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Legends

by Bill White

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1.
Lily Tree 03:04
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We wrote a song Called "Lily Tree" So we could hear The Lily sing The song begins At break of day When we arrive To Lily Bay How much longer Must we stay On rusted grounds Where puppets play? Before we find The Lily tree and hear the song The lily sings We wrote a song Called "Lily Tree" We shook a branch And counted the leaves If you will hear the lily sing Shake the aces From your sleeves And with the wind Your hearts shall rise And circulate Through dreamy skies We wrote a song Called "Lily Tree" So we could hear The Lily sing
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Esmerelda 01:51
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3.
I Had to Leave You 04:14
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i know that you expected to be killed and ressurrected but on this street everybodys on parole so i embraced the thing i feared until my conscience disappeared and you won that viscious bet against my soul chorus it wasnt a kiss it was a kiss off it wasnt a fight it was the fire in the night dong tell me you love me i dont believe you i didnt want to but i had to leave you you spoke so delicate and softly my heart broke and fell off me i stumbled down the mountain to the street while i stood around and bowed while you tore apart the crowd like the wolves that were howling at your feet i took every point of view except the one devised by you with your eyes in every corner of the room i made so many mistakes then the sky began to break when you pulled it ever tightly on the loom i didnt want any part when your world turned so dark i ran away and got lost inside the wood so i just sat down and cried like a prince without his bride as the ladder of your hair started to burn
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Dont Look at Her 02:06
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you can breathe the cool fire of her spider brown hair but dont look at her although her beauty drives you to despair dont look at her you can sing in the meadow but take care of your sight you know you belong to the queen of the night and the shadow that crept through the mirror will be gone if you look at her you can picture her dancing in her pink linen dress but dont look at her shell disappear youll lose your breath if you look at her you can dance in the meadow you can make the day break bt shell get inside you make your heart ache so tell her whatever you want but dont look at her in the black bramble bush her sandal is caught but dont look at her your head and your heart and your soul and your thoughts are so full of her theres a place by the river where the lost daughters sleep and one of them watches you while you sleep if she pulls you awake suddenly from a dream dont look at her
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Balm of Gilead 02:25
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Avalon 03:13
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7.
Dressed in White 03:27
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8.
Down in History 02:18
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9.
Pretty New Stars 03:54
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I was bringing you the proof that you didnt want to see It was meant for you alone didnt have anything to do with me Blood in your eyes blood on your hair You were searching for the moonlight but the moon wasnt even there all of the truth the pain the fever the despair We knew it all and we faced the nightmare Ill take off your clothes kiss away your scars Beneath the naked sky see the pretty little new stars There is still a tree beneath the mystic rain Ill hold you against the leaves and kiss you while i call your name we will throw back our heads and take our chances Falling back into the night through the dripping branches Meet me tonight in dreamworld I will stroke your hair I will caress your curls Take off my clothes kiss away my scars Beneath the naked sky see the pretty little new stars You walked away Into the tide But I couldnt let go of you I held you to my side And if you ever try to drown yourself in sin Ill follow you ro the bottom and pull you up again blood on your dress blood in the sky Ask me forever but never ask me why lets us take off our clothe kiss away each others scars look up into the naked sky see the pretty little new stars I am your pretty little new star you are my pretty little new star
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The Midnight Drummer 01:59
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11.
Three Fables 02:13
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12.
Saint John / Saint Joan 02:11
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13.
Resignation of Father Oak 02:42
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14.
Robber on the Cross 03:33
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im not playing innocent i broke the law and was caught my death is not a sacrifice it is the price of the law they nailed my body to a tree a man who had done no wrong was nailed next to me and i knew that if i followed him i would not be lost i wanted to die like him but i was just a robber on the cross my wife was in the crowd she was praying for my soul my life was going fast i could hear the death bells toll she looked at him then she ooked at me i heard a voice and fell into a dark eternity and she kept watching as i hung there limp and i was lost was i still her own true love or nothing but a robber on the cross i kept falling into nothing when i remembered what he said its just one more step to paradise crossing over the land of the dead i looked at him he looked at me i felt the waves of life again like electricity and i knew that every earthly path led to the land of loneliness and loss but there is a pathway to paradise\ for every robber who was ever nailed to a cross
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We Are Falling to the Bottom of the Sky 05:47
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it happens in the twinkling of an eye an eye that twinkles We are falling to the bottom of the sky a sky that crinkles and it keeps getting smaller love connects the time between the powder and the rainbow when you fall in love where does the rain go? connect and coalesce

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legends are stories we believe in although we know they are seldom true

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released October 22, 2007

all songs written and performed by Bill White

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