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Keep Telling Me
03:45
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Keep telling me about the lonely
Keep telling me about the scared
Keep telling me that it don’t matter
and that you don’t really care
Keep telling me that you’re too tired
Keep telling me that it won’t work
Keep telling me you had the vision
But your boss was such a jerk
I will hear you out, when you’re filled with doubt
Keep telling me that it won’t happen
Keep telling me that you’re too broke
Keep telling me that love’s for suckers
and how your life is one big joke
You don’t need a Cinderella ending
Just enough to pay your debts
Why’d they fill our heads with fairy tales
If this is what we get?
Keep telling me about your passion
Keep telling me about your dreams
Keep telling me your tiny secrets
And how far off they seem
Tell me one good thing, just one good thing about today
I can’t tell you it’ll change tomorrow
I can’t tell you it’ll change next year
But if a spark could be ignited
Or you could stare down one small fear
Would you tell me one good thing, just one good thing
Come on, there’s one good thing about today
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Shoreline of Alaska
04:11
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He's still snoring as I shuffle to the kitchen
Tie my robe, and put the kettle on the stove
I light a cigarette, this is the only chance I'll get
look out the window as I wait to hear the boil
The only thing to see across the way is a green hedge
I knock the ashes off against the window ledge
If I had a dream I can't remember
If you ask me how I am I'll say I'm fine
I'll tell you about the tulips or the roses or the weather
and tonight I'll pour another glass of wine
He always promised we would travel
When all the kids had all grown up and gone
But he worked himself to death, and there's not much of him left
Still somehow through the years he's clinging on
I know it's my duty to stay here by his side
For better or worse is what I promised as his bride
And
If I had a dream I can't remember
If you ask me how I am I'll say I'm fine
I'll tell you about the tulips or the roses or the weather
and tonight I'll pour another glass of wine
The shoreline of Alaska is calling out my name
A lullaby is whispering from the rails beneath a train
The drumbeat of old Ireland is pounding through my veins
It's all a lie, it's all a lie when I say that
If I had a dream I can't remember
If you ask me how I am I'll say I'm fine
I'll tell you about the tulips or the roses or the weather
and tonight
oh tonight
yeah tonight
I'll pour another glass of wine
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Jonah's Whale
04:06
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I am just a simple whale
I sing my way across the ocean
But when Jonah’s ship set sail
An age old plan was put in motion
I was appointed on the day that I was born
I won’t spite the hand that feeds me
He doesn’t ask too often and He doesn’t ask too much
I will do as my Lord needs me
When they threw Jonah to the waves
I was waiting there to catch him
That bellyacher banged my belly for three days
It was worse than indigestion
I was appointed on the day that I was born
I won’t spite the hand that feeds me
He doesn’t ask too often and He doesn’t ask too much
I will do as my Lord needs me
Then the man inside made peace
The struggle in my gut was over
I heaved him out upon the beach
Turned to face the deep and dove there
I was appointed on the day that I was born
I won’t spite the hand that feeds me
He doesn’t ask too often and He doesn’t ask too much
I will do as my Lord needs me
I was appointed on the day that I was born
I won’t spite the hand that feeds me
He doesn’t ask too often and He doesn’t ask too much
I will do as my Lord needs me
I am just a simple whale
I sing my way across the ocean
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Rain Song
03:34
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Everybody needs a rain song
Something to sing when it’s been dry too long
Everybody needs a rain song
So come on, come on rain
It’s so hot, the blacktop is crying
The potted plants on the porch are all dying
The grass is greener in some other state
We’re watching the sky and asking it why
All we can do is pray
Everybody needs a rain song
Something to sing when it’s been dry too long
Everybody needs a rain song
So come on, come on rain
Come some other time we may get floods
And we’ll forget about how dry it was
The only constant is the weather will change
So we keep watching the sky and asking it why
All we can do is pray
Everybody needs a rain song
Something to sing when it’s been dry too long
Everybody needs a rain song
So come on, come on rain
Everybody needs a rain song
Something to sing when it’s been dry too long
Everybody needs a rain song
So come on, come on rain
So come on, come on rain
So come on, come on rain
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Anchor
03:55
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Gonna throw my anchor down
Gonna hold my head up high
Gonna claim this brave new world
In the name of you and I
Gonna throw my anchor down
Gonna hold my head up high
Gonna claim this brave new world
In the name of you and I
I’m leaving behind everything I know
to follow the calling deep within my soul
Don’t know what awaits me on the distant shore
But that sweet siren song, I can no more ignore
Dreams I have aplenty, possessions I have few
My compass has been broken, but my heart is true
If I can make my way, if I can soldier on
the life that I once knew, will be dead and gone
and that golden prize will at last be won
So I’m
Gonna throw my anchor down
Gonna hold my head up high
Gonna claim this brave new world
In the name of you and I
Gonna throw my anchor down
Gonna hold my head up high
Gonna claim this brave new world
In the name of you and I
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Heather Miller Austin, Texas
Heather writes songs of connection. Connecting what you've been feeling to what you've been trying to say. Connecting to characters that feel like long lost family. Connecting lightness and humor to loneliness and hurt. Taking her place in the lineage of acoustic folk songstresses, Heather is the real deal. She will brighten your day and soften your heart. ... more
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