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Ice Cream Dream
04:31
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They say you'll never get out
Best run up to the hills
Till those hills they resent you
Send you tumbling down
Take to the valleys
Run to the rivers you see
Take one to the ocean
Find a way to be free
They caught you in a summer scene
There with your ice cream dream
And it's melting in your hands
And it's melting in your hands
Sickly sweet and messy
Place your head upon the foxtails
Place your soul in quiet alarm
Dream of a girl you'll never hold
– Dreams of a girl you'll never hold –
Never hold in your arms
Desperate as a spring song
Freshly cast into that sunny light
To bounce off these side walls
Hit you right between the eyes
I don't like the costume that I wear
No, it rubs me the wrong way
Can I undress and change in
To someone I think I wanna be
They caught you in a summer scene
There with your ice cream dream
And it's melting in your hands
And it's melting in your hands
Sickly sweet and messy
Place your head upon the foxtails
Place your soul in quiet alarm
Dream of a girl you'll never hold
– Dreams of a girl you'll never hold –
never hold in your arms
Dream of a girl you'll never hold
– Dreams of a girl you'll never hold –
Never hold in your arms
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2. |
Imperfect Grace
04:39
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Gonna cancel-culture everything
Burn the house and toss this ring
Disconnect from the constant ping
Of my wayward ways
Sure gotta fall to fall to get better
Been round enough hearing the clown inside
Tear me down know that I never claimed better
Than anyone, whoa anyone at all
I just need to find some good grace
Take away my dirty ways
Explain my dirty face, work it away
With imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Flaws surround me thick like birds of a feather
I know pride she comes before a fall
Sure I’m young or old enough to know damn better
But I know enough to know nothing at all
Every heroes got a Pinocchio’s nose
And it grows and grows - man it grows
Shelve shock long enough oh to see
A hero’s faults make’em just-like-me
I just need to find some good grace
Wash clean my dirty ways
Explain my dirty face, work it away
With imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
I see your mistakes and I raise you mine
Intolerance Police tow their heavy-handed line
Shatter my confidence by twenty pegs
Stories of my wrongs will have legs upon legs
Legs upon legs upon legs upon legs
I just need to find some good grace
Wash away my dirty face
Wash away this very place
Away – away
With imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
Imperfect grace
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Your Smile Sets Me Free
05:02
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I am tired of running
My two left feet won’t go
Call the prison, call the warden
Might as well just let him know
Cause I don’t need anything – beyond four walls
Cause I don’t need no – sugar in my tea
Cause I just need a good girl – let me tell you see:
Your smile sets me free
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Figure out what’s important
Figure out what you need
Put the pieces together
Suddenly I see
What it boils down to
Cut straight through the fluff
What you need – what you don’t son
It’s not wizardry, it’s love:
Your smile sets me free
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Big sky country
Oh but not for me
All them fair cities
You can just let’em be
Sit - with - me - now
Quiet under this scrub tree
Found what I’ve been looking for
Smiling right back at me:
Your smile sets me free
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4. |
Uncomfortably Gray
03:43
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Space
How is Carnegie Hall
What will you do with it all
All of your space is in spades
You
Need no one to erase
All the discomforts of love
Toss it, toss it away
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
Caught in the crossfire of what we do and we say
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
I’ll
Be stuck in this space
Lost in thoughts that I chase
Run faster, the faster they stray
Empty
Hollowed out like an old tree
Nothing left but a pattern
Nothing left but a memory
Why is this happening, happening, happening to me
I’d fight off the fiercest of beasts, but still you would flee
If I could rewind time, I’d make yesterday Groundhog Day
If it meant I’d see you smile, rather than go away
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
Caught in the crossfire of what we do and we say
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
The distance between friends, lovers, and enemies
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
It’s uncomfortably gray
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You're twisting all the rainbows
Like you're wringing out a cloth
Suddenly my heart
Is feeling so lost
Is feeling so lost
If you'd tell me you need me
Then I'd ice-skate on the bluest sea
I'd teach all the frogs how to fly
I'd grow flowers spread so far and wide
If you've got a voice dear
I could listen all-day-long
But it's just my own fantasy
As I drive alone – I drive alone
I wish that you would see me
Not the shadows on the day
Like a penny on the sidewalk
I'm not worth the energy
Worth the energy
If you'd tell me that you miss me
Then I'd tap-dance on the tallest tree
Oh I'd set all the mustangs free
And l'll bury the gloom in me
I'll bury the gloom
I know,
I know - I know
I'm dreaming now
A midnight fantasy, you and me
And it never works out
I know -
I know logic is your best friend
But it's not my friend, it’s a dead end
No it lets me feel nothing
I want to feel something
You're twisting all the rainbows
Like you're wringing out a cloth
Suddenly my heart – My Heart –
Is feeling so lost, is feeling so lost
You're twisting all the rainbows
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6. |
Chester McPolyfield
03:50
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Chester McPolyfield - I think you know by the sound of my voice
Chester McPolyfield - I think you know that I’m a nit-wit too
As me how I know - oh boy I’m built the same way yeah
Sure I got a few years - up on you Chester - but I won’t say
They’re going to beat you in the subway
They’re going to trap you in a corner
I think you know that it’s real
They’re going to push you out
They’re going to make you fall down
They’re gonna throw you off the platform
They’re gonna make you crawl
Chester McPolyfield – I hope you live in a big brash house
Doors all in gold, locks on the gates – lots of windows looking out
Call all the people – have a big party – let them see
When they’re all gone – oh you still gonna feel the same as me
They’re going to beat you in the subway
They’re going to trap you in a corner
I think you know that it’s real
They’re going to push you out
They’re going to make you fall down
They’re gonna throw you off the platform
They’re gonna make you crawl
You got some rays there - so shine them some ways there - watch’em all pout
You walk away man – make up your own plan – cause she’s no where
If you get lonely – give me a call hey – and we’ll go wandering out
Head on the highway – we’re going to find our place – here and now
They’re going to beat you in the subway
They’re going to trap you in a corner
I think you know that it’s real
They’re going to push you out
They’re going to make you fall down
They’re gonna throw you off the platform
They’re gonna make you crawl
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Make you crawl
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7. |
Abel Mountain
04:42
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Hear the whistle, of the next train, calling out, coming through
Past the campground, Abel Mountain,
Where my love lies sleeping there
In her camper
In her blankets
Nestled between these green hills
My heart – beats with – you still
Come the morning, fresh upon her
Emerald summer, gentle dew
Biggest brown eyes and a soft heart
Enough to make this man unglue
Walk the river
Pick sunflowers
I’d go anywhere with you
Don’t know that I can stop thinking
About what’s been missing
It’s really there, in-person,
Right - in front - of me
Right - in front - of you
Heart is driving, tracks to this train, hear the whistle, passing through
To the campground, Abel Mountain,
Where my loves lies waking to
All the bright sounds
As this world wakes
Girl it wakes just for you
Can I – awake – for you too?
Don’t know that I can stop thinking
About what’s been missing
It’s really there, in-person,
Right - in front - of me
Right - in front - of you
Hear the whistle, of the west train - calling out, coming through
Past the campground, Abel Mountain,
Where my love lies sleeping there
In her camper
In her blankets
Nestled between these green hills
My heart – beats with – you still
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Licorice Finn Northfield, Vermont
Licorice Finn is an emerging folk-rock artist on the singer-songwriter spectrum.
His first album
release, Uncomfortably Gray, is a collaboration with legendary music men: Bow Thayer and Vincent Freeman. Recorded and produced at The Underground.
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