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Handle Them With Care
03:07
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1. Handle Them With Care
Not so very long ago but in a different day
Nothing was taken for granted or lightly thrown away
Holes in socks were mended the cobbler fixed old shoes
For knees and elbows, patches we saved what we could use
Chorus
If it's good, keep it with you for as long as you can
Nothin lasts forever in your hands
The little things you love, handle them with care
They're reminders to appreciate the ones who won't always be there
The way we valued what we had, so humble as it was,
Helped us learn how to cherish what meant the most to us
Friendships were considered nothing easy to replace
A neighborhood was more than where you had a parking space
If it's good, keep it with you for as long as you can
Nothin lasts forever in your hands
The little things you love, handle them with care
They're reminders to appreciate the ones who won't always be there
Is an old relationship written off as done and spent
Because when times get rough it's inconvenient?
If it's good, keep it with you for as long as you can
The world just turns and turns like the hands on a clock
Till something tragic stops its course and sends you into shock
Then maybe it's a comfort for the time you mourn
You did the best you could by the loved one who is gone
The little things you love if you handle them with care
They're reminders to appreciate the ones who won't always be there
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Mowers Blade
04:27
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2. The Mower's Blades © Dean/Garner/Thomas
There goes a moth who's flyin' from the roarin' of the mower comin'
Seeking safety in the shade he dives into the mower's blades
I'm reading lately how some dolphins get mixed up at somethin'
Think they're homin' in on where they know but wind up dyin' in the shallows
Shallows, shallows, they wind up dyin' in the shallows
I know you're runnin' from the hurt. I done you and she's lookin' good
But just because we're not workin' out don't fool yourself that you two would
Chorus
Please darlin' don't fly back to her you mess with more things than you know
You must feel bad if you're forgettin' how she made you feel so low
There goes a moth who's flyin' from the roarin' of the mower comin'
Seeking safety in the shade he dives into the mower's blades
The blades, the blades, he dives into the mower's blades
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In My Imagination
04:13
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3. In My Imagination
In my imagination summer turns to spring
In my imagination I was Queen of everything
In my imagination Love is never blind
In my imagination you were mine
Chorus
Signs of love were plain enough to read
All a figment of my need
Round and round and here I go again
Here’s to you my flesh and blood, imaginary friend
In my imagination you made the desert bloom
Your every word bespoke your love
Made brightness of my gloom
We only met a few times how else could it be
In my imagination you were meant for me
In my imagination I’ve seen stone lions yawn
Found orchids growing in the snow blinked and they were gone
I never got to know you never took the chance
All my imagination let me do was have that one slow dance
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That Was the Day
03:30
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That Was the Day
Luckier than a four-leaf clover
Rarer than a piping plover
That was the day I met you
Brighter than the whitest beach
Sweeter than a Georgia peach
That was the day I met you
Lovelier than any pearl
More important than all the world
That was the day I met you
Chorus
That was the day we met / How lucky could we get?
Was it chance or was it kismet / When our course of love was set?
Intoxicating more than wine
More precious than a silver mine
That was the day I met you
Happier than puppies playing
More idyllic than palm trees swaying
That was the day I met you
Bridge
That was the day I met you
And I never would have bet you
Could have guessed when you got up that day
That love was on its way
Vivid as a peacock tail
As sacred as a Holy Grail
That was the day I met you
Bigger than the salty ocean
Incredible as perpetual motion
That was the day I met you
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The Cold
03:48
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5. The Cold
Sometimes this world is a brutal place dark cruel and cold
And evil thrives on the innocent, God rest their soul
No map or direction to show the way when death and shadows unfold
All the martyrs who aim for paradise may go to hell
All the stories as told and the images graven
Of blessed lives of sacrifice are craven lies by charlatans
As everybody knows
We’ll go on down to the riverbank and look once more
Through the mist see what’s left of the factory on the other shore
The wind taste of salt of the harbor and the sea which stretches beyond
Do you wonder if this is paradise? Sometimes I do
All the stories I’ve told and the lies you’ve forgiven
Are in the salt and mist and sea the harbor and the factory
As everybody knows
Sometimes this world is a brutal place, dark cruel and cold
And evil thrives on the innocent, God rest their soul
The wind taste of salt, of the harbor and the sea which stretches beyond
Should you leave me in search of paradise, I bid you well
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Love Triumphant
03:12
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Love Triumphant Misguided
Saw that Valentine's fell on a Saturday thought about it no more
Till I realized Friday the Thirteenth would be the day before
Hard enough, in better times, to do what's right by Valentine's
Will the one day be gone completely before the next begins?
If I gave you a heart-shaped box would bonbons or bugs be within?
Chorus
Hard enough, in better times, to do what's right by Valentine's
With so unlucky a day beside it are hopes of love triumphant misguided?
I'm shunning black cats and ladders as well, not spilling any salt
So whatever goes wrong between us I'll know it wasn't my fault
Bridge
How do I make things turn out like they should?
Do I think scientific or knock on some wood?
Chance plays its hand very close to the vest
The fortunes of lovers are anyone's guess
I'm picking up pennies, crossing my fingers in the name of romance
Having my tea leaves and tarot cards read, leaving nothing to chance
Got my horseshoe and four-leaf clover at hand and a hex sign on the wall
Yes I'm stacking the odds in favor of cupid conquering all
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Lord of the Depths
04:49
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Lord of the Depths
No one has seen one alive in its home
Bodies are all that remain to be shown
Cast up on beaches or tangled in nets,
The end of what had been a lord of the depths
Way down in the ocean we seek far and wide
But they've known for millions of years how to hide
And slither with ease from the eyes of people
Although they're at least the size of a steeple
Eyes full as moons, each as big as your head
Guide our squid where the sunlight is weaker than thread
But to balance himself, he completely relies
On an organ as small as a grain of rice
Chorus
Sooner or later the facts will catch up
With the myth of the squid that they call Architeuthis
And then it may be that the legends are not
Halfway as strange as the truth is
Arm, tentacle, mantle, fin. these are the parts of a leviathan
In a world of his own without daylight or stars
Where we know even less than we do about Mars
The squid is at peace, but we may be appalled
That here man appears not to matter at all
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Farewell Voyager
04:47
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Farewell Voyager
Now you are leaving the house of the sun
Your time of loneliness has only begun
The nine behind you seem like points of light
Ahead it is darker than the darkest night
Still you talk to those who sent you away
Never an answer to whatever you say
Has anyone sailed this empty sea before?
400 centuries till you come ashore
Chorus
When your signal fades at home
And you plummet like a stone
Void of meaning without men
What exactly are you then?
Whatever your makers know, they learn from you
About the wilderness you're flying through
To cold and silence you're forever consigned
In keeping with your creators' design
If any should find you in the infinite waste
If you draw the attention of a faraway race
Will they laugh at you for being simple and small
Or admire you for being there at all?
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Eyes of Your Soul
04:34
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Eyes of Your Soul
A preacher I knew of was blind for years
But it seems that his prayers didn't fall on deaf ears
And now there are hundreds who testify
That he sees what they're doing with his single glass eye
You say to yourself that it just can't be so
Yet how can you know all there is to know?
Whatever the kind of beliefs you may hold
What is it you see with the eyes of your soul?
Chorus
Eyes of your soul never know when they'll open
Eyes of your soul taking you by surprise
Seeing as deep as the floor of the ocean
Showing you more than you'd ever surmise
Many a loved one is seen in a dream
Or suddenly standing there, strange as it seems
Come from afar to be by your side
Present in spirit, although they have died
Some see holy figures in dust upon glass
Or in scratches on stones or in patches of grass
And those who find healing or help in those signs
Don't care if you say it was all in their minds
Since time out of mind, and some do it still,
You traveled alone into desert or hills
For a vision that saw through the world of disguise
A gift from the spirits, to make you more wise
A light has been seen by some at death's door
Who are sent back by others who had gone on before
A trick of the eye, say the men of letters
But those who return say they're changed forever
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Time Is
04:55
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Time Is
Time is the Christmas wreath suddenly brown
Time is the seed hiding deep in the ground
Time is the lock on the diary you found
Time is the silence engulfing all sound
Time is the crisis which never abates
Time is the fixer of every mistake
Time is the ruin of power and states
Time, and time, again
Time is the siege that will never be lifted
Time is the kettle refusing to boil
Time is the slave driver if you are gifted
Time is the tank always thirsty for oil
Chorus
Is there too much on your hands
Or does it slip through your fingers like hourglass sand
Is it on your side whether time lingers or flies
Time is the wolf peeking in at the window
Time is the fading of colors to black
Time is the album of mystery photos
Time is the ache in your knees and your back
Time is the Christmas wreath suddenly brown
Time is the seed hiding deep in the ground
Time is the lock on the diary you found
Time is the silence engulfing all sound
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Wandering Star
02:58
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Wandering Star
I'm as cold as a turtle on the bottom of a pond sleeping the winter thru
I'm as cold as a stone on the dark side of the moon and just as distant too
Chorus
Be with me soon the summer's long overdue
And the days too dark by far
Your heart is the sun that could warm my soul
But you've been a wandering star
I'm as sad as the cat in the empty house that the family left behind
I'm as sad as the love letter with the address that the mailman couldn't find
Bridge
I'm as patient as a telegraph line waitin for a sign
Waiting for a sign waiting for it waiting for a sign
Patient as the waves that break against the shore
To while away the time
I'm as ready as the wood in the fireplace to drive your Winter away
I'm as ready as a robin to fly around the world and sing for you some day
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Angel Dean & Sue Garner New York, New York
Angel Dean and Sue Garner grew up in the south about a hundred miles apart as the crow flies. They met in 1981, in New York City. They’ve played in numerous groups, together and separately. In 2003, they recorded an album for Diesel Only called Pot Liquor. Little did they know that their second album would take a dog’s age to see the light, but at long last Gardeania has flowered. Enjoy! ... more
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