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Long Division
04:27
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The people I thought I heard outside was just the screen door swinging
I had planned to take a walk, but it’s cold and windy
I could go out anyway
But I’ve worked too hard on my long division
In six days I’ll be twenty-five, on the twenty-third of February
I thought it was minus thirty-five but it was only minus eleven
Guess I have to take that walk
Or I’ll spend my whole day thinking bout how I didn’t
No one will see me here
No one will see me here
Rainbow circles from a crystal ball, I wanted to sound wiser
This is how it is for now, see you back when weather’s warmer
If we find the time at all
It’s a long division
Over time the edges burn away to something I can sift around in the char for
Sand in my bed, bugs and birds are mingling, dancing with the spots in my eyes
This is all that it is, this is all that I get, the geese are really thundering by now
Where are they going, jealous of their clear minds never seem to be alone
No one will see me here
No one will see me here
And if you think you might want to look
Please look away now
I’m not ready for you yet
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2. |
For Each Flower Growing
03:29
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For each flower growing
Every bee, a sun
As if we came from someplace where
Every dappled shadow
A curl of your hair
Fall into awe
Science through the eighties
Came so fast it's fit to blow your mind
And every pulsar spins
When you look into my eyes
CHORUS
Sometimes I need to spend a day
Sitting ‘round the sky
Float away
Step into a scene
Look at life on the lake
‘til you’re surrounded by it all
Every move you make
Is an earthquake splitting ground
Rings round a rock
Circle round a planet
Sea foam lightly touches as it tumbles by
A drifting cloud through a universe
Shifting, ever white
CHORUS, INST. VERSE
For each flower growing
Each, one in a trillion
So hard to imagine, you could see
How they had to grow
Eventually
CHORUS
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CHORUS
I could never demand your care
I’d be a fool to try to make you want me now
The way you’re looking at me, the way you’re looking at me
I look down on everyone else like you’re looking at me
Your face just reminds me - I don’t want them,
You don’t want me, baby
VERSE
Are you laughing at my love? I know it’s real.
Though you’re laughing at me, I must hold some small appeal
Are you holding me in your hand just for fun?
Don’t pass me round or hurt me I just wanted to be loved
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
CHORUS
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4. |
The Story Goes On
02:44
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I looked up at the chain-smoke silhouette
Thought about leaving while adding up my debts
I sucked all the air out of the living room with just one breath
You could bet all your money and always win
That I’m awake at night, thinking of when
And of a night where I could lay down at 10
Fall into sleep not remembering
The story goes on
I peer down at the couples and the bikers and the dads
I’m an eagle, I’m a mouse, I’m just really very sad
It’s a prison here for some, it’s a freedom just for me
I fly above, I dig below for everything I thought I’d be
What does that mean?
Da da da da da da x2
Programmed from conception to be this strange mix
Of so many generations through survival, death, and sex
Gigabytes and microchips of skin cells and history
Now I talk on the phone to someone I haven’t seen
She feels like a friend whose job it is to walk with me
She holds me up - so do the meds
It’s genetic consultation of this life so far I’ve lead
The story goes on
The story goes on
Da da da da da da x5
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5. |
Things I Have Left To Do
03:36
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I’ll put my pen away, anything to stop the plot
One last list, hoping I don’t take too long
Break the news, an awful move, how ‘bout a year of solitude
These are the things that I have left to do
I can’t coast much longer off a memory
Designed by pulling straws, no guarantee
I’ll clear my debts, lick my wounds, regretting all that I should
Then count the things that I have left to do
CHORUS
I’m in a state of misusing your time
I’ve never been great at holding it together
I assumed the worst, it’s the only way I know how
To say anything at all, anything at all
I’ll wash my hands of all that hasn’t slipped away
Mistreat my decisions ‘til they’re frayed
It’s just time to go, cut the ropes, maybe you have broken surface too
Then there’s just some things that we have left to do
Will you daydream fondly of me once in a while?
For I have felt the binds so tightly too
I’ll think of you by light, by moon, with friends, in solitude
Forgetting’s just a thing I’ve left to do
Forgetting’s just a thing I’ve left to do
Forgetting’s just a thing I’ve left to do
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6. |
In The Sun
03:11
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I’m a slideshow of memories
I think maybe you’ve forgotten
Did you ever feel
My heart out on your sleeve always trying
There’s an art to an argument
Why have you never had to practice?
CHORUS
Been so long I’m tired of talking about it
Wanna lay in the sun not thinking about it
I could stay for hours here
You can do what you wanna do
When you show me love
It makes me want to leave
What kind of game is this for you?
Why don’t you want to know me?
Do you think I’m a snake?
Either way, I don’t think I care anymore
CHORUS
Add one brick to your road
Every time you get so angry
What do you want me to do?
Stay away, or keep trying in vain to get through
To you
All I’ve ever wanted was to know
CHORUS x 2
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When we first moved in together
You said you were not the marryin’ kind
So I’ll ask you now, about what I’ve just found
And why I can’t put it out of my mind, can’t put it out of my mind
I saw the wedding dress in your closet
Did you forget it was there?
The tag, it still hung, and when I tried it on
It was not in a size I could wear, no, not in a size I could wear
CHORUS
Did you have a love before me? Did you ask her to stay?
Did she leave you lonely? Or was it you who walked away?
I know I’ll end up staying, it’s been too long to leave
Imagine me on my own out there, he’s taken care of me
Who hung the dress in your closet?
Were you planning to wed?
How long has it been, or have you even seen
This secret of organdy? Of lace and of organdy
I could not stop once I’d started
I found more secrets inside
A box tucked away behind the layers of lace
It could have held all the tears that I cried, held all the tears that I cried
CHORUS
Did you have a love before me? Did you ask her to stay?
Did she leave you lonely? Or was it you who walked away?
I know I’ll end up staying, it’s been too long to leave
Imagine me on my own out there, my name was never on the lease
Imagine me
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8. |
Sad To Be Sad
03:18
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I’ve spent most my time making plans
Trying so hard, just to watch them upend
One gust from the fall gale, a casual command
Torn from the tree with one graze of your hand
Morning’s attack on my pride was aware
The sun had prepared for this great solar flare
He was here for a minute and then he was gone
Orbit around him, caught up in the pull
CHORUS
It’s so sad to be sad that I just had to laugh
My time for sorrow should surely have passed
But I’m blue, all shades of blue, grey and black too, and there’s nothing I can do
No cure and no clue
Now I glance around at a tired old scene
Think of the days when he’d run back to me
A shoulder to cry tears of purple and teal
But when I look to my side, it’s the rain that I feel
CHORUS
It’s so sad to be sad that I just had to laugh
My time for sorrow should surely have passed
But I’m blue, all shades of blue, grey and black too, and there’s nothing I can do
No cure and no clue
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9. |
Everybody Knows
03:14
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Everybody knows, everybody watches by the window
I should be careful not to write my name
In someone else’s show
Everybody sees, everybody says how hard it is to leave
Coulda left my heart in my losing hand
Instead, I sewed it to my sleeve
CHORUS
I would never ask - I already know
Do you really want to hear me say it to you?
Everybody hears, everybody’s waiting for their chance to interfere
I should be careful where I tread
In case I walk through someone’s tears
Everybody cares, everybody’s jealous of somebody else’s stare
Let their whispers pass through you and me
Left hanging in the air
CHORUS
OUTRO
Everybody knows x 4
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10. |
All In Time
02:32
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CHORUS
All in it’s own time
All in time
I picked the flowers for the table in the Summertime
Once, they were so vibrant, fully bloomed in colours so divine
Fall appeared in grey and brown, stems cracked up, leaves fell down
Seeds left to scatter on the ground
CHORUS
Snow started softly falling down upon the autumn leaves
Winter knocking at my door, a lonely feeling came to be
Now I’m trapped where none can see me, bitter winds blow cold and strong
Waiting, hiding, ready all along
CHORUS
Did you see the flowers on the table in the Summertime
Memories of splendor, fully bloomed in colours so divine
Spring appeared in green and gold, blooming fields bright and bold
Another season’s story to be told
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Ellen Froese Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
For Each Flower Growing, Froese's fourth full-length, produced in collaboration with the Sheepdogs' Sam Corbett, is her most accomplished statement to date, drawing on her established sound as a folk & country-based singer/songwriter while incorporating a wider frame of reference in the rich production, supple instrumentation, and overall sonic soundworld. ... more
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