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Crescent Moon
05:42
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Seems like I’ve been here before
Covered with smoke what I saw
I could show you these maple trees naked in the cold
Morning arrives like a dream
Asks me to call it by name
I could show you these maple trees naked in the cold
And I would give to you green and blue stories I have told
Light of the crescent moon
Pallid and clear
I don’t remember you
But I like to think you were there
Time put the crack in the wall
Traded the dark for the girl
I could show you these maple trees naked in the cold
And I would give to you green and blue stories I have told
Light of the crescent moon
Pallid and clear
I don’t remember you
But I like to think you were there
Well don’t you stand watch for the sun
The moment it drops from your view
I see you there holding the phone
You’re framed by the window
Alone though you said so
A dead line to what you think you know
Light of the crescent moon
Pallid and clear
I don’t remember you
But I like to think you were there
You were there
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2. |
Happy Ever After
04:45
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Pick one rose from the vase of flowers before you
Pick one more, pick two, you owe me a lot
Pick one thread of a lie that’s started to bore you
Pick one trait of a self that’s all that you’re not
Twenty-eight years and I will reimburse you for the confidence I’m feeling
Living the crime day at a time in my happy ever after
Summer alone courting a stone as I wait for something new
Casting aside years that I tried and I trade ‘em for the laughter
Starting to see pieces of me in the life I’m leading in the darkest season of you
I can see through the blinds your daughter of fortune
I can hear through the words that crack in your voice
Let me let go this kite tail of your distortion
Let me still live in a world that offers the choice
Hang up the phone before I ask for anything you never knew to give me
Living the crime day at a time in my happy ever after
Summer alone courting a stone as I wait for something new
Casting aside years that I tried and I trade ‘em for the laughter
Starting to see pieces of me in the life I’m leading in the darkest season of you
If I reject the way you hold me after all this
Would you recall the times you told me
Not to trust a world that knows its end from its cruel beginning
All of my life so I can stand before now and tell you that I’m broken
Living the crime day at a time in my happy ever after
Summer alone courting a stone as I wait for something new
Casting aside years that I tried and I trade ‘em for the laughter
Starting to see pieces of me in the life I’m leading in the darkest season of you
It’s just the life I’m leading in the darkest season of you
I’ll take the life I’m leading in the darkest season of you
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3. |
Tell Me What You See
03:45
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Thank you for your silence but still I cannot speak
Aftermath of violence imparted to the weak
If you would be my witness, tell me what you see
I still could not permit this, imprisoned yet I’m free
If the rain came down to wash Them away
My love revealed for a day
Yours to hold, would you show me the Fall
Clear and cold, would you know me
Would you know me at all
Listen to your lover across a different wall
Devotion under cover and trembling in the hall
She wrote of all the ages she felt herself to be
And now I find the pages withheld again from me
If the rain came down to wash Them away
My love revealed for a day
Yours to hold, would you show me the Fall
Clear and cold, would you know me
Would you know me at all
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4. |
High Tide: August 2005
04:34
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Summer’s skin to winter’s touch
Seabreeze breath into the curtain
Like a fugitive I hide inside what I know
Here my words can mean so much
What is poetry is certain
Feel the beauty and the pain as rain falling slow
Tell me I am lonely
Here in the dying of the day
As the tide is creeping in
Give it to me only
I can perceive that there’s a way
That the wave will break again
Bits of driftwood on the shelf
Life of hesitance in motion
I collect what I can’t lose, I choose what I see
Tell me I am lonely
Here in the dying of the day
As the tide is creeping in
Give it to me only
I can perceive that there’s way
That the wave will break again
Every word I told you
Here in the dying of the day
As the tide is creeping in
Breathless I unfold you
I can perceive that there’s a way
That the wave will break again
Beauty’s been alone so long
Lost her will to see
Beauty knows that she’s been wrong
Promises to be undone
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5. |
Romancing Tomorrow
03:25
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Romancing tomorrow and the words left to say
The motions of sorrow by a heart made of clay
I did not think to ask for more
Now I wait on another shore
Romancing tomorrow for a dream of yesterday
The hills are still golden, the sky is still blue
I linger beholden to the promise of you
I’ll defer to the scenery
But it all looks the same to me
The more that I come to be the woman that you knew
My love is a rose that only I can see now
I did not think to ask for more
Now I wait on another shore
Romancing tomorrow for a dream of yesterday
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6. |
A Fool Could Find A Way
04:13
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I’ll never tell you why
I thought to look around me
While you contrived your love upon my skin
I’ll let you have your lie
You leave me as you found me
The only thing I feel is where you’ve been
I think I’m alive but I’ve got to be sure
I’m paying the price of being sweet and demure
Now I’m leading a siege against your love without the hint of a sound
Well you push me away so you can track me down again
And you’re lying when you tell me that you want to be my friend
A fool could find a way to turn it around
It is a woman’s crime
I wish for you to know me
The hidden rooms of all that I can be
Been raining all the time
Since you commenced to show me
The limit of the love you have for me
I think I’m alive but I’ve got to be sure
I’m paying the price of being sweet and demure
Now I’m leading a siege against your love without the hint of a sound
Well you push me away so you can track me down again
And you’re lying when you tell me that you want to be my friend
A fool could find a way to turn it around
I was hoping to see the love last
But I left my script at the station
Here’s to looking at you, my new past
While alone I find my way around Manhattan
I think I’m alive but I’ve got to be sure
I’m paying the price of being sweet and demure
Now I’m leading a siege against your love
Well you push me away so you can track me down again
And you’re lying when you tell me that you want to be my friend
A fool could find a way
If a fool could find a way
Are you ever gonna find a way to turn it around
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7. |
Before I Fall In Love
04:45
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I have noticed the flicker of your light
The hollow of your absence in the pain, in the fight
Shout or whisper, recover what is wrong
Stories like the layers since the night you were born
You are with me as images of sleep
As creatures of the shipwreck, life in love, dark and deep
Form your sadness even as it dies
Colors the reflection of your past in your eyes
Before I fall in love I want to know, how you gonna love me
Before I fall in love I’ve got to know, how you gonna touch me
When the wind blows and the leaves fall all around me
You who’ve been here a hundred times before
Witness to my passion and the night and the door
I will stay here as though I have the choice
Come again tomorrow, bring your past, bring your voice
Before I fall in love I want to know, how you gonna love me
Before I fall in love I’ve got to know, how you gonna touch me
When the wind blows and the leaves fall all around me
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8. |
Dance Me Around My Room
04:56
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Laughter to charm you
Touch to disarm you
In the calm of your repose I will alarm you
Quiet your reason
If you’ve seen it all before, look again
It’s the single night of your life
Try to finesse me
Pause to assess me
In the tyranny of time move to undress me
And discover me here as an orchard in bloom and
Just dance me around my room
You could resist me
Soon as you’ve kissed me
Cast a hundred other nets, proof how you’ve missed me
You could just have me
Inconsequential thing ‘til it’s not
We are daffodils in the rain
Dare you to try me
Lover untie me
I’m alive here for you now, choose or deny me
If the motions of love are too much to presume well
Just dance me around my room
I’m a garden before you
I was made to adore you
Take my hand and a step and begin
Sweep me ‘round past the window
An impossible tempo
Feel the breeze like my breath on your skin
On your skin
Can you perceive me
Power to grieve me
In the still of what I am, hold or bereave me
As you stand here with me on the edge of my doom and
Just dance me around my room
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9. |
Who Knows My Secrets
05:07
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Calm as I seem
Feel that this day is a dream that I’m living
Afraid that I’ll never wake up
For all that I’ve heard
I’m come to examine the words that were spoken
Like leaves at the end of my cup
Like water you drew
What I remember of you is your absence
The way that I longed for your touch
A plotline to trace
The drama unfolds in the space of the silence
The characters spoken too much
Who knows my secrets
Stuff of my life through the lens of your lies
Who knows my secrets
I need to know when to avert my eyes
Weren’t you the one to say you’d never make a sound
Well who knows my secrets now
The bourbon you drink
Discolors the thoughts that you think as you’re walkin’
The eighty-nine steps to my door
In sadness sublime
Consider that all of this time you’re approachin’
The failure you fashioned before
Who knows my secrets
Stuff of my life through the lens of your lies
Who knows my secrets
I need to know when to avert my eyes
Weren’t you the one to say you’d never make a sound
Well who knows my secrets now
You asked me to believe you’d never let me down
Well who knows my secrets now
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10. |
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My heart is doing fine, a sign it’s good we’re through
I watch the news at nine, I hardly think of you
I look upon the stars above and sense the love
That you are said to feel but never really do
I paid my rent again, six-ten with gas and heat
I’m radiating Zen to everyone I meet
I don’t expect a call when I begin to fall
And now that you are gone I’m mostly on my feet
Well life is the truest art
And life got a funny start
And love’s the wicked part of everyone I know, I know
I’d like for you to know, although I think of you
The memory is slow and slightly faded too
You are the stuff of dreams and always were it seems
The simply most banal in Technicolor blue
Well life is the truest art
And life got a funny start
And love’s the wicked part of everyone I know, I know
So stay while the music’s low
And stay in the afterglow
Before I stop the show and find the words to say today
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Thanks for asking
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You tell me that you’ve lost yourself to be with me
That I am not the woman that I seemed to be
Your life becomes the burden of the love you’ve known
The more you’ve shared yourself the more you are alone
Well shine your brightest light on our pathology
Specifically the portion that applies to me
Help me find my way to all that I might do
To quantify my need and make it up to you
Seven times who you are
Twenty times what you say
Once you’ve made it this far
Just leave the best unsaid and go ahead
Find another way to be in love
So I’m the fool who took your words as poetry
Made love between the verses of what we could be
I navigate for meaning in your drunken prayer
The same time I correct for how you seemed to care
Seven times who you are
Twenty times what you say
Once you’ve made it this far
Just leave the best unsaid and go ahead
Find another way to be in love
If there is hope it is this
The very love you resist
Is looking on you as this August sky
And I will stay just in case
You choose to forfeit the race
And turn around to find a reason why
Seven times who you are
Twenty times what you say
Once you’ve made it this far
Just leave the best unsaid and go ahead
Find another way
A better way
There is a way to be in love
I’ll be in love
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12. |
Four In The Morning
05:33
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Open the book
Chapter you took
Long by the look of it
Too much to say
Better that way
Lose one more day to it
Well I’ve known such love before and I evened out the score
For all you dare recall the splintered lines
It’s four in the morning when I go
To feel the ways that you were right
You’re clear as spoken fear
The dark designs an obvious warning and I know
That I will go the rest alone
Leave my longing with the night
Failure or fame
Less you disclaim
Life for the game of it
Prove you can fight
Cruel and polite
Love me in spite of it
It’s the vigil that I keep for the life in you asleep
For all you dare recall the splintered lines
It’s four in the morning when I go
To feel the ways that you were right
You’re clear as spoken fear
The dark designs an obvious warning and I know
That I will go the rest alone
Leave my longing with the night
So I can be the one who feels too much
Shy and still careening from your touch
And you can have your heartache with your gin
And you can taste the sweetness of the freedom that you win
Drink it in
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Rachel Efron Oakland, California
Oakland-based singer/songwriter Rachel Efron writes edgy but deeply felt piano driven alt-pop, nuanced by a forever love for improvised jazz and impressionistic classical music. She takes her influence from The Beatles and Tom Waits, Ben Folds and Feist, alongside the melodic sensibilities of Grieg and Chopin, and the chord voicings of Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau. ... more
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