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Songs from the City and the Desert

by Ocotillo

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1.
COME WHAT MAY Come what may I'll stick around I'll be the old and constant sound A record playing in the other room A rose that lingers with a constant bloom Come what may I'll stick around I'll be the only one in town Who still believes in you Come what may Come what may no matter where you are Or how they stare Our love will linger like a fine perfume A steady flame, a smokey plume Come what may I can see so clearly how they push you out of line But honey they are blind to say I'm foolish just to love you It's absurd but so it goes And why love lingers nobody knows But rest assured I'm going to love you Come what may Come what may I'll stick around I'll be the old and constant sound A favorite chair, an empty room A suit of clothes, a rose in June Come what may I'll stick around I'll be the only one in town Who still believes in you Come what may
2.
FENCE BUILDING Met you down at the station Sunday morning 9:15 I said where are you going You said somewhere I can dream You got lost in a hurry You got lost on your way To my dead on arrival In your dream do I stay I’m a better man Doing what I can But I can’t make the river change With things that go and stop Now everything I’m not Is everything you’ve got to say The carpenter was a prophet Built this fence with his hands I can never forgive him How unlike God is a man This broken promised land Where we made our stand Who but Jesus could have known How we could sleep for years Fuck away our fears Pretending we’re still not alone I’ll say you are forgotten To anyone who’ll hear my lie A fool still surviving On the good in goodbye Who took the magnet trust That pulled for both of us Who hid your heart in antic hay Until the needle’s found On this shaky common ground For armageddon I will pray See the better man Doing what he can I know I can’t make you change But I can make the roses stop Blind this have into have-not That I might see another day
3.
SURVIVAL 03:55
SURVIVAL I’m a survivor I’ve lived through things to tell a tale or two That’s why the tales I tell They always sound so true At the bottom of the river in a burned-out boat There’s a smile and it used to be mine But they burned all the bridges that I crossed over Sipping the blood that used to be wine You need me You won’t admit it I can teach you a thing or two When you cease learning You start teaching What I could share with you At the top of a tree where it spins in the breezes There’s a heart in the branches and it’s mine I learned all about branches from the forest in me Slipping the rope and shedding the line And at the corner of Salvation by the burnt-out bridge There’s a wishbone buried in a jar And when they start to whisper of their wishes and their dreams You can run but you never get far Oh won’t you make me a dreamer of innocent dreams I want to dream again Nowadays nobody is what they seem And who saves the innocent when There’s a chain but it only turns backwards And you smile when I ask you is it true That they burned all the bridges that I crossed over And the only thing that’s left for me is you Salvation It takes many forms There's many a way to grasp that thorn Deliver me and save my skin But please don't take me back again To the corner of Salvation by the burnt out bridge Where the Main Man whistles through his teeth They don't know one thing about survival They don't know what's buried underneath Survival Tell me it don’t matter when the hangman’s fiddling with the noose When you’re running in your shoes and going ‘pitter patter’ To the sound of the rain on a corrugated roof Survival
4.
NOBODY KNOWS 04:47
NOBODY KNOWS Yes I’ve been drinking Yes I have had a few 'Cause that’s the only way That I could ever say these things to you Nobody knows how much I love you Nobody knows how much I care ‘Cause you’re not there Now you are with another And in my dreams I am in his shoes But those shoes don’t fit I must admit So I wake up with these blues Nobody knows how much I love you Nobody knows how much i care ‘Cause you’re not there That he treats you well I can tell So I have no excuse To try to steal your heart or make you part Get him to turn you loose So it is I who must be on my way And never let it show To my hiding place where I must face the fact That you may never know Just how much it hurts to love you To have to keep it to myself ’Til I can change it or rearrange it I’ll keep my love up on a shelf Nobody knows how much I love you Nobody knows how much I care ‘Cause you’re not there Yes you are with another So it is understood I can’t say how much I love you But darling if I could I would shout it from the mountain top To the valley far below You’d hear my shout there’d be no doubt Yes everyone would know But I can’t say how much I love you I must keep it to myself ’Til I can change it or rearrange it I’ll keep my love up on a shelf Nobody knows how much I love you Nobody knows how much I care ‘Cause you’re not there - (When I want you) You’re not there - (When I need you) You’re never there - (When I want you) You’re not there - (When I need you) Nobody knows how much I love you Nobody knows how much I care ‘Cause you’re not there
5.
SANDMAN 04:33
SANDMAN Right before you close your eyes Whispering your prayers When the sandman blows your eyes I'll be there When you wake up in the night Sounds the second stair That creaks under the careless foot I'll be there Gather roses while you may While the bloom is full For the blossom soon will fade And the bloom grow dull Right before the morning light Grows soft upon the sill When the shadows chase the night I never will When your voice is softly heard Singing in the morning air But the note does not ring true I'll be there Gather roses while you may While the bloom is full For the blossom soon will fade And the bloom grow dull Right before you sleep at night Closing up the blinds In the window's black embrace If you find The face of a lover long forgot Forgotten eyes, forgotten hair Forgotten words that stretch like salt I'll be there Gather roses while you may While the bloom is full For the blossom soon will fade And the bloom grow dull Right before you close your eyes Whispering your prayers When the sandman blows your eyes...
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TRINOME 03:40
TRINOME That's the way it goes First the honey then the rose That's the way it ends Die and something new begins I can't take you Where you will not go To forsake you I must know what you don't know what I can know That's the way it goes First the hidden then what shows That's the way it ends Someone loses no one wins I can't tell you 'Til you want to know To compel you If you want to let me want to let you go
7.
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT I am blinded by your light dear Hold me close and shade my eyes 'Cause I can't see you, or not clearly Are you merely a trick of the light? I was looking for a pathway out of here Distracted by the light upon your hair I was only passing through now must I stay Now I've found you 'Cause I...I... I am blinded by your light dear Hold me close and shade my eyes 'Cause I can't see you, or not clearly Are you merely a trick of the light? Oh so careless to fall so deeply Oh so mindless, won't you stop me 'Cause I am the biggest fool you ever saw The biggest fool who ever loved you I was looking for a pathway out of here Distracted by the light upon your hair I was only passing through now must I stay Now I've found you 'Cause I...I... I am blinded by your light dear Hold me close and shade my eyes 'Cause I can't see you, or not clearly Are you merely a trick of the light?
8.
COME ON 03:59
COME ON Well I saw you standing there And I could not help but stare From your head down to your feet You were cool and hot and sweet Like a drink so strong So come on Now I know just what to do When it comes to me and you You have gone right to my head And you make me want my bed But not alone So come on Come on, come on, come on, come on baby Come on, come on, you're driving me crazy Come on, come on, come on, come on baby Come on, come on, don't give me no maybe Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Don't you know that I love to see you in that dress On the floor is where it looks the best, I confess I want more, more, more Come on and lose control, lose your breath 'Cause you can't know life without a little death Now I won't do nothing fast 'Cause I want this thing to last Just as long as it will take That's the kind of love I'll make How can that be wrong So come on Come on, come on, come on, come on baby Come on, come on, you're driving me crazy Come on, come on, come on, come on baby Come on, come on, don't give me no maybe Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on
9.
ELECTRICITY 05:07
ELECTRICITY While the moment still remains Draw in closer kiss my lips Brush my shoulder with your fingertips While the moment still remains Something tingling in the air Electricity is hard to see It always happens when you're near When there is nobody to blame And if blamelessly I slip my hand into your hand Do we cross over some line we drew in the sand While the moment still remains We'll both be blameless as two souls can be Only our eyes can speak of certainty While the moment still remains Let the moment simply pass Electricity is hard to see It always happens when you're near When there is nobody to blame And if blamelessly I slip my hand into your hand Do we cross over some line we drew in the sand And it's only when i dream You draw in closer and you kiss my lips Only in dreams I feel your fingertips And the moment still remains All my friends say that it's true I burn much brighter when I shine for you A small ironic flame so bold so blue While the moment still remains And if blamelessly I slip my hand into your hand Do we cross over some line we drew in the sand While the moment still remains Maybe it's time for me to say goodbye When every touch must have it's alibi When every thought for me is strange Something tingling in the air Electricity is hard to see It always happens when you're near When there is nobody to blame
10.
THE FREE LIFE Well I've always been a rounder from city to town And I never met no one could settle me down 'Til the day that I met you I was too blind to see Freedom made a slave out of me My freedom made a slave out of me 'Cause the free life ain't no good life You're thinking you're free but there's the devil to pay Without roots you can't grow Took me so long to know The free life makes you pay The free life makes you pay When you offered your love I took more than I gave Didn't know I was someone that no one could save And I thought that by leaving that I would be free How wrong can one foolish man be Just how wrong can one foolish man be 'Cause the free life ain't no good life You're thinking you're free but there's the devil to pay Without roots you can't grow Took me so long to know The free life makes you pay The free life makes you pay Even birds that fly high are still chained to the sky Said the prophet that I did not heed I was brought to my knees by my do as I please Had to learn the hard way It's true what they say The free life makes you pay Now I'm wasting my days and nights I can't sleep And I ain't living long with the company I keep But until I forget you I will go on this way How long that may be I can't say Just how long that may be I can't say 'Cause the free life ain't no good life You're thinking you're free but there's the devil to pay Without roots you can't grow Took me so long to know The free life makes you pay The free life makes you pay

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Ocotillo Joshua Tree, California

Named after a Sonoran desert plant whose crimson rainflowers earn it the nickname 'desert coral', Ocotillo (ah-kah-tee-oh) is a UK/US transcontinental duo bringing together the voices and songwriting of Kirsty McGee from Manchester and Robert Garson from Joshua Tree. ... more

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