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Welcome Home
04:27
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Welcome home where you been
high and dry on a mountain
you gave up talking cause you
had some thoughts to go through
Welcome home old friend I
been here watching time fly
I guess you missed some news but
it’s mostly watching doves cry high
So what’d you see on your mountain
did you drink from the Buddha’s fountain
you make new friends with the bird life
ever write home to your dear wife
was the sunrise smilin’
while you dreamt on your moonlight island
did you miss the sounds of the city
as the rain strummed on to infinity
Well me I been talkin’ daily
stealing time with my one love lady
taking naps like a little old baby
thinking the world just done gone crazy
stretching out like a summertime breeze and
feeling mixed up ‘bout things I seen and
walkin’ around so my feet don’t freeze and
holdin’ tight to the rest of my dreams and
Sometimes I imagine I’m a mountain
lose track of the things I’m counting
settle in while the pressure’s mounting
get rid of all my doubts and
let it flow like a springtime stream and
pick a tune that reminds me of a dream and
think of you and the hours you spent and
bring your mountain right here to my apartment
Welcome home where'd you been
high and dry on a mountain
you gave up talking cause you
had some thoughts to go through
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All the Way to Glory
03:20
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It’s been a fine exquisite sample
of the way a room can change
when the company of strangers
is all that remains
eyes had looked through others
the horizon through the ages
they’re now evidence of something
we must admit engaged us
She’s a structural architect
of some resplendent dances
he forever estimates
the facets of the chances
and they as though ignoring
what’s happening around us
said they made their way to glory
and think they might have found us
made it all the way to glory
and think they might have found us
But me I want to die alive
let’s burn that old forgotten fire
five million times
yeah let’s watch forever unwind
yeah let’s watch forever unwind
Now we been so long together
we’ve all been through some stages
kept on staring at each other
like nothin’s ever changin’
but you and I both know
you sit still or you start bailin’
but forever’s gonna come
and the mighty ships keep sailing
yeah forever comes and goes
and the mighty ships keep sailing
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Breath & Bone
06:28
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There’s a river runs to a delta
like a ribbon through the air
there’s a fire burns around me
seems what it burns it does not care
and me I tend them both I try to
but that old river needs me not
that old fire keeps up burning
keeps up rising keeps it hot
But who can survive all on their own
won’t you come back from the shadows
seems your thoughts have overgrown
you will arrive look how we’ve grown
we’ll roll just like that river
’til we’re only breath and bone
Just breath and bone
just breath and bone
just breath and bone
just breath and bone
There’s a mountain falls around me
it’s just a cavalcade of sand
and there’s a washout down below it
where no impediment will stand
and me I watch it from each lookout
watch for changes in my time
and that old mountain moves so slowly
it churns a tempest
it turns so fine
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Soul on the Battlefield
04:42
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Soul got lost on a battlefield
while we were walking home one night
and I took a left turn but my soul it yearned
to get a little closer to the fight
so I went on without notice but that night in my sleep
my dreaming head had come empty
and my thoughts they were only skin deep
Soul got lost upon the battlefield
watching while around the plain of pain
machines they call guns for hi(gh)re
went along shooting just in vain
there’s broken bodies and soulless rifts
littering the land
and soul decided she had had enough
so soul she up and joined with the band
started singin’
Praises be to your soul routes
yeah the solitary moments when we know
when the rain’s shining or the sun falling
we have a deeper place to go
yeah don’t we have a deeper place to go
well don’t we have a deeper place to go
Soul she stepped on a landmine
and boy as soon as it tickled with its toe
sparks went flying everywhere and the shrapnel was the color of a rainbow
and then the bullets flew and the missiles too
the battle and the fury round the land it grew
soul stood in the middle telling ancient riddles
saying where’s the ancient warriors who knew to sing
Praises to your shrapnel, yeah the burning shards of love
won’t we give up the posture of the pusher
stand on the wire with the dove
but my misdirected latent longing
lingers in my fingers
there’s the big one and the bigger
filling purses with the trigger
leaving nothing but the love leaving nothing but the love
leaving nothing but the love
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Old Hearts
04:10
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Saw it once true as the wind blew
just before you come along
every time I want to hear now
I just hum along
It’s In your eyes too come along dear
just you see we’ll be alright
And we’ll count up all the numbers
sailing ‘cross the sky
Yes we’ll count up all the numbers
sailing ‘cross the sky
Builder built a castle
and before it tumbled down
the river rose to meet it
and returned into the ground
sky flies over towers
‘til thunder tamps it down
builder builds another
and it comes right back around
builder builds another
and it comes right back around
Some has gone wafting and some of it’s drafting
but most of it’s gone to that old everlasting
some are rebuilding with gold leaf and gilding
the rest take up dancing and restless romancing
just bridging our time from old hearts to star sing
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Interlude
03:21
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Edge of the Universe
05:32
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Been at the edge of the universe
where the rumblings had nearly ceased
and there the starlit cisterns
collecting only belief
yeah and our old ocean
is strung over years light and long
and the singing of things
comes a quieting song
So were your eyes on despise
instead of your skies
were we under the table
rhythm maker rhythm shaker
were your eyes on despise
instead of your skies
were we under the table
But this circle’s been expanding
oh and the gravity’s demanding
more action satisfaction
from a universe of love
well but this circle’s been expanding
oh and the gravity’s demanding
more action satisfaction
from a universe of love
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8. |
Here & Gone
03:28
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Hey where’d you been
hey where’d you been
say where you been
hey where’d you been
hey where’d you been hey
Me I’ve been at home
stuck alone dry long so
don’t feel the time pass
don’t smell the tall grass
Hey where’d you been hey
where’d you been hey
say where you been
Me I been at home
stare at the telephone
here and gone
don’t feel the time pass
don’t smell the tall grass
Hey where’d been hey
where’d you been hey
say where you been
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9. |
Symmetry
04:12
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How many times so many times
I seen you and you seen me
How many more times too many more
I turned my feet back from your door
I only want to know you
and know I’ve told you
I only want to love you
and grow old with you
How many times so many times
we’ve lived here and we’ve lived near
How many more times too many more
we’ve lived together under cover of fear
So won’t you live strong
and love long
and let battles die
that have gone on so long
How many lives so many lives
we heard this song and waited long
And how many more lives too many more
will we hear these words and wait to sing along
so won’t you live and sing and be free
won’t you love come sing along with me
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10. |
Santa Fe/Santa Fe
04:48
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The west texas ocean
the old coral reef
buried like tyrants like servants and chiefs
the east persia princes
on the upwelling tides
gone far beyond now a small point of pride
New mexican mountains
where your thoughts can be free
I followed a branch down to old santa fe
from atchison, topeka,
to the golden gate bay
me I been rolling along on the old santa fe
They came here for profit
ten dollars a song
said sing like you mean it just don’t sing it wrong
they came and moved mountains
they went shore to shore
I just can’t quite tell if they’re the cause or the cure
I just can’t quite tell
if you’re cause or the cure
I laid down beside you
still wanted more
you gave me direction I went on my own
I set out to find you I had to leave home
Through North Dakota
it rolls and it roils
not the same railway
but it’s still seeking spoils
rolls out through the badlands right over the plains
well we did it all once now we do it again
I signed on to love you
before I could care
I grew up to wonder
if this is something we share
I still stand beside you, still clutch to your shore
I just can’t quite tell if you’re the cause or the cure
I just can’t quite tell
if ’re you’re cause or the cure
I laid down beside you
I still wanted more
you gave me direction I went on my own
I set out to find you
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11. |
Symmetry (Dub Remix)
04:29
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D. Gross Portland, Maine
D.Gross has been performing around the east coast for two decades. With shows that range from solo/acoustic to fully
electrified, D.Gross attempts a dynamic conjuring of sound.
Drawing on the past, heading for the future, and based out of Portland, Maine, D. Gross creates lyrical songs rich in earth imagery, heart, struggle, and celebration.
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