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The Visit

by Bill White

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1.
Inbound Love 02:04
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chorus inbound love inbound love i left my baby on the outbound train inbound love\never gonna roll again once i fell in love with someboody after a while she wasnt there so i crawled into a tear hoping i might find her there but i never found her now ill never know why she was with me in the frst place or why she had to go repeat chorus jimmy always said it takes a woman to turn truth into beauty in my experience all that they do is take away your ballads and leave you with the blues im still on the platform waiting for the train but inbound love is never gonna roll again repeat chorus
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Silence is Breaking 02:25
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Silence is breaking Between midnight and my broken heart Silence is breaking Like clay pressed between hands That have been torn apart Is it the crickets singing sweet beneath my window Or the flowers wilting in the meadow? Silence is breaking In the arrangement of your absence The empty orbits of your eyes Silence is breaking Having survived the last offensive In the shapeless swirl of your body Where love dies How can I revere you when i pity the callousness of your touch And the curses from your tomb dont amount to much Silence is breaking Inside your lungs empty now and cold And you walk where there arent any roads Silence is breaking Between mdnight and my broken heart
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The Visit 02:11
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once , in the glacial moonlight i opened my door and was flooded with warm life sometimes something happens something so unepected something so improbable that we call it a miracle even as the ice becomes blacker even as the black turns to ice i expect to see the sun
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The Romance of the New 02:56
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when you received the oscar on oscar night i was thrown into the darkness like a satellite yourstar was rsing my meteor fell you were in heaven i was in hell nevwer n my life have i been so humiliated to be loved in the autumn in the spring to be hated when we wrote urmovie we were high in the sky but you rewrote the ending with some other guy chorus the romance of the new is inhanced by the pain of the old you took the gold and left me in the rain once upon a time we had the worldon a string with you by my side i could do anything you stepped on my shoulders to receive the acclaim and when you gave the speech you didnt mention my name repeat chorus now i wouldnt never wantyobe in the place where you are and you wouldnt be caught dead in my wreck of a car but once i saw the future ad the best of you and me but that was just a dream that was never to be
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Life in a Nutshell 02:07
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“i am 43 years old and older than my years. i have not taken care of myself ive been crawling through the vale of tears all ive done is raise some children and work some crappy jobs ive lived in one lousy city and married five lazy slobs" "do you forget the war in heaven? a war that goes on still we were thrown into the canyon when we tried to take the hill do you forget the scars of angels ? who leapt into molten seas, bartering wings for shadows just to rescue you and me take the space of separation call it centuries the damage that was done by time hurts us less than eternity" repeat first two verses
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Even the Crazy 03:29
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Her braces were hooked behind her brain, Keeping her teeth and her thoughts straight. She was a nurse in a home for the insane I pushed the button she opened the gate Even the crazy need some lovin sometime from feeling bad to feeling so fine\ A taste of honey, a swallow of brine Even the crazy need some lovin sometime I pressed my mouth against her brace Told her she had a pretty face Ten pressed her up against a fence Something inside her gor very tense Si I moved my hand up her thigh And she asked me if I was nits I asked her how she liked it there Changing everybodys underwear She said she hadn’t left in seven years I said c’mon junp the fence with me I took her to my place and we got drunk She told me all of the things that she thunk She was soft and very pliant I wasn’t sure if she was a nurse or one of the clients It was raining in the morning and she popped another beer And told me I was the first normal guy she had slept with in seven years
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Crushed in Ice 03:24
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He holds her like a bagpipe, Her breath ripping across his palm. He feels for the door Where children stormed angry into life, And she kisses him. “It’s nice,” She said Then she fled And then she fled He felt for the cover That had kept them alive In the days when giants Were crushed in ice Crushed in the ice Crushed in the ice Outside the new world. “It’s nice,” She said Then fled Back to the old world Far outside Far outside of the Western plain Far outside Far outside of the Western plain He felt for the cover That had kept them alive the cover that had kept them alive in the new world In the the new world. He holds her like a bagpipe, Her breath ripping across his palm. He feels for the door Where children stormed angry into life, And she kisses him. “It’s nice,” She said Then fled He holds her like a bagpipe, Her breath ripping across his palm. He feels for the door Where children stormed angry into life, And she kisses him. “It’s nice,” She said Then she fled
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Skin and Fur 03:36
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Her skin so soft inflamed By fur to the touch softer And I would move my hand Into her precious softness As we fall to ocean’s floor. The cat is at the door. He knows she has returned To stroke his long, white fur And leave in scratching redness That pales only in sleep. And I would move my hand Across the fragile stillness Of her soft flesh inflamed By haphazard caresses As one might give a cat. That such soft skin could hurt The softer heart that wears it Should wound a thoughtful lover Who would selfishly caress it. Because that very softness Is the thing that brings her pain. But the cat will always claw her door And I will move my hand through her Till we fall through spinning kisses To the ocean’s floor
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Wish I Could Have Been There 03:27
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WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE The first time you opened your eyes WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE To hear your laughter and your cries Where was I in the days of your life WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE when your bracelet was still on your mothers wrist WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE I wish I could have seen the things I missed Everything you loved everyone you kissed\ WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE Love has many faces Love takes many turns Of the kind of love I have for you I have still so much to learn WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE When you were playing hide and seek WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE When you were dancing in the street Even you when were nothing But the wind between the sheets WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE When you set sail and left the shore WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE There is nothing I have wished for more I never wanted to intrude on you When you wanted to be alone Once I held you in my arms Why did I let you go Its too late now for both of us But I just had to let you know WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE

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released September 20, 2018

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