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Wake Up
04:28
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You call my name but I fear
Hearing your refrain on me
You call my eyes to open wide
And to realize that there is something more to this life
Than the numbing of my body and my mind
Than simply spinning cycles of time
Wake up oh sleeper, wake up
And raise your weary head
It’s time to wake up from the dead
You call my ears but I fear
The sound you'll put into my heart, ohhh
You call my feet
To move off the start
To run the race of love, of love
That makes a beautiful life and so much more
It lays the foundation to restore
You took me to the place
Where the old song is played
In the rhythm of your melody
I rested my head
You let me sleep in the song
That whispers to me all night long
Of how things are going to be
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2. |
Zero In The Valley
04:24
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Up on the hill there’s more than enough
The share is growing, the wage is going up, going up
But down in the valley the tale is growing dim
Gardens lie fallow and the hills are closing in
Zero in the valley, too much on the hill
There's no common ground or good
The world is standing still
Zero in the valley, too much on the hill
Anguish runs through the valley in the night
Living on edge, hard pressed on every side, every side
There's no room to breathe and it’s dangerous to say
That we’re coming together for better pay
Can you see? Do you feel?
Up on the hill there’s more than enough
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Thirsty Son
04:19
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One day to great surprise
You realized a new light within your eyes
Born in a vacant room
A fire, a heart in bloom
A feeling in your bones
To make things known
They're throwing heavy stones your way
Thirsty son on the run
Don't you dare hold your tongue
Speak your mind in this time
Of lovers, lovers and lies
Running in a violent world
Your words stir new worlds
A poet in perfect form
Like thunder in a raging storm
Don’t you hesitate
Don’t you hesitate
Don’t you hesitate
Stand your ground
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4. |
Fall Up To You
04:16
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Every day of my life I’ve been told that when
I get it wrong, that it’s the end and there’s no
Fixing my mistakes
I’m alone in this race
I’ve only got one chance and it’s gone
I feel like such a fool
Holding on to that which fades
Like colours in the rain
I’m in the waiting room waiting to see
What will become of me
I’m in the waiting room and there’s just
One thing left to do
I’m gonna fall up to you
I’m gonna fall up to you
I’m gonna fall up to you
Tonight, oooh
When I was a child I had a dream
So I took my first baby steps
Never thinking that I’d make such a mess
Falling down, to get back up again
Tell me, what is success
But mistakes I’ve learned to not regret?
Being kind to my own heart
I find myself right back at the start
I’ve been chosen and I’m numbered
Living unencumbered in all I do
I’m alive and now I’m thriving
And I can’t help but sing
I’m flourishing
Well I’ve got nothing left to prove
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5. |
Why
03:16
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Oh why is it so hard, why is it so hard
To tell right from wrong, right from wrong apart?
Lies and bending the rules, in a world where kings are fools
Where prophets are chased, while empire slaves are made
Tell me why, tell me why must it be this way?
Why can't I, why can't I see straight?
I long for some truth, I long for some truth to tell
Sometimes their good, their good is an empty shell
Truth, speak your good name into the depths of me
Then I will stand, I'll stand and clearly see
You've got me blind as I am
You took this old broken hand
And guided me home at night
Truth, speak your good name
Into the depths of me
Then I will stand, I'll stand and clearly see
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6. |
Cold & Grey All Week
03:56
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I walk down the street
Along the colours of fall
It makes my heart weep as I think of it all
My memory so dim
Of how you got under my skin
It fades, like the colours fade from everything
And the heartache on my face says it all
I've been swimming in defeat
Oh, it’s been cold and grey all week
As much as you tried
I closed my eyes
I couldn’t look at you anymore, the dream it died
Hope left my smile
My heart turned to blue
As I saw the world destroy all that I knew
Then the light grew dangerously dim
Darkness fell upon my street
Oh, it’s been cold and grey all week
There was a spring
When your love made me sing
I danced for your future, to mend everything
I saw you everywhere
In the most distant stare
Of wandering strangers wrapped in despair
Then the light burned beautiful bright
And it moved my weary feet
Oh, when it was cold and grey all week
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7. |
Whistling In The Dark
04:23
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Hard days have settled in
I'm farther than I've ever been
From home and unknown
Things are changing all around
The sky has turned and so’s the ground
And I'm cold like a stone
I find myself whistling in the dark alone
Tangled web of misery
There’s something grabbing hold of me
I feel it but I cannot see
Meet me in the mystery
Will you be enough?
For I'm by myself
Whistling in the dark for love
Disappointment caught my eye
I'm waiting for the sun to shine
I'm far away from morning time
Every day I close my eyes
All above me stormy skies
Oh, take me back to the start
I find myself whistling in the dark real hard
I’d give all away for a brighter day
I whistle and wonder
You give love away, a chance to make
Everything new and we’ll never walk alone
No, we’ll never walk alone
No, we’ll never walk alone
Take me back to the start
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8. |
Banyan Tree
04:47
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Home is where you took me
In toasty sun and salty breeze
Living in our banyan tree
Simple love running deep
Now driftwood is our banyan tree
Traditions lost, faded memories
I miss your voice so desperately
I know you’re out on a distant sea
Banyan tree, banyan tree
It’s so hard to let you go
Banyan tree, banyan tree
Love's new home, loves new home for me
It’s so hard to let you go
Searing pain and deep sorrow
From destruction something grows
Out of dust there comes new hope
In your absence I have seen
Desolation sprouts new dreams
Your parting gift a little tree
To keep me, keep me, keep me constant company
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9. |
Of Peace
04:10
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Stung by suffering and out of breath
You obsess about the anxious mess
Startled heart and you're in distress so you ask
How can this world fly
With violence on her wings, in a broken sky?
It kills the song of those that sing in the night
Of peace
She rises up from underneath
Her whisper small
Listen to her call
Can you hear her in the breeze?
The mighty brought to their knees
The guns they freeze
The wicked flee
As she makes room for the coming dream
Of peace
She brings you under her wing
While you're hurting from the sting
Turning tears into nourishing
They run like a tender stream that she guides
With flowering trees by her sides
And leaves for the healing of broken lives
The comfort of a new and gentle time
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The times I've lost it all
Pride and then the fall
Have taught me to meditate on this
The thought of losing you
It’s like a death that I cannot choose
It colours my world a crazy blue
And it makes me weep as I hold on
To that which I fear to lose
Oh, it's a Shakespeare kind of love
Oh, it's a Shakespeare kind of love
It’s got a hold of me
And baby, I don't know how to be
Such a flower you are
You’re a beauty to behold
You are warmth from the cold of my heart alone
Shelter from a rainy day
You're the words when I try to pray
But I'm sad because
Time will come to take my love
Time will take my love away
Fortune is found
Not in riches of gold
But in the moments of a long love story told
Where you are with me
More real than reality
Baby, I’m here because I am trying to be
Present for that aching need
The need for love to feel
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11. |
It's Over
03:43
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It's over
It’s over my dear
You call my name
But I cannot hear, I cannot hear
I remember
Being wrapped in your arms
I was dreaming in the most colourful terms
You met me where I yearn
Your eyes
I thought were filled with light
But the flicker led me to the night
The farther we went
Not knowing where to end
I was tangled in your web, blind and misled
But I couldn't see it then
You taught me in time
To love what I hate
You pulled me away from the true light
It's over
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Standing on the edge of tomorrow
The sorrow too much to bear
Confused at all the feelings in the air
I’m on a train away from my memories
A one way ticket into to the breeze
With a new plan to make it all right
But she found that her confusion still remained
The price of love too much to pay
The heart will make it plain
Even in the driving rain
When you’re hoping for the sun to shine again
I’m waiting in the den with the lions
My future is unclear
I’m in a distant land for too many years
I’m leaning on the words of my true love
To provide me a new way out
Into deeper trust with my whole heart
But it’s hard when he can’t see the light of day
True love is worth the wait
All the wonders and the mysteries are not in vain
One day the heart will make it plain
The heart will make it plain
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Darling Hurts Vancouver, British Columbia
Multi-voice, big vocals and surprising beat - Darling Hurts is folk-rock like you've never heard it before. With powerful lyrics full of curiosity, questioning, hope and possibility, this Vancouver based group of seven friends harmonize and story tell their way through important issues in our time. ... more
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