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pami - days go by slow
06:00
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days go by slow
they turn and they wind
when I can take it
I take my time
follow the pulse
no reason no rhyme
the years slip away, the years slip away
knowing the measure
of growth and decay
I try to hold on
the years slip away
sometimes I feel
I'm losing my mind (meow)
I'm looking for heaven
in the daily grind
the dull roar of silence
is all that I find
the years slip away, no reason no rhyme
and I, in each moment,
contract and extend
in the beginning
is written the end
the years slip away
I'm young and I'm old
and so it continues
or so I am told
knowing the measure
of growth and decay
the days go by slow
the years slip away
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2. |
pami - bees
04:13
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when I was a child
exploring the internet
busy browsing, modem buzzing
I read that
we evolved from bees
maybe that explains
our dancing
our interdependency
our loss of identity
when we're alone
humming through the wireless phone
staring at eternity
buzzing verdant urgency
out of sync in harmony
maybe that explains
our glancing
our halting hesitancy
balancing precariously
one small sting in my hand
one less flower for the land
as I watch you fade away in the water
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pami - eve
03:39
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eve
where'd you get your name?
here at the end of things as they are
dark in the east, you are my evening star
you are twilight, as we leave
eve
inhale, exhale
eve
short sweet and measured, just like you
even, even when we are askew
even, odd, a bit naive
eve
inhale, exhale
eve
turn to me, for reprieve
quietly, quietly
where'd you get your name?
god gave you this name many years ago
yours is the first name, it's biblical
it speaks of life
it means "to breathe"
eve
inhale, exhale
eve
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4. |
pami - merry it is
02:33
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merry it is when summer lasts
with fowl's song
honey kisses sweet
and the days are long
take my hand and come along
before the summer's past
soon the ripened fruit are gone
and darkness cast
ah, the night is long
and my aching vast
ay, and the wind is strong
take me to where I belong
to sorrow and mourn and fast
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it's been so hot and muggy
forest fires burn near the city
the sky turned pink and hazy
your hair turned red in the new light
what a sight
as things ignite
each day became a sunset
all of history holding its breath
let's swim, the water's warm yet
stay in long enough to forget
that sense of threat
so glad we met
does our beginning really have to start just as
we comprehend
we are witnessing
the end
fresh love has turned the world pink
or is that smoke on the brink
so much potential, I think
so much I'd rather not see burned
I wish we'd learned
and I wish I knew
what to do
does our beginning really have to start just as
we comprehend
we are witnessing
the end
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josephine's life was a lonely mission
lost and confused in a land unfamiliar and wild
and though she was there, she was sort of missing
you could never quite tell where she was going to go
human voices, urging you to come back home
human voices, urging you to stick with the known
if she was a bird, she'd be flying solo
with feathered wings beating a steady incline
if she was a kite, she'd have no strings
nobody would be towing her line
human voices, urging you to come back home
human voices, urging you to stick with the known
will she fall from the sky someday?
or will she burn up in the fiery sun?
if she falls down I would try and catch her
if she ascends, I'd ask her take me along
human voices, urging you to come back home
human voices, urging you to stick with the known
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7. |
jake nicoll - landfall
05:23
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one more night until I must go home
feeling lonely deep inside my bones
holding on
to the long light
going home
to my own life
time to say goodbye
watching as my time slips through my hands
something I find hard to understand
holding on
to the new light
never changed a thing
try as you might
but it's alright
got to find and hold this final shape
pull yourself with a roll of masking tape
yeah it's a long, it's a long life
lived along in a short time
blink of an eye
the land falls to the ocean
an old life finds motion
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home again, for a little while
perched on a cliff in a house filled with pottery
in the battery
the tide comes and goes
the time ebbs and flows
in the battery
we wrote down our dreams in our diaries
ghosts and old haunts, far away family
and we fell into the sea
and the old cat is hungy
and this old house is shaking
and the whole world is turning
and I'd stay here forever
but out we go again
into the eastern horizon
gone again, for a good long while
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Pami and Jake St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
pam mackenzie and jake nicoll collaborating on some songs
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