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Blind Pilot — Half Moon
Album: We Are The Tide
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Released: 2011
Length: 3:23
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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That morning sky gave me a look
So i left while you were sleeping
thats all it took
and i chalked a line south down the coast
going where my thirst was open
for the things that i dont know
going where i wasnt paying
for the hurt that i owe
one half moon sleeping by the creeks
and a woman put me under
her barn roof for a week
i knew her voice before she spake
i saw a grave dug by a preacher
just to see what it would make

so hold high have faith your reasons
(or youll never get on)
dont you forget you come from nothing
(or youll never get on)
that wind is calling my name
i wont wait or ill never get on

its not hard to live like a ghost
i just haunt all that ive wanted
and leave what i dont
i dreamt a trail up to the sky
and my brothers built propellers
just to see how far theyd fly

so hold high have faith your reasons
(or youll never get on)
your flashing sparrows chasing with them
dont you forget you come from nothing
(or youll never get on)
that wind is calling my name
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I stop and enjoy this every time it pops up on the playlist. Wonderful. 
Posted 2 months ago by peterblair    [ Reply ]
7 -> 8
Posted 3 months ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
starting at 7 - I like this
Posted 10 months ago by tm    [ Reply ]
*chorus*
 
"When the wheels come down..."
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Harmonies are wonderful. 
Posted 3 years ago by bast40    [ Reply ]
Anyone hear Brandon Flowers in this voice? In the phrasing and inflection.
Posted 3 years ago by MassivRuss    [ Reply ]
 hiorgos wrote:
Have you noticed that most of the recent new songs at RP are these new pop-rock songs and  all have the same mix and master? Everything sounds so perfect and balanced that makes the listening flat and boring.
 
No, I have not.
Posted 6 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Saw them a couple of weeks ago with Gregory Alan Isakov. A great show!
Posted 6 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Oh, wow, this is quite nice.

Thanks for another fine introduction, Bill {#Sunny} 
Posted 6 years ago by coffeeadikt    [ Reply ]
Seems lightweight at first but turns out to be finely balanced. They create a good mood here.

I'm going 7 perhaps 8.

What is it with Portland bands and artists? I really love them all... 
Posted 7 years ago by SECA_Alan    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:

I use one in my garden, it's a combi tool.

 
{#Lol}
Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 h8rhater wrote:
 ch83575 wrote:
"Before she spake"?  Seriously, your that hard up to rhyme? 
 


Perhaps it was actually creative? 
spake 
verb Archaic.
a simple past tense of speak.


 
I use one in my garden, it's a combi tool.
Posted 8 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
I really like this song and this album, in spite of the slick poppiness of it, and even spite of the fact that BP brings back memories of the Partridge Family. I just can't help it. It's good pop. 



 
Posted 9 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
yeah... no.
Posted 9 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
 hiorgos wrote:
Have you noticed that most of the recent new songs at RP are these new pop-rock songs and  all have the same mix and master? Everything sounds so perfect and balanced that makes the listening flat and boring.
 
I wouldn't agree that all recent songs are as you describe, but I totally agree with your comments as far as this one is concerned. This is definitely too far towards mainstream lightweight pop for me.
Posted 10 years ago by ncollingridge    [ Reply ]
 ch83575 wrote:
"Before she spake"?  Seriously, your that hard up to rhyme? 
 


Perhaps it was actually creative? 
spake 
verb Archaic.
a simple past tense of speak.

Posted 10 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
 {#Daisy} It makes me happy.
Posted 10 years ago by zink    [ Reply ]
I hear this and I think is this a clone of:
1) Vampire weekend
2) Arctic Monkeys
I have heard of others that sound almost indistnct. 
Posted 10 years ago by kz1300a1    [ Reply ]
 Chelshite wrote:
They supported The Decemberists' last UK tour and played a good set. Their previous album is perhaps stronger but I'm very glad to have discovered them and to hear RP playing them.
 
Guilt by association, I see.
Posted 10 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Have you noticed that most of the recent new songs at RP are these new pop-rock songs and  all have the same mix and master? Everything sounds so perfect and balanced that makes the listening flat and boring.
Posted 10 years ago by hiorgos    [ Reply ]
"Before she spake"?  Seriously, your that hard up to rhyme? 
 
Posted 10 years ago by ch83575    [ Reply ]
Lalala. I am drifting. From the corner bar.
Posted 10 years ago by Jukka    [ Reply ]
 yuel wrote:
i don't want to travel with a blind pilot...  {#Mrgreen}
                       {#Arrowd}
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Just feel the force Yuel..
Posted 10 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Being from Portland, OR it's nice to hear some bands from here getting recognition. However, why do most bands from Portland have to sound all the same?? There is no originality to any of it. Let's all hop on the bandwagon and make the same music while it's hot.
Posted 10 years ago by jnesser    [ Reply ]
 yuel wrote:
i don't want to travel with a blind pilot...  {#Mrgreen} 

Surely, that depends on where you are going and how you are travelling?
Posted 10 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
They supported The Decemberists' last UK tour and played a good set. Their previous album is perhaps stronger but I'm very glad to have discovered them and to hear RP playing them.
Posted 10 years ago by Chelshite    [ Reply ]
{#Headache} sounds like he is called
Posted 11 years ago by BMTR    [ Reply ]
I hear Steve Forbert
Posted 11 years ago by dingleberry    [ Reply ]
Sooorrrrright...passes a few minutes but as comment below sounding same as all the rest..but boy I have worse
Posted 11 years ago by paradisepig    [ Reply ]
just a 5 because they're too many songs like this nowadays...
Posted 11 years ago by milipili    [ Reply ]
i don't want to travel with a blind pilot...  {#Mrgreen}
                       {#Arrowd}
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Posted 11 years ago by yuel    [ Reply ]