Being Here
by Miriam Jones
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Being Here
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Always Been Between
03:39
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You are like an angel with your out of nowhere way
Just without the thunder and still I feel my insides quake
When I see you, when I see you.
You are somewhat elfin, forest friendly yet refined
While an element of mofo keeps you coolly out of line
But you don't scare me, not even a little bit
I can't believe I let this get to me
But this fear and trembling, I don't know what to do with it
It's just the way it's always been between
You don't give me nothing when I'm so easy to appease
But I guess a few words man has quite a time of divvying
And I know I can cross your line
Ya I know I you crazy drive
I was sleeping soundly thinking you were still away
I perceived a stranger, called the cops to keep me safe
Safe from you - it was only you
Only you, it was only you
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Custody
04:10
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You and your owlish eyes - me and my dislike for being surprised
Oh this was bound to go badly
You and your honeyed way - me and my genius for pulling away
Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to - I can see you’re into you, yeah.
You and the way you feel - me and my custom of keeping it real
How many times did I tell you?
You and your panic moves - me thinking surely I’d gotten it through
I guess we all hear what we want to
And you’re so into you that you don’t hear anything that I say but you think that you love me
And I begin to lose my taste for your need to make me stay
I’m fleeing this custody
Fine if you’re set on me, but honey your settings ain’t no guarantee
I’m going to be where I want to
You’re fixing to make a mess - love isn’t love when it’s under duress
My heart beats boldly in front of you and you don’t have a clue
Cooing in my face as if with words my wild will to sway
But you’re not big enough for the two of us to stay
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Fancy Free
03:22
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You pack your sack and shove my sweater in - I tuck my borrowed bed away
Out the door like frog and toad are friends into a gift of glorious day
Cross the field and pass the chickens, thank them for my breakfast eggs
Passing across the highway, we make our great escape and
We are fancy free - heaven and earth belong to you and me and
Life is here lived twice in hours of mirth drawn out by God’s delight
We pick our place and sit down with the dirt - space between to set a fire
I burn a hole right through my favorite shirt and I am now appropriately attired
Fumbling drum between my fingers, I can never roll these right
You trade me yours and pour me coffee - we stare out at the sky
We’ll go home by the river - drop our clothes in perfect piles
I feel my whole life quiver, drenched with all this mighty wild
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5 Interstate
03:54
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I must be in a bad kind of way ‘cause I’m leaving December down the 5 interstate trying to
free up my soul, refresh these controls, clean my slate
And true to decision that I barely made I am making a distance with sudden escape like I
fear for my life, I know that my life is at stake
I look at my lap - I’m in Washington state - that’s me on the map drifting out of my lane
But you know I feel so unearthly, misplaced
When I left you I left me there too - the way I’d made me to get on with you
Now there’s nowhere to anchor me to but this teatherless blue
I’m not a stranger to taking up flight oh I do it with ease in my dreams every night where it
don’t cause me pain, I’m up and away out of sight
But we’re never free of the life we explore oh I am when I touch you or walk through your door and now you’re out of reach and I don’t keep your keys anymore
So I’m going away somewhere I can’t be found - at least not as I was with you all around
Three hours out of town I’m still breathing you out
When I left you I left me there too - the way I’d made me to get on with you
Now there’s nowhere to anchor me to but this teatherless blue
And I’d give my right arm to keep new year’s at home if I didn’t need it to drive down this road - deep into west coast cold
When I left you I left me there too - the way I’d made me to get on with you
Now there’s nowhere to anchor me to ...
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Dust & Sand
03:26
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Miracle that I am - so much I don’t understand
What a piece of work is man just to fall to dust and sand
Life and death keep side by side - black and white and intertwined
Tied to God and tied to land, turn we all to dust and sand
Goodbye for now, he meets us somehow
Goodbye for now, completes us somehow
Eternity in heart and mind working out of place and time
Nightly I must rest my hands conceding to this dust and sand
Goodbye for now, he meets us somehow
Goodbye for now, completes us somehow
Goodbye for now, he meets us somehow
Goodbye for now, completes us somehow
Life is sacred, life is plain.
Dressed in splendor for a day
Worth denying and worth his pains
Owned when all is given away
When only dust and sand remain
All goes dark on my day
Spirit hovers, breath sustains.
Nothing now comes to your face, silent as the work of grace
Subject to our debt’s demands we’ll lay you down in dust and sand
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So Well As You
04:04
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By and by she means to leave me, butterfly her sky receiving
Fly away my sweet, sweet baby, beauty born to be a lady
I can tell you one thing sister - I could die for how I’ll miss her
She rush my May right to December
But as you’re leaving please remember
That I love nothing in the world so well as you, nothing in the world I tell you true
Nothing in the world so well as you
Tell me how to do without you - who will I go running into?
Well I’m a grown up girl admittedly, but I confess that you take care of me
And I love nothing in the world so well as you, nothing in the world I tell you true
Nothing in the world so well as you
And I could pack my things and travel very far, there is nothing more than what you are
Nothing in the world
I’ll try to keep my reason while you ride the winds of your season
You and I knee deep in meaning, in our love
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Love Let Me In
04:27
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Baby watch your back for me, mind what you might mean to me
What if I should love you, love enough to change my life
Honey put your head to use, beware what I could mean to you
What if you should love me, want to love me all your life
I’d promise to get in your way and I would swear through everything to stay
Love let me in, I’m standing in the cold I’m waiting at your heart
I’m guaranteed to love you guaranteed to make it up
I would drink you in like sunshine and I would love you in the dark
But you stay just where I can’t reach you and I beseech you
Love let me in
Darlin’ what you doubting for, there’s always one thing true for sure
Ain’t nobody gonna tell you what you want but you my friend
Love is patient love is kind, but love demands a sacrifice
Best you do this boldly and I would hold thee ‘til the end
I’d ask no less than everything and I would overwhelm you with the me that I would bring
Let me marvel at your mysteries, bore me with your daily life
Trust me with your insecurities and blind me everywhere you shine - love let me in
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I Am One
04:20
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I am one of his disciples
I am one who bears his name
I am one of Satan’s rivals
I am one and I am unashamed
I am orphan made a daughter
I am a harlot made a wife
I’m a poor man called to dinner
I am a stranger recognized
Oh I am the image of a hidden glory
Yes I am danced over died for willingly
Oh I am the keeper of a coming kingdom
and hallelujah I am home to coming King
I am one of his defiers
I am one of his runaways
I have fought him to the wire
And I have cursed him to his face
But I am one who he has pardoned
I am one who knows his grace
Though the world my heart would harden
His love avows to keep it safe
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Squander
04:16
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I have squandered a lot - another foolish attempt to make love out of thoughts
What we’re willing to trade for the warmth of another, the hope for an always
Good will is lost on this one, and I want but I don’t and I try but it won’t be made
Anything but what it is, I need much more than this and you don’t need no one at all
Anything is what I’d take to not feel like yesterday’s ‘might have been’
Kiss me again and say I’ve not squandered it all
You were a light I had never seen - a face for the free shoved down inside of me
You made me feel like a real girl, and your laughter expressed my delight for the world
All of my ideals are so lost on this one, and I want but I don’t and I try but it won’t be made
We all wish for our dreams to come true and I hate that my dreams were just one size to big for you
And I would do well to guard who I am - don’t need to be what you want and I don’t need no man
Because I’m not beautiful to you anymore anyhow
And still I want but I don’t and I try but it won’t be made
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Dead Man Walking
04:31
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Autumn loves what it does - sober light on summer lust
Flowers fade, leaves are laid - we cannot stand forever
Winter gives definitive death to life that should not live
Ever we set our plea against the turning time
No baser stuff than makes us up could anywhere be found
And true it is that such as this belongs back in the ground
And I am a dead man walking in a waning land
Awake me, remake me Yahweh
This earth tomb - a birth womb - tired life of spent cocoon
Release me, repiece me, I wait to see this dead man walking, walking away
Every day ten new ways to stay a few more sorry days
What we implore to linger for I cannot hope to tell
All we’ve sought to fill our loss, see him hanging on a cross to bid me make my great escape
to the word that stands forever
Set me free, bury me
The life he bleeds the remedy
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released February 1, 2007
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Miriam Jones Victoria, British Columbia
Management: miriamjones.tumblr.com/contact
"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."
- Tim Martin, FATEA Magazine
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