1. |
The Lady
02:44
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The Lady
You rode below through
the leaves gleaming
From far away wooed me
blind and believing
But I cracked the mirror,
watched the water lilies bloom
I could finally see,
shadows leaving the room
I was left alone in a field of flowers
I found a boat,
wrote my name on the prow
What’s done is done, I’ve
looked out I’ve looked in
I loosed the chain, down I
lay - bare me far away
But I cracked the mirror,
watched the water lilies bloom
I could finally see,
shadows leaving the room
What’s done is done, I’ve
looked out I’ve looked in
I loosed the chain, down I
lay - bare me far away
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2. |
Manawee
03:31
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Manawee
I had a twin
who looked nothing like me
She fell in love
far too easily
When she was hot
I was cold
I envied her from
my topside world
Manawee, Manawee
You learned my name
but it wasn’t me
Manawee, Manawee
He had his tricks
that he knew how to sell
When she fell
I met myself
One step ahead
and two steps behind
I watched her go,
then said goodbye
Manawee, Manawee
You may have won her
but you haven’t fooled me
Manawee, Manawee
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3. |
The Best of You
03:56
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The Best of You
I’m lying here in the dark
Our baby’s head on my breast
She cries out in her sleep
dreaming of my unrest
I’m too sad to sleep-
battling regrets
I’m counting down the months
since you slept in my bed
You’re biding your time
until you can give her, until you can give her
You’re biding your time
until you can give her, until you can give her
the best of you
Don’t wait on my account
At least I’m not alone
She’ll show me how to sleep
how to dream, how to grow
Maybe your arms are full
I know you think of us too
You’re counting down the months
Do what you have to do -
You’re biding your time
until you can give her, until you can give her
You’re biding your time
until you can give her, until you can give her
the best of you
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4. |
Please
03:24
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Please
I know I have no right to be
I know I shouldn’t say a thing
I wish I could just fall asleep
Please
I’ll never forget how you looked
She’s gotta make you feel so good
You did what I asked this one time
Please
I think I see your headlights sweep the wet road
My heart stills but you’re still not home
You’re not looking out for me, no
Please, please
Please, please
I’ll claim a part of you like when we were kids
Afraid you would forget me all over again
I’ll claim you the same, but different: Not mine
Not mine, not mine
Not mine, not mine
I’m listening for you, I’m watching for you
Long gone - I’ve just missed you
Not mine
Please, please
Please, please
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5. |
Thumbelina's Mother
03:26
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Thumbelina's Mother
I should like so very much
my very own tiny little one
She'll be my heart - I'll keep her warm
believe in her, keep her safe from harm
A flower appears- it's just a bud
I kiss the petals and it bursts open
She is there
Let myself hope, let myself love
time burst open and it was us
Out flew a bee, I felt no fear
but he stole her from me - how it stings, how it stings
I'll never know what could've been
She's a woman now with her own dreams
I'd like to ask her to forgive
though I am told it's nothing that I did, nothing that I did
It's so hard to believe
She won't know me - I blame it on the bee
I trusted him, but he stole her from me
I won't forget - how it stings, how it stings
Let myself hope, let myself love
time burst open - and it was us
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6. |
The Hunt
03:56
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The Hunt
Didn’t want to believe that it’s all dead
Even as you tried to tell me
Didn’t want to believe that it’s all dead
Even as you tried to show me
The sound went off -- hands beating a silent tattoo
Wild to get away, the dogs were set loose
(I refuse to believe it was all a mistake)
I have my hunting boots on and I’m crossing a brown field
Searching for carcasses to satisfy a yield
Somewhere, someone’s waiting idly by the window
Hands folded quietly and glinting with gold
(You hold up each body triumphant)
With crude stitches you sewed my ribbon onto your breast
You thought I needed proof that you loved me the best
I have a gun slung cross my hip, a bow and arrow
I have bloody fists and rot webbed in my marrow
Somewhere, someone’s wounded and fields are burning
Somewhere, someone’s been healed, don’t know where the wind is turning
There’s a fire in the hearth, there is green inside the twig
There’s a crocus in the earth, there’s a heart beat in the plumage
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7. |
Going Home
04:02
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Going Home
I’ve had a lot of homes without ever having been back
There’s distance and money, but then home is where you were with me.
It’s been rewritten now with politics and time
Faded archaic now like a carousel of slides
I had to go
I had to go
You were sad for so many years, far away from all that you knew
You never asked: what about me? Always someone else’s rules.
Now it’s time to go home but we can’t pin a map
A transient place, so hard to go back
I had to go
I had to go
It’s a language we’ve never spoken, a photo that’s never been shown
The post we never chose, but were given -- that’s the way it goes.
It’s the language I speak, a different accent from you
I know you were brave - I’m brave too
I had to go
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8. |
Big
03:13
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Big
Come see me again when
I’m ready to be giving
You won’t find what you need here
It’s just what it is
An end, for now, to possibility
It never could just be easy
The world has blown too big
to contract all over again
You didn’t have a chance
I’m sorry that it’s true
The yearning was there but
not enough to fight for you
It’s not a tragedy
I hope some day you’ll come back to me
The world has blown too big
to contract all over again
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9. |
Ghosts
04:36
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Ghosts
The moment where I felt I had it all was fleeting
Even knowing what it is to feel loss, to have nothing
We wanted so much to believe
In reasons we could touch and see
Now ghosts are wrapped here in our sheets
Coiled between your chest and my cheek
Why is my mind compelled this way?
I close my eyes, cast them away - cast them away
I once said it was my spirit that called you
That there are others who have called on us is a hard truth
Because it’s in me it’s inside of you
A shadow self with nothing to lose
Now ghosts embrace the space we keep
Seduce us into falling asleep
I locked it up and swallowed the key
But I still know it’s inside of me
Why is my mind compelled this way?
I close my eyes, cast it away - cast it away
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10. |
Lay It To Me
03:27
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Lay It To Me
Wrestling reasons into knots
Pinning down this judgement’s tough
Keep yourself at arm’s length
Friendship’s a wounded kind of peace
My sweet, my sweet
Just lay it to me
I know you’re tired
Let my arms hold tighter
You were strong but the odds were stacked
There’s no pride in a sneak attack
Lay it down, I acquiesce
I’ll be here when you need to rest
My sweet, my sweet
Just lay it to me
I know you’re tired
Let my arms hold tighter
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11. |
Somebody New
02:56
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Somebody New
Let’s meet again, just be friends
Won’t be so fraught
won’t know we’ve lost
I would give back
most everything
to unlearn the hurt,
the jealousy
Want you to know me like I’m somebody new
Erase the picture;
it’s not something you choose
Want you to know me like I’m somebody new
You look at me - what do you see
Don’t give me words,
won’t mean a thing
You chose all wrong;
it’s for the best
We’ll be friends now
forget the rest
Want you to know me like I’m somebody new
Erase the picture;
it’s not something you choose
Want you to know me like I’m somebody new
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12. |
Bones Hurt
03:11
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Bones Hurt
(With thanks to Yeats)
I was wounded, dancing on the shore
Climbing, falling - I knew not where
I knew nothing
My soul divided from itself
A beautiful and lofty thing
Sickened by the blood upon my wings
(She found me, in my grief, through the pain, helped me see)
Bones hurt when they heal, yes they do
No matter what disaster awaits us
We’ll improvise, we’ll trust again
Be patient
Let it out for all the world to hear
Not broken now, almost off the ground
Heroic lost, heroic found
(She saw me, she believed, soothed my wounds, gave me strength)
Said: Bones hurt when they heal, yes they do
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Survival For This Species
Being grown made it hard to let go of the past
Everything beautiful and innocent didn’t last
You let us down, I let us down along the way
I held a lifeless thing I didn’t want to save
Now a seed of hope is growing inside of me
Feel myself open up to possibility
I’m ready to let myself fall fully in love
Find it in myself to be bigger than it all
Inside it all there beats a core of resiliency
Trust it will lead us to what we want and what we need
I can be wise, and I can lean full into you
Believe the pain was worth the birthing into truth
The blood and darkness harbored everything we need
The space we held ensured survival for this species
I’m ready to let myself fall fully in love
Find it in myself to be bigger than it all
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Adrienne Ammerman Asheville, North Carolina
"[This album is] spare but rich, each song a perfectly encapsulated story. Each story underscored by its own emotional tone,
a soft touch that cuts to the quick."
- Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress
mountainx.com/arts/sound-track-the-hunt-by-adrienne-ammerman/
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