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Sunbeam & the Lovely Ghost

by Sunbeam

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1.
Old Man 03:37
From the top of a hill In the terrible rain Hoping for shelter I find a cave From my hiding place I turn and look Back toward the summit Where I once reigned I will not forget you when you're gone I will not forsake the prize I've won Still do all good things fall part? (My playful hearts is an old man Sitting on his porch and dozing off) From the top of a hill In the terrible rain She gazes downward Her thoughts go outward She says "I am a ghost, I am grain You will find me Some other place I will not replace you when you're gone I will be your helper when you're lost" Still do all good things fall apart? (My playful heart is an old man Sitting on his porch and dozing off) I will celebrate you when you're gone I will ne'er forget the prize I've won Still do all good things fall apart? (My playful heart is an old man Sitting on his porch and dozing off)
2.
Honey 03:01
She was a perfect shape Brought up in a perfect place Spoke only gentle words Had no need for selfish turns I had an early wreck She found me a tattered mess She dressed all my open wounds She fixed all my broken tunes Yes I found a taste of love And it was a honey upon my tongue Yes I traveled all the world But all my pursuits left me unfulfilled Still she’s so close I can smell her skin We were a desperate scene So deep in each other’s dreams Dead to the things we’d learned Bond to the rocks we’d turn Yes I found a taste of love And it was a honey upon my tongue Yes II traveled all the world But all my pursuits left me unfulfilled Still she’s so close I can smell her skin
3.
She was on the fire side at sundown Told me she was not herself in my town Her eyes glowed all orange and red Of fairy tales for which she dearly longed Through the winter in her heart, she left me Said that she could see the cloth unraveling Said she was moving on And taking with her all she’d given away I am on my head now There’s sorrow in my chest I’m looking for a way I’d have given you your best But I have won no trophy I have passed no test And you’re gone, you’re gone, you’re gone, ya you are gone She was on the pendulum and wondering ‘Bout the pace her tired heart was keeping So I kissed her on her cheek And washed her feet before she took her leave I am on my head now There’s sorrow in my chest I’m looking for a way I’d have given you your best But I have won no trophy I have passed no test And you’re gone, you’re gone, you’re gone, ya you are gone
4.
Let it Go 03:10
Boy, what has become you? Is your heart full up with pain? Suppose love is a time bomb In your bedroom while you sleep Let it go Let it go Let it go Boy, love is a dull throb In your gut are you ashamed? I, I have been gone long In your sorrow have you remained? Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go And the one is left His eyes dim and reckless And the cycle is set And may not soon release (Through the valley he wanders on Still she waits upon the hill
5.
Bulldogs 04:19
She was on the porch Yellin’ through the door Said “You’re just a boy Outnumbered in a war!” She stared at the sun Let it kiss her eyes Said “There’s something more Buried in the light” She said “You’re running from police In the safety of your living room Look at your shaking knees! What terrors have you witnessed? You’ve unshakable belief In bulldogs without teeth So come down to the river and get in!” Dreamt I was in a marathon Drawing near the finish line Afraid my fickle heart would boast I slowed my winner’s pace a while She saw me through ancient eyes Saw in me a den of lies Said “Is God’s heart to muzzle kings? Boy, get up and take your things!” She said “You’re running from police In the safety of your living room Look at your shaking knees! What terrors have you witnessed? You’ve unshakable belief In bulldogs without teeth So come down to the river and get in!” Strike no holy bell It fills up my ears with a sound so shrill For all is full of love Even on the edge when you cannot jump I will jump Again (Yes, again)
6.
Siren 03:01
On a cool summer night She looked at me and smiled Said “You’re gettin’ under my skin” She said “There’s seedlings in the breeze They float past you and me Now aren’t you tired of the same old thing?” Oh hope is like a siren Calls us out to raging sees You know my heart is prone to wanderin’ So let it begin Lost in perfect loss of speech I looked at her intrigued Wonderin’ if she’d do me right Compelled by my own destiny And the perfectness I’d seen Became so tired of the same old thing Oh hope is like a siren Calls us out to raging seas You know my heart is prone to wanderin’ So let it begin Let it begin
7.
Flicker 03:04
In the morn she stoops down over me and whispers “The oil in my lamp has reduced, oh so fast, to a flicker So boy come down and take your crown Surely you cannot hide forever” In my shame I oh so quietly resist her Say “Oh my sweet maid, I’ve got business on the hill, and cannot linger But oh how I wish you would call my bluff How I’d love to stay and express my love” She grows tall like a hunter with a bow in the winter Says “Boy, don’t you know I could never look upon you with anger?” So she kisses my face and she gives me grace and she knows my name Ya she kisses my face and she gives me grace and she knows my name
8.
Love, Love, Love Love, Love, Love She’s a ghost, she’s a pin, buttoned on my coat Love, Love, Love Love, Love, Love I’m at the sink Hand’s o’r the drain Watching you move ‘Fore me royal seats And carriages with queens But all I do is a dream So take me through Take me past Take me in Love, Love, Love Love, Love, Love I have no coat and nothing to boast But still I’m full Scattered in the yard Toys and tools of ours Fill our lonely hearts So take us through Take us past Take us in Love, Love, Love Love, Love, Love
9.
The Garden 03:13
She has no reservations in being known Her eyes, so full of longing, her face glows And in the garden, she waits alone She shows no hesitation, no repulse Always she is patient, and full of hope And down the canyon, lowers a rope Because she moves through the places in the room And I grow younger when she whispers to me truth That there is art in the secrets of the heart That there is newness in the turning… Sweetheart, pull me under until I float Leave me ‘neath the sun and let me soak And I will stoop so low With all I hide exposed And she will aim her bow And strike me through the air Because she moves through the places in the room And I grow younger when she whispers to me truth That there is art in the secrets of the heart That there is newness in the turning, The turning of the fool
10.
She draws little moments from the air outside her head She runs and she throws them like kites out o’r the edge She shows no emotion Just parts her lips and speaks Woe is me, I am a wreck to behold The day it scorns me And I am alone She walks on the greenest lawn and laughs while children play She steals perfect blades of grass and throws them ‘gainst the breeze She shows no emotion, just parts her lips and prays Woe is me, I am a wreck to behold God, destroy me So I can go home “I am, my will, I will not recede Gently pressing, waiting for release Pull me, strike me, mock the words I speak I am only, will be only”

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released August 6, 2011

'Sunbeam and the Lovely Ghost was written, recorded, and produced by Brian Hall
Copyright © 2011 Brian Hall

Mastering by Matt Harmon

Album artwork by Chad Eaton

Sunbeam is Adam Souza, Amy Hall, Charlie Morris, Elizabeth Palmer, Brian Hall, and Jon Collins

Thank you David Swenson and Brian Fitzsimmons for playing horns.

Thank you Brian Harvey, Sam Fowles, Erik Carlson, Eric Nordby, Serena Morris!, and Madison Denison for group vocals.

Thank you to our mentors, family, friends, and fellow musicians in Portland and abroad. Thanks to Joey Prather for all the insight.

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