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Bright At My Back
04:11
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BRIGHT AT MY BACK
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Do not let the light in
I’m not ready for the sight
Let the dark linger
Hold a morning star
Gentle in the night
I will lie beneath her
Be my comfort
Be my company
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Pull away the mute
Covering my ears
Let me hear you whisper
Breaking the silent
Stillness of the year
How long have we stood there
Be my answer
Be my humbling
And let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
You are the sky everything else is weather
No reason why anything else should matter
You are the sky everything else is weather
No reason why anything else should matter
So let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
I am returning
Let the light shine bright at my back
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2. |
Moontalk
03:11
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MOONTALK
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Holy, holy, holy I’m wide awake
Standing out in the middle of the yard
Holding, holding, holding my arms up high
Like I think that the clouds are gonna part
Don’t fall asleep
I wanna talk to you
Open, open, open the floor up to waltz
When sitting still feels too hard
Hoping, hoping, hoping we haven’t drifted too far
Don’t let this one pull us apart
Don’t fall asleep yet
Don’t fall asleep
I wanna talk to you
While the moon is talking too
Carry, carry, carry my body outside
When I get too weak, too weak to walk
Hurry, hurry, hurry we haven’t got much time
Before we pass this whole thing off
Don’t fall asleep yet
Don’t fall asleep
I wanna talk to you
While the moon is talking too
The moon is watching over you watching over me
She doesn’t know a thing about our jealousy and greed
She cannot find the borderline, she don’t conquer and divide
She’s running all red and white, she don’t turn in for the night
Don’t fall asleep
Don’t fall asleep yet
Don’t fall asleep yet
Don’t fall asleep
I wanna talk to you
While the moon is talking too
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3. |
Wandering
02:57
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WANDERING
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Your generous heart changed me
Listening to the songs you sing
About loving, imperfectly
But loving just the same
Singing, we can make a life of being free
We can make a life of you and me
We can make a life of wandering
And the wandering doesn’t have to happen alone
I had begun to lose my hope
Feeling like I was gonna choke
And thinking life was a cruel joke
I want to think a better way
That we can make a life of being free
We can make a life of you and me
We can make a life of wandering
And the wandering doesn’t have to happen alone
Honeypie come inside
A rhythm of yours fits a rhythm of mine
And we can take all our time
I’m not running away
And we can make a life of being free
We can make a life of you and me
We can make a life of wandering
And the wandering doesn’t have to happen alone
Laying on the floor at the back of auditorium
Crying again at the end of every chorus
Singing it over and over
Let me know I was made to be a lover
And we can make a life of being free
We can make a life of you and me
We can make a life of wandering
And the wandering doesn’t have to happen alone
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4. |
Home Remedy
04:02
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HOME REMEDY
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
This is not the ending
Only far as the eye can see
And I am beginning
To know what paralyzes me
Will you care for my body?
And I’ll care for you the same?
Be my slow home remedy
Be my slow home remedy
Be my home
You ask if I am ready
To be living further north
And when my lungs get heavy
With the cold wind off the shore
I’ll care for your body
Will you care for me the same?
Be my slow home remedy
Be my slow home remedy
Honey be my slow home remedy
Be my home
Hands cupped together
You have captured my curiosity
Hold through this weather
Don’t let the water slip from between
I’ll care for you honey
Will you care for me the same?
Be my slow home remedy
Be my slow home remedy
Be my slow home remedy
Be my slow home remedy
Honey be my slow home remedy
Be my home
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5. |
Marrow
03:14
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MARROW
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
These are days of disarray and they are golden
They hold a bitter taste but sweetness lies within them
These days passing slowly, thick like honey
Let it run over, let it run over me
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
In our bones
These days I’m up at night to catch a silence
Turn my face up to the sky to be astonished
These days when the heart is heavy with hearsay of the morning
Let it break over, blue is breaking over me
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
In our bones
When I do not have the words to ease the tension
Soothe your mind or mend the hurt
Oh when there is nothing
Know that if I had the words to ease the tension
Soothe your mind or mend the hurt
Oh I would use them all
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
Love is the marrow
In our bones
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6. |
When I Wake
04:38
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WHEN I WAKE
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Let the day be simple
Let me my words be kind
Let all these questions
Begin to unwind
Throw out these anxious
Birds to the wind
I want to be patient
I wanna know how to forgive
When I wake, let this be my song
When I wake, this will be my song
This will be my song, this will be my song
Let laughter fill up
Our lungs til they swell
And we let go of
All of these grievances held
When worry takes our
Our thoughts in her hand
We’ll go out walking
Until we can see straight again
When I wake, let this be my song
When I wake, this will be my song
This will be my song, this will be my song
Magpie’s making up a home inside the wall up above my head
When I wake in the night I hear them talking and I don’t know what is said
This is much how the world can feel like so much I cannot understand
All this fearful talking insanity in the hearts of everyone
And every morning when I am waking up I hear the magpie’s in the wall
They are talking about something I don’t know about at all
But they sing their song when the night comes for the hole up in that wall
And they sing their song when the light dawns for their home up in that wall
When I wake, when I wake
When I wake, this will be my song
This will be my song, this will be my song
This will be my song
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7. |
Hideaway
03:21
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HIDEAWAY
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Speak only facts to me I can take them now
Pull out the vaguery from my mouth
No more indulging in useless doubt
I’m only carving the good bits out
This was a summer of sifting through
But I’m the best of me when I’m with you
What were the songs we sang out of tune
Like shadows dancing around the room
Strung up our moments one to the next
Hung them like prayer bells around my neck
And I’ll ring them out on nights like this
I’m overcome by restlessness
When the weather clears I’ll show my face again
Maybe I won’t be so afraid of my own skin
But til then I’ve gotta hide away in the foothills
Don’t try to find me, don’t try to find me
Don’t try to find me, don’t try to find me
Don’t try to find me, don’t try to find me
This was a summer of sifting through
But I’m the best of me when I’m with you
String up our moments one to the next
Ring them prayer bells around our necks
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8. |
Have We Landed
03:58
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HAVE WE LANDED
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
Oh my love do not cry
Though the light falls behind
Run the distance of this night
Hold me tender, hold me tight
Have we landed, have we landed?
See the hills upside down
Look like rolling waves of sound
Hear a moan coming out
From somewhere deep underground
Hold my hand love, hold my hand love.
If the rain buries me
Turning every shade of green
Take me to a hive bees
And they’ll make something and sweet
Of my body, of my body.
Know I am not terrified
So my love do not cry
Run the distance of the night
Hold me tender, hold me tight
Have we landed, have we landed?
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9. |
Turning
05:21
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TURNING
Courtney Hartman, BMI (Reckoner Publishing )
There you are making your mark
Bringing something beautiful into the world
There you are bruised in the heart
Still I see you turning, turning back to the field
Can you climb up the mountain with your hands open wide?
A heart that burns like yours does could pull rain down from the sky
There you are making your mark
Bringing something beautiful into the world
There you are bruised in the heart
Still I see you turning, turning back to the field
Can you climb up the mountain with your face up to the sky?
When the stillness comes over let it open you up wide
There you are making your mark
Bringing something beautiful into the world
There you are bruised in the heart
Still I see you turning, turning
Still I see you turning, turning
Still I see you turning, turning
Still I see you turning, turning
Still I see you turning, turning
Still I see you turning, turning back to the field
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