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See You Again
04:42
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Spring is near
Yeah the daylight appears
I can feel it coming like a thrumming through my bones
But now the nest is empty
For she has up and left me
A thousand miles away my little bird has flown
Ooh but as the day breaks onto miles of frozen plain
Sunlight is melting, honey
And steaming up the rain
I tried to call you across that vast and wild space
But you did not get the call
That don't bother me at all
I'll just pick up from the root ball
And I'm gonna see you again
Snows again!
They can’t keep me in
Gonna dig a tunnel just like rabbits dig a hole
That winter wind
It makes a great coat thin
But I've got heft and bark and warmth built up in store
You told me that our bodies grow as one across the land
When springtime hits the leafy meadow I'll wake up again
Every time I get up in the night I know you do too
That rope that's stretched so tight is pulling me on home to you
And I know it's pulling you too
Cause one and one is one, too
So let's just see this thing through
And I'm gonna see you again
Tomorrow morning
Is almost upon me
The night is ending, we're upending winter's throne
So come the spring
And with it bring
My little darling and the love that we have known
Here you come to me across a lost and lonely plain
Where men had built a house of me and priests invoked my name
They labored in their love of me but I declare not in vain
As springtime teaches, things that we thought gone right soon we'll gain
My bird, your branches call
A good oak warm and tall
And out our bodies will crawl
When I see you again
Ba da ba ba bow
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Green Sweater
01:46
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Summertime
And it'll be better
The weather's fine
For a green sweater
Ooh
Winter's lines
Etched hard upon your face
The green lawns
All marred by the rain
Ooh
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Lakewood
03:50
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Lakewood lakewood won’t you be my friend
Like your rivers I been a-twistin’
Don’t know where it starts, don’t know where it ends
Lakewood Lakewood won’t you be my friend
Walking down Detroit Avenue
Looking for some thing to do
None will meet my darkened glance
A plastic bag blows against the fence
Lakewood Lakewood won’t you be my friend
Your gray gray skies seem to have no end
My soul feels clipped, my heart feels bent
Lakewood Lakewood won’t you be my friend
The snow is falling all around my room
The sun is down, it’ll be dark soon
The windows show me what it’s like outside
A rabbit finds a place to hide
A dim-lit bar, a half-filled crowd
A beer in hand, a quiet town
A good friend’s waiting just out of sight
Dust yourself off, go out tonight
Take a step, then take one more
Close the light, step out the door
If you dare reach out your hand
Lakewood Lakewood will be your friend
Lakewood Lakewood won’t you be my friend
Like your rivers I been a twistin’
Don’t know where it starts, don’t know where it ends
Lakewood Lakewood won’t you be my friend
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Demon in the Desert
02:31
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Why can I never talk straight to you?
Why do I have to go round and about
Finding myself at the place
The place where I hoped to get out?
What is it about your worry
That never comforts or calms?
It sends the demons to scurry and hurry
Back into the wound it opens
They talk of one little devil
Who soon will multiply
You send him out but the clever fellow
Will find seven more of his kind
So soon they know your defenses
They know just how to break in
But instead of making slick with the silver
They’d rather make camp and dig in
Oh they’d rather make camp and dig in
Like those guys from Oregon
They’d rather make camp and dig in
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Oh take me back to the shoals of Nantucket
Where the skies are sparklin’
And the sand is clean
The beaches inviting me to spend the day there
Nantucket, Nantucket
Were you just a dream?
Oh let me hear those ships’ bells at morning
The mist slowly rising on a choppy sea
The fog lightly lifting
A Nantucket morning
Nantucket, Nantucket
Seems like a dream to me
I want to run a ring round Water Street
And ground my ship at your shores
You've got that thing
Makes my soul complete
Oh Nantucket, you know I'm coming for more
Oh take me back to a Madaket Sunset
A sunrise in Sconset
And Cisco by day
How I love it
To live life at leisure
With every new treasure
You bring my way
Nantucket, Nantucket
We'll meet again some day
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NoBuddy
02:19
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No I’ve got
No buddy around
No I’ve got
No buddy around
Listen can you hear it, tell me
What’s that sound?
The sound of
No buddy around
My buddy’s gone and left town
My buddy’s gone and left town
Now the only other sound is that lonesome sound
The sound of no buddy around
(chorus)
The coffee’s left unground
The spool is left unwound
The chair is like the dais of a king un-crowned
Cause I’ve got
No buddy around
(chorus)
It's quiet all around
Quiet all over town
Now there’s nothing left to do except to mope and frown
Cause I've got
No buddy around
(chorus)
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No Time Left to Lose
03:36
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Yeah our backs are bent and broken
We have tried so many times
We’ve sought some kind of meaning in the grand design
Now our hair is gone bedraggled
And directionless our minds
Can we even remember all the things we meant to find?
Yeah our heads are feeling heavy
And stubborn as the devil
The body’s feeling ready for a change of heart
So hold the handbrake steady
Keep the path free for the shovel
And move it on the double to these patient waiting arms
I see it in the corner
In the dust left by your shoes
Hurry now, we’ve no time left to lose
No time like the present
For digging up the past
Let's let bygones be bygones
Let’s build it so it can last
So come as soon as you are able
We’ve a place set at the table
It’s sturdy and it’s stable and it's made to hold you up
It’ll take you when you’re ready
Underdone or brimming plenty
If you run your tank to empty I’ll be there to fill it up
The days are getting colder
But there’s warmth in here for you
Hurry now, we’ve no time left to lose
What good are all these past regrets?
If you ask I won’t refuse
Hurry now, we’ve no time left to lose
Hurry now, we've no time left to lose
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Someday Soon
02:43
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I know my number’s gonna come up
I know my dollar’s gonna drop
My penny’s gonna sparkle from the wishing well
I know my luck ain’t all run up
I know it’ll happen for me some day soon
Someday soon but when I cannot tell
Staring out my window
At the man on the moon
He changes his face every day
Please, Mr. Moonlight
I ask of you every night
Can’t I change too? The way that you do?
Show me the way
I know my number’s gonna come up
I know my dollar’s gonna drop
I know gosh darn, it’ll happen for me some day soon
I’ll change just like the winter moon
When it'll happen I can't tell you
But I know it’s coming someday soon
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Tommy Crawford Hartford, Vermont
Welcome!
I'm Tommy. I am an actor, theater artist, singer-songwriter, and
dad.
I live in VT by way of NYC by way of NJ
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