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Vancouver Time
04:37
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-- Lyrics --
West London alleyways
San Pedro’s valley’s haze
Works my mind just like a maze
When I see you around
No honey you are not a kid
You know how to keep it hid
And I know just what you did
In those buildings downtown
In the party’s balcony
Where you caught up with me
Said you were not through with me
Well I could’ve guessed
Afternoons were losing light
December’s moon was shining bright
That’s when that you thought you just might
Settle for the best
When we were in Vancouver town
The time I finally let you down
You were in some evening gown
I was wearing jeans
Sometimes we run alongside each other
Sometimes it’s like there’s no other
Sometimes we make horrible lovers
Sometimes we’re just mean
The way you kissed my unshaven face
And disappeared without a trace
Maybe I’ll get my own little place
Overlooking the ocean
Pacific Northwest on a southbound train
Buffalo clouds hanging above the plains
Some say I’m different some say I’m the same
Some say I go through the motions
Well something did change inside of me
Changed something in the way I see
I see those shadows hanging on the street
You can’t outmanoeuvre time
I’m only leaving cause I can’t stay
I always loved you and I never paid
I hear that even in L.A.
It’s Vancouver time
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2. |
All Night Sedans
03:08
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-- Lyrics --
You was up to something I was up to nothing
It was bound to happen anyway
Rain in the streetlights, you in the midnights
We coulda had it anyway
A fire was raging down at the station
It’s not ours to worry about you said
No truth at all, I shoulda made the call
Half a favour is no favour at all
Wish it could’ve been another way
You’re sharp, you’re clear, you’re there and you’re near
But you’re too close for me to see
The way that it was, no despite but because
We live in eternity
Go Celeste who loved you the best
As rain’s falling in the street
Fluorescent lights pounding in the neighbourhood store
Little bell rang when you came in the door
Wish it could’ve been another way
Now I am driving All Night Sedans
All the things I should’ve done, well I do what I can
Listening to the radio as it plays on in my mind
How easily I lose the time
Wish it could’ve been another way
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3. |
Elegy
05:24
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-- Lyrics --
Minor chords and major arcana
Little leather jacket and a black bandana
Kicking over trashcans and telling jokes in Atlanta
When I got the fever, it hit me like a fan
On the back of my hand I don’t know who I am
But I’m free for nothing good for nothing too
Crazy to dream and still crazy about you
Take a look at me now
Reparations now are coming my way
Dues I’ve recollected that I’ve never paid
In the stained glass windows I feel the presence
But that don’t mean I’m done with repentance
Gonna find another way to climb out of this basement
Gonna find out what that smile on your face meant
Like a thief that you borrow, take hold of me, take flight
I wanna do your bidding and steal away in the night
Take a look at me now
Heart’s on fire and so is the page
Everybody around me is telling me to act my age
Things are only revealed in the light that is given
Oh, to be freed from the pardon when all else is forgiven
Rain outside is blowing in the curtain
Nothing is concealed, but nothing is for certain
As I recall you were drinking from the sanctuary wine
Well, don’t worry baby we’ll find all of our lost time
Take a look at me now
I remember you were standing holding your rosary beads
Everybody around here seems to think he knows what he needs
Seven ugly reasons kept me away from you then
Nothing is much weaker than the resolve of most men
I remember when we were standing alone in your room
Staring out your window we knew you’d be going soon
And I was so young I hope you knew that I meant well
And when I looked in your eyes I thought I knew you could tell
Now I’m blown back from the cemetery gates
You whom I loved dearly and now I must wait
To be reunited in the sky when it opens
Well I may be tired but my spirit ain’t broken
Take a look at me now
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4. |
Into the Ether
05:49
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-- Lyrics --
I want you, I just want you to be in a trance, too
Maybe find something you can dance to
Hold onto something you know is true
And slip into the ether
Don’t wanna tell anybody what to do
Ain’t the one to give advice to you
The kind I know you won’t listen to
I know because I never listened either
I saw you in the club getting all fucked up
And the cocaine was all sucked up
You felt the power of something
But not for long
I know you better than you know yourself
Which ain’t saying much as far as I can tell
You can sing your song and you can sing it well
But quit putting me on
Sometimes you question life itself
Sometimes you just go home with yourself
And take it out on the mirror
You don’t see yourself any clearer
Do you
Quit putting me on
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5. |
Big Sky Country
04:28
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-- Lyrics --
Red-winged blackbird sitting on a cattail’s end
Red-winged blackbird sitting on a cattail’s end
Light enough to be there, heavy enough to bend
Red-winged blackbird sitting on a cattail’s end
Meet me where the Land of the Living Skies meets Big Sky Country
Meet me where the Land of the Living Skies meets Big Sky Country
I wish my tears were in your eyes and your eyes were on me
Meet me where the Land of the Living Skies meets Big Sky Country
Last time I saw you, you disappeared down the street before the bend
Last time I saw you, you disappeared down the street before the bend
I said, hey, hey, my Eliza, I squint to blur my eyes until when
The street looked like a cattail with you at its end
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Michigan
04:47
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-- Lyrics --
Got my hat
Got my guitar
Pack up the back
Get in the car
Look out the back
Window
Say hello
To all the snow
That's piling up
Along the road
Not gonna stop
If I can
Never been to Michigan
Never been to Michigan
All the news
Has broken now
All those things
Don't matter anyhow
There's an eighteen-wheeler
With a sticker for the Steelers
And I'm done with healers
And sycophants
Never been to Michigan
Never been to Michigan
Sometimes life
Gets in the way
Of everything
I'd of changed today
No sweet direction to settle on
You and me, Robert,
We ramble on
Captured time
In its essence then
We were kids
And we still are them
Now there's a chance
Maybe one in ten
That I've never been
Never been to Michigan
Never been to Michigan
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7. |
Road to Venus
04:49
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-- Lyrics --
Constellations in the sky
Then all’s blue in twilight light
Saw your reflection in the pool
That’s when I knew
That I was yours
And if all’s fair
In love and war
Nothing’d get
In between us
Road to Venus
Saw you play upon the frets
With just your little
Silhouette
Never knew
No one like you
And I still
Haven’t yet
Followed you above the crowd
Lonely as a cloud
From Carolina
To Salinas
Road to Venus
Saddle blankets on the wall
Now I don’t see you at all
Cactus trees and cactus flowers
I been waiting here for hours
You just led me along
Played me
Like a song
In my blood
Intravenous
Road to Venus.
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8. |
East of Eden
04:50
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-- Lyrics --
Tell me where are you going
You got the jack of diamonds I got the nine of hearts
When the cards get stuck together it’s so hard to pull em apart
I think your face is showing
Ain’t the first time that it’s snowing
First time in years that it has stayed on the ground
When it hits the street it don’t make a sound
So there’s no way of knowing
Tell me is she East of Eden
She’s just like a book and I don’t want it to end
Take her with me where I go
Turn her pages slow
She’s just like a book I don’t want it to end
Love how we talk at night
Love how we talk at night
In the blue electric light
Love how we talk at night
Love how we talk at night
In the blue electric light
I know I’m not the only one
I know I’m not the only one
At least I’m not the lonely one
I know I’m not the only one
I know I’m not the only one
At least I’m not the lonely one
Just do what you were doing
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9. |
Telluride
04:21
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-- Lyrics --
Throw the paper on the steps
Then run away if you haven't yet
Gone for ages gone for good
It has been a while as it should
Telluride, Telluride, Telluride
People talking trash
Soon to become ash
Nobody asked to be here
Sun's going down over yonder
And I wonder
I may be lost but I can see here
Telluride, Telluride, Telluride
Harvest moon is rising
We'll be up all night
There ain't nothing new
Under this ancient light
For days I have been wandering
Wondering all about
What it's gonna take
To finally get me out
Telluride, Telluride, Telluride
I’ve dressed up in poems
And I've ridden on the rails
I've seen picture postcards
And draped them in the sails
White ones they go blue
Red ones go all green
One thing that I'm sure of
It’s never the way that it seems
Telluride, Telluride, Telluride
Oh, sweet sister come here
I've got some news for you
There's someone out there waiting
And he's waiting just on you
As for me I'm surely
Gonna miss my kiss from you
But I don't wanna spend eternity
Trying to make you blue
Telluride, Telluride, Telluride
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10. |
Rest
08:28
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--Lyrics--
For years I’ve been working
And travelling alone
I eat out in restaurants
Where men wear cologne
Recognized as a stranger
Every place that I went
Sometimes I just close my eyes
And begin my descent
I’ll swim in the ocean
When the water is high
And I’ll find your bracelet
I just have to try
And the sky is so open
And the wind’s heading south
Sometimes I just close my eyes
And put my hand on my mouth
One time in a castle
With turrets aglow
I cast incantations
So carnations will grow
And I heard you were worried
From a shell by the sea
Sometimes I just close my eyes
So you don’t worry about me
When you’re lost in the meadows
You just have to stand
And I looked for the farmhouse
It was covered in sand
And the fire of the moonlight
Made everything white
I just had to close my eyes
And dream it one night
In the classroom the children
Gather their hands
They’re dancing to some chanson
From some ancient land
And they’re spinning in circles
And the spirits they weep
I’m just gonna close my eyes
Rest is as good as sleep.
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Leif Vollebekk Montreal, Québec
Some artists go on feeling like secrets long after they've started being told. Leif Vollebekk is one of these treasures. Born in Ottawa in 1985, he taught himself music using instruments inherited from his grandfather: harmonica, guitar, piano, an old fiddle. Leif has release 3 albums so far : Inland, North Americana and Twin Solitude. ... more
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