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Someone’s Calling
03:10
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Someone’s Calling
Someone’s calling through the wind and the rain
Someone’s calling out again and again
Who am I
Who am I
Someone’s calling, I can hear the refrain
Beat the drum slowly, we are mourning a friend
Beat the drum slowly and then beat it again
Someone’s calling, see the root of the tree
Someone’s calling, you have always been free
Who am I
Who am I
Someone’s calling, I can hear the refrain
Beat the drum slowly, we are mourning a friend
Beat the drum slowly and then beat it again
Someone’s calling, come away from this land
Someone’s calling, be as quick as you can
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Broken Without Hand
02:02
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Straight On Down The Line
A sentimental wishing well where the bubbles never stop
However many feet I fall, I feel I’m at the top
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Standing at the pony rail with puddles in your hands
Dreaming of the monkey faces you can’t understand
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Guess you better wait a while til the glue begins to set
Honey, what a joke it is to be caught outside the net
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Many times I see your name but it falls beneath my teeth
I know I gotta go again and paint my hidden grief
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Still you cannot feel your fists beating at the rain
Jumping in the humble few who chew their tongues again
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Maybe now the crystal falls deep inside the track
Shatter all the needle balls you treasured for a map
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Pretty Penny found today a voice beside the wood
Stolen dreams to mark the day you did but what you could
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
Sleepin’ in the bed beside the one who knows me too
Laughing in his letters for the wave was not to you
You’re in the groove, straight on down straight on down the line
The shepherd’s heart is broken now, he’s drowning in his fears
The matron saint of duty has confounded him with tears
You better get it together, get it together, get it together
You better get it together, get it together
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Country Harvest Time
02:43
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Country Harvest Time
When the apple is ripe it will fall
There’s nothin’ will stop it at all
Who’s afraid of yesterday
At Country Harvest Time
Silent Light’s sightless sight
Sees no one inside
Monkey talk’s in the dock
At Country Harvest Time
When the wind blows your name from my lips
And my finger finds no need to grip
Now and here all doubts are cleared
At Country Harvest Time
Silent Light’s sightless sight
Sees no one inside
Monkey talk’s in the dock
At Country Harvest Time
You think you’ve the ghost of a chance
To change the steps of the dance
Armageddon with a smile
At Country Harvest Time
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Go Like a Guest
04:17
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All That Binds
03:51
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All That Binds
The mind is deep and quiet
Seeing all that binds
But it’s just a pale reflection
Of what I cannot find
All these thoughts and feelings
Happen over there
On the battleground of sight and sound
Where nothing’s ever fair
Living in the moment
Seeing all that binds
Leaving all the torment
Many moons behind
Really wanting nothing
Letting go what comes
Abandoning this hunted thing
That’s always on the run
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John Lyle Sechelt, British Columbia
The lyrics for most of the songs appearing in these albums are available in book form: "The Kindest Lies: the Lyrics of John Lyle", published by Leaky Boot Press (June 28, 2013).
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