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Wild
03:02
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WILD
Little girl walks in the grass
She finds a beetle on its back
Turns it over, sets it free
There in the spirit of a child
Before she’s learned to take her wild
She has answers that we need
Can I be old and still be wild
Run through forests like a child
Knowing I’m both held and free
Find the answers in the trees
Endless curiosity
Find it all inside of me
I used to care what you might think
I was afraid to go too deep
Or be too much
So I got smaller
Felt myself avert my eyes
Quiet down, apologize
I could feel it in my shoulders
(I barely know her)
Can I be old and still be wild
Run through forests like a child
Knowing I’m both held and free
Find the answers in the trees
Endless curiosity
Find it all inside of me
What we feel deep down we know
What we feed will grow
Now I’m older and still wild
Run through forests like a child
Knowing I’m both held and free
I find the answers in the trees
Endless possibilities
Find it all inside of me
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2. |
Tall Tales
04:10
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Tall Tales
In a moment, in an instant
We had it all and then we lost it
Thought that we were
We were the strong ones
Built for the hard times
Built for the long run
But how can we grow closer
When all your tall tales are growing right over us
I can’t keep track
And I won’t compete
With words you twist and then use against me
I pull back the curtain and sit at our table
Ask for the truth but you are not able
So you tell your tall tales
Always the victim
Once made me crazy
But now i’m not listening
Didn’t know what I was in for
When you came into my world like a gale force
So inviting like the Irish Sea
You’re calm on the surface
But raging underneath
I pull back the curtain and sit at our table
Ask for the truth but you are not able
So you tell your tall tales
Always a victim
Once made me crazy
But now i’m not listening
I will forgive you though you don’t deserve it
I could hate you but it isn't worth it
So many knives in my back could have killed me
These wounds, they live in my bones
So I learned to feel them
I learned to heal them
I learned to find my way
Back home
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3. |
Paper Thin
03:31
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PAPER THIN
These walls are paper thin
I hear every word that’s said
Do we argue like them?
Sounded different in my head
And I barely hear your voice no more
Your words don’t even make a mark
If we don’t argue like them
Does it mean this is the end?
We need to wake up, wake up
This hotel room is far too small
We need to get out, get out
Grab the keys and start the car
We still have now what we had then
But it feels a little cold
What got underneath our skin
That keeps us from living in the full
And you barely hear my voice no more
My words don’t seem to make a mark
If we don’t argue like them
Doesn’t mean this is end
We can wake up, wake up
Doesn’t matter where we are
We can get out, get out
Grab the keys and start the car
Where do you want to go…
Wherever you want to go…
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4. |
Surrender
04:25
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SURRENDER
I surrender could be the hardest words of all
but this pretending and putting up these walls
is keeping me from you
and keeping you from me
If this is mending
I want to feel it all
breaking and bending
the rising and the fall
don’t wanna keep myself from you
don’t wanna keep myself from me
It’s tiring all the time
Been hiding all my life
I don’t wanna wait no more
I don’t wanna waste no more
if every ending
is the start of something new
no more defending
what I thought was true
so I can give myself to you
so i can give myself to me
It’s tiring all the time
Been hiding all my life
I don’t wanna wait no more
I don’t wanna waste no more
well is this just foolish pride
a list of things to sacrifice
excuses made to keep it all inside
what if all that I’ve been taught
like hold on tight to what you’ve got
is not the only way to live a life
and it’s all in my mind
It’s tiring all the time
Been hiding all my life
I’m tired all the time
From hiding all my life
I don’t wanna wait no more
I don’t wanna waste no more
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5. |
Highs & Lows
04:38
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Highs & Lows
Ups & downs and highs & lows
All the threads I’ll spin to gold
Twists & turns and bumps in the road
Holding tight and letting go
Holding tight and letting go
When you came ‘round I was in repair
Not quite myself but getting there
And every heartbreak, bruise and tear
Broke me down and led me here
Woke me up and led me here
And the truth is I wish that you would hold me
And make me laugh again
But more than this I want you to be happy
Wherever you may choose to land
So much talking with an ocean in between
Unlikely match turned dream
Yeah we were falling across the sea
I saw a light in you and you in me
I saw a light in you and it felt like home to me
And the truth is I wish that you would hold me
And make me laugh again
But more than this I want you to be happy
Wherever you may choose to land
Are you the sweet surprise, the great unknown
The one who got away, who knows
The road unwinds and so it goes
But the heart won’t be denied
The heart won’t be denied
I know
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6. |
Not One For Love Songs
03:37
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NOT ONE FOR LOVE SONGS
august summer days
longest on the page
light that never seems to fade
It’s just another day
then there you are
there you are
and I feel safe
did I speak it into life
some alchemy inside
all the birds are singing on our street outside
and there you are
there you are
looking in my eyes
there you are
and I come alive
now i’m not one for love songs
but baby you may prove me wrong
lives that came before
minds I never thought could change
things i once was sure would kill me
slowly rearrange
and here you are
here you are
and I feel safe
I’m not one for love songs
but baby you may prove me wrong
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