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Pepper Tree
04:10
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Pepper Tree (words & music David Ross Macdonald
No one but myself coming down this road
No one but myself younger getting old
Like my face these boots are worn
Like my heart this shirt is town
No one but myself coming down this road
No closer to the truth or further from the lie
No closer to the truth and Lord knows how I’ve tried
Who’ll forgive these wayward ways
These regrets and debts unpain
No closer to the truth or further from the lie
Pepper tree
You’re watching over me
Never know when I lay down breath be my last
Never know when I lay down beside the highway grass
Sun will bleach away the pain
Skin and bones and tears and shame
Never know when I lay down breath be my last
Pepper tree
You’re watching over me
When I’m gone will I be found will I be free
When I’m gone will I be found beneath the pepper tree
Never was this mortal need
Blacker than that bitter seed
When I’m gone will I be found will I be free
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Upon The Saw
04:38
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Upon The Saw (words & music David Ross Macdonald
Silent where the lake logs lie, waiting for the saw
A secret and a soul to keep until
Ten Old Forest dam is drained creosote to sea
Logs will split and she will be undone, but far from here
Waiting for the saw
Stomach knots as burled as her fathers fists
Broken mill town drifting past her now
Gutted like the strip mall shops that fell upon hard times
She draws that line upon the misting glass, and she escapes
She escapes the town but not the saw
Upon the saw and through an age
We divide and twice again
Flooded forest sleeping in the lake
Against our will against the grain
Against the mighty saw again
Upon that line we float beneath we wait
Waiting for the saw
Ceder oak nor rosewood
It fears or favours none
Eye to tooth, tooth to blade then dust
Jack Cash steel blind as faith
This jagged spinning wheel
Part we must she whispered hard
But with a softer heart
Upon the saw and through an age
We divide and twice again
Flooded forest sleeping in the lake
Against our will against the grain
Against the mighty saw again
Upon that line we float beneath we wait
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3. |
Draw Me In
04:45
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DRAW ME IN
(words&music © David Ross Macdonald 2004)
like water from the well
scrawled across the page
flowing from your hand
this opium of pleasure coiling blue together
deep within your lungs... draw me in
secretly and softly with quiet arcs of tears
you whispered in my ear, draw me in...
threads between your fingers
woven to a texture
that’s close upon your skin
the curtains in your room
cream and coffee plumes
stirring from your dream, draw me in...
till tears and well run dry
until the parchments crumble
until the saddest sigh
secretly and softly with quiet arcs of tears
you whispered in my ear, draw me in...
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Seeds
04:17
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SEEDS (words&music © David Ross Macdonald 2004)
words like to float like a boat, out to sea
even as they spoke, something broke drifted free
deep in her heart, lies a hope, inside a fear
too scared to start, seize the rope
draw him near
seeds in the ground, some are lost
the others found
we drift around, all alone
together bound
she wrote a note, left a smoke in his coat
he read the note, took a match and
smoked the smoke
waves like to roll, spin and coil, against the land
arms like to fold, against the cold on the sand
she wept a tear, told a secret, shed a fear
he said he’d keep it, like the sunset
safe for her
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Cannery Row
05:09
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Boston
02:07
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Serpentine
03:50
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Time To Leave
03:53
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TIME TO LEAVE
(words&music © David Ross Macdonald 2004)
close the door and turn the key, it’s time to go
you were the best that you could be, let her go let her be
in the headlights as far as you can see, snow covered trees
sure as springtime autumn leaves return
only this time your lessons will be learned the hardest way
watch the corners, ice upon the road that you can’t see
you may be on the edge hoping you might fall
but there is more than you can see
sure as night time dawn will bring the day
only this time ice will melt away and warm the ground
she was your summer, you were her fall
and now you’re free, falling free
you hold the corners and fold it into three, gather speed
free as a highway you fly across the plain
love can be a mountain range where you can lose your way
close the door and leave the key, it’s time to go,
time to leave
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9. |
Spared This Time
02:59
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David Ross Macdonald Candelo, Australia
Guitar
Songs
Stories
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see you tomorrow
by the innocence mission
ethereal ambient dreamscapes and comforting solitude
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