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Who Needs Hawaii?
03:09
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Don't got the blues anymore
Not since I started walking in the Blue.
Don't got the blues anymore
Not since I started walking there with you.
Pick a banana off the banana yucca
Who needs Hawaii when you've got the Blue?
Pick a red hot juicy ripe prickly pear…
Chorus
Soak like a king in a hot hot spring...
Then dive in a pool lit up by the moon…
Chorus
Verse 1 +2
Who needs Hawaii when you’ve got the blue?
Oh, who needs Hawaii, when I’ve got you?
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Simplify
04:03
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I can tell just by looking at you
Sunshine's been good for you
And the fresh air on your bare skin
Looks good on you
Chorus: You simplify me, you simplify me....
All of my life I've been hoping and waiting
And all of my life I've been empty and aching...
You have no idea how beautiful you really are
You have no idea how beautiful life can be
You have no idea how beautiful the sky is in your eyes
You have no idea what you mean to me, because...
You have no idea my dear
How much love holds you eternally in its arms
I love you with the pureness of the sun
I am connected to love through you, because you...
I can tell just by looking at you
the sun shines within you.
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Hiyiyiyah
04:05
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1. I’d been living far too long in a land far too dry
So I moved across the ocean to a spring so I could sing to you.
2. I had heard about the land of milk and honey.
Darling, life is sweeter, now that I’m with you.
I had heard tales of happy ever after.
Now all my dreams have come true.
How could I have known my sweetest dream was you?
Hiyiyiyah Hiyiyiyah oh whoah oh oh ooh
whoah oh oh ooh x2
3. The other night I saw you dancing underneath the moon.
Up until that moment, I hadn’t known the meaning of a swoon.
You were like a vision, like a spirit, like a living dream.
You were the most beautiful thing I think I’d ever seen.
You were the most beautiful thing I think I’d ever seen.
Chorus
4. To tell the truth, I began to fear the worst:
I thought my heart would surely burst!
Chorus
Verse 1
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Oh!
02:41
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Oh!
As you sail across the sea
I know you'll be coming back to me.
You'll come singing,
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....
In the Ocean of your Heart
I Know you'll find what you're looking for.
You'll come singing ohohohoh.....
In the springtime, all the birds
who flew south will return.
They'll come singing oh oh oh...
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In Love With Your Mother
02:33
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I'm in love with your mother
I'm in love with your father, too
I'm in love with your brother
I'm just not in love with you
'cause you don't love me like you used to
You don't love me quite the same
I used to call you honey
Now all I do is complain
I'm in love with your garden
I'm in love with your orchard, too
I'm in love with your mountain
I'm just not in love with you
'cause you don't love me like you used to
You don't love me like you did
You used to tell me please and sorry and thank you
now all my love is wasted
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Home
03:43
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There comes a time in everyone's life...
They go away, they wanna go home...
Follow the yellow bird... home... wherever she's flown
Don't lose yourself in the black throat of the coal...
Follow the river, follow it home.... wherever it's flowin'
Don't drown yourself where the current is low...
The current is low
And the blackbird in the snow
And follow it home
Home...
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Light Again
03:54
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Never thought I'd see the light again...
Never thought I would feel right again...
The other night I dreamt of you my friend
I dreamt of you again
and it felt so right
standin' by your side...
Felt like goodness, felt like holy, like someone on my side
You are someone on my side.
And I start to thinking' it was written a long time ago...
You wanted to save me but I was sinking, pulling you down
So heavy we would both drown
and when I closed my eyes and looked around
I didn't see anything worth holding on...
nothin' worth holding on.
But then the daylight blue comes streaming in despite the dark I'm sleepin' in
I start thinking' maybe there's something I'm not seeing worth living for
something I can't imagine, it's coming coming to me now
And I start to thinking' it was written a long time ago...
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Anmara Staunton, Virginia
Ethereal synth dream folk sourced from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Strains of Celtic DNA can be heard spiraling through the songs.
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F L O U R I S H
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