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To kiss you goodbye there in the desert
To let your ghost fly, leave the corpses to dust
To loosen the grip on the story you left me
In silence I'm learning to be in the hush
If I could call it what it is
Search through the pieces for poems
I'd write you a thousand versus
Etching out what's beyond flesh and bone
Could not have known the depth of the damage
That I'd hear the echos of years in your throat
That you were a shimmering desert oasis
With miles left for walking to learn what I wrote
What is the symbol for my love
Laid out in language and form
Prose in the columns and steeples
Is meaning the world's or my own
To tell it one way
Just holds down the edges and colors the days
Build a monument to time
By your gravity or by mine
Fly through till morning the summer is calling
Night worn like a cloak in the desert heat
But I will embrace the changing seasons
With my winter wisdom I will set you free
But I'll always be sending my blessings
From the path that you sent me down
Towards dreams that you illuminated
Your light's in the life that I've found
And you'll always be part of the sound of me
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Light of Day
03:50
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It's going to take a little time
Take a little time
To come back from places
I wandered in darkness
The mountains and the storms
The monsters and the thorns
The saints and the demons
The fear is in dying
Chorus:
It's taking me down again
And all I have are your songs in the night
Songs in the night
All of these clumsy words
And the chords you could play
To bring me out in the light of the day
Beauty shines on me
Lovers can't you see
Words pinned on to a page
What would you call it
That magical refrain
That counters all the pain
When hope once suspended
Comes pouring down like rain
Chorus:
It's taking me down again
And all I have are your songs in the night
Songs in the night
All of these clumsy words
And the chords you could play
To bring me out in the light of the day
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We gather stones to count the days
Magic never will betray the secrets
The secrets
Inside the heavy walls of years
A fortress could not hold back tears
Or shadows taking pieces of you
Every day the world outside
Has you swallowing your pride
We had it coming
If in their hearts they say they wept
Surely as the sun will set
They'll be taking pieces of you
Chorus:
But if it's you telling the story
Tell of all the ways you see the view
Tell of the harrow and the glory
Tell the moments where your heart comes through
You find your faith in what you make
Always live for beauty's sake
You can't see the end now
But hold on to the light you know
Waiting for the truth to show
in all of the answers to the whys
Grace will shine down through the window
And show the way to sky
Find the threshold you can take
All that's lost and could be gained
In just believing
You can see the light shine through
All the cracks and lead us to
Keep gathering the pieces of you
Chorus:
But if it's you telling the story
Tell of all the ways you see the view
Tell of the harrow and the glory
Tell the moments where your heart comes through
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Open Road Blues
03:56
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The shame in feeling so much pain
When I hear your name
After all this time
Dissolves a world of empires gained
The loss is still the same
A child with your eyes
Am I lacking something pure
A sickness with no cure
A memory that is a lie
I sing the broken record blues
A memory so cruel
A hymn to fill the shrine
Come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky
The language to describe my sorrow
To give all my tomorrows
Is locked inside a mission vague and shifting
It's a promise held inside a feeling
It's a wound that's healing if only for today
Silence is a weapon you wield
Marks the tomb that you sealed
But I will dance with the dead
They tell secrets of the life we're missing
The love we kept from giving
Because we were afraid
Come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky
Don't need you to call it over
Punctuate it with a moral
Drifting on the endless tide
As long as it is wide
In the practice comes the being
I will stop retreating
There is bravery in shouting out your sins
The falling maybe it's the calling
How we find the meaning in the win
So come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky
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Tara Shupe Salt Lake City, Utah
A lifetime immersed in bluegrass, old-time, and American roots music influences the multi-instrumental Tara Shupe in her
thoughtful arrangements of old-standards and originals.
Starting first on mandolin at age 4 then taking up fiddle, guitar, and recently banjo throughout her extensive career,
Tara's first solo album features her strong instrumentation on achingly personal, yet timely songs.
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