Songs that are songs

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Stu Larsen - Thirteen Sad Farewells

First Impressions

When You Love Someone

From the forthcoming album "Heaven and Earth"

Verse 1: 
Why do the holy angels sing? 
Why do the heav’nly arches ring 
With anthems sweet from seraphs bright, 
With glittering crowns and robes of white? 

Verse 2: 
Glory to Thee, our God, they cry, 
Maker of earth, and sea, and sky, 
To Thee our highest strains belong, 
Thou great Inspirer of our song. 

Chorus: 
They sing of the Lamb that was slain, 
The Saviour that lives again, 
The root of David and offspring 
The brightest star of the morning 

Verse 3: 
Beautiful world where all is bright, 
Rivers of gold and fields of light, 
In murmured tones of joy prolong 
The echo of the angels’ song. 

Verse 4: 
Well may the holy angels sing, 
Well may the heav’nly arches ring, 
With anthems sweet from choirs above, 
They sing of God, and God is love.

Heaven and earth

Why do the holy angels sing?

North on K Highway
Out past the salvage yards 
Down that winding road
Through summer bluffs of green 
Sits the river town of Amazonia
Where a little girl dreamed

The elementary school
Sat up on high on the hillside
And she’d walk there in rain or snow
To learn about life outside of Amazonia
And the places she hoped she’d go

The population on the sign reads 312
The Missouri river flows by the railroad tracks 
And she spent summers there, at a cabin where it was about family 
And respectful, well that’s the way you should act

These are things that she came to know
In Amazonia
These are things that she came to know

Well in high school, she was one of the Savages
In a neighbor town, still in the same neck of the woods
And she would grow, and Saint Joe would lead her to a boy
He asked her to marry him, she said she would

Well they got hitched, in the church of Saint John
Seemed like saints were becoming a common theme
And they settled down, back in her river town of Amazonia
And had children, who like her would dream

These are things that she wouldn’t know
Without Amazonia
These are things that she wouldn’t know
Without Amazonia

Amazonia is obscure just like its name 
Where Batman is hidden inside a wall
And where club, made up only of lions
Gather in their assembly hall
And it ain’t for the folks who are looking for the city life
Probably not a good hiding place for Jesse James
Because in Amazonia, like most other small towns
Everybody knows your name

These are things that now you know 
About Amazonia
These are things that now you know 
About Amazonia
And these are things that now you know 
About Amazonia

In Amazonia, I’ll take you fishing
You can talk, I will listen
Come on baby l take you fishing 
In Amazonia, we can talk and wish about anything
We can talk and wish about anything

Amazonia

New Single from the upcoming album "Some Good Lives" out 2/15 on Dutch Records. Preorder now --> http://bit.ly/SGLpreorder

This song strung itself together gradually. One that doesn't start with an idea or concept, but unfolds as the lines fall out one at a time. It has a wintery loneliness to it. To me it's about integrity, and a willingness to let yourself continuously learn, even if it's learning the same things over and over. We don't always "figure it out" the first time so we must allow ourselves to "Figure it out again some more."

We recorded this song with all the rest in Portland at Hallowed Halls. Then I took it to Colorado and added a lot of texture and ambiance with Gregory Alan Isakov at his studio. He has such an amazing way of creating emotional soundscapes. It was fun to try my hand at engineering as he showed me how to move the noises around until they made sense and sounded right, then Niko helped hone it in even more. This was a really collaborative song. ~ Laurie Shook

Figure It Out

(written and recorded in 2017)

this song was inspired by roger ebert

aight cheers :)

lyrics: 

if i could ride a bike
i’d zoom around the world
with you sitting there behind me
i’d take you to places 
pass several faces
just living life so carefree

if i could sail a boat
i’d cruise across the seas
a sweet adventure for us two
i’ll be Jack and you Rose
just please don't let me go
cuz i’d be nothing without you 

oh when you call me
i'm drifting on clouds like I'm dreaming
but in the morning
i wake up and see that your stuck here w me

if only you knew
what i would do for you
i'd jump up and hold you so tightly
but i will never be
able to do these things
so i'm just left imagining

if i could ride a bike

These are just a selection of my tracks - you can download the full albums for free at Bandcamp. Anyway, hope you enjoy these.

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Why do the holy angels sing?

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