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For The River

by Early Settler

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1.
Why wonder ? it's something I just done know when it's a long way back to my home So there's nothing at all so what? I'm falling without ease like these down weathered trees it's such a mess you can't breath as I'm tracing my steps to your heart once again, all I see is what I've known go down a hole hole without an end Would you meet me out there ? the sun now it will rise for us where all the wild ones have gone astray now we're endangered for being the prey but I'll make some noise just for them to come for me, in the dust High upon that hill you fall and dream away, of horses running but they're not one stay like a forest that pours out the strangest things the northern lights at the tips of trees Keep losing me But would you meet me out there? the skies are clear there's no clouds in the way where all the wild ones have gone astray now we're endangered for being the prey but I'll make some noise just for them to come for me hell, I won't flee So far, yet so far lost along the trails is the long way back for us to get back home but out there, way out there I stand against, my own heart beatin' the same tune that tired bird sings Could you meet me out there? where voices are yelling back for us where all the wild ones have gone astray And we're endangered for being the prey but I'll make some noise just to see what could be following me ©Early Settler
2.
The Wait 03:26
Go on wayward child make your time well spent without reason telling you when it's time to quit It's hard enough to say goodbye to now what's lost still far behind disguised as illusions telling only lies what's in for me this time? guess I'll hold my high to the skies When the vanishing swept right under me Saw mountains on the backs of birds who would agree it's not easy to make the climb where alone you've been just wondering how this came afloat and what's the point of it to watch flowers grow and feel wind blow well I left my heart at home many years ago I tear down mountains I've only been and pull the streams right out of them to see it through before me you will wait and tired eyes will awake before the crows begin to take Now how many roads have I left to go ? see I'm tired of waiting here for that light to show ©Early Settler
3.
Wild Fur Oak 04:11
Here it comes once again I've settled my friends like the sun it walks beside you whats that shadow followin'? damn this road's too familiar and I know I'm not going well the strangest part of it is where now it will all end up like when I'm down underneath the wild fur oak just gathering some leaves as if I was told that I might as well crawl, and just lose some hope cause out here are too much questions left to be chasing around then is there more, than this train ride pulling me down ? Suddenly I hear my own voice calling for me through an echo from a bird I know it's hardest to believe saying "why not try to catch up on what you've missed?" when I know it's not a normal thing to be guiding the wings But when I'm down underneath the wild fur oak just gathering some leaves just as if I was told that I might as well crawl and just lose some hope cause out here are too much questions left to be chasing around then is there more then this train ride pulling me down? Gold dancing leaves left on their beds are left to fool me in a breeze once left still I go where I know I'll just float like when I'm down underneath the wild fur oak and just gathering some leaves as if I were told I might as well crawl and just lose some hope cause out here are too much questions left to be chasing around now is there more than this train ride pulling me down? ©Early Settler
4.
Fårö 03:56
Was it me Who's waiting there by the sea Where out for miles A trapped forest on an island was the scene The unwanted script had no means Still beaten' by wind my weathered heart sings Like a once flowing vessel Washed a shore My mind it cares nothing Of wanting to do more Do I still need you like I ever have before? My worries they came and grew fast like untamed hurricanes I held tight on the mane while the steed galloped plains Through a village I went made my time there well spent It was you It was always you Through thick sifted dust I find a trace of your love You once damn gave to us When your around Please pardon me I'm Sometimes rude and unkind No I ain't much, but just this sound Ya I gave back, all I've found So rural it seemed Like a vacant country There suddenly, slowly I had left part of me Wandered cold on my own Shivered down through the bone The smoke from the cigarette couldn't calm my own soul It was you, that I needed Of all things, ever kept hid ©Early Settler
5.
For a While 03:55
Just slow it down there's a map on the floor see ima' go where it's bound like a ship in rough seas sure my heart gets a beating I've been through hell not worth seeing be gone for a while and will go where, some just don't dare Let a match light me up so I can feel the warmth when I did know I had you bright light turns the fog to dust down on the shoulder line of these damn-dead highways I'm a cub in the wild I run with only guesses we'll see where that leads me be gone for a while and will go where, some just don't dare would you follow me where I go? How are you dear? there's a storm at bay won't make it this time It's quiet in the wild the night grew of light lit my distance in sight be gone for a while and will go where some just don't dare cause I'm on the other side of the world tonight ©Early Settler
6.
Nothing Was 04:25
Chasing light so gone where you just fall to pieces like it was nothing but only yours an empty feeling Still I believe we were always on searching for a home, so gone it seems so I pull the rope to see what's on the other side of it but nothing was no, nothing was I watch you carry the weight of the world all the damage I had done now I've wakened up and can't learn to trust a settler on the run Still I believe we were always on searching for a home, so gone it seems so I pull the rope to see what's on the other side of it but nothing was no, nothing was Thought I'd gave enough oh, but I was a fool for it all like the dreams you light up I'm just passing through Still I believe Still I believe we were always on searching for a home, so gone it seems so I pull the rope to see what's on the other side of it but nothing was no, nothing was ©Early Settler
7.
Wildflowers 04:17
Out on this journey through these fields wildflowers she's picking up and wielding them closer now and such a distance she goes out on that same day I thought I heard your own rhythm screaming at the old fashioned bird that only wakes when you call I would run the fog to the end of the earth if I could just to see what's inside of that heart that's just misunderstood while traveling through the full bloom of June coming up soon Over the clearing to an old country road I'm swept through a time where in turn I will find myself lost in these early days with no please climbing these hilltops where light once stood still untangle these roots underneath I'm calling on out to you yet no words fill the air I would run through the fog to the end of the earth If I could just to see what's inside of that heart that's just misunderstood while traveling through the full bloom of June coming up soon Wild seasons changing with forceful winds blowing over fields I go when the hardest of all is seeing you take the fall like you know it that you'll fall backwards to keep pushing on I would run through the fog to the end of the earth if I could just to see what's inside of that heart that's just misunderstood I'm traveling through the full bloom of June and coming up soon ©Early Settler
8.
Alpine 04:30
I watch your curls fall touch the gravel beneath where they unfurl, they just mezmorize me whoa you are a sight to see like rubies from the ground you're a hypnotized gem in a flower garden you fill the earth with hearts made of stems my my you're the greater kind through me eyes that is hard to find In that moment she went alone It's getting harder to see her go from the top a mountain ridge , she's on the edge to drop a floating pitch across the sky that she once wrote for mockingbirds to guide but like caged bird I flew oh so sloom in your hands a tired heart, watch me crumble apart way down below,beside a mountain's back where shadow's go,but leave an empty track so back I went through the forest home where there no birds,no trees no singing grows but no, no I keep my heart at ease what calms my soul is deep beneath but in that moment she went alone its getting harder to see, what grows steady back home, swiftly on through the dark although my roads are painted gold no more I manage to find, what I've been climbing for there she stood I wont ignore ,the melodies as though the wild sleeps in the quite woods,nestled upon their backs yet so damn cold and no they don't look back ©Early Settler
9.
If things are real could it stand a chance against the storm that just wants to dance I see the light and it shimmers so bright lighting those days you've lost in sight When days grow I'm on my own like birds a soarin' mountainous heights If things are real could it stand a chance against your heart that just makes us laugh the snow now it falls and it blankets the land on which we grew but never knew When days grow I'm on my own just standing still with nowhere to go Without any sound high up in the trees yes a fluttering bird found it's way to me grasping a hold in the summer so cold flailing around to not hit the ground When days grow I'm on my own saying northern prairie please bring me home bring me home ©Early Settler
10.
Can we be like others wanting to go out on our own? tonight a star did fall deep into your open arms can we move like others lost in the world at night? Well it's news to me but it's old for you like a river flowing, flowing through that's how, I know it's true Why'd you spend your time picking up this mess of mine? I know my mind ain't still and neither is this heart to fill seems we're always trouble like that fox chasing sparrows Well it's news to me but it's old for you like a river flowing, flowing through that's how, I know it's true Can we see what others see? in a dream of just finding how to discover ones deep longing for what wasn't then and isn't now Yeah it's news to me but it's old for you like a river flowing, flowing through that's how, I know it's true ©Early Settler
11.
Two Kinds 03:42
Can you show me how to not live in doubt it's alive in me it's alive in you like walking backwards into a crowded room filled by Scandinavian laughter what's your heart running to now? are you drowning in hollow sound? Only you can see through these walls breaking where you fall is this hard? That light in those eyes puts empty aside now just, forget about worries that come cause shit don't mean much than none I'll leave this old town and my past at the door Cause all them folks don't ask how I've been Only you can see through these walls breaking where you fall Now is this hard? Can you feel the same of all you let go? no, I won't hold my breath around you cause darlin' we are going where we are bound and there's no going back no not, this time around ©Early Settler

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released April 30, 2015

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Early Settler California

Anthony Negrete is a 20 somethin' year old songwriter from Santa Barbara, California who began writing in late Winter 2011. After being caught within his native surroundings, finally came to discover which direction to go. Influenced by both the classic/modern Folk, Early Settler mixes raw vocals and always an adventure of a chorus. ... more

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