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Her (2009)
Up on the Rim
The dawn spoke and said
“Peace to the newlywed”
The sun is up on the rim, sun is up on the rim now
Wake up darlin’
With eyes hand in hand
And arms like an ampersand
The sun is up on the rim, sun is up on the rim now
Wake up darlin’
Gently I trace
The scars of the pillowcase
The sun is up on the rim, sun is up on the rim now
Wake up darlin’
How did I find
True love with a friend of mine
Just a boy and a girl
But it still feels like a miracle
The sun is up on the rim, sun is up on the rim now
The sun is up on the rim, the sky is filled to the brim now
Wake up darlin’
Song of Solomon
I am singing to a girl, and a girl is my song
(I am singing to a girl)
We are the rhythm of the world, of the world all night long
(We are the rhythm of the world)
I breathe out, you breathe in
Cryin’ like a violin
My fingers like ten bows upon your arm
High above, I can hear
The choirs of the atmosphere
Singin’ alleluia to the chorus
The angels start to sing along
There is music written for us
And we sing our song of solomon
If I can’t recall my name, call my name out to me
(If I can’t recall my name)
Sing it over and again like some insane melody
(Sing it over and again)
I sing high, you sing higher
I turn up my amplifier
Telecaster ribbons in the air
Our angel band backs us up
Singing in the name of love
Alleluia to the chorus
Can you hear the angels sing along
To the music written for us
We sing our song of solomon
Wave of Your Hand
I watched those credits roll
And I laughed, as I sat there alone
Should it worry me
All these movies I see on my own?
Coming out of the theater
You were hiding behind some fake plant
You jumped out and laughed
With a half-little-wave of your hand
Hello, hello
Hello
With your hair on my jacket
My guitar picks on your front seat
I undid my doubts
“What if this, what if that, and you leave?”
“Oh, take a chance,” you said
“For there’s no tellin’ where you may land.”
And you breezed them away
All my doubts, with a wave of your hand
Who cares, who cares
Who cares
Some time later, in a parking lot
With her face like a windshield in March
I have tried so hard
I don’t get it, this business of hearts
She gets out, she is crying
I put it in first, and I try to be a man
Looking back, I see
In the mirror a wave of her hand
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye
$2 Kite
This is not what we discussed
"Let’s just be friends”
Otherwise it all goes bust
But now we’re joined at the memory
I guess I was stupid, thinking we could play for free
My heart got stuck inside yours
Like a prisoner of war
Until you decide what to do with me
I’m left and I’m right
Like a $2 kite
I won’t make up my mind till you make me decide
Bury me with back and forth
They’re my best friends
But I don’t see ‘em anymore
For now she says that we must part
My baby says I’m thinkin’ around
And I just got to use
My heart…
I love you
I love you not
No thanks to
All these option gods
You’ve blessed me far too much
My cup is running over
My heart…
My heart
Got stuck inside yours
I’m down on all fours
Like a godforsaken golden retriever
This is not what we discussed
Let’s just be friends
Or it’ll be the death of us
Porto, PT
Camille is gone
Camille is up and gone away
Camille is gone
And she had nothin’ much to say except
“I met someone” and “I need some sun”
And “I’ve got to run away from it all”
To Porto, Portugal
Camille is gone
She had nothin’ much to bring
She took some books
But not a single one in English
‘Cause you don’t need stuff, when you’ve had enough
It gets so tough to call
When you fall
For Porto…
Now all her time is so well spent
She don’t scream and shout
Or worry ‘bout the government
There is a branch you reach
When you climb those trees
Where you might as well keep going
Keep going on
On and on…
Camille is gone
It is too late to ask her out
You had your shot
She might miss you, but I doubt it
So just say no, buddy let her go
You lost her to a poster on her wall
My Porto, Portugal
Good waiter, bring some vino
I am dry
Harry/Sally
You say we’re friends
well that depends
on what you mean by friends now
If you mean the kind
that intertwine
gradually over time now
Then I must say
there is no way
it will come to fruition
Your heart goes up
and mine goes down
and there ain’t no position left
You fell in love
That ain’t my fault
I’ve got to call this to a halt
I ain’t your Harry
You ain’t my Sally
It’s just a movie
I liked it too
Don’t be offended
but I don’t love you
It’s just a movie
Let it go
It ain’t your looks
it ain’t your face
it ain’t your way of dressing
It’s just that thing
just that thing
just that thing that’s missing
I think you’re sweet
I think you’re kind
I think you’re relatively hot
I know you think
that equals love
I don’t know why that it does not
You fell in love
without looking down
It ain’t my fault you hit the ground
I ain’t your Harry…
I Came Upon Some Love Today
I came upon some love today
All bright and pure and living
I went and tried to give it you
For love is for the giving
But you did not want my love
You spoke with cold indifference
Saying,“What have I to do with this?
Why do you try my patience?”
So I gathered my love up in arms
And I whispered softly to her
Then realized as she looked at me
That I no longer knew her
Dying Light
In the morning when I wake you
In the evening when I ride
In these arms in which I take you
You are my dying light
You’re the one who makes me better
You’re the one who puts me right
I’m the one who is the matter
But you are my dying light
Even if I
I commit on time
I’ll find a way to undecide
I will always undecide
Everybody has opinions
Everybody thinks they’re right
Everyone just sits there smiling
When you are my dying light
I’ve never known a light so living
I’ve never known a heart so bright
Or a woman so forgiving
As you are, my dying light
Even if I…
May you find the sweetest favor
In another’s grateful sight
May you find a heart much braver
To shine on, my dying light
You are my dying light
Summer of My Life
You are my meadow bright
Born dancing
You are my orchard light
A sun mansion
You are my paper sack
Of cold melon
You are my paperback
Well broken in
You are the porch around my heart
Where my day is made, fresh as lemonade
You’re the shade above my mind
You’re my firelight on a sweatshirt night
You’re the summer of my life
You are my marigold
Spring’s daughter
You are my drink of cold
Well water
You are my girl next door
Who lives with me
I could not love you more
Somehow I do
You are the porch around my heart…
You’re a girl of light
In a dress of white
You’re the summer of my life
The Weight of You
Cast your troubles on me
Cast your troubles on me
Sigh your sighing sea
Over me
I’ll take your black and your blue
I’ll take your black and your blue
Let them break my back in two
I want them to
Let me feel the weight of you
The weight of you
The weight of you
Let me feel the weight of you
The weight of you
The weight of you…
The Coastline
I was the guy
Who told his heart what to do
Now I’m in love
I know what I said
But I was cold and cynical then
Now I’m in love
I’ve spent all my days chasing waves on the sea
Each one free and lonely as me
But then I realized
they’re all headed for a coastline
Every wave, every wave
Every wave was headed for his favorite shore
I really tried
For a life of the lonely
But I’m in love
I’m way off course, headed North
For the pines and the glaciers
‘Cause I’m in love
The wind in your hair
Fills the sails of my bark
And you have marauded my heart
When the morn is reborn
I’ll be headed for your coastline
I’ll make land, and on that sand
I’ll take your hand and swear to love you evermore
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