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Roll On
03:56
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Mama said you gotta find another lover
Daddy shook his head, said you'll never recover
A broken heart is like an oil sheen
Roll on, love
Roll on
I'm a Mississippi chicken when it comes to lovers
to get outta this state I gotta fire the Governor
Now I float down the river like an oil sheen
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
Girl at the station got a lovely number
pale blue eyes and the sweetest mother
Her first wet kiss made my river run clean
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
She’s a Mississippi queen I can’t win
lover rode the river and then fell in
I thought I could fly, but I can't even swim
Hold on, boy
Hold on
Hold on
Hold on
Mama said you gotta find another lover
she put oil your heart, you don't get another
It's just me and the river now, thick as thieves
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
She's a pretty flower of the Veiux Carre now
Feeling frisky from the whiskey getting carried away now
Just hitting her stride when she lost her feet
‘Cause she drank too much of the river's sheen
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
Roll on, love
Roll on
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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2. |
Love
04:13
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Oh come cut away the stories of my stumbles and my old affairs
because my baby left me and I wanna take it out on my hair
Shake these worries to the ground to be swept up in my rearview
‘cause what I thought I was for when I was four on the floor is true
Love comes pushing
Right through me
Your hips have the sway of the gods, won’t you show me the way
(oh baby please what’s the answer?)
On the pitch and the roll of an ocean that wants to play
(oh baby please what’s the answer?)
When I’m caught in your fishnets baby I don’t want to be free
(oh baby please what’s the matter now?)
Theres no worry in my heart anymore I know what I gotta be
(oh baby please what’s the answer?)
Love comes pushing
Right through me
Love comes pushing
Right through me
Hey there little giggle you’re a riddle to me
You said I have a vulnerable view
But we’ve been messing with the secret dealings of dreams
in our heads, I know you know it's true
So take a sip of time and a wrinkle of wine
And find a new groove you can use
As I watch you spinning round me with your head in the sky
teasing more, more, more, more
You said, “Love is under fire.” I said, “The sun is gonna be my tattoo.”
(oh baby we’ve got the answer)
My kisses speak in tongues if you don’t understand then what you gonna do?
(oh baby we’ve got the answer)
I’m on a boreal bender of summertime surrender its true
(oh baby we’ve got the answer, now)
‘cause what I thought I was for when I was four on the floor is true
(oh baby we’ve got the answer)
Love comes pushing
Right through me
Love comes pushing
Right through me
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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Lady Lake
04:51
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I can skip a stone until my arm gives out
re-living the first coffee that we shared
I can freeze my toes and hope the waves return my nerve
like when i first said you’re my love, my heart laid bare
Oh my lady lake
Oh my lady lake
your hourglass is keeping
the memories we made
in a pile
underneath the waves
Remember the hug you gave me at the end of our first day?
You climbed up on a stool to make it fair
I didn’t want to hurt you with the fondness that I felt
but I probably should have kissed you then and there
Oh my lady lake
Oh my lady lake
your hourglass is keeping
the memories we made
in a pile underneath the waves
And so we grow
We grew so close then you grew far away
And so we grow
I can’t get these tears or years to wash away
‘Cause I lost my heart underneath the waves
I can throw a hundred stones until the shore runs out
recalling how we’d laugh ’til faces creased
we could spend all evening just lying on the floor
’til bellies sore from giggling, fall asleep
Goodbye lady lake
Goodbye lady lake
your hourglass has emptied
all the plans we made
in a pile underneath the waves
Goodbye lady lake
Your hourglass has emptied
all the memories we made
in a pile underneath the waves
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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Rivulet
04:48
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Caught in a fog couldn't go anywhere (ooo)
without enough ballast to fire my flare
But across the river she was standing there
ooo
She waved me over with the palm of her tree (yeah)
the fog wouldn’t lift, so she carried me
She said the echoes of the ages are swimming here in your eyes
If you cry
Follow the rivulets
Moonlight dancing over this old town riddled with my old scenes
Empty as it seems
Each day I stumble over love’s old rusted war machines
hidden in my routines
I met a girl with a long fairy tale (mmm)
she lifted my fog as she lifted her veil
And lights across the water were dancing in the cool of the night
oh across the rivulets
So on a whim I took a swim on the song of the sea (yeah)
The sweet taste of longing was waiting for me
Like a rivulet of wonder that leaves a line down a young lover’s cheek
Oh come be the rivulet
Come be the rivulet
Moonlight come shine over this old town and light up my new scene
as I float downstream
These eyes may echo the ages but I’m still somewhere between my boots
and where my hat makes my roof
So I’ll follow the rivulets
I’ll follow the rivulets
I’ll follow the rivulets
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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How Strange
04:26
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I didn’t want to see your face but I’m a picture of perfect contradiction
Hello again my love let me offer my benediction
I see through fresh-squeezed eyes you’re wearing the new rings of a tree
Well I fear that a broken bough is all that I’ve grown to be
I’m older than the trunk I climb to reach our memories
Where we listened to the song of the wind before you turned to leaves
How strange the things that age you
Wrinkles where you smile
As if laughter took a greater toll
Than all the tears you didn’t cry
How often do we say goodbye when it really isn’t good?
How often do we stand up knowing we won’t be understood?
Hello again my love how strange that I used to believe
your whispers in the song of the wind before you turned to leaves
How strange the things that age you
Wrinkles where you smile
As if laughter took a greater toll
Than all the tears you didn’t cry
How strange the things that age us
Wrinkles made of wood
Sometimes laughter does what memory
and tears never could
What tears never could
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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Whistling Wind
05:16
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The whistling wind
Around the edge so thin
Where the old sign begs "Forgive"
Oh
Tell me where did I begin?
These feet to this head, and all within
But the headlights and horns can't swim
And won't take me
Like the whistling wind
I'm falling
I've lost the edge
Come take me
and carry all the burdens I keep in my head
The street shudders beneath my feet
and the stars pull their light from my seams
The echo of an old choir breathes
Right through me
On the whistling wind
If I'm falling
If I've lost the edge
Come take me
and carry all the burdens i keep in my head
With you
With you
all my worries grow dim
Its true
It's true
I know somehow I will win
Against the whistling wind
The drummer in my chest is on repeat
Those tiny magic arms beat a hearty beat
If they tire as my fire grows dim
Forgive me
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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7. |
Messin' Up
04:23
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There’s a four letter word carved in my family tree
right in the spot I was dreaming of leaves, but leaves were not to be
It’s enough to pickle your mind ohh
there’s nothing more fickle than time
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Awoke this morning with an angel sleeping next to me
tattooed and so beautiful, wish I could draw my name in her dreams
Wasn’t looking to fall in love one more time
Maybe I should, maybe I could, if I had half my mind
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Say I’m not falling in love, one more time
An old candle flickers in the shadows
I know it’s not bright, but at least I can see
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
Love and curses to the sky for all these perfect eyes!
But memory is sweeter to me now
I’ve lost all my nerve where blossoms were meant to be
But I just held an angel in my arms, and she fit so gracefully
It’s enough to pickle your mind
and she carved her name in mine
Love and curses to the sky for all these perfect eyes!
I thought I had buried this deeply
But she flickers like a flame in the gallows
And here I thought I was swimming in the shallows
Oooooo she is the memory of love
and it feels alright
Ooooo I’m just here messing up
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D, Drummond
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8. |
Waiting for the Dawn
01:30
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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Runes
04:29
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Come past the edge of quiet
between the notes between the words
Where a perfect song is playing
and for a moment can be heard
A faint waltzing my love, a faint waltzing my love
Somewhere
I want this like color wants the eye
Let me read the runes behind the sky
So clear
Where the quiet reveals the surprise
in the starlight chandelier
A melody of velvet
from a galaxy of dust
Come spin the record baby
let the sound surround the hush
And it’s waltzing my love, it’s waltzing my love
Like a big bass drum
The mountains the sea and the sun
Were pulled from the fire by the sound
That says come get down
I want this like color wants the eye
Let me read the runes behind the sky
So clear
Where the quiet reveals the surprise
in the starlight chandelier
A leaping in my chest, under the trees
in my summer best, with a fairy queen
in sweet July, impress the eye
Spinning me way up high in open air
Long to be tumbling upwards like a prayer
Glory be! I finally found my soul repair
Spinning me way up high in open air
I want this like color wants the eye
Let me read the runes behind the sky
So clear
Where the quiet reveals the surprise
in the starlight chandelier
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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10. |
You Will
03:59
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Take this embrace
One to another
I've been your face
and you my brother
All right
you will
All right
you will
This midnight lake
mirror for worries
That shimmer and fade
before our jury
All right
you will
All right
you will
Take off the reigns
Take off the worry
For what remains
Is all right
you will
All right
you will
© 2016 Words and Music by Nicholas D. Drummond
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11. |
Firefly
04:37
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I’m a moth with no flame
We are angels with no devil to blame
Like a candle seeking desire
Come on time, light my fire
Sing it loud
Shake the night
Feed it from the fire of your ancient mind
Sing it bold
feel it bright
Tell our elders we’re fine
Oh I know i’m dreaming
Shake your bones until they’re dry
get the dust off
Shine on little firefly
Shake your number
Break the mold
Kick it twice
Kick it once for the hungry beggars
and once for the trophy wives
Plug them in
turn them high
Feel the longing inside
Oh I know they’re dreaming
Shake your bones until they’re dry
get the dust off
shine on little firefly
shake your number
‘Cause we still cry the stars
and fall into the wild of the woods returning
back where we began
alright
Give me fire give me rain
Give me tears with no shame
Give me sweet refrain
Give me sweet refrain
Give me mister, give me New Orleans
Give me the mist of memory
Oh and light your dreams
Said won’t you la la la la yeah
Shake your bones until they’re dry
get the dust off
Shine on little firefly
Shake your number
© 2016 Words by Nicholas D. Drummond, Music by Nicholas D. Drummond and Oliver D. Franklin
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