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Ghost in My Hand
02:47
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Ghost in My Hand (2:45)
I know the place where you're going to
I know where you are
I know the face that you're holding to
I know who you are
Losing yourself in a closet of secrets
I can surely understand
surely as holding the flame of a ghost in my hand
I know the traces of what you've done
I know what you do
I know the distance between the lines
that entangle truth
Moving with grace in the maze of the restless
I can surely understand
surely as holding the flame of a ghost in my hand
Miles away, beautiful and blighted
comes the blue parade of the divided
I remain holding a ghost in my hand
Miles away, you will get excited
by the single gaze of the united
I remain uniquely uninvited
I know the reason you count the length
of the steps you take
I know the window you place before
any friend you make
Deeply divided but cleanly connected
I can surely understand
surely as holding the flame of a ghost in my hand
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Broken Window
02:36
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Broken Window (2:35)
Smile when you're broken
Talk when your love is gone
Fly in the face of everyone behind your broken window
Reach when you're sinking
Hope when you're cut inside
Laugh in the face of everyone behind your broken window
Go outside then come back to yourself
Come up from sleeping
It's a new day
Put away the weeping
and you will see forty-seven second chances playing in the street
forty-seven second chances you're supposed to meet
Come up from sleeping
It's a new day
Put away the weeping
and you will see forty-seven second chances standing in a line
forty-seven second chances you're supposed to find
Hey, when you're deeply lost in the underground
lie in the faith of those who'll help you find your scattered pieces
Leap when you're lonely
Live when you're still inside
Lie in the grace of those who'll help you mend your broken window
Go outside to where you can go
Look inside to find another
and discover the love forever for you
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Galiana
03:21
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Galiana (3:18)
Galiana standing in a world that is demanding
She entreats the bitter crowd to know her name
but while she is confessing, unaware, she is undressing
for a soul who'd rather smile when she is slain
Harder now
If you look harder now
wonderful things are ready and able to be
defiant by emotion, crying to the open ocean
bye bye to loneliness
bye bye to emptiness
Galiana walking while the government is talking
of a better place for all to share as one
but when she finds the address, she is startled by the madness
of a place created better just for some
Harder now
If you look harder now
wonderful things are ready and able to be
and if you catch that feeling, and you hold to inspiration
bye bye to loneliness
bye bye to emptiness
Blithely as the rain but as deeply as a veil
she turns around and listens for a cup of conversation
to relieve the inner ache of a name without a sound
while the sewing and the sweeping are the only friends she's keeping
Galiana hoping all the roads that are worth knowing
are the ones that cross the world to come back home
but far away the scratching of a world forever hatching
and dispatching any trace of what she's known
Harder now
If you look harder now
wonderful things are ready and able to be
defiant by emotion, crying to the open ocean
bye bye to loneliness
bye bye to emptiness
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