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Held In Splendor

by Quilt

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1.
Arctic Shark 02:37
How can I proceed with ease? This eastern harbor's full of grief All my heavy dreams are simply a luxury The horse is in the pepper tree And the lighthouse floating in the sea Newborn forms are weightless like dust Everything will regenerate as it was All your heavy hearts are simply illusory They will find an open shell in which to grow and set you free Mourning how a frozen thing can thaw and turn to brine The salty workings in a restless process of the mind Form becoming weightless like dust Everything will regenerate as love Not the kind you think you know, and not the kind you learn The arctic shark is living free in the coldest part of the eastern sea All my heavy hearts are simply illusory Find in time to trust them turning right side up inside of me
2.
"Don't you call any later", as the clock came and ate her. "What are we running after?" Hear the clock's gentle laughter. Shine as you were, a ghost in a painted field. Oh, Saturday bride, tell what you saw in the night! "I saw God in the skin of the fog..."
3.
I used to think that you were a stranger, but now I don't know what for You keep changing all of my meaning You're bringing me back and forth I don't know why they only said you would know I don't know why they only said you would go I used to think that you were moving But now I see you oh so still I used to think that you were changing But now I see you never will Because it's all in time, it's all just a game, and I don't know what for I hold the pearl now I used to think that you were a stranger, but now I don't know what for You keep changing all of my meaning You're bringing me back and forth Because it's all in time, it's all just a game, and I don't know what for Eye of the pearl
4.
I recall the sky the day withdrew Turning this fiery car into ice with you I can't leave this fever dream I can't leave everything that I've seen Oh Mary, I won't go Oh Mary, live in mountain time A light embraced this town with a spark you drew Forever chase a glow with the sun imbued One of these nights we'll return Tripping over all the foolish things we thought we were Oh Mary, I won't go Oh Mary, live in mountain time Somebody held us there
5.
Said I’ll live by candlelight and make the moon my home Tie up the tides as they rise and as they fall What can I give? What can I hold? Should I even ask these things at all? So I live by candlelight and darn if I know I'm walking down this road alone But watch the earth For a grid will unfold Until I find my golden home I left that world of dreams and entered one anew A planetary truth is born of lightning There's nothing left when you suffocate the hours Spent beyond what time had tried to offer So I live by candlelight and darn if I know I'm walking down this road alone But watch the earth, for a grid will unfold Until I find my golden home There's a ghost making up its mind down into my bones Isn't this what you brought me here for? This parallel of backwards gifts lifts into my eyes Isn't this what I felt the need for? Oh child, you keep living that way, in your own time This feeding back of circles and this loop for which I'm thrown The moon will never keep us from unfolding I'll point my way back home until my fingertips turn blue There is no me and there is no you So I live by candlelight and darn if I know I'm walking down this road alone But watch the earth For a grid will unfold Until I find my golden home
6.
The Hollow 01:51
If you want to go to that place where we can't see How can we get there, down to the wooden sea? And I'll try not to be scared of everything we'll be For we are the songs we sing Down in the wooden sea So climb in my guitar, but first untie the strings Down into the hollow Of the wooden sea And I'll try not to be scared Of everything we'll be For we are the songs we sing Down in the wooden sea
7.
A Mirror 02:56
If I need a mirror to tell me you are there Wrap it up in smoke and keep it if you care And if I need a window open for a view Let the sunlight in, and the sun lights you I will rely on you Trying everything I know to hold you closely I will rely on you Make amends with everything that we'll be If we're pushing time too hard for comfort, dear I'll hold your smoke inside my heart after the glass has burst apart And if I find a mirror behind the pines I'll jump into what we are after and turn until we finish the chapter I will rely on you Giving everything to keep it free and easy I will rely on you Make amends with everything that we'll be Restless and reeling Diving like a swallow from the ceiling If I need a mirror to tell me you are there Wrap it up in smoke and keep it if you care
8.
Just Dust 02:28
What you need is watery shoulders A lucid heart that beats In the midst of all this foggy unloading Hold a glow with me 'Cause I am not self-contained I'll lay here and fly away But there goes my answer The harder I look, it goes farther What you need is under the window Those golden eyes I see Let's go in peace when the moss on trees is growing North Hold a glow with me 'Cause I am not self-contained I'll lay here and fly away But there goes my answer The harder I look, it goes farther Who wastes their time that way? We are not undertakers Who walks that sick parade? What is this circus in my mind? And what is this serpent in my eye? Just dust and echoes left behind
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10.
Lost palace of white snow Tell me, where did the time go? I'm sitting here soaking in Day-Glo And thinking of ways I may know you: Maybe we'll meet in a valley of vines Embracing the heat as the sun dines And maybe we'll dance at the break of the nile Greeting the future with a generous smile Now I adorn you With tinsel, ivy and butter And slowly call upon you all the strength of another Maybe we'll meet in the valley of vines Embracing the heat as the sun dines And maybe we'll dance at the break of the nile Greeting the future with a generous smile Time will not go and time will not follow It's just waiting to give for tomorrow We may sleeping, but here comes the alarm The buildings are chirping, it's time to disarm Lost palace of white snow Tell me, where did the time go? I'm sitting here soaking in Day-Glo And thinking of ways I may know you: Maybe we'll meet in a valley of vines Embracing the heat as the sun dines And maybe we'll dance at the break of the nile Greeting the future with a generous smile
11.
You were my secondary bardo All night, I dreamt like a dove Woke up in a mirage of tomorrow And now I'm seasoned as a swan Only twice I dreamt of the low tide But I couldn't see your eyes Sang to you with the loving that was language Silence retreated with a yawn Into the space beyond the echoes Where I can breathe with the dawn Say goodnight to bring about the dying light in my own device Oh, sent my way, laughing doves full of sound And then I woke to you laughing It's what I’ve felt for so long No more worries of tomorrow In that time when we'll be so young Say goodnight to bring about the dying light in my own device Oh, sent our way, laughing our way back home Oh, in seasons, I'm standing in the sea wondering if secondary swan will come with me Oh, my lady, she's coming back to me And the weather from her eyes is my sorrow and my pride
12.
Keeping up your solace and your pride You'll wait a lonely life Muster up the courage in the night Don't bother, everything's alright An engine's hum will leave it all behind Fall in the palms of echoing times You know deep down you're nothing but a myth Can you only trust your little mind? Ooh, it's gonna let you down Ooh, it's gonna let you down Even this reverberating sound unwound itself, casually Implausible like microscopic doves Are they real, or are they only love? 'Cause even when the day is full of plans You feel its heavy hollow end Like talking trains inside a hollow tree Free from the track and finally free of me Ooh, they're gonna let you down Ooh, they're gonna let you down
13.
As we find ourselves in time, we dream inside a dream Light a candle with a candle and breathe And you may forget you name As you drift away to sleep And find yourself awake Within another dream And what should I care for? The dawn gave me sight In this old grove where we laughed and let it go There's a city beyond the lights Lightly tread on the books we never read I am dawning at your feet An orange glow from a past we didn't know Is calling from the streets: “To find the water that lives within the ice There's colors in the night To find the ember that lives within the flame There's colors in the day”

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released January 28, 2014

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