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Jeane
04:13
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Jeane never really gave a fuck what people said
Anyone in her way was good as dead
Rewriting history, she rode where all boys fear to tread
She would scream at the monsters in her head
Blessed with the vision, she could see for miles and miles
With a gaze reminiscent of a child's
Those who tried to keep her were left defenseless in the wild
Begging once more to look upon her smile
But nobody wants to hear
Nobody wants to know
Her story remains untold
Cause they tore all her temples down and scratched all her mentions out
and wrote her out of the book of old, oh no
Jeane never really gave a fuck what people said
Even on the night they dragged her out of bed
Standing defiant as the flames all burned so red
She lives on though her blood has all been bled
But nobody wants to hear
Nobody wants to know
Her story remains untold
Cause they tore all her temples down and stamped all her embers out
and wrote her out of the book of old, oh no
Jeane never really gave a fuck what people said
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Sounds Like A Siren
05:20
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Something’s calling me towards it
Beckons for a second
Sounds like a siren
Thousand miles across the water
I can hear my lover
Sounds like she’s crying
Dashed myself upon the rocks I’m
Running out of air I
Feel like I’m drowning
But a light from deep under is rising
Healing me completely
It’s all around me
Come to me in a dream
There’s a place I’m sure that I’ve seen
Never once could I understand
The plan
Life came flashing in an instant
Speeding through the centuries
Into the distance
Tried to hang on for a moment
Wish that I could hold it
For all of existence
Tell me where do we go
After curtains fall down on this show
Tell me now is it so
Is there more than one chance to know
How much time do we have
Why am I left feeling so bad
Am I racking my brain
In vain?
I can feel a raging fire burning right at the end of time
losing my mind
I can see a massive tidal wave thats coming for you and I
Nowhere to hide
I close my eyes..
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Half Remembered Dreams
04:02
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Sweetbriar
04:22
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Barefoot on the sunburnt pavement walking slow
Lazy summer days I spent just wandering alone
Driving through those rolling flatlands all in a daze
Golden dreams that take me back in so many ways
In the town where all my mother's side was born
Stands a house that 40 years of memories adorn
Who's rooms held laughter, tears and countless magical nights
Some where spent with family, some were just you and I
Although that home now holds a different family tree
Those many years of memories I keep only for me
Will comfort me through all the shifting days that fly past
I'll hold them dear and visit for as long as they last
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Song For Bella
03:25
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Bella was the best in town
And she never gave up when her legs gave out
I remember how she used to run
When I threw her toy under the summer sun
She would jump into the swimming pool
I would talk to her when I got back from school
She would listen to me intently
But she had to leave us all eventually
It apparently has been said
We should know by now
That we never can wake the dead
I just wish somehow
In her last days she became so weak
Wonder what she’d say to me if she could speak
Couldn’t bring myself to come around
On the day the doctor came to put her down
It apparently has been said
We should know by now
That we never can wake the dead
I just wish somehow
I could go back in time just once
To be by her side
And to tell her she was so loved
On the day she died
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Traveler's Nightmare
07:49
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The wandering mind meanders all their life
Forsaking the light and comfort home provides
In search of a story untold
Just letting the future unfold
The prodigal son who squanders all his gold
In search of some vague fulfillment in his soul
Returns to his father so poor
A prince of the kingdom no more
The sins of the sibling laid bare
I never said life would be fair
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Fell asleep in someone else’s home
Never once enjoyed to be alone
Please accept my hospitality
So easy to dodge reality
Yet another shy unwanted guest
Even though he tries to do his best
He will always be a foreigner
Never can know what’s in store for sure
Locked outside the temple at the gate
With no shoes in silence he must wait
So exposed to all the elements
Left alone and cold he then laments
Till a drifter comes and calls his name
Tells him he must live his life in the shame
To reject or take it all in stride
All laid out before him to decide
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Sing to me like a refugee
Broken melodies
Cure my bad disease
You defy your fate
Let the reaper wait
You must move along
Sing another song go move on
Sing to me like a refugee
Broken melodies
Cure my bad disease
You defy your fate
Let the reaper wait
You must move along
Sing another song go move on now
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Avalon
04:35
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Every morning memories stray
Across the sea where flying fishes play
And as the night is falling
I find that I'm recalling
That blissful all enthralling day
I found my love in Avalon
Beside the bay
I left my love in Avalon
And sail'd away
I dream of her and Avalon
From dusk 'til dawn
And so I think I'll travel on
To Avalon
Just before I sail'd away
She said the word I longed to hear her say
She tenderly caressed me
Close to my heart she pressed me
Upon that golden yesterday
I found my love in Avalon
Beside the bay
I left my love in Avalon
And sail'd away
I dream of her and Avalon
From dusk 'til dawn
And so I think I'll travel on
To Avalon
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Michael & The Whale
04:54
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Michael was swallowed by a whale
Just to escape the endless hail
To wait out the storm, he stayed safe and warm
But when it spit him out he had grown old
Mike turned himself into a bird
Just to remove himself from the herd
And he flew down south with an opened mouth
And he sang his songs all to no one at all
No one listening bit the rain and wind
He sings even now, listen hear the sound..
Mike disappeared into a dream
The smartest fool you'd ever seen
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I think I've found a way out...
Think I found a way out...
What's this book been about?
Think I figured it out...
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Nature's Neighbor is the project of song-writer Mike Walker and his friends.
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