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April 23, 1996
01:33
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The Morning's Blessings
02:59
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Rooms quiet enough to hear
Quiet enough to hear
Footsteps and doors and greetings
Footsteps and doors and greetings
Footsteps and doors and greetings
Heard in quiet rooms
Coffee fresh enough to warm
Fresh enough to warm
Mugs, hands, and bodies
Mugs, hands, and bodies
Mugs and hands and bodies
Warmed by fresh coffee
Sunlight bright enough to pierce
Bright enough to pierce
Clouds, windows, and skin
Clouds, windows, and skin
Clouds and windows and skin
Pierced by bright sunlight
Grace strong enough to carry
Strong enough to carry
Life, breath, and another day
Life, breath, and another
Life and breath and another day
Carried by a strong grace
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3. |
Eason
04:19
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Running wild, not heading home
Await the call or the streetlight glow
Clive was ours out on our own
We didn’t know how fast it’d go
When we were kids out in the open
With our fears under the horizon
Breathing fresh air out at Eason
A freedom we lost somehow
Eyes set out on the great unknown
Blinded to the strains of growth
Now Rosewood nights, I cannot taste
If I had known, I might have stayed
We were kids out in the open
With our fears under the horizon
Breathing fresh air out at Eason
A freedom we lost somehow
Is there any way we know
To bring us all back home
Return the great unknown
For the freedom we lost somehow
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4. |
The Oceans
03:24
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Vast waves
Poet’s muse of old
Dark, endless
Lifting mighty song
Stand back and be honest
See the oceans pound and roll
Stand and be admonished
Hear the ocean’s violent roar
Caught, held
Below clouds of rain
All I’ve known,
Each foundation shakes
Thunder rough and roaring
Tears the forest from its source
Under such a torrent
What authority is yours?
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5. |
If/Then
03:14
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I was wondering what do with all my love songs
If this world is all that there is and it's all going wrong
So here it is
If it is hopeless
Then I will be hopeless with you
Yeah here it is
If it is lovely
Then it will be lovely with you
Are you not terrified of all the things that we just don't know?
Like if the end result of all these words is just an echo?
So here it is
If this world is burning
Then I will be
Burning with you
Yeah here it is
If it is endless
Then I will be
Endless with you
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Brevity
04:29
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Is there light to be found
As we float to the ground?
A greater glory, greater story,
Where there’s a joyful sound?
We pass like autumn leaves
Fighting gravity
In the glory of the trees
There’s beauty in the brevity
It’s dark when you hear it
It’s light when you see it
Is there anything more freeing
That we are leaves and not the tree, friend
We pass like autumn leaves
Fighting gravity
In the glory of the trees
There’s beauty in the brevity
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Bleak Midwestern Winter
03:55
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Hold me through the deep and dark December
Haven't seen the sun forever
Be the breath beneath my embers
You and me, we know
How long this goes
So take me home
And hold me close
Hold me through the bleak midwestern winter
Though we're breathing ghosts and shiver
Be the warmth in my December
Hold me when the winter's all that's in sight
by the hand, take me to lamplight
Be the melting snow of springtime
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8. |
Vacant Airport
02:53
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Quiet airport
Deep echoes
I hear my steps
Down this terminal
Quite unusual
Not a soul
I’m in an airport
But all alone
Cause you are
The only
Arrival
And this place is empty
But I’ll stay
I’ll sit for
A while
Waiting for you my love
This vacant airport
Is a strange metaphor
But it’s all to say
My time is yours
Cause if you were
The only
Arrival
And this place was empty
Well I’d stay
I’d sit for
A while
Waiting for you my love
You have my forever
Whatever that may mean
Forever, whatever that may mean
Forever, whatever that may mean
Forever, whatever
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Rosewood
04:00
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I don't know
How to feel
As I
Walk this street
So deep it goes
I feel it in my bones
So take it away slow
Tearing these roots from the soil
Cause I don't, I don't know how to feel
Carrying this rosewood from here
All I’ve known
Now it grows
To all
I'll ever know
True, it's beautiful
Still it steals its toll
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10. |
Alleluia
04:48
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If only for a moment
The wind carries the leaves
And the gray clouds of morning
Silhouette the tree, it sings
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
The moon on its lookout
Somehow it sits
The sun offers up light
Mirrored down to earth, it sings
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
The darkness of morning
Silent and still
Alone in the lamplight
A voice breaks and sings
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
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Look at you and me
I wonder where we’ll be
This time next week
Oh where will we be
Days go by too quick
I’m losing my grip
On reality
Oh where will be next week
Cause time rolls like a river
Rushing, it pulls you onward
You can barely catch it
Before it’s gone
I don't know how long
But the day will come
When you'll die
When you'll die
I’m sorry if that's frank
You're listening so it's okay
But one day
You will die, one day
Have you lived like a killer?
Or at least self-centered?
Where's your hope and comfort
In life and death?
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12. |
A Killer (Postscript)
01:21
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I don't know how long
But the day will come
When I’ll die
When I will die
And I’ll say
That I lived like a killer
Or at least self-centered
Jesus, you’re my comfort
In life and death
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Davis John Patton
Davis John Patton is a musician from the United States Midwest. His music brings together unique, gentle instrumentation and
graceful melodies similar to artists like Bon Iver, Novo Amor, and Sufjan Stevens.
Davis John Patton's first EP, Forest Park, is scheduled for release on February 9, 2018.
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