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Falling Beings
01:22
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2. |
Landing in Love
04:19
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The Clouds are above us now
When gravity brought down heaven
We were love birds
So caught up in our tailwind
Landing in love is so hard when we're falling
Landing in love is hard
When we're falling back to
Earth in a grand tailspin
Are we expecting to fly
Over mountains and great divides
While we're bound to vows not ours
Or are we only human
Born to work this land with our hands
Through the hardest of times
In the fields of our hearts
When love becomes a whole lot easier
When love becomes a whole lot easier
Said than done
We're stumbling through the dark
Hallways and clinging to
Better times framed
Whenever skies were blue
Learning to love is so hard when we're falling
Learning to love is hard
When we're falling back on
A memory that's fading too
When we say love we need to get it done
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3. |
Beautiful Distractions
04:46
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There are beautiful distractions
Moments short and sweet
There are beautiful distractions
Moments short but sweet
Chances are the roads I choose to take
And with everyone along the way I greet
All these beautiful distractions
Moments short but sweet
There are beautiful distractions
That come as some surprise
There are beautiful distractions
That come as some complete surprise
I've composed my life with re-arrangements
But find it so much sweeter when I improvise
All these beautiful distractions
Come as some surprise
There are beautiful distractions
That remind me I'm alive
There are beautiful distractions
That remind me I'm still alive
Even the busy bees working overtime
Forget to stop and taste the honey from the hive
All these beautiful distractions
Remind me I'm alive
There are beautiful distractions
That bring out my happy dance
There are beautiful distractions
That bring out our happy dance
Our rhythm is not written in the stars
But in following the beating of our hearts
All these beautiful distractions
Bring out our happy dance
So let us dance
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4. |
Winter Leaves
03:49
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I've got love
But there's something wrong with me
I've got love
But there's something wrong with me
Why?
You've got time
But it's framed up on your wall
You've got time
But it's framed up on your wall
Why?
Why are we so hard to please?
Is it so hard to believe?
That we are alive and clinging
All the same like winter leaves
We've got one world
But we dream up something more
We've got one life
And still we dream up something more
Why?
Why isn't our love, love enough?
Why isn't our time, time enough?
Why isn't the world, the world enough?
Why isn't our life, life enough?
Why?
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5. |
Cold Coffee
04:58
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On a dark night
Making for your harbor in the storm
In in a turnabout
With bitter winds that bide
Our motions come and go
Meaninglessly drifting into rocks on the shore
Where we come to
On our separate sides
Cold coffee
The sugar's in the bottom of our cup
We're not empty
Maybe we just need to stir it up
While these spells run dry
Let's savor every drop of sun & rain
Cold coffee
Is better than no coffee any day
In the wee hours
Of a morning in our corner of the woods
We're going round for round
Throwing wrongs and rights
We're not out until
We're coming out together as a new day breaks
But we're still out cold
And yet to see the light
Through a silent night
I cross a broken dessert for your shore
I miss you more
Than words or pride it seems
Oh my lips are dry
I'm just about to speak, then I feel your breath
We are wide awake
Now from the same sweet dream
I would take you over anything and anyway
Cold coffee is better than no coffee any day
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6. |
Know by Heart
04:11
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I want to run with you
And Moon River
I want to see the world
Like those two drifters
When the night is a lullaby
When the day is an ode too
What a beautiful life this is
I'd like to sing them with you
I'd like to sing them with you
Without the radio
Without the radio
You already know by heart
How my vow to you goes
Without the radio
You know all the words to every
Josh Ritter record
So if you'll be my Northern Lights
I'll be your Good Man forever
When the harmony's hard to find
When the life's a short but sweet tune
Before the world plays it's final note
I will sing them with you
I will sing them with you
On and on and on...
Forever is how my vow to you goes
Even without the radio
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7. |
A Bird to Serenade
03:58
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Once upon a time I tended
A rose garden with my bare hands
And left it on the vine, till I made her mine
Then with a hand full of thorns
The rose began to to wilt and rot
And the pedals that fell
Said she loved me not
Said she loved me not
So it is with pretty flowers
While impossible to hold
They always have endured in odes...so
I taught the birds to serenade
I taught the birds to serenade
I taught the birds to serenade her name
For she was easier sung than loved any day
Once upon a time we lived
In the Periwinkle Glen, we were wed
In the sunshine where I made her mine
Bun Sonny cursed the rain
The earth died of thirst as she drank the last drop
And the pedals that fell
Said she loved me not
Said she loved me not
So it is with rain and flowers
While impossible to hold
They always will endure in odes...so
Now all that's left to hold on to
Are the silent nights and rests between the notes
Since every morning breaks the same
With Sonny's ode...so
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8. |
Istanbul Sky
06:24
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We've been told our days are numbered
Suddenly you're no longer asleep in my arms
So each day you were born I swore
I'd realign the oracle's starts
I built a tower on an island
In the middle of my harbor, a strait
To keep you far away
From the poison of this cruel world and hate
But there is no place on earth
I know of that far away
If I cannot be
With you for all of your days
Or raise you up
In the Istanbul sky
Then I will be
Here for you all of my days
When the world let's you down
Beneath the Istanbul sky
I will kiss away the tears
Of your rivers and seas
Till the tide lifts your ships
When it's time to let go
The sand knows
Just when beneath us to slip
So I will hold you till that moment
And rock you in my arms
Through long nights and rough waters
There's no higher love
Than the love for a daughter
There is no higher love I know
Than my love for you daughters
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9. |
Spark Away
05:31
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Could we agree
We've never seen the earth this black and blue
That these days we stray
From even being human too
While some have learned
That we must keep this turning rock
Our children's home
Others yearn to see it burn
And as a stepping stone
There's no sure fire
But man we're just a spark away
There's no sure fire
But man we're just a spark away...either way
When the earth shakes or a levee breaks
The stars appear with interest
There's a stage lit bright for the satellites
Captivating all of us
So we sail on in and save the day
Then aweigh our anchored hope
And sail away in yesterday's
Newspaper boat
There's no sure fire
When the world just turns away
There's no sure fire
When everybody talks of change
There's no sure fire
When we weren't born just yesterday
There's no sure fire
When we're just a spark away
Just a shot away, just a vote away
Just a turn away, just a peace away
Either way
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Brian Koenigsknecht Kalamazoo, Michigan
Brian Koenigknecht is a Michigan treasure, that rare breed of singer-songwriter who can make you feel every human emotion – every tear, every smile – so intensely that you feel he’s written his songs about you. – John Sinkevics, LocalSpins.com
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