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Godspeed

by Jonah Hirst

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1.
Tantalus 04:21
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Takin' a trip into the underworld I see you, Tantalus You're somewhere stuck outside reality Far past this earthen crust Eternally, you're hungry, thirsty for what's Quite beyond your thrust In your lust, do you fuss "Food or bust"? Fuss you must, Tantalus Whenever you reach for fruit upon the tree Its limbs snatch it away Whenever you try to sip some water, your lake Drains without delay Believe it or not, I am quite like you Hoping that one rainy day That this game that we play Finds a way to say "Hey, I won't stay" My true love hangs like a fruit on a tree My true love washes away like the sea But someday I will have my cup of tea And he'll come running 'cross lonely Hades To me Tantalus, I can't help but feel some pity For your sorry state Maybe someday, Zeus will appear to you And hand you something great As for today, don't let your hunger and thirst Keep you filled hate It's not too late to live great In your state, don't you hate You'll live great My true love hangs like a fruit on a tree My true love washes away like the sea But someday, I will have my cup of tea And he'll come running 'cross lonely Hades to me As for me, you will see My love he waits for me in a tree When I die, don't you cry My love and I, we will fly In the sky Don't you fuss, don't you cuss If you must, come with us Tantalus
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Star-Covered Coast 02:30
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When the trees are silhouetted on a baby blue sky And we're driving through the mountains at about sixty-five When we're tumbling down the cliffs upon a star-covered coast That is when I love you the most When you're turning up the music 'cause we both know all the words When we venture out so far away, we know we can't be heard When our love for one another is transparent as a ghost That is when I love you the most When we both say what we want to without saying it out loud When our bodies are illuminated under crying clouds When the thunder sounds, I keep both feet on the ground When you're around When we both outgrow our youthful ways but not outgrow our dreams When we hike the High Sierra 'til we're bursting at the seams When we both create our perfect lives but we're too kind to boast That is when I love you the most When the little girl who's five years old and looks a lot like you, says "Daddy, please come over here and look what I can do" In her father's eyes, I see my father's pride I can't describe When we both are old enough to have grandchildren on our knees Who say, "Grandma, I think I'm in love and it's quite new to me" I will tell them to "Believe in it if one day you find You love him the most all the time" You know, I love you the most all the time
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When They Fall 03:49
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You left far too early, I met you far too late When I ask you how you're doing, you say "I'm doing great" Well, the only thing I want is for you to be happy as you can be And every once in a while, that you might think of me You once said that seven hours was far too long a drive But don't you know that I'll still love you as long as you're alive I will still hold your heart, my dear, even if I can't hold your hand You are my sunshine, my shining beacon, no matter where you stand And if you ever doubt it, don't you worry about it It will get lonely at times, but don't you let it bother you None at all Pretty soon you'll see, love, the gift you've given me, love The leaves on the trees are just as beautiful When they fall The days are getting shorter, it gets colder every day But every time I think of you, I ask, "How will I have fun today?" Because, though I'm lonely, I can't help but see The good you've done for me And that the best way to repay you is to live happily And if you ever doubt it, don't you worry about it It will get lonely at times, but don't you let it bother you None at all Pretty soon you'll see, love, the gift you've given me, love The leaves on the trees are just as beautiful When they fall Don't you ever let it bother you None at all The stars in the sky are just as beautiful When they fall
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Elliot 03:06
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Elliot sits on a Saturday morning Sipping a coffee and resting his head on his Hands as he looks at the sky out the window While rearranging all the colors of those who walk by Elliot, what color am I? Afternoon comes just like Elliot walks on the sidewalk So leisurely, Elliot sets the world spinning In an entirely different direction He paints a masterpiece with all that he lets himself see Elliot, can you see me? Evening comes so gracefully The moon's bright fingers shine On the earth below As Elliot turns all the stars around I wonder what he's thinking Will I ever know? Elliot's a filmmaker, changing the world with his Eyes as he's stroking his scarf made of piano keys And he opens his mind to unthinkable things As he sings you a melody of all that he means Elliot, come sing to me Evening comes so gracefully The moon's bright fingers shine On the earth below As Elliot turns all the stars around I wonder what he's thinking Will I ever know? Tell me what you're thinking, Elliot Come sing to me, Elliot Tell me what you mean, Elliot
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My Pretty Lady 03:45
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Somewhere between the sweet confusion of the winter's passing on And the wild grinning sunlight of the spring There lies a puzzle of a person, a most ingenious paradox My sweet enigma, my mysterious thing My lionness, my readhead warrior, my burning castle queen Day to day, she lives within a scalding stove Though the flames may burn her skin, they cannot touch her golden heart She is my song of hope and diamond treasure trove And when she comes running to you You best keep your arms wide open She is my, my, my pretty lady I will cherish her each day She is my, my, my pretty lady You can't take this love away You can't take this love away People gather 'round each other to discuss their petty woes But my lady, she is quite unlike them all Her words, though they are wise ones, will too often go misheard And they will float away like autumn leaves will fall And when she comes singing to you You best keep your soul wide open She is my, my, my pretty lady I will cherish her each day She is my, my, my pretty lady You can't take this love away You can't take this love away Do you recall every moment that we ever shared a laugh Or the countless ones in which we shared a tear? I no longer have to worry where the future takes me now It's a damn good one as long as you are near So, when I come running to you You best keep your arms wide open She is my, my, my pretty lady I will cherish her each day She is my, my, my pretty lady You can't take this love away She is my, my, my pretty lady I will cherish her each day She is my, my, my pretty lady You can't take this love away You can't take this love away No, you can't take this love away
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Free 02:52
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Do you ever think, do you ever think What would life be like if we could do Whatever we wanted all the time? Do you ever feel, do you ever feel Just like the walls are closing in around you? Do you ever feel confined? Like the songs you write, they always have to rhyme? Like every step you take in life just brings you Closer to the day you die? I always used to think, I always used to think Whenever I wanted freedom, I could Buy it with a dollar and a dime Then I used to think, then I used to think The answers lay upon a page in Some old book that I had yet to find I was getting nowhere fast and I was falling in the trap Of navigating worlds of somewhere with One-thousand nowhere maps So, hear me out If you're ever feeling trapped in If we look to one another We won't have to look again Do you ever see, do you ever see The moon all full and lovely at the Dead of night when you are all alone? Does it ever hurt, does it ever hurt To see such majesty when you are By yourself and silent as a stone? Never hesitate to knock upon my door 'Cause if you need some liberation, That's what I was put here for So, hear me out If you're ever feeling trapped in If we look to one another, We won't have to look again Open up your eyes, open up your eyes There's beauty everywhere you look Your searching has been keeping your eyes closed Open up your palms, open up your palms The light will 'luminate your whole wide Body from your head down to your toes Open up the shade, the sun will fill the room And when the night falls and you're all alone I'll look up at the moon with you And when you're finally free You'll stop looking for the answers and Come look for me Because when you share the beauty in life You are truly free
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River 04:22
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Oh, how these roaring seas have quieted Oh, how these flowers have bloomed These grounds are quenched with the last rain The moon shines bright in our room Oh, when the stars fall With open hearts, we'll catch them when they do Oh, when the day calls The sunlight will bounce off the morning dew And I will still love you My love, how we've painted a masterpiece With colors no one has seen My love, we'll walk every city We'll follow every dream Oh, when the stars fall With open hearts, we'll catch them when they do Oh, when the day calls The sunlight will bounce off the morning dew And I will still love you And when we die, if we live on I'll spend that life with you But when we die, if we are done I'll rest in peace now that I've found you I've found you Oh, how these roaring seas have quieted Oh, how these flowers have bloomed Look how the stars have started falling Rest now we'll catch them soon
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Godspeed 04:22
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I will wear you like a sweater When these cold winds, they start to Chill me to the bone I will live in your wherever These cold winds blow you Within you, I'll be home But when these shelter walls They come a-tumblin' down And these woolen threads are frayed Well, I'm out of luck, my friend Until you put 'em back together again You have peeled away my layers I am sour like a lemon and Sweet like a tangerine Forty-thousand leagues beneath me You are anchored in Bittersweet perplexity So, when you take a bite, Don't clench your teeth too tight For I am naked as a lake And ripples will steal through me with every Quantum-level move you make I have shed my skin I have shed my bones I have nothing to hide I have nothing to own Take heart, take heed Farewell and godspeed When you're coming back to me Godspeed on your way home So won't you take a step back to me Nothing you say or do can ever Make me feel otherwise In my veins, you're pulsing through me As long as my heart beats, you will be Keeping me alive Keep soft your gentle heart Before I fall apart And be aware that when I do My pieces are in your hands And you will have to be my superglue I have shed my skin I have shed my bones I have nothing to hide I have nothing to own Take heart, take heed Farewell and godspeed When you're coming back to me Godspeed on your way home I have shed my skin I have shed my bones I have nothing to hide I have nothing to own Take heart, take heed Farewell and godspeed When you're coming back to me I'm a newborn babe I'm a woolly sheep But I am mountain-strong And ocean-deep If you can be shore On which I crash my waves I will never be alone Godspeed on your way home
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Broken 03:52
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All of my prayers, they dissipate Unheard by a god of fiction And I cannot shake this paralysis Or my addiction I was a lead weight in the morning My hands trembled well after midnight 'Til I unclenched my fists and my hardened brow And ceased to fight Mother, mother, mother, forgive me For I can hardly forgive myself I will leave it broken for everyone to see And I will place it back upon the shelf I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken I will leave it broken, broken So, I changed the strings on my ukulele I changed the laces on my shoes Though it won't repair these worn-out heart strings It'll help to cure the blues It'll help the cure the blues It'll help to cure the blues, yeah Mother, mother, mother, forgive me For I can hardly forgive myself I will leave it broken for everyone to see And I will place it back upon the shelf I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken I will leave it broken, broken We drank from capless jars And we claimed the world as ours We watched as all the stars Exploded at our fingertips Don't mistake for desperation Quiet sighs of liberation We have reached our destination now And we've begun again So, mother, if you can, forgive me For I've already forgiven myself I will leave it broken for everyone to see And I will place it back upon the shelf I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken, I will leave it broken, broken

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An overtly passionate young person with a few rhymes in his pocket fell in love with a baritone ukulele and produced this nine-track lovechild.

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released September 19, 2012

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Jonah Hirst Ithaca, New York

Jonah Hirst is a singer-songwriter and cat enthusiast living in Ithaca, NY.

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