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Love is Leaving
03:24
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Once you were a person who arrived on time
With eyes as bright as shoes just shined
All right ideas and tight Levis
When you closed your eyes
You fantasized that things would be all right
You took a road that no one knows about
Wound throughout the woes,
Highest highs and lowest of lows
You learned that hope is often dwarfed by doubt
Heavy hearts resound
Quiet now, you can hear them sound
Once you had motor and the will the drive
A slide-rule mind with fuel to fly
All-night rides and blown stoplights
When you closed your eyes
Never mind, you never closed your eyes
You took a road that no one knows about
Wound throughout the woes,
Highest highs and lowest of lows
You chased the work around a roundabout
Mind outshouts your mouth
Thought so loud you couldn’t hear a sound
Now we an aging forest with boughs so high
With roofs of leaves that frame the sky
The loops repeat: birds crow, wolves cry
When you close your eyes
Curtains rise; you’re blinded by the light
You took a road that no one knows about
Wound throughout the woes,
Highest highs and lowest of lows
Made your peace up on the mortal mount
Sounding through the throws
Love is leaving everything you know
Oh,
Write it on your throat
Love is leaving everything you know
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2. |
Cowboy Devotional
04:17
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First get your story straight,
Born Oregon coast
Orphanage-raised
Forget un-lived ways
Tiptoe lonesome roads
Make home on the range
Ripping kindling from the Bible
Follow smoke signals for miles
Walk until you’re tired of walking away
Don’t stop if you’re not planning to stay
Walk until you’re tired of walking away
Leave ghosts in ghost towns
Bury your dead
Move on down
Killing rattlesnakes and robbers
Dreaming nightly of your father
Ride until you’re tired of running away
Don’t stop if you’re not planning to stay
Ride until you’re tired of running away
Cupid steal the reins
Cripple my horse
Make me stay
Make sense of mistakes
Study the stars
Find my way
The sole protector of the helpless
Dress the wounds you haven’t dealt with
Hide until you’re tired of running away
Don’t say if you’re not planning to stay
Hide until you’re tired of running away
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Kaleidoscope
02:23
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Sorry I’m late
I made you wait
You sure look great
Girlish womanizer
Friendly like a ghost
Untwist your chain
I’ll comb your mane
Tempt you with tame
And nobody’s the wiser
Nobody else knows
We are inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
I dig the grave
Ten years too late
What was your name?
Soulful eulogizer
Still writing you notes
Inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
Inside a kaleidoscope
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Kirsten Opstad Los Angeles, California
Kirsten Opstad is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter.
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