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Love Is a Stupid Word
03:49
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Sometimes the drugs don’t do the trick
They get me by but make me sick
I sit up worrying
Waiting for the end
Who will fill my empty rooms
Who will make my garden bloom
Who will hold my hand and come to my defense
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I say
To chase the fear away
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear
Sometimes I dream that I’m alone
And where you’ve gone no one knows
I go door to door
With menace in my eyes
Then I catch what’s on the news
There’s a car, a shirt, some shoes
I wake up and see you face
You hold me while I cry
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I say
To chase the fear away
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear
It was only a dream…
It was only a dream
I tell myself
It was only a dream I whisper
But it doesn’t help
It was only a dream
It was only a dream I yell and yell and yell that
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I shout
Until my voice goes out
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear
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I sang Hosannah to stale beer and weeknight crowds
The big skies of Montana gave way to raincoast clouds
Through the lowlands, a weight upon my head
Like a ghost’s plan, echoes of the dead
All my life I’ve looked for love
All my life I’ve cried for my desolations
In the salt flats there was meaning in the flames
In the black coyotes called to me by name
In the dawn I saw a sun dog and its twin
In their song they told me where I should begin
They sang “All those times you looked for love
All those times you cried were your consolations”
On the road all the days had broken wings
Back at home they were strong enough to sing
I fell asleep to the music of my heart
In its beat was all I needed from the start
And all my life when I looked for love
All those times I cried were my consolations
And all my life when I looked for love
All those times I cried were my consolations
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3. |
Stay
03:24
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I take a breath
You’re at the door
It’s a shame what we’ve been through
The back and forth
With voices raised
There’s too much shit between me and you
But stay
Stay
Hold my light until it goes away
Stay
Stay
Sing my blues until they fade to grays
There was a time
When we were young
The world was ours, we couldn’t lose
Those easy years
Gave way and then
We hit a wall and had to choose
To stay
Stay
To hold our light until it goes away
Stay
Stay
To sing our blues until they fade to grays
Another day
Breaks in our place
On my right side you sleep quietly
The room’s a mess
Of fears and tears
I close my eyes and listen to you breathe
I’ll stay
I’ll stay
I’ll hold your light until it goes away
Stay
Stay
I’ll sing your blues until they fade to grays
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4. |
Endless Fall
02:26
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At the last of summer, moonlight in your eyes
You can’t help but wonder what it is that lies
In the thing that haunts us all
Do not be afraid of endless fall
Sometimes in the evening with darkness in the air
You find yourself believing that someone else is there
In the shadows on the wall
Do not be afraid of endless fall
When your seasons turn blue with a feeling you can’t name
The autumn fires burn you and your love is cut with pain
When that sorrow calls
Do not be afraid of endless fall
The leaves have left their branches for new homes on the ground
All your fires are ashes, your clocks have gone unwound
Time slows to a crawl
Do not be afraid of endless fall
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5. |
More Than Our Mistakes
03:56
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Even in our darkness love remains
Even when we forget its name
The pain is real
Holding a live wire in your hands
It’s enough to kill a man
It’s the price you pay to feel
Something in your head
Something in your soul
Something to know you’re not alone
Anyone can let forgiveness in
Just open up your heart until it breaks
Anyone can let forgiveness win
Remember that we’re more than our mistakes
Even in our light a shadow plays
A reminder of our darkest days
When we were lost at sea
Clinging to the mast and listening
To the horror that the Sirens sing
But it makes you feel
Something in your head
Something in your soul
Something to know you’re not alone
Anyone can let forgiveness in
Just open up your heart until it breaks
Anyone can let forgiveness win
Remember that we’re more than our mistakes
Even in our loss there is some grace
It finds us in a quiet place
When it’s time to heal
It’s something in your head
Something in your soul
It tells you that you’re not alone
Anyone can let forgiveness in
Just open up your heart until it breaks
Anyone can let forgiveness win
Remember that we’re more than our mistakes
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6. |
Someone Else
03:27
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You were someone else before the smile
I sent your way like the sun
I could see you were a child
With a sea of broken love in your lungs
I was someone else before the look
You gave me on the night I found
Some sort of magic out of a book
Some treasure buried in my ground
Now
When I need a fire you’re my spark
Now
It seems like we were fated from the start
How
Could someone else have ever held my heart
You were someone else before the songs
I played for you on the phone
My dog would try to sing along
He could see I was scared to be alone
I was someone else before you cried
For all the days you were caught
Inside the prison of your pride
Playing a person you were not
Now
When you need a fire I’m your spark
Now
It seems like we were fated from the start
How
Could someone else have ever held your heart
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7. |
From Where We Came
03:53
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Took a walk through the yearbooks of my mind
What I sought I can’t say
Maybe some comfort in who I used to be
How he became who I am today
We can’t know how our stories end
The past is just things we tell
What we did, who we did it with
Where we were when the Towers fell
No one ever gets away
We change but something still remains
Of the light and dark and love and shame
From where we came
Now regret comes screaming like a storm
The sound and fury to the front
I close my eyes and remember who I was
Cut myself a break for being young
Is that an outlaw’s way of running from the law
Slipping out of town through the cracks
There’s things that lurk in the yearbooks of my mind
And follow me to where my dreams go black
No one ever gets away
We change but something still remains
Of the light and dark and love and shame
From where we came
No one ever gets away
We change but something still remains
Of the light and dark and love and shame
From where we came
The shame from where we came
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8. |
Enter Hope
04:02
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I feel a darkness rising
To meet me where I used to stay
There’s a storm on the horizon
It will be here any day
Words have lost their meaning
Melody is without light
Major chords all sound like leaving
Even my angels can’t tell wrong from right
Enter hope
Enter love
Come on up from below
Down from above
Enter grief
Enter time
Keep on working your lines until they rhyme
After dreaming of a great flood
I walked into a field of fire
In my mouth there was the taste of blood
My heart was hung up on a wire
I watched you mourning from a distance
The headstones rose like Lazarus
The words upon them did a quick dance
And disappeared into the dust
Enter hope
Enter love
Come on up from below
Down from above
Enter grief
Enter time
Keep on working your lines until they rhyme
Keep on working your lines until they rhyme
Keep on working your lines until they rhyme
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Joe Goodkin Chicago, Illinois
Chicago-based singer/songwriter Joe Goodkin has released albums as both a solo artist and under the name Paper Arrows. He tours the country performing one-man folk opera retellings of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.
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