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Roy Mitchell Bridge
03:16
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Roy Mitchell Bridge
9/2023 North of Winthrop,WA
I stepped onto the aging bridge
Passing through that Eightmile Valley
I stood there in the quiet, listening
To what that creek was tellin’ me
I’ve been fightin’ some things I’ve chosen
I pick ‘em up and let ‘em go, with the water down below
Roy Mitchell Bridge
You stood here, 1955
Talkin’ ‘bout good ways to live
Here I stand, countin’ ways I’ve been wronged - Askin’
How can one life have so much to forgive?
I’ve been fightin’ some things I’ve chosen
I pick ‘em up and let ‘em go, with the water down below
Roy Mitchell Bridge
I can’t regret the path I’ve chosen, or all the hard times I’ve come to know
All those things brought me to me, and finding me brought me here to let this go
I’ve been fightin’ some things I’ve chosen
I pick ‘em up and let ‘em go, with the water down below
let ‘em go, with the water down below
let ‘em go, with the water down below..
Roy Mitchell Bridge
Roy Mitchell Bridge
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2. |
Long Time Comin'
03:18
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Long Time Comin’
You left, without a warning
A fact I really couldn’t face
So I skipped town before I skipped your funeral
Jim Beamin’ right through your birthdays
Never thought I’d cross that Skagit County line
Don’t feel much like doing it now
But I can’t sleep and I know what’s eatin’ me
There ain’t no way around this
It’s been a long time comin’
It’s been a long days drive
I’ve been, biding time to avoid goodbye
How much is left I can’t say
Couldn’t face my life, living with what’s true
Gonna need a little help until I’m not so lost without you
So many things I wanna say to you
It’s later, but maybe not too late
Cause I’m about to turn up Milltown Road
And see if I might find your grave
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3. |
Places You Hide
04:19
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Places You Hide
Walking by your door, you’re sitting on the floor
You look up and flash a smile
Now the quarter’s winding down
Has what you sought been found?
Thought things would be better, since we turned the page
Maybe I misunderstood the truth
A God who blesses - those who keep the faith
I pray now some bigger love will come and take God’s place
Is there hope inside, the places you hide?
Some who know nothin’, they put their lies on you
Turns out insanity is blind
Once the door is opened, it’ll ask you what to do
All you’ve been looking for, is seeking you too
Is there hope inside, the places you hide?
This sweetgrass lookout wind, chills right through my skin
Your story chills my bones in kind
Is there hope inside….
Walking by your door, so clear in my mind’s eye
Where has this time all gone?
Is what you sought gettin’ found?
Will I see that smile when next you come around?
Is there hope inside….
Is there hope inside…
Is there hope inside, the places you hide?
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4. |
Never Seems To Stay
04:06
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Never Seems to Stay
In between the flashing lights and drones,
guns and yellow tape I - recall a time
Drifting back I turn around,
My eye’s corner sees your spinning dancing blonde smile
By some forgotten will of thunder rollin’ in,
rain can calm but cannot wash away
All the names and conversations
playing through your Sock monkey mind yesterday
What I long to hold, never seems to stay
So many names and drifting faces
broken distant memories now loiterin’ round and round
Through every shaken, torn belief,
we each of us has tip-tumbled through to be found
I’m walking through this middle shore,
grasping at these photographs of Mind floating by
Weary worn I turn to pick you up
only to see how you've grown, Eye to eye
What I long to hold, never seems to stay
What I long to hold, never seems to stay
As night winds sound my garden chimes,
I step out to smell the smokey Earth warm with rain
All those broken-hearted years
we left to find and forge new hope in spades
and we found so much more, than I can explain
but what I long to hold, never seems to stay
What I long to hod, never seems to stay
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5. |
Kindness
03:05
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Kindness
Stepping off the bus
I crossed the snow-covered road
Then the scent of fresh baked bread started warming my soul, ohhh…
A heart-stopping silence
A breath held out too long
I was trying to squeeze some life out of all that went wrong
Then ohh, a cold wind comes like kindness
and it clears my mind, of all I left behind
The drippin’ faucet
The clicking of the looms
The smell of wet mud
The echoes of the room
Leaning in, what will I find?
Leaning back, what did I leave behind?
Then ohh, a cold wind comes like kindness
and it clears my mind…
and it clears my mind of all I left behind … of all I left behind
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Bring Me to This Place Again
Looking out tonight
With that’s come to pass
How each footstep, brought me to this place
Of getting free …of getting free at last
As the crescent moon, she bends
To kiss that glowing horizon
Desolation, at its end
While what comes next …slowly opens
Ohhh…. Ohhh… Ohhhh….
Here in this place, where my heart runs wild
Bring me to this place again
Quick before this moment, grows distant and fades
Bring me to this place again
Watching the sun rising, cold this early dawn
On this mountaintop we stand
And turn to face what’s coming, beyond this brightest night
With all these …starry memories in hand
Here in this place, where my heart runs wild
Bring me to this place again
Quick before this moment, grows distant and fades
Bring me to this place again
All of life’s moments, where my heart runs free
Bring me to this place again
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7. |
Coming of Age
03:37
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Coming of Age
You a 1980 Tercel, Me, 16 shot straight from hell
All 60 horses revved as we took aim
The year was 1993, As we split gravel just you and me
A fight always takes two, or so they’d say
As we were coming of age
We’d blast down either side of the road,
It ran in the family or so we were told
Drivin’ hard to live up to that Snowden name
Mailbox numbers flashing your light, As we pushed speed past 85
To take our multigenerational place
…Camano South End race
As we were coming of age
The cop that pulled us over only fueled the rage
Speedin’ around with a baseball bat and eggs
If you were here you’d remember the time,
your bumper pushed Sass’s car off I-5
Northbound up the offramp and down on James
I miss when we were crazy kids, Doing U turns on the Aurora bridge
And endless E-brake 180s in the rain
Chained up tires to pull our sleds,
Right through the Warm Beach Camp flower beds
Till I hit that ditch so hard I could feel it break
…We made a couple mistakes
As we were coming of age
Just why your head gasket blew, I can’t say
But given all we got man, I can’t complain
…Cause at the end of the day
We were coming of age
…We were coming of age
…We were coming of age
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8. |
Oaken Arms
03:20
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Oaken Arms
Time can only roll by
And I’ve been often overcome by it
Out of nowhere it’s all gone baby
How’d we roll this long?
Ooohhh….
Up again in these oaken arms
I will listen for the hope beyond, darlin’
Slowly, slowly they lower me down
Even if I never quite touch…ground
As you know, to have it all worked out isn’t
How this goes… - As I know
A happiness deep down below
Can happen once and slowly drown, you know – but
Freedom walkin’ around your soul well
It reminds you what you know… you know
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9. |
All Along
04:44
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All Along
I feel this love so often
And it feels old
Like we’ve loved a long time
And I feel grateful
I’ve often longed for a love like this
And I still do
Every day with you
Like we’ve been all along
Over highways and mountains
Until I’m pulling into town
Roundin’ that last turn
And I know
I’ll be holdin’ you so soon
Oh I’m in love
Like I’ve always been in love with you
Like we’ve been all along
How did this all open up?
I’ve been rollin’ over
Searchin’ round to find your lips
Just one last time
Before I drift off
To sleep lyin’ next to you
And I want you
There every night
Like we’ve been all along
…like we’ve been all along
How did this all open up?
Like we’ve been all along…ohhh
Like we’ve been all along
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10. |
Doing Nothing at All
03:45
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Doing Nothing At All
I’m watchin a robin who looks me over
out in the middle of nowhere – maybe just far enough
can’t remember the last time, I really noticed a face
It’s been so long since I have slowed down this much
by doing nothing at all
Doing nothin’ at all
Maybe when I wake up tomorrow
I’ll take a look out the window – and just take it in
like it’s the first time, I’ve considered anything
How I long to start my mornings that way – Doing nothing at all
Doing nothing at all
But open eyes can be so difficult to find,
much more than nothing
they could change your mind about most anything
you thought you knew
Hell, they could change it a - all, ohhh – ohh…
I wasn’t just running away from nothing
I took a look in the mirror – and just kept standing there
Might be the first time, I’ve ever really seen this face
It turns out the way to find it begins – by doing nothing at all
Doing nothing at all, Doing nothing at all, Doing nothing at all,
Hell, they could change it a - all, ohhh – ohhhh - ohh…
…by doin’ nothin’ at all. Doin’ nothin’ at all.
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11. |
This Moment is Beautiful
04:23
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This Moment Is Beautiful
This evening light, through the trees, gives me pause
Scattering my thoughts for a moment
Slowly her soft glow, returns tonight
Here she comes, giving me pause
But my heart remembers
This moment is beautiful
And my body remembers
The same
Relax into this moment
Release into the past
Slowly I remember
I’m right here
Like this evening light, through the trees
And the kindness of her presence
And my heart remembers
This moment is beautiful
And my body remembers
We are so beautiful
This evening light, through the trees, gives me pause….
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Daniel Snowden Seattle, Washington
Following his extensive prenatal exposure to 60s Rock’n’Roll, Daniel was born a poet in his pre-verbal head before learning language. His young, compulsive love for writing and poetry found their way into music at age 17. Daniel’s songs find meaningful balance between fallin’ down and gettin’ back up; tying soul-filled melody together with poetic imagery in hopes of capturing the unexpected. ... more
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