1. |
Fifteen More Years
03:22
|
|||
|
Fifteen More Years:
Oh fifteen more years and I’ll bury the stone
Oh fifteen more years and I won’t be alone
Hearts and their makers collide into one
Oh hearts and their makers confide in the sum
Our bodies are only the water that flows
Our bodies are holding the eternal ghost
Someday I’ll wake up and see that the day’s up to me
Put it behind me and I’ll recognize the unseen
Crystal and aster the gifts of the field
Unspilled disaster the layers that peel
Struggled and staggered they can’t spin the wheels
Lifted and let go we’re not holding still
Someday I’ll wake up and see that the day’s up to me
Put it behind me and I’ll recognize the unseen
Oh fifteen more years underneath the unknown
Oh fifteen more years and the wellspring will flow
|
||||
2. |
Sweet Marie
03:02
|
|||
|
Sweet Marie in your garden, I would grant your pardon any day, you would do the same
The fire keeping warm out, the flies and lullabies another night, the social life
You’re so dedicated, the oak floor and the way it makes you move, slow and true
And what you’ve cultivated, the envy of the other dreaming youth, a lucky tooth
You’re surrounded by your confidence, keeps me on my feet
And if there’s something I can do in your defense, you know I’d throw my jacked down for you
Oh sweet Marie, you know it’s true
The Rain that swells the skies up and falls in mid July just came this week, and killed the heat
I stood with the guys outside remembering the summers of before, the past and more
They said you went out camping the stars I hope they shine for you tonight, the quilt of light
The brightest one is burning the earth will keep on turning just for you, oh lucky you
You’re surrounded by your confidence, keeps me on my feet
And if there’s something I can do in your defense, you know I’d throw my jacked down for you
Oh sweet Marie,Oh sweet Marie, Oh sweet Marie, you know it’s true
|
||||
3. |
Gold Pan
04:02
|
|||
|
Truth be to some but not all, the gold pan, be it big or small
The gift of the world is a crown, a circle, it comes back around
So why doesn’t love follow time, it changes, it's a coast or a climb
The answer is welcome be mine, a danger, a bittersweet rhyme
Wrapped in the blanket of time, its cover, runs everything dry
What happens if we don’t try, a drifting, we fall from the sky
Harmony set out to lose, or to grow, be whatever we choose
|
||||
4. |
Robinson Road
03:16
|
|||
5. |
Let The Light Come In
03:20
|
|||
|
Sheltered, left in the room, lock and key
Hiding means not a thing, with no one else around
So you walk up to the door, wanting something more
Let is come to you, let it break the chain
Eyes won’t see you today without anothers praise
Are you living like you want
Reaching anything, the circles always spin, you can let the light come in
|
||||
6. |
Ribbons
02:04
|
|||
7. |
Controversy Of Sunlight
03:00
|
|||
|
The weather hasn’t seemed to change for days
The clouds up in the sky won’t rearrange
The sun won’t seem to shine or show its rays
Not anymore
Wrapped up in the blankets I get by
It's hard to walk or run when you’re inside
If only yellow sun would start to shine
I'd be fine
And then one day the sky just opened up
It’d been so long since sunlight filled my cup
I can start to sing a new sweet melody
I am free
The weather has been sunny now for days
So much so that I’m hiding from its rays
If I’m not in the shade I get a burn
Oh how things turn
I don’t think the clouds are that bad in the end
In fact I think the clouds and I are friends
I’ve learned to see the sunny side it’s true
So can you
|
||||
8. |
Songbird
03:40
|
|||
|
You’ve got a way of hanging onto a thread and keeping me upon my toes and not let down
I believe in a place, somewhere real or fantasy where we could find another kind of love
So it goes, all I’ve got the photographs and hints of what you are still in a cage
And I left long ago, the chains that be unbroken still, and on my back the ache of letting go
When will the songbird be set free
I’ve been long, brother and companion, but what I need I’ve never known before
And its sweet like a rose, a sister how the story goes, at night when I’m alone I’m longing for
So far away, I wish I knew the day, I wish I never had to carry all this weight
When will the songbird be set free
I can’t understand the way you’re hiding
Using what you can to keep it closed
Trapped inside a world that I keep fighting
When I come to terms I’ll let you know
|
||||
9. |
Matriarch Of Nature
02:44
|
|||
|
We don’t sing about her in the day, she’s a dark moon live that’ll carry you away
And we don't get the good without the pain, oh if you live without it you might never know your name
Winter’s come and kissed us on the nose, the icicles and dry months and all our heavy clothes
Worn out and we bear it in our bones, learn to live without it and work to be alone
Oh its work to hide and stay, oh the birds will bring us home
We can sing about the summer light, the paleness and the shadows, turn morning from the night
Moving from a seed into a spark, the shoots are all about us and lean into the dark
Oh it's what we all have seen, even though it is a dream
And every leaf of summer’s come to bear, the milk of all the pastures and gold dust in the air
Thistle wind will blow us down the stairs, the matriarch of nature will start to lose her hair
Fall the walls of what we see, oh the world will set us free
|
||||
10. |
The Truth
03:12
|
|||
|
Alone in my room all twisted in sheets
Not sleeping well, I quiver in dreams
The summer the days and the sun burning long
I think of your face, your voice and your song
Working a shift I’m here four to close
You’re on your way home for the best I suppose
Giving only what's afforded to lose
A seed germinates only when it needs to
It wasn't your hair I know
It wasn’t the words you spoke
How can it be so hard to see you go
It wasn’t your smile I know
It wasn’t the truth you showed
How can it be so hard to let you go
|
||||
Strawberry Heritage Detroit, Michigan
Strawberry Heritage is the songwriter, multi instrumentalist, producer John Hanson. Accompanied by many friends and fellow
musicians along the way, this folk outfit is based in Detroit, MI. The musical arrangements are filled with folk and classical instrumentation, centering around guitar based songwriting and vocal harmony.
photo: Joshua Skinner. Header photo: Malro Mudd
... more
Strawberry Heritage recommends:
Backyard Songbook
by Backyard Songbook
Super cool collaboration with some other Michigan songwriters recorded in 2013.
go to album
This is my wordless music project Saltbreaker. It features ambient drones and beautiful strings by Jeffrey Niemeier and Fiona Dickinson along with several other guest artists.
go to albumIf you like Strawberry Heritage, you may also like:
Gentle Electronic
by Saltbreaker
supported by 4 fans who also own “Light Magic”
go to album
The latest from the UK’s Chris Brain is a gorgeously wrought album of tender acoustic folk music.
go to album
they only talk about the weather
by Arny Margret
The Icelandic songwriter packs her stunning debut with sweeping melodies delivered via intimate, folky arrangements.
go to album
