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Sermon at Shady Grove
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I wasn't walking and I wasn't driving
I told my friends I must of been flying
The night that we gave away and left
So so little to go on
Oh go on and pretend it could ever be how it was
I convinced myself that but not in so many words
Mine were a prayer and a song never written
But you probably already knew that
And the moonshine washed over everything
I took it so hard that I didn't even sing
And the house it never was empty
And my solitude never left me alone
And the datkness on both sides of the glass
Terrified me so I never asked
I've been talking to our betfer angels you see
They reminded me there's so much more that I could be
Like a light that goes on and on and on and on
But only if I want it to
And a sermon just happened to happen sonetimes
Between blank verse, prose, and misbegotten rhymes
We so hopelessly pantomime telling ourselves
We believe. We believe. We believe
And the truth is right where we left it
Where the sky it could collect it in time
And the rain came down like a parade
And you came back to me in the sound that it made
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I Ain't Sorry
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I ain't sorry,
I thought that you knew,
there is always an ending
even when you are free.
Light another,
pretend it's not brand new.
I ain't sorry you thought that you knew me.
You said you were worried the gift wouldn't come.
I've excepted too many now to give back a few.
I always intended to give back at least some.
Guess I just guessed it would get back to you.
One eye listens for silence the other for news,
and besides you can barely hear over the sound of yr blues.
One of us can't be wrong and I can't be expected to choose.
One ear watches for stillnes the other for moves.
I'm so sorry, I thought that you knew me
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Only A Song
03:45
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I know what I have been told
Pretty sure it's lies
Trying to remain childlike
I disbelieve my sight
Idiots in aftermaths
They dance and sing despite
The story of the gory rain
That fell from such great heights
And oh
It just doesn't seem right
All the old appetites
Don't hold up to the light
I knew you so long ago
But then again too soon
The freedom-fighter side of your family
Grew up to be the woman in the moon
And have you thought of me
Since I preoccupied your flights of fancy
Do you even realize
That the clemency was goddamn guarantee
It just doesn't seem wrong
When it's only a song
Drifting soft through the dark
And oh
I just cannot keep singing
It's always only the beginning
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You'd best just tell your story walking
tell it to yourself while you are sleeping on the roadside
dreaming of some kind of compromise
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astronaught
02:38
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Songs From Cups
02:46
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What was it you thought that you wanted when you left the place that your younger ghosts haunted? the plan was to live simply. I guess it always is. Now what would you give for the old complex? What would you do if you had it back?
Who said this is all a joke? You can laugh all you like just don't wish you hadn't spoken. When the plan's to be the last one left the question's always why. Now what you give for even one more try?
What was it we thought that we needed when no advice ca go undefeated? The aftermath is always the same, of course it always was. Now what can I say when you answer "just because," and what would you give for what you think that you want?
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News From Home
02:04
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ooooooooooo
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existential jig
04:10
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Not The Same
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Michael Gerard Portland, Oregon
Michael Gerard is a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist living in Portland, Oregon.
He has put out 4
albums and played countless shows under the name Michael the Blind. In 2011, along with his wife and good friends, he put together a backup band called The Moonshine.
After several years of recording and touring with The Moonshine, he has again begun putting together material for a solo album.
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