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Trailerpark Opera

by Rik Leaf

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1.
Sam (free) 05:23
A mother’s afraid of this child who isn’t She’ll press near her skin the words of confusion And make sense of them She’s left like a stone cold in the garden surrounded The chaos that breeds the order she breathes Is welcome I love when the words call (refrain) I love when the words crawl from her tongue and they call out to me and crawl over me and they fall over me She listens inside the silence she finds expressing Her lips make a gate to let me escape serenity A night with no mourning light without heat warms me Like guilt without sin she steals the peace of my mind
2.
Speaks Much Better (free) 04:04
Open your eyes to see what's before you Please say a prayer, to open your mind Reach deep inside Pull back the blinds Until the light fills your mind And you wonder, how could I have missed this till now? I don't know why But today feels better I don't know why But it speaks much better to me Speak with your life The beauty is simple Please would you take the time To listen awhile
3.
Convictions (free) 03:35
I sing when I’m happy I scream when I’m mad I sink in depression I waver a lot I hold my convictions in the palm of my hand Until the time to let them sink or swim Then I sing of our life together When we lived like brothers And the day that we fell Out of touch as much as time I have written the note That says goodbye forever I resist temptation But last night I took it home I live my life messy Like it’s one big mistake I talk a lot when I drink I talk a lot when I don’t
4.
Calling Out (free) 03:15
5.
Only Been a Week (free) 03:11
My life before I met you, was like a photograph It’s a color picture that I lived in black and white. I hate looking in my mirror; I hate standing in my eyes It’s such a boring picture, of an ordinary guy. None’s talking like they really mean to speak Seems like forever, and it’s only been a week. I say, oh, oh, oh, The night that I met you, I felt like I was blind And the Holy Virgin Mother carried me inside. I started to see something, looked like a light But getting through this tunnel was like giving up on life. Is someone talking like they really mean to speak? It seems like forever but it’s only been a week. Looking ‘round the corners, put some change together But I started to feel hollow, when I forgot who I was. Are you looking to discover, dirty deeds in me? You won’t have to look much further, than just skin deep. Now I’m talking like I really mean to speak It seems like forever but it’s only been a week.
6.
Amy's Song (free) 05:04
What can you tell me of truth? 2x Every claw that scrapes up every wave Blessing hurts when it pounds what you’ve made What can you tell me of hope? 2x It looks like a painting on a wall without windows or a door And yet you feel as if you’ve got the penthouse view What can you tell me of pain? 2x It crosses borders and shakes hands With healing in the waterfalls of shame What can you tell me of peace? 2x It begs your tongue to nest in silence And licks the salt from the lips that are honest What can you tell me of faith? 2x You’ll wait a lifetime for the answers To the questions you haven’t asked…yet What can you tell me of love? It’s when falling doesn’t mean fallen And bleeding doesn’t mean you failed Broken bones can heal there and so can broken souls
7.
Knowing You (free) 02:50
She only found her way Where the wind could make her sway And children teach the priests to play. Out beyond the border fence Where you use your common sense And live your life as if you’re still alive. Knowing you I wanted to Get naked for myself. Knowing you I wanted to Get naked from myself. Out where you hear the truth From liars and the thieves they trust The man upstairs is finally upside down. The swirls curl into Flowers that run down my skin Like showers in a field that’s never mown.
8.
Words of Comfort (free) 05:25
My body’s shaken, my frame is bent My face is pouring rain, my heart is a mess As I see my selfish man, rising from his grave When his eyes wash over me, I truly feel afraid Words of comfort break down on my tongue Until I’m left without one Words of comfort break down on my tongue and leave me… How can it be choices, that left us in this state? That’s so much higher than, this child size faith. The choice I made to reach for you, and let you crawl inside Never knew it could mean this, but it knew that I needed to. The worst part about it, I know I can live Another day full of moments, When all I want is a moment of peace, to touch me
9.
I Love You More (free) 05:46
How many times could you hear, that I love you Before you would tire of me and ask me to stop? Let me weep Let me cry Let me bleed Let me die Let me fall away from everything That keeps me from saying I, Oh I love you more How many times could I hear that you love me Before I would tire of you and ask you to stop?
10.
Open (free) 04:04
You give me my words from your silence. A breath of fresh air to burn in my lungs. In your movement I found the music When we left freedom to fend for itself. When I’m falling, and I’m drifting, when I’m turning, Into you You’ve given so much here for me to miss. I open my hands filled with emptiness I look around me to see what I can find To hold onto when I slip inside you, Where I’m falling, and I’m twisting, and I’m turning Into you I open my mouth, I open my mouth, I open my mouth And wait for you to fill me up. You give me so much here to rise above. Nothing that I hate, but everything I love. I can’t let you in, and I can’t keep you out When I’m all alone, I kick myself around When I’m falling, and I’m drifting, when I’m turning Into you I open my eyes, I open my eyes, I open my eyes And wait for you to fill me up.
11.
Sometimes (free) 04:28
When the absence of the bruise Undermines the pain You long for your purple welt To grace your skin again You miss the intensity That made you jealous and crazy Cause you felt alive When you felt insane Hallelujah I fell through you, sometimes I still feel you when I’m alone I breathe you in after you’re gone Like my refuge you are my storm Until all this longing starts to feel like home
12.
Senseless Experience (free) 03:43
So abrupt, so serious, so young to be so anal Too alive, too clever, too depressed to be too simple Very open, very curious, very cynical of being average Hear and touch the taste of the senseless experience Peering out from behind a fence it’s a wall to hinge the gate from That never opens to let the people in, to a city that has no children Only dust and all the broken things that never worked until there was nothing Can you hear and touch the taste of The senseless experience? The wind’s creeping through the street only the street is twisting Around corners that make circles to shapes inside a picture It hangs where no one sees it the guests say that they weren’t invited Did you hear the touch and taste of The senseless experience? Uninvited they search for a feast to lay their eyes on But seeing felt like blisters laying naked in the grass But it felt like pins with oysters stuck in the arm that’s broken Did you hear the touch and taste of The senseless experience?

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released October 10, 1998

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Rik Leaf

Rik Leaf has toured Canada writing, recording and performing songs with students for over 10 years. Rik uses his background in music, TV & Film to produce multi media projects that highlight the creative process. Rik is the Creative Director for, Tribe of One, a national collective of indigenous artists. ... more

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