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Giant's Causeway
02:27
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On the causeway
Billowing clouds rumbled forth
Picking pace to embrace the day
A path, a trail above the shore
Ancient cliffs like
Weathered palms of giant's hands
Eroded, worn, yet holding strong
Reaching for the reasons why
I came to find
Came to find
Came to find
The oceanside
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Cocoon
03:42
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Woven silk immune
Its slumber awakens you
Morning sings a tune
Inside a cocoon
Imagination's flight
In hatching a new life
Is rescued and anchored like
A string unto its kite
Emerging from the wool
Devour push and pull
A heart once pure and full
To linger in some lull
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Loom
03:30
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Tempermental to the world
Im locked inside my head
Fundamental in the math is the sum of what she said
Maybe we've all cast aside all recollect of our design
Maybe we've all passed the time searching just to find
Confidential as a pearl
Im kept inside my head
Residential to the words that were better left unsaid
Maybe we've all cast aside all recollect of our design
Maybe we've all passed the time searching just to find
To sew and stitch my every wound
Intrust in every thread
Woven by a smoking loom
A broken heart instead
Maybe we've all cast aside all recollect of our design
Maybe we've all passed the time searching just to find
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Providence
04:04
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Spoken lines choked my mind
Left a solemn silence indeed
Every word two stones one bird
Struck the heart and left it to bleed
Yearn to grasp the days that pass
Where you are nowhere to be found or seen
Cling to hope resort to cope
With substances to drown into a sea
Into a sea
Take some time to excavate
The void that love perpetuates for free
The crushing weight of providence
My selfless gestures failed pretense to be
To be
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Come A Day
02:58
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Never will there come a day
Where I will find the words to say
There could have been a better way
The end begins another start
Promise depends on our depart
To leave behind
A broken heart
The spokes of time turn aptly on
Embraced unto the wheel of dawn
As the dew sits on the somber lawn
The years have simply been for you
No fault, but passing time was through
Slipped my mind familiar face
The thorn that sticks will never fade
Never will there come a day
Where I will find the words to say
There could have been a better way
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Easton Opal
05:09
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He looked so deep into that pocket watch
Time itself was standing still
How he missed the voices down the block
His solitude sold to theft and thrill
The old man poured himself another scotch
Thumbed the engraving on the back plate
Easton Opal burdened him at a cost
Of a death defying fate
With age old hands he gave the screws a twist
Revealing more than cogs and gears
Reluctantly he thought of what to wish
And how he lived long past his years
Hypnotized like a flame unto a wick
He realized his dormant fears
Captivated in a ticking myth
Outliving all he once held dear
Pleading time to never chime again
Deciphering if it all was real
He wished to break the watch without refrain to
Mundane moments bereft of zeal
Repeating remedies in reverse
He longed to sleep and dream again
Concluding Opals pocket watch was cursed
Longing for some finite end
So he struck the watch with all his strength
Mechanisms scattered wide
For a second he let his mind go blank
Yet he felt no change inside
In depths of silence as his heart sank
He cheated death with every stride
Ironically he thought of whom to thank
To never see the day he died
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Sleep
04:37
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Its just like pulling softly on a thread
A strand of words coiled up inside your head
Wide awake yet swallowed by the bed
Train of thought going off the rails again
She said sleep is all I need
Take your time to dream
Settled in and stuck between the teeth
A pondering that sinks beneath the sheets
A restless numbing slumber obsolete
Puzzled by the part the missing piece
She said sleep is all I need
Take your time to dream
Wish for ways to find
How to clear my mind
She said sleep is all I need
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Poet and Prose
03:59
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The morning, it croaked
And cleared out its throat
Spoke out the light into day
The poet and prose
Awoke and they rose
Still searching for something to say
The sun as it climbed
It nestled the pines
Thawing the earth and the clay
An instance confound
Something felt bound
Yet longing to go on its way
I suppose we were taught
Or caught up in thought
Of a ransom with nothing to pay
A ransom with nothing to pay
All we once sought
Replaced or forgot
Inevitably fell into frame
Charades for yourself
On the High Line off 12th
When the valley was calling my name
The valley was calling my name
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The City
04:46
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I could work my life away
In the city
But I'm all burnt and busy
I could try to fight the weight
Of when you're missing
But I'm all slipped and dizzy
Wandering anxious avenues
Pondering what I'm supposed to do
Close the shift and drive late
Through disposition
Nights make my attrition
Captivate our time and space
With shared ambition that life was made for living
And in that muse
How could I refuse
To fall in love with you
I could work my life away
In the city
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Burrow
04:01
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It starts with a phrase
And burrows into place
All the while
I long to reconcile
And spill the truth that cloaks these veins
Verdure through summers haze
A revelry of bliss around your face
Despite the growing miles
You left me with a smile
And melodies that songs could not replace
At hello
You burrowed
In an ocean of unclaimed and dormant truth
Pulsing
Two tempos
It will take some time until they align our youth
It starts with a phrase
And burrows into place
If this is but a trial
Condemn me for a while
You've burrowed in and cannot be erased
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A Moment To Spare
03:19
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A breeze in the air
And not a single care in the world
A moment to spare
I'd really like to share with my girl
A magical exchange
Between beverages and names it began
Memories explained our past lovers estranged
To the sand
Trapped in her tide
Trying to decide how to say
I could never hide
The feelings from inside on that day
A breeze in the air
And not a single care in the world
A moment to spare
I'm wishing I could share with my girl
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Glow
03:20
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Churning in the light
A thousand different ways
Theres some fixation in the evening glow
Open and inviting
The world within this phase
Adding up to what we'll never know
Roof top
Air leaden
Sunset hanging low
Time stops
For a second
On letting
On letting go
Churning in the light
A thousand different ways
Theres some fixation in the evening glow
Open and inviting
The world within this phase
Adding up to what we'll never know
Shimmer outside
Permeates the haze
Summer in sight
A season taking
A season taking shape
Churning in the light
A thousand different ways
Theres some fixation in the evening glow
Open and inviting
The world within this phase
Adding up to what we'll never know
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Far Beyond The Blue
03:14
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When hands of time are tied
Tried and tight and taught
Beckoned bribed and bide
To think the ways we thought
Someones looking somewhere
Far beyond the blue
For a wave to breach
The shores of all they knew
The figure formed in grain
Calloused kept and caught
The venom in the veins
To fight what is and what ought
Someones heeding something
Far beyond the blue
For waves to breach and
Life to start anew
Somethings calling somewhere
Far beyond the blue
For ages old
Dormant and in its youth
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Galen Clark
As your local outsider, Galen Clark introduces an alternative perspective and approach to music that contains multitudes. Migratory melodies, multi-instrumental fluency, and mysterious texture all outline the stylings of the newly transplanted songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ... more
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