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As I walked in the morning A boy came skipping down Right in front of me he tarried And gambolled all around ‘My dear maid, will you come walking?’ He asked with extended hand And led me on such wanderings Through far and distant lands This little lad was tireless And feared not any foe Though none did come obstruct us And safely we did go Through many fields we wandered Between snowy, lush and green He took me round to wonders That I have never seen ‘My boy, where are we dancing?’ I asked as he skipped on ‘For we’ve been going on forever And seem still to go on’ Still ceaselessly he waltzed Though my legs did never tire And the boy, he never aged any And his eyes were filled with fire And in the morning when I woke up The boy was barely there A memory of a cherub Filled with the magic of the fair And each night as I’m sleeping I seek his guiding hand And go join in the dancing In those wondered distant land.
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Cheers 01:53
Cheers to the memories And cheers to the times Cheers to the footpaths and The mountains we climbed Cheers to the firsts And cheers to the lasts Cheers to the futures And the fondly folded pasts Cheers to the friends And cheers to the folk Cheers to haphazard way Our lives have been bespoke Cheers to daytimes and the nighttimes we’ve shared To those who loved and hated, but all those still cared Cheers to the handshakes, the heartaches and the hugs Cheers to the ugly, the bad and the good Cheers all, with a glass we smile And give our Thanks for the time we have whiled We’re grateful and we’re honored To have stayed with you so long But we set sail at daybreak Fill the spaces when we’re gone
3.
Draw in the bass drums And play down the horns Just leave the air to woo The breeze to tickle a fancy And the wind to whip a smile Just the world and you Your tread off-sets quite sweetly The on beat of a heart With breathing a swung 3/4 No orchestra’s conductor Or a metronome’s terse cluck Could stick these feet to your floor When we dance, my love, I’m floating At least ten feet in the sky You fly me, or I you Each tight at the other’s side When you pace, my dear, I’m stepping My pulse pumped up in time Our words slip effortless In and out of the other’s stride
4.
If I touch you I’m afraid you’ll turn to smoke Light a phantom dancing lover And were I to kiss I’m scared that I might choke On the idea of another Another version of you That I hadn’t banked on seeing Another atom of you Relearning what you’re being And if you would look You’d see me here looking Making new memories of us If I cried out Can you hear me calling Or we stuck apart because I see you spending What I can’t grasp a hold of You’re feet treading Where I can’t keep my soul up
5.
I take One step Further away Than I imagined before You skip One beat The edges frayed Lonely at the door You wave goodbye I’m not there You build me back From thin air And I know That you’ll keep Me safe in these clouds But my matter has faded away I take A half breath Before I exhale And step on to these shores And you Keep breathing Stumble along Wishing we had more And you look at nothing And see so much there And you’ve made me up Out of the traces in the air
6.
Bring me coffee in the mornings We’re quiet in the dawn The steam steams up your glasses Your hands old and worn I see you over distance Impossible to cross Like a hand held at a window Saying everything’s not lost There’s something in me burning There’s a magnet in the chest Stopping me from turning And seeing what is left My eyes are fixed to your points The look is love alive A half distant tune The rhythms yours and mine Because I have not lost you We’re just biding our time And I am still with you Either side of a train line We are both still travelling And will meet as soon as may Until then keep looking And I’ll send my spirit your way Bring me coffee in the mornings We’re quiet in the dawn The steam steams up your glasses Your hands old and worn I see you over distance Impossible to cross Like a hand held at a window Saying everything’s not lost
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I’ll pack a lunch box And you light the fire You pitch the tent I’ll rig the trip wire I’ll light the candles If you do the soap The tinned beans and sausages Jumper, vest and coat And you turn the sound down We’ll hear what’s outside Turn off the heating Open the windows wide No space for the porch The guy ropes hanging loose Bring the duvet from the bedroom Put the airbed to use And camp with me on honeymoon in the front room And stay with me, just like this, bride and groom And I’ll keep you, so safely here in these arms And hold me and we’ll come to no harm And I’ll make the coffee And you pour the wine And I’ll do the toast Three meals at the same time You crush the crumble The custard’s on the boil I’ll take the shop potatoes And roll them in soil We’ll phone sick in the morning And listen to the birds Make up what they’re saying Giving them all words Take a cruise in the bathtub A safari in the park DJ on the ipod And dance when it’s got dark And we’ll stay forever here in our world The kingdom of a dreamy boy and loved girl And remember this, keener than the last night If we love enough we’ll make it all come right And we’ll stay, always locked in this bliss And I will scrapbook each and every kiss And paint them back on to my lips I will keep you always and I’ll always keep this And I’ll love in every way I know how And I’ve had such happy times, more than I’m allowed And I wish on every star in my sky That it’s always me and you and you and I

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released September 7, 2012

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