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Holding Bay
04:15
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I pray you out of this holding bay, pray you in to some kind of air
God only know why we hover here bleeding life down the drain of going nowhere
I sing my songs in the dining room, wring my heart with nobody there
You spin your soul with a coffee spoon typing tales ‘mid the music and the fanfare
Everybody needs a hearing and how we fight to gain the clearing
And sometimes we settle for watching bottles we dared to throw out to sea get washed ashore
And sometimes we have to be satisfied that in the loneliness there lies a sleeping meaning
You lose your heart in a shuffle play - shift the weight of waiting on whims
A sea of eyes on this sea you ride back and forth between the stillness and the mayhem
Sometimes I play feeling far away, lose my heart to what’s on their mind
I see their eyes and I’m compromised - feeling naked and nervous beneath the lights
Thoughts like these reminding me I’m inside fettered or inside free
Don’t worry, this fury that keeps you alienated is the way we pray for what may be -
the day we’re satiated
I love you will not be enough to lift up your courage always
What you’re speaking, life you think you’re leaking, comes overflowing some day
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Down
04:50
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I brought you down to a place where I could see you dressing down, climbing down
I went 'round you, felt too much to tell you I was down everything was falling down
I was bound to be the one to sound you - I wear your frown like a hand-me-down
I astound you to be so like, unlike you, I run you down, we tumble round and
What I could have been for you, but what we don't do cannot be rescued
I let you down, misused my only chance - I loved you fiercely with the love tucked in my hand
I put you down, now I can't take it back, and I can't bear the sorrow and the judgment at my back
Will bring me down
The days I found you, so beautiful to crown you - then turn around and knock you down
I would hound you to break the chains that bound you, but never knelt down, helped you off the ground and
Oh that all this hatred of what we are should be translated
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Chase Me
04:05
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I always had a heart for you and a mind for more of me
You gave me all the world to use and I found the one forbidden tree
Oh the naked day I ran away to take care of myself
To all my life be ruled by my escape, to faint under some spell
So you would chase me down through the centuries
Remembering the garden when you asked me where I was
Then you came to face me but I didn’t really see you
You always had a heart for me that I mistrusted from my birth
And you trying to get close to me has marked the history of earth
Round a table we, 12 men and a deity drinking wine together just like brothers
We were vying for the right hand of your royal court
And you looked like the world was going under
Oh the night I naked fled away and left you by yourself
You went on to pay for my escape and shake me from this spell
So you would chase me down through the centuries
Remembering the garden when you asked me where I was
Then you came to face me but I didn’t really see you
You hung naked on that darkened day and brought me to yourself while I was
Swearing there was some mistake - I didn’t know you well
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Routine Runaway
04:33
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Open the window and breathe in - I can’t believe we’re finally leaving
It’s just the way I always dreamed it
I’ve got you, you got me, we promised - there’s nothing left but to get on this
If the car breaks down we’ll pawn it
Finally free to love and leave this land
I know they see it in some ways as just another routine runaway
From the girl who couldn’t stand to stay in one place
But running ‘away from’ and ‘into’ are two completely different ways to get through
You pull me like the right was always meant to
We could drive a million miles tonight
I could not be further gone than here in your sweet eyes as we’re kissing at the stoplight
And I’ve left this town more times than I can think of
But I never cared less where I was headed to than on my way out with you love
Oh and everyday your love takes me far away, and I’m OK that you’re my
routine run run runaway
The first time I met you I left you make believing things we could get up to
The places we’d go doing what we loved to
A year gone and married a day in and we’re leaving everything for England
Like I never came awake from dreaming
You say I’m brave to come away but understand
I will be at home whenever I have you in my hand - you keep me safe like nothing else can
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Earth & Sky Remix
04:12
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This is a song for the wild and the free - for all of the lost 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 mischievous eyes and I am thinned by this tidy and civilized world that I’m in
Try as I may I just never quite seem to fit in
All these edges and corners, these boundaries that border me in
‘Cause 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 your walkways and head for the hills
Wander the woodlands, flesh out my soul and the way that I feel
And in this great expansiveness I’m opened right up to this:
We are all made for wilderness, called into pilgrimage
And I’m a live in earth and sky, in these rivers that dance for my mischievous eyes and I am thinned by this tidy and civilized world that I’m in
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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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