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We Want Love
You become carbon
You become smoke
With your idiot jest
And your inside joke
You’re a broken record
In the lost and found
I’m an open window
In a wall of sound
We want love, we don’t want you
We want love, we don’t want you
You push the button
You blow the deal
You take advantage of things
That aren’t even real
We want love – we don’t want you
I’m lighting a candle
On your funeral pyre
You climb over my fence
I slip under your wire
We want love – we don’t want you
If you’re still here after midnight
We’ll be gone before daylight
We don’t want you
It’s a semi-psychotic
American dream
Watching everybody coming
Apart at the seams
We want love – we don’t want you
Get off of my planet
Get off of my cloud
You’re jamming my radar
And you’re way too loud
We want love – we don’t want you
You sneak over here in the evening
But you’ll be gone before morning
We don’t need you
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
We don’t want you
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Any Given Day
Nothing can be said
About the birdbrain in your head
When the metaphor is dead
The peacocks from the west
Put migration to the test
Driving sixty six…
Pull another rabbit from your bag of tricks
Any given day (Tomorrow slips away)
Tomorrow slips away (It could happen any given day)
Any given day
I didn’t ask for your tired or poor
You brought the rain then it rained some more
I built a boat but there’s only one oar
If the ferryman is blind
And the river won’t unwind
It’s just a con game in your mind
Don’t stop to seek what you won’t find
Any given day - tomorrow slips away
Any given day - tomorrow slips away
(bridge):
Mercy sorrow daydream pension
Wake up in the fourth dimension
Interplanetary tension
Fever water, full suspension
Starfish death wish
Pharma karma
Spaceball dancehall
Any given day
It’s hard to comprehend
But if you stack them end to end
Your enemies become friends
Just another concept you can’t defend
Any given day, tomorrow slips away
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We Had To Be Involved
03:26
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We Had to Be Involved
In the twilight air, reflections disappear
Were you ever there?
Were we ever here?
Oh it’s so sad - I know now that
We’ll never be resolved
Shooting stars must fall
A rising tide will call
We had to be involved
Can you see it now, vague recollections
Can you change it now?
Pretend it didn’t happen, didn’t happen
Why don’t you try - if we just try
All this will be recalled
(chorus)
And so we go our separate ways
Just like the last song
And it could last for days
Or simply pass away
Why don’t you laugh? Why don’t you cry?
Show some expression now
Why don’t you laugh? Why don’t you cry?
I’m not just asking now
(chorus)
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Live
03:58
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Live
Wind rises to whisper the last light
Canyon echoes the mountain’s height
A chain of fires to lead us into the night
Hey – we only get to live for one day
Hey – we only get to live for one day
The pond is teeming with shadows and bluegill
Deep and alive but the surface is still
A path of secrets and switchgrass winding at will
(chorus)
Hummingbird in the orchard at sunrise
Satellite in the gold dust skies
Gate swings open to morning, patient and wise
(chorus)
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5. |
Topanga
04:25
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Topanga
Your secret bower laced with vines
Your soothing sweet blackberry wine
In the shade of lodge pole pine
I always thought that you’d be mine
No one ever goes there anymore
Maybe there’s a ghost who locks the door
The wild wisteria that spills
On winding lanes that that climb the hills
A candle on the windowsill
A whispered promise unfulfilled
No one ever goes there anymore
Maybe there’s a ghost who locks the door
(Instrumental break)
The sun that warms the canyon lands
The timeless tides that sweep the sands
In the shade of lodge pole pine
I always thought that you’d be mine
No one ever goes there anymore
Maybe there’s a ghost who locks the door
No one ever goes there anymore
Maybe there’s a ghost who locks the door
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Jamie
04:39
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Jamie
Oh – don’t think you’re gonna take me on
No – in a heartbeat I’ll be long gone
You can track me down at the speed of sound
you can chase me town to town
You just don’t see what you just don’t see
And I’m not gonna follow you down
Jamie, you really can’t blame me
I never agreed to be your alibi
Why keep running that burned out road
Try to give up that played out load
You’re dealing time and you’re stealing time
And you’re bound to a life of crime
Your soul’s been sold for a gram of gold
And a mountain too high to climb
Jamie, you really can’t blame me
I never agreed to be your alibi
Jamie, we’re just not the same
The only choice you left me was goodbye
Jamie, we’re just not the same
The only choice you left me was goodbye
Soon they’ll grab you and they’ll shake you down
You know that bid is gonna break you down
It’s plain to see how it’s got to be
Now I’m not afraid to be on my own
You just don’t know what you refuse to know
And you can’t accept that I’m done
(chorus out)
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7. |
I Can't Put You Down
03:41
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Can’t Put You Down
Told you I couldn’t be trusted
Couldn’t trust my own heart
You try to keep us together
I let it all fall apart
It’s not an act of deception
The easy lie from my lips
I was born on a dark star
Under a total eclipse
Now I don’t want you here
I don’t want you around
I locked up all my doors
There’s not a key to be found
But I can’t put you down
There’s my coming and going
There’s my breaking away
And you’re left never knowing
The next thing to say
About my disintegration
About your twice-broken heart
You put the pieces together
So I can pull them apart
(chorus)
You glue the pieces together
But something doesn’t quite fit
I say put it down baby
I tell you there’s no sense in it
There’s just no sense in it
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8. |
The View From The Bridge
03:46
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View From The Bridge
I do what I can to keep my head above water
I do what I can to stay afloat
I do what I can with these imaginary oars
Rowing in circles an imaginary boat
High in the canopy
Nowhere to go or be
Nothing to say or see
I can’t tell if this is free
When the river rises and the clouds fall around
I close up my windows, let my curtains down
If I can’t see the devil and I can’t hear the wind
I can push away the shadows I can hold my ground
(chorus)
(bridge):
The view from the bridge, Ophelia’s lucid dream
It’s not what you think, it’s not what it seems
I want to write my way out but my inkwell’s running dry
I could scream and shout but I don’t even try
I wrote this story on a sinking ship
Composed it on the head of a pin
Tied it to an arrow I found piercing the deck
Shot it from my bow on the imaginary wind
(chorus)
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Seems to Me
Oh yeah, the boat’s unsinkable
Oh no, the thought is unthinkable
Seems to me, seems to me
Oh my, the world’s elliptical
It’s so, it’s so unrealistical
Seems to me, seems to me
Days drop like fruit fermenting from a peach tree on the run
Years stretch like melting plastic in the cold Arizona sun
Keep loving, keep living, keep loving, keep giving
There’s no wheel but the car’s still drivable
It looks cool but it’s unsurvivable
Seems to me, seems to me
Why don’t ya pick one, mineral or animal
Why not, why not vegan or cannibal
Seems to me, seems to me
Tomorrow leans on a Scrabble board then it pulls up on a dime
Time dangles from an overpass with a watch and a bottle of wine.
Keep loving, keep living, keep loving, keep giving
Keep loving, keep living, keep loving, keep giving
Keep loving, keep living, keep loving, keep giving
It’s clear the game’s unwinnable
Space ship is no longer spinnable
Seems to me, seems to me
Don’t say life’s inscrutable
Who cares? It’s all rebootable
Seems to me, seems to me
Seems to me, seems to me
Keep loving, keep living, keep loving, keep giving
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10. |
Counting Lightning
06:15
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Hummingbird Syndicate Boston, Massachusetts
Jon Macey and Lynn Shipley are a songwriting team creating lyrical and melodic tunes for the ages. Hummingbird Syndicate is
a collection of their musical friends.
Metronome Magazine:
"With lush
vocal harmonies, vibrant fretboard forms
and pop-steady rhythms, Hummingbird
Syndicate proves to be one of the finest
band of pop architects on the scene today."
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