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Away Gently
05:05
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He went away gently. You went away loud
Boasting of new love to hide all your proud
You climbed up a mountain to see farther out
Not seeing inside him was what filled you with doubt
You said, “Don’t go away mad”
Would he release you from the sadness?
He left just the way that you said
Now you’re the one lamenting what you had
And lost
And lost
In dreams you’ll consume him as if he’s still there
Staking a claim in what never compares
In duties of daylight you’ll think he’s long gone
In a life lived before you by another someone
You said, “Don’t go away mad”
Would he release you from the sadness?
He left just the way that you said
Now you’re the one lamenting what you had
And lost
And lost
It was never the days that filled you like lead
Rather the nights when you wished you still fed
On a mouth made of promise and skin of sweet salt
Why you still want him was never his fault
You said, “Don’t go away mad”
Would he release you from the sadness?
He left just the way that you said
Now you’re the one lamenting what you had
And lost
And lost
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Day or Decades
04:46
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Rain soaked leaves don’t hide me from him
Thrusting my life into the winds of my whim
Somehow the only real silence I’ll find
Is in the middle of the madness of my mind
You said it
Eyes will betray
You said it
I wanted to say
I wrote a song about the moment you took
Over desire under the scars where you would look
Your whisper carries from the grasses to the sea
Reaching an ember still wanting to be seen
You said it
Eyes will betray
You said it
I wanted to say
You said it
We’d never go away
You said it
We’d last a day or decades
Late summer always finds me out with time
Waiting for you to leave
Leave my mind
Leave my mind
Leave my mind
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Gone Gone Gone
04:08
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How am I to tell the story of my life without her to lace it?
Time quiets down and events, they spread out like suitcases
Plucked from a baggage claim and set in order of my paces
Clearly lacking the colorful chaos she embraces
Gone, gone, gone are the times that we
Tore the words from each others mouth
Lit inside like the charges from
An electrical storm twisting to the ground
We were bound
We once spent a summer listening to the slow hot breath of the sea
Holding me to her as a slave, a mentor and devotee
Everything that she was would in time be revealed in me
My lover, my dream she took for her own to be
Gone, gone, gone are the times that we
Tore the words from each others mouth
Lit inside like the charges from
An electrical storm twisting to the ground
We were bound
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Gone, gone, gone are the times that we
Tore the words from each others mouth
Lit inside like the charges from
An electrical storm twisting to the ground
We were bound
Gone, gone, gone are the times that we
Tore the words from each others mouth
Lit inside like the charges from
An electrical storm twisting to the ground
We were bound
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In Those Woods
05:21
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Close your eyes, tell me what you see
This I want to know, not reality
What you smell and what you breathe
Close your eyes, tell me what you see
Pull me in, leave me be, I can’t feel a thing
Rain falls, sky’s dark, wind quit howling
I hear you now, I heard you then
Be it still, be it cold, deliver me an end
The sky opened up and out this fell
I know this feeling all too well
Fractured into pieces too small to retrieve
What is left is what I’ll believe
Chorus
I called into the mountains
Twilight called back
Leaned into the stillness
Blackness crossed my path, my path
You were once a child rambling through those woods
No one had yet said what couldn’t or could
Coyote, hare, nothing’s bad or good
Close your eyes and find me a place in those woods
Chorus
Deliver me an end
Deliver me an end
Deliver me an end
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Not Her
03:23
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Raised in a city torn down by its pride
Glowing in shadows of bones in the sky
Veins full of wanderlust fell away in time
When everyone else would bleed the city dry
Chorus
Not her, she stayed
When everyone last one would go away
Not her, she cried
Every last time she said goodbye
Towering hopes now blow out broken windows
Vines twist in cracks splitting bricks with the snows
Crime’s a patina that mutes all that glowed
City smeared with a forgetting that most will never know
Chorus
Not her, she sees
What every last one would choose to leave
Not her, she still cries
For every last time she said goodbye
Depth and perseverance
A beauty rarely seen
Pockets of resurgence
This city laid claim to me
To me, to me, to me
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Never Go Away
04:30
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You know I’ll be ok he said over
The telephone the night he left her
Must be something in the way I’m getting older
Cause everything is just a little bit colder
He just can’t seem to cry when he’s alone
Keeps himself distracted working on their home
To cover up the memory of her moans
Just before she went and left him on his own
Chorus
This cannot be made better
This sorrow should stay
Sink deep inside my bones
So that she’ll never go away
Never go away
So he drives home, turns off the car
He walks inside, he won’t get very far
Surrounded by her things, he stares into the night
That is his first without his wife
Now he walks instead of riding to the lake
Just a little more he does for his own sake
The moment’s coming when he knows he’s going to break
But he’ll just lean in hard and see what he can take
Chorus
2x
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Lucy
04:01
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Lucy I had a wonderful dream
You’d come back here to sing just for me
I could tell in your voice
You’d still be here if given the choice
Given the choice
Chorus
Oh Lucy how I miss the voice that called my name
Always laced with your southern twang
So much love came through all of your pain, held like a shield
Never could find an easier way
Lucy I remember how you saved
A little each week from your groceries to pay
For a single strand of pearls
Luxury small you claimed from this big world
From a big world
Chorus
Oh Lucy how I miss the voice that called my name
Always laced with your southern twang
So much love came through all of your pain, held like a shield
Never could find an easier way
Lucy your blue eyes told a story
Somehow twisted and tangled with mine
Now I see what you always knew
Dreams that were withered and spent like the dew
Spent like the dew
Chorus
Oh Lucy how I miss the voice that called my name
Always laced with your southern twang
So much love came through all of your pain, held like a shield
Never could find an easier way
2x
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River Still Runs
03:56
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Warm winter days we went to rocky hillsides
In the sun we’d lay claim to what we couldn’t hide
I miss the trees stripped down to bark and limb
Rustling bed of leaves rising up to meet our bare skin
Chorus
How the river still runs
How we bask in the sun
Skipping rocks just for fun
Finding more than what we’ve run from
Hiding love in the dark of a sweet song
You were brave enough to be vulnerable to me
Falling into love like water grows the cracks deep
Spread beneath a sky of more than I could ever see
Clinging to you like spring comes through a winter breeze
Chorus
How the river still runs
How we bask in the sun
Skipping rocks just for fun
Finding more than what we’ve run from
Hiding love in the dark of a sweet song
2x
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Michigan
05:29
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Clouds move over Pontiac skies
Their silent thunder matches mine
And I know this feeling from a long time ago
I wondered was it gone but now I know
So when he calls don’t send him my way
When it hurts you know it’s the right thing
Chorus
Michigan’s in the rearview now
Keep your hands where I can see ‘em
You took the words right outta my mouth
When you knew that I would need ‘em
What am I supposed to do now
Without you, without you
It’s unannounced like you’d expect it
I’m on broke down break lines and Motown records
And all that’s left is a blind reflection
You know what’s coming now and you regret
So when he calls don’t send him my way
When it hurts the most it’s the right thing
Chorus
Michigan’s in the rearview now
Keep your hands where I can see ‘em
You took the words right outta my mouth
When you knew that I would need ‘em
What am I supposed to do now
Without you, without you
2x
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Like Sweetness Does
04:30
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I was ready, I was already yours
Even before I had ever laid eyes on
We didn’t, we didn’t have to learn
How to love, how to make each other burn
Chorus
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end of time
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end, till the end of time
Days swim by, swim by like sweetness does
Never doubt what wasn’t made but simply was
You were never, not even gone when you died
Cause I still see life the way you loved and tried
Chorus
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end of time
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end, end, end, end of time
Chorus
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end of time
I was yours
You were mine
Till the end, end, end, end of time
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Stephanie Hatfield Santa Fe, New Mexico
Although originally from the Detroit area, this eclectic singer hails from a Kentucky hillbilly heritage with a rich poetic history. Her music embodies the emotional release of having your heart ripped apart and lovingly put back together again, but it’s the raw power of Hatfield’s expansive voice that makes her the perfect soundtrack for an adrenaline junkie who craves the rush. ... more
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