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Better and Better
03:00
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Better and Better
I overheard my bones reading poems
On how to break a fall
And I caught my arms lookin up a recipe
For how to hold it all
and if I could hold my anger
Where in the world would I carry it to
Forgiving myself
is the most I can do
And it still holds true the quiet ones
Have a lot to say
And now that my heart is talking again
I just try to stay out of her way
I’m getting better and better at knowing
When a word tastes true
That’s what I’m trying for these days
It’s the most I can do
I’m getting better and better and better and better
and better and better and better
I’m getting better and better and better and better
and better and better and better
And there is a rest that bones only begin to understand
When a body stops living like an answer to a man
I’m getting better and better at knowing I don’t owe a thing to you
I’m taking care of myself, it’s the most I can do
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Bread For The Circus
04:27
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BREAD FOR THE CIRCUS
It’s a circus, it’s attraction
It’s animals and passion
It’s a big top extravaganza
And it’s rolling past
There’s a magic of distraction
the flash of satisfaction
But she dreamed of running away
And when the big top was quiet
She stayed up talking with the lions
And from the flying trapeze
she saw the ringmaster staggering past
At night she learned to juggle fire
She taught herself to walk on the wire
And she dreamed of running away
But she hung around
Baking bread for the circus
Town to town
Baking bread for the circus
Looking down
Baking bread for the circus
Was it hope or confusion
Protection or illusion
That held her like a magnet
To the madness of the show
She gave all of her attention
As if bread was her invention
But she dreamed of running away
Yes, she dreamed of running away
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Magazine
03:31
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MAGAZINE
There was a child at the reins
she wrecked her pony in a dream
Nobody tried to save her
she died alone at the scene
they laid her body on the table
they gave her soul to a man in the sky
and they gave her legs to a magazine
She woke up inside a mirror
Lookin out with eyes she didn’t know
And all around her
Silhouettes tripping uphill
In high heels in the snow
she saw her heart in the shape of a diamond,
she saw her body in the hands of a man
And she saw her legs in a magazine
And she heard talk of places too dangerous to go
As if walking was some secret too dangerous to know
She found her body on the shelf
Beside some souvenirs and chocolates
She reached to hold it, but it broke to pieces
And they tried to make her buy it
They say she climbed right through the camera
They say she got up off her knees
and she ran right off the page of the magazine
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Don't Know When
03:26
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DON’T KNOW WHEN
After dinner, I step outside
And smell the wood stove on the air
There’s some place I’m gonna find the words
I just don’t know where
I ran too fast and I ran too long
I heard all about forgiveness but I didn’t know how
and I did my time doing myself wrong
But I am learning to sleep better now
I know I’ve got catching up to do with you
But right now I wouldn’t know who you’d be catching up to
So I’ll get to know myself again
And then I can be a friend
I’m coming
But I don’t know when
I miss summer but I love snow
I’m flying under my own radar for awhile
If you don’t see me sooner, you’ll probably see me later
In the grocery store at midnight, in the oatmeal aisle
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SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES
Come take a look through the lens,
She is not digging for what she was told
You can see it from here, she’s shaking
What is she holding, what does she know?
Why is she smiling? What if she’s already
touched the beginning of time?
Whatever it is, this is exactly
what we were afraid she would find
Oh there’s something in the way she stands
Like she knows she’s got nothing to lose
Yes there’s something in the way she turns
There’s something in the way she moves
And what if her bones remember the weight
Of it all across the years,
and what if she welcomes the snake to her shoulders
And undresses down to her tears
What if she finds the letter of ransom
And reads it, and understands? And what if she
follows the snake out of the garden
With nothing at all in her hands?
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Gray
03:36
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GRAY
I found another way to feel the edges
left between the world and you and me
I found another way to live the story
I found another way to set it free
I watch her bend the trees and move the water
But the wind was never one to clear the air
That’s the neverending work of days
And we may never even make it there, make it there
Oh, when trouble was the night
tender was the day
And there is still a part of love that
remembers you that way
Now I know why the light at the end of the day is gray
I hear the voices humming in the tunnel
I watch the light that reaches for your hand
I see the birds that fly above the prison
of what the world imagines for a man
I dream that you are waking in the twilight
I dream that you are wrestling the keys from
the guards that have been stationed all around
whoever they intended you to be, you to be
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Open The Door
02:55
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OPEN THE DOOR
Picture this - walking up
to a house you don’t know and lettin yourself in
And then you just start talking like you know something golden
And you roll out your carpet right under your chin
And here I am, just handing it over
And here we are, and you didn’t even knock on my door
And I’m kickin myself for shutting my mouth
And throwing up my hands and giving you the floor
What I don’t know is how this started
You talking over me until you walk right through
I’m gonna need you to leave
please, allow me to open the door for you
I’ve tasted blood from biting my tongue
I’m ready, like I must have met you before
To be standing here at all I have broken ceilings
And climbed over walls and crawled under floors
And this time, I’m not handing it over
I’ve carried these words through fire and rain
And I’ve made my agreements with my doubt and my demons
that silence can no more rely on my name
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Taking Up Rock and Roll
04:02
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TAKING UP ROCK AND ROLL
Well I’ve been quiet, and I’ve been good
And I’ve been sweet as I could
I’m pretty when I try, so I been told
but today’s the day I’m taking up rock and roll
Ever since I got pleasing people outta my mind
I sure got a hell of a lotta free time
To sort through the tall tales of old
And today’s the day I’m taking up rock and roll
Well didn’t it wash a little fear away
The day I heard Rosetta play
Yeah and didn’t it rain a big river right through my soul
Yeah today’s the day I’m taking up rock and roll
Well my mind got heavy, but my heart got free
And my hands got busy telling me
All about the songs they long to hold
Yeah today’s the day I’m taking up rock and roll
And my baby’s coming home when the sun goes down
But I’m leaving in the morning for Chicago town
Cuz today’s the day I’m taking up rock and roll
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Reverie
03:07
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REVERIE
If you go out far enough
to find the earth standing all alone
and if you watch her long enough
to catch her in her reverie
it’s likely she’s remembering
life without you and me
And if you stay out late enough
To see the dawn open up her eyes
And if you watch her close enough
to catch her in her reverie
it’s likely she’s remembering
life without you and me
When a tree falls in the forest
of course it makes a sound
for most of her memory
we are nowhere to be found
And if you listen soft enough
to hear a child humming to herself
and if you stay there long enough
to catch her in her reverie
it’s likely she’s remembering
life without you and me
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Revolution
03:43
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REVOLUTION
What are these anthems I learned to sing
While I worked the land for a powerful king
What is this language that painted these lines
Must I make up another one word at a time?
What are these walls inside of me
If they fall, who will I be?
And how will I climb outside of my eyes
if this is the world they recognize?
I gotta fight for my body
Like I’m running a revolution
I gotta fight for my mind
Like I don’t wanna lose it
I broke the arrow, I’ve dropped the shield
I’ve left the battle, I’ve fled the field
The master’s tools will never free
This voice I hear inside of me
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IN THE MEANTIME, I LOVE YOU
I’m still facing what it’s like
To know myself for a lifetime
Of long walks and silences
Along the beach inside my mind
To be perfectly honest I’m overwhelmed
I’m not used to love going quite so well
Or maybe truth has never been
such an easy thing to tell
When the sun hits the water
Is she gold or is she blue
Or is she still thinking it through
In the meantime, I love you
And what if I don’t care what this means
And it’s not a question, it’s just a dream
To love you every chance I get
Until we fade to blue and green
cuz don’t we both love all the seasons
And don’t we love all kinds of weather
If we just let love change forever
We could see a lot together
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Joy
03:34
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JOY
May you leap like an animal awakened
Awakened, awakened
May you comb the dark for the seeds that blow
Through the window of a spirit that is broken
May you rise from the terror of the quiet
The quiet, the quiet
May you fall to the earth, and forget about words
And cry like you’ve been called to free an ocean
Don’t think too long
Don’t think too hard
Don’t let anybody, anybody, anybody tell you
That joy is just too far
May you lose your measure of a mile
a mile, a mile
On the dark walk out of your memory
And back into the brightness of the wild
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Maya de Vitry Nashville, Tennessee
Maya de Vitry is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She lives in Nashville, TN.
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