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music songwriter hawaiian
Oh Darlin'
Oh darlin'
Why do you leave why do I stay
Oh Darlin we’ll never be again this way
We are long days and short lives
Hellos and goodbyes
Here and Gone
I’ve been restless to get away
Then broken when it came
Time to move on
I know everything’s gonna change
Guess I forgot it
Out here holding on
Still being taught it
Oh darlin'
Why do you leave why do I stay
Oh darlin' we’ll never be again this way
Yeah the stone and stream share the light
Endless and finite
Forever’s so long
And those branches know to give in
To the soft request from the wind
For leaves to fall
I know everything’s gonna change
I understand it
But I can’t get past all those ways
I took you for granted
Oh darlin'
Why do you leave why do I stay
Oh darlin' we’ll never be again this way
Oh Darlin
Why do I leave why do you stay
Oh Darlin I’ll never be again that way
Oh darlin'
Oh darlin'
Oh darlin'
Oh darlin'
Greener
You were always saying shit like
How we're the lucky ones
But kept an eye on the other side of the fence
Made the promises that it would last
But then better grass came
Now I’m the weeds
And you’re the leaves
When the winter winds blows
I don’t need to know if you miss me
I don’t need to know where you are
I don’t need to know who you’re lovin’
I know when the scenery shifts
You won’t find greener than this
I guess your meaning of the word forever
Is a different one
You mean for worse or ’til something better
Comes along
I see you out there moving pretty fast
On to other pastures
You wanna play
Roll in hay
But when you’re done I’ll be gone
I don’t need to know if you miss me
I don’t need to know where you are
I don’t need to know who you’re lovin’
I know when the scenery shifts
You won’t find greener than this
And I know when the party’s over and you’re alone again
That you’ll see all the things you you lost
When you lost me
I don’t need to know if you miss me
I don’t need to know where you are
I don’t need to know who you’re lovin’
I know when the scenery shifts
You won’t find greener than this
Waterfall
Love is like a river
Some go on forever
Til it reaches to the ocean wide
It looks like our's is ending
Rapidly descending
Knowing at the bottom we’ll divide
Sometimes the right thing can be so hard
Oh I wish we could skip this part
Someday these tears will be water under the bridge
One day these years won’t feel like all that there is
One day it won’t hurt at all
One day we’ll be better off
But right now I’ll let the water fall, waterfall
The moon can make the tides change
And the sun can start and stops days
But you and I are just along for the ride
For a long time we were rollin
Thought that we were in control and
Just like that our world capsized
Someday these tears will be water under the bridge
One day these years won’t feel like all that there is
One day it won’t hurt at all
One day we’ll be better off
But right now i’ll let the water fall, waterfall
Oh the right thing can feel so wrong
You know what breaks us is what makes us strong
Someday these tears will be water under the bridge
One day these years won’t feel like all that there is
One day it won’t hurt at all
One day we’ll be better off
But right now i’ll let the water fall, waterfall
Backslide
You wanna call me cause your lonely
And I know how to make it better
Like I have a thousand other times
But I know where it's going
We can’t stay in between forever
Somebody’s gonna have to draw some lines
You don’t want me, no
But you don’t wanna let me go
I don’t wanna backslide
Don’t know how to act like
I can forget it all
And just be friends with you
I don’t wanna backslide
Always wanting one more last night
But somethings you don’t get to keep and lose
And I don’t wanna… backslide with you
I wanna call you cause I’m lonley
But I know it won’t make it better
Cause those old habits never help
If I told you I don’t miss you
Or could go halfway with you
I’d either be lying to you or lying to myself
Cause you don’t wanna love me, no
But you don’t wanna let me go
I don’t wanna backslide
Don’t know how to act like
I can forget it all
And just be friends with you
I don’t wanna backslide
Always wanting one more last night
But somethings you don’t get to keep and lose
And I don’t wanna… backslide with you
You wanna call me cause your lonely
I wanna call you cause I’m lonely
I don’t wanna backslide
Don’t know how to act like
I can forget it all
And just be friends with you
I don’t wanna backslide
Always wanting one more last night
But somethings you don’t get to keep and lose
And I don’t wanna… backslide with you
Without Your Stars
'Aint nobody tryna talk you back here
Cause there’s a right way to change your mind
Eight months of cold is long enough, dear
The seasons even make their turns in less time
Can the summer start
Even without June
Can the tides still rise
If there ain't no moon
Can I navigate out of this dark
Without your stars
Without your stars
You took a ride out there for the weekend
Found a Friday night that kept going on and on
Only return here when I’m leaving
Now I can't tell
If you want me or just don't want me gone
Would the summer start
Even without June
Would the tides lay still
If there was no moon
Would you navigate back by my stars
Without the dark
Without the dark
All Good
Feels like the page is turning
You’re spinning out, twisted up inside
Every breath in a chest that’s burning
Cuts deep and makes room for new light
You know that sun he's always shining
Even on the other side of night ... that’s right
It’s going just as it should
Hurt and happiness
Baby it’s all good
You sink deeper where you’re standing
Suddenly the earth drops out of sight
If you only worry 'bout where you’re landing
You won't stop to notice you’re in flight
You know that moon she’s always full
Even when she's just a sliver in the sky
It’s going just as it should
Hurt and happiness
Baby it’s all good
You can’t have one without having the other side
Got them canyons low so you know when the mountains rise
They look the same, joy and pain
When using grateful eyes- as we should
Cause baby it’s all good
You know that sun he's always shining
Even on the other side of night ... that’s right
It’s going just as it should
Hurt and happiness
Baby it’s all good
Grateful
Ever notice how the sun just keeps on rising
Every morning it still breaks in
Knowing every night’ll take it away
Ain’t it funny how we all just keep on lyin
Pretend there’s anything other
Than this moment with each other
And I can’t say
Why someone would second guess or hesitate
Being here now
But if it’s 10 years or two
Or a lifetime with you
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
When only minutes remain on the rest of our days
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
Every book ever bound has had an ending
But you don’t get an ever-after
Just by not reading the last chapter
And, ain’t it crazy how the world just keeps on turning
No matter what god you believe in
You’re gonna get all of the seasons
And I can’t say
Why someone would waste a moment of a day
With you now
But if it’s 10 years or two
Or a lifetime with you
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
When only minutes remain on the rest of our days
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
Ain’t no way to ever know
How we’re gonna go
But if someday we say that long goodbye
The proof is in the pain
Of all the love we gave
Before that last grateful good night
But if it’s 10 years or two
Or a lifetime with you
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
When only minutes remain on the rest of our days
I’ll just be grateful for what I got
Back to the Blue
You and I were just a whisper
Summoned by the closest star
We were everything and nothing
Together and apart
Rising on the wind like laughter
From a body traced by sand
An echo in a seashell
And a sailor's best friend
Then we go
On our own into danger
In the rain
We pretend to be strangers
Someday we’ll both forget 'bout you and me
When we return to the sea
A strange descent remembering what we knew
On our way back to the blue
Remember we were just a ripple
Reaching towards the harbor's edge
Never asking where this wave stops and the ocean begins
Gathered up one misty morning
Lifted to the clouds that call
Time just billows by
And then - we fall
Then we go
On our own into danger
In the rain
We pretend to be strangers
Someday we’ll both forget bout you and me
When we return to the sea
A strange descent remembering what we knew
On our way back to the blue
You’re the minutes and the hour
You're the pedals and the flower
The small wave and the big sea
The little steps that make the mile
And the high that lifts the smile
And if you feel this come and smile with me
Round and round again and around and round again
And right back to the ocean like the sun comes down
Round and round again and around and round again
And round and round we go
When we return to the sea
On our way back to the blue
Up On That Hill
I've been thinking
You keep drinking
To forget what was done
Red, white and blue eyes get misty
As you romance history
Cradle your bible and your gun
Go ahead and take your applause
For sellin ‘em on your Lost Cause
If history is all that you’ve got
To make up for all that you’re not
You’ll paint over the blood and build
Another monument up on that hill
You keep that monument up on that hill
I keep asking
About your past and
You don’t wanna let in light
It seems like if it matters
Your image would shatter
So you keep the mirrors out of sight
Why go back for an honest look
When you can just keep writing all the books
If history is all that you’ve got
To make up for all that you’re not
You’ll paint over the blood and build
Another monument up on that hill
When yesterday is your only brag
You’ll raise up an old ugly flag
A symbol of how fragile you feel
You keep that monument up on that hill
You keep that monument up on that hill
Little men tell tales so tall
The go hide behind their statues and walls
If history is all that you’ve got
To make up for all that you’re not
You’ll paint over the blood and build
Another monument up on that hill
When yesterday is your only brag
You’ll raise up an old ugly flag
A symbol of how fragile you feel
You keep that monument up on that hill
You keep that monument up on that hill
So Long, TN
Never tired of watching
You move through my window
But it never quite felt like I was home
Coulda done with less winter
But I fall for you in spring
And summer nights cicadas would sing
There have been long days
Of all gray with you
I know that I’ve gained some
But how much more can I lose
Gonna find my way
Back to the sea
I've been too long, Tennessee
I got some things back home
Waiting on me
I've been too long, Tennessee
So, so long, Tennessee
Been five years this September
I came to you, a full house and home
But the 40 going west I'll do alone
Still feelin' like we're strangers
Is the only thing unchanged
'Cause the Harpeth turns and takes the rest away
There have been songs played
As I’ve laid with you
And of my many regrets
None are miles on these shoes
Gonna find my way
Back to the sea
I've been too long, Tennessee
I got some things back home
Waiting on me
I've been too long, Tennessee
So, so long Tennessee
There have been long gray skies between the blue
But of my many regrets
None of them led me to you
Gonna find my way
Back to the sea
I've been too long, Tennessee
I got some things back home
Waiting on me
I've been too long, Tennessee
So, so long Tennessee
Still Can’t Get Used to the End
I’ve been around this sun before
Watched many a young man graying
Left my home, all at once an empty corpse
Wish mothers would all just stop aging
With comfort killed I crossed the sea
All before I was 23
But of all the places I’ve seen and I’ve been
I still can’t get used to the end
The colors yield to Winter’s force
The birds are all rearranging
A young admirer of Nature’s course
I've even seen stone changing
To Paris from pacific shores
To Cali kings from futon floors
But of all the places I’ve seen and I’ve been
I still can’t get used to the end
When I met her on a coast not far
I swear the church bells were ringing
I held her close as my guitar
Her melodies on my lips kept singing
10 years got away from me
Loving her since she was 23
But of all the places I’ve seen and I’ve been
I still can’t get used to the end
I’ve been around this sun before
Watch many of my own graying
Lost my home, all at once, she said she was bored
And just like stone we ain’t never changing
I’ve learned that lovers come to show
How to love and how to let go
But of all the places I’ve seen and I’ve been
I still can’t get used to the end
I’ve learned that lovers come to show
How to love and how to let go
But of all the places I’ve seen and I’ve been
I still can’t get used to the end
And of all these faces gone, foes and old friends
I still can’t get used to the end