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False Alarms
06:17
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Do you remember when we first met
We were taking turns singing songs about grandmothers
I believed in the beauty of the unexpected connection
And drew in all of the good that I had been expecting
Do the work to keep yourself open to other people’s magic
You devoured me whole like a ravenous animal
Every single thing you said was the best I’d ever heard
Couldn’t keep a job, you were dreaming yourself down and out, but
It only takes one fierce love to raise you up from the ground
But I stopped callin’ my momma, I tried to adopt yours
Tried to forget where I came from, and the hurt that I had caused
Thank god for the seers, who can perceive where we are heading
With patience for the long road we’ve been walking on
It takes a real big heart to hold that line
Don’t think, don’t be alarmed
This was always gonna break your hard heart
We had so many false starts
We set so many false alarms
But there is a new vibration on my tongue tonight
I see it getting older, I feel it coming right
You walk out the door into the street, I see you lookin around for me
We are made of possibility, (we are firing like pottery)
Don’t think, don’t be alarmed
This was always gonna break your hard heart
We had so many false starts
We set so many false alarms
Don’t let your mind get stuck in that game
In the times when it goes the wrong way
We will get hurt and we will make mistakes
There will not always be the right words to say, but
You are built upon generations of love
When you forget where you are going, know that that’s what you are made of
We are built upon generations of love
It is the pleasure that I want for you, and you will know the depths of our love
With every single day I show up, a song of worship on my tongue
Don’t think, don’t be alarmed
This was always gonna break your hard heart
We had so many false starts
We set so many false alarms
Don’t think, don’t be alarmed
This was always gonna break your hard heart
We had so many false starts
We set so many false alarms
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2. |
Woman In A Man's Life
04:41
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I can’t come around anymore baby
Not when you made up your fate like that
I’m still in love with you honey
I hope you can learn to pick up the slack
I’m a woman in a man’s life
I’m a woman trying to make you right
(beep beep)
We’re talking at each other
We never see eye to eye
You say you wanna be my lover, but
I never see you try (to see my side)
I’m a woman in a man’s life
I’m a woman trying to make you right
And you’re not my vocation, you’re not my life
I’m a woman in a man’s life
(beep beep)
It breaks my heart how long I wait,
It breaks my heart how long I wait,
It breaks my heart how long, for you to open your eyes
I’m a woman in a man’s life
I’m a woman
(beep beep)
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3. |
Nobody Knows
03:52
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I always thought I’d be a potted plant
I’d grow the beauty even with my dirty hands
Always thought I’d be a well-kept man
And you would take me out to dancing again
I always thought I’d be a wilderness
I could be a savior in a white linen dress
I could learn to clean up every time I made a mess
And you would take me out to dancing again
If nobody knows the trouble you’re in
If nobody knows the trouble you’ve seen
If nobody knows the trouble you’re in
Stop hiding
When you were poor, I smoked your cigarettes
You went unfed, I ate your last baguette
When you were rich, I would sleep at the foot of your bed
Til you would take me out to dancing again
If nobody knows the trouble you’re in
If nobody knows the trouble you’ve seen
If nobody knows the trouble you’re in
You can tell me
We cannot save each other
And I don’t wanna say that I need your love dear
But when we’re lost and tired from the cold and the road and the fight
I hope you’ll take me out to dancing again
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4. |
I Wish I Had
04:45
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I wish I had been ready for you
We could have done all those things that lovers do
But I wouldn’t let you in, you had to wait in the dark
All of those years wondering when it would start
So new, having something to save
But the shade grows large in the face of the wave
I stick my head in the sand, I hope it all goes away
Like I always have
I wish I had been ready for you
I love your heart and your shaking body too
But I wouldn’t let you in, you had to wait in the dark
All of those years wondering when it would start
So I’m getting used to dropping my pride
I lay it all out for you, I put it all on the line
I take the right way now, instead of the wrong way out
For the first time
Nothing was a mistake, you’ll learn to love along the way
You’ll bend or you will break, either way a life is made
But you cannot fall through the cracks, we’ll be there to bring you back
Hold you ‘til the dark is through, in the way old lovers do
(ooooooohhhhh)
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5. |
Rise Up
07:03
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You are worried that the sun will not rise in the morning again
And you are worried that the roads are not open for you to come home
But we will rise up, don’t even think about it, all the world is here
You are a darlin’, you are a light, you are the ground your feet are near
You are feelin’ underwater, outside a shape, formlessly circulating
Don’t hold back, really fall apart, and find the shape of the thing that you are
‘Cause we will rise up, don’t even think about it, all the world is here
You are a darlin’, you are a light, you are the ground your feet are near
Take a breath, don’t even think about it, just breathe (breathe!)
You are worried that the sun will not rise in the morning again
And you are worried that the roads are not open for you to come home
But we will rise up, don’t even think about it, all the world is here
You are a darlin’, you are a light, you are the ground your feet are near
(ooohhhhhhhhhhh)
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6. |
I Had A Choice
05:29
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You must dive to the depths of the ocean
I must float on top of the sea
I would never hold it against you
I know you always loved me
Sailing there, sailing here
Straight on out, banish fear
I might lose you to the blue
But that’s my truth and that’s your truth
You must dive to the depths of the ocean
I must float on top of the sea
I would never hold it against you
I know you always loved me
I had a choice
To stay inside or use my voice
Oh my love, your heart is black and blue
And I did that to you
We’re searching for some way to work it out
So we writhe about, twist and shout
You were the weight of everything
I was the change tomorrow brings
You prayed for everything to stay
But I came to wash it away
And I was ashamed (don’t be ashamed!)
I had a choice
To stay inside or use my voice
We are the weight of everything
We are the change tomorrow brings
We pray for all of it to stay
But we’re here to wash it away (don’t be afraid!)
I had a choice
To stay inside or use my voice
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7. |
Waiting On You
05:14
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I’m waiting, waiting on you
I’m waiting on a ghost train runnin’ through
It’s funny how I could find somebody new
But I’m waiting on you
Get out, get out, there’s much to see
Get out from your sickness and breathe
Don’t go there, come home to me
And if you have to go to hell alone
Remember, you don’t have to be alone
Take me with you
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8. |
Hey Kid
06:20
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Hey kid, you were doing alright
Except when you bought what you were sold
Hey kid, come back to the light
Don’t leave yourself out in the cold
I had to learn to change my tune
Learn new language to talk through
The difference between me and you
The ground we’ve covered, the hells we’ve held, and what we’ve seen to be true
All the noise keeping me up in the night
Everyone arguing about who is wrong and who is right
I’d like to find the ones with love in their eyes
Heavy with the weight of being wrong and right at the same time
The best times are late at night lying here with you
We can do what we wanna do
No more arguing about winning or losing
All my love devoted to me and to you
I had to learn to change my tune
Learn new languages to talk through
The difference between me and you
The ground we’ve covered, the hells we’ve held, and what we’ve seen to be true
Every feeling on a loop
That’s the cord between me and you
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9. |
Same Old Brick
05:16
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It’s 20 years later
You think I’d be wiser
But I’m still fuckin’ around
With the same old bad liar
Still holdin’ on, still holdin’ on
To the same old brick
I’m a fool for the damn thing
Over and over
Got me running around when I
Could have been coming home to you
Used to be you were to be my wife
Now I got you fearin’ for my life
It’s a good sign that we’re talkin’ at all
It’s a good time, c’mon! Give me a call!
Let’s have a good fight, put my back to the wall
‘Cause on a good night, I don’t miss you at all
If you’re startin’ to question the
Depth of the feelin’
Turn it around and then
Maybe you’ll see oh
How deep the hole, how deep the hole
That could turn me from you
Still holdin’ on, still holdin’ on
To the same old brick
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10. |
Grandma
00:34
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11. |
World's Not Gonna End
03:27
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There was anger in my heart
But I come to you with my love
And open arms, for myself and for everyone
I had gotten it all wrong
I was buried in my own shit
Thought the order was too tall to climb to life back out of it
But the world’s not gonna end
If you do not get your way again, my friend
The greatest task for the modern woman like me
Is to find what is within herself
It’s just so loud everywhere else
And to love what is within herself
And if you’re called upon to love
But you find you are too small
I know you’re more than capable
It hurts, but you can grow large enough to allow it all
The world’s not gonna end
If you do not get your way again
It hurts, but you can grow large enough to allow it all
The world’s not gonna end
If you do not get your way again, my friend
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12. |
Solve Problems
02:17
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I was never gonna solve all your problems
I was never gonna make the void easier to bear
Jon, you’re just like me
We don’t take easy on ourselves, do we?
I was never gonna solve all your problems
And neither will the next one
You gotta climb out of that black hole
You gotta do it every day on your own
(I can help you though)
Jon, you’re just like me
Don’t you think it’s time to take it easy
And I’ll be waitin’, I’ll be waitin’, I’ll be waitin’
For you to come and join me
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Josiah Johnson Oakland, California
Josiah Johnson, co-founding member of the Billboard chart-topping band The Head and the Heart, has begun a new musical journey in 2020. And he does so with new collaborative tools and creative blueprints in tow, buoyed by a single idea: no matter what happens, the world will still turn and you’re still here. ... more
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