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Trust
03:44
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Where’s life going?
We don’t know
It flickered like a candle
I’m sandblasted, don’t it show?
Nothing I can’t handle
You wanna rip my heart out with your hands?
And you won’t stop until I’m dead, until I’m dead
I have tried and I have failed to love
But I won’t turn away, won’t turn away from
Trust trust
I wanna give up but I won’t drink from that cup
Oh come and find me come and find me
Trust trust
I wanna believe can you believe in my love
Oh come and find me come and find me trust
Nothing’s different no one’s saved
I go deeper into self-erase
I’ve been down I’ve been high
I’ve been drowning when the deep end’s dry
Want me to rip my heart out with my hands?
And show you where my pain begins?
I have tried and I have failed to love
But I won’t turn away won’t turn away from
Trust trust
I wanna give up but I won’t drink from that cup
Oh come and find me come and find me
Trust trust
I wanna believe can you believe in my love
Oh I think I feel I’m pumping blood
Two minds open
Reaching Touching Teaching Healing
Trust trust
I wanna give up but I won’t drink from that cup
Oh Come and find me, come and meet me trust, trust
I wanna believe can you believe in my love
Come and find me come and find me
You wanna rip my heart with your hands?
You wanna rip my heart with your hands?
Until I’m dead, until I’m dead
You wanna rip my heart with your hands?
And you won’t stop until I’m dead
Come and find me come and find me
Trust
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If That's What God Wants
03:42
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I wanna cry when I lay back and I watch the sky
Can’t stop from wondering
Where do we go?
Like a child I wanted mama there by my side
And stop the thundering
When the winds blow
Don’t you know I have chosen to stay for love
On my knees I get down and I pray for love
If that’s what God wants I want it too I really do
Time will fly right in front of your very eyes
Don’t underestimate the pull of those tides
Make your mark strike the stone til it takes a spark
You can’t differentiate eyes closed in the dark
Look inside you will find you were made for love
Unified fulfill the promise we gave for love
If that’s what God wants
I want it too I really do
I want it too yeah
I want it too oh I want it too
On our knees we get down and we pray for love
All the world’s a stage lit to display for love
If that’s what God wants
If that’s what God wants
If that’s what God wants
I want it too I really do I really do Oh yeah
I want it too I want it too
If that’s what God wants I want it
If that’s It that’s what God wants
I want it too
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Tears Tumblin'
03:30
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Better believe it
Life come at us fast
We keep searchin’ for shelter
In the dead arms of the past
But there’s nothing but ghosts there
Who sleepfeed on your dreams
With those tears tumblin’ down my face
I’ve stumbled so far from grace
Tears tumblin’ down my face
Lord when will I find my place?
The battles within us
They’re won at what price?
Self-forgiveness
Wouldn’t that be nice?
The sun breaks on the window
As you squeeze out one more day
With those tears tumblin’ down my face
I’ve stumbled so far from grace
Tears tumblin’ down my face
Lord when will I be at peace?
Why do we try and escape?
And just end up stuck in one state?
Are we gonna make it?
To that Shangri-La
Just when I can’t take it
Said, “Hell you made it this far”
Just reach for the light, babe
Be your own guiding star
With those tears tumblin’ down your face
We’ve stumbled so far from grace
Tears tumblin’ down my face
When, when will we feel relief?
Yeah, tears tumblin’ down my face
We’ve stumbled so far, so far from grace
Tears tumblin’ down my face
My, my
Tears tumblin’ down my face
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Circuit Breaker
04:08
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A paradigm that shifted
Coasting on a quarter tank
I wouldn’t have known you existed
If I’d never drawn your blank
Big check writer
Now lost freedom fighter
Holding me back from my own tears
This incision’s not up for revision
Without an address to strip the gears
Roads that led us nowhere
Crossing over rivers of stone
We always had each other
No one had to suffer alone
So conflicted yet so self-inflicted
Are we forever a failure to connect?
Left defenseless til life bleeds us senseless
Why didn’t we manage to protect
I may not learn how to love you
But I’m gonna try
As daylight burns out above you
Swallowing the sky
Partial reconstruction
Recognition of a face, a sound
Buried in the memories
The fables of a graceless town
Your pride rejects my hand
As I reach out to try save you from drowning
Circuit breaker
Heart regulator
I’m rolled up inside your fingerprints
Sworn oaths taken now godless forsaken
I’ll see you in focus when I squint
I may not learn how to love you
But I’m gonna try
As darkness burns out above you
Swallowing the sky
I may not learn how to love you
But I’m gonna try
Red lights rise in the rearview
Signaling your eyes’ goodbye
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There
04:17
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There was a tree
I climbed in ’73
And from there I could see tomorrow way
Before it came
And somehow just the same
I’d still choose yesterday
There was a house much colder inside than out
And in there
We all lived as if alone
And kept a chilly home
It was the place
The place where I came from
There’s always got to be one
Time after time we fall in and out of line
On your mind
Is the weak way that you find
Your troubles might be mine
And I guess that’s just fine sometimes
You gotta paint over that sign
There was a love from below more than above
And what’s more
There’s another closing door
Where who knows what’s in store
Where lies behind the struggles in your mind
To which you’ve got to be kind
There was an end more like a foe than a friend
Reaching down just to make it clear somehow
The only time is now
That’s not to say I’d still choose yesterday
Just to make it get the fuck away
Can you make it go away?
Can you make it go away?
Can you make it go away?
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Fortune will strike the boldness from you
Prettier than it looks
Find the strength to turn those pages
The kind you read in books
Save yourself for the right one, baby
Prettier than it looks
And if that ship has sailed it’s painful
The kind you write in books
Everyone thinks they’re something special
Prettier than it looks
But it don’t mean you bring them pleasure
The kind you find in books
When the power’s out
Are you still with me?
When the grid goes down
In spite of arguments against it
I walk with my heart defenseless
oh oh oh oh
If love’s to die before it’s started
Take my hand let’s dance towards darkness
oh oh oh oh
Everyone’s in denial lately
Prettier than it looks
It makes the crawl towards death less shameful
The kind you read in books
Don’t confuse being nice with kindness
Prettier than it looks
Beware those eyes that hypnotize you
The kind you find in books
When the power’s out
Are we still in this?
When the shit goes down
In spite of arguments against it
I walk with my heart defenseless
oh oh oh oh
If love’s to die before it’s started
Take my hand let’s dance towards darkness
oh oh oh oh
When the power’s out
I’ll be here with you
When the lights go down
I’m here
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7. |
Ghost Me
03:20
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What a surprise
You’re just as you denied
I saw the signs
Part of your grand design
If you ghost me
I won’t be there when you come running back
If you ghost me
I won’t be there when you come running back
Mind over matter
Every song leaves me shattered
Were you sincere I fear you only flattered
If you ghost me
I won’t be there when you come running back
If you ghost me I won’t be there
How naive to think what you see is what someone can give
I forgive but I cannot unsee and I won’t forget
So tragic that all I was to you is just a laugh
Your enemy is by your side as you walk your chosen path
I can be strong I can let go move on
All that I need I carry inside of me
If you ghost me I won’t be there when you come running back
If you ghost me I won’t be there when you come crawling back
If you ghost me I won’t be there
If you ghost me I won’t be there
If you go that way I’ll know that you never cared
If you ghost me I won’t be there
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8. |
Don't Mind the Rain
03:22
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Don't mind the rain
Keep pushing hard against the grain
Don't mind the rain
There's beauty in defeat it's all the same
From what you’ve lost to what you’ll take
From what you'll leave, for what you'll wait
Turning from and coming back again
From what you call your chosen fate
To what you choose to emulate
Don't mind the rain
All called the same
Awakening by any other name
All that I know Is everything just needs a little push to make it go
From up at dawn the pressure's on to find the strength to carry on Searching high and far and wide and low
For what you thought was etched in stone is subject to the ebb and flow Don't mind the rain
Cuz everything worth searching for
Reveals you to you nothing more
The hand that helped you up from the floor
Is someone who fell there before
Don't mind the rain
Your heart, born to love, will love again
So, by and by
Fear is just a mountain, a mountain unclimbed
For what you know and what you love may suffer from a breach of trust But it's not then unworthy of pursuit
Waiting for the strength to try is waiting for the day you die
Don't mind don't mind don't mind the rain
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9. |
Our Paradise
03:07
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Once in a life you finally find your nightingale
Once in a while you find your reason to smile
Paradise I wanted to be your paradise
I want you to see our paradise
Once in a cosmic twist of time the stars align
Winter to spring she brings the flowers to life
Paradise I want you to see our paradise
I want to believe in paradise
Does she realize she shakes my world awake?
Once we are one this union won’t come undone
Call me believer in miracles under the sun
Paradise I want you to be in paradise
I want to believe in para…
Does she realize she shakes my world awake?
Paradise I want you to see our paradise
I don’t want to leave this para…
Tiger she drinks and looks up at a breaking branch
Nothing but space to run and ramble the night
Paradise I wanted to be your paradise
I want you to see our paradise
I want to believe in paradise
We won’t ever leave this paradise
This paradise
This paradise
This paradise
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She: I’ve been waiting for you
Now, it was worth it
I won’t even ask what took you so long
Because in some ethereal
Magical
Unpronounceable way
You were always right here
Where you belong
I…understand how you’ve had to shuffle the deck
Get lost deep
Inside a kind of gambler’s paradise
With minor temptations and
Flirtations
Or a breeding ground
Of both the best and the worst
Of what was on offer
But I play for keeps
Just like you
I’m a high-stake drifter
And I’ve been waiting for you
I’ve been waiting for you
He: I went towards the light
A long-dead star in a house of mirrors and stained glass
The answer to my prayers
A high
Stakes
Drifter
We’re all gonna die, why not share the ride?
Otherwise
We’re just
Waiting
We’re just
Waiting
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11. |
Ride High
03:08
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Ever since I crawled out
I could never call out
Never gave my voice to pain
That I could never name
I sensed all the vibrations
Dragons slain and chastened
Follow smoke you’ll find the flame
To kill the source of shame
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
You’re pulverized and frightened
Now you stand united
And moonlight as a human being
Get paid to pull the strings
Your eyes are sore but sighted
They still let the light in
As lift occurs beneath the wing
And now a chorus sings
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high yeah
Oh oh yeah
Initiating sequence
Spare me your “obsequience”
I don’t need your kind of friend
I’ll tell you why or when
You’re crying ‘cause you’re blocked you
Never really thought through
You’re running out of fools to blame
How you cheapen even fame
You lick your fate
Off an idiot’s dealer plates
You bleed from your eyes
I taste your lies here’s a kiss goodbye
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high
Don’t fight it’s destiny
You ride high
You ride high yeah
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Ken Stringfellow Seattle, Washington
A fixture on the music landscape, indie and otherwise, since the debut of his band The Posies in 1988, Ken Stringfellow has over thirty-five years of experience as a performer, composer, producer, arranger, programmer and more. In addition to his eight albums with the Posies and five solo albums, Ken spent a decade touring and recording with R.E.M and 17 years with Memphis cult band Big Star. ... more
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