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1. |
Every Drop of Moonlight
05:11
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Found a book that you inscribed
"To my dearest friend and student,
I bid you adieu!"
Yet you left without a word,
Just this token and the mystery
Of where you had gone
A ship in the night
A ship in the night
A ship in the
Night, hoisting at the sails
Drawing truth from dancing points of starshine
And if you find yourself
Would you let me know?
I've poured over
Every drop of moonlight
Moonlight
I dissected word for word
Precisely traced each diagram
Connected all the dots
Yet the mystery still remained
Like the tome was just a metaphor
For your silhouette
For your silhouette
For your silhouette
For your
Silhouette, bold against the sky
Guiding with the strength of fair Polaris
And if you find yourself
Would you let me know?
I've poured over every drop of moonlight
Moonlight
Found the last few pages blank
I couldn't help but think
To fill them myself
Then I drew a breath
Closed the book and left
Taken by storm
Taken by storm
Taken by storm
Taken by
Storm, crashing at my flanks
Holding out hope as the compass rose within me
Until I find myself
Like the waves I'll go
Pouring over every drop of moonlight
Moonlight
Moonlight
Moonlight
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2. |
Weighed Down
03:00
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Take it on yourself
You don't need
Melodramatic simplicity
You say God saves
And he knows best
I would wager he was saving his breath
Take it on yourself
You don't need
Melodramatic simplicity
You say God saves
And he knows best
I would wager he was saving his breath
Lord have mercy let me paint the scene
Night was heavy like a rusted beam
The tower shifted underfoot
Kept not a secret from me
Lord have mercy could I get some sleep
Sun was tipping over Saturn's rings
Torching every monument
Crumbling cold at my feet
Weighed down, weighed down
Weighed down, weighed down
Take it on yourself
You don't need
Hyper-poetic dramatizations
You say the pen's mightier than the sword
Same breath: actions louder than words!
Take it on yourself
You don't need
Melodramatic simplicity
You say God saves
And he knows best
I would wager he was saving his breath
Lord have mercy while I shake this dream
Light was sweeping every shadow clean
The vault of blue swung overhead
Drawing me out to the sea
Weighed down, weighed down
Weighed down, weighed down
Take it on yourself!
Take it on yourself!
Farewell familiarity
Falling away from my wings
Weighed down, weighed down
Weighed down, weighed down
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3. |
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
03:28
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For want of an island made of light
I'd brave the perilous pit of the sky
Watchsmith, lift your crystal lens on high
Feet dragging through the passage of time
Oh my, my shy one, would you give me a sign?
For lack of any pull, I am your tide
Lashing and thrashing at the foot of the spire
Watchman, I pray ya hang your lantern high
From the zenith like a fountain of light
Oh my, my shy one, would you give me a sign?
Through the watches, weighing the moon
Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Ma
Silver-tongued, and sweetly my Luna, singing "over to my way"
Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ever a fool to play the wise
I see there's nothing escaping your ides
You're my quarry, baby you're my prize
Oh, I couldn't catch ya not to save my life
So fresh from the furnace like glowing diamond
My, my shy one, would you give me a sign?
Through the watches, weighing the moon
Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Ma
Silver-tongued, and sweetly my Luna, singing "over to my way"
Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Ovah-Tu-Mawai
Through the watches, weighing the moon
Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Mawai, Ovah-Tu-Ma
Silver-tongued, and sweetly my Luna, singing "over to my way"
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4. |
Midnight Moon
03:23
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Found myself in
A novel night, A shrouded world
An empty shore
That stretched Forever
How I pined for
The midnight moon, her crystal eyes
Did I divine to shine forever
Time will tell you
"Let the dark close in and leave you breathless"
Time will tell you
That the world moves on with or without you
I was lost in the
Midnight moon, the witching hour
Her rising tide could rise forever
I came to when
The morning came and after then
Did I divine there's no forever
Time will tell you
"Let the dark close in and leave you breathless"
Time will tell you
That the world moves on with or without
That the world moves on with or without
That the world moves on with or without
That the world moves on with or without you
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5. |
Azimuth
05:19
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Albatross
The never lost
A guide, a guide
A sight for sore eyes
Fail me not
Albatross
You're like good poetry
Sweet Selene
A waking dream
Alight, alight
A light in darkness
Wakes in me
Sweet Selene
Look far
You're a star
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
Baby, you got this
Every part
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
Baby, you got this
You're like good poetry
Azimuth
Drawing up
An ark, an arc
Embarking I am
In your trust
Azimuth
Look far
You're a star
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
Baby, you got this
Every part
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
Baby, you got this
You're like good poetry
You rose
Any other name won't do
Digging from the root
The one that's flowing through and through
Baby you know it's true, it's true
Any other name won't do
Digging from the root
I feel I'm breaking through and through
And through and through and
Look far
You're a star
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
Baby, you got this
Every part
You're a star rising up
Azimuth
One more time now
Azimuth
Azimuth
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6. |
Normal Seas
04:23
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Haven't you seen it
The Parthenon streamed with evening
Lavender and ivory
Come summer's end
Ships will come sailing in again
Then I hear it all will be the way it was but
I'm not holding my breath
Fields that were sown in spring
Woven of gold and hyacinth blossoming
Surely it will be just how you remember it but
Don't go holding your breath
So bear me to normal seas
Soft as an autumn breeze, whistling
Some have said it will be exactly the same
Be exactly the same
Be exactly the same
Be exactly the same
But I'm not, you're not, we're not
Holding our
Breath
Breath
Breath
Breath
Breath
Breath
Breath
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7. |
Track 7 Blew My Mind
04:36
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8. |
Rubia Marionet
03:55
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Bienvenue
Please take a seat if you find one
Fix both your ears and your eyes on
Rubia Marionet
Raise up
The curtains and bring down the lights
Listen as her voice delights, sings
"La dee da, da dee da de"
Watch her in her gilded cage
Alone, but that's okay
See how she dances with fire
Watch as she enters
The lights on her
So wonderful
She moves
You'll love her so
Rubia Marionet
Sings "La dee da, da dee da de"
Don't mind
The tangling emerald vines
The mantel that shadows the eyes
Of Rubia Marionet
Soft now
For her heart is hung by a thread
Her voice flows like silk from her breast
Sings "La dee da, da dee da de"
Watch her in her gilded cage
Alone, but that's okay
See how she dances with fire
Now don't you go playing with fire
You might get lost in the
Lights on her
So wonderful
She moves
You'll love her so
Rubia Marionet
Sings "La dee da, da dee da de"
She's glad you came
So blow a kiss and wave
You're welcome
Always welcome
All are welcome here
With Rubia Marionet
Rubia Marionet
Rubia Marionet
Rubia Marionet sings
"La dee da, da dee da de"
"La dee da, da dee da de"
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9. |
Doldrums
04:02
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Twisting away from the dream
I am listing on the belly of the sea
Stretching over the depths
Was the dance of the dead
Emperor, laborer, the pope and king
"You flounder, you've all the latitude
Of a downer," spat the king with attitude
"Kid, you're nothing but lost,
A societal cost,
Now be off, I'd rather not be caught dead with you!"
We agree this ship's gonna sink
Let's take a vote see what everybody thinks
Say, kid isn't this living?
Just don't rock the boat, man, it's the same one that I'm in!
Cursing the sweat upon his brow
Only circling, the worker sputtered out
"My advice? For your health,
Keep your help to yourself"
In the drum of the sun he swung around and round
Cloudless, not a whisper in the sail
Hours countless, the holy man wailed,
"Let a thousand more sink,
Lord, it's their own doing"
And he went on lamenting 'til the sky turned pale
We agree this ship's gonna sink
Oh, it's gonna sink
Let's take a vote see what everybody thinks
Say, kid isn't this living?
Just don't rock the boat, man it's the same one that I'm in!
"Silence! How can you deny the breeze?"
Said the tyrant "A little rest is all we need!"
But his voice was the lead
As he sank into bed
And the ship buoyed helpless on the open sea
We agree this ship's gonna sink
Oh, it's gonna sink
Let's take a vote see what everybody thinks
What everybody thinks
Say, kid isn't this living?
Just don't rock the boat, man, just don't rock the boat
Said hey kid, isn't this living?
Just don't rock the boat man it's the same one that I'm in
Over my head
With the dance of the dead
Emperor, laborer, the pope and king
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10. |
Cliffs & The Ghost
04:55
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Washed up dead on the southern isles
Twenty-sum-seven not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Washed up dead on the southern isles
Another thirty count and not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name to raise a pyre
Broke my body to break the wind
But the water rose up and the roof came in
And from the wreckage
Built a shelter on the barren strand
And I faced out north and I drew no plans
From shells and relics
Well I threw my story to the churning tide
Let it drown my voice, let it choke my pride
Caught a message
From a whisper riding on the roar
It was thundering over me, over the shoreline
And I got the message
Washed up dead on the southern isles
Twenty-sum-seven not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Washed up dead on the southern isles
Another thirty count and not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name to raise a pyre
Hope was lying on some northern coast
Eyes adrift in the cliffs and the ghost
Of a boring baby blue sky
Then a glimmer in the swirling sand
Like an outline of an outstretched hand
Guiding, we began to climb
Ooh, so it goes
Was it all for nothing?
Not all for nothing
Not all for nothing
Not all for nothing
Ooh, let someone know
Make something of it
Something of it
Something of it
Something of it
Ooh, so it goes
Was it all for nothing?
Not all for nothing
Not all for nothing
Not all for nothing
Ooh, so it goes
Washed up dead on the southern isles
Twenty-sum-seven not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Washed up dead on the southern isles
Twenty-sum-seven not a soul in sight
And nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name
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11. |
The Breakers
04:53
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Opalescent Mother
Cradled by the Sea
I was not a pearl but a
Grain of sand you carried
Was to be a son
A brother and a man
Layers of accretion I don’t understand
Some could not abide this
I could not remain
And so I go into the land I am a stranger
All my doors are open
Swallowed by the sound
Two thousand feet above the breakers
I am climbing down
Take the spoon in hand and
Hollow out the womb
Love was not forbidden but the
Sweetest fruit
Wrest me from the garden
Sword at back ablaze
Heat was rippling off the pavement
Came in waves and waves
Humming hallelujah
Naked to my name
Folding all my temporal parts
I am remade
All my doors are open
Swallowed by the sound
Two thousand feet above the breakers
I am climbing
Two thousand feet above the breakers
I am climbing
Two thousand feet above the breakers
I am climbing down
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Mighty Brother New Orleans, Louisiana
Mighty Brother is a New Orleans-based indie rock band with a genre-bending repertoire of upbeat originals ranging from Avett- inspired Americana to Radiohead-esque art rock. Soaring harmonies and striking melodies knit an eclectic sound, guiding the listener through unconventional grooves and adventurous lyricism. ... more
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