2004 release. Recorded in Turtle River, MN. Click here to download the entire album. Stream, download, & read lyrics to individual tracks below. |
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I don't know why I feel the way I do/Maybe it's too little sunlight, maybe it's just too little you/2,000 miles is a long way to drive/And I don't have the money to fly/I don't have the money to fly/But I say I'm doing fine/Everyone here is speaking in a minor key/All the differences between you and me/2,000 miles is a long way to drive/And I don't have the money to fly/I don't have the money to fly/But I say I'm doing fine/I don't have the strength to wrestle my body from this bed/There are too many memories at war in my head/2,000 miles is a long way to drive/And I don't have the money to fly/I don't have the money to fly/But I say I'm doing fine
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth/But I was born to privilege just like every white everybody else/And now I am beginning to see that old argument's not so convincing/But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me/Because the system is set up so the system can take all the blame/Then you and I can breath deeply and feel a little less ashamed/Because the system took their land, it took their lives, yeah it took their lives/But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me/Who we gonna blame for our mistakes/Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes/Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes/So we don't have to pay/I am heiress to the burden of manifest destiny/Because everything that I have was stolen from somebody else just for me/If we could just stomach the truth then maybe the truth would set us free/But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me/Who we gonna blame for our mistakes/Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes/Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes/So we don't have to pay/I mean no disrespect to the people who like pawns secured the empire's land/But how can we look at cause and effect and still not understand/Let's get out of the business of pointing our fingers and throwing up our hands/Yeah way, yeah way you know it was me
Love is a bicycle with no front wheel/Love is faking it until you remember how it feels/You'll never know how close I came/To saying those words that way again/Love is a dirty dream and you are its muse/Love is me screaming as you reach for your shoes/You'll never know how close I came/To saying those words that way again/Less of something's always more than more of nothing/Invitations to coffee pose the questions I avoid/I want to say yes this time just to prove that I could/You'll never know how close I came/To saying those words that way again/Less of something's always more than more of nothing/Love is a bicycle
We are spirits wrapped in bodies that do not last/We are moments over once we have passed/And we pass/I am with you/I can't be where you are but the distance between our hearts is not so far/But I am with you/We are of this earth, we are of the sun/We are powerless to say when and where and how we should return/And we return/I am with you/I can't reach you by land or sea, I can't explain life's cruelty/But I am with you/We are travelers maples underneath the stars/We are simple songs that fade into silence but we return/We return/I am with you/I can't reach you by boat or rail, I can't even send this love through the mail/But I am with you/We are forest fires that rage and then expire/We are answers, we answer every question/We do/I am with you/I can't hold you in my arms, I can't say we are safe from harm/But I am with you
She sees, oh she feels/The water recalls all I have forgotten/the carefully packed suitcase returning in ruins/the origin of stains fading on denim jeans/imprints of a journey that filled the in between of fall and spring/She sees, oh she feels the water recalls all I have forgotten/and i have forgotten it all even your face, but she remembers you/she remembers that place/two days by bus and one by train/a freezer full of chicken/(Tom Waits singin' the refrain)/She sees, oh she feels/The water recalls all I have forgotten/a ten minute drive to the deepest blue you'll ever know/to the sweet, sweet voice of the undertow/singing throw yourself onto these rocks below/throw yourself below/must you die never knowing what it is to really let go
Mother Jones never ran for office/Oh hell, you know she couldn't even vote/They told her women didn't speak in public/But she just smiled got up on her soap box and she spoke/Virginia Wolfe didn't march down the streets of London/There were too many untold her stories to tell/She was wrapped up in the rapture/of a feminism she knew so intimately well/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/We are no longer barred from the ballot box/And the law declares us equal enough to men/But you know laws will never change attitudes/And attitudes are slow and hard to change/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/The political sphere has been and still is of, by and for rich, white men/Some things are sure to change but until then/We've got to check our anger and put this energy to good use/Through outright subversion we've got to back to our roots/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/Through the years they come to me/Through time and space they comfort me/Through humility and grace I see/We are only the stories that we tell/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day
His father died at the age of 80/And he was just a little boy of three/His momma, she was still a young lady/So she got down on her knees/Crying won't somebody save me/She'd settle for less just to be able/To keep the banker from foreclosing on the farm/And old prince charming didn't like children/So she took her only son into her arms/Crying won't somebody save me/She carried him all the way into the town/Took him to the place where children go when they have nowhere else to go/she said oh please won't you take me baby/then she turned to face the cold October snow/Crying won't somebody save me/And when he was 12 years old he just ran away/Working on the railroad/Working in the coal mine/Saving childhood for another day/And when he was seventeen he joined the army/Oh and Vietnam would bring him to his knees/Crying won't somebody save me/So I grew up nit knowing my grandpa/Because that little boy grew up to be an angry old man/They say you can't know someone until you have walked in their shoes/I don't know much, but I know this to be true/So I'm crying, no I don't blame you
Tonight you're coming on through the rain/Just to prove that you still have a heart/And you know the really really funny part is/That I thought I could find a way to explain/But a good intention is just a bad excuse/And now you're locked up tight as an armored car/And you know the really really funny part is/That I thought I could find a way to explain/But your laughter betrays your fears/And that motive reappears/I can see right through this show/I know enough to know/That it is over/You fit like a glove made for my right hand on my left foot/Oh but hey you know I don't mind/And you are the answer but tell me what was the question/Am I just wasting our time?/Tonight I'm coming on through the rain/Just to prove that I still have a heart/And you know the really really funny part is/That I thought I could find a way to explain/Your laughter betrays your fears/And that motive reaapears/I can see right through this show/I know enough to know/That it ain't over/A good intention is just a bad excuse/And now/I'm locked up tight as an armored car/And you know the really really funny part is/That I thought I could find a way to explain
I don't know where you are tonight, but I have got a vision of you/You and the moon on an ocean shore and the wind and the view/Are conspiring against you to bring years to your eyes/And oh how I am feeling like I should just get in the car and drive/But I've been known to speak in circles round the truth/What you don't know is that the truth would just kill you/Yeah I've been know to change my mind a time or two/But you should know, I've never wondered about you/The flood waters are biblical in scale and the banks of this tiny river/Are powerless beneath the waves and the earth moves in/The wind shakes water from the sky I am you and you I/And oh how I am feeling like I should just get in the car and drive/But I've been known to speak in circles round the truth/What you don?t know is that the truth would just kill you/Yeah I've been know to change my mind a time or two/But you should know, I've never wondered about you/When nothing seems to go just as you planned you've got to start wondering why/Why even chart the course for the journey before when everything behind is in ruins/All a means to an end
You could throw this all away/And with the seasons change/You could throw this all away/Blame this feeling on the rain/Dylan's playing on the radio/He's singing some sad little song/Yeah Dylan's on the radio he's asking me what went wrong/And I don't know/Faith can move mountains/But there's not enough faith to go around/And I always play the martyr/But I won't play the martyr for you/Yes this love goes on forever that's still true/But truth is I just can't be with you/Because faith can move mountains/but there's not enough faith to go around/I could throw this all away/Just wach the seasons change/I could throw this all away/Blame this feeling on the rain/Faith can move mountains/But there's not enough faith to go around/And I always play the martyr/But I won't play the martyr for you/Yes this love goes on forever that's still true/But truth is I just can't be with you/Because faith can move mountains/but there's not enough faith to go around
I'm not your baby, no I'm not your girl/So why all this fuss and fight/You'd rather King Solomon tore me in two/Than let another man hold me tonight/Ooo It's not about love/Ooo You know it's never been about love/It's just your pride, and she'll be your only bride/Ooo You know it's not about love/Ooo You know it's never been about love/It's always a tragedy with me and you/So why do we even try/I'd rather Solomon tore me in two/Than have to say goodbye again to you/Ooo It's not about love/Ooo You know it's never been about love/It's just circumstance, and are we going to take that chance/Ooo You know it's not about love/Ooo You know it's never been about love/While I'm searching for the final verse/Something in these words I rehearse/Say I'd rather Solomon tore us in two/Than leave in anger in a year or two/We've got stars in our eyes but our feet won't leave the ground/I was the moon you were the sun/But when the sun rises to meet the moon/He'll arrive to find she's gone/Ooo It's not about love/Ooo You know it's never been about love/It's just circumstance, and are we going to take that chance/Ooo You know it's not about love
I'm a schizophrenic poem swimming laps in a ballpoint pen/I'm just a little shy of knowing the differences between me and them/I wake in the light of another gray sky sunrise/One more faded shade of tragedy to transcend/I'm calculating the distance between bed and bath/The benefits of good oral hygiene and the uselessness of math/I'm a willing heiress to my own demise/I trespass on bits of sorrow lashed end to end/I want to feel like there is more to this/Than a pocketful of days strung up/Like cheap tinsel on a dying tree/Cheap tinsel on a dying tree/God skipped town with a suitcase full of deodorant spray and chewing gum/So it's hard to have faith in anything even the saviors on the run/Ever since that day we looked into the sky/Heard buy canned cream corn, plastic wrap, bottled water and bb guns/I want to feel like there is more to this/Than a pocketful of days strung up/Like cheap tinsel on a dying tree/Cheap tinsel on a dying tree/We're all Republicans in training or so it seems/Another generation of muscle for the American machine/But remember what Mary Jones said about changin' the scene/Your voice is more powerful than CNN and ABC/Open your mouths and scream
I could write song after song/And never seem to get it right/But I guess it's better than drowning/I'm just treading water here tonight/Searching for something that is more/More than you, more than you and I combined/If there's a lesson here I have lost it/Or maybe its just me I needed to find/Wrapped in the ease of omission/I am the casualty of unspoken fears/Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak/Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear/They say that home is where you'll go/When you have nowhere else to turn/These string, of this thing, these songs/Carry me along when I have memories to burn/Wrapped in the ease of omission/I am the casualty of unspoken fears/Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak/Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear/I called you up to start a fight/Because resolution is my favorite motif/Love is just a cheap disguise for compromise/What you get isn't always what you need/Wrapped in the ease of omission/I am the casualty of unspoken fears/Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak/Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear
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