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The Heat
03:57
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Heats been setting in now
Days are getting longer
Morning lifts me out of bed
With arms of gentle rays
Following these cycles
Words of fertile land mines
Somehow I thought I wouldn’t feel the same way
Time it keeps on spinning
I just keep on letting on
That everything is going to be ok
But darling, when you kissed me
How the world it seemed to stand still
And now I can’t keep track of the days
Talking into glasses
Heart is beating slower
Lost in the transaction
As our eyes glaze over
Neither of us listening to ourselves
Or to eachother
Above, the birds, they are returning
[While] the wanderlust had stayed
Money’s disappearing
I keep on pretending I could carry on in the same way
Time it keeps on spinning
I just keep on letting on
That everything is going to be ok
But darling, when you kissed me
How the world it used to stand still
And now I can’t keep track of the days
Time is disappearing
All the sounds, they keep on slowing down
Until the melody starts driving me insane
We just keep on talking
Talking ourselves into corners
I rarely do recall what it is we say
Smoke it keeps on billowing
I keep on forgetting
Until every single dream it dreamed the same
If this is what we’re put here for
If this is what we’re doing
I’m not sure I see the point in staying
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2. |
Divergence
03:04
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Locked to your eyes as they spun me out
Your words were fire and I tried to fight it
I want to feel the way that I felt after I met you that night
I lay in our bed and I just can’t shake it
The feeling that something ain’t right
Weighted by years
Crushed by reflection
With a vision of your heart outrunning intention
I made up that room again for the show of it
The bartenders drinking in everyone’s sight
Your quivering lips
As they’re met by his
With a lead up that frays, but you don’t pull away
Locked to your eyes as they spun me out
Again and again, burning my skin
I want to live that whole night again
I want to dream, but the daylight creeps in
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3. |
With You
03:43
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I want to take things back now
Enjoy the comfort of the past
Outcomes so certain
Knowing the twists in every path
With you
With you, there’s no telling all the things that we could do different
I want to make some new friends
The kind that ask you where you’ve been
Listen to their stories
Hanging on their every whim with you,
WIth you, there’s no telling all the things that we could do
But things are different now and all this time is pulling us apart
Trying to find a way to get it back and unbreak this heart
I want to see my best friend
To find out what he’s going through
But I know he’s been drinking
It’s radio silence
And sure, I have been too, with you
With you, there’s no taking back the shit I put you through
I wanted to be my best self,
But all I’m finding is this shell I try to fill up with pieces
That fall and clamor to get out
With you, where’d you go?
There’s no getting back to where we never was
‘Cause things are different now and all this space is pulling us apart
Trying to find a way to get it back and unbreak this heart
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4. |
Memory Forming Clouds
03:26
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The first night I left home had to keep on running around
Couldn’t let nothing slow me down
To keep from leaving
The first night I left home I dove deep into the drink
We stayed up talking in the heat
The heat that found its way into my dreams
We were hanging around the corner
And your hair was short
And you were 24
You were saying that you didn’t know if it was worth it anymore
The second time I left I kissed you goodbye in the street
We had no where we were supposed to be
Except apart
The night before I’d tried
Inches from saying goodbye
Until I got sick with you beside me
And we slept spread out and build a wall of pillows to protect us from the heat
And the song ghosts was playing in my head as I woke up in dreams of leaving
To the smell of coffee
The final time I left no fanfare played me out
Weary and seeped in doubt
Memory forming clouds
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5. |
Dawson City
03:42
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Dawson City
You were bumming ‘round
Dragging your aimless body in and out of town
Trying hard to be something no one needs
Heard the call of gold
Off in those distant mountains no one around you’d known
Threw your life in bags and hit that dirt road
How are you ever going to turn and face them now
Knowing what you know
With nowhere to go
It’s hard to face defeat
When your destination’s burning in the breeze
Grab a plume of smoke, ride it home
Floating through the clouds as you dissipate and rain ash on the ground
Knowing what you know
Nowhere to go
How are you ever going to turn and face them now
Having set out just to strike out
How are you ever going to turn and face them now
Knowing what you know
With nowhere to go
It’s the kind of town that will turn your beauty into a thorny crown
None like you aloud to wear it proud
I’m so sorry now for every time I was the weight that pulled you down
Just another man who tried to wear you around
How are you ever going to turn and face them now
Knowing what you know
With nowhere to go
How are you ever going to turn and face them now
Having set out just to strike out
Asking every stride
Was it determination, wanderlust, or pride?
Could you face yourself if you had not tried?
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6. |
I Fell Into A Black Hole
03:15
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I fell into a black hole
A pull I couldn’t fight
All my friends forgot my name
I watched them age and die
All the nights perpetually swimming by my side
Every second stalling, undecided
I had a dream of my old life
The rooms we laughed and cried in
The tiny steps we sleepily took
To cast each part aside
I fell into a black hole
As my body compressed
Felt the warm and numbing pull
Of it’s collapsed darkness
[ <<I fell into a black hole
Eloh kckalb a otni llef I >> Eloh kckalb a otni llef I >> otni llef I >> ]
I thought I heard your voice in there
The lilt on which it rides
Must of been a memory
Too far in to have survived
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7. |
Wedding
04:17
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I was dreaming
Carried in waves
Does the soul supersede us?
A vessel to play through the song...
We were driving home from montreal
And the sun glowed above us
And lifted the warmth of it all
Life before us; lit up by day
And the call of the future, and the dreams that could sweep us away
To reconnect the stars like they were only ever ours…
To reconnect the stars like they were only ever ours…
To reconnect the stars…
Beauty finds us kicking and screaming
The world loves a fight, wakes us up when the dream is most sweet
But together we find a light
Absorbed through the pores, we share it when you kiss me goodnight
Oh the problems; I won’t forget
But the love is what frames them and it shows us the way to persist
To reconnect the stars like they were only ever ours…
To reconnect the stars like they were only ever ours…
To reconnect the stars…
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8. |
Kindness Heroic
04:42
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With kindness, heroic
Carrying the last half a century
You shone a light past what I was too young to see
Traipsing through worn paths
Chartered only in your memory
You cherished those warm days
They brought you back into the comfort of youthful beauty
That old closed off fireplace
Against the faint white sheen in the softly falling air
The new wooden stairs out back
When you stepped out and I heard a loud sound there
It was the first time I saw it
The frailty that robs the light from us
And the longing for old selves
Who’d stray off into the tall grass without a care
With loss comes awareness
The passing that makes now then
You kept a tight lid on the long nights that kept you from them
As our visits got more sparse
Fresh off a flight, and attention began to shift
The light gently scattered on worn paths and silences
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9. |
So Long
04:42
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When you’re looking towards the heavens
You know you’re looking to the past
That’s alright by some
They let the sublime wash past
But death won’t wait forever
It’ll find you before that
Better make your peace with the vacuum before your body turns to ash
When you reach event horizon
When your cards turn up the pyre
Clutching tickets to the westbound train
While the station burns like fodder
Will the ember of each smoldering coal resist itself as fire
Or will you find that you were never here
Just a ripple on the water
Always dreaming of the future
And reaching towards the past
That light, off in the distance
Trying to set a path
Gently singing a siren song,
A direction to distract.
You better make your peace with nowhere;
Somewhere’s always fleeting fast
Your love is like a bullhorn
It screams over the lake
It travels over space and time to find me, all this way
But by the time it reaches me it doesn’t sound the same
And I’m not sure how to love you back when the signals bound the change
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10. |
Lovely Day
02:04
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Lovely day, and they say we’ll pay
But we won’t
Big blue bus is going to take me down to the valley there
To see my friend
We’ll sit outside and drink our wine rain or shine
And I will try my best not to fall asleep too early
But the week’s booze and long days drive pull at the corners of my eyes
Things feel different this time of year
When all signs around point to life, green life
We set aside our other minds
So lost on all the words they never tried
Sit outside and drink our wine
Rain or shine
And I will try my best not to fall asleep too early
But the week’s booze and long days drive pull at the corners of my eyes
Lovely day,
And they say we’ll pay
But we won’t
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Heats been setting in now
Days are getting longer
Morning lifts me out of bed
With arms of gentle rays
Following these cycles
Words of fertile land mines
Somehow I thought I wouldn’t feel the same way
Time it keeps on spinning
I just keep on letting on
That everything is going to be ok
But darling, when you kissed me
How the world it seemed to stand still
And now I can’t keep track of the days
Talking into glasses
Heart is beating slower
Lost in the transaction
As our eyes glaze over
Neither of us listening to ourselves
Or to eachother
Above, the birds, they are returning
[While] the wanderlust had stayed
Money’s disappearing
I keep on pretending I could carry on in the same way
Time it keeps on spinning
I just keep on letting on
That everything is going to be ok
But darling, when you kissed me
How the world it used to stand still
And now I can’t keep track of the days
Time is disappearing
All the sounds, they keep on slowing down
Until the melody starts driving me insane
We just keep on talking
Talking ourselves into corners
I rarely do recall what it is we say
Smoke it keeps on billowing
I keep on forgetting
Until every single dream it dreamed the same
If this is what we’re put here for
If this is what we’re doing
I’m not sure I see the point in staying
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12. |
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With kindness, heroic
Carrying the last half a century
You shone a light past what I was too young to see
Traipsing through worn paths
Chartered only in your memory
You cherished those warm days
They brought you back into the comfort of youthful beauty
That old closed off fireplace
Against the faint white sheen in the softly falling air
The new wooden stairs out back
When you stepped out and I heard a loud sound there
It was the first time I saw it
The frailty that robs the light from us
And the longing for old selves
Who’d stray off into the tall grass without a care
With loss comes awareness
The passing that makes now then
You kept a tight lid on the long nights that kept you from them
As our visits got more sparse
Fresh off a flight, and attention began to shift
The light gently scattered on worn paths and silences
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Mike Legere Toronto, Ontario
Mike Legere is a songwriter/producer from Nova Scotia, based out of Toronto Ontario.
Photo by Stephen Kearns
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