- Close Up the Distance - All songs copyright Cynthia Post
Oh when your feet ain't fit for ramblin', but you got a soul that needs to move
when sunshine drives you crazy 'cause it makes you think of love
and the more that you love, the more you realize how alone you are
don't let the simple air get between us.Let me rock your soul with mine.
And when you're feet are filled with dancing and you're kickin' off your shoes
well you can kick em right down next to mine, I kept a space for you
then we'll take to the town, spread our life around, laugh and love with all that we've got
til morning breaks at the silent hour to find me resting in your arms.
Even summer nights seem cold
lonely mind and a lonely soul should I call to you, should you call to me
this could go on endlessly.
Let's close up the distance
I can't take it anymore
hey, hey honey how about you now
am I what you're looking for?
give it a try, you never know how long a way it'll go
help me believe in love, let me rock your very soul
help me find the courage to love you, let me rock your very soul.
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Casting to All Sides
As I grew up learning not to follow, stripped of all foundation I go
On a winding path keeping low
Casting to all sides
On a winding path, keeping low
Casting to all sides
Trust in what is given me to continue
Later in the season to bloom
On a winding path keeping low...
Time goes on forever
Time will swallow
Creeping towards a vision I go
On a winding path keeping low
Casting to all sides
On a winding path keeping low
Casting to all sides-keeping low
Girls Room
Jimmy is like anybody
where there's love for him, he takes it
Others smile at adolescence
Jimmy lost his courage in the strangeness of his different desires
he wraps his wiry arms around a young man and he's not too sure
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- there was no one to say it
- and there wasn't any sign outside the door.
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- In the girls' room talk is walking
- lipstick-mouthed and shadow-eyed Color
- "Jimmy is a cute boy..."
- but his sister's thinking all the while
- knowing the strangeness of his different desires
- She wraps her younger arms around him, 'cause he's so unsure
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- There was no one to say it
- and there wasn't any sign outside the door
- Fa, fa..
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- Inch-and-a-quarter black-and- white tile
- rusty sinks and dirty stalls
- this is our old highschool, Jimmy
- this is me and that is all
- Why'd you run and why'd you hide?
- I won't tell anybody
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- There is no one to say it and there isn't any sign outside the door
- Fa, fa.
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- Bitter Money
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- It cannot count for me
- Making bitter money
- It cannot count for me
- Making bitter money
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- While I sit here making bitter money
- trapped inside the working wheel
- Mornings wasted making bitter money
- The time to snatch, the time to snatch disappears
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- Reason explains to the moment
- This is why, this is why, this is why
- You can reach in your pocket and tell yourself that you have the money to buy
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- But it cannot count for me
- Making bitter money
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- We are forced to make our bitter money
- money for what we do not love
- Grind our teeth and make our bitter money
- We need the pay, we need the pay to live.
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- Golden Thread
I am no longer young, my two feet stepped in the boat
Most of my songs have been sung
I feel the touch of the ghost
Here in this evening wind, with moon and sun in the sky
I still want to begin
I still want to fly
I hold onto the golden thread
I hold onto the golden thread
Some say ghosts walk the land clinging to the life they've known
Reaching for the human hand although they are a candle blown
Here on this evening beach, twilit with moon and sun
I still want to reach
I still want to run
I hold onto the goldent thread
Out on the open sea, I have always been afraid
And now it calls to me
And now I still refrain
There is no tempest wind, no crack of thunder or flash of light
Just a smooth sailing into the deepening night
I hold onto the golden thread
I move to raise my hand to
shield the breeze from my face
I lose all sight of land, the golden thread slips into space
There is no tempest wind, no crack of thunder or flash of light
Just a smooth sailing into the deepening night.
Just a smooth sailing...
Just When
Just when you would've started your life
Just when you would've started your life
Just when you were spreading your wings to fly
Circumstance goes unfolding
And your favorite lines come flowing out
of your mouth
Just when you would've broken the ice
Just when you would've broken the ice
Just when you really mean it
Just when you're gonna scream it
Circumstance throws a distraction
And suddenly you can take no action
And your favorite lines come flowing
And you don't know where it is you're going
And you can't say what it is you're thinking
And you feel so very close to sinking
down and out
And time marches on
So many moons here and gone
You wake in the morning and
you sputter and stammer
and you fall asleep still holding the hammer
Just when you would've broken the ice
Just when you would've broken the ice
Just when you really mean it
Just when you're gonna scream it
Circumstance throws a distraction
And suddenly you can take no action
And your favorite lines come flowing
And you don't know where it is you're going
And you can't say what it is you're thinking
And a piece of life slips by while you're blinking
'cause circumstance threw a distraction
And suddenly you could take no action
Just when you would've started your life.
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