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One More Line
04:36
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I come by here about once a year
Just to shoot my mouth off
So excuse me while I do it again
If I'm man enough I might shed a tear
Or cover a nervous cough
And ask if you remember a time when
They spoke of luck and odds and chance
Told me to hedge my bets
To leave my heart and follow my brain
But I was never one to learn the dance
Or care about getting wet
If I get caught out in the rain
I'll unfurl my sails to the four winds
And follow the four points of the compass rose
When the horsemen come I'll confess my sins
Then I'll just need one more line, I suppose.
Maybe I should have listened once or twice
But then I think of the road
And all I met along the way
My spirit guide sure has been nice
I've learned to love my toad
But nothing much happens when he kisses my cheek anyway
I just might court folly in full moon
If I play the game of truth or dare
And see what befalls me out in the wood
But if my back wasn't turned on Lady Fortune
I wouldn't have seen you standing there
You tell me if my luck is bad or good
(chorus)
Even in Chinese tales of ancient days
Luck good or bad can turn on a dime
And one good work horse lost will continue to pay
If we leave the fence broken just this time
(chorus)
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Cardinal on the Fence
03:35
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Fair maiden of the sparkling waters
I fear I'll never see you again
And If I stand once more with your sons and daughters
Will I recall your face and the times when
We walked along your sandy shores
A mere stone's throw from bustling streets
The gulls cried lonely "We'll return no more!"
And we dipped our toes in the cold waters deep
(chorus)
Up from the beach we'd turn our heels
Of joyous song we'd heed the call
With friends and modern jigs and reels
We'd drink and sing and dance to them all!
(chorus)
Jimmy and Jake weren't just pictures on shelves
And Spadina was for poets and sages
But now our old haunts are just ghosts of themselves
Moved on or left to history's pages
(chorus)
Our fathers they would march with pride
Though with fault, still hold court at the square
But now in suburban basements hide
Until shamed on the air like a dancing bear.
(chorus)
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4. |
Brother Spirit Water
06:13
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glide across water
liquid glass of the morning
paddle cut diamonds
sun glints off ripples
jumping fish colours silence
laughter of the loon
Reach me brother in this far off place
Teach me Spirit through time and space
Until I cross the water to be with you
midday heat ripples
blacktop river cuts new path
diff'rent solitude
sundogs on windshield
tires hum with cicadas
speed past pausing moose
Reach me bother in this far off place
Teach me Spirit through time and space
Until I cross the road to be with you
rhythm of city
flows through streets like human waves
ebb and back again
trains drift near contact
in ripples we reach to touch
in prayer I hope
Reach me brother in this far off place
Teach me spirit through time and space
Until I rise out of the Earth to be with you
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I Will Give You Rainbows
06:12
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6. |
The Man From Tomorrow
04:21
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He flew in on an easy chair
Or maybe he was already there
Singing a tune one hundred years since June
Departing from Yorkville sometime soon
Destination anytime anywhere
I just met the man from tomorrow
With outdated fashions and unspoken passions
He took my inspiration, not stolen just borrowed
He said he'd give it back but I need to listen to know when.
He sat down across from me as if I'd asked him to
And without words he told me true
"Reach deep down in that well, pull up that ringing bell
Forged from gold too good to sell"
In skies so wide like eyes so blue
(chorus) ...just listen...whoa...just listen
To the lazy steps down a gravel road
In world worn boots so Bourbon told
The wind will point these toes to walk
And my fingers play some my mouth doesn't need to talk
And I open any door like I just belong
Set your feet to dance 'til the floorboards sing this song
Just take my hand and come with me
Let the music move and close your eyes to see...
...close your eyes to see...
I asked how will I know, can you give me a sign?
He said "Do you know the story of the water and the wine?
Like flowers on the breeze, like birdsong in the trees
When you and me and we blend with these!
A morning drop of dew on the vine!"
(chorus) ...but I need to listen
He said he'd give it back but I need to listen
He said he'd give it back but I need to listen to know when.
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This Is The Place
07:03
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The fish fell from the painting
Then lay motionless on the floor
As I thought about that book again
And moved to open the door
I looked down at a random page
And read one line through watery eye
The Sea of Tranquility was in my tear
As it danced across the sky
This is the place of infinite words
This is the place I can really feel
This is the place of sound reflection
This is the place where we feel real
You are in my heartmind listening
Not through that crude satellite net
Where sound is light is matter glistening
Where stillness thinks through pirouette
The dancer dreams a world to motion
The painter wishes colour to talk
The fisherman's art is in devotion
Time's footfalls beg us to walk
(chorus)
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The 13 Songs of the Lark
03:25
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...and we will learn the 13 songs of the lark
and sing them from our cages
in perfect order
written in our hearts
and our dreams of flight
alight tonight
and the moon will be our sun
and the prisoner will hear our call
heralding daybreak
and night fall
so as sap is blood to the tree
and song is wine in the head
in our hearts may our nests remain sacred...
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Wandering Child
05:36
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I woke up this morning, held my baby in my arms
Then the telephone rang and the owl sang
confusion bells and dread alarms
So I prepared for the journey and I scrambled upon a cloud
Neither day nor night, a faint pilot light
I walked out the door just behind the shroud.
Now Mama's in her glory and left me here as a wandering child
So I wander on down to the lake shore
Watch the water rolling in so free and wild
The water rolling in so free and wild
Now Papa's time was different somehow
He was a wanderer himself
Half his life on the road with a heavy load
'Til he stopped for a while up on Mama's shelf
Still, the telephone was a cruel device every time the was a call
Just like this jet plane stroking my pain
Until I'm backed up against the wall
Now Papa's in his glory and left me here as a wandering child
So I wander on down to the lake shore
Watch the water rolling in so free and wild
The water rolling in so free and wild
Now I look out across the water, see my kin who've gone before
They're a part of this place, I see it in the face
Of the Spirit beyond this door
So I keep my eyes forward fixed on where I'm to climb
As they call to me now I put shoulder to plough
For I must wander in my time.
And I pray I'll know my path then, no more to be a wandering child
I'll go on down to the lake shore
Join the water rolling in so free and wild
The water rolling in so free and wild.
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esirnuS nI esreveR
03:50
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Moonbow colours a starless night
Particles surf on waves of light
It meets my eye and my mind takes flight
To the reaches of space and beyond
As the event horizon rolls around
Answers at once both lost and found
Could be a blessing in the clothes of a curse
For the sunset is just a sunrise in reverse
The air dances and music it makes
When strings vibrate and the Earth it wakes
Strokes my ear in the time it takes
To forge an eternal bond
(chorus)
So flows the dance to what we feel
Feeling the space, that space so real
Flowing from the spokes of Ezekiel's Wheel
Rolling around to a new evening dawned
(chorus
...the sunset is just a sunrise
The sunset is just a sunrise in reverse
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Jonny Barefoot Mississauga, Ontario
Folk musician, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Canada, Jonny Barefoot lived in Japan for over 20 years, playing in the Tokyo indie music scene. Inspired by many styles, Jonny's natural mode of expression is a mix of roots, folk, and blues that has been called "Country Soul" and "Progressive Folk". He has now relocated to the Toronto area! Please take a listen! Peace! ... more
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