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Sign & Semblance

by Miriam Jones

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1.
Earth & Sky 03:44
This is a song for the wild and the free For all of the loss that lives in me This is to say that I'm making my way In the absence of everything ordered and everything plain And I'm alive in earth and sky, in these rivers that dance for my mischevious eyes and I am thinned by this tidy and civilised world that I'm in And try as I may I just never quite seem to fit in All these edges and corners, these boundaries that border me in But I am not orderly, there's more than four sides to me And this ground that I'm made of, I'm bound to its anarchy So I will step off of the walk ways and head for the hills Wander the woodlands, to flesh outmy soul and the way that I feel And in this great expansiveness, I'm opened wide up to this We are all made for wilderness, called into pilgrimage
2.
Oh my heart hold on, too rushed you run A glimpse of what you need is all it was So don't go on like that, you fool romantic You were fine last night, all alone but alright, now you're frantic And I can't sleep for all your make believe And you can keep your fool audacity Oh for a reasonable heart, to save me assembling what just falls apart Oh for a reasonable heart Believe me you'll regret this when it's done When flesh and blood retake the garrison What is wrong with you, what else could he do and you're off to the blue When you find the floor don't say I didn't warn you Do I need this really? It never fails you go for making me look silly There's nothing I can say to you You're never one to let me choose Toss me, turn me, fly me to the moon I won't presume to hope that I'll be sleeping soon I'm alive tonight, he is mine and we're dynamit Spin me on, spin me on oh my heart oh my song oh my life
3.
I hear my soul when there is nothing left to drive it in a hole I'm asleep and my thoughts are of the fewest I can keep Still you're there inside calling me I feel you there inside pulling me And I burn for you on those nights when I am forced awake by truth-that there is you And it's like trying to breathe and then finding that you don't have what you need to really breathe I'm in the dark and this hollowness is carving out my heart I know it's you but I'm lying here and don't know what to do Still you're there inside waking me I feel you there inside shaking me So I lay down because it's useless to stay up and look around I push it out until the next time that you come to find me out You'll come near from inside surrounding me I'll feel you there inside crowding me
4.
I don't want any more toys, more things to do while you're away Don't need more to keep me occupied, books to keep my heart alive today I don't want religion and I don't need to be right Keep your dogma keep your histor if I can't have God alive in me tonight Cause I'm tired of all these back-side glances, god-in-nature business I want no more of this and I, I want just you to hold my heart and turn me true, I don't want sign or semblance I just want all of you I want your footprints if you're not anywhere around And I don't want 2000 years ago unless you're someone I can get to know right now I don't want to spend my whole life trying to decide if you exist Cause that is not what you have made me for, I know you came to give me more than this This is life, to know you The only true and loving God And I can't do that with a textbook, I can't to it with the rule books that I've got
5.
Squander 04:29
6.
Wed 04:28
I've read about you and me on lonely nights of a living room couch and a slighted cold cup of tea, and lovers poetry; they put us down in a dream, but could it be that love was meant for me And I would fall asleep just to see you in my dreams, and I would lie awake if only just to watch you breathe and you know I would go anywhere if I knew that you would be with me And I could only love you, I cannot compare you I don't wish you more or less or without the mess of you So kiss me like you want to, hold me cause I need you Love I'm all for you In the morning I'll let you go, but you'll be back this time I know And I could say goodbye a thousand times if you want if it would mean one more hello You brighten up my soul you be inside me.you hold me with your eyes and you delight me Stay beside me Look how we're growing old But this weakened heart bears love more bold And I'll sing of how you knew me when and til the end you loved me To you my heart will ever bend
7.
Ah Lord God I am not skilled in any work or art Stop your mouth, you say and own the image of your God Well I resigned behind a blank stare in my front row seated lawn chair And I find it numbing how the world seems to get along without me And in the hands of a servant-God Who can keep a give-nothing love Oh sleeper, you tire him, get up and be reminded that you are a child of a king who wouldn't leave you with nothing to bring Loved ones all, we are the work of one who died so we would know So stand tall, get on your knees and pour out all that you would own Those things inside aren't for your hiding, they're there to show his shining To say you had nothing would be lying, it only takes some trying And we all are called to run creatively on, the great and the small
8.
Anything 03:55
More than anything I wish that you were here More than anything, to be with you my dear More than anything I need for you to know me More than anything to feel the smile when you show me More than anything I need to hold your hand Just a little while until I think that I can stand I need only you to say that it's ok darling You're the only thing I can't do without today So how is it I'm alone this way? How is it you could dare to be so far away? The only good I see in leaving you Is that it gives me something to look forward to More than anything I want to wake u in my bed on a sunday morning with two pillows by my head In our father's house on the corner we would meet We could use the world for two, do what we wanted to and I am only wasting time that could be better spent but You're not around to make me want to spend it And whenive got you on my. Ind I don't want nobody else and I understand those days were meant for loneliness Still I'm stuck here in this lonely room Writing songs about the way I feel when I'm at home with you And I could do the thing I'm longing to But I don't know why I'd rather sit here and cry No one knows me quite like you do And I don't know anything much like I know the place where I'd find you Oh the things that we hold onto It's beautiful here, but it won't stop the tears of one who needs you more
9.
the Mile 03:36
Sing to me the song about that place where I can hide You sang when I was young with arms around me Whisper in my ear of the one who's always there Tell me of the Son who died to save me I see him everywhere you go, in every yes and every no you're loving me still And if I reach out to hold your hand, request the honor of this dance when everybody's looking, they fade away I love you, you know I do And I will greet the morning to your smile Hoping you would know the truth That I'll have waited just to walk that mile with you I pushed you off the walk one day and barely 'scaped alive You've always been so sensitive but you know I need it A bigger heart there never was and yet no smaller pride In his grace you'd found a place and you know I see it Yesterday I'm sure that I was just a child What would you have done to keep me there well Some things never change, this heart is still the same And I won't walk away if you sing to me again
10.
I don't need to think twice - she is my best friend And though it doesn't seem right, I don't even see her on weekends And I guess it sounds crazy but it's somehow easy being where she's always missing No I can't figure this one out, Whenever she comes around I feel like I haven't been living But she's gone again, never time to say more, I didn't know she was there til she walks out the door The only way I know she was with me before Is she's gone again and I'm feeling so sore I heard she was home from somebody else we know She knew I went to Rome, by then I was already coming home And you'd think we'd be wearing from nobody caring but there's never been any resistance I know she loves me and she thinks it's funny that love can be known from a distance And though there's really nothing else I would like better than to sit with her and talk of even the weather We're free to love and we're free to roam, and this is where I feel at home
11.
Move 03:51
Praise to our God, life of our hearts, fire of our love and our burning Hallelujah, breath of our breathing, the whole earth is teeming with you And it's true, you're always on the move Just when I thought I'd lost you I find you out to prove That you're never through and you always move Praise to our God, art of our being Author of tale and of mystery Hallelujah, force of our turning Source of our yearning for you Praise to our God, illusive but faithful Prince of our peace and our storm Hallelujah, life to the dying Strength of our trying for you
12.
Never Far (free) 03:43
I should have turned away, instead I tried to think it through Not to know your way, just to get around you But then I look you in the face It's quite a different scene And I finally see the way that I have been And we wander in the dark, wondering where we are But you are never far Should have heard what you would say I thought I'd do without you And to do it is my way, just the way I want to Oh I need you every hour And oh sometimes I choose to leave you faceless in your tower As if you'd never come around I wish that's could stay wrapped up tight I side you But I always go away thinking I don't need to

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released February 1, 2005

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Miriam Jones Victoria, British Columbia

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"Quite apart from that this album is extraordinary on its own merits there are few artists willing to expose their talents to such a sparse instrumental background, and you need to listen to it and discover its beauty for yourself."
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