1. |
Gold Chain
01:49
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Bought my love a chain
I took my lover’s name
Bought my love a chain
Gold to make him stay.
Bought my love a chain
Clean and polished bright
Bought my love a chain
Gold to make him mine.
My precious everything; it’s hot and salt, and savory
It’s real, I taste it for myself
Bought my love a chain
I give it every day
Bought my love a chain
I know he won’t get away
Can’t you taste the real thing?
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2. |
Mobile
02:21
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I’ve got runaway falling fever, ya,
I like it this way.
I believe that harmony and heaven,
Why, they are washing me all over
We’re coming on up the road,
(I’m coming to the hill)
and then we go down into town,
(I love it over here)
you’re a crazy driver,
(We’ve got no money)
but we’re going somewhere.
(but we’re still somewhere)
We take a good draw to make the situation better
We’ve got the road and a pick-up guitar
We’ve got the will, and an energy to last forever
Nothing gets old when we’re going, when we’re mobile
And we are…
I’ll be the same for a hundred years
I might get away
I’m the same as all who have travelled here
Does everybody find it someday?
I’ve taken this road before,
(Lightshine out your eyes)
now I can, can take a chance,
(I want it, I can use it)
knowing that our plans will work out this time
(Sometimes we get afraid,)
but we’re fine
We take a good draw to make the situation better
We’ve got the road and a pick-up guitar
We’ve got the will, and an energy to last forever
Nothing gets old when we’re going, when we’re mobile
And we are…
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3. |
Sunday Morning
02:59
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In places; the place that I love
In anywhere, I’m with you,
I am home
In the city, crowds look out from the crowd
I see you: dressed in all the town
Sunday morning, no one but my own love at my door
I couldn’t ask for more
We gave it, we created the meaning
And every fine thing I see reminds me
We can make it
Our own way won’t re-trace us now
You and me, against the old countdown
Sunday morning: No one but my own love at my door
I couldn’t ask for more
I love you too much to ever go away
(Please, darling, stay)
I don’t mind the tears when we re-arrange
(We’ll change again)
I want you to be happy
I need you to learn about me
I believe we can be happy
Darling, I believe…
The fruit of this wild grove is all grown
And strangely, I’m not so hurting all- alone
And I taste it: planting seed in the ground,
In my hand, moving to your mouth
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4. |
Situation
01:54
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I will fling this matter full in his face,
And leave him weeping in his lovely disgrace
Could this charming young friend of all,
Offer me wing just to see me fall?
Situation never changes
Situation never changes
Odd, I know:
I walk to but I’m waiting for
I’m mostly crazy for to go
It could cost me everything that I own
But what could he leave me?
I was already alone.
Sweet, sensational storyline:
I loved you once, now I’ve made you mine
Situation never changes
Situation never changes
The way I go:
I walk to in the world today
I know no other way to go
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5. |
Someday
02:34
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O my mind, I was here, you came unannounced:
I’d know you anyway
My life is a mirror we lay you on
She crack, and I gone,
I love you anyway
In all my life I had one single sweet thing
And all my life, I look to find it again
Someday, maybe
Given time I take to the high and low
I travel old, I travel light
My home is ancestry gone, and family unborn
Waiting in the dark night
And in the day, so slowly creeping uphill
I search to find you out, and maybe I will
Someday. Maybe.
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6. |
Tenth Avenue
01:13
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Walking the road
Now walking 10th Avenue,
head to the church a way I never go
The children at home
They run under wheels
now they’re dancing for money to the radio
You give it you take it you break it
You say that you love but you fake it
You promise the world and you gave me the world
Now you’ve taken my soul
The good times are gone
My husband is married
I lost my direction I can’t talk to no one
Tomorrow will tell
I may be returning,
Today I just want to be somebody else
You give it you take it you break it
You say that you love but you fake it
You promise the world and you gave me the world
Now you’ve taken my soul
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7. |
Body Run Down
02:44
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Go away, your love for that energy:
You're gonna be someone, see, so behave
Good God, I know “Somebody” by name
I know your name, I know when you're a fake
Now you're gonna have to make me easy,
Hold the star in my sight
It gets so high sometimes I can't think it over
People around you all try
They care about you they love you
I love you too. in my own way I do
When you go far away you pretty picture
You go away, I talk to your frame
Yes I mind, you act like you never needed
The air to breathe or the head room to breathe
You don't go to sleep like other people
You cry music all night
With your hands you learn to rock your baby
People around say goodnight
They care about you they love you
I love you too. in my own way I do
You're not mine, you overdrive sun weather
Reeboks and jeans and green flannel/black leather
I've been wise, sometimes you play dirty, hey,
I'd rather be in your game than anyplace
I took my worry and I put it under
It couldn't matter one time
Make one promise: keep yourself together
People around you realize
They care about you they love you
I love you too. in my own way I do
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8. |
I don't wanabe there
02:28
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Sight of my eye, you are the love of my life
I hear it’s oversaid
Give me time to realize
You are an ordinary man
I was grown, but my love didn’t show,
It passed me by, somehow
I sit quiet to write it down
So I remember how
I know now
I don’t wanabe there when it’s over
I don’t wanabe there in the morning after love
I don’t wanabe there when it’s over
I don’t wanabe there in the morning after love
Tell it tall, was I with you at all,
Or a common stranger?
I would try to know you well
You would kiss and never tell
And I’d give up, the night was always enough,
I’d never need an answer
I was wise to let you go
Now I’m a fool to want you so
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9. |
Old Songs
03:29
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I’ve got a new man
He’s gonna take me travelling
When I get to that tropical grove
I’m gonna drink the sun in,
and take off all of my clothes
When the dark comes, in lullaby,
Sweet jasmine, and goodnight
He’ll hold me well, how well,
I know it alright
And I won’t remember you all night
I hear it in the old songs I was so in love with you, oh
I told you, I tell you, baby, you never knew, oh
It might be best
If we took some time off to ourselves
Til I know am I angry?
I don’t know, am I happy?
I remember you and me
Dreaming music
Dreaming children
Making love on the floor in the cold
In that dirty studio
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10. |
Walking Through You
02:05
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Ah, love, oh you pretty one
Your light shines brighter, and my eyes are on
You conditioned weather: your hands are warm
I know, I don't know you at all
But far in my feeling I hear you call
By your open feeling I mark my fall
And I see beauty to rich to relieve
And I believe
If I could uncover, unclose you
I could discover, unfold you,
I could recover my own,
Walking through you
Ah, love, oh, you just a man
You world of all things I almost understand
Root of my misery, happy again
I see you in your vision machine
And I believe it's true
If I could uncover, unclose you
I could discover, unfold you,
I could recover my own,
Walking through you
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11. |
I won't Let You Go
01:49
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Just leave the light, OK?
I’ll be all up tonight, all night today
Why try to set it straight?
You savor sleep and my remarks just don’t rate
I’m up much too late
You sound in all directions
You found my sweet connection
It might seem oversaid, this one thing
I must let you know:
I won’t let you go
Take to another day
I always do when you treat me this way.
What was the way it was?
Not love, but something shining
Gave us all cause
Oh, but it does
The key is locked inside it
And I am here outside it
It’s safe and warm outside, and inside,
You can be so cold
Still I won’t let you go
The green of the trees that season I breathed
You taught me to be right here
And do you believe that all I could see
Was you in the blue spring air?
It’s not my place I know
But when you dream tonight,
May I follow?
I’ve got some dreams to share
I’d speak, but yeah, sometimes I’m much too aware
How much you don’t care
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12. |
Bobby, my Memory
02:14
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I have known you well, not well, so long
You were here in season, now you're gone
What you're doing is natural
It's not rude or unnatural
Bob, become a song for us to run
You were a baby when I knew you at school
Then I was crazy for you
Bobby
My memory
My friend, it's not over, my brother
Time it takes to break goes on and on
We can make it two ways same as one
And we'll meet when it's national
Party free international
Bob become a song for us to run
You were angry when I stole your blue room
It was something I had to do
Bobby
My memory
My friend, it's not over, my brother
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13. |
My Spell
01:39
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I talked to a friend, she said she saw you again
She said you looked better than ever;
Beautiful. Bitter. Better.
Love without mercy, why did you hurt me?
I was always true
Desperate and lonely, I was only happy
Making love with you
My witch, my angel, my spell;
My tears throw water on your well
You disappear under my design,
And I almost die with you
Diamond and dirty, why did you hurt me?
I was always true
Glitter and gutter, heaven fell under
Making love with you
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14. |
Stranger Things
02:34
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Why don’t you go? Why don’t you stay?
Why don’t you come clear to me anyway?
You are voice on the phone and a man on the street
I come out early to meet you, you’re usually late
I get all dressed up, I worry if I am OK
You just woke up, you always want something
You’re so you, and you show it
I lose myself, I copy everyone I know
Stranger things are bold to happen
Stranger things I’m told have happened here
Stranger things are bold to happen
Stranger things I’m told have happened here
What don’t you owe? How can you pay?
How can you tell lies with that pretty face?
Your hand drag me down til I’ve no place to go
Your mouth is on rapid fire with the women you know
You give it up, then you dare to,
You eat me up
You wake me up, you always want something
You’re a jewel, and you know it
I lose myself, I copy everyone I know
Stranger things are bold to happen
Stranger things I’m told have happened here
Stranger things are bold to happen
Stranger things I’m told have happened here
I’m done dreaming
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15. |
When You're Talking
03:04
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You call my name I’m called to recall
you laughing man in my laughing all my life,
I survive in the breath of your delight
Under the sun, under moonlight,
Under cover where you held me, frightened, ah,
When always I fell into your eyes
I give it all again if you ask today
I give it all again in a modern way
I never slow down I do whatever you say
By sky or ground the way you turn it upside down
When you're talking my baby
I am rearranged, deranged maybe
You give me something and you move me, plainly,
I’m taken in, took in total by your hand
You are the star of my memory
You are the pearl of my love, all family
Broken down to the body of a man
I give it all again if you ask today
I give it all again in a modern way
I never slow down I do whatever you say
By truth or lie the way you get so inside me
When you're talking my baby
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16. |
I Watch You
03:14
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You laugh and your whole tale
I tell you I hear it all
I wait at my station all quiet and careful
I watch you I’m a baby, ya
I watched you wherever we went
What magic lies in the world
at my station here?
Your magic lens you press to the glass,
and I see it clear
I watch you, I am Sadie Ann
I watch your eyes, we meet again
With no cause for regret
I breathe your breath on the other side of that
Falling nowhere
I’d fall forever
In love forever: I am made of it
You laugh and your whole tale
I tell you I hear it all
I wait at my station all quiet and careful
I watch you, I am Sadie Ann
I watched you wherever we went
I watch you I’m a baby, ya
I watch your eyes, we meet again
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17. |
My Love And I
02:19
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My Love, you are
Green as the spring
Clear as reflecting the morning star
Blue, your eyes watch me sing
So solemn and strong you are
Stephen, you are shining inside
Lend me light from your eyes
Tonight we can go
We have the boat, and we can row
We have the boat, and we can row
We have the boat, and we can row:
My love and I
What brings us here?
Love brings us here
To love or die
Golden and bell is the ring
that my love wears for all his life
Even tonight, caught in the rain
I love, and love you again
Tonight we can go
We have the boat, and we can row
We have the boat, and we can row
We have the boat, and we can row:
My love and I
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18. |
If you
02:58
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If you were my brother, we’d have our own world
From where the woods begin to our yard,
We’d pull the violet dusk in; Mother calling
I’d catch the grass green and blue,
I’d catch the wind for you
Growing under the same sun and moon
I’d grow to be someone you always knew
But even my brother
He doesn’t remember
And the dreams that we shared
Disappeared from each other
If you were my lover, we’d never be up by noon
Waking with the dawn light, too soon,
Alive, and warm in our breathing perfume
I’d give my life to you
You’d give me my life all new,
And tell me everything, and I too,
Would tell you everything you always knew
But even my lover
He doesn’t remember
And the heaven we had
Descended forever
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19. |
More than Yesterday
03:12
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I lie awake at night, in wonder
In still, in waiting, watching dark move
From off the lace, sheet, from under the bed,
From off your face, you are, you,
My darling, my darling, sweet; my only
Love now, forever
And evermore and every day
I love you more than yesterday
And sometimes rain would fall in morning
And sleep would hold you fast to her heart
Then waking sharp, and suddenly from dream
Your reach would bridge the dark, and find me
And in the dark, in the night, always,
Love remains; key to the day
The air is empty but for one song
It echoes through me, and is gone
But I remember pieces of the tune,
And I recall them for you
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20. |
Little Bird
01:20
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Simple word, alive between my every thought and feeling,
Like calling, like calling; remembering
Simple breath of life, from my room’s floor to my ceiling:
Calling, hurry, now, calling
Simple hand, arounding everywhere I go,
Opening to let me know again
Little bird,
You have the wings of sand and of the sky
You are the eye,
As clear as crystal shining
You are the medium from dark to light,
You are bright
You are me; sighted and flying
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21. |
May Song
02:19
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Wild one, oh,
My life on your golden chain,
Who would know, or feel the same?
Call me up
To light, my angel, coming in May dress
Through sun and sight
bring me your green caress
Loving, warm and gold laughter,
Sweeter wine I’ve tasted not
Ripen me to fruit of the living vine
by harvest time, my Lord,
You are the eye you are the storm
I understand, I am the one who falls
Season wake me, you promise me the change:
The truth, the life the way, the road
My life on your lonely shoulder
who would know I love you so?
Call me home
To light, my angel, coming in May dress
Through sun and sight bring me your green caress
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22. |
Walking on the Sand
02:07
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Of all words in this house of sky
There is not one that will not die
Of all loves in this house of mine
All but one will fall behind
I was a grain in His hand
I go walking on the sand
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23. |
Third meditation
02:48
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24. |
Mother Kali
01:50
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Raise it up, Mother Kali,
Raise it up so I can see
I believe it
Earth and sky, my mother
Gives life to eternity
I believe it, I see it,
Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother
Shake it up, Mother Kali
Shake it up so I can see
I believe it
By your tears, and your laughter sweet
Make us dancing perfectly
I believe it, I see it,
Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother
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Robin O'Brien Santa Rosa, California
Eclectic mix of recordings; mostly lo-fi. I've been a closet home-taper, recording my music since before multitrack was
available to us common folk at home. It's my joy.
George Reisch re-imagined some of these tunes, and you can find them at Luxotone.com
recordings by Jean Farmer and I are at notan.org
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