1. |
The Wilderness
04:06
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THE WILDERNESS
Here we go
Through the old wilderness
By the slow
Rivers of the unexplained
Put your face close
Just like this
And don’t bow down
In the midnight rain
No candle no regret
No remorse
In the fields of fantasy
And doubt
We’ll do our best
Just to stay the course
If there’s no guide
To show us out
Cause
I’ve got everything I want
When I’m near you
When I’m near you
I’ve got everything I want
When I’m near you
When I’m near you
I’ve got everything I want
When I’m near you
When I’m near you
I’ve got everything I want
When you’re near me too.
And it won’t matter
What song the heavens sing
We’ve no ladder
And we’ve no wing
And the sorrow armies
That they send
No I’m not going
I’m not going with them
Chorus
I’m standing in the forest
With no place to hide
They said life is short
But maybe it’s wide
I’m steady as a mountain
That’s made up of sand
I look to you now
I look to you now.
Chorus
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2. |
Standing On The Rock
04:47
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STANDING ON THE ROCK
It’s a constant spin
But you fall right in
Find your shoes
Upon the shelf
And you follow
The road
With a secret code
That leads you
To yourself
Can you hear
That lovely sound
Coming from the
Great highway
Oh it’s how it’s done
Here beneath the sun
Standing on the rock
This way
It’s an easy walk
it’s a heavy talk
And some things
That you don’t know
But a steady mind
Will seek and find
And play it as you go
Cause it’s everyone
Here beneath the sun
Makes it up
Along the way
On an easy walk
And a heavy talk
Standing on the rock
This way
When it gets real rough
Can you stand real tough
When the push
It comes to shove
And the shine gets dull
And you’re vulnerable
And you cannot
Feel the love
Can you hear
That lovely sound
Coming from the
Great highway
When the going’s rough
Can you stand real tough
Standing on the rock
This way
The meaning of the mission
Is not to hesitate
You show some
kind of kindness
And shutter out the hate
I’m going up the mountain
And howl at the moon
Be thankful that
I’m earthbound
Cause farewell
Comes too soon
It’s a rolling pride
You can feel inside
As you move from
Here to there
Got the universe
Inside your purse
And a fortune in the air
Can you hear
That lovely sound
Coming from the
Great highway
It’s a kind of pride
That you feel inside
Standing on the rock
This way.
Do you lie awake
Do you have more cake
Has the world been
Called unfair
Breathe in you’re born
Breathe out you’re gone
Do you think you
Got your share
No there's never need
for more greed
We’ve enough to
Last the day
Hope you understand
Well i think you can
Standing on the rock
This way
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3. |
You're The Reason
04:14
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YOU’RE THE REASON
Cross the valley
From the beaches
Mama likes to
Call you peaches
Barefoot through the
Woods you like to go
Ragamuffin
What’s you knowin’
Like a flower
You be growin’
You’re the reason
That I call this home
La da da da da da
da da da da da
La da da da
da da da da da
La da da da da da
da da da da da
La da da da da
da da da da
Midnight walking
Through the hills
By the secret daffodils
Redwood bark and
Meadow lark you know
Even down the
Miwok trail
Moonlight seems so
Very pale
You’re the reason
That I call this home
Oh shine like water
On your face
Sons and daughters
Take your place
Laughing houses
Skies of gold
Shadows come and
Shadows fold away
Hear what I say
The night and the day
Hear what I say
The reason to stay is you
Maybe on the San Andres
Someone’s gonna
Have to save us
Underneath an
Ever changing dome
All the beauty
Of a painting
Wonder why it’s
Captivating
You’re the reason
Why I call this home
Ranchers writers
Farmers poets
Even mother nature
Knows it’s
Still the bee that
Makes the honeycomb
You’re the light house
In the dark
You’re the bright spot
And the spark
You’re the reason
Why I call this home
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4. |
Beside You
04:53
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BESIDE YOU
In a town in Mexico
Just before a big rainstorm
They were huddled
On the floor
When the baby child
Was born
And the wind blew so hard
Everyone had to leave
Left the baby and a little
Picture of St. Anthony
Oh the pain and the joy
Fallin’ rain it’s a boy
Took a priest just to say
I will stay beside you
Heard my dad had a job
In some uptown club
Met a senorita at the door
And they fell in love
They would dance very wild
And by chance had a child
And he turned with a smile
And said I will stay
Beside you
In the silence of a
Big city motel room
Mary sat humming
Billie Holiday’s tune
Stormy night lucky charm
With a needle in your arm
I can help I can harm
But I will stay beside you
After all of this you and I
Come to Lovers Ledge
I had thought a lot before
I could give my pledge.
All the rain underground
One way up one way down
One way up no way round
And I go on beside you
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5. |
The Hideaway
06:16
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THE HIDEAWAY
Who am I dancing lonely
Through the city streets
Criticized still somehow
I’m standing on my feet
Movin’ on there’s no way
That you can change the
Past, maybe why that’s
Why nothing
Ever seems to last
I didn’t think about it
I didn’t think about
The night or day
I didn’t think about it
I didn’t think of what
I’d have to say
But here am I all alone
No place I can call my home
Standing out in the falling
Rain and I’m slipping back
To the hideaway
Here am I here am I
Here am I
There I go moving down
The sidewalk dead of night
By myself I can make it
Through the toughest time
Feel the glow passing just
Below the neon light
It might know but I don’t
Think that It will tell me why
I never thought about it
I never thought about the
Falling rain
I never wondered bout it
I never thought of what
Would remain
But here I am all alone no
Place to stand no place to
Roam and I’m wondering
Where oh I could stay
And I’m fallIn back to
The hideaway
Oh here I am all alone
No place I
Can call my own
Standing out in
The falling rain
I’m slipping back
To the hideaway
Here I am here am I
Here I am
Here am I
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6. |
Wonderful Mind
04:50
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WONDERFUL MIND
Well pardon me please
Mr. Wizard
A moment if you will
We’ve got a terrible problem
And we can not keep still
There is a light that is missing
The light they say we keep
Not in the field of science
But buried somewhere deep
Oh mystery of humankind
You’ve left kindness
Far behind
Let your heart go start
And see what you can find
There in your wonderful mind
You’ve got to stand back
And wonder just how
We get it wrong
Is it a spell that we’re under
That we can’t get along
We’ve got the world by the tail
Ideas that reach the sun
But here on the smallest
Of scale we can’t live as one
Chorus
I get so very low, I get so
Weary asking why and still
I just don’t know. you know
It makes me want to cry
Show me a light in your
Window or a smile upon
Your face we’ll dive the
Depths of the ocean and
Look through outer space
How do you care for each
Other and never be so mean
Is this be the greatest
Invention
That we have never seen
Chorus
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THE BALLAD OF OSCAR GRANT
I put my hands in my pockets
And I go uphill
All I wanna do is get my fill
Hang out with my boys
And just move on
Oh New Years night baby
New Years Eve
They held me down
So’s I just could not leave
I tell you it ain’t nothin’ new
But it’s wrong
And the cops got there
From a 911
It should have never ever
Ever have been done
It should have never ever
Ever been allowed
Oh cause right there
Near the subway track
They put a bullet
Into this young boy’s back
And the cries go up
And they do not come down
Now way down yonder
In a hollow tree
There is a whole lot of things
That were meant to be
And a whole lot of things
That just won’t do
And the cops go crazy
And they shot him down
And the camera is a witness
When he’s on the ground
Yeah the camera is a witness
Just like you
There is a line in the justice
And it’s black and white
And everyone knows the truth
Is wrong or right
Everyone except a very
Mixed up mind
And the leaves are shakin’
In a poison wind
We turn around and wonder
How to begin
And the best we can do is wish
That we were colored blind
Now take your roses
Put them on my back
I’ll be riding high up
On the subway track
I’ll be riding up high yeah
Yeah that’s me
And I climb the hills
In Oakland town
I’m gonna visit everyone
From then and now
I’m gonna visit everyone
With my arms waving free
Tell my mama and my child
And my sweetheart dear
Tell them I will always
Be waiting here
We can see each other
Even when they can’t
Oh yeah and when the world
Is really not so free
They’re gonna think about
Johannes Mehserle
And he’s gonna have to think
about Oscar Grant.
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8. |
Postcard From America
06:54
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POSTCARD FROM AMERICA
I got a postcard from America
You know she’s having a real
Hard time And all the things
She’s been working on she’s
Got to leave them all behind
Standing on the road
To freedom, everyone is
Looking out you take a
Beating without reason
And you just want to shout
All the news and endless lying
You never wanna lose
Your soul you hang on and
You don’t stop trying
Oh no no oh no
Cause I’m never gonna never
Gonna Never gonna let you
Down No I’m never gonna
Never gonna Never gonna
Let you down Oh no never
Gonna let you down, Oh no
Never gonna let you down.
Oh that’s not my America
At least that’s not what
I recall you know my heart
Belongs to America
I’d hate to ever see her fall
Chorus
Here I am I will meet you like
The morning sun
Take my hand I will help you
Till the work is done
I can see darkness falling
On your amber waves
Trust in me won’t you trust me
When you hear me say
Chorus
Well I’m looking for my soul
and I can’t go back
Well I’m looking everywhere
In a night so black
Yeah I’m looking everywhere
but I lost it along the way
Maybe I lost it in a busy life
I was too distracted
To see what’s right
Maybe I lost it
Somewhere along the way
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9. |
These Rooms
04:11
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THESE ROOMS
There’s an old willow tree
And it’s talking to me and
It’s power is bigger than I
And I’ve been thinking a lot
About all that I got
In these moments
Where fortune is mine
Well all of the streets
They are covered in ash
And the moon
Has lost all it’s glow
But here in these rooms
Where the honesty blooms
There is something
I wanted to know
Well the drunkards all lie
Junkies fall from the sky
And there’s a mountain
Of things to confess
And you can’t make it alone
If you’re straight you’re
Stoned oh rain down some
Willingness
And maybe they come
Just to quiet the drum
And try not to step on the
Truth to hell and then back
They find a heaven’s intact
And they stand there
Like living proof
It’s a long way to travel
Just to get to the start
You see your chains all
unravel And breathe it in
till you begin Yeah
you’ll begin to feel your heart
Now I’ve been here awhile
On the miracle mile and
There’s always something
To cheer. Through the sliver
And crack With your hand
On my back I can stare
Down whatever I fear
And all of the streets
Have somehow been paved
With a wisdom as welcome
As gold And here in these
Rooms where the honesty
Blooms I’m as grateful for
All that they hold
There’s an old willow tree
And it’s bigger than me
And I keep it locked
In my mind
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10. |
The Galleria
07:20
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THE GALLERIA
It’s springtime
In the Central Park
I think it’s Easter too
Everything is rising up
Like Jesus used to do
And lilac trees and
Yellow bees and a bridge to
Lead the way like maybe
Something you might see
In a painting by Monet
I’m looking up the avenue
Inspired to pretend
I wanna feel like artists do
When they finally do ascend
How you gonna find
How you gonna follow
How you gonna find
And follow your muse
Well baby it’s you
When we’re laughing
In the afternoon
Dancing in the galleria
When we’re laughing
In the afternoon
Dancing in the galleria
It’s Friday night the lamps
Are high there in the studio
The Spanish music’s coming
Up from the little street
Below The model poses on
The couch the paint is
Crimson red she puts the
Rose into her mouth and
Tosses back her head “No
I don’t care just what
They say. They’ve got some
Kind of nerve. You cannot
Service art that way. No
It’s me it’s gotta serve”
Chorus
I’m looking through the
Window pane I’m
Riding on an uptown train
I’m looking for something
That’s true
I’m turning up the sky
And ground I won’t know it
Till its found
But I’m gonna bet it looks
A lot like you.
Oh resurrect and reinvent
And push it through the
Strife Picasso all that time
He spent couldn’t
draw a hand to save his life
Now Jesus steps out
Of the cave says “ Tell me
what’d I miss. ”
He scratched his head
And looked around, said
“Who made all of this?”
Now Art is Nature’s
Harmony It’s work to
Get it done You only
Cross the bridge you see
With fierce imagination.
Chorus
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11. |
Step Lively
04:48
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STEP LIVELY
In a cafe round the corner
You’ve emptied up your cup
Everyone’s looking down
Cause everyone’s wired up
And if you’re growin’ weary
There’s plenty left to prove
And time is moving faster
And it’s begging you to move
Well how you gonna keep
Your lights on baby
How you gonna do your job
When everything about it
Just drives you crazy
And you really don’t like it
Really don’t like it
Really don’t like it much at all
Step lively
You’re bound to catch a glimpse
Get a view of a new sensation
Step lively
You’ll know it when you eyes
Go wide in the conversation
Step lively
You’re driving in your car
Like a star neath the
Constellations
Step lively
Cause that’s the way
The world’s gonna need you
And you and you and you
And you Yeah that’s the way
The world needs you
And if you’re undecided
Just do what you do best
You shouldn’t try and hide it
It’ll never give you rest
Your mystery’s discovered
That chair won’t go no where
And time is standing still
By just you being there
Chorus
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12. |
Paradise
05:28
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PARADISE
The weary hour the
Blackened dream
This paradise
Ain’t what it seems
We gather with the crowd
Out in the dawn
And the cars and chairs
The seesaw swing
The photographs
And diamond ring
I know they’re somewhere
Here but gone
And when the world
Falls out the sky
We lift it back up way up high
And struggle with
Our question why
On our way to Paradise
It’s misery will kick you down
You’re lost awhile
Until you’re found
And mercy comes to whisper
In your ear
The memories won’t
Go the grave
It’s always you
We wish to save
Cause smoke and flame
Will always disappear
And oh what kind
Of paradise
The angels and their sacrifice
Oh love will never have
A price no no no oh
I’m going out where I belong
I’ll keep you with me
In a song
And sing it like a cloud
Into the air
You look around
And find anew
And find the thing
Will work for you
And dust off any ashes
From your prayer
And when the world
Falls out the sky
We lift it back up way up high
And answer any question why
On our way to paradise
Jesse DeNatale -Vocal, Guitar,
Keyboard, Harmonica
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Jesse DeNatale California
Jesse DeNatale has released four critically acclaimed records: Shangri-La West (2000), Soul Parade (2006), The Wilderness
(2021) and The Hands of Time (2023). His music has been described as evocative & hopeful, a combination of poetry and storytelling
"A unique and original American voice"- Tom Waits
"The Bard of Tomales Bay"- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
"A dynamic tune-fountain"- Billy Collins
... more
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