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by CANOPY SPACE

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1.
What If I? 05:01
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What if the clouds were never gray? I’d never taste the rain What if the darkness never fell? I’d never feel the sun Sometimes you look like that What if I? Sometimes you whisper What if I? What if the clouds were never gray? I’d never taste the rain What if the darkness never fell? I’d never feel the sun Sometimes you look like that What if I? Sometimes you whisper What if I? What if the road never curved? I’d never find my way What if the tide never turned? I’d never leave the shore What if you knew me like that? What if I? What if I knew me like that? What if I? Summer blooms questions And the moon and stars Pepper in the fire…. What if the wind never blew? I’d never soar again What if the storm never raged? I'd never find my home Sometimes you think like What if I? Sometimes I wonder like What if I? Summer grows the water swells And the tide it glows Salt on skin and air… What if the birds were ever still? I’d never sing this song What if I could write like that? What if I?
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Until We Reach The Light 03:24
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“What does a rock know of April” line from Rumi We walked toward the lighthouse Gray wind and gray ground Kept our social distance No words said aloud Each to each Thoughts kept alone Stark lines in the distance Sand the color of our bones Black raven whispers Through a maze of red pine “What does a rock know of April” An old poet cried And what do I know of life, What do I know of you? No sanctuary Until we reach the light So afraid of growing alone In some antiseptic room Green walls-- overdue bills No scented dreams or poems Some roads lead to justice Some roads lead to hope Some roads lead to quiet spaces But we all carry our own yoke Bad news was an endless buzz While peepers claimed the pond Five shots rang out In darkness there is no one I reach for your hand We both face the sun This deserted road leads home This path it is undone
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Nobody 04:40
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Ain’t no one who’ll tell me what to say Tell me what to think Ain’t no one who’ll take away my freedom Or what I believe I won’t let ‘em drop a flag To cover up my sin I won’t let media coverage Wash away my sense Nobody, nobody, nobody, —nobody but You Ain’t no one can heal my broken heart Take away my pain Ain’t no one who’ll save me from myself Give me back my life I won’t let ‘em flash a smile Tell me it’s alright I won’t let all those camera lights Tell me what’s real Nobody, nobody, nobody –nobody but You You promised me you’d be here You promised me you’d hold me You promised me you’d always be by my side So if I call for you and And if I reach out for you and Will everything then be alright? Ain’t no one who’ll start it all again Make everything new Ain’t no one who’ll ever make me feel I mean everything I wonder if I’ll find my way— find my way back home I wonder if I’ll find my life— by giving it to you Nobody, nobody, nobody, —nobody but You Ain’t no pretty politicians Gonna’ make me forget Ain’t no passion operators Gonna’ change what’s right I won’t let ‘em drop a flag To cover up my sin I won’t let those camera lights Tell me what’s real Nobody, nobody, nobody, —nobody but You
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Sense of Direction 03:35
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She said she had no sense of direction Trapped by some revolving door Unusual approach to conversation As she turned to me and smiled Side by side from the 103rd Gray clouds all around-- She was trying to find something she knew And she asked could I show her true And we’re looking for a sense of direction hoping for a sense of direction searching for a sense of direction But I’m a stranger here myself We talked of home, places we knew And laughed at the things we do Lost in the mist-- Lake Michigan A compass out of view And the world outside our spattered window Was unrecognizable gray drops and swirling winds--Confusion in our hearts We smiled, and drifted apart
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Every Time 03:51
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Sometimes I think about you And I Dandelion days Wilting into oaken drums Sometimes you’re with me And I Daffodil rain Breathing toward noon Every time Every time Every Rags of time Sometimes you’re not alone And I Hyacinth moon Pulling me home Sometimes I dream you here And I Jasmine and wine Falling in time
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Dance with Me on a Midsummer's Night 04:00
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Dance with me on a mid-summer’s night Dance with me on a mid-summer’s night. We’ll laugh and we’ll twirl. ‘Neath a sky filled with pearls. Dance with me on a mid-summer’s night. Bright eyes across the room Bright eyes across the room With a smile so sweet Won't you notice me please Bright eyes across the room Capture my heart with a song Capture my heart with a song Like the birds in the air With melody so fair Capture my heart with a song Kiss me if you please Kiss me if you please I’ll offer my love To the stars up above Kiss me if you please Marry me if you will Marry me if you will We’ll build us a home And call it our own Marry me if you will
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So Much More 04:33
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Love’s but a dream fading edge of desire Cool morning’s mist Frail embers of fire. I’ve settled for ashes For Eckleburg’s eyes Traveling through nowhere Some journey denied I’d hoped to find some open door look past your absent eyes In the snuffing of the light These inconsequential hours In a world too small She calls me a dreamer And laughs in my face Hollow shell that’s sailed To some far off foreign place. And it don’t matter It’s only empty lines Some cheap hotel room Flickering neon signs Sunlight dabbles On Autumn’s crisp brown Trickles on tree tops Gray frost on the ground. The silence of song First touches of snow Love’s but a dream Where I cannot ever go
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Touch the Sky 05:41
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Consider home Consider me...Thinking Working day Stacked away...Wonder Open door Mirrored through...Magic Growing free Will I be? I can almost touch the sky I can almost touch the sky Carving stone Building home...Creating River finds Stony banks...Smoothing On my own Footsteps softly...Breaking Lifting off Counting down...Upward Set the sail Plot the course...Shining Breaking trail Facing wind...Flying
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Oh, My Love 03:07
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Wake with me when morning comes Tenderly, tenderly Wake with me when morning comes: Tenderly Oh, my love Walk with me where’er I go Constantly, constantly Walk with me where’er I go Constantly Oh, my love Sing with me about the stars Beautifully, beautifully Sing with me about the stars: Beautifully Oh, my love Breathe with me the scent of home You and me, you and me Breathe with me the scent of home: You and me Oh, my love And I know this love is true I give my heart to you Treasure with me within your heart Forevermore, forevermore Treasure me within your heart Forevermore Oh, my love Oh, my love
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Against Your Heart 04:08
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Time and sadness are wide-eyed sisters You can buy them a drink at the end of the bar You won’t find them knitting lives together But you can hold their soft hands in the darkest hours And spring’s outside this window And this cold rain won’t always fall Wrap your arms a little tighter Press my ear against your heart Against your heart Stories told and lives shared Promises like whiskey through our hands Truth is a shadow flickering scared We’re all too silent to ever take a stand And our shining dreams Are someone else’s dystopian hell Imagined lives in fevered time Stifled tears and hopes dispelled So what’s the price of a life deferred And I wonder how much sadness we collect And when does time become absurd How many lives will those sisters reconnect
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Time Enough 04:12
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Summer’s hope is in the wind Bags and dreams by the door. I’ll be gone before the evening Before I'm settling for If sunbirds greet my morning And cloud drops fill my day. Blacktop horizons echo songs So hard to go and stay I’ve got time enough for flying Time enough to walk out of town I’ve got time enough for fences Time enough to touch distant shores I’ve got time enough for wasting Time enough for reaching crowns But right now I’ve got time enough Time enough for you and me Stars flicker in the rain Train whistles in the night. Fields of trees -- seas of grass Promises in hindsight Highway stretches deep River leaves begin to blow I’m scrambling to find my way Westward with the sun and crows So when I follow where I’m going And cobwebs lace my shoes I’ll look inside and see your smile Find my way back to you
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What Have I Done With Me? 03:58
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What’ve you done for me? I’m done with this Clipped so far from free And nothing that I’ve done for me Milkweed nursed to abundance Monarchs and the hope Meadows mown to roundup And the monarchy What have I done with me? Juniper in needles Handfuls of fleece Blue taste of gin Nothing I’ve done for me Homestead worked to abundance Black earth and the hope Home still stands for Still a monarchy What have I done with me?
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I'm Gonna Rise 05:03
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Well, I’m Lookin like a window. Nothin’ left to find. Heart’s feelin’ rather thin now. Waiting for a sign. This time. I'm gonna rise. This time. This time. Nothin’s written down Letters running free Gotta get out of this town Pages of debris Atmospheric pressure Surrender washed away Timeless days of never Insurrection saves I’m not my worst enemy. I’m my only friend. Working on identity. This time….this time. This time……..
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Downfall 03:46
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Downfall at the end of it all the beautiful decay And the decades of no Away from the break of a new day and my downfall Upended all What if I bleached it all, gave in to the masked craze to ride the wave? Clutching crawl Hammock-ed my insides-out, brawling, bawling, away from everyone I’ve loved? What of the downfall. Toppled us in the end? The crush of the earth. The root in the wind. Tangled up in you. Start of everything, everything, everything new. Downfall. What if my eyes raw, revealed, reveled in the haste Of destruction We lay in wait for the wasted days we feel Tomorrow brings A deep dive down to the gray matter and it’s filled with water Galvanized landmine of a landline… sorting what’s mine What if you, on the heels of this new deal, sought to pull me Out of this pit? My mountain mined to a trench, my whispered dreams drenched Shifting sand
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Before the Wind 04:48
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Whisper words from in your heart Before the wind Wear your dreams upon your sleeves Before the wind Before the wind--- Let your tears fall where they may Before the sea Brush your lips against my cheek Before the sea Before the sea--- Breath flutters in the garden Before the road Wrap your arms around my heart Before the road Before the road---- Don’t you worry about how I feel Before the wind Whisper words from in your heart Before the wind Takes us away…..
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Think I'll Stay in Michigan 05:38
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Cool mist soaks my face Spring’s raining in County roads holed with mud Weary edge of drowning Silence in frozen ponds Love simmers cold There’s a longing for the sun There’s stories to be told Let the sun burn inside Let the heat wash me clean After all these storms And after all these winter snows Think I’ll stay in Michigan Winter's left its chaos Wrong side of this window Eyes reflect the gray Older I get The less I know And sometimes the road is hard And the floods drag us down Splash of color in the garden And you and me--we’re holding on Robin sings outside my window Sap’s running in the wood And every journey has its own path And every path finds its own good

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released September 1, 2020

Cover Artwork by Hannah Gebhart
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