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Cold Crows
04:39
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Solemn in the weather on a bare winter branch
Gray light flying, lost another chance
Huddled together, in a flock of fear
West wind was blowing, cutting and clear.
Mm mm
Memories driftin’ like a fog in the night
Hearts so hungry, hot and alive
Threadbare jacket, blackened and frayed, on a
Steely-eyed stranger, stealing away.
Mmm, we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
Mmm, we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
All we ever got was a look in the eye, and
A little voice saying “baby, it’s time to fly”
Twilight sighs, opens the fold, that
Held you in the night, heavy and cold.
Mmm, we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
Mmm, we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
Eyes are closed against the rain,
No one knows if crows can cry in pain.
Hands are claws for going numb,
Time for crows to seek the sky and run.
‘Cause we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
Mmm, we’re just crows.
Cold crows, cold crows.
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The New Normal
03:17
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Ought to walk away, for what you said
But the words are still echoing in my head
I felt the poison you expelled in one long breath
Floating on a river colored red
And I’m sinking with a stomach full of lead
Taking on the water that I once so slowly bled
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
But, it ain’t me
My tongue’s like a bee inside my mouth
And faded signs are pointing the way out
The border’s just beyond the hills; I’m sinking to the ground...
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
But, it ain’t me
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
It’s a new normal
But, it ain’t me
Ah, it ain’t me
It ain’t me
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Skinny
03:45
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I know what I’m gonna do
I’ve been thinking it all through
I know what I’m gonna do
Take the inside track for two
No one ever needs to see
All your secrets safe with me
We’re turning all the
grey to blue
I got the skinny on you
You got the skinny on me too
I’ve been thinking every day
You know just what I’m gonna say
I’ve been digging what you do
You’ve been digging on me too
and I’ve been living on it...
No one ever needs to see
All your secrets safe with me
We’re turning all the
grey to blue
I got the skinny on you
You got the skinny on me too
Oceans apart
But we’re staring at the same November sky
Harder to start,
But easier when eyes are open wide
No one ever needs to see
All your secrets safe with me
We’re turning all the grey to blue
I got the skinny on you
You got the skinny on me too
I got the skinny on you
You got the skinny on me
I got the skinny on you, it’s
All I need to see beyond it
I got the skinny on you
You got the skinny on me too
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These corridors, empty doors
Lichen laying soft in all its forms
Echo soldiers, who dwell within no more
I come to you to lay upon your floor
Solace, silent clues
Disguising the designs in muddy shoes
She flies within the Fort de la Chartreuse, and
Becomes something beautiful to you
And she remains hidden in a city where
The rest have been reclaimed
I’m leaving her with nothing more to lose
Flying in the Fort de la Chartreuse
Flying in the Fort de la Chartreuse
When the flowers in your hair fall in your face
The leaves within your body blow away
When all these shadow sadnesses finally disappear
Without a trace
And she remains hidden in a city where
The rest have been reclaimed
I’m leaving her with nothing more to lose
Flying in the Fort de la Chartreuse
I’m leaving her with nothing more to lose
Flying in the Fort de la Chartreuse
Flying in the Fort de la Chartreuse
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These Ancient Times
03:18
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I fell in love, inside a dream
It wasn’t you, it wasn’t me
But it was soft as the light
Upon the trees
And we waited for the show
The curtain fell like winter snow
On our faces, the glitter traces
For all to see
These ancient times, they survive
Behind the lines, behind our eyes
And this smoke, carries our hope
So we can find we’re still alive
Still alive
We fell asleep, beneath an azure sky
Felt a touch, like butterflies
So soft, like it wasn’t
There at all
We took a walk, through the trees
You took a swim, in the fallen leaves
I couldn’t go, wind didn’t blow there
For me
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One World
03:48
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Dust is blowing round the world and we’re breathing in the air
The carbon and the oxygen we share
‘Cause we’re of the same tree, deeply rooted, deeply free
Open up your eyes, we’re all standing there, in
One world
Can you feel a fire raging and the smoke up in the sky?
Waiting for the storm to send a sign?
We all seek an understanding, for diseases so demanding
And no one seems to know the reason why, in
One world
There’s only one world, only one rain
Only one way through the pain
There’s only one sky, only one you and I
Only one world anyway
We’re one world
One World
One World
Balance in the world, all connected, resurrected
Breathing out, breathing in, everything your love reflected
And we live, in one world, one world
There’s only one world, only one rain
Only one way through the pain
There’s only one sky, only one you and I
Only one world anyway
There’s only one world, only one rain
Only one way through the pain
There’s only one sky, only one you and I
Only one world anyway
We’re one world
One World
One World
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Signs
03:34
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It was pouring down rain
As I pulled up to Second and Vine
You were walking away
From a pile of soaking wet signs
Stocking cap low on your face,
The color of rain, the picture of grace
You were holding a sign
I been looking for mine
“Willing to work”
For money or food for a time
Just to feel so invisible and
Cold and scared out of your mind
Stocking cap low on your face,
The color of rain, the picture of grace, and
You were holding a sign
I been looking for mine
Camped on the underpass, at 90 and 5
It’s hard to understand why
From all of the things you are running away
The little hearts bleeding, so hard believing,
That everyone’s needing to find...
Holding a sign…
I been looking for mine...
Holding a sign…
I been looking for mine, and
We’re holding a sign
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8. |
The Final Commute
02:32
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I got my coffee, and I got in my car
Didn’t spill a drop on the console or the floor
Took me 30 years but I think I finally got this down
Pulled on the freeway and I didn’t blink an eye
Didn’t even think about the traffic flying by
'Cause I've been running, and I'm finally getting off the ground
I won’t miss the guy cutting me off, or
All of the things I didn’t do
I got out with my money, now it’s just you and me, honey
Taking that final commute
Now, I’m cleaning out my desk, and packing up my things
Discarding Post-it notes, that I'd been pillaging
If I only had a dollar, for evr’y single word I said...
I might miss the guy cutting me off, or
All of the things I didn’t do
I got out with my money, now it’s just you and me, honey
Taking that final commute
Only one more drive up the I-405
Taking that final commute!
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James Dean Cotton Seattle, Washington
James Dean Cotton hails from the Missouri Ozarks where bluegrass and Americana infused an easy, 70's acoustic style. He writes and performs solo and with the acoustic duo, American Sons, in the Seattle area.
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