1. |
In Spite of You
04:03
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LYRIC
I felt the cold wind pick up that day
Blowing from the shadows
Ringing every bell in the way
A song for all that's still broken
Truth only ever partly spoken
And with the darkness growing stronger
We could turn away no longer
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue to love life more
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue like never before
Even if you never approve
The tides will rise each morning
Dawn will break with light streaming through
And roots will crack through every wall
It’s only time before they fall
Who could keep a fog from fading?
Who could keep the sun from blazing?
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue to love life more
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue like never before
And though you’re the front of every paper
We are made from something greater
And what if we came here to right every wrong
What if we came to fill the sky with our song?
We don’t know the end but we know who to be
A change we want to see
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue to love life more
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue like never before, never before
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue to love life more
In spite of you
We will continue
We will continue like never before
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2. |
If It's You
03:20
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LYRIC
When I’m feeling blue
All I want to do
Is lay my head down and be with you
Three whole years have passed
Since I held you last
One day here at home
Quiet and alone
My mind was filled with colors
Like Big Island sunsets
A peace I can’t forget
Is that you surrounding me?
Here to tell me you were free
If that’s you
If it’s you can you stay
Red and brilliant blue
My secret gift from you
You know my mind is usually busy
I still have your chair
Would you meet me there
Now it’s all a weight
All most every day
My body needs to feel your colors
I’ll be coming soon
I’ll get to be with you
Is that you surrounding me?
Here to tell me you were free
If that’s you
If it’s you can you stay
If it’s you can you say
If it’s you can you stay
While I’m on my way
Can you stay
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3. |
I Come From
03:30
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LYRIC
I come from
Apples and maple sugar
On my tongue
Tongues of fire around me
I come from
A god who ordered
Right and wrong
I come from
Snow high above my head
Frozen numb
And frozen speechless always
I come from
A body scared of
Temptation
But somehow beside you
I made my way to the light
And somehow someway
I came to be
Happy joyous free
Miraculously
Lost my faith
All my questions rising
In the way
The way split down the middle
Lost my home
The only truth I’d ever known
Every song I knew was wrong
Burning in my throat so long
Verse by verse unlearn them all
And it locked my jaw
Held my breath as I fall
But somehow beside you
I made my way to the light
And somehow someway
I came to be
Happy joyous free
Somehow I promise
You’ll come to be
Happy joyous free
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4. |
PSA
02:33
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LYRIC
I like open
Open seas and open window panes
How your brown eyes open at my name
I like the jars I that I don't have to bang
On the edge of the table
I don't need the struggle
And babe I was able
To stick around and see
What came from you and me
Just don't ask me please
To open, open my bed
I like complex
Long division on the restaurant bill
Is just my special kind of skill
I like the twenty-six ingredients
I'd use to make mole
And lemon curd soufflé
The night of your birthday
I’d rewire your TV
From notes in Portuguese
But just don't ask me please
To re-complexify my bed
I don't like your type of enlightenment
I know it would be to my detriment
'Cause I already did that experiment
Monogamy your dreary word
Of straight jackets and chains absurd
A caged and captured flightless bird
With feathers clipped and song unheard
But disembodied rhapsodies
Hide Peter Pan proclivities
A spiritual mythology
To rise above biology
It’s not my practice to unlearn
The wisdom when my stomach churns
My cheeks go flush with aching burn
I won't lose it for this concern
Because I like freedom
Free from nights awake and worrying
And free from endless processing
Oh I let the sleeping dogs just lie around
And wake up without you
In mornings of clear blue
And baby it’s still true
That I'll be sad to see
That I'm the one to leave
But it won’t work for me
To let your freedom take my bed
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5. |
Kaleidoscope
04:47
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LYRIC
Truthfully I didn’t think
I’d write another one of these
'Cause we were what I’d prayed for
Almost two years on my knees
Probably we couldn’t know
Love would mean reshuffling
To become wider people
Picasso forms and coloring
And even though you’re gone now
I hold close to me
That kaleidoscope
Of shining tones
I remember our last fight
In the house built on the bay
The smell of salt and coffee
We sat on the bed I’d made
How your left eye always squinted
Listening even to my fears
How we were like an exhale
Your nose right there beside my ear
And even in those moments
The light stood out to me
A kaleidoscope
Of shining tones
I know you well enough to know
You probably really had to go
I know us well enough to see
We weren’t so broken
And even after all this time
I can’t help believe
In our kaleidoscope
Our shining tones
Those shining tones
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6. |
Waking Up
03:27
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LYRIC
Quite contented I can be
In my solitude happily
I can see stars at night
Despite the city lights
Lately winters gone too long
But thankfully you came along
Now that I’ve found my muse
I’ll tell all the world the news
Waking up next to you
I finally feel the spring
I hear a radio across the fire escape
A world away
But I want to waste the day
In your arms, different
Somehow familiar too
Your clothes on the floor along with mine
Still intertwined
As in my mind
Someday I may forget
This morning sun
The hand of fate
For dishes in the sink
Your laundry left once more on the floor
When I do, come to me
And hold me close again
As when the cherry blossoms filled the air
Along the square
And I woke beside you there
As when the cherry blossoms filled the air
Along the square
And I woke beside you there
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Melanie Ida Chopko Asheville, North Carolina
Songwriter Melanie Ida Chopko writes “little jewels,” exploring our relationship to the natural world and to one another. Her songs are as interested in the world around her as the one within herself, lush in melody, lyric and arrangement. If Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, and Ben Folds were neighbors and made music on Sundays, it might sound like this. ... more
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