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She Bangs on the World (free) 03:27
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Clipping photos from the Daily News To add to the layers on her bedroom wall Of the men who whisper secrets In words she doesn’t know She plays the TV real loud all day long Tuned to static noise That lives between the dials Trying to keep herself together And cool her beating heart She reads her books with eyes shut tight Picturing the words written just for her Nothing makes sense when she is quiet So she bangs on the world She bangs on the world She hates it when her mother’s crying Because she doesn’t like the water in her hair She won’t go see another doctor She doesn’t want to share She screams as loudly as she can Relishing the fire dissonance ignites Nothing makes sense when she is quiet So she bangs on the world She bangs on the world She’d like to see the outside world again But pills just make her slow Turn her ambitions off So she drifts into the volume Where she can hear her thoughts She keeps her old picture in a book Underneath the floor tucked behind the bed Back from the days when she still smiled Now she bangs on the world She bangs on the world
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The Long Ride (free) 03:28
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Look at what we made When we weren’t even trying Inch by inch, frame by frame A tide across the sand I choose every day with you To go on this long ride Coin by coin, in a jar All being saved for nothing Seeing trouble, from afar Has always been your strength No signs tell us where to go Travelling on, this long ride I’ll stay the one you turn to You be my evening star ‘till the road has turned to nothing And the gas outlasts the car Coolest summer we ever felt Under these trees we’re missing Soft in sound but blue as bells The wind through copper braid I’m just a profile photo Aging on this long ride
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Pot of Soup (free) 03:37
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Sun glares through the windshield Though it’s barely afternoon Can’t delude myself I know you’re going to be here soon It’s been four months since I’ve seen you More than nine since we last talked Take my deep breaths Get ready for the aftershock ‘Cause we both know why you’re coming But there’s a lot of spaces in between Just what you think I owe you And what you’re finally going to get from me But that’s what brothers do When it all falls through You take what you can With your head and your hands And then you just hold on You say it’s not about the money Well it’s sure not about your pride But I recognize the signs of someone Contemplating fratricide Now don’t go getting squeamish I’ve made my share of those plans too And once we’ve got the knives out Who knows who’ll end up sticking who But my hands won’t be shaking If you show up throwing more than words We’re way past conversation Hurtling on to where we both get burned ‘Cause that’s what brothers do When it all falls through You take what you can With your head and your hands And then you just hold on Yeah that’s what brothers do It’s an ancient truth You do what you can To wipe the blood from your hands And then you just hold on
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Therapy for the Mostly Willing (free) 03:33
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Broken, down to elements Filtered through mesh strong and delicate Stripped of sad particulates That I couldn’t choose to leave far behind Learning, new tricks of memory Lyric, mnemonic, repeatingly Tuned to the olfactory ‘til I almost see what I keep inside But when I Can feel my arms again It’s like drag On cold, clean oxygen Clearing the fog from everything It isn’t nice But it isn’t unkind Muscles, latex and liquidy Fresh from the thrill of electricity Gives me focus and clarity I’ve never known in my life before So I’ll build On every little gain Glue pieces back To make a whole again And be ok with this bargain Oh, it isn’t nice But it isn’t unkind
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The Wine of Summer (free) 02:45
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We aren’t bothered By the twinkling Of the great square of the horse The smell of wood smoke and woolen scratching Hasn’t wearied us on cool times yet Because we took our shoes off When the days were longer And the water bearer blessed us from on high We rolled on the soft grass ‘till our backs were prickled And we’d drank the wine of summer ‘till the bottles all ran dry Cold Orion Unbeloved Caught behind a screen of haze and snow No furs or steaming Mugs and glasses Hold the stuff we need to make us warm (chorus) Come now archer With the great shield Pour the sun on us in molten drops Let hot winds take us Past the dark swan To the verdant pastures Where your arrow dropped Where we’ll take our shoes off Now that days are longer And the water bearer blesses us from way on high We’ll roll on the soft grass ‘till our backs are prickled And we’ll drink the wine of summer ‘till the bottles all run dry (x2)
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Ghost of a Chance (free) 03:37
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In the tombs where the dark water drips Underneath the broken remnants of great old draftsmanship I sit and wait for you Hopeful for some notice Pretty sure I’m just wasting my time You’d been 60 years removed from the light By the time my bones were first placed Underneath these stone spires Each one spent patiently Holding to a promise Made for eternity in your life Then you float on in Just to float on back out again Leaving any thought of romance Cold and still, without a ghost of a chance In the quiet of this long season’s wait After ancestors and young ones Have all moved on to fade You lingered here, and I did too You waiting for that someone And me waiting for you, and now it’s late But you float on still Hopeful for your love But your hope’s never fulfilled Leaving us in poor elegance Cold and still, without a ghost of a chance
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First Street (free) 03:34
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We talked about big towns Like they were foreign worlds Chromium bright And just about as far away We dreamed up our big plans With adolescent verve All about the light And nothing for the cost we’d pay Amy From First Steet Never thought that you’d be the one to stay behind Amy Forgive me Just think about me Like I think of you from time to time Two volunteer exiles Puffed up with selfish love Pulling on black Like a million kids had done before But unions are fragile And tended carelessly Dry up like moss Left forgotten by an open door That’s what we get When we talk about it When we talk about a love
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No Rain, Again (free) 03:30
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The sunset wind Carrying the dust again Following the line of the darkness She turned her head aside To keep the grit out of her eyes Waiting for the calm Trees bent low Creaking against the blow Supplicants in hope of assistance But help won’t ever come Underneath a shrouded Sun Waiting for the calm There’s a place in visions Was never meant to be And it won’t be found by heart Or any artifice of chart Waiting for the calm Standing cold and small Amid the clutter of the squall Watching clouds recede past the tree line Kissed by rusty light And thinking, “No rain again tonight” Waiting for the calm Where the land lies lowest Takes water to the sea And it won’t be stopped by hand Or any obstacle of man When it’s waiting for the calm

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released September 12, 2011

Thanks again to Jim W. for the outstanding art work!

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The Little Miracles of Misanthropy Tempe

The Little Miracles of Misanthropy is Tempe, AZ singer/songwriter Ben Jacobs. Ben writes and performs thought provoking, indie-folk driven acoustic music that explores nature, history, literature, and the simple struggle to be good humans.

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