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Stars
03:25
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She said welcome aboard
Balm for the weary traveller
Said goodbye to the shore
The sea will have its way with me
I will not be broken
There is room for the weak
There is room for the wired
Aboard this tiny ship
There is no before or evermore
We all must sing our own song
The stars are a shower
The trees are the keepers
Home is a tower
The gravel and dust are the hours
I am here now
This blue and endless sky
These petals in my hand
And if my end is nigh
I will go out like a shooting star
All heat and radiance
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Lake St Clair
02:41
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I took my troubles to Lake St Clair
I tried to put them down I tried to leave them there
My thinking was wrong that’s not how it goes
The lake was still the air was cold
I could write it in a letter but its all been said before
Say im getting better do my crying behind the door
Pick up the jewels that were waiting to be found
Ask for help helps around Don’t let it bring me down
There you go calling up the relatives
You speak in tongues its lucky you’ve got pretty lips
I’m hiding out waiting for my hair to grow
There you go oh there you go
Call the doctor is he coming with a pill
Call the lawyer can you believe his bill
All that wishing and its gonna get me still
Get me still aha
I took my troubles to Lake St Clair
Tried to put them down I tried to leave them there
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The Waiting
02:56
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I don’t mind the waiting
I don’t mind the waiting
It’s the wild to come
Driving me on
Here in the darkness
With the tall trees gathered round me
I’m as silent as an owl
In the stillness not a sound
Over the sea its deep and dark
Under the moon under the stars
We will rise up rise up rise up
Give to me a song of freedom
Butcher bird a crow a calling
Cockatoo a magpie warbling
Silky wind the soft rain falling
Put my ear to the ground now
There’s a thundering all around now
I’m going to ask my feet to fly
Change the colour of my stripes
I don’t mind the waiting
I don’t mind the waiting
It’s the wild to come
Driving me on
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Swanling
05:12
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You were so tired if only you could sleep
You might be walking down these streets
And in your leaving
I will never understand I will never understand
Now I wonder where you are
I look for clues I look towards the stars
And I am reeling
I will never understand I will never understand
Why all my love couldn’t save you
All these dreams so much to do
All these hopes your possibilities
Can never come true rest easy now
That’s my girl
This cold town looks just the same
Everywhere I walk sings out your name
I am grieving
I will never understand I will never understand
You’re in the stars now
You radiate
And in the gloaming
Shimmering
You’re in the stars now
In the stars now
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Down the Avenue
03:05
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I was little by the sea we moved to the lakes country
Where the water is still and contained
The land was stripped bare of all that grew there
Only the pine trees remain
Call me love call me sweetie
Let me ride on a wave
Of being twelve years old
Walking with my girlfriends
Down the avenue
I remember being alone with this older girl Simone
Rickie singing “Chuck e’s in Love”
She wore eyeliner and tight jeans you know what I mean
Big city here I come
Now im back here by the sea this is not the cold country
I’m a long way from home
Sometimes I hear it calling when the southerly is blowing
Theres a quiet on the streets
Call me love call me sweetie
Let me ride on a wave of being 12 years old
Walking with my girlfriends
Down the avenue
Walking with my girlfriends
Checking out the boyfriends
Down the avenue
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Head in the Clouds
03:30
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With your head in the clouds
There’s no further you can fall
From your ivory tower
You look down upon it all
Dreamers need dreams
Just like lovers need love
Come on down
Put your feet on the ground
There’s a bridge there’s a house
There’s the water in between
Theres the thinking and the doing
The feelings flow unseen
History needs time
Just like rhythm needs to dance
Come on down
Put your feet on the ground
Wait and see wait and see
This is all going to plan
It’s how it’s meant to be
Look around you look around
Every golden sunset
And a new day comes around
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Palomino
03:04
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Saddle up your pony
You’re going to take her out and let her run
She’s always been a good one
True and smart and headstrong like you want
You’ve got to treat her right
Palomino
Even when it’s hard
Palomino
Love can really last
Let the arrow find the heart
Sometimes you get lucky
Sometimes the stars they have aligned
Or is it in the timing
Is it that you kept an open mind
Got to treat her right
Palomino
Even when it's hard
Palomino
Love can really last
Let the arrow find the heart
You didn’t come in the morning
Left her out there waiting in the dark
Your eyes were on the mountains
Wondering about the mysteries of the heart
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Simple Song
03:01
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Baby’s in the cradle
Rocking side to side
Sleeps when she’s tired
When she’s hungry she cries
Bird is on the wing
Flower towards the sun
Hand over my heart
I know that you’re the one
You're the one
It’s a simple song
In a world gone wrong
It’s a mountain to climb
It’s the end of the line
Needle loves the thread
The chicken and the egg
Leaving gets the go ahead
Tired goes to bed
Choir gets you singing
Record gets you spinning
Hope gets you believing
Love gets you winning
Gets you winning
Go tell the river
She’ll take your tears
Send them downstream
Turn them into tiny fish
They’ll feed the people
Turn the wheel
Round and round endless time
Grist and the mill
Baby’s all grown
Candle and cake
Beauty and truth
In the love that we make
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Water Shapes Rock
03:30
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One day I’m going to die and you know when I do
I want to come back as a dog run out barking at the moon
Just because it feels good doing what dogs should aha
If I was tree with my roots way down deep
I’d talk to all the other trees find out what they need
Then I’d send it on through just like trees do aha
Complicated feelings get so heavy
Strong can hardly bear the weight
Wanting comes along
Saying give me all you’ve got
I’m singing water shapes rock
Water shapes rock
If I was a lake circular and calm
There’d be tales about my depth How I’m bottomless and dark
I’d scare the ones who dared To find out whats down there aha
Everyone loves a mystery We all want to crack the code
Amelia Earhart, Tamum Shud even Harold Holt
Me I’m no detective I’m quietly defective aha
There’s something on the wind now there’s something coming through
A little cosmic shifting a tiny murmuring
Lets all be believers in all that is unseen here aha
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Sara Tindley NSW, Australia
Greetings from Lake St Clair is the fifth studio album from much loved and lauded singer/songwriter Sara Tindley. Exploring the joys, losses, simplicity and fullness of a life committed to family and community, Greetings from Lake St Clair brims with an extraordinary tenderness and pathos. ... more
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