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1. |
Wait Love
03:33
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Wait, love
Show me what you’re made of
Tell me that we tried it all
And came to this retreat
Say, love
Maybe what we gave up
Wasn’t ours to spin around
Wasn’t ours to keep
But every time you say my name
I lose my bearings
And I wouldn’t dare to ask
Sometimes
Bargains turn to hard lines
Words go off like land mines
And tear the earth apart
So we paid up
Bet the rest to break us
What a way to wake up
Reeling from the start
Every time I see your face
I lose my bearings
And I wouldn’t dare to ask
So tell me if it’s all too late
And I won’t come back
No, I won’t come back
Slow down
Here’s what I know now
If we really came to do our best
Then I can’t be second-guessing
If you go now
Go with everything I’m missing
I won’t pull you in
No, I won’t call again
If I’m gonna walk away and lose my bearings
I won’t have to ask
I’ll know that it’s all too late
And I won’t come back
No, I won’t come back
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2. |
Leaving Came Easy
03:50
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Lay me down to rest
I can’t carry any more
No, I can’t keep looking for
Another sign above the door
For the travelling poor
It’s a funny kind of storm
Where the wind blows through my chest
When my house is bright and warm
And I’m nobody’s guest
Is it where we stay? Or where we’ve been?
No one makes a break that clean
Maybe absence is an old excuse
Who could say where the knots got loose
Leaving came easy
Leaving came easy to me
Lay me down to rest
This game I never won
The world weighed a ton
But I’m not blaming anyone
For how I’d run
To where the long night stretches
I gave it all that I had left
Turning over engines
Just to catch my breath
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3. |
Ghost Town
02:55
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I feel like the worst kind of person most of the time
A big city bully when I’m stuck in line
With the postal clerk who types too slow
And I make a sign like I gotta go
I stick out like a shiny truck
At the last chance stop to fill ’er up
I catch a kind word on a stranger’s ear
Closer than we first appeared
I come in peace
Not in fear
I’m not from around here
I’m not from around here
I love the Main Street throwback
The corner bar that just takes cash
The cowboy in the produce aisle
I flash my foreign smile
And he knows
He knows by a mile
That I’m not from around here
I’m not from around here
Out where the road folds in
And the sky unwinds
Don’t let the cold get in
And we’ll be fine
They say it’s different in the summer
and I might come back
For the rodeo and the race track
The roof is worn but the paint is new
I’m waiting for coffee with the paving crew
It’s a ghost town
And even they pass through
I’m not from around here
I’m not from around here
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4. |
Echo
03:46
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You were my favourite summer
My empire orchard row
We heard the hum of the hurricane coming
And had an acre to go
You were the cloud in the cover
I was the rue in the rain
We had enough over which one of us
Was the weather or the vane
What a howl it makes when the last bough breaks
The sky will forsake the ground
Didn’t know how to save it
Couldn’t turn it around
All we could grow, it fell to the crows
Oh what a terrible sound
We were done by December
That’s when our hands and our hearts got cold
Sold our spades on the darkest day
Traded our stalks for gold
What a howl it makes when the last bough breaks
The sky ignites and the earth shakes
The echo rings where once we were kings
Those who tend will someday take
You were my favourite summer
My empire orchard row
We heard the hum of the hurricane coming
And had an acre to go
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5. |
One More Chance
03:20
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This time I will do no harm
I’m a straight shooter with a broken arm
Got one eye closed and one eye blind
But not out of sight or out of mind
I need one more chance
I need one more chance
I have learned my lesson
Please give me one more chance
Now I know what I have missed
I’m a good luck charm on a broken wrist
For what it’s worth, in my defence
I had no form to go against
In all I’ve done, I told the truth
I’m a scotch on the rocks to a broken tooth
I can’t bury my mistakes
So I’ll lay ‘em out for all it takes
I need one more chance
I need one more chance
I have learned my lesson
Now I’m asking
For one more chance
I need one more chance
I have learned my lesson
Please give me one more chance
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6. |
Hope Lives
03:19
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Hope lives
With the letter in the mail
The porch light glow
Where all else fails
Hope will drive you home
Hope lives
In the first sign of spring
An old habit quits
A new day rings
Hope lingers in the goodnight kiss
The sunrise cutting through the clouds
The gold in the grey
The heart that knows it’ll come around someday
Hope lives
In the firewood and the flame
One dry match
The campsite in the rain
Hope will guide you back
Hope lives
In a love worth saving
Nerves worn thin
From a long time waiting
Hope will stand at the door, but you gotta let it in
Every generation wants to hold it
If it’s broken by the one that came before
We can look for more
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7. |
Lay Low Shadow
03:08
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I don’t want to take you home
Let you move in with my fear
You drove away my lovers
And a lot of my good years
Every time I trip up
That’s your cue to reappear
I know I’m drawn to the familiar
But you’re not welcome here
Sometimes you surprise me
Drop by when I’m alone
Holding up a coat that I could swear
I’d outgrown
It wraps around my rib cage
Every pocket’s filled with stones
I’m resigned to wear it
But I ache all through my bones
Lay low shadow
I know my heart
Lay low shadow
I know you don’t go far
I don’t want to be afraid of the dark
I’ve seen you creep in slow
Spread like water in the walls
But that frame is gonna bend
And this house is gonna fall
You got me on my hands and knees
I can only crawl my way out
From under it all
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8. |
Running Start
03:21
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I’ve been in a rush
I’ve been on a ride
Sometimes I need a push
To come back from behind
Finally I’m following
This racing heart
And I will love you with a running start
I will love you with a running start
I’ve been slow to trust
I’ve been quick to bail
I used to keep my distance
Complain to no avail
Now I’ll show you
All the good I pulled apart
And I will love you with a running start
I will love you with a running start
I have given up too early
I’ve been late to rise
I have thought myself unworthy
Of the finer things in life
But the look you give me
Is a priceless work of art
And I will love you with a running start
I will love you with a running start
I’ve been alone, not quite alive
I’ve let chances go right by
But with you, I am compelled
And I know it well
I will love you
I will love you
I will love you with a running start
I will love you with a running start
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9. |
Celebrate
02:59
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Looking to the light
When the winter’s been too long
The answer that you find
When the trouble’s gone
The kind of love
That undoes any doubt
The weight that sheds
When you finally figure it out
We don’t have to wait
There’s so much to celebrate
And more to see
In these little victories
The song that tames a crowd
At the start of the show
The scan coming back all clear
Five years in a row
Choosing to forgive
In the face of a fight
The shy girl calling up her crush
On a Saturday night
Here’s to all the quiet voices
Sounding for the very first time
Here’s to all the early risers
Standing at the front of the line
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10. |
Hold the Light
03:35
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You came from a house
Of worry and fever
No one talking about
The wear and tear
Now when you shout
It’s a little bit meaner
All of it seems
To keep you scared
I have been there too
And I know the other side
I can take you through
If you hold the light
Hold the light
No reckoning day
To settle the score
Where every mistake
Feeds a firing line
You can be safe
You can have more
Where love doesn’t measure
And it won’t run dry
Hand me your fist
I’ll read your fortune
My thumb on your wrist
Steady and slow
It’s hard to exist
In a city of orphans
All fighting the force
Of the undertow
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Shawna Caspi Toronto, Ontario
Shawna Caspi – a connector of curious humans – is a singer, a poet, a painter, a fingerstyle guitar player.
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