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Old Mamalahoa (Intro)
00:21
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Ohia
03:28
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tapping fingers drumming time on the wooden window frame/i’ll never be the same that i was on that day/maybe it was shaking houses built down by the tracks/but those days were changing and this time they won’t go back/i don’t remember time or why i kept finding those hills/but whispers from them shook the earth if i can hear her still/build a dam and chain it down and try to hold your own/but that river is coming for you standing alone//chorus//and she said rogue is rolling along/oh catch the train from north hills when you’re gone//took some time to find out what it means/buried deep held by the ground let the roots in shackles free/holding on for so damn long the fight is done/i thought i lost all i wanted but when the war was won//chorus repeat//althea spoke to me i don’t know how it brought me here/with a fire in my heart where the north hills hold ‘ōhi’a/where the north hills hold ‘ōhi’a/well it was where i stood and staring at my hands/north hills and my soul to start again/if an old tree can still grow strong/ i looked up and voices gone//chorus//althea spoke to me i don’t know how it brought me here/with a fire in my heart where the north hills hold ‘ōhi’a//
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Bloodhounds
03:47
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light will soon be gone/now these woods are saying something’s wrong/lock the door behind you now cause we’ll be on the run/but there’s a little more they just can’t take from us/they shook their chains like animals and start up the mountain as night swallows the woods/i can see them coming from the lines around your eyes/but we’ve got the drop and love is by our side//chorus//and they’ve got bloodhounds they’re coming fast now/tear up the tracks just to run us down//they can pass the map around with bounty on our names/and say we won’t stay lost for long/but you kind of like to be the talk of the town/and i don’t mind falling when you pull me off the ground//chorus//but if you give me all your trust then we’ll leave them in the dust/cause they don’t have nothing/they don’t have nothing on us//we’re werewolves howling and their bullets are just steel/let the wind whip across your face and dry away your tears/don’t matter what life throws/that’s how love always goes/we hear the rumble of change coming and stay side by side//chorus//
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lonely traveler/cold as ice/time and hard lost battles echo in your eyes/he says i was a worker and a hard one too/but the house cost my soul and the spare change too/had me tied to my shovel and the holes got deeper but the bills and the bankers came still nearer/and i’m sorry but i swear i’ll pay you soon/would you lend me a room//chorus//cause he’s not what they were looking for/maybe a rich man had what they wanted and more/let all your dreams die hard on the name and the word of a lonely traveler//weary rambler/all alone in a sea of men that kind/all they’ve got is gone/could’ve folded his hand and called it a night if he didn’t know tomorrow would be alright/it’s hard to make a dollar buy some time/but if it pays for a pillow he’ll be just fine//chorus//i woke to the sunrise to find he had left/i read the crumpled paper to find it said/we’re lonely travelers every one/no place to hide nowhere to run//chorus//
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This Old Home
04:01
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storms can spoil a summer’s grain/blood runs cold and dust it blows the life that we’ve made/but my love it’s all i’ve ever known/i’d never leave the only place that i call home/so go ahead and tell me that you’re going/go ahead alone//chorus//if this old home is where you leave i’d like to stay a little while/light a fire let it burn down to nothing every night/and you send me a letter in another place and time/when the soil in your garden turns pennies into dimes/i’ll be alone waiting in this old home//life turns around just like a storm/so i’ll board the windows shut them tight and lock the door/go your own way and say i’ll see/but when the old west wind starts howling and you’re cold you’ll think of me/and i’ll laugh when i remember you were going/going on your own//chorus//buildings crumble mountains fall and i’ll stay the same/go ahead and say come with me/it’s never too late to change//if this old home is where you leave i’d like to stay awhile instead/light a fire let it burn down again and die in my own bed/and i’ll send you all my love when i reach the other side/watch out for you and hope you’ve got the strength to stay alive/come hell and come high water i don’t care if i’m alone/you can find me watching the fire again at night in this old home//
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Wild Wind
03:38
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when they left home they left in vain/but they tossed it up like the old rogue after rain/say all is gone/all that you’ve known/but if you’ve got nothing more than a sky of stars you’ll never be alone/hold onto the path you follow/it’ll take us away to an old green covered home//chorus//i’ll be the wild wind blowing down the canyon/you’ll be this winding country road//there was a time i was astray/i felt my shoes on the ground below and said oh please show me the way/there was a day i thought we’d never see it through/i threw my hands to the sky/my heart fell hard and it came right down to you/you said hold onto the wind and the love you know/will keep us straight on this turning twisting slope//chorus//when the buildings turn to rust/when the highways burn to dust/we’ll blow in again cause we’re the wild wind//they’ll beg and bend for all you’ve known/hold onto the love and you’ll never be alone//if they come tumbling in like smoke over the canyon/you’ll be the wildfire burning in my heart/when the buildings turn to rust/when the highways burn to dust/we’ll blow in again cause we’re the wild wind//
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Ohia (Out)
00:43
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Old Mamalahoa Powers, Oregon
Psych-folk lullabies by Myco and Meadow Stassens
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