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Our Work Is Never Done
02:58
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Our Work Is Never Done
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Our work is never done
Our work is never
It’s never, ever done
It’s like we’ve just begun
To carry on
Living, dying
Giving, crying
Calling, singing
Falling, swinging
Rushing, rocking
Hushing, talking
Coming, going
And on and on and on
CHORUS
Needing, knowing
Feeding, growing
Bruising, healing
News revealing
Wanting, waiting
Loving, hating
Coming, going
And on and on and on
CHORUS
There is nothing you can do
To stop the world
There is always something new
To hold you
CHORUS
CHORUS
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Better Angels
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Better Angels
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Oh, lord
I slipped up on the job again
I thought that I was God again
I lost my way
Oh, lord
I sacrificed a friend tonight
How could I be so short of sight
I fell from grace
I keep trying to appeal to my better angels
I keep trying to fight my way back to the light
Oh, but no matter what I do, this darkness still seeps through
I keep trying to appeal to my better angels
Oh, lord
Just when I thought I had it made
All my plans have been mislaid
Gone with the wind
Oh, lord
Is there something broke in me
Something beyond sympathy
Will calamities never end
CHORUS
If only I could wash away the past
If only I could wash away the past
And start anew
Oh, lord
Can you teach me to forgive
All my sins so I can live
Can live with myself
Oh, lord
I know I’m not the only one
All of us have hurt someone
And cried out for help
CHORUS
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Tell Me Where
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Tell Me Where
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
I have been so lost
I have paid the cost
Can you tell me where
I have tried to be
Someone else’s dream of me
Can you tell me, tell me
WHERE
TELL ME WHERE
CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE
I have been alone
Turning over every stone
Can you tell me where
Written on your face
Gravity and grace
Can you tell me
CHORUS
You see the clouds have flown away
I can’t believe you’re here to stay
CHORUS
CHORUS
Tell me where have you been all my life
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Airborne
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Airborne
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Life’s a golden ladder
Leading to the sweet hereafter
Tuning in the stations
Tryna find that song that helps us sing along
Laughing in the sunshine
What’s the hurry, we have time
When you open up that door
And pull me in my spirits soar, we’ll be
AIRBORNE
AIRBORNE
LIFT ME UP AGAIN
HOLD ME NOW I’M READY TO BEGIN
I’ve been so many places
Captive to so many faces
All alone in a crowd
It makes me want to laugh out loud
Tuning in the stations
Heartache spinning to elation
When you open up that door
And pull me in my spirits soar, we’ll be
CHORUS
Higher and higher and higher we climb
Now we’re leaving this world behind, we’ll be
AIRBORNE
AIRBORNE
LIFT ME UP AGAIN
HOLD ME NOW I’M READY TO BE
AIRBORNE
AIRBORNE
SKY IS ALL AGLOW
HOLD ME NOW AND NEVER LET ME GO
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I Will Always Love You (When I'm Alone)
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
There’s no honor in deception
But the heart can not be bound
For every rule there’s an exception
And a reason to be found
I can never say the words
You can read them in my eyes
For fear of being overheard
I can only whisper lies
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHEN I’M ALONE
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU THIS WORLD IS NOT OUR HOME
I CAN NEVER LOVE YOU IN COMPANY
BUT I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHEN I’M ALONE
Now the leaves are slowly turning
As the summer slips away
But the heart will keep on yearning
For the will to find a way
CHORUS
The night may be long
And the storm may be strong
I won’t steer us wrong
We’ll sail clear to the end
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Not Like The Movies
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Not Like The Movies
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Falling and calling and stalling and bawling
All the symptoms of romance
Forbidden fires and criss-crossing wires
What a comic song and dance
Cool-eyed and casual
Business as usual
Laboring to see if there’s a chance
IT’S NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
THERE’S NO GUARANTEE
THAT WE’LL BE TOGETHER
NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
THAT’S JUST MAKE BELIEVE
IT’S NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
THIS TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE
There you are in the room can you hear my heart boom
Trying hard to seem aloof
Fussing and fiddling from sparkling to middling
All my savoir faire went “poof”
Cool-eyed and casual
Business as usual
All the while searching for the proof
CHORUS
Twirling around the ballroom
Twirling around the ballroom
Twirling around, twirling around
Swirling around the ballroom
Twirling around and around and around we are
Twirling around the ballroom in my mind
CHORUS
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Forever You Go
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Forever You Go
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
FOREVER YOU GO
WATCHING OVER US DOWN BELOW
I KNOW YOU ARE THERE, WALKING ON AIR
FOREVER YOU GO
Forever you fly
Waving across the sky
I have no fear
Because you’re right here
Forever you go
When you flew away
The sadness was more than I could bear
But when I wake up, you’re in my teacup
And the silverware
CHORUS
Forever you go
The road will open wide
Untethered I know
You’ll take it all in stride
CHORUS
Forever you go
Forever you go
Forever you go
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The Beacon
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The Beacon
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Old rhymes from simple times and I can’t believe that it’s over
Found words from wayward songs
Sweet aches from righted wrongs
Just as you’re leaving me suddenly I can see
YOU ARE THE BEAM
YOU ARE THE RAY
YOU ARE THE PRESENCE
THAT ILLUMINATES EACH DAY
YOU ARE THE BEACON THAT LIGHTS MY WAY
Spring rites on faded nights
Songbirds on fated flights
Why can’t you see what I want you to see
When I look in your eyes, you’re away
Every beat of your heart is a miracle
Now you are rushing ahead to the pinnacle
YOU ARE THE BEAM
YOU ARE THE RAY
YOU ARE THE PRESENCE
THAT ILLUMINATES EACH DAY
YOU ARE THE ONE THAT WON’T LEAD ME ASTRAY
YOU ARE THE BEACON THAT LIGHTS MY WAY
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Stranger Still
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Stranger Still
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Lost again
I find myself around the bend
And if this is the end
It gets stranger still
Come again
I’d like to know you as a friend
Must every scale descend
And grow stranger still
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
NOW I THRILL TO YOUR VOICE
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
SHOW ME HOW TO REJOICE
Quiet pool
I see the image of a fool
Composed of kind and cruel
It gets stranger still
When I rise
I hear the language of the skies
A solitude of sighs
It grows stranger still
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
NOW I THRILL TO YOUR VOICE
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
SHOW ME HOW TO REJOICE
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
I HEAR YOU CALL MY NAME
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
ARE WE ONE AND THE SAME?
Breathe in, breathe out
Past fear, past doubt
Climbing the mountain
You’re not alone
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
NOW I THRILL TO YOUR VOICE
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
SHOW ME HOW TO REJOICE
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
I HEAR YOU CALL MY NAME
STRANGER STILL
IF YOU WILL
WE ARE THE SAME, WE ARE THE SAME
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Goodbye, My Voyager
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Goodbye, My Voyager
©2016 Alice Bierhorst
Volatile voyager
All your dark matter is starting to shatter the air
When you were just a her, you had location
Now you are every where
AND ALL OF THE CLOUDS ARE SHINING
AND THEY’RE SHOWING THEIR SILVER LINING
AND THERE IS NO CRIME IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME
GOODBYE, MY VOYAGER
There you are, like a star
Luring the ether and singing that old country song
I was your follower but where you’re going
I can not follow along
CHORUS
You were the conjurer of all I possess
Weaving your web from this beautiful mess
There are no rules but I’d hazard a guess
Life is what you make it
AND ALL OF THE CLOUDS ARE SHINING
AND THEY’RE SHOWING THEIR SILVER LINING
AND THERE IS NO CRIME IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME
GOODBYE, GOODBYE
SALUTE THE SKY
GOODBYE, GOODBYE, GOODBYE, MY VOYAGER
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Alice Bierhorst New York, New York
Alice Bierhorst is a visionary singer and songmaker. Ethereal and earthy, tender and tough, her music draws upon classical music, 60's and 70's pop, roots rock, Tin Pan Alley, and dreamy indie folk. Debussy, Kate Bush, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Nick Drake, Brian Wilson, Judee Sill in the mix. A voice clear and plaintive, airy and grounded, full of wonder, tenderness and love. ... more
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