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Icarus
03:57
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Verse 1
Oh my winter wings don't fail me now.
I've been crashing into sunsets, falling to the ground.
Well I moved to the city, with a dollar to my name.
With holes in both my shoes, and a pocket full of uh-oh honey.
Chorus
Maybe I'm the fool, the one who steals the sunlight.
Maybe I'm the chord, who'll rhapsodize your sunrise.
Maybe I'm an Icarus, a heap out on the highway singing
"Oh"
Verse 2
Wake up in the morning, on the search for grace.
Walk the bars find a random stranger with a kind enough face.
I suppose that I would call you, just to hear you say hello.
But for all the life I've left untold, couldn't buy time on a telephone.
Chorus.
Bridge x2
An inch above the breakdown,
an inch below the high.
If you find you Eden lacking,
do you stay or do you ride?
Chorus.
Words and music written by Mercy Bell
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Verse 1
Singing la, di, da, di, da, di, day
The boys are out on my front stoop
bragging on my name.
Chorus
Singing "Everybody, everywhere's wearing flowers in their hair, so come outside, come outside".
Verse 2
They say we waltzed the devil me and you.
But California raised me once and
taught me to reach for blue.
Chorus
Verse 3
I've been crashing parties around the town,
with a sunburn and an aching heart,
and thought I'm trying to drown.
Chorus.
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3. |
All Good Cowboys
03:52
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Verse 1
Take it down, put it in a jar with butterflies,
fill it up with some formaldehyde,
you won't see it again.
You said take it slow, it's a mood and it will come and go
but the joints I needed didn't grow,
and left me crippled in your eyes.
Chorus
Oh and all good cowboys know
There ain't no good ol' home sweet home.
So I'll raise my protest, raise my drink
and I won't live here no more.
Cuz you never learned my name,
it was the one name you should know.
And I will lay me down,
I will lay me down, the road.
Verse 2
A dollar in another jukebox just to dance with you,
oh but all it does is play the blues,
and on and on they go.
No and I won't be, another mess to clean in aisle three,
this late night shift has got me questioning,
if daylight will come at all.
Chorus
Bridge
Here am I, staring standing on a borderline,
this life I'm leading really isn't mine,
it's sung in 4/4 time.
End Chorus
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4. |
The Fall
03:27
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Dirty Keds
01:57
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Patchwork
03:17
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Wild Fire
03:12
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8. |
Black Dress
04:38
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9. |
Hard Times
03:08
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Lord Knows
04:57
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He stumbles down the city block
Cuz a ramblin' man don't walk.
And his soul's on fire as he slips on ice,
stares at all the city lights.
To his bleary eyes they're joyous,
a riot and a chorus, singin'
Chorus:
Merry Christmas and joy to the world, singin' (repeat)
With a cup and old harmonica
he's singing by the train.
Got nowhere else to go tonight,
but sing his gutter 'frain.
He's a sweet and ragged savior,
who got out on good behavior, singin'
Chorus
She filters down like starlight,
bouncing off the wall.
Dancing round with anyone,
with whatever breaks a heart.
Then she's gone and bells are ringing
last seen chasin stars singin'
I faked myself to the world
too many times before,
left me broke and empty,
with needles on the floor.
Is it science or religion,
that boom no explanation.
Maybe just love. Maybe just love. Maybe just love. Maybe just love.
Chorus.
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Mercy Bell Nashville, Tennessee
Mercy Bell has independently released 3 crowd-funded albums: All Good Cowboys, Mercy Bell, and Golden Child. She’s toured the US extensively. Her music has been featured on NPR, in Paste Magazine, American Songwriter, Rolling Stone Country , The Nashville Scene and more. ... more
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