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Lyrics for Speck
1 - Don't Miss Don't Need
I'm 'a ride out of town
Leave my mark far behind
Leave me there settle down
Leave me there so I find my mind
And if I write you a letter
Read it twice that one line sayin
Chorus:
I don't miss you
I don't need you
But I'll love you
Till the end of time
I'm 'a ride through this town
Find that place where the cold winds whine
I'll stay there till I settle down
In that place where the sun don't shine
And if I call you one the phone
Pick it up, listen for the dial tone
Chorus
As this road rolls
Through the mountains into the pines
I have found my home
Amongst these yellow highway lines
Chorus
Yes I'll love you till the end of time
2 - Dreamscapes
What is this life
But a sequence of dreamscapes
What keeps me here
When there's no one around to see
Why don't I disappear
What is this air we breathe
So clear we can't see
That it keeps us here
When there's no one around see
That it is what keeps us here
This life is
The most beautiful
Dream
With you here
And there's no one around to see
And into your eyes
I can disappear
3 - Speck
Take the long way home
Let me roll down the window
And watch the trees fly past
Feel the miles under me
'Cause this road is much older than I
Ever hope to be
The road that's built along side
The rail-line that follows the Fraser
Tracks built on stolen land
By men whose backs were already broken
And you can feel the history
Embedded in the steel
I've been told that I don't belong here
And I've been shown that my roots are shallow
I make no claims
To this land
No I'm just a Speck on a long highway line
Take a piece of this
A piece of my history too
I'm gonna watch the trees fall down
Feel the years in front of me
'Cause my generation is searching
For their home
Yes my generation is searching
For their place.
4 - Simple Song
Sing me a song as I fall asleep on my lonesome
tell me that you love me
Play me a tune that you wrote just for me when you called me
and you were lonely
'Cause I miss you in the morning
And I miss you in the evening
Sing me a Simple Song one that's a sing-along
Play me a silly tune, one that you'll teach me soon
Squeeze me like a teddy bear keep all my letters
And don't forget to love me
Will you think of me when you’re working
Will you think of me when you’re playing
Will you think of me when you’re older
Will you think on this song
Will you miss me in the morning
In the evening
Will you miss me when I'm gone
Will you miss me till I'm home
5 - Tideline
You cannot see past your insecurities
I am too tired to be your mirror
You spent my love too fast
Still I live to give to you
Everything you'd ever need
Still you are my whole world
Your head is filled with changing swells
My heart is full the tide now needs to wane
You rowed to my shore
Now you want to see the door
Now you know what my heart’s for
Take with you my whole world
Your back is turned your eyes are closed
I know you’re gone but I'm still here
I was not done
Whispering in your ear
Secret songs you loved to hear
Having you be my world
6- Stay
Oh no! there's puddles of tears on the floor again
And whiskey sweet whiskey on my lips
And you are standing in that spotlight by the front door
With a look that says please be here when I get home
Chorus:
'Cause it's that same fight
Over and over each night
It always ends with the question
Why do I stay
We met in the winter but I left in the spring-time
You'd call and you'd ask me 'baby how is it way out there'
I came back in the summer and in the fall we moved in together
Now here comes the question how long will you stay
Chorus
It always ends with the question
Why do you stay
It always ends with the question
Why do we stay
7 - Take Your Time
Chorus:
Take your time
Take my time too
You'll be fine
If you know your mind
I wear my heart
Up in my ear
Whether you’re far
Or whether you’re near
You're all I hear
I wear my soul
Down in my shoes
To keep myself
From getting too bruised
If you want my soul
You can have that too
Just take your time
To try my shoes
I wear my mind
Down in my gut
Sometimes my gut
It rots my mind
You don't need my mind
No yours works fine
Just take your time
Take your time
Chorus
You know my mind
I know my mind
You know my mind
It's always on you
8 - Ghost
Your Ghost hangs around here
Like a shroud of fog
And I'm watching out the window
For a sign of a storm
You built this old house up
With the metal of your back
You brought you whole family
Off the beaten path
Now I can feel that storm coming
And it's coming from within
As all your children quarrel
About who where and when
I can feel your Ghost wailing
Take me home
Where I belong
Suddenly I'm standing at your side
You’re telling me all about the great divide
How all rivers must flow to the sea
Just some by west and some by east
And if I walk through the field
To the trees where you lay
I can sometimes hear you calling
I am home
Where I belong
I hope your memory haunts me
For as long as I live
I hope someday I will find you
Take me home where I belong
Do you ever hear me calling
Take me home
where I belong
Do you ever hear me calling
Take me home
Where I belong
9 - Cold Town
It doesn't snow here much at all
It just rains and rains and rains and rains and it rains
We go out walking all year round
It doesn't get too cold to bear
So go home without me
I'm too busy thinking about times before
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And that cold cold town that stole my heart
Froze it in the ground
Do you remember when we took the train
Through the mountains and across the prairies
We got to Toronto just in time
You went to Montreal
I went to that cold cold town
And when I got there I got ice in my boots
Snow in my hair frost in my air
Chorus
So when you found me in that cold cold town
There was ice in my boots snow was comin down
You said we are lucky we've come so far
And this town is ours not the other way around
So go home without me
I'm stuck here frozen in this cold cold town
This cold cold town
It moves around won't let me settle down