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At the End of the World
02:42
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At the end of the world you will find me here
Out past the fields of purple and gold
Lighting a fire to keep out the cold
At the end of the world you will find me here
Reading by candlelight, nestled in bed
The things that we’ve lost will not enter my head
At the end of the world you will find me here
I’ll be home
Light through the windowpanes
Nothing can be the same
Be the same
At the end of the world will you join me here?
We’ll stockpile blankets and bottles of wine
We’ll cook and we’ll dance til we lose track of time
At the end of the world will you join me here?
We’ll be home
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World's Strongest Man
04:00
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Here lies the world’s strongest man
Given the grace to pass into the night
Here lies the world’s strongest man
Sleep to dream and wake on the other side
And the light will bear his name
And the birds won’t sound the same
And the fish won’t swim the stream
And the deer won’t run the green
Because the light will bear his name
And the birds won’t sound the same
And the fish won’t swim the stream
And the deer won’t run the green
Here lies the world’s strongest man
Given the grace to pass into the night
Here lies the world’s strongest man
Sleep to dream and wake on the other side
Let, let, let the river
Let, let the river
Wash, wash away
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Endling
02:59
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The last of our kind will be a woman
She will bear witness
She will bear the mark
On every layer of skin
She is adrift, quiet
The endling’s days are slow and ponderous
They are not sad
There is no fear
No one left for her to tend to
This is it, she is here
What of all the things she made?
What of all the things she broke?
What of the hearts that she betrayed?
What of the truths she never spoke?
The last of our kind will be a woman
She will bear witness
She will bear the mark
She exists and then she won’t, the sun will rise anyway
She exists and then she won’t, the sun will rise anyway
She exists and then she won’t, the blood moon shines on her empty home
She exists and then she won’t, the sun will rise anyway
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Close Your Eyes
03:06
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Close your eyes, don’t try tonight
Those fears behind your eyes can wait
Maybe when you rise those bluer skies
Like waking dreams will materialize
But for now what you can do, you’ve done
And for now, in your own way, you’ve won.
So let the earth turn ‘neath your feet,
‘neath your feet
Babe it’s a slow burn, you can sleep,
you can sleep
And when the news breaks in the streets,
in the streets
We’ll dance until the sunrise.
So close your eyes, don’t cry tonight
Those tears behind your eyes can wait
Maybe when you rise those bluer skies
Like waking dreams will materialize
But for now what you can do, you’ve done
And for now, in your own way, you’ve won.
But for now what you can do, you’ve done
And for now, in your own way, you’ve won.
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Afraid
02:17
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I am afraid to lose my hearing
I am not afraid of change
I run toward it
I am afraid to stay the same
I was so scared I wouldn’t hear my babies
Crying in the night
Now they’ve grown older
They don’t do that anymore
When I lie in bed, right ear pressed to my pillow
I don’t hear you when you say
“I love you.”
I walk around wide eyed and strain to hear
The things that I will miss
When they’re gone
Try to take in more
Try to see more, try to smell more
Try to feel more, try to hear more
I want more and I’m afraid
I want more and I’m afraid
When I lie in bed, right ear pressed to my pillow
I don’t hear you when you say
“I love you.”
I don’t hear you when you say “I love you.”
I love you.
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Shannon Linton Cobourg, Ontario
Shannon Linton is a Canadian singer-songwriter, classically trained vocalist, and climate
activist.
After narrowly avoiding a career in opera, she began performing and recording her own songs, first with Northern Hearts (2019 CBC Searchlight Top 100) and now as a solo artist.
Shannon’s debut EP, In Spite of Everything, is out now.
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