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According to You
06:50
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According to you I’m an old horse
Put out to pasture like a cold, cold corpse
Credit don’t matter if you take the source
As we all bear witness to the end of it all
According to you I’m an old dog
Slow as can be like a bump on a log
Lleave me alone under the shadows and fog
‘Cause none of it matters
You’re taking it all
It’s time to get out of
Your own face we’ve seen enough of
Find a place to take care of
The world while it’s burning
We’re taking the fall
According to you I’m an old song
Makes you uneasy when I call your fraud
I’ll just keep singing and one day I’ll be gone
‘Cause none of it matters
You’re taking it all
It’s time to get out of
My own face I’ve seen enough of
Find a place to take care of
The world while it’s burning
We’re taking the fall
According to me I’m a unicorn
Out in the field I don’t play in the thorns
But times are a callin’ find your place in the storm
For all of it matters
They’re taking it all
And none of it matters
We’re taking the fall
It’s the time to get out of
Our own face we’ve seen enough of
Find a place to take care of
This world while it’s burning
We’re taking the fall
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2. |
Wisdom
05:18
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I crossed the river of intentions to forget you
Two silver pieces paid to pass the great divide
I scaled a mountain of distraction to erase you
Tossed out the scattered pieces
left them all behind
Oh tell me I’m dreaming
I’ve seen a ghost down in the nave
She knows where I’ve been sleeping
her slender hands and sullen gaze
Words are falling from her lips
and freeze behind a cold eclipse
The age of wisdom has arrived
So tell me, where is mine?
Across the plains to California I went scheming
into an ocean swept away along the tide
I tried to stay afloat while tumbling ever deeper
Nobody warned me there were sharks on every side
Tell me I’m dreaming
I heard a ghost call out my name
She knows my secrets
the sunken treasures, buried shame
I’ve seen her one then twice
Ten thousand times
Perhaps a sign the age of wisdom has arrived
So tell me, where is mine?
I ran away to cities angry and defiant
A thousand faces couldn’t strip you from my mind
I’m flush with poison but I hear you whisper quiet
All is forgiven I’ve been with you all this time
Tell me I’m dreaming
I know this girl in front of me
I’ll tend to you sweetly
and speak in kinder tones reminds me
of all the time I had the whole world at my feet
and so the age of wisdom has arrived
So tell me, is this mine?
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Rainbows
05:30
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Show me a world without obsession or compulsions
Where the reaper’s not the victor and the sunlight always shines
No one escapes a predator is always looming
As it feeds you its own version and we’re watching in real time
Show me a world without the pain without the suffering
That it takes to cross a lifetime now your mirror’s set behind
No one escapes refracted light finds every corner
Where you turn is where you are and we all meet the same demise
Rainbows don’t exist without the rain
A flippant answer all the same
A truth I’ve come to know in moments I’m not angry
Everything I learned has blown away
And left these troubles in its place
But maybe this all comes with age
The endless falling
Show me a world without the rain
Rainbows don’t exist without the rain
A flippant answer all the same
A truth I’ve come to know in moments I’m not angry
Everything I learned has blown away
And left these troubles in its place
But maybe this all comes with age
The endless falling
Show me a world without the rain
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4. |
Go It Alone
04:59
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The flowers you gave me are dead on the table
I don’t have the heart yet to unwrite the fable
Unwinding so slowly I can’t feel the sting
Will I wake up one morning to birds that don’t sing
It’s two in the morning my eyes open wide
For I swore I heard breathing across the divide
My hands wander over and sink into air
I’ve forgotten that I am the only one here
In a sky blue as angels as heaven descends
I am holding a petal that’s dry as the wind
Hasn’t rained in a lifetime so nothing will grow
But the dread of the knowledge I’ll go it alone
Oh I will go it alone
I will go it alone
I came into this world and I’ll leave it as so
Do the sages and prophets and soothsayers know
We all go it alone
We all go it alone
We came into this world and we’ll leave it as so
Do we all go alone?
I know now that life doesn’t always unfurl
Like the stories I wrote for myself as a girl
And what I often see is not all what it seems
I am caught between fury, delusion and dreams
How can I hold a joy while my world dies away
And the kids know the truth that there’s no one to save
Has it all become so dark now we see the end
When the flame flickers out becomes stardust again
So I’ll wait at this window for no one to come
I am long past the age I pretend to be young
With my flights filled with fancy and head in the stars
I would trade it away to be back where you are
But I will go it alone
Oh I will go it alone
I came into this world and I’ll leave it as so
Do the sages and prophets and soothsayers know
We all go it alone
We all go it alone
We came into this world and we’ll leave it as so
Do we all go alone?
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These same four walls keep crashing down upon me
Just one more break and it will send us all downstream
These same straight lines pointing in all four directions
They waste no time leaving me lost intersections
Ohhhhh
These same old hands pushing me down toward depression
In strange old lands caught up in my own aggression
These strange new plans twirling around on my finger
Entangled words leaving a silence that lingers
Ohhhhh
These same four walls
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6. |
No
04:14
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I think this time I will say no
It’s gone as far as it can go
I gave it all away to you
‘Twas in return erased anew
It’s not your fault I did not say
The border was five miles back that way
I always give this heart away
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
It’s in the way you speak to me
It’s not my kindness that you seek
Twisted to weakness in the end
I’ll never do the same again
It’s not your fault I did not say
The border was ten miles back that way
I always give this heart away
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
We’ve fallen far beyond the grave
Ashes to dust cannot be saved
A phoenix could rise in yellow flames
But you’d shoot it heart out anyway
It’s not your fault I did not say
But you pushed it too far anyway
I always give this heart away
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
Oh I’ll give it to myself one day
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7. |
Human
04:57
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Morning sun into an evening moon into the dawn again
Rhythm rising into feeling what it is to be human
Hope
Fear
Joy
Pain
Love
Doubt
Grace
Rage
Sadness
Spirits
Rivers
People
Prices
Water
Wonder
Anger
Laughter
Wailing
Oceans
Planets
Beauty
Trouble
Question
Feeling
Power
Kindness
Violence
Gratitude
The temperatures are rising
Morning sun into an evening moon into the dawn again
Rhythm rising into feeling what it is to be human
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8. |
Raw
04:58
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Raw as the feeling when I caught you stealing what I had shown you
A decade of asking point out what I’m lacking
oh I don’t know you
I think you might like me you turn on a dime
You offer critique as you’re drinking all my wine
I don’t tell you your story so don’t you tell me mine
and I loved you
and I loved you
and I loved you
Raw as emotion when absolute devotion comes to bite you
We all live a life in the glory and strife
We all count our days too
A smile on the street makes you want to take me down
I’m played for a fool and I’m treated as a clown
Seems my one fault I have is I’ll never wear your frown
and I loved you
and I loved you
and I loved you
Raw as the ending when I stop pretending that you won’t lose me
Love notes I’m sending as I am upending
all those who abuse me
Won’t show me your inside won’t tell me who you are
You watch me from a distance and take notes from afar
I’m the bird in the cage singing my last au revoir
And I loved you
And I loved you
How I loved you
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Lost in the witching hour
Time standing still
For now I’ve lost all my speed
Climbing mountains of needs
What I promise to bring
If you’d close both your eyes
Outside a world is racing
Wonders we’ll soon be facing
Quiet your mind
We’ll have oceans of time
Now your heart rests on mine
As you close both yours eyes
Off to dream
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Dana Boulé Paris, France
Dana Boulé is an American composer, singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Paris, France. Her career spans nine studio albums in multiple genres from NY punk bands Stupid and The Sobs, to solo orchestral pop, to the folk duo The Resident Cards. She has scored several full length films and is featured in Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris and Oscar nominated Jimmy Neutron. ... more
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