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Weak In The Wild

by Frances Smith

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Weak In The Wild 03:38
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Her kindness couldn't keep him around she held him until he found the ground saying things will be alright when he knew that love lost fast would cut him deep inside but the pain wouldn't last And I saw him by the tree feeding the wolf as if he were free he watched the sky for clouds of grey he was the chance, taken and caged And I loved him for a while thought I could see the weak in the wild but in a while I saw him walk away it hurts too much to stay, he'd say it hurts too much to stay there were chains that kept his lost heart hurt and hurt that kept his lost heart chained And the night bird calls out his name as it hunts close to the clouds Orion shining in the sky tears at the heart of those who cry And I loved him for a while and there I saw the weak in the wild told me he'd seen his lover cry and it hurts too much to stay, he'd say it hurts too much to stay there were chains that kept his lost heart hurt and hurt that kept his lost heart chained And the thunder calls out his name as it breaks the silent sky and the hunter takes him home tears at the heart of those who cannot fly and he was weak in the wild yes he was weak in the wild copyright Frances Smith 2017
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From The County Gates 04:40
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There was the sky it was there through the turning and I was the one who was wrong when I cried for the passing of the summer's warm days you were always awake and aware and alive and surviving Chorus And I reached for your hand said nothing's undone and the sun hid the stars and the slow ghosts who move from the hills to the sea and we rode with them like we were free from the county gates to the harbour lights hotel to the harbour lights hotel Where did you go when the ending had come there to meet us all the people were walking and holding, and talking, and leaving everything changed with the winter because the dark always stays around longer There was the sun it was there it was burning through all of the clouds in the sky they were covering and there's rain that's been falling forever wherever the trees grow on the hillside where we stayed for a while And we were changed by the time by the time, by the time we were turning repeat chorus copyright Frances Smith 2017
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Leaf Fell 04:42
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Leaf fall as the wind blew cold ground was her new bed and she lay without colour she was the earth, she was it's mother Window where I met her stars shine through the glazing was swept away like all others that made her mine and empty Carrier heard the calling took the journey through the dawning steel plane grey skywards lay on clouds, no bed was whiter Bride wept for the lost day she'd been sleeping through the winter and the cold that's sometime ending begins to dance sooner than summer The watcher now was far weaker he felt his heaven slowly shrinking and there they live half alive as the brightness burns their eyes I am real, he said I am real, he said I am the author, I am the painter I am the recoverer the recoverer I danced into midnight day changed and I shivered there's a fear I've been feeling so I moved into vagueness Watcher lay down his last words he was the stone that crushed the sleeper smooth as silk upon the ground knelt the vision softly weeping Is this all there is I was asking and all around there was no answer there was no answer no answer copyright Frances Smith 2017
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Falling 04:24
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You are the fallen one and you are hiding underground where the bridge meets the sky and there is no room to fly You are there on the street chasing pennies like a little thief you liked the shine though you knew they were worth nothing when so few Chorus You'd been the fighter, been the night been the angel, made things right and as the dance had begun you spun, and spun, and spun You are the fallen one and on the corner you stay there waiting for the choices that fly with so many voices And I hear you breathing as the moonlight shines in my room and I reach out to touch you but then you fade away repeat chorus There's a ghost who walks through reason chasing the love he needs to feed him and I saw you running with him and then you were falling Oh always you were falling always you were falling and then you were the fallen one copyright Frances Smith 2017
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Landscape 03:49
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Ice flower laid her heavy head down in the perfectness of the sound white is like the heat burned and there you are like the thunder that will come again with the storm Landscape loads it's love and breathes Dark trees line the road away rise and fall and sway and pray that green will swallow all your sins and there you are oh there you are you're like the season that will begin again you're like the shining water that won't break it's bond and the oxygen keeps us living on Landscape loads it's love and breathes and the arrow breaks the frozen heart and through the fire there you are there you are landscape loads it's love Copyright Frances Smith @2017
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Iron In The Hills 04:00
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There was iron in the hills we were following the path that led to the start, and the sky and the rocks were grey, and silver and sound was turned around as the earth breathed beneath us there's people in the streets you say who would take it all away no dreams were ever made that way And perfect were your thoughts but you had broken the sky the glass water pool was shaking a thousand years upon the ridge hung in the ghost of man and boy surrender not he said to me but the roots had all been cut where all the tall chimneys had grown up and I tore your picture down All the streets are in rows there wherever you want to go freedom fires built on desire illusion sweeter, love turns bitter the sky was covering it's eyes the grey veil of modesty scarred and Charlie's bar was now shut down been too much blood on the ground no dreams were ever made that way There was iron in the hills and we were following the path copyright Frances Smith 2017
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Willing Walked 04:07
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Willing walked into the river Willing washed away all badness she wanted love the crushed no one with the weakness of temptation Willing kept her wounds open she believed that she could heal them and Willing waited for the cross to fade oh WIlling did you watch it fall? chorus She took a journey that began alone at the crossroads in the dark night oh WIlling had a heart that longed for the falling of the city and Willing walked into the fire There are no angels watching over she told the fallen and the few and then she tried to be one until her goodness disappeared Willing had reached out to hold it but she couldn't see it through her tears she wanted love to love her she was a warrior child Oh Willing walked in the darkness and Willing wept with the wounded and Willing wanted to win one day and WIlling walked into the war repeat chorus copyright Frances Smith 2017
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Found 03:45
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I met my lover by the old church as the green grass bent with the wind that blew from the west like a devil who swept away the peace I'd stolen He was a shadow there to meet me he knew who I was not and he said I should go with him as he was walking to the sea I said no one's touched the cold stones since they buried the forgotten there'll be change and it's coming and on the wave we can ride He was a stranger to his own heart he'd never let it love more than him said they'll dig my grave first before they make me weaker than I am And the wind heard his words and called the rain to come on by the path it was a long one and he was holding hard the ground I met my lover by the old church where no one walked to hear the bells and we were there without reason and we stole the peace we'd found Copyright Frances Smith @2017
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The State Of Now 03:40
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The air was thick with love it'd been bottled, delivered, and released and he was telling secrets to the lost goddess he'd found she said she would set him free There'd once been gold in the hills but it was washed away by the denier and his new plans and deep in the woods the willow sang but it will fade away one day, fade away Chorus And there were futures in the state of now and there were figures in the state of now and there were failures in the state of now it'll be the past soon anyhow And I was walking on the streets that day while the talk was of delivery the pinkness of the background noise was covering the state of now and all the restlessness rang out repeat chorus Said the woman with the long fingers as she stroked the hands of time and get ready to leave oh get ready to leave oh you're ready to leave the state of now Copyright Frances Smith @2017
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The Stone Houses 05:46
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There were stone houses by the river and people in the windows were watching the passing clouds and the rain entered the streets she was the creator of the wild and sweet The pavements were full and crushed the resistance had turned to destruction silver bodies have to shine all the time the wheels push towards the destination but at the exit the believer leaves The roofs were wet with rain they could feel the rush of power like a sign at the end of existence the grey river was rising so fast with the feeding of the wolves They had come to collect the wishes they heard the siren singing loud meet me by the clock tower this hour where the saint of the lost church was gathering flowers for her grave All the walls seemed to be breathing the air had learnt to deliver less but desire was dancing on the street again she holds money in her tiny hands and they spin and spin around her And they think they'll be gathering again and the think the energy is real but it's given them all that it can give and now it wants to own them in return and she is calling the thieves And the innocents watch wild eyed at the weighing of the gold they've been led before and left lost as the sparkling sands burnt their eyes they mistook it for deliverance The shining metal made them cry she spoke in the darkening hour those stone houses are only there to trap you and broken did their wishes fall and in the reflective water drown copyright Frances Smith 2017
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A Hard Peace 04:34
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There was a way to lose a battle and a way to turn around and the oldest of the weapons were lying broken on the ground and you fought me for the choices you once said were mine to take and over the city the rain clouds hung washing from the streets the evidence of where love had once begun The lowest point had been reached by the men who fed their needs in the alleyways that separate the traveller from the deceased and if that hill was closer to the sky you could have looked towards the top but the river still runs downwards no matter how high you go no matter how high you go And the hard peace was only found when pride had burned to the ground and the ashes carried on the wind had left destruction all around And I think about you sometimes when the first quarter moon decides to show and lights in the windows orange glow a ghost in the night rings out it's sound there was nothing wrong in the righteous when you needed it for yourself but if you chase it 'til it's dying then it's a hard peace you'll win yeah it's a hard peace you'll win When pride has burned to the ground it's ashes carried on the wind with the scattering of all that's lost it'll be a hard peace you'll win Yeah, it's a hard peace you'll win oh it's a hard peace you'll win copyright Frances Smith 2017
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There's A Moon 03:25
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You were alone under the sky through the winter and then the spring and then the summer while there was a moon, and it was shining You held the vision of return in your mind a while where you slept beside the cold walls that kept you where you could hide You tore from the fields the growing gave to the wild the lasting saved for the strong the fading and fought for the falling to feed them There's a moon in the sky and it's shining across the water of the lake reflecting silver waves in the wind Come the morning the sun is rising holding the life of the lover and the losing there's a moon in the sky and it's shining copyright Frances Smith 2017

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Songs written for 2017 50/90 songwriting challenge, and production carried out during the Album Production Challenge, a group that was created by people who had taken part in the songwriting challenge.

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released November 17, 2017

All songs written by Frances Smith, all instruments, vocals, mixing, and other production tasks, by Frances Smith.

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