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Lonely One
03:59
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It started with a broken heart
I buried that feeling alive
Dug it up later in a diamond mine
I never held a diamond before
I didn’t quite understand
That true love was more than a rock on a hand
I don’t want to be the lonely one
I don’t need to be so lucky
I don’t want to be the lonely one
Satisfied in my mind
On the shore of the forbidden lake
I got a thrill from the tug on the line
You pulled me in to the water divine
I swam with you out to the moon
Faster than the Earth is spun
Your love is a perpetual setting sun
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Hundreds of Dollars
03:19
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I’m on a red-eye west tonight at the first glimpse of a star
My shadow’s eastward bound headed back to where you are
Still I’m on the search for something I may never find
Blowing in the wind on a road I left behind
There’s hundreds of dollars thousands of roads
And a million stars god only knows why I wished
on one that didn’t fall
Thank god the price of gas is down and I’ve got work in every town
From the foothills to the shore with every mile I miss you more
The sunset playing on my dash was more than I could take
It led my eyes to tear it caused my heart the wake
On the day I had a wish I placed it on a star
It must’ve been a satellite in the universe so far
Still I’m on the search for something I may never find
Cos it always brings me back to the one I left behind
I’ve taken my chances stuck in a life
Between a one horse town and an endless night on the highway
Wishing I was home
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3. |
Darker Days
04:49
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My eyes are red my head is clear
Waking up is my biggest fear
This city sleeps and when I finally do
I hope I’ll wake as someone new
It’s not the way that I want to feel
But at least I’ve felt so I know I’m real
How long it’s been I just can’t say
I wish I knew it’s not the only way
With trembling hand I write this song
To ease my mind and carry on
Cos pressures build inside my head
When I wake I’ll do it all again
In these darker days I feel the light
On the stage on every night
But the thrill it fades when the lights come down
In the same hotel in a different town
My eyes are red, my head is clear
Waking up is my biggest fear
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Its time to close your eyes
And lay your weary head
Drift into the night
Jenna June and Ben
Let uncle Kevins band
Send you off to Nigh Nigh Land again
If you hear the falling rain
And see the headlights passing by
Its all part of the show
In the symphony of Nigh
Let it carry you away
And send you off to Nigh Nigh Land again
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Harmony
03:13
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I wasn’t trying to be a dreamer
All I wanted was some sleep
'Cos my eyes had grown tired
Of what became reality
I dreamt the circle had been broken
A rusty link that held the chain
That brought us back to square one
When we could have used some change
I saw harmony across the land
People building up what we had damned
We changed our mistakes and we finally moved on
You didn’t take me for a dreamer
Til you got lost in my eyes
On a hardship tossed in the wind
Of every rising tide
You saw the places I was seeking
Distant shores that have no name
'Cos eyes that hold the ocean
Hold a deeper pain
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Tamarack
02:15
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It started in the shadow of a cone bearing tree
When I took you by your little hand
Was it pine cedar spruce fir or tamarack
I never really understand
You said the answers in the needles
Some are short some are long some are flat and some are square
A good alliteration to identify the pine is
A pine grow together in a pair
Don’t you cry little tamarack your needles are gone
But they’re gonna come back in spring
So here’s a little lullaby to pull you through the winter
Till you hear the songbirds sing
The spruce by the fence line was feeling pretty square
No songbird in his tree
And The Fir was flat when he tried to sing
Out a high lonesome melody
The cedar out of place getting red in the face
With the woodpecker chopping up his bark
And the poor little tamarack naked in the fall
Left to shiver through the winter in the dark
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Game of Hearts
03:37
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I feel I’m living in a game of hearts and someone changed the rules
'Cause the joker wears a trump suit and he towers over you
The great white north’s receding and there’s only so far to go
The glaciers tear and disappear into the undertow
Would you spare some change for the polar bears that head on into town
'Cause the coffee shop down the block will have the only ice caps around
We tried to hunt the salmon run to feed our fellow man
But the water winds and took our lines they got snagged on the dam
So we curse them all with the childish games they’re playing with the wild
Red rover red rover they call the salmon queen over
When the devil knocked the windows out of the Mandalay Bay Hotel
Let bullets drain like acid rain he headed back down to hell
I’d rather been with Mary Jane learning how to fly
But my tears they fall for uncle Tom and the other fifty-nine
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Darkness of Night
05:23
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The sun is sinking down on me I’ve seen it all before
Left me at a crossroad by the corner store
So I set out searching the night to get my fill
Stumble back at daylight to my windowsill
My heads a swelling ocean tide rising with the moon
Drawn into the silence and the calling of the loon
My thoughts and fire feeding the smoke curling away
Caught up in the undertow of the Milky Way
I love the darkness of night
Silhouettes on the moon in my eyes
When I’m high a top the mountain further from the pain
Adrenaline and beauty are feeding my veins
But I wake up in the shadows of a vast prairie land
When conversations silenced they’ll never understand
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Mister K
04:20
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Hey Hey Mister K
I don’t wanna go to work today
Cos the sun is shining and it looks like its here to stay
I’ve got a smile a country mile
I’ve got the grass beneath my feet
I’m flying around both feet on the ground
Livin’ on easy street
I’ve got nothing but breeze to shoot
And acres of land to boot
Come on down and we’re singin’ doo doo doo
I’ve got the moon flying round the yard
She’s weaving through the trees and stars
I’ll show you around if you get out of town
To the little country home of ours
So if you’re feeling down today
Google maps can’t display
We’re in the little yellow house at the end of the milky way
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Mister K Manitoba
Cosmic Folk-Pop Balladeer Mister K brings harmony to a world eclipsed by darker days with his debut LP, “In Event of Moon
Disaster”.
Forget Google Maps, Mister K (Kevin Kratsch) lives in a little yellow house at the end of the Milky Way. That house, once a historic rural Manitoba school, is a serendipitous dwelling for Mister K, a teacher-turned-troubadour.
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