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The Ocean

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
Oh I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean,
I thought it spoke to me, it said, "Look at us,
We’re not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
And we have lost people, haven’t we though?"
Oh, that’s what the ocean can know of...

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Farewell To The Old Me

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

How can I ask love to hold the mystery 
When just look at me 
It’s all push and pull collateral 
I don’t want to be the one who gets the next surprise 
I’ll plan it out this time 
Though I used to think that things were meant to be 

So farewell to the old me 
Farewell to the old me 

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Finlandia

Friday, November 26th, 2010

This is my song 
Oh god of all the nations 
A song of peace 
For lands afar and mine 

This is my home 
The country where my heart is 
Here are my hopes 
My dreams my holy shrine 

But other hearts 
In other lands are beating 
With hopes and dreams 
As true and high as mine 

My...

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As Cool As I Am

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Yea, there was a time I didnt like the love, I liked the climbers,
I was no sister then, I was running out of time and one liners,
And I was afraid, like you are when youre too young to know the time, and
So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon,
You point, you have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on,

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Calamity John

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Come lovers, come loners, remember yourselves
As lusty tempestuous fools
When your dream was to conquer an ocean
From your small secretarial pools

When you stood at the gulf of unknowing
When you saw the great tundra of time
And you cried for the winds to come blowing

And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon

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We Learned The Sea

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I am the captain and I have been told
That tomorrow we land and my ship has been sold
Now losing this boat is worth scarce a mention
I think of the crew, most of all the first ensign
For all we learned the sea

Guiding a ship, it takes more than your skill
It’s the compass inside it’s the strength of your will
The...

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When Sal’s Burned Down

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Are we the fools for being suprised that a silence could end with no sound
Like the silent movie era like with snow like when Sal’s burned
down
Well yeah there was noise but nothing to mark the passing on
Of that great unspoken chance we had found
Where the night’s end came well-trod and familiar
Like the Charlie Chapin...

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