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Dreaming Tree
03:40
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Meet me underneath the dreaming tree…
All the shadows wish to be
From underneath the dreaming tree
‘Cause there the dark is cast by light
Flooding through the sea of leaves
When you’re laying next to me, everything’s in harmony
Dark and light, the thread of time
Under here the world’s so fine
Why don’t we just stay awhile?
Well above the dreaming tree
Planes are flying overseas
Filled with people looking for something that they think they need
The dark, the light, a different time
Under here the world’s so fine
Why don’t we just stay awhile?
Meet me underneath the dreaming tree…
Well below the dreaming tree
Rocks and roots are weaving
Holding ground around the core
Of the Earth that’s spinning
Through the darkened path of time
Doesn’t this world blow your mind?
Why don’t we just stay awhile?
When you find your dreaming tree
Treat it well and let it be
Take it as a state of mind, it will grow I guarantee
In the dark a light will shine on the world we left behind
So we can return sometime
Meet me underneath the dreaming tree…
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2. |
Doors
03:59
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Summertime is made for secrets
That’s why doors get swollen shut
As much as I say I love you
Know I love you twice as much
When the winter comes there will be space under the kitchen door
Everywhere you walk will lift some coldness from the tile floor
Sun can burn and shade can fade the colors of the brightest bloom I see
I find it’s dangerous to take too much of anything
Seasons leave us wanting, waiting for the next big change to come
I have never made a promise quite as big to anyone
Fall is made for slow advances
That’s why leaves are shy to turn
Blushing red just at the center
‘Til they crumble up and burn
When the springtime comes there will be dust upon the window sill
Every cup of coffee that you drink will send away a chill
Sun can burn and shade can fade the colors of the brightest bloom I see
I find it’s dangerous to take too much of anything
Seasons leave us wanting, waiting for the next big change to come
I have never made a promise quite as big to anyone
When the year is over and the summer has come ‘round again
I will read you secrets from my journal that I wrote in pen
We will dream of leaving winter, buy a villa out in Spain
Always talk of running out but in the end we will remain
Sun can burn and shade can fade the colors of the brightest bloom I see
I find it’s dangerous to take too much of anything
Seasons leave us wanting, waiting for the next big change to come
I have never made a promise quite as big to anyone
A photo, a train set
A song that I once knew
I’ll let go, but not yet
I’ll always think of you
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3. |
Lending Library
02:01
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Library books are sitting on my shelf reminding me of you
You’re overdue
What’s your excuse?
I never pegged you as the type to run away
I’m usually quick enough to turn the page
Before the ending comes my way but
Now the doors are locked, hallways have turned quiet
And my thoughts are in a riot
Still I know, still I know
I will forgive you if you ever do come back to me
It’s in my nature to return and my heart
Is a lending library
So wait in line and pay your fine
Two cents for every day you missed
Your name in red upon my list
I will forgive you if you ever do come back to me
It’s in my nature to return and my heart
Is a lending library
It isn’t fair for you to take more than you give
How do we live and love and lose this way?
How do we make it through our days?
Somebody drew inside this book and tore page 23
That’s the part where you once were, directly to the left of me
So wait in line and pay your fine
Two cents for every day you missed
Your name in red upon my list
I will forgive you if you ever do come back to me
It’s in my nature to return and my heart
Is a lending library
I will forgive you if you ever do come back to me
It’s in my nature to return and my heart
Is a lending library
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4. |
Gemini
03:36
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I’m a Gemini, I’ve got two sides I’ve got two sides, I’ve got two sides
I’m a Gemini, I’ve got two sides, I can’t decide, I can’t decide
You should go, you should go away (You should stay)
Then again maybe you, then again maybe you should stay (Go away)
I am honest most the time
But all my truths turn into lies
Feelings pass and so does time
It’s me versus myself and I
I’m a Gemini, I’ve got a mind that is a twin it lives within
I’m a Gemini, I’ve got a mind that is a twin I cannot win
You should go, you should go away (You should stay)
Then again maybe you, then again maybe you should stay (Go away)
I am honest most the time
But all my truths turn into lies
Feelings pass and so does time
It’s me versus myself and I
I don’t want to be convinced
I want to be in love
All my words that you can mince
Will never add up high enough
To meet the expectations you built in your mind
I am just a Gemini
You should go, you should go away (You should stay)
Then again maybe you, then again maybe you should stay (Go away)
I am honest most the time
But all my truths turn into lies
Feelings pass and so does time
It’s me versus myself and I
I am just a Gemini
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5. |
The Contract
03:56
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Please sign below indicating you know
This possibly could be a shitshow in the end
We'll recollect all the fun that we wrecked
I'll call you a stranger, or maybe a friend
At first snowfall you will throw a snowball at my back
And before I can get mad I'll laugh
And in the Spring we may call it a fling
But I'll swear on the moon that you felt something too
Wouldn't it be nice to try to be a little nicer than we need to be?
Maybe I could try to fall in love with you and you could try to fall in love with me
This could go quite terribly, we don't know
So please sign the black line below
Please sign the line to confirm that it's fine
We may start to drift, waver, wander, or shift
And when we do there will be a small clue as to why
But it's easier to say goodbye
Please sign right here just to show that we're clear on this
Nothing means anything, but here's a kiss
We'll put dishonest back in July
Say that we're over it, clear as the sky
And when I am thinking that I want you back
We will just reference that old contract
See we agreed to let it be, let it be
Wouldn't it be nice to try to be a little nicer than we need to be?
Maybe I could try to fall in love with you and you could try to fall in love with me
This could go quite beautifully
We don't know
So please sign the black line below
Just so we know
Just so we know…
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Palindromes
02:51
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I could see the shadow of a bird through the curtain
In the window in the morning when you said my name
Every night I go to bed, a pillow underneath my head
When I wake up it is the same
I don’t want to live my days as palindromes
Starting where I ended where I started and there I go
Don’t want to live my days as palindromes
Walking ‘round in circles while the time flows
While the time flows
I could hear the sirens on the trucks that were driving
In the city in December when the first snow came
Every day we test our fate, try to renegotiate
When we wake up it is the same
(x2) Chorus: I don’t want to live my days as palindromes
Starting where I ended where I started and there I go
Don’t want to live my days as palindromes
Walking ‘round in circles while the time flows
While the time flows
I could hear the sirens on the trucks that were driving
In the city in December when the first snow came
I could see the shadow of a bird through the curtain
In the window in the morning when you said my name
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7. |
Love It or Leave It
03:36
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There's a hole inside of my heart
Where you used to be
If you ever came back you'd fall right through
A heart’s not a bottle of wine you can't cork it and leave it
It's not a riff or a rhyme you can't ever repeat it
It's not a goal you can aim for you can never achieve it
I guess you have to love it or leave it
Time is kind to those who let it be
Let it blur the lines and brighten their smiles
Taking broken pieces rearranging them
Like a mosaic artist with her tiles
A heart’s not a bottle of wine you can't cork it and leave it
It's not a riff or a rhyme you can't ever repeat it
It's not a goal you can aim for you can never achieve it
I guess you have to love it or leave it
I'm definitely not holding a grudge
Cause That's not what I like to do
But I am definitely not
Holding onto you
A heart’s not a bottle of wine you can't cork it and leave it
It's not a riff or a rhyme you can't ever repeat it
It's not a goal you can aim for you can never achieve it
I guess you have to love it or leave it
It’s not a riff or rhyme you can’t ever repeat it
Don’t you know it’s not kind of you to deceive it?
I guess you have to love it or leave it
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8. |
Static Electricity
03:35
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My dreams are powered by
Static electricity
Static electricity
And the wind from your breathing, breathing
My mind is a turbine spinning away in your direction
A dizzy ballet
I wrote you a letter I forgot to send
So I turned the words in noteheads
My dreams are powered by
Crescent moons and ocean tides
Crescent moons and ocean tides
And the sounds of the evening
My mind is a turbine spinning away in your direction
A dizzy ballet
You turned around and you smiled at me
The most powerful form of alternative energy
Thought that you had gone away but it was just low tide
I could see the planets dancing with the stars in a quest to align
I like the sound of your voice on the other line
Before I turn in for the night
My dreams are powered by
Static electricity
Crescent moons and ocean tides
And the sounds of the evening
Breathing
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9. |
The Stranger Is You
04:23
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I knew that room
The wooden floors, the painted walls
The ghost of you
Dancing down the daylit halls
Somebody new will stand in here and take their calls
And when I'm driving by maybe I will stop to pause
And remember it all
We used to run around the yard and skin our knees and climb the trees until the sun was clearly well past gone
We wore our secrets on our sleeves and would believe the slightest breeze was something we could build a story on
And will they mind the maple taking up the view
Or will they call a crew to cut it down?
I didn't know about this moment 'til it showed up in the doorway
I'll be leaving now
I'll be leaving now
I wonder if they'll change the light inside the closet 'cause it buzzes and because it glows a
Too bright white
I wonder if they'll find the letters we would write of conversations we recorded placed between the wooden boards at night
And will they leave the color in the kitchen,
Or will they be switchin' every room around?
I didn't know about this moment 'til it showed up in the doorway
I'll be leaving now
I'll be leaving now
Somebody else's mail is sitting in the box
Got new keys on the chain because they changed the locks
The laundry room will steal away new pairs of socks
And you can talk, talk, talk all day
But in the end
You gotta walk away
Gotta walk away...
There is a stranger in your home
Turning everything over new
But in the end you realize
Now the stranger is you
Now the stranger is you
Now the stranger is you....
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10. |
Secret Plans
04:04
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There are people who won’t see your worth
Tell you, “Go an live in the center of the Earth”
As for me I don’t believe in Heaven or Hell
I just think that we should treat each other well
Tonight the sun will go to sleep
The teabag will turn in the teacup and begin to steep
The radio dial will make only one final sweep
We’ll make secret plans for ourselves that we’ll promise to keep
Secret plans, secret plans
Riding by night in a slow caravan
Secret plans, secret plans
Hiding the light of the stars in the palms of your hands
Secret plans
You are young now, look what is ahead
All your plans are hanging by a thread
Don’t you worry if they seem unclear
Don’t you grow up and let all your secret plans disappear
Secret plans, secret plans
Riding by night in a slow caravan
Secret plans, secret plans
Hiding the light of the stars in the palms of your hands
Secret plans
It won’t be easy, I know you have heard that before
Something ‘bout closing and opening figurative doors
Always stay humble but brave in the face of the fear
That your secret plans will fall through and you’ll end up back here
Secret plans, secret plans
Riding by night in a slow caravan
Secret plans, secret plans
Hiding the light of the stars in the palms of your hands
Secret plans
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11. |
People on TV
02:02
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I wish that people were like people on TV
So I could press replay and analyze them very carefully
And every time I make a joke or fall and scrape my knee
There would be people there to laugh and cry, shout and scoff with me
I wish that people were like people on TV
Their outfits would reflect their quirky personalities
My best friend would be funny but not prettier than me
And my parents would say crazy things, though that’s also reality
When I’m with you I’m so glad you’re with me
I like you better than the people that I crush on, on TV
And when we are together there are no commercial breaks so
We can sit and talk for hours without ads for
Frosted Flakes
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12. |
See You on the Moon
02:43
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After college all my friends moved far away
They used to live right down the road, now they’re in L.A.
It’s pretty weird here living back at home
Tryna find a job and move out on my own
But one day the Internet is gonna break
And we’ll all move to outer space
After the apocalypse, which should be pretty soon
We will all be neighbors in a station on the moon
I won’t have to miss you and we all will be employed
Nothing here to worry us except the asteroids
Last week I sent a resume, it’s been reviewed
They offered me a job, I said, “Great I like you, too!”
I’m just hoping that the end of the Earth, doesn’t interfere with my first day of work
But one day the Internet is gonna break
And we’ll all move to outer space
Well, have you seen the moon tonight?
I would say it looks just right
Oh it is quite lovely
The stars are woven strands of light that wrap the solar system tight
Why don’t we go there tonight?
I was wondering if you wonder ‘bout me
I’m sending out a message, guess I’ll wait and see
Can you believe that this technology is true?
The words I type are suddenly delivered straight to you
If words can go flying through the atmosphere
Is it so far-fetched to think that I’ll see you soon?
I won’t have to wait, to see you on the Moon
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Julia Mark Boston, Massachusetts
As a singer-songwriter and pianist, Julia Mark balances wordplay and wit with the weight of being
human.
Life on the moon, heartbreak on Earth, secret plans, and palindromes…these are a few topics addressed by Julia’s songwriting. Raised on the sounds of bebop greats and folk music legends, her music feature pin-point vocals and clever storytelling.
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