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Favorite Carbon Leaf Lyrics
One of my favorite things about Carbon Leaf besides their awesome sound is Barry's clever use of word play in the lyrics.
Some are obvious, others require you to listen to the words in context with the rhythms and notes. Here are some examples...
Learn To Fly
Hello goodbye, higher you fly
Into the world, I awoke
This morning
With pouring rain in my heart
One Prairie Outpost
so much for these youthful eyes to see
so much for peace and tranquility
What About Everything
Holiday quiet on these streets
except for some stubborn leaves
that didn't fall with the fall
and now they clatter in vain.
Get away and come with me.
come away with me and we'll see
This Is My Song
My name is Hope, Luck just ran out
he said he'd return without a doubt
don't you believe him
oh I happen to have a message from Love
she told me she knows what you've been dreaming of
my name is Hope, this is my song
when things go wrong
Mellow Tone
The zenith hum, the perfect strum
I have become completely numb
Tone of your heartbeat, tone of your breathing,
tone of your fingertips
I'm receiving mellow tone...
Mary Mac (traditional)
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac
Well I'm going to marry Mary for when Mary's taking care of me
We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mac
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(In regard to these lyrics...)
Let Your Troubles Roll By:
Love endures, it clings away
When asked to leave, it begs to stay
(Zach says, "To me, that really sums up what it's like to love someone and then lose them.
Everything tells you it's over, but your heart just can't let go. That entire song could
qualify as my favorite my favorite lyric, it's just an awesome song.")
(Keith likes...)
Lake of Silver Bells
you miss the place you never had
("I suspect many middle-aged men like me visit fantasy land in their minds sometimes... I see it as
not just a physical place but a place in time, a girl you never knew, a date you never had, a love so
good but never real, a dream so good and vivid you wake up with a smile on your face.")
X-Ray
melting Boba Fett
("...and everything else in that song! I had that life as a kid - the sprinkler at the beginning,
Star Wars toys like Boba Fett, bike riding, cutting through neighbors' yards, lawnmowers, hide and seek,
everything.... At that time you could only get Boba Fett by special order in the mail by sending
"proof of purchase" of other Star Wars toys.")
(In regard to these lyrics...)
Raise The Roof
Dance 'til you fall,
Love 'til you die,
Shut your mouth.
(Carrie says, "What better advice could there be for how to live life? Stop yapping about
what you're going to do - just go out and DO IT!")
(Brett sent this and said, "These lyrics express my somewhat cynical view that the more we
discover about the people we love, the less they look like someone we want to be with." and
"...you cannot depend on anyone but yourself, and that people are not all they seem to be.")
Toy Soldiers
Today I strike out on my own...
.....
We find the people of our dreams...we find that they're not what they seem.
(Joy sent this because the lyrics express to her the wrenching
loss that only someone who has lost a soulmate can feel.)
Raise the Roof
Peel back this backdrop, like the lids from my eyes
Put you in plain view, let me visualize
Touch me again in my dreams till I feel
Touch me again till I wake and it's real
(James wrote because he feels they aren't just talking about 4-legged beasts of burden here. And
as a guy who loves a couple of terrific girls (wife and daughter), he thinks this is good advice!)
A Girl and Her Horse
And away she rides,
With the best in show.
You know unicorns don't exist, of course,
But every girl in this world has a horse.
(Dierdre wrote and said, "I like them because the repetitive lines sound like the Irish
nonsense syllables in folk tunes, but they're actual words and add to the meaning of the song.")
Blue Ridge Laughing
And if we live our lives so wild and free
Lie, lie, lie
We run behind
On and on, on, on and on, on, on and on...
(Dierdre also sent this line because the words stand alone as a beautiful goodbye
to someone we'll always love, even though we've lost them.)
Learn To Fly
Everything I love you for remains.
(Barbara wrote and said, "This is my new anthem for life.")
Raise the Roof
Dance til ya' fall
Love til ya' die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
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