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Far Away From Here
03:57
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The first time I met you I was wrapped up in my selfish ways
but I would settle down wherever you were
and I followed along with you, I met you on the line
in-between my jealousy and peace of mind, my peace of mind
Promises may bend and promises may break
and I don’t really care if they’re not true
we forgive and we forget and I let it drift away
for some reason in my mind the walls break down when it comes to you,
when it comes to you
Oh, I take the wheel and drive
headed far away from here,
we’ll run away from all our fear
Oh, dreaming bout the day
we will run away, run away
away from here.
Broken hearts and broken bones can bring us closer in the end
and I can see my friends waving goodbye
but hope is just an anchor that keeps us still in place
‘til we try to forge ahead across that line that’s in our minds, that’s in our minds
If I doubted it before, then I’ll doubt it all again
but I call that irresponsible of me
as we roll across the waters and we reach the other shore
we just bend among the shadows and we set ‘em free
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Palisades
04:18
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At a crossroads in time
every second I fall behind
nothing but the dirt under my feet
So long to make it here
It's good to see the day
from far away it all gets blurred, anyway
I'm going down to the Palisades
to make myself a place to stay
what I once was is all but forgotten now
I'm going down to the Palisades
to make myself a place to stay
what I used to be is still what I am somehow
I believed the world was made
of bones and clay and steel
nothing better to do sometimes gets the best of you
Now you drifted away
and now I am awake
and last night's dream I somehow believed was real
Follow the bridge over split rock creek
down the river flowing, flowing on
I couldn't say what it meant to me
But we're spinning round, round, round
and we're going down, down, down
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Burn and Fade
02:58
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Leave me here in the moment, where I stop the time
There are so many things that I would redesign
But for me, it's never over 'til it's over
And for me, there's so many reasons I should wonder
Why every breath is like a fleeting glimpse of light
That burns and fades away...
Take it in, take in all you can
It's sometimes hard to take when these spaces bend and break
But for me, it's like an ache inside
And for me, there's so many reasons I should wonder why
Why every breath is like a fleeting glimpse of light
That burns and fades away...
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Steady
03:15
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This time of night is dark and low
Moonlight on the county road
Streetlights in the distance fade away
One last call and we're counting down
Hold on tight and we're ready now
To hit the highway, man, what a sight to take
My friends they all just think about it, time it slips away
But these small town dreams don't change too much these days
My friends they all just laugh about it, life it runs away
But these small town dreams, they just ain't here to stay.
Keep it steady as you roll along, don't cry about the days long gone
Coming home to these empty halls
Ghosts in the dark behind these walls
The preacher said "man, you gotta find the faith somehow"
When all that's left are these broken dreams
This heartache just ain't what it seems
But the world is hard to come to terms with now
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Bury Down
05:31
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Scars down your shoulders
and the likeness of your telling eyes
cut like knives and breaking down
lost in the strangest places
Bury it down, my love
bury it down again
‘Cuz you and I
will build a house
down by the sea
And deep inside
we’ll find a place
to finally breathe
Bury it down, my love
bury it down again
for a long, long time
Lost like the cold and lonely
and the moments pass me by
fires in the falling rain
reeling in what remains
for such a long time
‘Cuz you and I
will build a house
down by the sea
And deep inside
we’ll find a place
to finally breathe
Bury it down, my love
bury it down again
for a long, long time
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6. |
High and Dry
03:33
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I thought that last night’s dream was real
I believe in superstition and forgetting how to feel
and I wonder ‘bout the things that I’ll never know
let the waves roll on
We talked into the morning
streetlights in the island
when I need a little light
I know you’re always shining
And we’ll ponder all the things
I guess we’ll never know
let the waves roll on
The tides will rise and fall
but it’s the little things that make me see at all
through all the crazy times you are keeping me afloat
and it keeps me high and dry
Stuck within my memory
like a lonely lost survivor floating out at sea
he never asked for much but the place that the calls home
while the waves keep rolling on
All in all I know that this life is good
in all these big dilemmas I’m aware
searching for the little things that get lost in all the rush
and I’m just coming up for air
the tides will rise and fall
but it’s the little things that make me see at all
through all the crazy times you are keeping me afloat
and it keeps me high and dry
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Frontlines
04:03
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Come out of your shelter, come on and be one of us
The troubles around here will never become us
All your sons will be legends
and your daughters will fight for the cause
You sigh on the stations, you're falling back into our arms
Ooh, and we'll be here at the frontlines
Ooh, finding our truth in the great design
Although they are wealthy, I never knew them to be wise
They circle around me, affection is veiled in disguise
Oh brothers and sisters, they stand up for someone unknown
You sign on the stations, you're falling back into our arms
Ooh, and we'll be here at the frontlines
Ooh, finding our truth in the great design
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8. |
In Between
02:58
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I am in between
Broken and unseen
Echo chambers on empty streets
A tangled web of me
We are all made of fragmented shapes
All these souls on fire
Riding crests of waves
Nothing is missing in this perfect space
Where we come clean
Fallen in between
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9. |
Distant Call
04:08
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Sails on ships run ashore
like empty bags caught on trees
a crowd of faces I can't see on the street
the dreams and lights, they fade
Shipping off again at dawn
the ocean hard like concrete
Closing in on stillness once again
The flood came and there you went
And we were hanging on
But I'd somehow always known
Heaven in the sky is heavy on my mind
like a distant call from home
Letting go and giving in
I hear you still beneath the waves
I didn't think that we could stand on our own
the bay opens like a book
Finding peace in the wind
before our eyes are shut
Beyond the fear of another day's end
The flood came and there you went
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10. |
Before the Morning
04:38
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The air alone, I try to hold
before the morning, bittersweet and
thinking on it like a poem
already here, but ready now for home
The days that die within this war
they are desperate for sure
all our friends have come and gone
the moment hangs and then it’s gone
It was a good run we had
on our horizons, it was said
it follows us like shadows and storms
it follows us all
Lie awake into the dark
and rising up over our heads
a fight or flight response to the needles again
that keep getting under our skin
And I was a soldier, and you were the way
to hold on your honor and fight to be brave
there’s a light that shines on through
and levity will come again, come again
but it keeps getting under our skin
If I could go back and begin
I would do it all again
but the matter has no choice
so I will leave my voice in the wind
If I could go back and begin
I’d do it all again my friend
but the matter has no choice
so I will leave my voice in the wind
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11. |
Demons and Doubt
04:30
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Hollow me out
you’re wearing me down
the dirt and the leaves and the end
Sorting through the memories
and waiting for anything
you’re waiting for anything
In the Spring, you’ll shine like the first time
you walked on these streets
like you were waiting for someone
Left with all the memories
You’re waiting for anything
I have run from demons and doubt
take what I got
hollow me out
we’ll see inside
these broken lines
and we’ll meet somewhere at the end
On the outside
I try to believe
try to define the things I can’t see
There’s a chance I’d have been
alone all my days
or I wouldn’t have woken up
I have run from demons and doubt
take what I got
hollow me out
we’ll see inside
these broken lines
and we’ll meet somewhere in the end
and we’ll meet somewhere at the end
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Nathan Edwards Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Nathan Edwards performs and composes music from folk to experimental - Songs of life, love, hopes and dreams.
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