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Thread
05:13
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you left a cup of conversation half empty,
your saucer stained the porcelain cold,
but your thoughts they still warm me
because I wont let them go.
dream dear friend.
faith in hope knows no end.
surpass the canvass sky with your thoughts outstretched.
imagination windows truth,
across the blue your soul confides
in the fundamental thread
of God and humankind
there is a river that runs past the kitchen door
your lover tends the soil with a light in her hair
and you and your chair
watching the billowing clouds
soar dear friend.
faith in hope knows no end.
surpass the canvass sky with your thoughts outstretched. imagination windows truth,
across the blue your soul confides
in the fundamental thread
of God and humankind
jump in the river,
jump in the river my friend,
jump in the river wash away your sins.
(music and lyrics p&© Robert Deeble)
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blame it on the satellites
damn the rocket ships
you shot em way too high
like little graven images
if you draw me into light
with all the clamor of your kiss
it leave me downward spiraling
with all my fears and fragile moments
it's never what you want
i’m always earthside down
it brings you down…
you crave convention in a sound bite
never mind the prophets at your door
you want a motorcycle ride
it's never what you want
i’m always earthside down
it brings you down…
(music and lyrics p&© Robert Deeble)
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Open Air
04:34
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in the open air
i’ll take you
elate you there
its just like heaven
night of blackened blues
hues that luster
in magnitude
share
its just like heaven
all the forest sings
sings its songs
flowers focus
sing along
its just like heaven
music: Robert Deeble,
lyrics: Layne Schroede,
p&© Robert Deeble
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Two Statues
03:58
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you and i
exchanging glances
finding the right words to say
sometimes i
don't know what your thinking
the two of us lost in the haze
how can i tell you
two statues are sleeping
counting the days
holding their hearts
longing to breathe
here we go
emotionally sterile
fighting the time that leaves
she says i don't know if you are real
touch me i feel like its a dream
how can i tell you
two statues are sleeping
counting the days
holding their hearts
longing to breathe
somewhere
between coffee and the freeway
we said good morning goodbye
all we have, carefully hidden
beneath overcast skies
how can i tell you
two statues are sleeping
counting the days
holding their hearts longing to breath
two lives remain still
between a bookmark
waiting to unfold in the soft, soft, light
music and lyrics p&© Robert Deeble
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5. |
Reprise (ESD)
01:08
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Junkyard
05:22
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Under thick walls of skin,
and all its allure.
You betrayed yourself
in an unguarded moment
Now we are lost,
searching the ground,
for something...
A life within loss
like words
without sound.
Blessed are the poor,
the mourners, the meek.
All of us whores,
losers and freaks
Junkyard,
beautifully still...
All of your life, love, hopes, dreams, thrills,
forever sleep there, beneath,
a cruel indifference...
music and lyrics p&© robert deeble
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Anastasis
04:48
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Cut
me to the quick
I am frozen
a vine once tender
now a tree in winter time
She
looks through a window here
like a child at play
she wipes the frost from the pane (pain).
And I
am awake
to life and love and beautiful things
And I don’t why
I hurt you
I don’t why I treat you like there’s nothing wrong
Love
once spoke here before
the stoic
In poetry
you held my hope from fear
And she
dances with tambourines
like Israel
awakening from the longest dream
And I
am awake
to life and love and beautiful things
And I don’t why
I hurt you
I don’t why I treat you like there’s nothing wrong
music and lyrics p&© robert deeble
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Peter and the Lion
06:58
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Warm is your breath. mysterious
all my faith and fear beneath your silent shroud
you draw me near ... like a child
Voice undistinguished between — joy and sorrow
the warmth of love. you call my name
in the strongholds of peace
break me to tears before the kindest maker
p&© robert deeble
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You Don't Know Me Now
03:33
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she's leaning my direction, spilling stories killing jokes. cigarettes on the table... leaning closer blowing smoke,
she's a ship in dry dock, she's got no where to go and she don't know me now.
she's got herself up in a fix, she's got her timing down just right, she's a conversationalist on an international flight.
throwing punches stealing cars, never sure of who you are. you're million miles an hour wrong way on the autobahn
a femme fatale in season, the huntress before the kill, soft curves and subtle motions; her body all reveals
well you'd like to tempt my mind but if you thought you had my will then you don't know me now.
in the distance is my muse, she's higher than the blue, higher than your booze.
she's a passion she's a flame, she's my family, she's my name and you don’t know me now.
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lovers on route to somewhere... she said. morning woke, rolling past your window.
steal rail sway, soft horn that wails... reminds me of my father and his love for the machine,
once gallant and proud, a dying breed of steam and steal. as lovers on route to somewhere.
darling look she cried, pointing out the window, a summer home with land outstretched, touching clear blue sky,
with cobblestones bridging streams... and the talking animals sing secrets from the city,
i woke this morning to a ring of gold, encircling my love as lovers on route to somewhere...
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Billboards
12:45
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Hey Jesse how's New York? I've never been
the winters' get too cold, my body all too thin. Is it still a folk town like in the sixties? Bob Dylan, Greenwich Village, Carol King. Now there's Suzanne on the rooftops... listen to her sing.
Choke the sun out of the sky, barbwire on a freeway sign,
here the gas gets cheaper than water and love is thin with compromise.
I know a story about a garden long ago, then Adam bought a gun. Eve ran the factory, poured acid in the stream, they had a couple of kids... one of em started a war.
We're all on the same fragile brink,
learned from the billboards not to smoke and how to drink.
Hail my Pepsi generation kill your televisions its the real thing baby, now you're sitting in the dark.
We were all just looking for some kind of revolution
but we never found a space to park.
I thought i saw Damien Jurado
on the cover of a romance novel...
tansy goes outside to play she's a garden girl
she lies backside in the dirt watching all the world,
earthside down.
Where's your brother? is he with your mom?
there's your dad in his chair watching clouds..
Jesus is your friend when you stay a child
we're all on the same fragile brink,
learned from the billboards not to smoke and how to drink.
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Robert Deeble Seattle, Washington
"Beautiful music for the sake of beautiful music" Seattle Weekly
"Deeble's authentic lyrics, along with stunning instrumental arrangements, make this album one of his strongest"
Performer Mag
"Few of his albums are more intimately honest than Heart like Feathers..." Stereo Inversion
"I'm not sure I'd want to start rowing toward a deserted island without it." BLURT (9 out of 10 Stars)
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