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Life Love Time
03:34
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Life Love Time
Thank you, life for I only know a little of the sorrow in this world
Thank you, life for not counting the mistakes I make so much
And for the second chances you keep offering up
Sometimes I drink to the hard times
And I come undone and it clears my mind
& I’ve had my share just like everyone
Thank you, life for sparing me some
Thank you love for changing as we grow
And for whispering in my ear when I’m all alone
Thank you love for being so blind
And for glowing in the worried looks between your eyes and mine
Sometimes we drink to the hard times
And our broken hearts bust open wide
& hotel rooms yeah we’ve wrecked our share
Here’s to another one thank you love for giving me this one
Thank you time for the beautiful frames
and the space to play with the rhythm & the rhyme
Thank you time for being kind to my body
And leaving all that’s behind me right where it belongs
Sometimes we drink to watch you passing by
Thanks for slowing down a little on these special nights
For healing old wounds and righting old wrongs
Thank you time, hope we still have some
For marking miles and stones in a race that can’t be won
Thank you time hope I still have some
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2. |
Sitting Tight
03:50
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Sitting Tight
Will this crowded conversation
Be enough to drown
Be enough to drown out
The things that I never mention
I’m old enough to know by now
I’m cold enough to cover
Cold enough to cover up
And that is my intention
This is a sign
Of how selfish I am
You know I never work as hard
As hard as I can
Where blue met white
Through the window on my homeward flight
Where wrong and right
mix to grey and keep me up all night
That’s where I’m sitting tight
Between the night and the morning light
Where I can’t remember anything alright
It’s a crowded conversation
I’m forever tripping
I’m forever tripping up
Over things that I never mention
For this time
my ever-overflowing cup
Of denial will help me out
She’s always there to help me out
It’s no fault of mine
I was never listened to
It’s impossible to find
Anything that pleases you
Where blue met white
Through the window on my homeward flight
Where wrong and right mix to grey and keep me up all night
That’s where I’m sitting tight
Between the night and the morning light
Where I can’t remember anything alright
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3. |
Don't Be Gone Too Long
02:52
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Don't Be Gone Too Long
Sometimes it’s hard to fill the space you leave
The morning sun she tries
And spills her light all over me
Shining on the dust of dark, dark dreams
Floating bits of doubt in the new day air I breathe
Shatter goes the beautiful myth
Where I believe I’m the one you need to be with
Scatter goes the last of my girlhood
Could it be that I’ve somehow misunderstood
If you gotta go then don’t be gone too long
I know you gotta go but don’t be gone too long
I feel like you don’t know I need you to make me strong
So if you gotta go then don’t be gone too long
Have I given you enough to take when you leave
Time and love and trust you say yes
And I wanna believe
But I can feel the earth move beneath my feet
If it all comes down it’ll be the end of me
Shatter goes the beautiful myth
Where I believe I’m the one you need to be with
Scatter goes the last of my girlhood
Could it be that I’ve somehow misunderstood
If you gotta go then don’t be gone too long
I know you gotta go but don’t be gone too long
I feel like you don’t know I need you to make me strong
So if you gotta go then don’t be gone too long
If you gotta go then don’t be gone too long
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4. |
Bullet To Berlin
03:05
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Bullet to Berlin
I knew a real love
I just didn’t know it then
I knew a real love
It gave me a place to begin
Oh how I miss that love
I searched for so long
and I never came close
Oh how I miss that love
Like I miss my home
Like I miss my home
I had a perfect dream
It rang in my voice just a little today
But with each new mistake
Like wings losing feathers
It’s slipping away
Oh how I miss my dream
I searched in the dark
and I never came close
Time went by too fast for me
I can feel it hang in the room
like a ghost
I’m like an old freight train
I know just where I’ve been
I’m pulling some serious weight you’re a bullet to Berlin
You should know before it’s too late
just who it is that you’re marrying
I guess underneath we’re the same
and the rails have already been laid
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5. |
Silkworm (for Alayne)
03:54
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Silkworm
Don’t need to find my place in this world
I know it don’t I know it
Sometimes you just don’t get a pearl
But you just keep going
The space between what I want and what I gotta do
Has become so small
and even if I don’t let it paint things black
I’m still gonna hit the wall
But if I came to see you
I’d leave not thinking like that at all
Then I could tell you that
they’ve gathered up in hundreds inside the hall
Tears and tunes and money
and love flowing through it all
And through this song I made for you
I'll try to come see you soon
Your picture face looks so very brave
Your eyes don’t say the same
May your hope hang by a silkworm's thread
Stronger than any man can make
This time of year so long ago
Before the warming
when the pack ice would just show
and shine on the shores below home
Clampering in rubber boots & driftwood poles
Your brother slipped and fell beneath the floes
He cried like he saw the face of Davey Jones
We laughed like fools and I hope he forgives me
But I'll never know
But if I came to see you
I’d leave not thinking like that at all
Then I could tell you that
they’ve gathered up in hundreds inside the hall
Tears and tunes and money
and love flowing through it all
And through this song I made for you
I'll try to come see you soon
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6. |
Beyond The Clouds
02:40
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7. |
Fable
04:04
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Fable
When did you forget your destiny boy
You knew it once when you were young
Before the world’s weight crushed your joy
When your heart’s voice was on the tip of your tongue
It stopped for me when I first felt
The worry that I was nothing like I expected to be
I look like an old man but I am a king
On my chest is a jeweled gold plate
That my tattered cloak is hiding
And I know of path you are about to take
Did you ever have a recurring dream
That is more insistent than dreams should be
Oh yes old man and lately it seems
I’ve become so tired of tending sheep
Now the days are rolling into one
Wine tasting more bitter with each setting sun
Now I look like a young man but my mind still sings
With whispered promises of a wondrous levelling
Who will they follow when I turn into the wind
And so it begins the unraveling of all you know
And few of your friends will understand when you up and go
You can leave the herd for them
It’s time for you to start my young friend
Cuz I look like an old man but I am a king
On my chest is a jeweled gold plate
That my tattered cloak is hiding
And I know of the journey that you will make
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8. |
Book of Obscure Sorrows
03:27
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Book of Obscure Sorrows
Sonder is new word that I borrowed
From a book of obscure sorrows
Surely written for these modern times
Everyone amongst and all around you
Just passing by
Living their own lies
I can feel my tired heart
catching up to my soul
I wanted so much and I worked so hard
So I’m told
When they meet will it set me free
Or will I have just grown old
I know you’re trying hard to teach me something
I’ve never been good at learning lessons
But I make a note everytime
My happiness is a broken line
But it’s drawn to you – can you see me through
I can feel my tired heart
catching up to my soul
I wanted so much and I worked so hard
So I’m told
When they meet will it set me free
Or will I have just grown old
If you get there first can you send back word
Did you hear the angels sing
It’s such a shame that the price you pay
Is everything
I can feel my tired heart
catching up to my soul
I wanted so much and I worked so hard So I’m told
When they meet will it set me free
Or will I have just grown old
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9. |
Morley Road
04:19
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Morley Road
It’s hard to think when you’re nonstop talking to me
As much as I love your company
I’m lost in a regret filled reverie
Turn right, right here and you will see
She winds and she weaves
Past old farms and glens of green
From the blue bras d’or
To where the sweet mira flows
I’m going to be with them again
My old man told me time and again
There’s no shortcuts in life you know
But I found one I found one
Running down old Morley Road
It’s hard to think of anything better
Then a quick tune-up and let’s go get 'em
For to heal my heart full voice confession
And to spill my guts in a story worth telling
She winds and she weaves
Past old farms and glens of green
From the blue bras d’or
To where the sweet mira flows
I’m going to be with them again
My old man told me time and again
There ain’t no shortcuts in life you know
But I found one I found one
Running down old Morley Road
It’s a perfect day with the perfect sounds
Thanks for showing me another way
Than the long hard way around
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10. |
Pigeon Hole
02:43
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Pigeon Hole
Sit for a little while
So you can hear my plea
All these questions about us
Hanging down around my knees
It’s as old as the ages
All this running round on stages
Chewing up the scenery
Making laughter out of misery
Won’t wake up one day to find
I’m just acting out a role
Someday you’ll get it through your mind
Babe I won’t fit in in a pigeon hole
Take a break for a little while
You can use an alibi
All these questions about us
Are written all around my eyes
It’s as old as the ages
All this running round on stages
Chewing up the scenery
Making comedy from tragedy
Won’t wake up one day to find
I’m just acting out a role
Someday you’ll get it through your mind
Babe I won’t fit in in a pigeon hole
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Leona Burkey Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Contemporary roots singer-songwriter with a singular voice and a melody-loving folk-rock guitar attack. Known for off-the- cuff live shows in the Cape Breton troubadour style, shored up by a deep body of work that traces the meandering path of a slow-burn songwriter hitting her stride. Her latest & third full length studio album “GROUNDRUSH” released here in Nov/2022 is available everywhere. ... more
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