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Welcome To Blue
03:41
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1. WELCOME TO BLUE
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
How do we feel more question what’s real more
Heal more hear our voices soar
From soul to sky can’t keep it all inside
More than just getting by some day I’ll die
Within the dark there’s always light
Free the wrong to seize the right
Realize the right’s not black and white
But you see red you’ve lost your head
Or was that love instead
You’ve stepped through the black there’s no turning back
Fade to blue it’s the ocean you’re turning to
Because life sure is a puzzle but you’re at peace
At least that’s what you thought you think
You’d never ever see the light
Without the darkness
Calling on the telephone
Reaching for something someone home
As I proceed this canvas exits to the sea
Cast off those cobwebs
No need to huddle in your head
The world’s turned dark but I know
Your fire burns yellow it’ll get you through
Welcome to Blue
‘Cause you know life sure is a puzzle
But you’re at peace ‘cause you’re more of a survivor
Than you thought you think
Welcome to the blue
You’ve got to the gold to get you through
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2. |
Definity Indefinitely
04:24
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2. DEFINITY INDEFINITELY
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
Fleeting thoughts tying knots in Indefinity
Grasp at shards parce the cards of fixed reality
Indefinitely
Our dreams they sweep
Through darkest sleep
They bend the things we see
My eyes between what’s dark and seen
Twist being, hold me separately
Still desperately this being craves
Connect me to infinity
Direct me sweet divinity
Yet hold me to the earthly things that be indefinitely
I reach for what is soft yet held aloft
Yet here for me to grasp
I have only to ask
With words succinct not what I think
But what in every heart’s already known
Sex color size cannot disguise
The soul the sea in your eyes
Just let it rise indefinitely
We’re the thieves of life’s energy
When we reap but we sow not
If you believe your eyes, you’re caught
In waking dreams in conscious streams
In solid waves that carve out caves
That rock the shore there’s always more
They strip at life down to its core
‘Til it crumbles back to sea to rise again
Indefinitely
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3. |
I Wish I May
05:35
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3. I WISH I MAY
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
I wish I may I wish I might have this dream I wish tonight
That all our little dreams come true
It starts with me and it ends with you
See those that have never known true love
Don’t know what the lovers are talking of
And if you say that you love me true
Sometimes the filter on my heart
Just doesn’t let it through
There’s so much to fear in this old world
Sometimes the cold wind blows can’t get my sails unfurled
How to trust things will just turn out for the best
And the reason for pain’s to learn happiness
I ask why why why the water answers deep
I ask how how how the waves they crash at my feet
Then while you give me all your love
I simply toss it back
I could be basking in your light
But all I see is black
So wish for us on something grand
That our love it is a rock that keeps us off of the sand
And that all of those things that would tear us apart
Crash into our bond and bounce back into dark
I further wish that in the presence of doubt
That our love has the strength to pull us back out
And the maze through the hurt that destroys what I know
Is just the long way to teach me how to let
How to let it all go
So ask why why why it’s in the depth of the sea
And how how how is like an anchor on me
And all of these questions are just weight on my back
Your love is bathing me in riches all I see is what I lack
I wish I may I wish I wish that I might
Have this dream that I wish tonight
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4. |
Dreams In Digestion
03:40
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4. DREAMS IN DIGESTION
Everything is as it ought to be right now
I thought all my dreams were shatteredYet somehow you helped me find them still alive
I had swallowed them to survive
I thought they died
Still not easy yet somehow
Everything is as it ought to be right now
With all of my dreams trapped in digestion
Congested with years of
Repeating questions
What is life? What do I do?
Build my own box with a point of view
I did my best to watch it all turn to rubble
The sweetest life of my dreams
Will be still be filled with trouble
And that’s a fact
Limits you’ve had your way with me but now
With my dreams alive I’ll find a way somehow
If I was ever lost I still don’t think I’m found
Yet everything is as it ought to be right now
Feel the truth see the lies
Can’t see myself through my own eyes
Pluck those crystals from the dirt
You’ve been waiting to be unearthed
Turn all that pain to gainYou are rich from what you learned
And when it’s your turn
You will know that it was earned
‘Cause you got burned
Limits you sure snuck up on me but now
With my dreams alive
I’ll find away somehow
I was never lost I don’t need to be found
‘Cause everything is as it ought to be right now
And that’s a fact
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5. |
Harden The Rain
04:13
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5. HARDEN THE RAIN
Hyper-minding over-grinding never finding peace
You listen to no one say “Hear me everyone”
Well I hear the buzz for release
Your skull is your prison don’t mind the pistons
Pounding metal roof in your brain
Thinking thoughts will take away the pain
Thinking those thoughts solidifies the rain with nothing gained
I wanted to reach for you reel for you heal for you
But it all just went down the drain
To insist would just harden the rain with nothing gained
Here’s my bottomless bucket where away I will tuck it
With a ticket for the midnight train
Where it remains with some other
Mistakes that I’ve made and couldn’t trade
Oh how now to let the rain drain it all away
A little bird came to me laughed with me
Sang to me the bird said the real words between the lines
It’s in the moment before the mind defines
It’s the dawn before the sun’s rise
It’s the path through the midnight said that bird
Looking deep into my eyes it’s so easy just fly
And you’ll be fine
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6. |
Mind Misaligned
05:21
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6. MIND MISALIGNED
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
For all love that lives and love that is lost
For all that love gives
And the cost of its loss
Life teach me to live
Love teach me to give
Time teach me
To love each moment
Observe reserve persevere preserve
Self-please if you have the nerve
Give to love and love to give
‘Cause living without it gets expensive
So what do you need
And what do you feed
And when is it ever enough
How do you fill and what do you kill
Inside with all this stuff
Ain’t it so easy just to say life’s rough
So hard to soften to find what is tough
For every single yes
There’s an endless list of nos
For every single high
There’s another side that’s low
What do you know?
Feed the will to live with the love you give
To yourself and to everything else
Put my mind aside it’s got me misaligned
Forget what’s in my head
Ask my heart instead
Do you want to live? Yes I do yes I do
How much can you give? Up to you up to you
Let me take it from here I will proceed with care
I know you have good intentions
But you are trapped in convention
If today were your last
Would you spend it in the past
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7. |
Nonsense
03:07
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7. NONSENSE
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
Won’t you break through reality
Come to me
Whatever common sense is
Won’t you bring it to it’s knees
Please tell me one and one equals three
Don’t make it
Make any sense to me
We are not bound
We are actually free
Let’s play pretend
And you can catch me
In your web
Change what’s real to me
It’s one, two, three, four, five six
Seven I just blinked and suddenly
Found myself in heaven
How could this be
It was right in front of me
Now that rationale
It could kill you somehow
‘Tis the season to let reason
Step aside and take a bow
Give me a shake
Make me wake
Let’s eat cake
Through the earthquake
I’m possibly partly wrong
But with a generous dose of right
Which makes it all alright
For you to come with me tonight
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8. |
Bring It On Sorrow
04:19
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8. BRING IT ON SORROW
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley
Try to understand the master plan
Or perhaps there isn’t one
And we’re all afloat
In a murky moat
Between cliffs and barren sand
Where is paradise
Is it in your eyes
Or is it inside of me
Do I search for it
Do I go within
Or is it right where I am
From boat to desert sand
I’d rather walk upon dry land
From the realms of extremes
To find what’s in between
But I go wandering
In a delirious past
I could be sauntering
I must be moving too fast
What did I miss in your eyes
This came as such a surprise
Did I lure you?
Well you lured me too
Did we move too fast?You think you know me
Because of that
You say your heart it isn’t free
I say you let me down easy
Now bring it on sorrow
I won’t wait until tomorrow
Let me lift you up not weigh you down
You’ll make your way you know how
I’ll be on my way now
I give it all away
From boat to desert sand
I’d rather walk upon dry land
Where touch is healing
Loving is feeling
Where I can lift you up
I don’t weigh you down
I’ll make my way I know how
You’ll be on your way now
I give it all away
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9. |
Neverclear Soundcheck
02:50
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9. NEVERCLEAR
When did your heart
Slip through the cracks
Must have fell out
A while back
Did it bounce did it shatter
Did you notice did it matter
Now you’re free-er consience cleaner
Without motion your emotion
Drowning drinking
Too much thinking
Can cloud the mind
Don’t walk away, run
Escape at all costs
You think oblivion is freedom
But it’s your self you’ve lost
If you notice you don’t care
Your eyaes are open
But no one’s in there
Too much thinking
Drugs and drinking
Can cloud the mind
So grab up your heart
Take it back
You’ve always
Been right on track
That’s just a brittle crust
There’s part of you that doesn’t rust
But too much thinking
Drugs and drinking
Never cleared the mind
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Strummingbird Vegabond Missoula, montana
We are a folk rock trio coming together around the original songs and set list of Rebecca Kelley. Becca sings and plays
acoustic guitar, currently and hopefully long term with two musicians whose lifetimes spent honing their skills always humbles and amazes her:
Local female and fellow musician Britt Arnesen on bass and talented and fun Damien Margo on drums!
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