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by Ryan Smith
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Open Heart
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Desert Rose
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This Song
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Water
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Charles Bridge
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Love Sneaking In
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Perfect Art
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Wilderness
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Slow of Heart
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Benediction
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released 01 January 2008
Produced by Rob Burrell, Michael Tyler, Ryan Smith - license
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- Track Name: Open Heart
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Open ears, open ears
God, give me two open ears
When all I see is dread and fear
God, please give me open ears
Open eyes, open eyes
God, give me two open eyes
When all I hear are clever lies
God, please give me open eyes
Open heart, open heart
God, give me an open heart
Even when the road is hard
God, please give me an open heart - Track Name: Desert Rose
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
I was lost on a reckless sea
You found me
I was falling down a mountainside
You arrived
Chorus:
You to me are as precious as a desert rose
As lovely as the moon that glows
In your arms, baby you take me home
When I feel like my heart is breaking
You keep this old heart from breaking
When I cry, you dry my tears
You calm my fears
When you smile, it saves my life
Every time
Chorus - Track Name: Breaking My Heart
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Thin, rose-colored wings
Pinned to your back
My little would-be
You're fresh as the dawn
And the quiet before the storm
Sweet hurricane girl
You sweep through the house
And gather the spoils
What do you love?
Let me guess before you tell
Grahams and candy canes
Castles and queens
Fair weather days
You're breaking my heart
And I mean it in the best way
Chorus:
You are breaking my heart
You are breaking my heart
Lost isles of wealth
Gold for the taking
In a cave with a mouth
We're scavengers, dear
In tattered laundry, with patches and beards
Oh, what can I say
You bring my health
You bring me faith
You're breaking my heart
And I mean it in the best way
Chorus
Moons, shining and grey
You're warm beneath covers
At the end of the day
You're breaking my heart
And I mean it in the best way - Track Name: This Song
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
If I had an ocean I'd place you in it
So you could swim
In the middle of this ocean
I'd make an island
Where we both could live
If I had an airplane we could both go to Italy
Occasionally
And I could write a novel about the ocean
How it carried us away
Me and you...
If I was a painter I'd paint you a picture
Of my heart
And in the middle of all those arteries
I'd paint you as a star
I'd hang it in a gallery in a big white room
where only you could see
And you could sit there for many hours
And watch it bleed
For me and you...
If I was a saint I'd change my name to yours
And do something good
Then maybe later they'd give you a holiday
At least they should
Well I don't have an ocean and I ain't no painter
God knows I'm no saint
All I got here is this guitar and some paper
And it's getting late
And what I wouldn't give to have you here with me
So I could sing you this song
But how can I find words for the things I can't explain
Like how it feels to belong
Here with you... - Track Name: Water
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Give me breath, give me food
Give me the life I see in you
I've been wandering through and through
And all I want is something true
All I want is something true
I want to lie at your door
Like a shell that's washed ashore
Like my lowest dresser drawers
I am full but wanting more
I am full but wanting more
Chorus:
I thought I saw your faint reflection
In the mirror as I was waking
You weren't at all like those paintings
You're the sun to their constellations
So tell me, where have you been hiding
In the walls, the floors, or ceilings
'Cause somehow I forgot the feeling
I want to drink of your health
And drain the water of a thousand wells
Give me sleep, give me rest
Give me peace as my bequest
I've been pounding on my chest
And all I want is to be blessed
All I want is to be blessed
Chorus
I want to stay here
All I want is something true
All I want is something true - Track Name: Charles Bridge
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Standing on Charles Bridge
It's mist and breath
The steeples of cathedrals
At night look just like death
The broken-hearted people come to rest
We take solace in these statues and monuments
I'm leaning on the stone now
It's cold as ice
The cops are making circles
In a never-ending fight
And the question of the evening is: who am I?
I get lost inside those hard and weary eyes
Refrain
Standing on Charles Bridge
The moon is strung
In a sea of tiny moons and planets round the sun
For all our pains and progress
Are we deaf and dumb
To the orchestra of heavens, the wild dance above?
Refrain
Walking off towards home now
The day is old
I can't recall just where or when I sold my soul
To the devils in the twilight, to the sighs and moans
To the saints, in all their glory
To the long, dark stretch of stone
Refrain - Track Name: Love Sneaking In
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Ain't no way to be quiet
Ain't no way to shut up
With all that's happening today
I see, from shore to shore
Love spreading peace from door to door
From ivory men in Dusseldorf
To caramel babes in Ecuador
We're loving more
We're loving more
Ain't no way to be quiet
Ain't no way to stay silent
With all that's happening today
Oh, look what we did
Opened the door, let love right in
While some are railing 'bout the war
Love's sneaking through the cellar door
And we need it more
We need it more
I see, from town to town
Love bringing life to the down and out
From junkied up teens in big New York
To lonely bartenders in Baltimore
From the old quarters to the boulevards
From Mexico City to Scotland Yard
From sandy blokes on desert shores
To cublicled men on office floors
There's in love in store
There's in love in store - Track Name: Perfect Art
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
So we grow
Taller and taller 'til we can't touch our toes
Our toes
But we're still small
We can't touch heaven, as high as we can go
We can go
Always on the run
Always running from somewhere or someone
Take these hands
Fold them in your grasp
Just like a shepherd with a lamb
I am small and injured in your hands
Here below
We cry a lot about places we used to go
Used to go
And it's just stuff
But sometimes that stuff forms faces and helps us grow
Helps us grow
Always on the run
Always running from somewhere or someone
Take this house
Stain it red with crimson
Like a perfect vow
Remember me when you go passing by
I don't care
If I get to heaven today or in fifty years
Bring heaven here
Always on the run
Always running from somewhere or someone
Take this heart
Let it sing to you
Just like a choir in the dark
There aren't words for this soul song
Just take me apart
Build me from the ground up
That's your perfect art
Take me to the center of this tiny heart - Track Name: Wilderness
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Don't tell me how to feel
Don't tell me how to live my life
You're just spokes on the wheel of time
Don't tell me what to wear
Don't tell me how to treat my wife
You spread like disease down this thin line
You try to sell me ordinary life
But ordinary's just not worth my time
Chorus:
You're a wilderness
You're a wilderness
You're a wilderness
You're a wilderness
Don't tell me how to love
Don't tell me raise my child
You can point your gun away tonight
You try to sell me ordinary life
But ordinary's just not worth my time
Chorus
When you're speaking in my ear
I won't hear it
When you tell me that I'm wrong
I won't believe it
You're a wilderness
But I turn it over into life
Turn it over into life - Track Name: Slow of Heart
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
This tomb is empty
This tomb is empty
So why are looking for me here?
This grave is empty
This grave is empty
So why are you seeking me here?
Oh, you slow of heart
You slow of heart
To understand
This house is empty
This house is empty
So why are knocking on that door?
Oh, you slow of heart
You slow of heart
To understand - Track Name: Follow You
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
On the weekends, we'd go down to Annie's
In the cold light of early dawn
We spread out on the Mississippi
Wading deep and catching moths
In the evenings, we laid out to dry
I hung my boots on the washing line
And I saw her, goddess of innocence
The thin girl from the orphan mine
Chorus:
I said, I'll follow you if you follow me
I'll follow you if you follow me
Over the mossy hinterland
Over the mire
Over the broken evergreens
We'll make a fire
Past the cabins, past the old factories
Past the drinking fools
We kissed beneath the fireworksExploding me all throughIncarnation, she had come for meFlesh and bone, but spirit kissI got the feeling, deep inside of mePerhaps the world was made for this
Chorus - Track Name: Benediction
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Music & Lyrics by Ryan Smith
Hold on to me
Don't ever leave
Speak and I will hear
Seed and I will bear
Refrain
Show me who you are
Give an open heart
Open ears, open ears
God, give me two open ears
All I see is dread and fear
God, please give me open ears
Open eyes, open eyes
God, give me two open eyes
All I hear are clever lies
God, please give me open eyes
Refrain