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Marigold
01:03
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Mercy paint this moment marigold
Tuning in & out to try and hold
The soft music like coming home
Catalog this love with a flip phone…
We have to catch the tune
As it’s passing through
Comes on quick
Gone too soon
All these long down,
Hard-town truths
So let me be here now
Let me be here now with you
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2. |
Never Saw It Coming
03:19
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I was fourteen when I first felt the pull of something real / when the ground opened up and I knew what it meant to feel / everything and nothing all at once oh my god / darkness all around me everywhere oh my god / and like a third eye opened I saw life on the border / it was the low glowing ember of a cigarette in the corner…
Caught a bad one again
Knocked me down
Took me by surprise
Really by surprise
Never saw it coming
They say time heals wounds / I say time is a curse / or maybe time’s just the teacher / and it’s people that hurt / I mean look at my mom and dad / or some of the friends I’ve had / I mean look at me / what’s the life you lead? / it’s all now everything how we remember / it’s all now everything how we remember / a return to center / put that on a t shirt…
(refrain)
So I turn heart into song/ it’s just “something to do” / there’s a coyote laughing in a hospital room / on the bleak edge of pitch black never ending nowhere / beat up and broken / hoping that we go somewhere / maybe we go somewhere
But I don’t think so
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3. |
Some Bad Joke
03:12
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Forty-four days in a place
Where love is not enough
Where we come and go
Come and go, come and go
Like the punchline
To some bad joke
“A string walks in to a bar…”
And when I’m out kickin’ around
I can feel all their eyes on me
Hear them whisper
Like everyone is talking
But no one’s got nothin’ to say
When I come and go
Come and go
They just send their flowers
For the window
So don’t ask me how I’m doing
Don’t ask me where I’ve been
Don’t ask me to talk about it
Right now I’m caving in
So don’t ask
Cus the days grow long
But life goes quicker
Then you get sick
Then you get sicker
And I guess I’m just
A little bit bitter
Like what a joke!
Round & round
Lost & found
Oh I wish I could
We’re one foot in the meadow
One foot in the woods
So don’t ask me how I’m doing
Don’t ask me where I’ve been
Don’t ask if this gets better
Right now I’m caving in
So don’t ask
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4. |
Jesus Won't Save You
03:08
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Bark loud little dawgie!
From the morning ‘til moon
You can hold on to your hold to
But Jesus won’t save you
Propped up by a proverb
Some man-made something
Made up
Like a light to guide
When there is none
Whatever it takes
Whatever we can do
Whatever we have to
Whatever we’re sold…
I hear all that glitters is gold
Gather on a Sunday
Hope it carries through the week
Good deeds buy a good view
But Jesus won’t save you
If you don’t love yer neighbor
Or put too much faith in saviors
To make up for the sin
Of being a piece of shit
Trusting that the lord
Will just forgive
Whatever it takes
Whatever we can do
Whatever we have to
Whatever we’re sold…
I hear all that glitters is gold
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5. |
Arlo At The Bedside
02:31
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Mary’s off again
Caught another bad one again
Coughing up house fire
With no teeth in
Cus Jimmy died
From a landmine
And the hurt spilled
Like a landslide
We’re singing Arlo
At the bedside…
Burned down,
burned down,
Burned down —
It’s all now everything
How we remember
Guts in the Tupperware
When’s the last time
You were right there?
Driving head first
Towards a nightmare
Oh, what a short road
For such a long ride
We’re singing Arlo
At the bedside
Burned down,
burned down,
Burned down —
It’s all now everything
How we remember
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6. |
Good Love
04:18
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Uncommon detour
Headed for a back road
The only way she knows how to get
From town to town
Heard a big storm
Caught the whole wood, up in
High smoke
But that was years ago
She pulls a last name
Out of thin air
Says they used to live
Somewhere around here
You wouldn’t remember
You were out in Olympia
Didn’t think to tell ya, cause
These Things just happen
Where a two track, and a short cut
And a right turn gets you home
To a love that’s a good
To a love that’s good
Where the heat doesn’t work
But the love is good
Somewhere out in the cattails
Somewhere in the backyard
Dreamt of the coyote
With a bullwhip in its jaws
She buried it there—
Before they built the big one
Looking nothing like the photo
Nothing like they planned
Emmy grab the shovel
We’re resurrecting the past
You’re the same age as I was when
The devil started making demands
Back when the love was good
When the love was good
Even when the heat didn’t work
But the love was good
You’re the same age as I was
When good love was all we had
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7. |
Name Yer Evil
03:34
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Endless ragged shadow/
Lonesome coyote cry/
Valley upon valley/
Mercy that mountain high…
Another purposed morning
Yearning for autumn time
Can’t make out the meaning
The message I’m supposed to find
In the rolling, rocking thunder
In the fading of the light
We do the best we can
Despite the circumstance
But it’s hard to keep the fire
Burning bright (burning bright)
Like what of our sweet Peggy?
The goodness she leaves behind
Love like the water
A beautiful daughter
And what will we do
When she’s gone?
So I beg:
Hideaway, hideaway,
Hideaway our hearts!
Shelter them from all
That do us us harm
Hideaway, hideaway
Hideaway our hearts!
Let strength be the moment
To keep us from the dark —
Mercy won’t you hideaway,
Hideaway our hearts?
And sing it true:
Against the rotten eye of every ugly change
With courage enough to dance in all the hardest rain
Name your evil, boy
Speak it plain
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8. |
Orange Tablecloth
03:40
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Broken spirit
No one hears it
Cracked wide open
Won’t go near it
Oh my god
We gotta get moving on…
Dream a meadow
Paint it yellow
Really mean it
Can’t just Make Believe it gone
We need to get moving on…
There’s an orange tablecloth
In the front yard
Who’d of ever thought
It could be so hard
Just to do what you want?
It’s not about the riches
It’s not about being being poor
It’s all about the principle
It’s what the hell we do it for
Cus mailbox money has me feeling blue…
Trying to make sense of a silver spoon
Treasure is the bounty
Of an early bloom —
I’ll meet you for a coffee in the afternoon
Can someone borrow me a dollar?
There’s an orange tablecloth
In the front yard
Who’d of ever thought
It could be so hard
Just to do what you want?
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9. |
Witness
04:42
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Moving picture
Bursts & flashes
In technicolor
Then it passes
Heartland Mission
Healthy friction
A circle sows the life
Not worth missing
And I’m trying to make the most
Of what I’m given
In the seeds of every season
I bear witness
Will I be ready?
When the night comes,
And the light goes…
Grace & sorrow
A framework of meaning
The radical acceptance of being —
Sing of rivers
The warm familiar
Say I love you
Cus hey, I love you
And I’m trying to make the most
Of all this living
Time the fragile tether
Bears us witness
Will I be ready?
When the night comes,
And the light goes?
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10. |
Just Today
02:56
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Call it Strong Trouble
Whole Bad Summer
Just a song I’ve been singing
For most my life
Never known why I am
All the ways I am
Lord knows I’ve been trying
To set myself free
But today! I feel all right
And today I don’t want to let that go
Cus we’ve had a hell of a run of luck
Fell into a Hole in the Swamp
Sundown on everything
Just trying to do what we want
So let’s shake the death from this house
I’m talkin’ let’s make a stand
I’m saying all the love we can
Cus today, I feel all right
And today, I don’t want to let that go
When the light’s on/
You hold on/
It’s a bittersweet come on
You might catch a bad one
Now & then
You get knocked down
Pick up again
If today
Just today
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Jack M. Senff Traverse City, Michigan
Jack M. Senff is a songwriter from Northern Michigan.
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