“I’ll Leave With You” from the album “No Sides” (2015). The full album of unreleased tracks is available to subscribers of my “Community” page on Bandcamp. For $15 you get unlimited access to download all 13 past releases dating back to 2002, all future releases, and special “Community Only” releases unavailable to the general public. 

I'll Leave With You

Inspired by Jean Ritchie's version of the traditional English folk song "Hangman". Released as part of the album "Hope Rides Alone" in 2012.

The Hanging Tree

We're all part 
Of one and the same 
A wave of life 
Set on its way 

I am free 
As The Ocean 
I am free 
As The Ocean 

We are one 
A part of each other 
I am yours 
And no other 

We are free 
As The Ocean 
We are free 
As The Ocean 

It may be dark 
but not for long 
It may be dark 
but not for long 

I see the dawn 
I feel it coming 
I see the dawn 
I feel it coming

As The Ocean

up before dawn / rise in the oceans 
i am one / born of the current 
restless on ground / cast in the nets 
i am the waves / carving away what's known 

I am a whaler's son 
the sea is the home I know 
the sun rises sets and is gone 
alone 

my ship is a sail / the wind is another 
the water is old / tamed by no one 
oh mystic seas / kings of the depth 
there's calls from the hills: 
"it's not a whale I seek" 

I am a whaler's son 
the sea is the home I know 
the sun rises sets and is gone 
alone 

I am a whaler's son 
the sea is the home I know 
the sun rises sets and is gone 
alone

Whalers

"Snowbird #2" from the 2009 release Cowbirds & Cuckoos (Pt. 2).

Snowbird #2

the seas don't harbor their thoughts
the leaves don't add up each loss
only men go and make this life hard

the stars don't bother with time
now birds don't weigh themselves down
only men go and make this life hard

the trees barely sway in the wind
the trees barely sway in the wind
only men go and build up these walls

only you can live within life
only you can live within life
only you can live within life

only you

Only You

THERE IS NOTHING TO IT
JUST LOVE THE ONLY ONE
THAT MAKES YOU FEEL INSIDE

EMOTIONAL CITY
IS NO PLACE WHERE I CAN HIDE
IS NO PLACE WHERE I CAN SLEEP

THE COMPLICATIONS KILL ME
WHEN I GET TIED IN TWO
MY TONGUE JUST SINGS ALL NEW
WHEN YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO ME
I WANT TO LEAVE MY BONES
LOSE ALL THIS SKIN I'VE GROWN

THERE IS NOTHING BETTER
THERE IS NOTHING BETTER
THERE IS NOTHING BETTER
THAN YOU

Tounges

a fog lifts up the morning  a breeze drifts through the night  a tree blooms in the shadows  a flower fades in the sun   these mysteries become us  as dreams fill our minds   these mysteries become us  as dreams fill our minds

rylandbouchard

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