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Perfect Storm
04:38
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PERFECT STORM // I crossed o’er the river / the sun setting low / the clouds started gathering / and a voice I should know, said / this river is rising / and you’re in its way / the thunder is rolling in today // I can’t help but wonder / at all I’ve undone / at all I am building / at all I have sung / this bridge was the hardest / the river runs deep / and swallows the secrets / I no longer keep // when the rain falls / when the rain falls / when the rain falls / how did I find myself suddenly warm / in a perfect storm? // I come wearing nothing / to have or to hold / for I have discovered how / to never grow old / I’m lost when I’m waiting / and I’m joy when I give / so I have decided here and now to live // when the rain falls / when the rain falls / when the rain falls / how did I find myself suddenly warm / in a perfect storm? //
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Tetherless
03:39
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TETHERLESS // this isn’t god, I’m trapped get me outta here / or wish I didn’t have this dead end job / it’s not I gotta chase a distant horizon / or gonna start a brand new life abroad // but I need to know if I can do this / gonna take my songs and run / only bring what I can carry / gonna walk beneath the sun // my grip is tenuous at best / I’m feeling tetherless // this isn’t god, I’m scared to get outta here / or wish I didn’t have to leave my home / it’s not I gotta see my name in neon lights / or gonna wander aimless on my own // but I need to know if I can do this / gonna take my songs and run / only bring what I can carry / gonna melt beneath the sun // my grip is tenuous at best / I’m feeling tetherless // 48 states in a single long line / bet it’s gonna take me a really long time / 48 states in a single long line / New York to California / 48 states in a single long line / bet it’s gonna take me a really long time / 48 states in a single long line / Washington to Florida // oh, I need to know if I can do this / gonna take my songs and run / only bring what I can carry / gonna dance beneath the sun // my grip is tenuous at best / I’m feeling tetherless //
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Unsaved
04:13
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UNSAVED // I remember the night it went up in smoke / I was singing a song of forgiveness / and how even love doesn’t cover all sins / when a heart has been robbed of fulfilment // I remember the light that shone through the glass / and the magic I felt in the music / they couldn’t believe the things I saw / but I had the vision to prove it // a touch on my skin / a burning in / standing, surrounded, aflame / all of the passion of the girl I had been / returned to the woman I became / a light in my heart / another start / remembering I never caved / I saw the magic in the air / even then, even there / unsaved // I remember the day it crumbled and fell / I was thinking about resurrection / and how I knew I could never go home / where the bodies were only reflections // a touch on my skin / a breathing in / falling without any sound / all the compassion for the girl I had been / returned to the keeping of the ground / a hole in the sky / another try / remembering more than a grave / I saw the magic in despair / even then, even there / unsaved // the apples were ripe for the taking / and I was a world in the making / they couldn’t believe the things I knew / I didn’t expect them to // a touch on my skin / a sinking in / standing but never the same / all of the passion from the girl I had been / returned to the woman I became / a lump in my throat / another coat / remembering how to be brave / I saw the magic everywhere / even then, even there / unsaved // I remember the night it went up in smoke / I was singing a song of forgiveness //
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This Isn't You
03:47
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THIS ISN’T YOU // -what are you doing here on the road?- / -where are you going?- There! -you don’t know- / I haven’t come this far to turn back now / it’s time to go, go, go / -turn back around- / go, go, go // -what are you looking for on the road?- / -what are you waiting for? you don’t know- / I haven’t pushed this hard to turn back now / it’s time to go, go, go / -turn back around- / go, go, go // it’s time to wake up! / -uh-uh, turn back around- / push through! / -uh-uh, you can’t do it- / reach out! / -uh-uh, what were you thinking?- / -this isn’t you, this isn’t you- / like hell it’s not // -how did you think this was gonna go?- / -what did you hope you were gonna show?- / I didn’t leave it all to turn back now / it’s time to go, go, go / feet on the ground / go, go, go // it’s time to wake up! / -uh-uh, turn back around- / push through! / -uh-uh, you can’t do it- / reach out! / -uh-uh, what were you thinking?- / -this isn’t you, this isn’t you- / like hell it’s not // so what if I’ve gotta make this up as I go? / to hell with all the oughtas I should already know / I didn’t do this twenty years ago / no, I wasn’t ready to be living on the road // it’s time to wake up! / -uh-uh, turn back around- / push through! / -uh-uh, you can’t do it- / reach out! / -uh-uh, what were you thinking?- / -this isn’t you, this isn’t you- / like hell it’s not //
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Locked and Loaded
04:22
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LOCKED AND LOADED // days at a time you lay in the dark / under shadow, marked / courting a crime you held in your heart / wading shallow, sharp // locked and loaded / so determined to be lost / locked and loaded / you were itching to be tossed / but I couldn’t let you / I didn’t wanna let you / dive in, dive in, no / I just couldn’t let you / I didn’t wanna let you in // coming undone I slip through the cracks / to the bottom, black / out of the sun and ready to snap / anchor pulling back // locked and loaded / so determined to be lost / locked and loaded / I was itching to be tossed / so I couldn’t let you / I didn’t wanna let you / dive in, dive in, no / I just couldn’t let you / I didn’t wanna let you in // locked and loaded / so determined to be lost / locked and loaded / pushing back at any cost / locked and loaded / I don’t wanna be lost / so I’ll try to let you / I’m gonna try to let you / dive in, dive in, oh / I will try to let you / I’m gonna try to let you in // hope I still know how to swim //
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Shatter Scatter Pattern
03:31
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SHATTER SCATTER PATTERN // I’ve got your back ‘cause there are times / it’s all you’ll let me see / we’re off the track we used to walk / pretending we were free / there isn’t one piece of what we broke / it’s all but smoke / and I can’t breathe deep enough / to get high on you now // if the essence of the thing that was / can last beyond the shatter / does it matter that it’s broken / or that all that’s left is scattered? / I don’t know, but now and then / I think it was, I think I’ve been / much more than pattern / more than pattern this time // I made a deal I wouldn’t write / and shut the river down / I cleared my head and filled it up / with both feet on the ground / there isn’t one piece of what we made / we tried to save / and I can’t dig deep enough / to understand you now / if the essence of the thing that was / can last beyond the shatter / does it matter that it’s broken / or that all that’s left is scattered? / I don’t know, but now and then / I think it was, I think I’ve been / much more than pattern / more than pattern this time / more than pattern / more than pattern this time //
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Just Be
03:22
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JUST BE // I’ve been anxious, I’ve been tired / I’ve been crossed and I’ve been wired / overwhelmed and overemphasized / called upon to understand and empathize // every little light has got a darker shade / everyone I love’s about to be remade / better bring your game you’re starting second half / step out of the rain and remember to laugh // just be // like a rock I have been rolled / like a child I have been told / underfed and underutilized / now’s the time to overwrite and optimize // every little light has got a darker side / everyone I know has got a bruise to hide / dig into the dirt if you want to come clean / step out of the rain and remember to dream // just be / just be // shrug it off today / give it up and play / go find another way / go find another way / go find another way to // just be / just be / just be //
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Ask Who I Am
05:37
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ASK WHO I AM // I’ve found it easy to blaze a trail / so easy I don’t always see what I’m blazing / forging ahead where others fail / turning the dream into making / and I make my own luck as I blaze along / with a glamour that rounds off the edges / a copperhead mistress of magic and song / look close and you’ll see where the edge is // if you ask who I am I will ask you the same / and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game / for the Speaker of Truth has the same to say / I am who you are today // I love with all that I am and more / ever the champion of vulnerable spaces / opening up to molten core / with the courage to love the dark places / but I’ll pick up and go when I feel it’s time / and I’ve gathered epiphanies brilliant and bruised / to muse as I wander in liminal rhyme / over all of the words I could choose // if you ask who I am I will ask you the same / and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game / for the Speaker of Truth has the same to say / I am who you are today / I am who you are today // the joy of the rain when it first fell down / love that begins to unfurl / life that’s been lived across sight and sound / accumulating the world / dust of the stars in our very skin / snowflakes all part of the snow / the web that connects every outside in / there’s more to the riddle you know // when you ask who I am I will ask you the same / and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game / for the Speaker of Truth has the same to say / I am who you are today // oh, I am who you are today / I am who you are today //
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(I Gotta) Bow My Head
03:44
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(I GOTTA) BOW MY HEAD // you know, it really creeps in / you don’t notice it at first / even when you’re on the lookout / even when you’ve rehearsed / it doesn’t feel like a big deal / what is one little kiss? / but then you’re up to your eyeballs / you know you’re better than this // suddenly you’re surrounded / and there’s something in the tea / consequently you’ve grounded / where deference is currency / and there’s something to be said / for eloquence and tasty bread / but I’ve always been suspicious / when they tell me / I gotta bow my head // so then you take your first step / and it turns into a dance / and before you even know it / you’re the hot new romance / you hear them starting to whisper / and they start keeping track / a little voice in your head says / now you can never go back // suddenly you’re surrounded / and there’s something in the tea / consequently you’ve grounded / where deference is currency / and there’s something to be said / for eloquence and tasty bread / but I’ve always been suspicious / when they tell me / I gotta bow my head //
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Catalyst
05:08
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CATALYST // a spark in the dark / cannot go unseen / cannot disappear / cannot melt into the nothingness / or hide behind the night / it is other, it is light // and the eye unaccustomed to illumination shines / and the heart that never felt the sun expands / and the mind confronting chemical epiphany understands // this is a catalyst for completion / a catalyst for resolve / this is a catalyst to launch a thousand ships by / a catalyst to evolve // art at the start / has no memory / has no consequence / has an infinite potential / to become or to betray / just a facet, just the clay // if the eye unaccustomed to illumination shines / and the heart that never felt the sun expands / and the mind confronting chemical epiphany understands // this is a catalyst for completion / a catalyst for resolve / this is a catalyst to launch a thousand ships by / a catalyst to evolve // pierce that paper plate eclipse / and find the words upon your lips / root below and star above / you are light and love // this is a catalyst for completion / a catalyst for resolve / this is a catalyst to launch a thousand ships by / a catalyst to evolve // when the eye / and the heart / and the mind understand // catalyst / catalyst / catalyst //
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Stargazer
05:08
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STARGAZER // there’s a hole in your heart / in the sky, that’s a part / of the soul in your eyes / like the start of a life / in the stars, in the light / of the spark that was there / when you first looked up // there’s a tear in the dream / like a tug on the seam / that you wear far too snug / so it seems not enough / to be seen to be rougher / than gleams in the night / of that deep dark sea // stargazer / lie here with me / stargazer / what do you see? // there’s a gap in the place / between something and space / where the map has become / more the face than the sum / of the race that we run / keeping pace with a light / that has all but burned out // there’s a knot in the line / like a twist in the twine / where it’s caught in the mix / of the fried on the fritz / and divine is the wish / in the wine as it flows / when we’ve all but drowned // stargazer / lie here with me / stargazer / what do you see? / tell me // there’s a path through the woods / forking out from what should / and what has been the drought / of the good in the doubt / and what could have gone south / and what would have been better / if only for // there’s a mountain to climb / through the smoke and the grime / where the sound of our hope / cannot die in our throats / and the time we devote / to design and to love / only builds us up // stargazer / lie here with me / stargazer / what do you see? // tell me the story / of what we could be / tell me // stargazer / what do you see? / tell me //
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Motherblood
04:25
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MOTHERBLOOD // I had a vision where I saw her standing / as though on a cliff staring down at the face / I watched her crying her tears into handfuls / of crystalline saline: a grieving of grace // grief that passes from mother to girl / for every daughter a gift to take with her into the world // I watched the passing of legacy teardrops / wind all down the mountain, an unbroken line / spiralling women of sorrow remembered / in their handfuls of memory, dark and divine // grief that passes from mother to girl / for every daughter a gift to take with her into the world // I am the daughter who dared to look down and / consider the gift I’d been given was more / than the curse of our motherblood staining our dresses / and tears became pearls rolling back from the shore // daughter to mother the pearls wound their way up the mountain to find her / matriarch, all of your daughters today bring a gift from the water // grief that passes from mother to girl / from every daughter a gift to take with you into the swirl // a grief that passes to mother of pearl / from every daughter a gift to take with you into the swirl / into the swirl // motherblood / motherblood //
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Metamorphosis
04:58
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METAMORPHOSIS // metamorphosis between sisters / in a multiverse of bliss and of blisters / here’s the one life where she kissed her / and here’s the one where she’s a mister / cataloguing this metamorphosis / navigating this metamorphosis // abolitionist by ellipsis / in an absolute of ships and eclipses / here’s the one path where she slips in / and here’s the one where she’s a victim / invocating this abolitionist / advocating this abolitionist // parting veils and summer hail / become the threshold home / bleeding hearts while all depart / belie and espy / the journey back to I // photosynthesis catechism / in a feral sun to cell cataclysm / here’s the one breath where she’s rhythm / and here’s the one where she’s a prism / scintillating this photosynthesis / underwriting this photosynthesis // parting veils and summer hail / become the threshold home / bleeding hearts while all depart / belie and espy / the journey back to I // coming back to this metamorphosis / welcome home to this metamorphosis //
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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario
Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more
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