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Wishing Tree
06:25
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I spend every night on my knees
In the shadow of a wishing tree
Branches swaying in the evening sun
I sit and think about the things I’ve done
Oh my darling, oh my gal
Careful what you ask of me
Only thing I’m good for now
Is blowing kisses at the wishing tree
Crossed my heart beside the wishing brook
Trying to salvage what the bad years took
But in the ripples and the dark below
Only answer was an undertow
Oh my darling oh my gal
Careful where you drop your hook
Only thing I’m good for now
Is casting out into the wishing brook
Threw my money in the wishing pool
Just like every other desperate fool
Trying to tempt the gods and change my fate
Just a little too little too late
Oh my darling oh my gal
I love a story where the dream comes true
Only thing I’m good for now
Is throwing money in the wishing pool
Oh my darling oh my gal
Can’t get a thing in this life for free
Only thing I’m good for now
Is blowing kisses at the wishing tree
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Damage
03:13
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I’m coming with you
And we’re gonna see what kind of damage
We’re gonna see what kind of damage we can do
Tie me to you
And we’re gonna see what kind of damage
We’re gonna see what kind of damage we can do
Every inch of open road is beckoning
Every empty wall awaits our thousand pictures
Tell the world it’s headed for a reckoning
I’m coming with you
And we’re gonna see what kind of damage
We’re gonna see what kind of damage we can do
Tie me to you
And we’re gonna see what kind of damage
We’re gonna see what kind of damage we can do
Every empty moment is an opening
Every little blade of grass a song worth singing
Gonna make the air move with these broken wings
I’m coming with you
And we’re gonna see what kind of damage
We’re gonna see what kind of damage we can do
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Andrew Henry's Meadow
01:22
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Weights and Measures
03:43
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Just enough
Just a little taste to make you angry
Just enough
Just the faintest hint of risk and beauty
Fall in love
With the great unknown, the fog, the mystery
Fall in love
We’ll tip the bottle, drain the cup
We’ll make it last forever
Tear out my heart and stand it up
Against these weights and measures
Just enough
To make you wonder where the road is going
Just enough to make you think about the part not showing
Fall in love
With the things you’re better off not knowing
Fall in love
We’ll dance ourselves to sleep at night
We’ll push our mouths together
Reach out and pull me towards the light
Behind these weights and measures
Birds sing in hollow trees tonight
Above the blooming heather
There is another world behind
This world of weights and measures
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To the birds that sing in cages
To the birds trying to sing in the dark
While you watch the world in stages
Taking piece after piece of your heart
Beat back the night
Tell it to leave you alone
To the birds that sing in cages
Hope in time you can find your way home
Beat back the night
Tell it to leave you alone
To the birds that sing by the window
To the birds being chased down the hall
To the birds that should be in meadows
Not trapped between ceilings and walls
Fight your way out
Back to the brambles you know
To the birds that sing in cages
Hope in time you can find your way home
Hope in time you can fly you’re way home
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