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Shallow heart
Shallow water
Push off the bottom
Float to each other
Shallow heart, shallow water, the years run dry
You can swim but she can fly, as your ship goes sailing by
She’ll be floating in the air, will she notice you down there?
Empty head
Empty bottle
Tip it back
She won’t follow
So learn how to swim while you are young, old men can’t tread water
She’ll be floating by one day, and you’ll be missing eachother
Let the water wash you clean for the years have left you fearful
Two as one can float on air, one alone’s a sinking vessel
Shallow heart
Shallow water
Push off the bottom
Float to each other
You can rise the surface – love can never hurt us
You can see the shore from here – swim
And you rise to the surface – love can never hurt us
You can see the shore from here; keep her safe – hold her near
Shallow heart
Shallow water
Earth is dry
Graves are hollow
Dive in first
She will follow
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Oh when you’re leaving for the hundredth time today
Looking for a reason – a reason left to stay
What about the promises – the promises you can’t keep
Sometimes when you’re wounded
There ain’t enough reason to bleed
Oh don’t hurry your heart
No don’t hurry your heart
Please don’t hurry you heart
This time
Now you’re really going like a hundred time before
Is there any reason not to step through that door
Forget about the promises– the promises you can’t keep
When you look behind you, there’s nothing there to see
Flashing lights and exit signs
Fall away into the night
Like everything you couldn’t take with you
There’s nothing left to break
Everybody’s talking
When you want to say your piece,
And everybody’s leaving
Right when you were feeling at ease
Sometimes when he’s rushing
He’s telling you to hurry it up
Oh don’t hurry you heart
This time
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Fireworks
03:50
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When I met him it was warm and dark
And his smile was kind of square and slow
And he asked me, do you dance?
And I said, I don’t think so
And he didn’t walk away,
And I didn’t tell him no,
And the fireworks went
Pop, Pop, Pop
And I kissed him in the glow
Then I looked up at the steeple clock
And the hands said it was time to go
He asked me where I had to be
And I said, I don’t know
I suppose God lives in Heaven
As a child they told me it was so
He asked do you believe
And I said, I don’t think so
And then he did walk away,
And I didn’t tell him no,
And the fireworks went
Pop, Pop, Pop
And I kissed him in the glow
The fireworks went
Pop, Pop, Pop
I had to let him go
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What Will You Do?
04:12
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You hold his hand in his lies
Plan a day while he cries
What else can you do – he means something to you
What will you do when he dies?
Girl, he’s killing himself
In car when you’re not driving
In a bar when you’re not looking
With food that you’re not cooking
And every minute you’re not in it
What will you do when he dies?
You tuck the sheet on his bed
You won’t eat ‘til he’s fed
What more can you do
When he’s gone you are true
What will you do when he’s dead?
You know he’s surely going
In a bet you’re not taking
In a plane you’re not flying
With drugs that you’re not buying
And every minute you’re not in it
What will you do when he dies?
Girl, he’s killing himself
In a plane you’re not flying
With pills that you’re not taking
In a bed that you’re not making
Every minute you’re not in it
What will you do when he dies?
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5. |
Thick Walls Down
03:36
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What’s wrong with your misery–
Did a storm turn into a sunny day
While you weren’t looking?
You paint your daydreams black
She’ll never take you back
But sunlight’s slipping in through the cracks
To catch you crying–you’re always crying
What’s wrong with your sad, sad life
Did a love slip in and overtake you
While you weren’t looking
You left your back door open,
cracked just right
She slipped in the middle of the night
To let the day in – and now she’s staying
Ooh baby, don’t you know it’s hard
I hate my plans right from the start
But you walked in and I was found
I was telling you from far away
I didn’t want you around
You knocked a thick wall down, knocked a thick wall down
What’s wrong with you sympathy
I begged you to notice me
but you weren’t looking – you’re never looking
Now you’re back in my city and you’re dragging me ‘round
Pick me up off of the ground
And I am falling – I am falling
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Sorry
04:51
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You are a gnarled pear tree near an oak that binds your bitter root
Beneath its living branches
Your fingers bend and ache with rotting fruit
I’m sorry, sorry, sorry for my shade
I rooted to protect you
What a stick figure I have made
You are a bitter brother in the shadow of a twin
Strangled in her warm embrace
You have grown up savage mean and thin
I’m sorry, sorry, sorry for my arms
I tried to protect you
I have darkened all your charms
You are a jack o’ lantern
Who woke up on a bitter winter morn’
With your skin soft and sallow
Your short season has now come and gone
I am sorry, sorry, sorry for the time
Your ruined face is some reflection
Of mine
Sorry, sorry, sorry for the time
Your ruined face a perfect mirror of mine
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Pony
03:49
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There’s a blaze across his forehead
And a sparkle in his eye
Pony’s shoes are made of silver
He’s the one I love to ride
My Baby, he’s pony
He’s the one who loves me only
My baby is the only one
My pony
Every good girl wants a pony
I never had one as a child
Little girls jump over fences
Me and pony roam the wild
At night when I feel lonely
I let him loose where we can run free
My baby is the only one
My pony
He doesn’t need a saddle
I don’t wear silver spurs
I’ll never tie him down
He won’t prance for other girls
I’ll never build a stable
We run free across the land
And when he’s feeling spooky
I calm him with my hand
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8. |
The Fair
05:20
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What would you do if they canceled the fair
They got it all wrong ‘cause the year went too long
And nobody there knew
What you say if they never came
You’re waiting around down at the grounds
Man, what would you and your girlfriend do?
If there’s nothing to see
Tell me who would you be
To the one you love?
If there’s nowhere to go
Could you be all alone
Like the one you love?
What would you do if they canceled the fair
‘Cause the weather turned hot
The air conditioner’s shot
No one can tell you what to do
What would you say in the heat of those days
The wind standing still like the hours you can’t fill
Man, what would you and your girlfriend do?
The ferris wheel stands high
Above all the rides
Tarantula holds out his arms
Try to keep the carousel horses alive
As the summer of you and he dies
The summer of you and he dies
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Too Many Keys
03:48
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I thought New Orleans could save me
But I lost my way in the Quarter
The click of a lock, the snap of his finger
I find myself turning the corner
I have got too many keys on my ring
I’ve had too many rings on my finger
A hundred white dresses have hidden this girl
I’m wondering now, can you see her?
Is there no place for a woman
A couple years older and wiser?
I pour more coffee for a girl of 16
The man in the next booth could buy her
This one turns over the engine
I throw a pinch over my shoulder
I change my name and he stays the same
Southern nights seem to get colder
This one’s a box at the bank
A hand-me-down diamond
For never
This one will unlock the closet
Where white lace and satin stay shiny
Forever and ever
I thought New Orleans could save me
But then I got lost in Quarter
The click of a lock, the snap of his finger
Southern nights seem to get colder
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Hold on to Me
04:07
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If you hooked me now
Would you throw me back
To the deepest depths
Of the deep blue sea?
If you saw me now
Would you know it’s me
Would you see my face
Would you notice?
I believe you would hold onto me
Take me to your heart
In your big strong arms
Never leave me cold
Never do me harm
By the way you are
I can’t help but believe
That you would hold on to me
If I drove away in a big fast car
With a big fast boy would you follow me?
If I ran away would you look for me
Would you search me out would you find me?
Hold me now daddy I can’t be alone
I’ve been walking for years
Now I’ve come undone
My feet are all bloody my eyes saw too much
Would you sew me a pillow
Would you carve me a crutch?
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I Ain't Found Nobody Yet
05:07
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Today the sun came up in the west
And it went down in the east
If I laid awake a thousand nights
I tried to rest at least
I watch you come and go sometimes
I watch the floor for moves
The shapes in the room move so still
Just shadows of your shoes
I ain’t found nobody yet, honey
You know that you do just fine
I ain’t found nobody yet
They say that these things take time
I build the statues up like walls
Made out of the false things you say
I’m building a fortress from nothing at all
And trying to wish it away
I watch you come and go sometimes
My watch clocks the moves
I can no longer keep hearing the lies
That we cannot bear to lose
I’m watching the days all fall away like leaves
On November trees
I clearly can’t see
What’s in front of me
But I can’t leave
I get up before the sun rises
And try not to notice the day
I wonder if I could hear what you hide
would it be the same – would I hear you say
That you ain’t found nobody yet?
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Caitlin Cary North Carolina
I'm an artist, singer, songwriter, violinist, dog mom & Skillet spouse living in Raleigh, North Carolina. I moved here in 1993, and a year after that I joined Whiskeytown and began a pretty incredible hayride. Since then, I've released three solo albums, a duets album with Thad Cockrell, two albums with the supergroup Tres Chicas, and an album of protest music with the NC Music Love Army. ... more
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