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Inside Free

by Miriam Jones

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1.
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
2.
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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released December 20, 2008

Miriam Jones: acoustic guitar and vocals
Jez Carr: keys, electric bass on "Chase Me"
Steve Lawson: electric bass
Tom Hooper: drums/percussion

produced by Jez Carr and Miriam Jones

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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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