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His Eyes, His Face
03:33
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irises in albums orchids under glass hyacinth in hymnals a fruit bowl full of wax preservation hallways clamor under dust spirits of the underworld kicking up a fuss but then again the lilacs in the yard are in bloom His eyes His face shining through with a redeemer's grace teasing out our little wings to bring us up to Heaven butterflies in box frames a grizzly on the floor antlers on the far wall blood above the door the tolerated maestro is brushing his toupée paramours and poetesses old and in the way remembering the fair child's calling the tune His eyes His face shining through with a redeemer's grace teasing out our little wings to bring us up to Heaven
walls come tumbling down
His eyes His face shining through with a redeemer's grace teasing out our little wings to bring us up to Heaven so hang tight hang tough His reward's coming soon enough for how could all these little wings ever leave us hanging
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Days of '84
03:13
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when we younger nothing could shake me but I'm a man now cry like a baby for I remember days of 1984 and to this day the memory lingers Coke bottle glasses beckoning fingers yes I remember days of 1984 but you say hey shut your mouth I get scared when the feelings are spoken we made it through us two together hey keep it down if I care my heart might get broken why don't we talk about the weather so I'll just sit here and turn a blind eye observe the storm clouds hoping they pass by the way they did way back in 1984.
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Yonder
04:02
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Yonder where the billboards start to fade poison oak and bittersweet nightshade that's where they'll find me I leave it all behind me to the ones who think they've got it made with the realization comes a peace shut my eyes and slowly count to three it won't take a minute first thing I ever finished and forever after stark relief the sound of your sweet nothings ringing in my ears must've escaped me in all the years and now I can't recall what's bringing me to tears it must've escaped me free and clear
but color me wrong for now it feels all right deliverance from a harsh and hardening light to lay me down inside an evergreen night
yonder where the hills concede to sky where the wiser beasts retreat to die that's where they'll find me I leave it all behind me... the sound of your sweet nothings ringing in my ears must've escaped me in all the years and now I can't recall what's bringing me to tears it must've escaped me free and clear.
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Wife of Ulysses
03:16
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the wife of Ulysses held up through her sixties she still had the heroine glow she said to her suitors from Gaul to Bermuda you'll never bend back my bow so you'd better leave me on the chance he sees thee for he's conquered Troy and now he's come to reconquer here love is temperamental now I've never needed it so near the king of kings had spread his wings with INRI for people to see looked up at the sky He started to cry saying why'd you bother with me all my dear disciples turned into rivals and that Pontius Pilate took away my best defense love is such a burden when it leaves you hanging in suspense now I'm fighting behind the lines and stepping on every mine I'm tangled in fruits and vines I can't get through I never really wanted to
I can remember our love like an ember desire quickening the blood but then I regret it and what it's begetted it sure didn't come from above just the same old story almost a priori for it's easier to figure out than two plus two love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you now I'm fighting behind the lines and stepping on every mine and saying each day's just fine though that's not true I never really wanted to
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Idlewild Rose
04:14
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idlewild rose long and lean thorn so keen to strike and rose of jericho like tumbleweed fumbling toward the light I contended with heartaches by the dozen I defended myself from pretty lies I pretended that love was where it wasn't till you befriended me with pennies on my eyes and gone are my sorrows my delicate knees quaking with unrequited passion missing the forest for the trees praying in vain for daily ration
I suspended all hope and expectation I amended my wishes and my plans I intended to live in isolation but it ended when I held you in my hands
oh rose of sharon oh fleurs-de-lis a measure of grace in every atom now I'm in you and you're in me more than a living mind can fathom and farewell to sorrow like wind-carried leaves taking away the pain and passion whistling for the fallen trees listening for their lonely crashing
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Leaves
03:42
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I saw you standing in the parlor a vision in lace but as the afternoon grew darker tears ran down your face well what befell you was not by your doing I tell you they're only pursuing the belle who is summer's undoing as the leaves start falling they'll sure come calling again.
I heard you crying half past midnight in holy despair a low delirium by torchlight one cannot compare well what befell you was not by your doing I tell you they're only pursuing the belle who is summer's undoing as the leaves start falling they'll sure come calling again.
If you should fall into despair go to the attic window where you'll find a perfect diamond there and see your boy stranded, still trying to make it to home
It is a wonder why they bother but listen awhile you'll hear a sort of joyful holler around for a mile and as the chatter comes up from the benches the batter will swing for the fences no matter he's sent to the trenches as the leaves start falling they'll sure come calling again.
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Dead End Days
03:32
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you and your kisses quick and suspicious hit like a fist inside a glove and me with my hands out hoping it pans out knowing it won't amount to much but was there something that I saw inside your eye when I watched you walking backwards waving goodbye and was there something that I saw behind your face or am I just a beggar keeping the faith they say you don't know what you've got till it's gone and you wonder how you're to get along I spent all last night trying to figure out another way now it's just another dead end day
you and your secrets hid in discreteness bidding a peak behind the veil and me and my passion tangled and thrashing cursing the weakness of my will but what to do with all the wrongs we tried to right with everything that once went bump in the night now nothing's left except the crack inside your voice the one you use on all the rest of the boys they say the water's missed when the well runs dry digging deeper in for the long goodbye I spent all last night just wishing my life away now it's just another dead end day
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Sunshine
02:39
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your power is gone and still you turn me on
sunshine
sunshine
so into the dark, your heart neatly folded
you leave us in cold disarray
there's never a god when you need one
and likely we'd just turn Him away
your power is gone and still you turn me on
sunshine
sunshine
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I Wanna Lead You Around
04:04
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I'm one of many a pair of eyes we come to warm ourselves up by your fire an introduction that's not your name I've seen the cartilage honey I feel your pain I wanna lead you around we come to see you we crawl on past you say we're welcome just make it fast but I aim to catch you most unawares let's get to business baby let's go upstairs I wanna lead you around
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The Moon and Orion
03:44
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it's never long before Dawn informs us that she's been crying it's never late before Katie lets us know that she's dying that's when Mother gives a knowing laugh lays a record on the phonograph and directs us to dance under the moon and Orion we take a step out of doors and feel the grass on our ankles the guitars strum as the tambourine's starting to jangle we do the cha-cha and the loop-de-loo the mashed potato and the shimmy to boot our evening clothes like ghosts under the moon and Orion
and I've never been given to shiver
and I've never been one to shake
but something takes possession
and all undue discretion
it doesn't just fade
it just disappears
for live is for living
no time for tears
and when we're all shaken down and fit to fall where we're standing the records spun and the sunlight coming down so commanding Dawn yawns while she says her prayers Katie waits at the top of the stairs and we all settle in to dream the moon and Orion.
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Heartache [Bonus Track]
02:49
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once I heard your name in conversation followed by a quiet explanation and yeah your picture's still on the wall and every day I pray it'll fall cause when I think about you I think about the heartache if I wasn't so true I'd never had the heartache when I hear your blues I can only hear the heartache all the time you're the one that trouble took the trouble to find
once I saw you face inside a window white curtains throwing out a shadow bringing me back to what I wanted to be I once was blind but now I can see that when I think about you I think about the heartache if I wasn't so true I'd never had the heartache when I hear your blues I can only hear the heartache all the time if you catch me crying don't you pay it no mind cause I'm a man and I do what I can it's just a matter of an honest stand that's right! and since we got all night...
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Corinthian Leathers Nashville, Tennessee
Corinthian Leathers is a home recording enthusiast living in Nashville, Tenn. He supports the work of Bandcamp United to make Bandcamp a more equitable place for all.
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