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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Live!), It'll Be A While, I Don't Wanna Leave, A quiet Christmas song I would like my friends and family to hear if in the cruelest of circumstances I pass away on or around the Christmas holidays by perishing in the act of saving a burning bus of Dickensian orphans or something equally heroic, Learn To, I'm over here are you there, too?, To The Sea, Whole Sun [Deluxe Edition], and 4 more.
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As Lonely As Me
03:55
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A sea that breathes is a sea that talks
And an ear in tune can hear its coughs
How could oh the sea
Ever feel as lonely as me?
And a moon that seeps
Beats into a drum on the floor
And a tide that whines
will grab your hands from the shore
But how could oh the sea
Ever feel as lonely as me?
Let it come let it go like a crisis
Where its bottle thin or as wide as you'd like it
I'm so scared I'm losing my wises
The more and more I think I don't like this
The more and more I feel I don't like this
I don’t like this
So how could oh the sea
Ever feel as lonely as me?
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The Goose Song
03:46
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Mountaintops covered with snow
Have always been as far below me
As the bottom of the ocean deep
To any old fish that you could meet
Ain't it funny that all we have
Is all we know
And all I know is flight
Clouds that shift and split in two
Have always been a brother to me
The storms they bring and the gusts of wind
That rain on men and lift my wings
Ain't it funny that all we have
Is all we know
And all I know is flight
Those with stronger wills
will stand so still they
grow their roots away from it
But oh to use those roots
to feed the leaves that do
indeed grow towards it.
Oh the space above our heads is useless
unless we do reach for it.
Ain't it funny that all we have
Is all we know
And all I know is flight
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Crow
03:35
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Like two drunk crows
Who drank too much wine
And danced for far too long
We raised our glass and drank down fast
And waltz to our favorite songs
As we cried why can't it always be night
The moon herself
She done look down her dress
At us two red faced crows in our tree
She raised her hands and she swooped down fast
And she sure done shut our beaks
And she cried why won't you give me some peace
Oh we tried oh we tried
From the dusk till the dawn
Till there were holes in our eyes from the sun
Oh we tried oh we tried
From the dusk till the dawn
Till there were holes in our eyes from the sun
Oh my dawn
Please lay me down
Is it a crime lord is it wrong?
Oh my dawn
Please lay me down
Is it a crime lord is it wrong?
Is it wrong?
Is it?
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The Graveyard Song
04:29
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Lover of ten years passed
They have covered you with grass
And stones now line your grave
Caked in your graveyard dust
I remain to trust
That your soul is still awake
Still awake
Lover indeed they have covered with weeds
My body but my soul remains
So play louder, and faster, and stronger
And make this soil break
Make it break
These weeds these weeds tangled tangled
Oh these knots not so simple
Oh these trees hanging hanging
Oh their limbs casting
Shadows
Lover indeed they have covered with weeds
My body but my sould remains
So play louder, and faster, and stronger,
Make this soil break
Make it break
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5. |
Bremen
03:14
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"Oh where are we going"
Said the brown dog to the hen
But just because they were animals
Doesn't mean they couldn't have been men
Oh lets go down to Bremen
Take my paw in your hand
And we'll sing for our supper
In that freest of the freest
People need to see us
The freest of the freest land
It was part of the plan
Everybody would stand
On their hind legs
Hands holding high the other
Like a tower of brothers
And the one on the top
Would crow warning
And call in the morning
And call out the storm that was coming
The one on the bottom would steer
Till the road was clear
And the people would learn to rejoice
And to fear our coming
But how long did we think
We could walk we could sing
Before our voices gave out and our limbs gave in
On the road, on the road, on the road, on the road
On the way, on the way, on the way
To Bremen, to Bremen, to Bremen,
To Bremen, to Bremen, to Bremen,
To Bremen
Oh on the road to Bremen
I came across some robbers three
And first I took everything away from them
Then they took everything away from me
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The Dress Song
03:04
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I'm making you a dress
That you can wear on top
Of all the other things that you have got
It's gonna be made of silk
It's gonna have lacy fringe
It's gonna have two pockets you can put your things in
But when you wear my dress
You've got to always step
In time with the one who's singing a song to you
The breath upon your skin
The tiny gust of wind
The one against the other keeps you pinned
In line with the one who's singing to you
In time with the one who's singing to you
He's sung this song before before
He's slipping through that closing door again
I guess I am a ghost
That's what my friends all say
I'm rigid as a post and I am grey
There isn't anything
To say or do or want
I'm just an empty box collecting time, collecting sun
But when you wear my dress
You've got to always step
In time with the one who's singing his song to you
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Stowaway
02:57
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I can see how
Our dirty thread now
Is close to broke since we last spoke
A stowaway from Galway
I went through all your gowns
And spooked away all your ghosts
Coffins arose, but no one ever spoke
Comfort is as comfort does
And I've held up all your crowns
And I've wondered since what I'd do now
A tower is as feared
As its glass is clear
For those inside that do look down
But soon the ground arose, and everybody choked
But oh my garden
Oh my roses cut by friends that I knew then
Oh your hardened heart
It softens with the friends that you had when
If I am a frown
Once cooked but now chewed down
A stomachs worth of all this work
But give me just a smile
It'll last me for a while
As I search for what made this worked
But oh my garden
Oh my roses cut by friends that I knew then
Oh your hardened heart
It softens with the friends that you had when
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8. |
My Only Son
04:20
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My only son, falter none
As my mind slips away
But I won't forget your name
And I won't forget your face
Little one, my only son
How could a melody
Hummed by a memory
Die quick
So tuned to nothing
It hangs oh so empty
Not thick
How could I lose you
When I don't choose to
Will it bend, or will it mend?
Will it mend, or will it break?
But I won't forget your name
And I won't forget your face
Little one, my only son
With stories ever old
You told them so they never grow faint
They stay as something all together nothing remains
How could I lose you
When I don't choose to
Will it bend, or will it mend?
Will it mend, or will it break?
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We Stand Alone
04:02
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We stand alone with the bones of our father's breath
Retching our souls with the stories of life and death
Come pass away on the sinews of our strings
But watch your weary eyes and protect thy dreams
A call to arms
We brothers four
The jobs at hand
So dust your tongues
And instruments
To tell the tales of the land
Steal away the weight that crushes thy bare chest
For something's galloped all night
To mold this mare's nest
We were taught from the whisperings
Of our mother’s fears
So watch your weary eyes and wipe away those tears
A call to arms
We brothers four
The jobs at hand
So dust your tongues
And instruments
To tell the tales of the land
Mi stayeem, samye nat kastyamee, ot papinay dooshi
Mi stayeem, samye nat kastyamee, ot papinay dooshi
Mi stayeem, samye nat kastyamee, ot papinay dooshi
Mi stayeem stayeem stayeem
Mi stayeem stayeem stayeem
Mi stayeem stayeem stayeem
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10. |
Just Like The Sea
03:12
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Isn't it just like the sea
To come between you and me
Out on the water you'd be
As I watched with anxiety
You'd say "Don't hate the sea from the shore,
The ocean was here long before the land.
Take my hand, come out here with me."
But of course I'd never leave
And you'd float out to sea
Isn't it just like the sea
To come between you and me
Out on the water you'd be
As I watched with anxiety
You'd say "Don't hate the sea from the sand,
The ocean was here long before the land
Take my hand."
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11. |
Grand Old Paris
03:41
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Light the streets up like old gay Paris
Hear the songs they played for you and me
My weary heart stood stock still stock still
While our hips swayed with their own free will
Lands deserted by crushing blue blows
Are nothing like the sight of your silver clothes
We won't dance again my dear I fear
But the music plays when we're near you're near
Please forgive these hands of mine
For they tremble and untwine
All these knots we've banded to
The steps that we once knew
Shake your locks free and bow your boughs
Down falls the canopy of your silvered crown
Age don't mean a thing my dear I fear
As long as music plays when we're near you're near
Please forgive these hands of mine
For they tremble and untwine
All these knots we've banded to
The steps that we once knew
Strike the band up and play on play on
Lighter now with the soft spoken dawn
My weary heart beat in time in tune
Until the music stopped and our dance did too.
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PigPen Theatre Co. New York, New York
PigPen Theatre Co. met as freshman at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 2007. Their debut LP, “Bremen”, was named #10 album of the year in The Huffington Post’s 2012 Grammy preview. Their follow up EP, “The Way I’m Running”, was premiered by American Songwriter and released on Oct. 8th, 2013. Their sophomore album. "Whole Sun", was released July 7th, 2015. They're cool. Pinky promise. ... more
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