1. |
The Line
03:55
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Your voice down the line
I hear you calling
Change on my mind
Where are we going?
The haze of doubt
Keeps us from seeing
The future calls loud
We sleep unknowing
I've been ready
I've been ready
So long, so long
So long
From a sky streaked with sighs
From the grey in our eyes
Our time is calling,
Our time is calling
I've been ready
I've been ready
So long, so long
So long, so long
So long, so long
So long
So long
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2. |
Alive
03:28
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Barely there, staring at the ceiling
Listening to our breathing, nothing we can do
A city bright as love’s delivered
Floating like a river, I drift with you
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Your love, your love
Your love is an open sky
The years we've left behind
No longer confined forever in a bind
I need you here, I need your dreaming
A life to believe in, my eyes are open wide
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Your love, your love
Your love is an open sky
Your love, your love
Your love is an open sky
We're alive, oh, we’re alive
We’re alive, oh, we’re alive
We're alive, oh, we’re alive
We’re alive, your love is an open sky
I need you here
I need your dreaming
A life to believe in
My eyes are open wide
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3. |
Midsummer
02:45
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When the swaying sidewalks frame us
We stay in space, take a chance to find ourselves
Poetry and ink-stained photos, history and love entwined
We find a will to hide our tells
Midsummer fires and flashing lights
Fast and beautiful fireworks heading for the sky
On my mind, sweet and dreamy moments soft as your smile
Call me again, looking at you standing in the falling rain
I’ve got something to tell you,
I’ve got something to tell you
Our heads alight with a city’s dreams,
A run at Kingsland’s promises
Outside it’s calm,
Inside it glows
This is a house that wraps us tightly
Giving warmth to all within
Our sweet goodbyes
And you never knows
Midsummer fires and flashing lights
Fast and beautiful fireworks heading for the sky
On my mind, sweet and dreamy moments soft as your smile
Call me again, looking at you standing in the falling rain
I’ve got something to tell you
I’ve got something to tell you
I’ve got something to tell you
Flashing lights on my mind, call me now
Flashing lights on my mind, call me now
Flashing lights on my mind, call me now
I’ve got something to tell you
I’ve got something to tell you
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4. |
Heartbeat
03:30
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You stop time for me
When we hit the depths of night
Like a boxer under lights
You catch my fall
Life can hit so hard
We both play a part
This is when I need you most
Flying past so fast
Birds glide in the driving rain
They’re immune to our kind of pain
We’ve faced seven winters
Many more will fall
I will always hear your call
This is where I need you most
Don’t close the door when thoughts aren’t clear
We need some hope, a steady beat for unsteady feet
We won’t take anything from this life
We start with just a heartbeat, a heartbeat, a heartbeat
This is where I need you most
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5. |
Stay
03:18
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We’re always falling
For things of the heart
They’re the bridge that connects us
When we’re torn apart
From the jaws of this land
To its trembling peaks
You still my shaky hands
In dreams you speak
Stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care
Everything around us
So quick to break down
The seasons endless changing
In this ever-spreading town
So will you stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care
Love’s like the falling rain
Renewing life again
Love’s as warm as the sun’s rays
Over everyone
So will you stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care, I care
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6. |
Follow
03:39
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7. |
Ghost Life
03:48
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We lost ourselves awhile
Our chance to reconcile
What we could not hear or see
You heard your heart skip twice
I had the bluest eyes
Statues in snow sat we
It’s only in your mind
It has a way
Of breaking free
It’s only in my mind
It has a way
Of haunting me
So clear away the leaves
We wrote so carefully
About life and how it was to be
We drank ourselves away
Under the canopy
Your smoky eyes evened me
It’s only in your mind
It has a way
Of breaking free
It’s only in my mind
It has a way
Of haunting me
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8. |
Sorry
03:22
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You’re sitting smoking silently in the afternoon
A cup of coffee fighting off the gloom
The ash from the fallout hanging heavy as a fog
What I get is an absent nod
How did we get here, so easily?
How is there you, if there’s no me?
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Sometimes it’s hard to tell
Who’s whiskey and who’s ice
I always dream in those dark eyes
The seasons call their time
On all of us both false and true
Tumbling down into the deep
Relief is found in you
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Love, it’s coming clear
As the skies open before us
Love, give me your hands
Let’s leave the past behind us
Better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Please know that I am sorry
Please know that I am
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9. |
Breathing
04:14
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Breathing, together, walking in our sleep
Staying in circles we talk but never meet
Life moves so fast, we drive without the brakes
The wounded around us, in everything we take
What are we here for
If not for love?
I need you closer than ever before
As change finds us behind every door
Love breaks the walls we build in fear and grief
Could you help me when I cannot see
What we are here for?
If not for love
What are we here for
If not for love?
Breathing out, breathing in
Breathing out,
Breathing out, breathing in
Breathing out, breathing in
What we are here for?
What are we here for?
If not for love
If not for love
What are we here for
If not for love?
What are we here for?
If not for love
If not for love
If not for love
What are we here for?
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10. |
Voices
04:18
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The lies we’re told
The lies we’re told
They won’t let go
They won’t let go
A man in the pillowed rain walks tall
Every brick a falsehood in the wall
His house million-dollar grey
He worked it hard, and it paid its way
If hope was in his mind
If life could be more kind
Be more kind
Truth falls as hard as rain
Echoing in the streets again
Though his shadow ties her hands
Her new love’s a freer land
If hope could change her mind
If life could be more kind
Be more kind
Voices will rise
Voices will rise
We will cry out
In the darkest of the night
Voices will rise
Voices will rise
We will cry out
In the darkest of the night
Oh, we’re letting go
We’re letting go, we’re letting go
Woah, we’re letting go
We’re letting go, we’re letting go
Woah, we’re letting go
We’re letting go, we’re letting go
Voices will rise
Voices will rise
We will cry out
In the darkest of the night
Voices will rise
Voices will rise
We will cry out
In the darkest of the night
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Paper Cranes 折り鶴 Auckland, New Zealand
With songs that ponder the meaning of life, love, and our fleeting existence in this beautiful world, Paper Cranes 折り鶴 music
is warm, yet melancholy.
The band weave their stories into captivating live performances, in songs that move between delicacy and outright abandon. Husband-and-wife Fraser and Naomi Browne are the founders of the group. (Pic Erica McQueen, 2017, cover pic Becki Moss 2017)
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