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Adirondack Sky
03:03
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There is no potion
Like fire and leaves
There is no purple
Like mountain trees
There are no words quite like
Parting eyes
The spell of misty mornings
Sullen goodbyes
Lullabyes
(chorus)
The earth my witness
Dare I ask for place
With races won or lost
Bring me home someday...
But why so far
My Adirondack sky
I'm coming home someday
The stars know why
You speak to me in
Coattails and dreams
I long for past all future
State of being
The sky carves way
For birds in parallels
The home one knows one brings is
Where one dwells
Where one dwells
Chorus
Clear blue sky...
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2. |
My Sweetness
03:49
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I'm sweet like honey
My hungry bee
Hotter than sugar and
Strong like the weeds
It's an amber-y, sticking-ly world out there
And the one breaks my jar
Has a mess in his hair
(chorus)
And it's Ay-Oh-Ay-Oh-Ay..
No man can own
What the seas made for free
And I can't give you heart or soul
If you can't see
The skin between you and me
Open spaces and
Hands in their places
Backbone twists and
Homerun graces
All feels so good when we're climbing the bases
But who leads you home
When the wolves take their places
Chorus
Fistfuls of kites
Imaginary fights
Solos and so low the bottom drops tight
All this sweetness,
My dear, it's a weakness
Who can know pleasure
Without showing meekness
Chorus
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3. |
Dance of Gold
03:11
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It's calm and we're pleasant
But raging for truth
Peaceful peasant
All grown up shoulder
The weight of your world
Sunshine boulder
I'll tell you a story but listen up close
It haunts and it wants
And it's only your ghost because
(chorus)
You don't know my secrets
You don't know what I hold
What the real thing feels like
Why my dance is gold
Hold hands and wonder
Why plunder why thunder
Why chances
Speak needs so clearly
But who holds you dearly
Build fences
In struggle my dear ones
I love you all so
Hands that do justice
Feed mouths of their foes, and yet
Chorus
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4. |
I wanna radiate
03:12
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If a picture in black and white is only shades of gray
Then what gave you flourescent light that day
For every hand you hold there forms a 'c'
Spinning silent shape that knows its piece
(chorus)
Now I can't say I know what's best, what's right
But I need you for more than just one night
Oh love love love love love
I wanna radiate
Etched into our veins, so many signs
Empire falls, rebuild between the lines
From me to you a voyage rife with speed
With love its purples hang in drip drop freeze
Chorus
Red is not the color we all think
Precious darkness battles fiery ink
The tension in a starry atmosphere
Will only find repose when eyes are near
Chorus
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5. |
California Blue
03:18
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I got a day older today
I'm an auburn patchwork skunk
Neither woman nor man
Somewhere in between, leave me be
(chorus)
Leave me be
When I'm alone
Find me water
When rocks are my home
California, give me eyes
Lift me up with your basket of sky
Wrestled my alligator today
I'm a torn-up jackalope hide
My scapula's stiff
I've got bruises and grit
And I can't help but try try try
Chorus
There is not a sole right
But a wrong
And yet, sunshine all the day long
Somewhere someone welcomes me
Why can't it be?
Maybe wristwatches turn with disdain
At my trippin'-up door-slammin' ways
Only old seeks in young
What's been lost to the tongue
Leave me be
Chorus
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6. |
American Charms
03:15
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On an average day
In an average town
It all fell down
In an average man
On an average street
No friend to meet
I've been living deeply
I've been eating whole
I've been feeding the (w)hole
I've been having strange dreams
Girls locked in holes
Heavy the bell tolls
Somewhere in America
Far from his home
Someone's been sold
(chorus)
I've been living deeply
I've been eating whole
I've been feeding the (w)hole
So fill me with your American charms
Cuz I've got pain in my American arms
I once owned an island
Belonged not to me
Land of the free
Take care your pipe dreams
Then give them away
Send love my way
Chorus
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7. |
WILD
04:38
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I'm a restless wandering one
Build so high
Between me and the sky
My feet and the earth
The sound of the rain
This worryin' work
Hear me cry
In somedays and sundays
Bygone snow-froze
Tree-whisper ways
It ran dry
(chorus)
Wild
Oh this world only knows what it takes
How we break
To be wild
Oh I swim with a passion
I dry up with lust
I tortured nobody but
Ashes make dust
Wanna fly
Between heartache and soul-shake
Hungry meat bones
And the lies
Oh the lies
Then a hundred-word kindness
Comes rushin' in
See it through sun-spreading eyes
Watch it rise
Chorus
When all of the art has been wrung out of me
And all my dances run dry
When body is withered and smile shining gold
Oh then, only then dear world let me die
Chorus
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8. |
How we Play
03:55
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I don't love you, my love
No, just your hands
And I don't know where you are
I just understand
Coming home to your feet
Gracing my air
Traces of worlds complete
Tucked in my stare
Truth you may love me, oh
How could I say?
Mouthfuls of honesty've
Been driven away
(chorus)
Take me away
To the place
Where we don't love
How we play
If I could love someone
Surely they'd be
Just as your twisting wave
Calls out to me
(From deepest seas)
And I'd be quite fine
With us parting ways
Just promise me this love -
I'd still have you all days
You'd still have me all days
Chorus
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9. |
Plume and Feather
04:12
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Born tangled in knots
Plume and feather
White cloud serenade
Feed me better
Of all the cold I've known
Yours bit down the bones
But I'm told
Hold unfold
Hold unfold
Give grace with a name
Hear no story
Let sail, should it be
Yours the only
Of all the blues at sea
The truest sky was me
But I'm told
Hold unfold
Hold unfold
Light of an age
Bound by ceiling
Straight from ancient page
Sight light feeling
Some horizon deep
Lifting flesh from feet
And I'm told
Hold unfold
Hold unfold
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10. |
Drop in the Ocean
05:45
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Slow black cat
Seeking its own company
A drop in the ocean
Of simple seas
Names and places
Who've never been
Meet the flutter
Black butterfly wing
(chorus)
Barn's burnt down
I can see the moon
Sands roll wide
Lift me over dunes
I feel wings
They're pulling at my back
You see fur
But I'm free
Yes I'm free
(this old tree..)
Long slope journey
On elephant's back
House of worship
No house looking back
Dig through tunnels
Press roots in so deep
Taste caresses
Of hungry owl feet
Chorus
Broken habits
And useless charms
The search for beauty
Came empty to my arms
Fight for power
Sit only with your own rage
Know the flavors
Of truth on your own stage
Chorus
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Heloise New York, New York
photo & cover art by J.Heloise. See www.jheloise.com for more info.
Heloise was
raised on classical music (piano, french horn, trumpet, voice), & musical theater. Folk music & harmonies were also cultivated at summer camp. She picked up guitar at age 21& began writing songs in her 30s. She is a graduate of Parsons & has created art for 12+ yrs (incl. cover art). She currently lives in NYC area.
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