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I We Us Are Was Were Is

by The River Has Many Voices

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1.
dear Andrea: you’re still asleep and don’t let me wake you from your sleep i just wanted to write a few words for whatever they may be worth right now i’m lying right next to you and the morning is just now coming through today i woke up in your arms and found something i needed to have found they say a year ain’t that long but you know what kind of year it’s been when i look back i can barely place just who i was before i went away so dear Andrea when you awake i’ll just have a few words to say cause today i woke up next to you and for the first time in a long time it was like everything was new and you know I needed to know that again you know i love… you know I love to spend these… simple mornings after rain just lying next to you simple mornings after rain just lying next to you simple mornings after rain... (just lying next to you) simple mornings after rain... (just lying next to you) oh the simple light... oh the simple light...
2.
just look at all that starlight just look at all those points of light yeah and some of them are satellites from up there our world is a blue light i know down here there’s a darkness yeah you know that kind of darkness and sometimes it feels like it never lifts, like it never quits but just look at all that starlight just look at all those points of light yeah i promise you that all this this is all yours, yours is all this our forever is now stand anywhere and look out our forever is now this is our time our forever is now so what if all this was changing the mountains and the oceans? but what if all this changing was all just an old wind? and what if that old wind made everything unbroken and made everything golden made everything whole again? our forever is now stand anywhere and just look out our forever is now this is our time our forever is now
3.
i’m looking at your photograph in my armchair looking in your paper eyes wishing i was back there i’ll board a plane yeah i’ll come flying back if i come flying down your street will you hold your arms out to catch? girl you make it look easy doing nothing just standing on the balcony holding the universe together and how right the light, how simple the morning air how when morning comes and you’re lying there i’ll board a star yeah i’ll come burning back if i come in such a flash will you hold your arms out to catch? honey you make it look easy doing nothing just standing on the balcony holding the universe together
4.
The Changes 03:31
you grabbed your book, you grabbed your bag and went to say your goodbye you heard your own steps on the wooden floor and it brought you a little back in time the changes... you try and save what you can save the changes... you try and make what you can make the changes... you take the things you need to take you were young and you would always be alive every walk home there was a new rock to find but you can never really ever know how much you you’re gonna leave behind the changes... you save the things you need to save the changes... you save a little of love: a little of pain the changes... you hold the things that you can hold change is... you keep the parts they keep you whole change is... you save a little to remember by change is... you keep a box of letters and time
5.
there’s a highway there’s a straight line i could go forever just break for new life it’s overcast it’s midnight and this feels like a dividing line is that lightning or is it thunder or just a likening to the sound of the rain? cause if it’s lightning i gotta wonder if i should lie in shelter or go out anyway there’s a freeway there’s a bus fare i could go forever straight outta here but maybe it’s long past long drives maybe it’s long past choosing sides is this lightning or is it thunder or just a likening to the sound of the rain? cause if it’s lightning i gotta wonder if i should lie in shelter or go out anyway is it over? cause i got a feeling like i could stand here forever and lose you anyway is that lightning or is it thunder or just a likening to the sound of the rain? cause if it’s lightning i gotta wonder if i should lie in shelter or go out anyway
6.
Returning 05:13
it’s sundown on that long unending field the edges burned out the horizons dark filled yeah and then the night stretches open like... just like a book i wish i could write i reach up and out to fold the corner down yeah to mark the page, yeah to mark this ground i am in a room with no doors yeah i am stretched upon the night with no shores i am rising; i am falling i am returning when I come back my first thought will be of you i’ll wanna show you that i’ll wanna show you that all things are new i’ll wanna fold it up, i’ll wanna take it down i’ll wanna find its name, i’ll wanna make the sound i’ll wanna reach up and out to mark the page so when i hold it out you’ll know the way but now i am in a room with no doors and the night is stretched out over me like a sea with no shores i am rising; i am falling i am returning
7.
i started out younger yeah just dreaming of in all my hunger yeah just dreaming of love but i saw it shifting and how it can break a family up what it does when it's missing so yeah i gave it up i said: i will never let love break me like that so i went missing yeah i went away and i wouldn’t listen when the moon brushed love my way and now i’m standing here thirty years like yesterday thinking about you and the way you make me wanna change if I should love you would I just break in half? but yeah, I’m gonna love you anyway... i don’t wanna build it if it’s just gonna break and i don’t wanna hurt you but i don’t wanna feel afraid i wanna hold it up or bury it deep inside i wanna keep it safe from the world outside i wanna know that it will be alright last night i left your house at 2 AM you said: don’t go i said: no really, it’s better if I’m leaving and as i was driving i said: is this really how it goes? am I really gonna turn and run? i said: no, no, no and drove back to your home i knocked and you smiled and said: hey yeah, i’m gonna love you anyway...

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"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past."

- T.S. Eliot

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released June 22, 2012

written and performed by Matthew Payne

with help from:

Michael Young
Matt Latour
Julie Wang
Matt Meyer

recorded by Michael Landon @ Estuary Recording in Austin, TX
mixed by Kevin Szymanski
mastered by Nick Landis @ Terra Nova Mastering, Austin, TX
album artwork & design by Josiah Spence

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The River Has Many Voices Austin, Texas

The River Has Many Voices is music that is born of the poetry and harmony of the hill country. TRHMV lives and writes in Austin, TX where he grew up.

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