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The Sound of Your Voice
04:08
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These years away
Have drawn lines on your face
The pictures they make
This home and this lake
Sing like angels
In wake of thee
Lord knows I am following
The sound of your voice
My humble home (the light beneath the dim sky)
My beautiful home (the echoes glow through the night)
I'll be here
God filling my ears
With song like angels
In wake of thee
Lord knows I am following
The sound of your voice
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A Toy (demo)
03:28
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Shining (demo)
01:56
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Your mother and father
they called you the shining sun
To bed at dusk
And up at dawn
Your brothers and sisters
Are all the shining stars
They shine so bright
Shine from afar
And if you shine beyond the heavens
I will be there to steal your light
And if you go beyond your brethren
I will be there to steal you away
Your mother and cousin
They called you the evening too
They locked you up
Inside your room
Your brothers and sisters
Remain like the shining stars
You stole their light
But got these scars
And if you shine beyond the heavens
I will be there to steal your light
And if you go beyond your brethren
I will be there to steal you away
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4. |
Your Life (demo)
02:07
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...have you read your tickets?
It seems that your mind is child like
You ride through the thickets
The same ones you planted
As a child
And when you die
Then, James, oh my
You'll find your life
Was more than ill spent time
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5. |
In the Room (demo)
02:48
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Well, it’s you and me
The devil’s here in the room
Not much I can see
Nothing much I can see
The flesh rotting from my bones
That’s piled on the floor
This is all I know
This is all I know
And you take me away to
A vacation to the north
A cottage, a cabbage
a hut in the forest
Away to the blizzards and the trees
A cold room is prepared for
Suffering our own disease
Released from my life
Of these past few years
A path of spheres of light
A path of spheres of light
I’ve climbed down the stairs
And I bound them up
As I’ve bound my hair
As I’ve bound my hair
And you take me away to
the fiery pit of hell
The devils, the demons
Are looking plenty soon
On your way to
sing to the lord
The angels, the chorus
Streets we could have for it
Away
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6. |
My Eyes (demo)
03:23
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These eyes won’t open
Until the evening dies of light
My limbs are frozen
From dew that binds my
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
My hopes are over
Until the day, she dies of light
I won’t dethrone her
Until it’s good and time
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
My eyes
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Do you ever see blood
Blood, blood?
Tell me
Heaven pulls up
Up, up
By your feet
That is when you leave
That is when you leave
When you lay down
Down, down, down
My friend
Here is what I found
Found, found
My friend
That is when you leave
That is when you leave
High above the trees
That is when you leave
That is when you leave
That is when you leave
That is when you leave
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8. |
How Is Your Soul? (demo)
02:44
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In these troubled times
Bless this child
Bless these eyes
Bless this child
In your troubled eyes
I see a child
I see a child’s
that must reach out
And how is your soul?
And how is your soul?
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9. |
Behind Me (demo)
03:20
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Darling, did you leave yourself
for anyone to see your face?
Your eyes are getting dull
Your spirits must have died away
And you with your secrets
and me with my fears
are floating on pieces
of the time we spent here
Shadows
from the doorways
are bounding across
the walls and ceiling
The sun has
grown too bright
and the evening was
too dark for me
And you with your secrets
and me with my fears
are floating on pieces
of the time we spent here
The waves they are crashing
and my lungs are full of
the bitter resentment
and the wrath that I put
behind me
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Hope (demo)
04:05
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Maybe I could find
Someone to share my light
Maybe I could be
Someone you’d like to see
In the morning
When we wake up
Every morning
When they wake up
You want
One from me
I want
One from life
Maybe I would leave
Someone who can believe
Believe enough in me to help me
Rise above the leaves
In the evening
When we lay down
And every evening
We all lay down
You want
More for me
And I want
More from life
It’s the great hope
That’s the great hope
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11. |
Interlude (demo)
04:10
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12. |
Dear One, Wake Up (demo)
03:24
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Dear one, wake up
I’ll bring you a cup
First of water, then of wine
Then some coffee, look at the time
Dear one, wake up
Just start up another day so fine
The apartment reeks of wine
Let’s get out, look at the time
Dear one, wake up
Let’s get ourselves out into the store
Buy some liquor and drink it up
Let me fill up your cup
Dear one, wake up
I’m impatient this morning
Let’s get started with the day
When it’s tomorrow I’ll go away
Dear one, wake up
I’ll bring you a cup
First of water, then of wine
Then some coffee, look at the time
Dear one, wake up
Dear one, wake up
Dear one, wake up
Dear one, wake up
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13. |
Find a Place (demo)
02:47
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Leaving this place is getting harder
Since I saw your face
All our looking in to see
A place that’s past your dreams
It’s hard to find a place
And it’s hard to find a place
Where I don’t have to see your face
I don’t have to see your face
Set about on this road
With an idea to find a home
All these places I have been
Well I never want to see them again
It’s hard to find a place
Well it’s hard to find a place
Where I can find my face
Where I can find another face
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Keep Me (demo)
03:07
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You’re there when I wake up
You’re there when I lay down to sleep
I need, need, need your chattering teeth
I’ve come and I’ve staked out
And set up a plan in your skin
I live, live, live inside your limbs
Keep me here
Keep me safe
Safe from the world
Your light grows warm
And your skin
which is smoking
Expectedly painfully dry
These shards are going
Out into the open
And it’s chilly so I’ll
Close your eyes
In months you’ll forget
The day I came here to you
Your feet, feet, feet
They did not move
The ice and snow
And leaves piled by your side
I pray, pray, pray
That you won’t die
Keep me here
Keep me safe
Safe from the world
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Children all lie
In the city, on the sidewalks
All rise to your knees
Hear the pitter and patter
The feet in the gutter
Outside little rooms they sing:
Nobody stays here for long
They grow old, they fall again
They’re gone
Grass that grows taller
Your mother, your father
You’ll grow old
Cold and calm
And when did you forget
Your promise to keep the song faithfully
And it seems that:
Nobody stays here for long
They grow old, they fall again
They’re gone
Nobody sings the song
Songs all slip from
Their chords
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Tickets (demo)
02:06
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Check your tickets
There’s a train for you
On a track, a car, unseen
Check your wallet
For a picture there
The child, his eyes, they’re yours
And you’ve been bad
And your life, it’s sad
When you can’t live up to your word
And you’ve been blind
Of your like, your kind
Who don’t often get through the woods
With a medal on their chest
And with pride in the breast
With a song in their ears
And with dance in their heels
With a light in their eyes
No fear in the sky
And a friend by their side
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Years (demo)
04:11
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Years
These years of falling at your feet
Have left me nothing more
Than showing your backs
Where I’ll swing
My springs have worn down
over the years
Knowing every eye’s to die
The steps soon made
Will find the door
And joy’s forevermore
These washed up glories on our shores
This sorry innocence of ours
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Oh Jesus, console me
Is the light I shine unholy?
These haven’t been the best of years for me
The candle, it flickers
And the smoke, it grows much thicker
The way it curls has made it hard to see
Oh father, assure me
That the hands with which you cure me
Are not the hands that made the world unwell
The ground, it is quaking
and my own thin hands are shaking
When I wake up, will I find myself in hell?
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First we had a child
Running, laughing, wild
Oh what a beautiful baby
Oh what a beautiful babe
Then you had me
Losing to the sea
What an appropriate ending
Such an appropriate end
You found me yet again
Right where I’ve stayed and been
Time after time after time, yeah
Time after time after time
In desperate times I turn
To the sea and learn
Nothing more than to drown there
No, no, no more than to drown
Let’s have another child
Running, laughing, wild
Oh what a beautiful baby
Oh what a beautiful babe
Let’s take the same old James
And pull him from the flames
The seas and the fires are endless
The seas and the fire are the end
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The Twelve Canons Iowa
The Twelve Canons were a gothic folk band formed sometime in 2001 or 2002 in Iowa City by singer/guitarist Jim DuRocher. After three albums with members Sam Gold and Alex Body, the Twelve Canons stripped back to a two-piece with the addition of composer/bassist Justin Norman. In January 2014, frontman and founder Jim Durocher tragically passed away. He left behind a large collection of demos. ... more
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