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Goodbye Raven

by Shawn Waggoner

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1.
Boat 03:58
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Boat My boat floats through memories and dreams My boat floats through memories and dreams Requires no compass for navigation Sails the horizon of imagination A delicate skin guards against the unknown Never sacrificed to fire once it is worn Left to die on the shore No longer it floats In death it gives life to other boats Light as a paper cup I dance on the stream Entranced by flotsam I hear fishes sing Delirious skies Wind lends me wings Drifting in exile this feels like a dream She’s a life giving mother She protects like no other In a floating universe My boat floats through memories and dreams My boat floats through memories and dreams Requires no compass for navigation Sails the horizon of imagination I bale out the sadness I bale out the water Master these waves Like a true ocean’s daughter… COPYRIGHT SHAWN WAGGONER 2012
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Placebo 02:59
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Placebo The color of the pill dictates if you are ill I can see if you hold very still that you won’t or maybe you will What you represent helps disguise ugly intent Are you straight or are you bent? You are better than the real thing Cause you are good at nothing You are better than the real thing Cause you are good at nothing You’ll never be as cool as the idea of you To dig you reality’s through, and I’ll pack up my dignity, too Your subliminal call inspires your minions to crawl Best medicine’s none at all Their belief in you transcends common sense or making amends Loving you like popular trends will fade if they open their eyes Bound by self imposed ties they choose not to be wise COPYRIGHT SHAWN WAGGONER 2012
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Smoke Signals 03:03
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Smoke Signals It’s 2 am, I dial the telephone Inside the phone booth my breath forms a cloud I’m trying to get a message to you I put on a Springsteen record As the black vinyl spins inside the music I go I’m trying to get a message to you Millions of letters on fine paper Swirling and flying through the air A blizzard of words, green apple perfume Encircles your house Then burns and descends Sleeping bag, transistor radio The nights are not as long with voices from so far away I’m trying to get a message to you Smoke signals From the top of the hill Going nowhere Truth is too hard to hear Can you feel my words Kissing your cheek Smoke signals Of the secrets that I keep Copyright 2012 Shawn Waggoner
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Farewell Liberty 01:24
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Farewell Liberty There's a cowboy hat tumbling down the boulevard There's a thundercloud overhead, and the wind is blowing hard He's running down the street I'm calling out his name He's running down the street... COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Green Shoes 02:53
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Green Shoes Green velvet shoes One for me and one for you And when the angels call you home My green shoes will walk alone As green as forests where we ran We dreamt of queens in foreign lands But you’ve been called where I cannot go And my green shoes will walk alone Into the wild you’ll wander far A firefly sprung from a jar Though I’ll miss you dear Take my leave of you here I’ll wait for you In these green shoes Straight as the arrow flies Heart as pure as clear blue skies The truth is yours and all you really own And your green shoes must walk alone COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Down and Out Inside 03:53
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Down and Out Inside Waves crash Sing to the shore Mutes all the color from the life I had before I can’t go back there I can’t go back, cause I was Down and out Down and out inside Down and out Down and out inside Surrender Fingers clenched so tight Ocean winds will guide you like a loose abandoned kite Too lovely to be lost Too lovely to be Tears fall Flowers start to grow The biggest diamonds heartache buries in the snow Just a reminder Of what’s left behind there COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Goodbye Raven 02:35
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Goodbye Raven In the alley there’s a raven on a telephone pole Tapping out a song, but he aint home, He flies out to the train tracks, can’t wait til he gets back to his condo beneath the wires of the phone On the table there’s a box in my mother’s home I’m spilling out all over, I am gone She sees me on the floor there, underneath the black and blue chair, smiles and puts a clean fresh apron on Come on Summer, we’ve waited so long Flowers in your eyes are all but gone Car alarms and sirens replace the sound of rain Bring back starry night skies, bring back barefoot dreams Go on Raven, fly again Over trailer parks and burned out tents You’ll fly higher, than last summer Higher than we’ve seen Keep on going Raven til all the fields turn green You cannot return You cannot return All the bridges burn You cannot return Goodbye Raven Copyright 2012 Shawn Waggoner
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Butterfly 04:05
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Butterfly Thoughts flit from blossom to blossom Drinking up golden pollen Trying to get to the bottom Of what’s happening here in the garden From cocoon ideas release New wings permit me with ease To light on petals that tease, “drink all the nectar you please” Dreams ought to live free A transformation others can’t see Part butterfly, part bee Angels release you on the shores of the sea This gathering thrills me, on flowers I sit! No, not one regret A dreamer I’ve been and yet I willingly enter your net Copyright 2012 Shawn Waggoner
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Be Your Eternity 03:41
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Be Your Eternity Hang your love upon a tree that stretches far beyond the sky and holds within its branches green the answer to the question: why Cast your hope out on the sea of foamy purple peace and love, which crashes on the shores of now to tell us of a world above Slow down, see what you see Slow down, you are what it means Be your eternity Snowflake perfect, so pristine, descends upon us like a diamond rain from heaven sent to tell us secrets of the universe Sunset so sublime, serene, surreal it takes us on a journey to the deepest open soul inside a crystal shining mind Slow down, see what you see Slow down, you are what it means Be your eternity Giant marble spinning on its axis to an ever-changing song we sing about the past, the future and the here and now Brilliant stars up in the sky invite us to delight in shimmer, contemplate the love of millions gazing from the ground below COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Too Late Train 02:26
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Too Late Train It’s too late to stay here It’s too late to go home It’s too late to say you’re sorry It’s too late you’re on your own Like a train in your station, I pull away so slow Like a train in your station, I pull away so slow My goodbyes rain down As the black train moans When this train leaves the station Your pain becomes your own My goodbyes rain down I smile I’m alone COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Map 03:35
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Map Zero degrees latitude Midpoint between the poles Earth, sun, moon, star Celestial circles unfold If eyes are a map to the soul On this tundra of new fallen snow Your agenda shrouded in blue velvet robes Your eyes are a map to the soul Mark the secrets Track the words Your world on its slow-turning globe Rhumb lines scar your face Travel the world by the map of your hand Smile often leave that in your place No inroads to answers Only pathways to now Weather vane turns with a south wind Follow a slow moving cloud Follow a slow moving cloud COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Mango 04:23
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Mango She’s the sweetest lil pony this side of the Brazos And mango is her name She’s a creamy colored orange with big brown eyes And a root beer colored mane When the stars begin to tease The sun cries herself to sleep I wanna chase these ghosts away Out of the dark dry desert in the middle of my soul That’s never seen the rain I saddle up my Mango Saddle up and Ride Saddle up my Mango Gonna take her for a ride From the Grand Canyon right to the bright Marfa Lights I had Mango by my side In the Mohabi desert I saw a thousand sunsets Each one made me content enough to die To die To die Mango let’s me ride her let’s me sit right her beside her Til we break the edge of day In the early morning twilight the sweet smell rises from the dewdrops on the hay I’d like to think tonight she’ll be sleeping in the shadows instead of racing fields of black But I know when daylight leaves us and voices overcome me I’ll be on Mango’s back Saddle up and Ride Saddle up my Mango Gonna take her for a ride Ride my lil Mango Chasing ghosts away It’s only cause of mango I’ll live another day COPYRIGHT 2012 SHAWN WAGGONER
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Black Coffee 03:47
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Black Coffee Black coffee, full cup, I’ve been waitin' for you to show up I’ve been sittin’ here at this diner since 9 And I’m about to give up I hear the music from the barn dance Coming down the lane One more lump of sugar and another cup of pain It’s the perfect evening for a summer dance This shindig gives us all the chance To don our Sunday best And head out for the VFW west But like many times since we’ve been courtin’ You’re somewhere else and you’re covortin’ Time moves slower than a winter’s day When they’re playing Turkey in the Hay And I’m cooped up with this cup o’ Joe This cup is all I’ve got to hold I keep on drinking though it’s long gone cold Like your love for me I guess you’d rather be drinkin’ tea, You’re the sugar in my coffee You’re the whiskey in my tea Darlin’ you are everything that’s bad for me The dance is over and here I sit I bleed espresso and you’re not here yet I’m percolating I’m steamin' mad I’m seein stars and I’m seein’ plaid Black Coffee, full cup All you Casanovas better listen up If you want your gal to kiss your lips instead of sippin’ on a cup Walk the straight and narrow Don’t you sidestep on your way Then you’ll never have to hear your baby say COPYRIGHT SHAWN WAGGONER 2012
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My Perfect Death 04:17
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My Perfect Death The cold gray winter The cold gray sky The cold gray of winter No tears left to cry My baby’s gone this winter My baby’s gone for good He heard the call of another Far beyond the frozen wood Like markers of heartbreak each step tells a tale Beyond the crop circles the secret’s revealed Tracks of an ending snowflakes fill Spring thaw will reveal that I loved him still At the edge of the frozen wood He entered here I now stand where he stood My plan like fine cloth unfurled in my mind This day will end as only it could The deep black of winter Midnight falls Stars bid goodnight, last kiss from moonlight And into the wild I go I go I go Copyright 2012 Shawn Waggoner
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Farewell Liberty Reprise 01:44
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In 2011, Shawn Waggoner began work on her fifth cd, Goodbye Raven, which marks a departure for the singer songwriter in its full band sound. From rockers like Boat and Placebo to the ambient and beautiful Butterfly and My Perfect Death, lyrics and melody weave a mesmerizing tale for both the emotional and intellectual listener.

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released September 7, 2012

All songs written by Shawn Waggoner.

THE BAND:
Shawn Waggoner: vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar
Greg Schochet: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo
Mark Raynes: drums, percussion
David Farrell: acoustic and electric bass
Eric Moon: keyboards, accordion
Glenn Taylor: pedal steel
Jefferson Hamer: background vocals on Be Your Eternity
Halden Wofford: vocals on Black Coffee

Produced by Colin Bricker and Shawn Waggoner. Recorded and mixed by Colin Bricker at Mighty Fine Productions, Denver. Mastered by David Farrell. Liner note artwork, Feral Child, by Judith Schaechter. Graphic design by Woody Myers.

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Shawn Waggoner began her music career in Austin, as the lead singer of the successful blues band, Blue Recluse. In '97, the band went on hiatus and Waggoner composed songs for her first cd, Contemplating Cacti. With a new focus on original, acoustic music, Waggoner teamed up with bassist David Farrell for three more cds. Each made its mark on the alternative-folk and Americana genres. ... more

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