Cover of Sturgill Simpson's great tune from Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album. 

Sturgill Simpson's "Turtles All the Way Down"

I don't want to make you fall in love with me again.  If I told you every morning that I wake into a dream. I see you right in front of me.  Every ache inside of me is wondering why the world is so beautiful and flawed.  Staring at creation, loneliness mixes with awe.  I cried this morn like a babe, who would ever take you away?  The last time that I saw you I could not contain my frustration.  My body's heartless journey to a headless destination.  Tell me, is it over yet?  The pictures that I took inside my songs and in my fingers. My mind still travels there cause those memories still linger.  I cried this morn like a babe, who would ever take you away?  Recreate everything. It ain't from scratch you just draw upon the pain.  Uncertainty remains. A world to reconquer, there's beauty with no name.  I don't want to brush away another grain of sand.  The landscape wears my worries and my body is the land.  Believing just to believe.  Seeing just to see.  Who would ever take you away?  Who would ever take you away?

Who Would Ever Take You Away

Lonely, Lonely by myself, but I learn to quell the voices in my head, the voices that tell me I'm alone. Use my time instead, use my time to get a grip and start again, to a place where I forget, forget all about the wars, forget all about the doors I'm told I must walk through.  I'm tired of walking the way you want me to.  Lonely, Lonely by yourself.  A day to buy and sell, sell away your time, leaves you like a shell.  Use my time to build, use my time to feel the emptiness inside, the emptiness that comes to grieve the hole inside my mind.  How can this be? Be the way the way that I'm supposed to see?  Can I be?  Just be?  Violence, violence on the screen.  So I choose to wean ideology, wean the parts that harden to the pain, to feel it once again.  There's no way to pretend that I'm any way immune to my brother's plight and you...How can you be?  Be the best when the best is just a dream? Can you be? Breathin to enjoy in life what's free?

Just Be

Every dream has a dreamer/Everyone has a vice/Every lover has a longing/Every thrill has a price/This much I know/Every drunk has a sorrow/Every cleric, a cold hard stare/Every day has tomorrow/Every empire, a killing field/If in hope lies the key, why don't bullets dance and share?/Why don't they dance and share?/And I hope, humanity, will one day be as one/Will one day be as one/Every dream has a dreamer/Every holiday has a cost/Every message has a bottle/Every seeker was first lost/This much I know/Every optimist has a skeleton/Every gift has strings attached/Every victory starts in catastrophe/Every night wants to be black 

Every dream has a dreamer

If you want an island girl, you gotta love jesus
If you want an island girl, you gotta drive a pick-up truck
Windows down and the AC up

If you wanna island girl (2x)

If you want an island girl, you gotta buy a lotta nice things
If you want an island girl, you gotta make a lotta money
It might sound funny but it ain’t no joke

Surely God don’t care
If I wear a nice shirt or I comb my hair
But she sure does
Shoulda left her alone but I didn’t cause
She’s beautiful beyond compare in the whole wide world
I still don’t want no
I still don’t trust those, island girls

We held each other yeah we had a chance
With the full moon and the way you danced
When the sun came up you didn’t feel the same
I guess I’ll blame it on climate change

If you wanna island girl
You gotta keep your cards held close
If you wanna island girl
You gotta act like a post
Stand real straight, but not too close
Don’t say a word, just pray!

Surely God don’t care
If I wear a nice shirt or I comb my hair
But she sure does
Shoulda left her alone but I didn’t because
She’s beautiful beyond compare in the whole wide world
I still don’t want no
I still don’t trust those, island girls



Island Girl

If you need a friend  
Don't look to a stranger  
You know in the end, I'll always be there  
But when you're in doubt  
And when you're in danger  
Take a look all around, and I'll be there  

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say 
 I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be  
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me 
 I promise, I promise you I will  
  
When your day is through  
And so is your temper  
You know what to do  
I'm gonna always be there  
Sometimes if I shout 
 It's not what's intended 
 These words just come out  
With no gripe to bear

"The Promise" Sturgill Simpson Cover

The water put me in my best mind
Now I’m grillin fish lagoon side
Reflecting on the last time
I saw you

I’m feelin deep like the ocean
Where the hell did the time go?
 In the water silk and sunset
 I saw you

I should know better than to try to be them
Or chase a fleetin feelin
A broken-heart has left it hard
hard for her to believe him

Can’t fight wars with reason
When I wrestle with the vessel and breathin
I learn that I don’t need it
I don't need it cause I can’t keep it

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
I dreamt up a story
Time will sabotage
What you write in the sand
  
Suppose you chose many ways
Suppose you didn’t have to feel the pain
We’re predisposed to fault blame
The blame in the palm of her hand

Is that the only way to see it?
She wrestles with devil and demon
He understands that hee did you wrong
And is it wrong that that they she still needs it?

Can’t fight wars with reason
When he wrestles with death and bein
He knows that she can’t free him
She can’t free him

A mountain has a soul like a human
A soul, and it’s not bleedin
Why waste your time on stories
The ocean has a heart like a human
A heart, and it’s not beatin
This body says I need it
But I can’t keep it
I should know better than to try to be them
Or chase a fleetin feelin
A broken-heart has left it hard
hard for me to see it

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
She wrote it in the sand

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
She wrote it in the sand


My Favorite Cup of Sunrise

The water put me in my best mind
Now I’m grillin fish lagoon side
Reflecting on the last time
I saw you

I’m feelin deep like the ocean
Where the hell did the time go?
 In the water silk and sunset
 I saw you

I should know better than to try to be them
Or chase a fleetin feelin
A broken-heart has left it hard
hard for her to believe him

Can’t fight wars with reason
When I wrestle with the vessel and breathin
I learn that I don’t need it
I don't need it cause I can’t keep it

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
I dreamt up a story
Time will sabotage
What you write in the sand
  
Suppose you chose many ways
Suppose you didn’t have to feel the pain
We’re predisposed to find blame
The blame in the palm of her hand

Is that the only way to see it?
She wrestles with devils and demons
He understands that he did you wrong
But it was wrong for you to leave him

Can’t fight wars with reason
When he wrestles with death and bein
She knows that she can’t free him
She can’t free him

A mountain has a soul like a human
A soul, and it’s not bleedin
Why waste your time on stories
The ocean has a heart like a human
A heart, and it’s not beatin
This body says I need it
But I can’t keep it
I should know better than to try to be them
Or chase a fleetin feelin
A broken-heart has left it hard
hard for me to see it

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
And wrote it in the sand

I poured my favorite cup of sunrise
Then swam into the dawn light
And wrote it in the sand


Favorite Cup of Sunrise (Piano)

If you say you love him
And you’re thinking of him
Then where is the song?

If he says he loves you
And he says he trusts you
Then why is he gone?

I know the circumstances aren’t the best and
The chances that we make it are few
I’m lost inside the moment, I need nothin
If he loves you then he’d show it to you

It happens every time you walk into the room
I don’t know what to say I’m swept away by you

When he says he loves
And he’s thinkin of you
Do you hear this song?

It’s not meant to scare you
Or meant to tear you
away from your love

I know the circumstances aren’t the best and
The chances that we make it are few
I’m lost inside the moment, I need nothin
It’s enough If I can sing this to you

It happens every time you walk into the room
I don’t know what to say I’m swept away by you
The way your voice is low and the way your body moves
I don’t know what to say to make you love me too (I’m so in love with you)

I can’t explain 
Unexplainable things
And I don’t have to

Burn another bridge
To lose such a beautiful thing
All I have to do is walk away
Over and over



Swept Away By You

I Can't Help Falling In Love With You

Written and recorded in Lesa Village, Georgia (Guria) with Tascam DR-1.

Ides of March

Nothing Left to Give

Wounded Man

Unfamiliar Country

Bound to Fall

Written and recorded in Micobie Village, Guyana [South America] with Tascam DR-1.

Cliffs of My Heart [5 String Session]

The clouds above, white patches in blue, empty vapor drifting west.  The mirage settles for a moment, absolutely not real. The windswept plain is parched and dry. Boxes of your belongings on the porch.  Stake your claim on the summertime, rest assured you'll find love.  Pockets of information swirl around your head.  Can you tell me how they'll help you be with me?  There's a window to your heart and absolutely no love.  This isn't who we are.  Only the wheel that you're holding will drive us apart.  You and I will not get very far with no love.  Absolutely no, love.  The one true love of fairy tales and lore is better then your alternative.  Save your words for another time  so you can fully withdraw.   I'm two beers deep and I put my pen to page and all that

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