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The Miracle Business

by Kyp Harness

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1.
Here I Am 03:46
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HERE I AM Honey baby, please don’t write me off as a dead man Because the image I’m attempting to project is more like that of a “get ahead man” I’m still pickin’ myself up off the floor I’m still headin’ back in for more (through the door) and anytime you want me, baby Here I am I’ve been travellin’ down some rocky roads And I got to say I took a little bit of a knockin’ But to lose your life and regain it again around here Well, it really isn’t all that shockin’ It’s just a surface wound at best Everyday I’m getting’ more and more From less and less (yes) And anytime you want me, baby Here I am They opened up the gates of paradise Out on the old main drag where we used to cruise They offered me a free entry but I had to refuse Compared to the sanctuary of your sweet love There was nothing there that I could use Well, I’m poised and primed for action I’m ready, I’m able, I’m willin’ Point me in the direction of the enemy I’ll hunt him down and kill him You got me on this mission, dear And I want all the world to hear (in their ear) That anytime you want me, baby, Here I am I’m tryin’ to tow this vessel into the harbour But you know I can’t do it all on my one and only I can’t lift myself up by my own bootstraps Can’t see beyond the wave that’s crashin’ on me But when they ring that bell I’ll be in there fightin’, I’ll be mad as hell (Oh well) And anytime you want me, baby Here I am And that’s one thing you’ll never learn in school If you wanna win the game you got to break all the rules And anytime you want me, baby Here I am
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Diamonds in the Air 03:54
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DIAMONDS IN THE AIR I see you there at the bottom of a hole beneath the soil, beneath the clover I see you there at the bottom of a hole thinkin’ its over, you’ve been passed over And there are diamonds in the air, love Diamonds everywhere love Diamonds in the air I know the pain that’s eatin’ you All that you remember I remember too I know the pain that’s eatin’ you all that you remember I remember too And there are diamonds in the air love Diamonds everywhere love Diamonds in the air There’s just two roads leadin’ out of this town one you got to walk down and on the other one you’re carried There’s just two roads leadin’ out of this town at the end of one you get released, at the end of one you get buried And there are diamonds in the air love Diamonds everywhere love Diamonds in the air
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Head in the Clouds 03:28
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS The sun comes up at the break of the day The sunlight comes till it’s taken away The sunlight comes when sunlight’s allowed But you can’t see the sunlight if you head’s in the clouds All the glory of heaven was in front of me All the joy and the wonder that there ever could be My feet were movin’ too fast, my mouth was talkin’ too loud My eyes never could see it, for my head was in the clouds Elegance and splendour are waiting for you Elegance and splendour, when you finally see through How many times has the solution to problems ’neath which I was bowed Waited for me in the sunlight when my head was in the clouds? My head’s in the clouds when I’m not grateful to you My head’s in the cloud when I refuse to see through and I won’t let you There’s a universe of love infinite and nigh There’s a tapestry unfolding across the sky Miracles and scenes of beauty all around us crowd But our eyes never see them When our heads’ in the clouds My head’s in the clouds when I’m not grateful to you My head’s in the clouds when I refuse to see through and I won’t let you Miracles and scenes of beauty all around us crowd But our eyes never see them when our head’s in the clouds
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Soft Blue Gaze 05:00
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SOFT BLUE GAZE I’m lookin’ hard through all my days Lookin’ hard for your soft blue gaze Lookin’ hard through this microscope for ya In the middle of this dystopia And I don’t wanna disturb or distress ya But may I take this time to bless ya? I bless the letters in your name I bless the moment that you came The wolf is standin’ at the door Bigger than the one they sent before He’s quite a fearful vision But so’s the slingshot under my seat cushion Bakers make bread, farmers make hay We’re makin’ love all day We’ve come too far to turn back now It’s not even the same track now You’re the whole nine yards and then some beyond You rescue me from the shipwreck you’re what I’m shipwrecked on You’re one hundred and twenty proof I know one day it could all go poof I’m keepin’ to the narrow path Let’em all go worship the golden calf The last supper’s postponed for now I wasn’t hungry anyhow The butcher stands with his long sharp sword Passin’ judgement on the works of the Lord Well I’m just tryin’ to do my best To tend this little garden of flesh I’m holdin’ on to you And to what you are holdin’ onto Time crawls backwards in a panic Do I look like a mechanic? Everyday I thank God above for your beautiful soul Beyond that, things are pretty much out of our control The sun is sinking, evening’s nigh Red and gold waves spread across the sky
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Someday Soon 03:57
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SOMEDAY SOON Someday soon you’re gonna find You’re gonna get no response for your old tried and true line You’re gonna look around, signs of approval to see Little old man sweepin’ up the floor is all there’s gonna be You’re gonna know what it’s like to cry beneath the moon At the other end of the harpoon, someday soon Someday soon that beast that you’re ridin’ He’s gonna turn on you and you’ll have to do some decidin’ Gonna have to do some fast thinkin’ might have to change your tune To save yourself from ruin, someday soon Someday soon you better start givin’ as well as receivin’ Or someday soon somebody’s gonna have to be leavin’ somebody will be grievin’ Someday soon you’re gonna see Just what kind of a friend I tried to be Never meant to wound or hurt you, I only wanted the best Someday soon you’ll see what happens when you settle for less Someday soon you’re gonna be frownin’ instead of smilin’ Someday soon you’ll find out the hard way that no-one’s an island Your woes’ll be pilin’ Someday soon you’re gonna know what it’s all about To spend half your life just tryin’ to dig out And if you’re needin’ my help, I’m pretty sure I got nothin’ doin’ Some afternoon, someday soon And if I’m needin’ your help, I’m pretty sure I got nothin doin’ Some crazy afternoon, someday soon
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Mayor of Crazytown 04:45
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MAYOR OF CRAZYTOWN I wanna eat when I’m hungry, I wanna sleep when I’m tired But then along comes The Man to legislate my desire Tellin’ me what I should know, showin’ me what I should see Tellin’ me where I should go, tellin’ me who I should be To live your life manipulated by whatever force that’s hangin’ around Well you can call me crazy, but if that’s sane you can call me the Mayor of Crazytown A thousand new recruits are goin’ out everyday To try to receive what they can never repay Suckin’ the last of the blood out of the earth Tramplin’ all of the rubies into the dirt The only long-term investment they make is in a hole in the ground Well you can call me crazy, but if that’s sane you can call me the Mayor of Crazytown I wake up every morning and I have a cup of brew Then I stand around dumbfounded because I got nothing to do You got the market cornered, you got it all sewed up You got the piledrivers drivin’, I hear them comin’ over the horizon The old men plan, the old men frown They say for freedom the young must lay their lives down The freedom to make peace by wagin’ a war To show other lands how civilized they are The freedom of the old to send the young to lay their lives down Well you can call me crazy, but if that’s sane you can call me the Mayor of Crazytown Well I wake up every morning and I have a cup of brew Then I stand around dumbfounded, ’cause what can I do? You got the waterfront covered, you got it all sewed up You got the piledrivers drivin’, I see them comin’ over the horizon We got our feet on the same planet, we’re breathin’ the same air But when the whip comes down, all similarities end there There’s a gunman at the border, there’s a line drawn in the sand Which entirely determines if you got a givin’ or a takin’ hand Depending on the colour of your skin, the god you worship and from what country you’re bound And you can call me crazy, but if that’s sane you can call me the Mayor of Crazytown Depending on the colour of your skin, the god you worship and what’s in your account And you can call me crazy, but if that’s sane you can call me the Mayor of Crazytown
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Passin' Through 05:50
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PASSIN’ THROUGH How can I be whole until you return? Some things we never recover from some things we never learn And I was the one who only focused on where I was goin’to Until I realized I was only passin’ through If the sun comes up then it’s a good day If not for me well I’ll just wait until it turns the other way And the briars and brambles that clutch out with their thorny crown lasso No they can’t catch me I’m only passin’ through Floating along on the breeze in between the trees Singin’ whatever song I please from the gatepost where I’m located Goin’ along for the ride out keepin’ my eye out For where Lady Luck’s hide out might be situated There seems to be a limit on how long we can park here We’re here for a minute then we disappear But time won’t have the final say on flowers I picked for you In swaying fields beneath the sun that I was passin’ through Driftin’ downstream dreamin’ my dream While all the sunlight’s golden beams were shinin’ ‘round me When twilight shadows fill the skies there’s always one or two I recognize They’re always so pleasantly surprised they’ve found me There’s no way to measure the love I have for you No way to measure where that love is goin’ to From our hearts to our fingertips and through the sky of blue Our love like ourselves keeps on passin’ through Amblin’ down any kind of street through the eyes of anyone that you might meet Or anyone you might casually greet through a window On the hill where the widows and widowers are cryin’ in the bedclothes of the perpetually sighin’ With the lovers fallin’ and arisin’ as the warm and lonesome evening wind blows I’m on my way I’ve got a job to do Got a feeling that I won’t know what it is till after it’s all through I’m lookin’ at all the different coloured houses along the avenue I’m paintin’ pictures of the view as I’m passin’ through I’m savin’ it all up for you as I’m passin’ through
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Little Jerk 03:35
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LITTLE JERK If heaven is forever, then what are we waitin’ around here for? It’s like when you walk into a room and you can’t remember what you went there for I’m quite willing to turn my hand to any kind of useful work I know that I’m no big fish pullin’ on the line I’m just a little jerk Mama always told me Be careful where you walk What will cause the evil man to rejoice will cause the righteous one to balk I was walkin’ down the street one day one day the street went berserk Behind every monumental disaster there stands a little jerk Oh how lucky I am history’s been good to me I could be lyin’ in a ditch, I could be swingin’ from a tree But I’m free – as I can afford to be He said with a rueful smirk Oh you little jerk I picked up my pointer to teach a lesson to the crowd But my pointer got entangled in my teacher’s robe I fell down in a chalk dust cloud Now I’m just hangin’ around the kitchen waitin’ for the coffee to perk Don’t take a locomotive to raise the windowblind, honey baby all it takes is a little jerk Don’t need a locomotive to raise the windowblind, honey baby all you need is a little jerk
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Horseman 07:23
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HORSEMAN Just as water over a thousand years may wear away a stone So do the years over the span of a life tear the flesh off of the bone While all around the merry buzzards fly Pass by, horseman, pass by I heard a man named Joseph arguing with the innkeep All about the sleep of reason so deep Someone’ll always have another reason for you to lay down and die Pass by, horseman, pass by You were born beneath the cypress tree with angels singin’ so divine You were born in a combat zone you just didn’t know it at the time They talk of the pursuit of happiness every move they make gives that line the lie Pass by, horseman, pass by Can’t walk the road anymore of the ones that must always resist It’s not that it’s goin’ nowhere it’s just that it doesn’t exist Puttin’ all their faith and hopes for security on that which they can least rely Pass by, horseman, pass by I see you on the patio I see you in the shattered glass In the vacant lot behind the strip mall and underneath the overpass In the tormented grappling of need in the sunset bleeding with the feeling I deny Pass by, horseman, pass by The masters of concealment the emperors of the unreal Are in the business of destruction wholesale and piecemeal With heartbreak and devastation they swallow you up, then mourn you with a sigh Pass by, horseman, pass by They’re buildin’ a highway through the forest it should be finished anyday It’ll take us anywhere we wanna go as long as we all want to go the same way While somewhere beyond the courtyard the lonesome whippoorwills cry Pass by, horseman, pass by You know I’m feelin’ for ya, honey but it’s getting’ me withdrawn The more things slip away the more you’re tryin’ to hold on It’s too dangerous to carry you can’t sell it on the sly Pass by, horseman, pass by Too many livin’ life unconscious too many eatin’ sorrow’s bread Too many trapped in the collapsin’ empires of the dead Swept away by the avalanche undone by an evil eye Pass by, horseman, pass by My experience was not unusual though some will say it odd It was nothing more and nothing less than fallin’ into the arms of God Teachin’ me to look and look again as I roam beneath the stormy sky Pass by, horseman, pass by
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Somebody's Knockin' 05:49
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SOMEBODY’S KNOCKIN’ Somebody’s knockin, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware while we were all just talkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? Look out the window, honey, tell me what it is you see is it somethin’ that warms or chills your blood? Look out the window, honey, tell me what it is you see is it a live connection you got or is it a dud? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware when we were all sleepwalkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? Lift up your shade, honey, tell me who it is you see is it friend or foe or anybody else you know? Lift up the shade, honey, tell me who it is you see can we keep a lid on this thing for awhile or is it all gonna blow? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware while we were all just talkin’? There’s people hangin’ around from here to Watertown all standin’ ‘round like little children with their wagons There’s people hangin’ around from here to Watertown at the slightest signal they’re gonna rise up like a dragon Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware when we were all sleepwalkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? Don’t you move a muscle, honey, sit back and enjoy the show for there’s nothing here that time will not disclose There’s nothing hidden now that won’t be later revealed nothing whispered now that won’t be shouted from the top of the house Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware while we were all just talkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? No need to fear him, honey, he ain’t no interloper no doctor nor no soldier of war He’s just gonna give you a joy so big it’s gonna flow back into you past and wipe out the memory of every pain you ever suffered before Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware when we were all sleepwalkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to catch us unaware while we were all just talkin’? Somebody’s knockin’, who in the world could it be to be so freely after midnight stalkin’?
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Fields of Plenty 03:34
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FIELDS OF PLENTY Fields of plenty are right outside your door Just when you think there is no more when you’re down to your last penny Fields of plenty can be seen in the eyes Of the ones who cause the sun to rise Gazin’ on the world so old, knowin’ they behold the fields of plenty Fields of plenty may seem beyond your touch But you can reach them even with your crutch if you start out late or early Fields of plenty they ain’t no ordinary field You just step forward and you’re healed In a blaze of light, day or night in fields of plenty Honey don’t wait up for me tonight I’m goin’ down, I’m goin’ down I’m goin’ down To the fields of plenty just on the other side of that wall Where so many strive to have it all and others don’t have any Fields of plenty brighter than the lights that shine on high Appearin’ in the twinkling of an eye On yonder hill, we’re dreamin’ still of fields of plenty On yonder hill, we’re headin’ still for fields of plenty

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released September 17, 2014

Produced by David Matheson

Kyp Harness - guitar, vocals
Richard Gregory - guitar, bass
Maury LaFoy - bass
Jesse Baird - drums
David Matheson - piano, keyboards, banjo, lap steel
James Porter - piano
Sarah McElcheran - trumpet
Dale Morningstar - guitar
Dave Clark - drums
Dr. Pee - keyboards

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