds go flying by
Into our hearts they came
Hang all the stars inside
From deepest ruby nights
So they may point the way
To skies in you that stay
Two people bound beyond
Their parted present found
Are lands that held a light
A common sun and sound
Hold the space around
For peace and for place
For love that burns away
Like first light that fades
Hang all the stars inside
From deepest ruby nights
So they may point the way
To skies in you that stay
To skies in you that stay
To skies in you that stay
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Jake Metcalfe Trowbridge, UK
I record songs in bedrooms on a single portable mic and minimally apply some post production afterwards. All songs are performed live with an amp on a single channel (guitar and vocals). Most of these songs are in different guitar tunings. I record videos for some of these performances that you can find on YouTube. Thanks for stopping by. ... more
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