Jessica Heine - Figure It Out [Live]
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Captain My Captain
03:48
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You're under my skin
I'm in over my head
Been on the water so long
I don't believe that there's land
I've always followed your directions
Made your plans my own plans
So now if we are drowning
I will swim ‘til I can't
We're going down, we're going down
Ship is in the water,
Ship longs for the shore,
Ship searches for the lighthouse,
There's no light anymore
The water is cold, everyone is scared,
We're all looking to you captain
But you're still not prepared
We're going down, we're going down
Maybe after the drowning
We'll go somewhere warm
Find shelter in the darkness,
Quiet in the storm
Oh Captain, my captain,
You have steered the ship wrong
But I'll ride it down with you,
That's what I've always done
Nobody knows how much I care for you
Nobody knows what this love of mine can do
This love can part waters
This love withstands storms
This love is the brightness calling you back to shore
We're going down, we're going down
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Aspartame
03:00
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Wish I knew you long ago
We fell fast it happened slow
You're like nothing I've ever known
A flower growing where weeds were sewn
No I never ever ever in my whole damn life
Been with someone who feels so right
Been with someone who puts me first
Love's a lesson takes time to learn
And I'd wait, I'd wait,
I'd wait a life to learn
My old love was just aspartame
Words like sugar, the whole thing fake
You and he are not the same
The honey on your lips has the sweetest taste
And I'd wait, I'd wait,
I'd wait a life to try
Yes, I'd wait, I'd wait,
I'd wait a life for you
I have got my mind all made
I have got my anchor laid
You're like nothing I've ever known
A flower growing where weeds were sewn
And I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd wait a life for you
Yes, I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd wait a life for you
Well I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd wait a life for you
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I've got a fire, if you've got a match
We could light it
I've got a book, if you've got a pen
We could write it
Maybe I don't know how to start,
But something tells me the best part
Is trying to figure it out
Trying to figure it out
I found a road, if you've got a car
We could drive it
Throw out the map
Our destination undecided
Maybe the end isn't clear,
Maybe we'll stall, have to stay somewhere
But I'm sure we could figure it out
Together we'd figure it out
I've got a love, you've got a heart
We should try it
I've had my fill of playing it safe,
Living quiet
Maybe this wasn't the plan,
Maybe we'll fall and get hurt again
But I still say we figure it out
Let's try to figure it out
I still say let's figure it out
Let's try to figure it out
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I Wasn't Here
03:35
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Told me to come in from the cold
Take off my coat and make myself warm
So many miles, nothing's the same
You changed the lock, I changed my name
But I wasn't here, I wasn't here
I was still there cutting my teeth
on the heart of old winter
Cold like I was made only of bone
We built a fire as if it were a home
And as you forgot what you had forgotten
Oh, I started to warm with my hand in your pocket
But you weren't here, you weren't here
You were still there straining to hear
The footfalls of others
So you bide your time while I save up mine
We'll see who's best come the other side
Oh I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I wasn't here
I was still there
I was still there
But I wasn't here
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Easy to Please
02:35
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I'm choosing the life I lead
I'm deciding what's right for me
I'm spending some time in your town
I'm not easy to please
You just please me easily
I'm tracing the shape of your body
I'm charting a map of your land
I'm leaving a trail that will guide me
Before I am lost
I am lost
I'm rewriting my history
I'm relearning my anatomy
I'm redefining what matters to me
I'm not easy to please
You just please me easily
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Goodbye Party
04:43
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The weather ain't been right this year
Rain's been falling just like tears
As if the sky knew what was coming
Long before it came
The sun no longer wants to shine
Says, "Keep it grey, that's what I like."
It's easier to hide away in troubled times
I would like to hear a symphony
Music played instinctively
Performing out a song no one has heard
But had to play
People taking to the streets,
Unable to find words to speak
Form a choir, singing songs,
Send you joyfully back home
There are no words to say
Words get in the way
Of the magic and the mystery
Unfolding past what eyes can see
There are some things
Science does not answer
All the spaces that you used to fill
Now hanging untouched in the air
We were so used to what was freely given
What we could have without permission
Winter will be long I know
Frozen months of ice and snow
No promise of a coming spring
Will warm us with its thoughts
Summer's sun will have long been gone
Forgotten in a cold hard fall
But we'll look out our windows saying,
"It's still coming!"
I would like to think the soul sails on
Long after its ship is gone
Columbus heading for the sea,
A new world to explore
No compass and no map in hand,
No course to lay, no master plan
Set yourself, and let the wind
Take you joyfully back home
There are no words to say
Words get in the way
Of the magic and the mystery
Unfolding past what eyes can see
There are some things
Science does not answer
All the spaces that you used to fill
Now hanging untouched in the air
We were so used to what was freely given
What we could have without permission
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Be Gentle with My Heart
02:00
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There are some things sure to break
Days and bones and glass and waves
And this small thing now yours to take
Be gentle with my heart
Many, many years ago
I thought that it could not be torn
But now I'm old enough to know
Be gentle with my heart
The world has been an unsafe place
Where tenderness was met with hate
Now in a very fragile state
Be gentle with my heart
And if my eyes are full of tears
Help me still my life learned fears
Learned in all my prior years
Be gentle with my heart
Damaged in my life of old
It became just mine to hold
I find myself now letting go
Be gentle with my heart
There are some things sure to break
Days and bones and glass and waves
And this small thing now yours to take
Be gentle with my heart
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You came upon me
As winter was turning
Spring bursting out at the seams
You said "Mrs. Montgomery,
Who's your lovely daughter?"
But you were too broken to keep
All things being equal,
We'd never be parted
We'd dive in carelessly
But as it is standing,
You've already thrown your hand in
And all that remains is debris
I could have loved you better,
But that don't mean anything
I could see right through to her
Starling song upon you
No matter what you said to me
A girl learns to know when someone's
Given up the ghost
Before she starts falling
I could have loved you better,
But that don't mean anything
Wish I'd a knew ya,
Before she got to ya
I bet you were something to see
A man of conviction,
Who loved without condition
A man who wore his heart on his sleeve
I could have loved you better,
But hey now what does that mean?
I could have loved you better,
But that don't mean anything
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When You Loved Me
04:58
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When you loved me,
Never worried your heart wasn't it
Had no reason to think you would quit
If things got hard
Now it's a sad state of affairs
I went all in for nothing
Though my house was full, you got me
Straight and a flush, yeah you left me
With nothing to hold
When you loved me,
Carried it with me like a blanket
Kept me warm at night, protected,
Safe in your arms
Now it's a sad state of affairs
You bought the farm for someone
You didn't even know, yeah you took her
Gave her our home, and you left me
With no place of my own
And I didn't know what I was losing
Didn't know that it could be lost
I didn't know you didn't feel it,
The way that I thought
Maybe I should have known that something
Should have known something wasn't right
But you never told me,
You never showed me
So how could I?
When you loved me,
There was no ending to our beginning
I lived it all as if I had some new thing
That would never get old
Now it's a sad state of affairs
Me wanting more
And you've got nothing
Nothing more to give
I remember, while you forget
There was a time
When you loved me
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When Alice turned twenty,
Thought we'd move to the country
'Til she said she'd rather be a buccaneer
So I bought us a boat and said, "Honey, let's float."
She tired of sailing that same year
We were young and in love, I said,
"Whatever you want,
It's yours to take if you dare."
My Alice, she smiled, and then she said goodbye
She said, "I'm going to take it all
and there's no room for you there."
Oh Alice, oh Alice, to the moon with you Alice
Why did you have to go?
Was it your dreams or was it money
Did I stop being funny?
The thing about Alice is, you just never know
I followed her smile in the New York Times
I couldn't help but be drawn to her face
She became someone's wife,
But she was larger than life
She left him crying out her name
Then stopped by to recover,
She said, "I missed you old lover."
But when I asked if she'd stay for a while
She would only say, "We'll see."
That's when I knew she would leave
So I took all I could for that time
Oh Alice, oh Alice, to the moon with you Alice
Why did you have to go?
Was it your dreams or was it money
Did I stop being funny?
The thing about Alice is, it's better not to know
Wouldn't surprise me to hear
That she's heading for the stars
Even the world can't tie a girl like her down
If I do hear one day that she's going into space
I'll send a warning to that man up in the moon
If he's a doubter, I'll say,
"You've never lived without her.
Once you've had a little, you only want more."
I'll say, "You may know about the skies,
but let me tell you about goodbyes,
And the thing about Alice is,
you wish she would stay."
Oh Alice, oh Alice, to the moon with you Alice
Why did you have to go?
Was it your dreams or was it money
Did I stop being funny?
The thing about Alice is, you just never know
The thing about Alice is, I still miss her so
The thing about Alice is, it's better not to know
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Jessica Heine Edmonton, Alberta
Singer/songwriter Jessica Heine's dynamic voice shakes rooms – she’s a classically trained vocal performer. But her passion is the power of song, shared through the folk tradition.
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