1. |
No Rules in Montana
04:05
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You can really breathe there honey
The hills are so green
It rains enough for all the years of rain I hadn't seen
Driving through that big sky I have never felt more free
There are no rules in Montana
And so shall it be with me
Oh how do you fill the time when the sun won't go down
Remember how you said the long light lasts forever in this town
When I get where I'm going
I'm taking this with me
I'm telling anyone who'll hear it
What I've learned and what I've seen
Why anything turns out the way it does is still unclear
But there are no rules in Montana
And so shall it be here
Rained harder than expected
But I made it up to you
Sitting by that river
Felt too good to be true
So did spending next to nothing
In them swinging door saloons
If it's possible to be drunk and saved I felt it there with you
Everything we did that night would've broken all the rules
But there were none in Montana
And there was nothing else to do
And nothing left to lose
Tell me it's okay
Tell me it's all good
Tell me that I'll see
You again real soon
Baby there's no answers
Don't ask questions, it's no use
There are no rules
There are no rules
There are no rules
There are no rules
There are no rules in Montana
Yeah there are no rules
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2. |
Hometown
04:30
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Mud on the fence post
Dry on the dirt road
Dust flying through my window
Foot down on the pedal so hard cause I had to go
Had to go
Radio broken
Heart like a violin
Sad song of leaving
But part of me is smiling
Hometown, hometown
You held my hand but you were dragging me down
Hometown, hometown
Had to go away but someday I'll come back around
I've done my time
I swear I know
Every switchback
Every back road
Every face
Every bottom side of every stone
Turned them over one by one
Till I was tired, till I was done
Now I'm following that river
Wherever it runs
Hometown, hometown
One man's heaven is another man's hell
Hometown, hometown
I didn't mean to hate you cause I knew you so well
Gave me what I needed
But I didn't stick around
Gave me all you had
I'd give anything to play a song for you now
Everything you had
You gave it to me free
You're still offering yourself
But I still know I had to leave
Hometown, hometown
One man's pain is another man's peace
Hometown, hometown
Just let me stay away until I'm ready
Hometown, hometown
Someday you and I will be old friends
Hometown, hometown
Just let me stay away until I'm ready to come back
Again
(the heart knows what the heart wants, but the mind travels more slowly
the heart knows what the heart wants in the end)
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3. |
State of My Heart
04:13
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Don't need to eat
If I keep drinking coffee
That's what I sometimes do
If you don't say don't you know what I'll do
I do some dumb things
No one's here to stop me
It's hard to keep track on my own
I'm making the rules as I go
What do you make
Of a perfectly good mistake
But try to make less as you go
You can only know what you know
I know I hurt you
My wounds they bled through
I'm sorry for the mess that it made
I promise you I left it on that big interstate
But I forgive me if I was out of line
That's just the state I was in at the time
You can't judge the whole thing
Based on just one part
That's just the state I was in
Not the state of my heart
Please forgive me if I was out of line
That's just the state I was in at the time
You can't judge the whole thing
Based on just one part
That's just the state I was in
Not the state of my heart
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I noticed I'm dreaming again
And remembering
And magically my feet
Have sunk into the sand
I've noticed I'm dreaming again
And remembering
Even if I don't like the dream
It's over by morning
And the morning comes early here
Something has happened
And what do I do
When the love I hold now
Beats the love that I knew
This place and its people
Have stolen my heart
Strange since I don't
Even know who they are
But who they are
Who they are is who I needed
I've noticed I'm dreaming again
And remembering
And everything I ever thought and said
Has been turned onto its head
And I can't stop smiling at that
So much beauty my eyes couldn't see
My mouth couldn't say 'cause my heart couldn't believe
The kindness that saved me
Pulled me out of the mud
On a lake in a town
I'd never heard of
Is this love
Or am I dreaming
I noticed I'm dreaming again...
I noticed I'm dreaming again
And remembering
And magically my feet
Have sunk into the sand
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5. |
Two Horse Town
03:02
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Gotta fill my time somehow
Got way too much being new in town
The freedom to fly on my own
Feels suspiciously just like being alone
Check the news but there isn't any
Wouldn't you know
Life in a two horse town moves just as slow
Gotta fill my time somehow
Checking signs, trying to find my way around
Running on fumes and belief
Life will someday once again make sense to me
Get a job and make ends meet
But why is everything a one way street
Check the forecast daily
But it always changes
Faster than any of my expectations
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6. |
St. Xavier
05:23
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Sunday morning, Outside looking in
Father passes in his pink stoll
It's nearly 10am
Light a candle for the season
Mornings have been so dark
But funny how
It's so much brighter with the snow
People come and go
But I'm always here you know
Would it be better
Never to touch you
Never to walk to
Never to see through
Your stained glass windows from the inside
St Xavier
Better
Always to wonder
Distantly under
The spell of your bell tower chime
And all that I know
Is when it will go
And how many times
You have me so beautifully mystified
St Xavier
They talk of miracles
And I know you believe
Every word and every note
You silently sing to me
But I can't bear ever to go inside
I fear to know
The truth that comes with being close
People come and go
But I'll be here at my window
Would it be better
Never to touch you
Never to walk to
Never to see through
Your stained glass windows from the inside
St Xavier
Better
Always to wonder
Distantly under
The spell of your bell tower chime
And all that I know
Is when it will go
And how many times
I'll keep your mystery alive
St Xavier
I was new in town
You swept me off my feet
But I prefer to keep
The road between you and me
Never to touch you
Never to walk to
Never to see through
Your stained glass windows from the inside
St Xavier
Better
Always to wonder
Distantly under
The spell of your bell tower chime
And all that I know
Is when it will go...
So far and yet so close
St Xavier
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7. |
4am
02:45
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Microwave
Squint to see the time
So damn late
Open to
The world inside your mind
What to do
Write it down
Before you lose your place
Record sound
Like a dream
A paper chase
What's it mean
Only you
Ever understand
Moonlit thoughts
With a pen in hand
Try them on
Bell tower chimes
Only one awake
At this time
I can hear
Anyone alone
Can also hear
4am
There is a magic to this time
And it comes but once a night
I can see
Anyone alone
Can also see
4am
There is a magic to this time
Here's to keeping it alive
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Theresa Peterson Boulder, Colorado
Her songs have been called "achingly beautiful" with themes that call up our deepest dreams & nostalgias. Peterson is taking her genre of Dreamamericana to the next level this new decade beginning with 5 self recorded & produced singles in 2020 & "No Rules in Montana," a self recorded & produced album in 2021, a tribute to treasures found on an unexpected journey. ... more
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