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the kite & the flyer

by david verga

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say goodnight by david verga close your eyes, rest your head, say goodnight to the troubles who would follow you to your dreams as i sing, while you sleep, the sun's making' leaps to be here on time, so start counting your sheep or just count on the gleam of a brand new day that will find its way to your door promising more if you'd just open your hand you could be swept off to sands...of a distant shore
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my bare feet 03:59
my bare feet by david verga i try too hard, take things too far but i need you now, could you need me too? babe, i don't know, where this will go but i need you now, could you need me too? i'd do my best to make you feel at home i'd do my best to let you know i tried to see these broken dreams for what they are, i know you see them too there's so much more beyond your door that he never sees, show it to me i'd do my best to make you feel at home i'd do my best to let you know it's a two-way street and my bare feet will cross it every time to get to you i'd do my best make you feel at home i've done my best i'll let you go
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jericho 04:31
jericho by david verga absent footsteps in an empty hall a crumpled letter tellin' you that it's not your fault sit and think of what you meant to say and how singin' songs to her pictures just ain't the same and out in oklahoma crysta's crying' for her kin sweet linnae has got the blues and you should know by now when you play love you play for keeps but it hasn't gotten through to you nantahala's pourin' white over waterfalls and tears are streamin' down your face you keep tryin' to drink yourself to sleep at night but the whiskey just can't seem to take her place and out in oklahoma crysta's crying' for her kin sweet linnae has got the blues and you should know by now when you play love you play for keeps but it hasn't gotten through to you now she prays every night that you would stop building walls and pushin' her away and you pray every night that god would give that girl a horn and bring your jericho tumbling' down someday but all you hear at night is breath your lover used to take when she was lyin' next to you and now you wish that you could have her back in your arms but you don't get to choose and out in oklahoma crysta's crying' for her kin sweet linnae has got the blues and you should know by now when you play love you play for keeps but it hasn't gotten through to you you should know by now so why don't you? it hasn't gotten through
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transylvania rain by david verga and all those swingset memories are just stained glass factories abandoned by a disaffected hand they recall me of a time before a friend had died when i began to understand why people pray not to celebrate the day or thank god for bringing rain but to beg his grace for daughters and for sons waiting out the transylvania rain, those clouds will never part moving on will never wear you down unless you start someday god will realize as our mourning chorus cries that maybe we’ve really had enough but until that final day when the trumpet blast repays uncomprehended devastation done i’ll be spending all my time holding on for dear life holding onto dear life and those i love waiting out the transylvania rain, those clouds will never part moving on will never wear you down unless you start it’s what he’d want
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each & every day by david verga i’m standing on the edge of a waterfall, a waterfall in all my nightly dreams and i’m wondering what is next and wondering what will test our will to make believe david refused the armor and daniel bowed and prayed but where did they find the courage to face each and every day? before you go you better watch out what steps you are takin’ before you know you’re gonna find out what you are made of
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building a wall by david verga open the drawer and take out the rest of your life what were they for, all those fast times you found? do your stockings feel right? are your feet on the ground? try as you might, you won’t make a sound ‘cause i’m building a wall i’m building it tall and i will rise to the top there’s just no stopping me now all laid out in your striking new pose those critics are fools, they should see you alone seated high on the bench, they’re all throwin’ stones they’ve all written songs with no final notes but i’m building a wall i’m building it tall and i will rise to the top there’s just no stopping me now old bill bailey, where are you going to? oh my lady, where were you going to before you met me?
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we've all 02:23
we've all by david verga we’ve all made our decisions, love we’ve all made our decisions, love we’ve all built private prisons of consequence and god only knows the extent
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progress 04:03
progress by david verga the mobile was circling, broadcasting lullaby death their black wings were worshipping and they’d rise and fall and rise and fall as they wept i just drove away i’d whispered soft and cold i hope this hurts like hell now i whisper often only why, oh why, oh why, oh well their hands are windin’ circles drawin’ tighter around my neck but their passing makes no progress and progress don’t make itself so get to work, draw a line, make a difference, make up your mind get a clue, take the time, find the simplest reason why you’re worth it, i swear you’re worth it but i know the worst is yet to come the mobile was circling, broadcasting lullaby death their black wings were worshipping and they’d rise and fall and rise and fall as they wept i just drove away
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before you go by david verga before you go...
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the kite & the flyer by david verga on the banks of a creek there, the moon rose and it laid bare all my thoughts, both my hands, every step of all the best laid plans i’d made i will make, again and again my decisions repeated and learned? not a thing, not a lick or a simple reminder that i’d wanted her now the swell, now the quiet, the smooth yellow drawl of fireflies in flight flash away, signaling willing announcing to lovers their names is their joy reached by achieving or simply by filling the void with their call, echoing echoing the forested halls? for all of my questions and all my suggestions, i haven’t got a clue, not a hint, not a sense of direction, corrections are long overdue but my hands get busy with keys or press into strings ringing out, as i call, echoing echoing the forested halls so i’ll wait out the night, return to my craft, taking my game to the skies i try too hard... i’m standing on the edge of a waterfall... i pray every night... where it stays, drifting and lifting me out of my favorite malaise ...take things too far ...in all my nightly dreams ...tumbling down someday...
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goodnight 02:59
goodnight by david verga

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released October 18, 2016

engineered & mixed by doug williams
at electromagnetic radiation recorders in winston-salem, nc

mastered by brent lambert
at kitchen mastering in carborro, nc

produced by david verga & david tatum
with additional production by doug williams & ian mulrenin

album artwork & layout by tim love & emily poe-crawford

all songs ©2016 david verga

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david verga Seattle, Washington

NC born and raised. Musical influences include several years studying classical piano, my Dad's old cassette tape of "Graceland", and whatever Tatum or Ian want to learn on any given night.

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