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Open Sea

by Hans Chew

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Give Up The Ghost Well it's hard for you to shake off that old cloak When it’s swaddled you like hands that love you most You're tethered up and down By the old familiar sounds And you’ve never really given up the ghost Reflections on a shallow placid mind High above the grey canyon I fly My shape is shifting by Shadow falling nigh Upon the thoughts below the reasons why Let me show you how It’s hidden up my sleeve Traces of my vain attempts to leave Only one way out You can't fail to succeed The horror of my borrowed fantasy I didn’t want to hurt but didn’t care You know I had my own true love to bear I can feel your power I still feel you stare I just bare my teeth and suck the air You're too hard on the man you try to be Could’ve let him off with a warning Don’t try too hard Follow your instinct Never give a thought what they may think Let me show you how It’s hidden up my sleeve Traces of my vain attempts to leave Only one way out You can't fail to succeed The horror of my borrowed fantasy Fishes in a barrel flop and jerk All of the apostles just watch him work Down among the shore hungry mouths scream war In the dark the morning star lurks Others seem to feel it, never me Out here free of any gravity Living by the spoonful Every passing moon full Carries me out further from my dreams
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Cruikshanks 08:11
Cruikshanks He hides wooden plank 'Neath pleated pant leg Make no mistake He will never beg He’d rather shoot straight Than come out ahead But he'll give you the shank And leave you for dead He doesn’t feel things at all Not how he wants to He’s not afraid he will fall He's never had to His head how it shines It rings all the time Disguising dull mind While he scavenges by Like all birds of prey Judge the quick and the dead He keeps them at bay With his swinging peg leg He doesn’t feel things at all Oh how he wants to He’s not afraid he will fall He’s never had to Chorus: Oh crooked man With your hands ablaze Can you fan away the flames Oh broken man, Broken man, stand up straight On the cinders of your shank You can call him the snake Or crooked Cruikshanks His own skin he hates So off it will shake His rattle is plain His body the cage The glass is his brain Don’t you tap on his pane He doesn’t feel things at all Oh how he wants to He’s not afraid he will fall He’s never had to Chorus He slithers away Off to his lair Afraid of the day And women so fair No one can say What made him break You'd better take care For he lies in wait Chorus
3.
Open Sea 07:00
Open Sea When the road you’re on you know's going nowhere No place you’d rather be Into the misty mountains high who slowly show their Old faces like in dreams There are places you can go Like New Orleans or Buffalo But the wind will take you in Blowing onward Unto the open sea When the place you wanna go’s fallen under Pillars of history Will you look back through salty eyes And blindly wonder At the meaninglessness of your dreams There are places you can go Like your hometown or some unknown But the wind will take you in Blowing onward Unto the open sea When the ground you’re standing on Opens upwards Swallowing you up whole You will tell by the smell Rain and thunder And the great stirring in your soul There are places you will go Heaven thereof or hell although The wind within will take you in Blowing onwards Unto the open sea
4.
Who Am Your Love? Who am I to forget it? Who lets go to beget it? Going where you’ll do well to remember The one who's there Who must bear Nothing rendered Who was there to conceive it? Who did swear their allegiance? The one who cares will not be spared from the tinder And nothing’s fair So who will dare To try and mend her? Out of the black it comes Down from the night above To burn the question of: Who am your love? Who am your love? Who will fail to conceal it? To pull the veil and reveal it? The one who shares cannot give theirs What they can’t gather The mind prepares What the heart ensnares Forever after Out of the black It comes Down from the night above Burning questions of: Who am your love? Who am your love?
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Freely 09:08
Freely Air is rushing into my nose Certain scenes I have played before I am sure Only sounds are the flapping clothes Freely falling in blackness goes All I’ve known You must not know of my mind unclothed Ego frozen naked alone I’m unsure Earth shrugs shoulders, time waits alone Rising falling collapse explode Think of home
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Extra Mile 06:43
Extra Mile When I was a young boy my papa told me son There’s always one more mile a man can run And that was a long way back in the place I started from And I’ve spent all my life tryin to see his song was sung I got older then my mama told me son You must be careful now consider what you’ve done And I've looked back sometimes try to find how far I've come On a man's advice and a diet of bread crumbs...and he said: Chorus: I won’t be with you on the road I won’t be there when you come home I will be the man you’ll never know Son there’s always one more mile to go Fifth of October I count them every one Fourth of November and I still have my fun And I think back sometimes to the life you left undone Forty years gone by, lord and you're still forty young I remember when I knew your race was run ‘Cause just before then you whispered to me son Well I say win or lose for me you’re number one But I still find myself tryin to become someone...and he said: Chorus When I was a young boy my papa told me son There’s always one more mile a man can run And that was a long time gone In a place I’ve hardly known And I spent all my life Tryin to remember my home...where he said: Chorus

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released December 1, 2017

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Hans Chew New York, New York

Perhaps best known for his keyboard work with other artists like D. Charles Speer, Jack Rose, Endless Boogie, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Steve Gunn, Hans Chew has established himself as a versatile singer, songwriter and performer in his own right. His 2010 debut album Tennessee & Other Stories… received 4 stars from Rolling Stone and was heralded by Uncut as one of the top 25 albums of the year. ... more

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