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Garden
04:12
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You should tend to a garden or it won't grow
& tell your friends you love them or they won't know
Keep a steady beat & you'll be fine
Try to work together with your mind
Sometime your chest might feel like a cage
But your ribs keep you protected, they keep you safe
Don't try to fight your way out from your home
Please don't shrivel up when you feel alone
Do yourself a favor & don't fall in love
Someone's sure to put you under a spell
Now you're accelerating, you're boundaries swell
You feel like you're connected, tied up with string
Hopeful & you're humming, your vessels sing
But people change their hearts & change their minds
& you'll be left alone somewhere down the line
To piece yourself together after you break
Cause lost love hurts much more than you can take
So do yourself a favor & don't fall in love
Do us both a favor & don't fall in love
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Green Willow
03:06
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Columbine & coriander
Marigold & lavender
You're going off to meet up with her
& in the morning I'm undisturbed
My green willow
Where do you go?
Do I want to know?
Don't want to know
Fill my mouth with wormwood & rue
Stop my heart with hemlock, too
Go on & do what you're gonna do
Just go where the four winds carry you
My green willow
Where do you go?
Do I want to know?
Don't want to know
My green willow...
(Tell me where you go)
Where do you go...
(Tell me where you go)
Do I want to know?
Do I want to know?
Do I want to know?
Don't want to know
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Larkspur
05:07
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If you can't reach the bed, I'll lie with you on the floor
I'll scare away the demons that come knocking at your door
I'll turn on every light, latch every window
I'll build you a fortress if that's what you want
I'll give you my heart as a new place to haunt
I'll find you more blankets when the night's too damn cold
You're like showers in summer, you're like flowers in spring
& just to stay here forever, man, I'd give anything
I'd capture the moon, I'd climb mountains for you
Cause you're the breath on a spark that's trying to ignite
You're the feeling I get when everything's going right
Anything to make you happy is what I wanna do
There's a shaking in my bones
& you're the only one who knows
How to calm these nerves
You picked me up from the dirt
Where I'd been buried for so long
I've been everywhere that's wrong
& I cried so many nights
Until you helped me to feel right
With you, I felt alright
Now I just don't feel right
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Rockets
05:04
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Love was like a rocket, launching us into space
But now I'm always crying when I picture your face
Your love was like a pocket; you were keeping me warm
Now I'm outside shivering in the rain & the storm
& I don't know what I'm supposed to do
I don't know what you want me to do
But what do I have arms for
If not to wrap around you?
What do I have lips for
If not to meet yours?
In my mind I see you smiling, see the lines by your eyes
But I can't help this wondering: was your love a disguise all along?
Too much to find me sleeping by your side everyday
Was that hand you used to hold mine meant to push me away?
Cause I don't know what I'm supposed to do
I don't know what you're trying to do
But what do I have arms for
If not to wrap around you?
What do I have lips for
If not to meet yours?
What have I a mind for
If not to think about you?
& what have I a body for
if not to be with yours?
I don't know what I'm supposed to do
I don't know what you're trying to do
I don't know what I'm supposed to do
I don't know what you want me to do
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Your Black Kitten
06:33
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In the morning, I wake up & kiss you on the forehead
& quietly crawl out of bed
I get dressed & eat breakfast & ride out the door on my bike
Think about you all day. You're exactly my type
Afternoon in the kitchen, we're cooking & hugging, all smiles
Maybe hike in the woods for a couple of miles
Watch tv, draw some pictures, & cuddle with your black kitten
I guess you could say I'm totally smitten
I just want all of it back...
Well I know you get sad & we both get pretty anxious
But being with you helped me feel less nervous
I regret that I couldn't do more to help you feel better
& I wish I could stop writing you these (stupid) letters
It's been over a year & I still can't seem to move on
I just can't admit that what we had could be gone
It was only with you I felt I could be myself truly
So did I really love you this much more than you loved me?
Why won't you just love me back?
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