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When I Was a Child
03:01
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When I was a child I stood and watched the farmer burn his field
I saw the snake that bit the heel of the woman who worked the wheel
And with a worried mind, I watched shadows moving slowly from afar
Counting all them cars on the boulevard
I don't really know this world, pull the curtain from my eyes
When I was a child I dreamt I saw the axe that fell the tree
It was never rooted in history, just smoke and mirrors
Now that I'm a man, I see nothing's gonna change
When we're left to our own ways, we remain the same
I don't really know this world, pull the curtain from my eyes
I ain't seen nothing but the wind and rain
Til I looked through the eye of the hurricane
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Red River
03:27
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There's a place where I used to go
On the banks of the Santa Fe
And just as the water rolled off the rocks
So did my troubles, so did my pain
So let's go down, let's go down, let's go down
Where the red river flows
Where the red river flows, me and my lover will go
Where the red river flows
She's as pure as the driven snow
We saw in the great plains
And just as the sand that runs through my hands
I cannot grasp, I cannot grasp or explain
My love for her, my love for her, my love for her
So let's go down, let's go down, let's go down
Where that red river flows
Where that red river flows, me and my lover will go
Where that red river flows
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Cliffs of Santa Barbara
04:47
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Take me back to the cliffs of Santa Barbara
Where light from your emerald eyes swept the mist from the morning skies
Where we laughed with a sense of satisfaction
To the sound of the endless waves
That seemed to swell as your breath took shape
At the cliffs of Santa Barbara
It wasn't much of a room but it had a lemon tree
Out back you said to me
You said each moment it fits like a key
You take it and turn it, it opens the door to your state of disbelief
Where the past and the future meet in which the love that you seek is now found in the hand that you're holding
Take me back to the cliffs of Santa Barbara
Where light from your emerald eyes swept the mist from the morning skies
Where we laughed with a sense of satisfaction
To the sound of the endless waves
That seemed to swell as your breath took shape
At the cliffs of Santa Barbara
The moon hit the Santa Ynez on the night of the good rain
I was asleep when it finally came
And I dreamt of a horses’ white mane
That blew in the wind as its rider swept in holding tightly to its reigns
And as the rider’s face came to view, I could see that the rider was you
And your eyes were the light in the darkness that eased the earth
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If I could turn back the clock, darling you know I would
I made my mistakes having misunderstood
That a man can't retract once he's laid down his bets
So I'll trade in my earnings, leave the past to rest
Cause I can't go back, I can't right all these wrongs
But I can point myself down this old road we have found
To where I know we belong
I watched the birds of the air, and flowers of the field
Arrayed in such beauty with effortless yield
Yet they don't much toil, like I have all these years
But did I ever reach, did I speak, did I see, did I hear?
I can't go back, I can't right all these wrongs
But I can point myself down this old road we have found
To where I know we belong
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5. |
Stone in Your Shoe
03:20
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I put a stone in your shoe
Let you think it through, let you think it through
Prove to me justice, prove to me love
prove to me, baby, the stars above
I put a stone in your shoe
Let you think it through, let you think it through
You seat yourself at the head of the table before you were asked
Don't build yourself a monument it ain't gonna last
Maintain your little corner of power, it's life or death
If that's all there is to this natural world you better fight til your dying breath
I put a stone in your shoe
Let you think it through, let you think it through
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6. |
Lonely World
03:28
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This is a lonely world, this is a lonely world
Each of us filled with a crisis of mind
We hold onto what is wrong, thinking we're right
But are we blinded by the dark or the light?
It's a low hanging fruit, it's easy to grab
To say you stand for something when you already have
A crown on your head and the world at your feet
You die holding onto what you never could keep
This is a lonely world, this is a lonely world
Each of us filled with a crisis of mind
We hold onto what is wrong, thinking we're right
But are we blinded by the dark or the light?
Finite and finality, allow me to see
What will last and what will fade, what will keep within the shade
The shade that hides and the shade that reveals
Which piercing wounds will ever heal
This is a lonely world, this is a lonely world
Each of us filled with a crisis of mind
We hold onto what is wrong, thinking we're right
But are we blinded by the dark or the light?
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Anything Goes
02:37
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You got a smile on your face, baby
But you never knew how to replace the lack of love
Think back to when you was a little one, baby
When you're left in the dust you must make sense of it all
Tell me what I gotta do to convince you it ain't true
When you say, anything goes to make you happy
You've got a way with words, baby
But what you say is never heard
Cause you never took the time to look
Cause more is less you know and less is more
But we still say, the rich ain't rich, and the poor ain't poor
Tell me what I gotta do to convince you it ain't true
When you say, anything goes to you happy
Cause people gonna pay the price for mistakes we make
In the name of: anything goes to make you happy
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8. |
A Brief Moment
01:59
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Just a brief moment with you
You can sketch a portrait while I sing you a tune
In the quiet of night, by the light of the moon
A brief moment with you
If you've got time to lend I'll spend it with you
Just a brief moment will do
There's a loneliness to life that won't fade
But if you're lonely tonight it's cause you chose not to stay
A brief moment with you
If you can spare it then I'll share it with you
Just a brief moment with you
It's now or never miss, so don't miss looking back
If I could cry I would but I can't so I'll laugh
A brief moment with you
Is all I need if you need it to
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Skjolden
03:10
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Take me north to the meadow, in the summer so bright
Where the clouds lay below the capped mountains of white
Where the sun never fades, mystic twilight so fine
We will find peace in knowing the valley of time
Next to farm fields and flowers, falling water ne'er rests
To the north and the south, in the east, and the west
Though the grief that still binds us blossomed beautiful years
We will find peace in knowing the valley of tears
In the wake of cool waters, where the sunlight ne'er ends
And the otter has chosen her home at the bend
Where the roar of the river meets the still silent fjord
We will find peace in knowing Skjolden, the sword
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Josh Dillard Denver, Colorado
Written over the past 4 years while studying and
working as a nurse, Josh Dillard’s fifth
album, The
Natural World, strikes
like lightning, briefly illuminating the many
shades of midnight.
The culmination of a 25-year collaboration
with cousin & producer Peter Schottleutner
(The Explorers Club), the album was written and produced between Denver and New Delhi.
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