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Dustbowl Ballad
04:00
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Baby, I could see no problems here
except you treat me like an illness baby, that's not fair.
And I wanna see no problems here,
so let's go and get ourselves a bottle of beer.
And let me take you down to that old house down town,
where the dust's an inch think and there's no one around.
And I will show you how to Tennessee waltz,
we aint got no rhythm got your foot stomping pulse.
But I...
Just wanna get things started with you...
Babe, I know you're flawless like a just opened rose.
Trouble is you don't know the difference between your yes and your no.
Try to write down all these feelings of love in my head.
So let me take you down to that old house down town,
where you can draw on the walls 'cos it's so run down.
And I will show you my love in the dust
and you'll think you're really clever when you change it to lust.
Babe, the other day I was thinking about heaven and such.
How the people I knew going there,
I did not like them very much.
So I thought I'd write myself a list of little sins
and breaking and entering seemed like a mighty fine place to begin.
And I will go on this pale night...
All these tiny fires you have started.
All these little flames that you have lighted.
So make it clear...
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Boats and Planes
03:03
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I knew your name before you had spoken.
Already knew the sound of your voice.
I knew your words before you had said them,
and I thought each one was a brilliant choice.
You've got boats and planes but I've only got my toy trains.
You've got everything but I just got my hopes and dreams.
You could rule my world but I'm just a little girl,
and I'm living in a small town world.
You seemed so experienced and you'd been round the world.
But I was just your small town girl.
We talked about noise and we talked about quiet.
My heart and my head had started a riot.
Well you look so good and you speak so nice.
Your hands were cold like a marble statue,
it was like shaking hands with a ghost.
I looked up and I looked straight at you I knew then you were what I wanted most.
Well you'd act so cool but you'd seem so nice.
It's oh so right but oh so wrong,
that you're too old but I'm too young.
I don't want to wait too long,
just until your first song is sung.
Well you'd act so good and you felt so nice.
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3. |
Perpetual Twilight
02:29
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Oh what a thrill to finally have you in my sights.
I'm gonna walk to the moon in the next town and settle down for the night.
What a bore to have you as one way loves' patron saint.
Well your shape is so divine, wanna draw with my pencils then paint you with my paints.
Walking,
at night,
towards you,
and the moon makes this perpetual twilight.
Oh what a bore to have you asleep while I'm awake.
And I swear I can smell your perfume on the air, it's so sweet
though you're nine Ks away.
Footsteps these irregular beats I make
and there's talk of hitching rides in these cars I do not know
a mistake I'm glad I didn't make.
And I run and I run,
breath air like it's you in my lungs.
My head filling up with regrets,
because I know I'll wake up tomorrow,
with an aching head.
But what a gift you are.
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Oh there's no good luck in our house, I'll tell you one and all and if it were not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You make me happy when skies are grey.
You'll never know dear, how much I've loved you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping.
I dreamt I held you in my arms.
When I awoke dear, I was mistaken
So I hung (so I hung) my head and I cried.
I'll always love you and I will make you so happy.
If you will only say the same.
But now you've left me to love another.
You will regret (you will regret) it all some day..
You were my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You made me happy when skies were grey.
You'll never know dear, how much I loved you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
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5. |
Metronome
04:20
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Girl, you're practically pearless in every single way.
Like you've been painted by an artist, Da Vinci or Monet.
So let me be your water lilies this dark and gloomy day.
And I think you don't like your smile,
you think it looks like broken glass.
Bet you haven't heard this in a while,
but that too will come to pass.
'Cos when you open that cupid's bow dear,
I see the world's best twinset pearls.
Wanna take a metronome to my bed with you,
so we can breath the same beats.
And when I'm with you i feel my movements are precise.
Like the perfect pressure of a pencil to page,
soft enough not to break,
but hard enough so that each word has the permission to sound.
Girl I know that you'll be standing in all my open doors,
and your soul it's oh so flawless, sun shines from your every pore.
The marks on your skin make constellations,
that I can't help adore.
Because I'm smitten with your rhythm and I'm in love with your tune,
and your face when you start singing it makes my heart go 'bloom'.
My very bones are softly sighing "we're alone in this crowded room".
In the pouring rain, I will kiss you dry.
It will feel the same, when I kiss you dry.
Twin set pearls wrap them 'round my neck, I will kiss you dry.
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Ruby Solly Wellington, New Zealand
Ruby Solly (Kai Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a musician, writer and taonga puoro practitioner living in Pōneke, Aotearoa. Her first album 'Pōneke' explores the hidden histories of Wellington as well as the part that the environment plays within the recording and composing process. ... more
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