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All Mine
03:50
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A hint of the grand design
A peek at the master plan
A whisper that the cards I need are already in my hand
A couple of neon signs shaped like an arrow
Saying ‘right this way’ to the path I’m meant to travel
A bit of confirmation I belong where I am at
I could use some of that
I’ve been stumbling around a little blind
I miss the forest every time
But I can tell you the secrets of a single pine
I get lost but I don’t mind
As long as the story I find is all mine
Tonight I will repair what’s slowly come apart
Revel in the comfort of my quilted heart
Put some brand new strings on this old guitar
Sing my way through another false start
If I’m lucky the words will come out right
In phrases at once simple and sublime
As long as they’re true I don’t care if they rhyme
But wouldn’t that be nice
I’ve been stumbling around a little blind
So I miss the forest every time
But I can tell you the secrets of a single pine
I get lost but I don’t mind
As long as the story I find is all mine
The miles and miles of right wrong turns
The lessons I’ve tried hard to learn
Each beautiful scar I have earned
All mine
I’ve been stumbling around a little blind
So I miss the forest every time
But I can tell you the secrets of a single pine
I get lost but I don’t mind
As long as the story I find is all mine
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Stir Me Up
04:19
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Still and settled on the surface
Not a whisper of a wave
Picture blue water on a sunny summer’s day
so calm and collected, exactly as expected
Oh I know how to behave
Throw a stone into the river you’ll watch the ripples run
When you blew in here tonight, the stream became a flood
A chemical attraction, begins a chain reaction
where I start come undone
won’t you stir me up, won’t you shake me loose
leave my always certain heart a bit confused
You look like the kind of trouble I could use
Won’t you stir me up + shake me loose
Tip-toe on a straight and narrow line, oh, I do that all the time
I lose my sense of direction when you put your lips on mine
My hands are growing restless, let’s put this thing to bed
I wanna leave my cares behind
won’t you stir me up, won’t you shake me loose
leave my always certain heart a bit confused
You look like the kind of trouble I could use
Won’t you stir me up + shake me loose
I, I, I, dot all my I’s and crossed my t’s
I aim to please
You, you, you ignore all the rules
and that might be just what I need
won’t you stir me up, won’t you shake me loose
leave my always certain heart a bit confused
You look like the kind of trouble I could use
Won’t you stir me up + shake me loose
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Mendocino
04:46
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2000 miles ought to be plenty of space
If I can’t feel your flame, explain this lingering haze
Clouding my view, interfering when the sky should be blue
Ain’t that like you
ain’t that just like you
You’re a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
all the way to my lungs, look at what you done
it’s hard to breathe - even when you’re nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it’s never far enough
There goes the sun sinking with the heavy air
Birds, one by one, struggling to find somewhere
They can fly easy, their tiny hearts beating
So fast trying to be free – is that how you see me?
You’re a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
all the way to my lungs, look at what you done
it’s hard to breathe - even when you’re nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it’s never far enough
Like an earthquake shaking the ground of some town I’ve never heard of
Till I read about it in the morning paper,
Then a few days later, there’s waves crashing on my shore
What you gotta do that for? What you gotta do that for?
You’re a wildfire raging through Mendocino
Rising higher until the wind carries your smoke
all the way to my lungs, look at what you done
it’s hard to breathe - even when you’re nowhere near me
You always find a way to mess me up
No matter where I run it’s never far enough
You’re a wildfire
You’re a wildfire
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Don't Come Clean
04:50
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Go ahead, you can say anything
Or you can say nothing at all
I don’t mind
If we sit in the quiet
I’ll hear the change in your breath
As I start trace your fingertips with mine
Oh I know better than to harbor expectations of where this might be going
Oh I have only one condition if you’re gonna come to me, please
Don’t come clean, don’t come perfect, don’t come shiny and new
I want to see behind the curtain
Show me every speck of dust that makes up the whole of you
Come a little messed up, come broken, cracked wide open
I got a feeling
That’s how the love gets in
Go ahead, when I turn my face to you
You can search my eyes
or close your own
Whenever you’re ready
You will find me here
Unafraid to take things slow
Oh I know better than to give into illusions of what lies beyond this moment
Oh I have only one condition if you’re gonna come to me, please
Don’t come clean, don’t come perfect, don’t come shiny and new
I want to see behind the curtain
Show me every speck of dust that makes up the whole of you
Come a little messed up, come broken, cracked wide open
I got a feeling
That’s how the love gets in
I am messed up, I am broken, a million pieces, wide open
So if you’re gonna come to me. If you’re gonna come to me, please.
Don’t come clean, don’t come perfect, don’t come shiny and new
I want to see behind the curtain
Show me every speck of dust that makes up the whole of you
Come a little messed up, come broken, cracked wide open
I got a feeling
That’s how the love gets in
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There, There
04:27
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There, there - things didn’t work out like you wanted
Once again your heart is haunted
By the ghost of a dream that might have been we’ve all been
There, there - holding a bad hand from a raw deal
Certain no one knows how lost you feel
Cause if they did wouldn’t somebody be looking for you
Oh our best laid plans don’t always come to fruition
Or we find we cannot bear the true cost of admission
we grow dizzy from the constant stream of contradiction
It only makes sense that we fall down
then you get a bit of sweet to tame the sour
or stumble on a single match in the middle of your darkest hour
An answered prayer rarely looks like a wish come true
There, there, I’ve made that mistake, too
Now what
I think you pull yourself together
Trust me in the end its better
that you’re the one to take the strings and tie the bow
Oh our best laid plans don’t always come to fruition
Or we find we cannot bear the true cost of admission
we grow dizzy from the constant stream of contradiction
It only makes sense that we fall down
then you get a bit of sweet to tame the sour
or stumble on a single match in the middle of your darkest hour
An answered prayer rarely looks like a wish come true
There, there, I’ve made that mistake, too
I’ve sworn it was the last time when I knew I’d just begun
I’ve promised to stick around even as I turned to run
I’ve kept my head beneath the sand while longing for the sun
You’re not the only one, you’re not the only one
then you get a bit of sweet to tame the sour
or stumble on a single match in the middle of your darkest hour
An answered prayer rarely looks like a wish come true
There, there, I’ve made that mistake, too
There, there – I’ve made that mistake, too
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The Promise of Maybe
04:45
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You hold in your hand what I have always wanted
You hang it from a branch that is just out of my reach
There’s a thinning of my skin and a cracking of the bones
As I stretch my arms and fingers out as far as they will go
A little pain but not so that I notice, so strong is this desire
I watch you study my face as you raise it one inch higher, higher
Oh you know how to keep me running for you
How to keep me running
Oh, you know that nothing drives me crazy
Like the promise of maybe
I’ve never been a dancer but you made it look so easy
Take direction from the pressure of your hand upon my back
I stay bended at the knees and lifted through the toes
Figure out the steps but only when the song is slow
You pull me in to spin me out release me with a whisper in my ear
‘Don’t stop when you get dizzy that’s a sign you’re almost there’
Oh you know how to keep me running for you
How to keep me running
Oh, you know that nothing drives me crazy
Like the promise of maybe
So I’m pushing off a little harder
Throwing my body a little farther
eyes fixed on the finish line you’ve drawn for me
that’s gone the second I am standing where it ought to be
Oh you know how to keep me running for you
How to keep me running
Oh, you know that nothing drives me crazy
Like the promise of maybe
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Two circles on the kitchen table
Where water soaked into the pine
you had made us each a gin and tonic
then you pressed your lips to mine
we laughed as we tumbled up those stairs
The drinks forgotten, melted down
When we found them in the morning
You said ‘I bet those rings are meant to stick around’
There’s square on the bedroom wall
It’s a darker shade of blue
The sun faded all the paint around
My favorite photograph of me and you
Last week a ghost or a gust of wind
Brought it crashing to the floor
Glass scattered on the hardwood
I tried to sweep it up, but somehow my bare feet keep finding more
I wish I didn’t wish that you still were here
That this lingering desire would make like smoke and disappear
That I couldn’t close my eyes and conjure up your whisper in my ear
I wish I didn’t wish that you were still here.
There’s a diamond in an envelope
Tucked In a shoebox in the closet
It took a long time for me to take it off
I wonder if that’s what you wanted
Maybe someday I’ll be strong enough
To trade it in for cash
I hate to hide something so beautiful
And anyway it’s not like you’re ever coming back
I wish I didn’t wish that you still were here
That this lingering desire would make like smoke and disappear
That I couldn’t close my eyes and conjure up your whisper in my ear
I wish I didn’t wish that you were still here.
Discarded dreams such a funny thing
Both weightless and heavy as hell
Please don’t ask me how I’m doing
When you know damn well
I wish I didn’t wish that you still were here
That this lingering desire would make like smoke and disappear
That I couldn’t close my eyes and conjure up your whisper in my ear
I wish I didn’t wish that you were still here.
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8. |
How I Want to Love You
04:15
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Wide open - The Minnesota summer sky
On and on - The rows of corn in late July
That’s how I want to love you
That’s how I want to love you
Down deep - The sand, the soil, the rock below
Overflowing - the harvest rushing up the silo
That’s how I want to love you
That’s how I want to love you
Holding back doesn’t suit us well
I can tell, we’ve been thinking small
Keeping things to ourselves
Building walls – I’d rather watch them fall
Wild and unruly – rye grass tangled in the aster blooms
Long and winding – the miles of green this creek runs through
That’s how I want to love you
That’s how I want to love you
Holding back doesn’t suit us well
I can tell, we’ve been thinking small
Keeping things to ourselves
Building walls – I’d rather watch them fall
Give me an unobstructed view
Take in every last inch of you
I remember, do you remember
When time and energy weren’t such commodities
I know you’re tired cause baby I am tired
But I’d like to try for better, for bigger, for more
Slow and lazy - Front porch swing your hand in mine
Nice and easy – the robin sings as the clouds roll by
That’s how I want to love you
That’s how I want to love you
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I'm a Wreck
03:44
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Was it a series of numbers
An outdated password
How’d you get in here I swear I’d locked the door
and thrown away the key
Tell me your big plan – a grand escape
Did I suggest my heart was somehow yours to take
Or that it needed to be set free
Is that how you found me
I’ve drawn the sharpest lines and you’ve crossed over
Built the tallest wall I could and you broke it down
I’m a wreck
I’m a wreck ever since you came around
I don’t like being so exposed
Raw nerves under useless clothes
I’ve whispered secrets you shouldn’t know
In hopes you’d just leave me alone
Or tell me how you found me
Is that how you found me
I’ve drawn the sharpest lines and you’ve crossed over
Built the tallest wall I could and you broke it down
I’m a wreck
I’m a wreck ever since you came around
Did I get drunk on a moonless night
Shooting flares up in the sky
Did I stand too close
Did I say too much
Reveal something in an accidental brush
of my fingers on your skin
Is that where this begins
I’ve drawn the sharpest lines and you’ve crossed over
Built the tallest wall I could and you broke it down
I’m a wreck
I’m a wreck ever since you came around
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In a frame on the wall
Up the stairs and down the hall
Fully in color and seemingly more alive than I’ve felt in a long, long time
My hair was shorter then
But only that one summer
Things that you can’t tell by looking at a picture
I remember, I hated the way that it flew in my face everytime that the wind blew
So I grew it back out.
And my nose, my cheeks are streaked with pink from
All of the sun, all the sun, all the sun
We were so young, we couldn’t get enough
like we were storing it up for the winter
Things that you can’t tell by looking at a picture
And my mouth is slightly open and my eyes are nearly closed,
I suppose you’d said
something that made me laugh, made me laugh
oh you could make me laugh
it takes me back to see my face arranged like that
So this is the one that I hope you will find
To hold in your heart and keep in your minds eye
After, after, after
Up the stairs, down the hall
In a frame on the wall
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Higher
04:52
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Higher, higher, my toes to the clouds
I’m leaning way back so the blood rushed
Straight to my head and I’m drunk on the sound
of the wind blowing past as I rise up.
Oh, there’s the sweetest moment when I don’t know where I’m going then
Gravity pulls me back down
Hard as I fight it, my feet touch the ground
So I kick off and retrace the path that I’d pushed through the sky
Over and over til I’m soaring right By
Those birds on the telephone wire. Higher and higher.
Faster, faster, I’m picking up speed
My heart like a drum as the blood rushed
Straight to my head which is just what I need
to keep my gaze focused on the sun
Oh, there’s the sweetest moment where I’m not sure where I’m going then
Gravity pulls me back down
Hard as I fight it, my feet touch the ground
So I kick off and retrace the path that I’d pushed through the sky
Over and over til I’m soaring right By
Those birds on the telephone wire. Higher and higher
I’ve got bruised elbows and scraped knees. Proof that I never stopped trying.
Part of me’s still that girl on the swings. Convinced I was made for flying.
Gravity pulls me back down
Hard as I fight it, my feet touch the ground
So I kick off and retrace the path that I’d pushed through the sky
Over and over til I’m soaring right By
Those birds on the telephone wire. Higher and higher
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Sarah Morris Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018 Kerrville New Folk winner Sarah Morris’ endearingly honest, expertly penned songs deliberately miss the forest for the trees. Armed with a poignantly relatable rainy day ache in her sunlit voice, she weaves a winding path of masterful storytelling and timeless Americana melody that invites audiences to join her in celebrating the magic of our everyday minutia. ... more
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