Тексты песен «Weather Station»


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Weather Station - At Full Height

If he don’t mean it, he won’t say it, and I can tell If I don’t mean it, I won't say it, and his face fell But it’s so seldom I believe it – it takes a clear kind of day Like air so cold it hurts to breathe it And the...

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Weather Station - Black Flies

Humid wood, you felt good And you shook your tangled hair down With the sweat in your eyes And all the black flies Under lidded skies You lie down there in the grasses On the clifftop you remember Salt stinging in your...

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Weather Station - Came So Easy

Just cause it came so easy like quiet evenings in my kitchen Just cause it came so easy like little breezes of indecision Line of ants came crawling through the cracks there in my tiles Sat there and I watched them as...

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Weather Station - Complicit

I was on the sidewalk And you were in a dream You said you couldn't stand it these days Your sensitivity The city felt oppressive The heat and the noise And even at home you felt every unspoken voice I don't know how...

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Weather Station - Floodplain

All spring I was driving Every river swollen with rain, every stream a torrent Over the highway bridges that run high across the plains, flooded “Half of the Maritimes,” they say, “is running this way.” I don’t expect...

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Weather Station - Free

You were always so adamant You told me That the one thing I was missing I didn't know I was free Tonight, when I pulled the car around I was alone under the sky And I was thinking it was the first year When I could see...

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Weather Station - I Could Only Stand By

You could go for hours, months, and days In that half-hearted, pinched kind of way And you don’t get too often to the bruise-coloured lake To stand, hands in your pockets Sometimes you don’t see nothing much there:...

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Weather Station - I Don't Know What To Say

I don't know what to say - but stay Until the meaning comes and finds you anyway You may not be certain You may not ever choose You may find your heart revealed like a bruise When you didn't call me When you did call...

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Weather Station - I Mined

It started small – a simple thought That there was something wrong And if it’s caught I could set it right Or at least, I could try All through the night and down in your eyes I mined and mined and mined Given time,...

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Weather Station - Impossible

I found that I was angry In the cool of the day All the tall trees swaying All I did not to say Though I managed all the details And I made all those phone calls And I wrote out all the e-mails And straightened out the...

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Weather Station - In An Hour

You know, in an hour It could all turn around You don't have to know how Though it all feels like fate now that you're down Strange in your body and strange in your mind Now it's coming from all sides I lay you down on...

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Weather Station - Kept It All To Myself

Kept it all to myself Kept it all to myself Kept it all to myself There were days When the luminescence of the skies Or the deep brown grasses Struck me so hard In the early evening I can hardly take it That light...

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Weather Station - Know It To See It

Take your bag, get in the car, get in the car And drive it Somewhere quiet Where you can sit at the wheel for a real short minute, smoking a cigarette Cause it's time for it to leave you and you know it will go It's...

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Weather Station - Life's Work

I listened; I always did listen to you Singing all the way through – Your life’s work: passion, caution, timing Try what you saw, and try what you knew It was never always true Your life’s work teasing you Like a...

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Weather Station - Like Sisters

Some people say that we look like sisters Somehow, something in the eyes And I’d say, “Well, you know I’m flattered,” And she’d say, “Yeah, right!” She’s always been so careful Nobody more faithful I’ve always been so...

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Weather Station - Loyalty

Well you called me – telephone ringing in the night And you asked me if I was alright – Like an afterthought, an oversight And I stood, so surprised Trying to hold on to my pride So close, I could hear your low sigh I...

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Weather Station - Nobody

In the air, first scent of snow All along the ground the last milkweed silk blows Nobody's ever going to tell you what they don't want to know No Nobody's ever going to tell you for they wish it was not so, better not...

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Weather Station - Personal Eclipse

I remember the dry grass of Nebraska, grey to distant blue I stopped on hills like slumping shoulders; car cooling, I took off my shoes I drove out west with my sister – she talks more than I do When she fell silent,...

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Weather Station - Power

You were a friend to me You told me all that was on your mind And it meant so much to me From the beginning How it was so kindred-spirited to mine I would think of you sometimes In the early morning As I dressed to meet...

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Weather Station - Running Around Asking

I went running around asking everybody I know I already asked my mother and the woman who lives next door I've been running around asking for so long I wanted to ask my grandmother, but I couldn't get past the weather...