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the glimmer and the gleam

by the light and the dark

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oh willow don't you weep (free) 01:52
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i wake up and my bones are aching seems like every day it's taking more and more time to lift myself up well the suns out all the birds are singing but i can't keep your song from ringing back back and forth between my ears its like it's been playing all these years and the grass is oh so green when you are next to me and every willow tree no longer needs to weep and i dream the same dream every night but it's no different from my waking life my bones still ache the birds still sing but that green grass don't mean a thing if i can't find you no i can't find you anywhere
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blue shoes (free) 02:38
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oh it's early morning when i wake i play your song and i start my day nothing else sounds so sweet to me it's early morning when i wake i put on my blue shoes and i run away i never learned how to stay no one taught me how to stay anyway
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my defeat (free) 04:01
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my dreams all seem so true the seas are still painted blue the birds all still sing your name everything looks the same but you you you you i never dream of you my skin is looking awfully white beneath the cold moonlight but all i can see are your eyes how they burn, burn so bright darkness is coming soon my castle has fell to ruins and no one is here to see my defeat i'm on my knees in defeat i'm on my knees i've got a white flag by my feet
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my feet so bare (free) 03:19
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i walked down to the water with my feet so bare i walked down to the water to see if it still felt as cold as when my hair was lighter as salty as the air in summer time and i think i saw you there no i know i saw you there you're knobby knees wobbling at the bottom of the murky sea the bluest eyes i'd ever seen staring back right back at me and i do recall when we were oh so young honey dribbled from our tongues our pockets full of cookie crumbs your mother's crooked smile and all these years i find you here after all these years, you're still right here
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baby teeth (free) 03:20
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beneath the thistle there is a stone that marks a hollow piece of ground behind the well we feared we'd drown above the belly of our town i left a piece of me i buried it three feet deep it was your favorite part of me one of my crooked baby teeth it rests in solitude blanketed in muddy moss i have not seen a day where i have not mourned its loss still there are fireflies igniting sparklers on my skin and there's a steady itch i fear might never end and in darkness i hope you look hard enough to find me there's a burning in your eyes, boy that makes it hard to see anyone else anyone else
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glow (free) 03:41
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oh brother, things just haven't been the same oh brother, since the day you went away you say i'm the one who has changed but i still wear our mothers name and my blood still runs so red i still got a birthmark on my head it proves that i am still the same it shows that i ain't gonna change oh father, if you really loved me then oh father, why was it never said i can forgive you now oh i can try to understand you but i don't know how to love a man no, i don't know how to love at all oh mother, i cried and cried for days oh mother, you tried to make it ok but i'm one for jokes you know i have tried and tried to glow even when it all gets dark
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a cricket song (free) 02:46
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and i've got teeth inside my mouth and i swear each one took a bite right out of you i still got your skin sitting on my tongue but i ain't gonna swallow it quite yet until i've tasted all your salt until i remember how you felt and i've got bones beneath this skin and each one of them is oh so hollow like a crickets song an old numbered psalm only echoing our own sorrow and i've got a scar on my left knee from the day the creek bed tried to swallow me but you dragged me out muddied up your shoes and we spent all night just drying by the fire oh how your face did glow even as the sun arose
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sending a signal (free) 03:48
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released April 1, 2010

all music by erin cavellier

cover art by ryan prenger
pearltomoonphotography.com

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