1. |
Anti
02:24
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I feel ugly
I feel deceived
I thought love was the key to everything
but love is not enough for me
I need to feel motion
deep turning tides
I seem to crave a wave of emotion
crashing over my life
cuz I
want to reach deep
search seek
live with every ounce of me
I feel my life
slipping by day to day
and I want to fill each and every moment
before it wastes away
I don't want to keep running
but I just can't stand still
I need to move with the smooth
and rough edges
of exploration at will
cuz I
want to reach deep
search seek
live with every ounce of me
so give me temptation
give me trials
give me pain fear hurdles to clear
and something to occupy desire
I don't think it's destruction
but it ain't poetry
it's just a way of living without dying
or dying a good life anyway
dying a good life anyway
dying a good life
cuz I
want to reach deep
search seek
look touch
feel ****
live with every ounce
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2. |
Beggar, Queen & Thief
05:20
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beggar, queen & thief
you take when you give
so you give just what you need
I can't believe I let you
have so much of me
I can't believe that you could
walk away so casually
but I'm okay
I'm okay
beggar, thief & queen
you give when you love
but you love 'til it bleeds
I can't believe I let you
reign over me
I can't believe how quickly
you could leave
but I'm okay
I'm okay
queen, thief & beggar
I gave away my heart
kept no part to treasure
I can't believe I could
feel no love for me
I can't believe I could
need so desperately
but I'm okay
I'm okay
I'm okay
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3. |
Close to Me
02:54
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Half naked half wild
I gotta feeling that's building
can't keep it inside
I wander
come close to me
Half struggling half free
gotta feeling that's building
taking over me
I wander
come close to me
oh, close to me
Half lost or is it found
am I flying high above
or six feet underground
I wander
come close to me
Half twisted half sane
am I falling through the glass
or just looking at my face
I wonder
come close to me
oh, close to me
Half wasted stone sober and cold
gotta feeling that's building
that's taking control
I want you
close to me
Half woman, half little boy
gotta feeling that's building
that cannot be destoyed
I want you
close to me
oh, close to me
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4. |
Green
02:54
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hey, oh
watch your feet don't run
watch your feet don't run
home
find you
fear don't fear no fate
no fear don't find no fate no
roam
but careful which way you go
don't travel too far from home
I've seen you
tiger in the night
eyes a-blazing bright
ghost
tireless truth
faith to conquer fear
love to bring you near
hope
but careful which way you go
don't travel too far from home
into the valley of the green
where silken leaves caress your cheeks
and sweep away the bitter dreams
that lead you to despair
all around the world is green
blocked by simple smoking screens
that feed us on the frenzied scene
of always wanting more
so let us now both you and I
blow through smoke into the sky
and open up our failing eyes
to recognize the green
green of laughter
green of love
green of wonderment
and trust
let us stand now
at the cusp
and jump
into the light
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5. |
Swerve
06:53
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she was he was she oh he was
bind your breasts
hold your breath
the end will come too soon
hide your blood
all your love
will end much too soon
in the night
in the heat
in the wanting
I believe I am he she needs
oh lover
come marry me tonight
through lights
of factory fields
I see you naked
like all my need
oh lover
come bury me tonight
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6. |
Suckerpunch
01:58
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7. |
Open
05:05
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8. |
Afterall
01:56
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9. |
'neath the Sun
03:06
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a man came walkin'
'neath the sun
speaking words of love
man struck down
by a stone
the heart of pain
unjustly thrown
and I want to be free
there are chains that blind me
there are chains that I can see
there are chains that bind so many people
you start to think there's no other way to be
but I want to be free
so I will walk
'neath the sun
speaking words of love
love ain't easy
it don't always please
but I still believe
it'll set me free
and I want to be free
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10. |
Single Day
02:32
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She's got the world
upon her fingers
why wouldn't I stare
A balancing of expectation
all the people who say they care
but let it go
let it out
give yourself the time to think about
who you are now
why and how
you don't believe you're worth a single single
day
pick up the phone
call me
it's not that hard to see
that you don't care
you never did
it's just a crap shoot
called russian roulette
but let it go
let it out
I just need some time to figure out
who I am now
why and how
I don't believe I'm worth a single single
day
Please take this gun out of my head
Release my fingers from the dead
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11. |
Summertime
02:44
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I've been four years old
at the end of a gun
scared shitless, helpless, hopeless
cuz I could not run
But I don't care
baby I don't mind
I'll take a hole in the head
over a knife in the back anytime
My skin is crawling
with memory
in the dead of the night
my bed feels like a hundred degrees
how do you know
baby how can you tell now
if the lesson you learn just burn you
like this heat from hell
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
I need to relax
get out of the grind
a-go online offline into space
and out of time
in the belly of a bird
or on the wing of the sea
just take me out of me
into you out of you into me
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
into you out of me
into you out of me
into you out of me
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12. |
Breathe
03:30
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breathe
take it deep
earth is turning towards the sun
I gotta find some way to sleep
but youth
paint it blue
it ain't no mystery that the truth's
gonna be the of death of you
gone
for so long
gotta find my way through right and wrong
if I want to get back home
but I
outta know
that this is just the way things are
the way they always go
so get down get down get down get down get down...
cuz I don't know why
I gotta sing or die
yah I don't know why
but this is how I stay alive
so get down get down get down get down get down...
breath
take it deep
earth is turning towards the sun
I gotta find some way to sleep
but I
outta know
that this is just the way things are
they way they always go
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13. |
Ash
04:03
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Caught in a whisper
a glimpse of the truth I wish not to know
Together as ever alone
I never noticed
that holding too tightly I could not breathe
Always left wanting by you
But the light grows over the ground
Leading my feet to turn me around
I dream of an empire
with buildings of fire and burnings of faith
Where love is the music we make
But you cannot go there
you will not believe without tasting the flame
Now black is the ash that remains
But the light grows over the ground
Leading my feet to turn me around
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14. |
Bittersweet
03:30
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Take this apple from my eye
I can't see for all the green
Taste this mantra in my mind
Turn the bitter into sweet
bitter into sweet bitter into sweet
I could be most anything
but the constant that you need
still, is it better not to have been
than to try to turn this bitter into sweet
bitter into sweet bitter into sweet
bitter into sweet bitter into sweet
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15. |
Leap of Faith
02:45
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Come with me
it's not as far as you think
though love's as hard as you think
and I can't deny
eyes open wide
searching the skies
So we are
bruised and scarred
circling round our battlements
sharpening our best defenses
why
can't we try
can't we fly
let go and fly
away
away
Come...
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16. |
Comfort
03:10
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comfort come quickly
I feel like I'm drowning again
and I don't know
how long I can hold my breath
I thought if I tried
my best I could carry us through
but it seems like
it's never enough for you
and I know that I'm hard
I don't mean to be
but it's the saddest of scars
when you cut yourself free
of me
I open my window
to hear the leaves rustle with rain
and silence this silence
one again
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17. |
K Flood Blues
03:45
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2005
August time
the heat is getting hotter
and a storm is on the rise
so batten down the hatches
and abandon the ship
a change is a-coming
and it's blowing on the wind
say goodbye to New Orleans
the wind is whipping hard
the trees are bent and broken
the water is churning
and the cameras are rolling
looks like the big one
prophesized for years
it's the oldest of stories
but we never did believe
it could fly in New Orleans
I say hey ya pocky oh ah pocky way
come Tuesday morning
and the skies are clear
but the levees done blown
there ain't no getting outta here
mother and father
and little sister too
I told you to leave
now what am I gonna do
I don't know how
to get you out of New Orleans
I say hey ya pocky oh ah pocky way
a million calls
dropped every time
cuz there ain't no cell service
not a dry land line
and I want to believe
that help is on its way
but it's been 5 days long
of watching people dehydrate
dying on the streets of New Orleans
That's in the United States of America
so good job Brownie
way to go
the CNN news knows more than you know
good job Georgie
your daddy's son
but could you drop down some water
from your Airforce One?
yah, pocky oh ah pocky way
I want to thank you Dietmar
for getting the canoe
floating my family to the entrance of the school
thank you Coast Guard
for picking them up
flying them safely
to the Causeway Exit drop
thank you Tania
for sneaking through the lines
5,000 in the airport
she found them just in time
I say hey ya pocky oh ah pocky way
I say hey ya pocky oh ah pocky way
I say hey ya pocky oh ah pocky way
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18. |
Lonely Street
03:33
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Somewhere long ago
in a place I don't ever want to go again
I lost what little sense I had
Stubborn as a stone
Fragile as a home broken by pain
a pill-popping shame
and if you find me walking down Lonely Street
would you stop and remind me, "Hey!
what cha doing in this place?"
I was just a kid
and everything everyone else did
seemed so much better than my own half-hidden heart
Silent as a still picture
fading over time ticking away
like my invisible face
and if you find me walking down Lonely Street
would you stop and remind me, "Hey!
what cha doing in this place?"
Cuz in the morning
it all looks so different
and the marks upon your arms
become the scars that you'll overcome
so stop
put down the razorblade
flush all your shame away
just give yourself the break
you'd offer anyone else
and if you find me walking down Lonely Street
would you stop and remind me, "Hey!
quit staring down at your feet!"
cuz all around you are the dreams that will set you free
and you'll be fine
so just don't f*ck it up this time
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19. |
Come Back
04:03
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Judging by the morning light you'd never know the distance
from me to you that grew late last night
it's funny how quick change feels even when you know it's been coming on for so long
but you're never quite ready for the hammer to fall
come back
come back
come back
Strange this crossing into apparition
was it the pain or was it what you took for it
cuz somewhere along the way you just up and seemed to disappear
and now I fear you may be gone for good
come back
come back
come back
Restless as the wind my heart grows, restless and weary
wandering alone out here among the stones
but I will wait forever in the faith that will not falter
from me to you tattooed long ago
come back
come back
come back
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20. |
Oh Magnolia
04:02
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Oh magnolia
my sweetest climbing tree
down in new orleans
back when once I was a child
you offered up to me
a bed of branch and bough
when our house grew too loud
and anger seemed the only sound
carry me
on the breeze
we'll swing and sway
trouble away
and shelter me
in your canopy
til I have found
my own way down
to solid ground
every day we'd race home
my sister to her books
while I'd climb high and look
watching guard over all I could see
and when your blossoms came into bloom
like velvet river moons
I'd watch over them too
making sure no one took them from you
carry me
on the breeze
we'll swing and sway
trouble away
and shelter me
in your canopy
til I have found
my own way down
to solid ground
Oh magnolia
it's been many years gone by
since I have touched the sky
cradled in your leaves of green
But I remember well
how gently you held me close
safe from harder blows
til I was strong enough to go
carry me
on the breeze
we'll swing and sway
trouble away
and shelter me
in your canopy
til I have found
my own way down
to solid ground
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21. |
Treading Water
03:30
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I'm curled in the window of a coffee shop
watching the world whip by
sometimes I want to make it stop
but sometimes I want a ride
I try to figure out
how everyone gets by
me, I've just been treading water
all of my life
Everyone's got their laptops
to disappear into
I count my crosses while thinking of you
I know you're trying to figure out
how to say goodby
me, I'll just keep treading water
Can we find our way
when I don't know what you're looking for
and every mistake I make
hurts you worse than the one before
I just thought I'd know better by now
Emma makes the coffee
like she does most every day
William checks the stoop
for a half-smoked butt to blaze
and I bide my time
watching the rain
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Sonia Tetlow Atlanta, Georgia
Sonia Tetlow is musician who studies the craft of song, a songwriter who performs with abandon, giving herself freely to the moment of live music making. Her music blends Atlanta indie and hints of punk rock with the New Orleans rhythms of her roots. She has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with artists such as Patti Smith, Indigo Girls, and Paul Sanchez and the Rolling Road Show. ... more
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