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01 Shed My Skin
03:10
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Cut up all the rinds of yellow skin
Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth
Oh I’ve got a plan
Gonna take myself
To the edge of the Ocean
and I’m just gonna swim
Furrowed little brow go catch the teardrop
Cause I’ve got many mouths I wanna feed
Oh I’ve got a stain
It’s left a mark on me
So I merry the mind
At this time of year
We’ve come a little too close for sure
We’ve come a little too close
Become a little too close for sure
Become a little too close
So go back to the start and take sleep my love
Go back to the start and rest my dear
Oh I’ve got a slate
That’s too marked to be clean
So I merry the mind
and I’ll give it a year
We’ve come a little too close to shore
We’ve come a little too close
Become a little too close for sure
Become a little too close
Life can become
Unfocused until
All of us as lovers run away again
and I howl
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2. |
02 Salt
04:12
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Baby I’ve forgotten how to place my hand
So carelessly
and I’ve forgot my touch upon your skin
But no I’ll never
Begin
Your Salt on my wound
Don’t you love a thorn in your side
and if we keep waiting for the moment to arrive
It never will
It’s my turn to run wild
and let my tears write a river
Time to get let loose
and punch with fists of iron
and all the gold can burn and glisten
We’re older and there oughta be another way out
Darling
Give in
Your Salt on my wound
Don’t you love a thorn in my side
and if we keep waiting for the moment to arrive
It never will
and all the gold can burn and glisten
We’re older and we oughta wear a little more proud
Darling
Give in
Your Salt on my wound
Don’t you be a thorn in your side
and if we keep waiting for the moment to arrive
It never will
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3. |
03 Baby Books
03:47
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As Smokey rolls under
You put another message round
Why didn’t you tell me
Why didn’t you tell me
That I could write you down
And carry you around
Cause I’ve spoken with the doctor
Said you looked tired in your soul
If I could help you now
I would help you out
And I hope you're good
Now that you're gone
My baby works night shifts
She reads baby words from baby books aloud
Oh won’t you try to find a place
Between the darkness and the moonlight
Cause I’ve spoken with the doctor
He said you looked tired in your soul
If I could help you now
I would help you out
And I hope you're good
Now that your gone
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4. |
04 Claire
04:33
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So cut it up & let it ride
Just swan it up around
For I am pieces on a rock
I am eyes upon the hill
and we’re sharing so
we are ticking over
and pulling at the wire
Its love & we’re the same
Love & we’re the same
You have a little rope to
Climb to be escaping
and then its clear we are hallucinating
But are we really just a riding up upon the wave
Cause babe I can see the fires are burning on the lake
and the water falls down the smile lines
and then my baby tires
and it’s love but where’s the blame
My covers kick away
and I have a little rope to
Climb to be escaping
and then its clear we are hallucinating
It’s clear we are hallucinating
Claire we are hallucinating
So doctor please calm me down
Or lead me to the street
until the bridges we’re under fall down
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5. |
05 Little Hands
04:23
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Child amongst the greenery is evergreen
Looks a lot like you did
Best to land on solid ground
You gotta breath
Gotta take time
To move slow
Imagine little hands on your fingers
You gotta put feathers on those wings
God haven’t you heard about me?
Isn’t it strange in this life?
Don’t we all get a little strange sometimes?
I’m all about the bravery
and building bridges
All the locks at low tides
But god won’t fix your mind
It’s gonna take time
To move slow
Imagine little hands on your fingers
(Pulling you apart)
You gotta put feathers on those wings
(Baby it’s a start)
God haven’t you heard about me?
Isn’t it strange in this life?
Don’t we all get a little strange sometimes?
Oh Time
When you gonna come around?
When you gonna come around?
For life is fleeting
So when might my life begin?
Imagine little hands on your fingers
(Pulling you apart)
I said you gotta put feathers on those wings
(Baby it’s a start)
God haven’t you heard about me?
Isn’t it strange in this life?
Don’t we all get a little strange sometimes?
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6. |
06 One God Damn
04:22
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Oh Mother
Have you found the Sea
Stay carefree
And I’ll be the wolf in this story
Brother
Scared may you be
Stay carefree
And I’ll be the wolf in this story
Because it’s one god damn beautiful thing
I see over
What a god damn beautiful thing
And it grows and it grows
Another rise to the breath
Remember the sad little swims
In our story
Because it’s one god damn beautiful thing
I see over
What a god damn beautiful thing
and it grows and it grows
(Push to pull let it out)
(Push to pull let it out)
I’ve been really trying
(Push to pull let it out)
To keep you on my hands
(Push to pull let it out)
To the ground
Because it’s one god damn beautiful thing
I see over
What a god damn beautiful thing
and it grows and it grows
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7. |
07 Big Moon
03:41
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Hello my unbelievable sense to
Call when nobody gets who you are
Say hello to all the people surrounding
Who’d call to see if your landing came in smooth
With little waves of doubt
To pad the evenings out
To throw to
To gently patter your bones you
You came when nobody told you
Though we’ll never give up our names
We’ll pace this through
With some dancing
A strangely patient answer
For Sunday evenings after
With little waves of doubt
To cast the evenings out
It’s turning it’s turning it’s turning me now
Like a big moon
Its turning it’s turning it’s turning me now
When a big moons coming out someones gonna figure you out
and I hear you brother just don’t let the dream die now
When a big moons coming out someones gonna figure you out
and I hear you brother just don’t let the dream die now
Oh the better words are left unsaid
Well babe I hear them now
and babe they’re getting loud
These little waves of doubt
To pad the evenings out
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8. |
08 Hippy Dippy
04:10
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Oh such a tall order keeps coming in
I can’t see the woods from the trees
Said I could work this plan with more money coming in
Do I have new friends now to take me in?
When I’m drunk enough to not forgive
Make it small enough to creep it in
As planes are getting higher
The Kids are screaming louder
She’s cooking in the kitchen
I’m playing on the keys
I should feel alive
Oh solid ground
Oh simple thing
Who put the bully in my hands?
and small enough to creep on in
I will meet you on the mountain
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So much living in a room
And the wind chimes sounded like the fallen rain
And you look just like you know
You look just like you know
The mind can be a deadly place
When your caught up in September
Baby is it human nature
And how do we grow?
When nobody knows
So much rain upon a window
and our children are making shadows in the kitchen
and they look just like you now
but no one ever listens
The mind can be a deadly place
Can I call you in the morning?
Baby is it human nature
And how do we grow?
When nobody knows
(why)
(don’t you)
The mind can be a deadly place
(caught up in a feeling)
When your caught up in September
(don’t you believe me)
Baby is it human nature
And how do we grow?
When nobody knows
Now there’s singing in the chapel
For the people are praying to a different god
And they look just like they know
They Look Just Like They Know
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10. |
10 Past the Evening
03:13
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Maybe just a little more traveled
Than we’ve been before
I got my head upon a highway
Well I’ve been here before
Now there's a road at my door
It’s the most excellent feeling
Gonna get on grooving
Feeling unraveled
So come out little soul
And tell me bout the nature
Of my restless window
When you can’t see the colour anymore
When most give up the dreaming
Gonna get on grooving
They’re playing Ring Of Fire down the hall
The record player guides me through
Past the evening
Through the comedown
Till the morning
Sets me straight little girl
And tells me about the danger
Of my restless window
‘cause I can’t see the colour anymore
But when most give up the dreaming
Gonna get on grooving
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Michael Baker England, UK
March 2020, Arts Council UK funded Michael Baker releases 'Salt', A towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its
adept handling of love, loss and hope. Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery.
Album 3 produced In Lockdown and
Album 4 is being produced already with Tom The Lion, Alberta Cross producer Luke Potashnick previous owners include Van Morrsion due out 2021.
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