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Walking Around
04:43
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Wandering through the town all evening
Squandering all my life savings
Just looking for you
Enjoying the view
Sauntering down the streets all morning
Pondering all the signs and warnings
Just looking for you
Enjoying the view
Everything’s perfect when I’m moving
Crumbling only when I’m stopping
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Untethered
02:36
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Unconstrained by form and structure
Untethered, free at last
So uncertain
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From the City to the Sea
06:02
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Go forth
Beyond the tracks
Step after step
Through the grass
Ghost fields a running rampant
The bridge is up, it may never come down
I guess I’ll go around
And find a town
To rest my legs
Catch my breath
Try again on another day
Cause there’s got to be another way
Don’t you lose your place on the map
Let the sun guide you
Polaris at your crown
A night sky blanket shrouds the world
I have come so far
I have reached the edge of the world
The edge of the city
Look down below
There is a universe
It gets much worse
Calling
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Lake Michigan
07:18
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When I was a boy
I went out swimming
In Lake Michigan
With my two best friends
A hot summer day
The water felt great
Not a thought in our minds
Of the dangers of the tide
The undertow grabbed me
And pulled me down fast
I was too small, to weak
I could not fight back
I thrashed and clawed
But the suction beneath the harbor wall
Was far too strong
I thought that I might drown
Looking up from under water
At the clear blue sky
thinking about the possibility
This could be how I die
The indifference of the current
Did not care that I had
So much life yet to live
It pulled and pulled
Mother saved my life
Jumped in after me
Pulled me up from under
And dragged me to shore
After that day I felt
A new respect for the water
Having known the powerlessness
Of a human in the vastness
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All Magic Spells
03:53
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All magic spells have been broken
All locks and doors are now open
Opened for you
What will you do?
All mirrors now have been shattered
All rules and laws now don’t matter
Broken for you
What will you do?
Take one final look before you go
Say it once aloud so that you’ll know
Last chances all have been taken
All dreamers now must awaken
Wake from the dream
Not what it seems
Lost in the deep
Go back to sleep
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Stained Glass
05:20
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Gone Away
03:28
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Bury anything left to help remember
Gave you part of myself one cold December
Now it’s been so long
And you’re so far gone
But I can’t forget your love
Flew halfway round the world in January
Cleaned the grave at your family cemetery
And we danced real slow
On that ferry boat
As I held you in my arms
Gone away
Gone away my love
Gone away my love you’ve gone away from me
Walked through woodlands so green and so mysterious
Overlooking that scene, I held you nearest
Were we always doomed?
To split off too soon?
I’m afraid we’ll never know
Gone away
Gone away my love
Gone away my love I’ve gone
I’ve gone..
I’ve gone ..
away from you
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Black Lodge
05:06
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Sinking through your chair, I am there
I am there
Find me in the well outside the Black Lodge
You find my bread crumbs
Chase my trail
I need you
I need you to find me
Find your body by the lake
(I think I’ve been here before)
Train your ghost to stay close
Where you go, it must follow
Fall
Oh, at the end
There is no outside
There is no inside
You have never left
Come, sit by the fire
Join me in my velvet dream
Everything is as it seems...
Perfectly extraordinary
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Erasing all the evidence
They rise and fall and then they rest
Forever still, silent they stand
Eroding slowly into sand
Eroding slowly into sand
Eroding slowly into sand
Drifting ever still
Carrying my will to move
Drink my essence down
Follow me all through the town
Without me you’ll die
I can give or take your life
In the blink of an eye
I’m the tears you cry and cry
Lick your wounds that bleed
Coursing through your veins I scream
Thank you Meteor
For the spark that you gave
That set the fire for my ancestors
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Nature's Neighbor is the project of song-writer Mike Walker and his friends.
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