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Turn the Sea
04:26
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Turn the Sea
Chase me down a dimly lit stairway
Place your bets on a fool’s dream
See the spurn handed right back to you
See the dreams drip out of both your eyes
Your face silent, your lips just like a ghost town
Mirrors mine a moon ago
I thought I’d unstitched my heart from your sleeve
Oh how I was wrong
But you can’t turn the ocean on its back
Look a storm in the eye from afar
Disarmed by a wind with a white flag
I awoke with my heart on your arm
Open up my eyes
Prove me wrong
Let’s distrust the skies
Dare the rain to fall
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Fortune's Fool
05:06
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Fortune’s Fool
I can’t help but reach for empty air
A haze that’s thick with words still hanging there
I should hastily run far and wide to brush this hurt off me
Yet I shiver here, frozen to icy delusions that won’t let me be.
Seeking a way to break outside this vault
Wishing to find someone else at fault
Was it your intent to coldly lead me into a blinding dark
Or was this blazing wreck a surprise lit by someone else’s spark.
The lies I sipped on steadily
You said goodbye so readily
But still you managed to fell me
With a single blow
The lies I sipped on steadily
You said goodbye so readily
A drink so cruel
I guess I’m fortune’s fool
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Blindsided
05:22
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New Moon
03:57
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New Moon
Mirror riding in,
Tells each part she won’t go
Over her breaking point,
Won’t stretch that double joint,
Smooth elastic, stretch frozen.
And why can’t she look
Behind crumbled stacks and
How long till it goes away?
Need no introduction,
To grey moments stretching out
Always the one who waits her turn,
Tranquilly keeping cycles tuned,
Into green tidal hues
It can’t help anymore
Reciting sonnets for a
Sad king clutching to his sighs
At home in cloudy skies
Those same skies
Reach for that new moon
To bring us the bright
At night
Reach for that new moon
To bring us the bright
At night
And why can’t she look
Behind crumbled stacks and
How long till it goes away?
It can’t help anymore
Reciting sonnets for a
Sad King clutching to his sighs
His sighs
His sighs
His sighs
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Do Not As I Do
04:49
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Checkout Time
05:09
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Checkout Time
Along that same road
They outrace him, lingering behind
Swaying in the night
Hearing the strains of ticking time
Chained to the life of restless wandering
Not a place left to go an get lost
Night after night,
Searching the crowds for those same eyes
Heartaches as day breaks
But it’s easy to check in and out
Cause the wallpaper’s ever-changing
Wide spirals high above my head
To think he’d hold my breath as ransom
Along that same road
Hoping soon he’ll find himself rooted down
Pulled to pieces
By the magnet of his soul
He’ll be forgiven
For reaching higher but scraping lower lows
The hands he’s taken
So surrounded but never more alone
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Winter Chill
03:42
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Stolen Away
07:51
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Stolen Away
Careful not to let it show
Keep the wreckage down below
Don’t be blinded by the light
Keep the shore within your sight
You came and crashed into my arms
Broke me down with rippling waves
Turned my pond into a sea
Walked on water you walked all over me
Somehow your love seems to
ebb and flow
While tides bear no change
on my reflection
So I’ll hide my heart
on the floor of the ocean
Too deep for you to find
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away from you
Forcing me to change my course
Promised that you’d lead me home
When I cast my anchor down
You walked out leaving me alone
Somehow your love seems to
ebb and flow
While tides bear no change
on my reflection
So I’ll hide my heart
on the floor of the ocean
Too deep for you to find
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away from you
You got me down
but I’m turning it around it’s through
This is how it goes, the second that you hear a door closed
You beg me to let you back in
Oh but this time you won’t wind
Somehow your love seems to
ebb and flow
While tides bear no change
on my reflection
So I’ll hide my heart
on the floor of the ocean
Too deep for you to find
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away
Stolen Away, Stolen Away from you
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Turn the Sea
Chase me down a dimly lit stairway
Place your bets on a fool’s dream
See the spurn handed right back to you
See the dreams drip out of both your eyes
Your face silent, your lips just like a ghost town
Mirrors mine a moon ago
I thought I’d unstitched my heart from your sleeve
Oh how I was wrong
But you can’t turn the ocean on its back
Look a storm in the eye from afar
Disarmed by a wind with a white flag
I awoke with my heart on your arm
Open up my eyes
Prove me wrong
Let’s distrust the skies
Dare the rain to fall
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Natalie Cressman New York, New York
New York-based trombonist/singer/composer Natalie Cressman has won acclaim for her ability to play fluently in a variety of musical styles with maturity beyond her years. Hailed a “velveteen-voiced brass- blower” by the Denver Post, the 20 year-old has sought to stretch across stylistic boundaries, each time striking listeners with the depth of her musicianship. ... more
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