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		DIM THE AURORA 2009 1. It's Enough To Leave You... 2. Slow Burn 3. Night #3 (Instrumental) 4. I Run To You 5. Dim The Aurora 6. The Low Light 7. Over Fields (Instrumental) 8. Fit For Fire 9. Into The Expanse 1849 10. Terrene (Instrumental) 11. Distorted Signals Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool IT'S ENOUGH TO LEAVE YOU... The calculated risks are approaching With your mind at its logical end Some frequency like lightning is calling you So engaged, lasting remorse your defense On display and so brilliantly rendered Traversed by insufferable waking up Blown back by the force building under All things, all sounds, all you covet All the times there were no repercussions When the bellowing first began Like a time they could not have been wasted...like a time Shot through by science and reason And a tangible need left to quell Like a word that came in on a cloud...on a cloud It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out and it hits you like never before Submerged in your own vast interior hold the reins, key to enter, key to ask Night moves in and so our days are arrested Blue haze and a cuff to the wrist The iron grip of winter, the towering fear To the surface we all fight for air Blown back by the force building under All things, all sounds, all you covet All the signs for your deliberation When the questioning first began Like a time they could not have been wasted...like a time Shot through by superstition And a tangible need left to quell Like a word that came in on a song...on a song It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out and it hits you like never before and it's all you can do to ignore in this primitive state, the instant that brings you alive It's enough to leave you holding out... SLOW BURN I wore a prince's robe I watched the spiderwebs grow I saw the dust implode I held the wind's command Sold it for magic sand I felt the slight of hand We held our days in a jar Slept through the sun's alarm We felt the burning scar And now I see the tracks Hear almost every tap But we're not over that...over that... I RUN TO YOU Great unveiling, night for rain Suits in waiting, down for days I run to you, I run to you Summer's breach, the young parade Play the boxes, gone astray I run to you, I run to you Sun in grey skies For the record we were always free Cuts through twilight Holding out 'til it turns over The path of our resistance And it comes to view All that's left to do is run Pass the order, half the stay A soldier's refuge, blood's restrain I run to you, I run to you, I run to you DIM THE AURORA A guarded heart won't give a beat without a reason; Holed up and shallow ready set and set to leave Some kind of perfect revelation has a purpose on the other side; And if it's all an apparition let it kill us so we feel alive Still we long to vanish into the air on two black wings, our souls we bear Still we long to dim the aurora and flood the tracks Left in the wake, no looking back Under all that ever was Long lay awake the times to loneliness is given Break for the tempest in the teacup where you're livin' There was always something better but it never took a shot in the dark In halls that stand without the faintest recollection we were here at all Still we long to vanish into the air on grievous wings, our souls we bear Still we long to dim the aurora that lights our way No looking back, Left in the wake Under all that ever was THE LOW LIGHT Everything you said would never happen has come Destiny breathing like as if it had lungs A presence fills the room Insulated from all I do I want to know you in the low light Dead, still, and clear like a star in your hand A heightened sense of how we arrived Close the station down Hold the moment in tune I want to know you in the low light I want to know INTO THE EXPANSE 1849 Tell me what to do my friend Or say nothing at all These matters are no matter's end No mind can turn me on From Texas into Oregon Thrown into the expanse So better left to circumvent And get out while you can Let go of me When I am skidding alive When the ground is rough and I'm left to die When it's taken a toll When the border is won And remember me when my time has come My love don't say where you have gone Be Summer, Spring or Fall An all encompassing remorse Where the grass is growing tall We may never have enough Our cup will never run But if I live to see the day I pray her will be done Let go of me When I am skidding alive When the ground is rough and I'm left to die When it's taken toll When the border is won And remember me when my time has come FIT FOR FIRE We are fit for fire We are poised to roam We won't see it coming til it comes Calling out the drivers Stop them on a dime Turning wheels that sink into a vanishing quick They won't see it coming 'til it comes We are fit for fire We are poised to roam The wind gives flight to any song before its sung We won't see it coming til it comes DISTORTED SIGNALS Turn it down while I'm thinking here Pray that I can remember so maybe I'll know... Iπ'll know again Give yourself to me darlin' Let's break away from the noise so maybe I'll know... I'll know again Distorted signals, uneasy minds undone Let go of this heavy ceiling Sink to the depths with me down Down to the floor with some part of me... Again Give yourself to me darlin' Let's take the slow motion turn so maybe I'll know... Iπll know again Distorted signals, uneasy minds undone

		LOW PINING 2007 1. Across The Waves 2. Undiscovered 3. Low Pining 4. Along My Shores 5. When You're Down 6. Traveling Song 7. Blind Tide Sails And Weather Vane Hearts 8. The Answer To All Our Prayers 9. End Of Night 10. Dissonance (Instrumental) Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool ACROSS THE WAVES Send the news across the waves My sweet promise there is song A momentary stay, only pushed away for so long There is a voice in the storm Between two worlds come to me The dream of a retreat being switched on Sounds of labor no more Southern temperate and alive A vast chorus sings In the distance, a crescent low rise UNDISCOVERED We toil the broad side for any conclusion with dim emotion as we go And all the while we hold the illusion of terrain unspoiled, a silent plea for home Undiscovered, commonplace, quiet, tranquil and alive Rolling lands laid out like a linen No transgressions under the mud See it all so concise and vivid See night falling where we set fire The days of recourse and end of worries. The restoration we're seeking And sunken-eyed we hold on to reason and ways manufactured A time of doubt and killing for it Undiscovered, commonplace, open, placid and alive Casting out all wasted moments Listen to the language of birds Exceeding all due bounds and limits Moving past the weight of our words And all the while we hold the illusion of terrain unspoiled leading as we go Undiscovered… LOW PINING Grey land, rise and demand, circling pattern, idle hands Panoramas and runaways like ghosts, suspended, left out in the haze When i was a boy i had a sense of awe and presence felt Discovery accounts and summer days with texture live to tell I am crawling, feeling ground, mobilized and riding my sound Under heaven, into earth...a golden age for what it’s worth Staying low at caution rate. follow lines that hold their weight Overrun, overdrawn. interstates all winter long ALONG MY SHORES What pulled you out of the burning house and spoke to you along the road? Should we stop it in its tracks, to contemplate the reasons? Along my shores, Along my shores If I had not missed the wind. If only someone held the wheel An engineer comes riding in, and on his cloud, forecasting it Along my shores, Along my shores I just want feel the sand washing over my hands Put away the world demands, to drift along on my shores Along my shores, Along my shores WHEN YOU'RE DOWN Someday when you're looking back on what you've done Never certain if you ever took it far enough The eyes staring back at you tell the answer When you're down, When you're down Played it off and held it in for ransom Burned it seven ways and held it to the fire If the autumn ever comes you'll have a reason When you're down, When you're down Checking out. Signing off. Race away with the promise of another summer. Tall shadows, long gone When you're down, When you're down... TRAVELING SONG We hold our way like a metal to stone Moving with ears to the ground Living outside the candleflame glow Unmarked, with traveling song Where do you go? Where do you go? Where do you go when you're going alone? The saving eyes and the deep, steady drum Anchoring down as it turns If they should ever solve gravity's pull The big question hanging around... Where do you go? Where do you go? Where do you go when you're going alone? BLIND TIDE SAILS AND WEATHER VANE HEARTS Blind tide sails and weather vane hearts We stopped to watch the Arcadia burning And the smoke that soon filled a summer sky blows by the motorlines THE ANSWER TO ALL OUR PRAYERS Nothing wakes you like a sunrise Nothing breaks you like a song You had your Spring. Was that your season, or an unforeseen divergence to the fall? No barrier, no hesitation A pulse in heavy beating A fire on the plains out there Something we were missing The answer to all our prayers You miss it when you're seeking All the while it was everywhere A reconciliation The answer to all our prayers Oh great disorientation Oh deep hollow in the hills The scars of home our navigation Open out to our great withdrawal from the world Wrapped in reverie and shadowland A pulse in heavy beating A fire on the plains out there Something we were missing The answer to all our prayers You miss it when you're seeking All the while it was everywhere A reconciliation The answer to all our prayers It's everything you wanted The answer to all our prayers... END OF NIGHT Pulling my weight out of the ground Nothing in earshot No one around, or for now I'd never win I'd only fail if i had contact. Leaving a trail unturned...Watch my world burn Crossing the sky, over the bow End of the night Highways they follow me now Loosen my mind Open the gate Lord, ease my conscience Pull me away, away...Never to fade