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American Foursquare
04:22
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An American Foursquare
On a tree-lined avenue
What am I going to do now?
I sold a house in the city
Moving back to the place I grew
What else can I say to you?
Now my new neighbors
Say the flowers on my south side
Are beautiful in the springtime
My brother and his family
Live three blocks toward the park
I see them every day
A little slow so I’m taking my time
A little slow but I’ll be alright
A little slow so I’m taking my time
A little slow, but it’s what I like
It’s what I need and like
I have to live in the moment
I have to move to the slightest touch now
Take whatever comes my way
Because the negative predictions
And the apathy are far too much
I chose not to live that way
A little slow so I’m taking my time
A little slow but I’ll be alright
A little slow so I’m taking my time
A little slow, but it’s what I like
It’s what I need and like
Are you implying that I’m not trying?
Like if you’re bored, you’re boring?
I see the point, but I’m all mixed up
I’d be lost without your love
I’m lost without you
An American Foursquare
On a tree-lined avenue
What am I going to do now?
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I don’t have another choice
I’m living in the void
When I think about you lately
My head fills up with noise
You left here two months ago
I saw the hand of God swing low
And the garden I had planted
Was covered in the snow
How am I going to let you know that I need your love?
How am I going to let you go Catalina Love?
Everything around went black
I sat up in the flash
Was it just me who heard it?
Is it just me who knows?
There are things I’ll never say
It will always be that way
Forever in your memory
Forever on your face
How am I going to let you know that I need your love?
How am I going to let you go Catalina Love?
I have a special place
A place that’s just my own
My namesake’s ash and bones
Are buried in the waves
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How do you raise a confident and sensitive child?
Why would you cage an animal that wants to run wild?
Why would you dam a river, let the water flow through…
How do you?
Now I’m holding your hand while we walk to the park
I bring the light of the moon when your room goes dark
And you’re bending my mind into the shape of your heart
How I love you
Oh how I love you
When you feel embarrassment, I do too
When you smile with excitement, it’s mine too
If you’re shy in your sorrow, it’s my sorrow
This is how I love you
I do not live vicariously through you
You’re the most creative thing I do
If your eye is on tomorrow, my eyes follow
This is how I love you
Oh how I love you
This is how I love you
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Save Me From Myself
04:35
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I don’t live alone
I have two children and a wife
When the day folds over
I don’t have much extra time
In my middle age
I do the math on give versus take
And it still holds true that nothing lost is nothing gained
Save me from myself and love me
Like a child needs love
And a structure to their day
I see it all before me
Laid out in the simplest way
In the modern age
My addictions have me caged
And the social posturing
I feel cynical and vain
Save me from myself and love me
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River of Music
03:24
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Lay me down on a river of music
And push me back out into myself
To the chime of a guitar
The shake of a drum
The walk of a piano
The voices that hum
Lay me down
Where would I be if I didn’t have music?
Light bending through the window
Red leaf in the sky
By the middle of week…
How much can I take?
Then a song comes through…
I know that I’ll make it
We live in a difficult time
How do you want to live your life?
Where are you going to spend your love?
Isn’t that alone enough?
I’m having a difficult time
How do I want to live my life?
Where am I going to spend my love?
Isn’t that alone enough?
Isn’t love alone enough?
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Birds of Virginia
05:02
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I can fix your father’s chair up for you
I can paint the hallway in a day
I can drop the subject if you want to
I know how late is too late
Here I stand beside you in the market
Here I carry water to the bed
Here I make love with you like a prophet
To empty the thoughts in your head
You are the light of my home
You are the mother of my children
You are my calm and my wild
You are my everything
You are the birds of Virginia
You have a universe in you
A flash of bright in my winter
You are the birds of Virginia
One step at a time, love
Every day before me is a god
You can bury your face in my shirt
I won’t drop you, I won’t drop you
You’re so kind to me sometimes it hurts
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Simple and True
03:12
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If you don’t reach me from the other side, you know how I react
You’ve gone to Paris with your mother
It’s two weeks until you come back
I rearranged all the furniture
Just trying to relax
And pass my days without you
I don’t mind the time alone
I need the space to clear my head
I wash the dishes in the sink and fold the laundry on our bed
I tried to follow an idea… somehow lost the thread
And that’s my day without you
Then I found your picture and I put it in a frame
Thought about how 10 years later, I still feel the same
Have the choices I made spilled our lives out on the floor?
Somehow convinced myself that I’m not welcome anymore
I need to see your hands, your eyes, your body through my door
Tell me I’m crazy
My love for you is simple and it's true
I love you
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Roseanne
05:26
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Roseanne I still hear your voice
It echoes from suburbs outside of Detroit
We packed our guitars and our clothes
And carved your friend’s minivan down the west coast
Birthdays and our friends’ weddings
We missed them all just to play and to sing
You can’t be in every place
You learn to extend yourself a little grace
Six weeks straight out on the road
Driving late after the shows
Sleep in places nobody knows
I would never trade the memory
But I would never say it’s easy
You called when your dad almost died
You moved back home and then you had a child
The way that you care for them both
Roseanne, I’ve been there
I know it’s no joke
My life is the same as before
One eye on my family
One eye on the door
You know what I’m speaking of
The sacrifice we make for the ones that we love
Six weeks straight out on the road
Driving late after the shows
Sleep in places nobody knows
I would never trade the memory
I would never say it’s easy
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Robin
02:36
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We brought you into our lives hoping you
Would introduce our minds to something new
So far, its true – because you do
So we named you after your grandfather
You’re our red-bellied Robin in the woods
Your heart is good
You remind me of your mother
You’re nothing like your mother
You remind me of your brother
You’re nothing like your brother
Like a language I have spoken from my birth
Like a song where I already know the words
Like a language I have spoken from my birth
Like a song where I already know the words
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San Francisco
05:56
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Maybe I should book a flight to San Francisco
Rent a car and drive up through the redwood trees
Where they stand in silence high above my sorrow
There’s a message there for you and one for me
I see the child in myself as I get older
Still feeling every age that I have ever been
And I have joy when the light breaks through the shoulders
Of the Pacific giants swaying in the wind
I have a lifetime swaying in my mind again
I think I’m grieving the death of part of me
I think I’m leaving, won’t you come with me
I think I’m grieving the death of part of me
I think I’m leaving, won’t you come with me
It’s everything I’ve got
It’s not everything I need
It’s ok
I made my bed here, baby
This is where I stay
It’s everything I know
It’s not all that I believe
It’s ok
I made my bed here, baby
This is where I lay
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Catalina Love (Remix)
03:48
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Lancaster County
05:49
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Denison Witmer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denison Witmer has been recording and releasing music since 1995 when he released a cassette titled My Luck, My Love, under the tutelage of the Innocence Mission’s Don Peris. Since then, Witmer has been steadily releasing music every few years. He now has over a dozen critically acclaimed EPs and LPs to his name. ... more
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