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Home from the Hill

by Bill White

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Sometimes a man wants to sleep in his own bed No matter how lonely it might be Bring me a blanket before I collapse on a wave in the white sea Find a key for this can of tinned fish I dont want to touch anything wet We'll meet on the street of the seven moons When you see the morning sun set On the river of no regrets chorus: Home is the sailor Home from the sea And the hunter Home from the hill do not go gentle Into that good night Until Your days are fulfilled and you are ready to come home from the hill This is gonna hurt and it wont make you better This is gonna burn but it won't leave a scar Their gonna hammer your throat with an ice pick Then they will bring you champagne and cigars So send my clothes up North to be buried then wash my blood off the wall We'll meet on the street of seven moons We'll watch the starlight fall Onto the river of no recall Repeat chorus They shouted our names in the shadows And we took our place in the mist There was cold food on an dusty table And an old broken watch on my wrist I saw you in your birthday sweater By the tree where the leaves never turn I'll meet you on the street of seven moons We will watch the wildflowers burn On the river of no return Repeat chorus
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Golden children burn out the sky Leaving their ashes to be dried In throats of swallows without a voice Grasses where dew is never gone moist Chorus: Dancing and dreaming Dreaming and dancing Faces look high and low Everyone's asking , "Where did out blue streets go?" Children of straw walk dusty streets Shadows of children who cannot see Faces of glass look high and low Everyone's asking, "Where did our blue streets go?" Bridge: Blue Streets Warm Dreams Dancing in the wind When the ash dries their songs can begin Songs about blue streets Streets in the wind The clouds are ghostly long dead wishes Soon to be birds Soon to be fishes Learning to swim Learning to fly Blue streets will run through the waters and sky Repeat Chorus
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Chorus: Don't go down that road Don't open up that door The house of our first happiness It ain't our home anymore The people where we used to live Acting stranger every day Built a fire on the carousel Where the children used to play And on the backstreets These same children now are grown Building houses out of cardboard And making soup with stones Repeat chorus The floor is covered with salt water And the walls are faded green It's not like any place we've ever been It ain't like nothing we've ever seen No doggies came a running When the waves broke out of the sea To warn the people of what was coming Now what has been is not to be Bridge: I heard tell tales of gypsy witches spread on the beach like jellyfish And if you trust them with your wishes The skies be damned, you'll get your wish Repeat chorus
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I don't see many Greeks who think they're living in the pages of the Iliad i don't see many Frenchmen Longing for the glory of Napoleon but I see savages on high Trampling through the vintages of Moses As if nothing in the last 8,000 years changed a thing Chorus: I wish the world was happy x3 Like Illy and Elly in Ilo There are no giants in the Earth We're not living in the days of Noah We are creatures of the Earth The Earth has no reason to destroy us But I see little people with big ideas About who they think they are They will defoliate your face spray the spit from a tommy gun over your mama's car Repeat chorus The days of Idi Amin and Pinochet are finished and I say Good Riddance God bless Steven Morrissey for spitting On the name Oliver Cromwell The president is not your friend He took an oath to sacrifice your children If there is mercy in the world You won't find it in the brothels of the judges Repeat chorus The berries on the vine are sweet but some go bad and so you must be wary Some creeps will kill you if you cross a river But most people will offer sanctuary I got tired of living off the spoils of murderers and feeble-minded bandits And as I watch their armies march I keep repeating these old dusty lines from "Hamlet": "To my shame I see the imminent death of 20,000 men Who, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds." Repeat chorus
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Chorus: Oh my darling daughter Angelica Geraldine It's raining in Seattle And its cold on those Cambridge streets I'd like to take you to the fountain Or the park where the ducklings play But the old fairgrounds are flooded And the pond on the commons is frozen today Repeat chorus There is no snow in the mountain No water coming down here And we haven't had a shower Since the beginning of the year So let's drive into the city To a museum or a zoo We don't have any money And we can always find something fun to do Repeat chorus The winter sun is full of cancer The icy wind carries TB And if we don't cover our babies Things will get worse before the spring So my darling daughter Angelica Geraldine People are panicking in Seattle And there is silence on those cold Cambridge streets so what do you say we just stay here In the desert by the sea And thank the saints above us As I rock you on my knee Angelica Geraldine
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My love for you is deep Deeper than the sea Higher than the sky And I don't know why They say we don't belong My love for you is strong Stronger than a song Quiet as a prayer Louder than the bombs I swear I will be there With a love so strong Stronger than a song No melody or rhyme Lasts to the end of time but our love is older than the wind It races and it runs Around the earth and sun Dancing laughing as it twists and turns and spins My love for you is real Unbendable as steel Soft as a baby's touch I'm loving you so much With a love so strong Stronger than a song
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I know where you are (my love) On a silent star (above) The seashores of Mars Where no seas exist On a silent star (we kissed) Where no other love (exists) I've been chasing you For centuries Chorus: so come fly with me on the first spaceship to venus that's where we are from that's where lovers come from I'll be waiting on the moon (for you) There is nothing on that rock (to do) But time goes by so fast Now that I'm close to you at last So let us orbit in a spin (within) The planet where our love (begins) It's been lonely in this empty skin Without you Repeat chorus
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all songs written and recorded feb 2015 and feb 2016

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released November 1, 2017

all songs written and performed by Bill White
except Blue Streets written by Kelly Edery and Bill White

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