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Clear Air

by Phil Poirier

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1.
Pardon Me 02:55
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Pardon me got a big head start trying to get away but a thumping in my heart seemed to have a way getting me to see the flaws in my decision cause my outlook took a turn and falling like a brick the bridges that I burned finally did the trick so now I come to find The shoe is on a foot I'm missing CHORUS So pardon my doubting whether I could discover How it came to be that I was ever gonna feel so low But I have the power to make The most astounding mistakes Like thinkin that I'd ever want to be alone It’s a low It’s a low ride I know In a landslide BRIDGE Pardon Me Pardon me now So I'm flying 95 throttle on the mat on the way to hoping soon you'll take me back though why you'd want a fool like me is a wonder But I finally made my mind up solid as the wind blowing in the fall coming back again gone are all the days of heat and thunder chorus
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No Matter 02:54
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No Matter You struggle at night clown in a circus a bike riding bear acting like there's nothin to lose So you stay out of sight Just under the surface But you wanna light a fire trying to get onto the news No matter what you say (3) I'm losing ground I'm losing ground I'm falling out of control (3) I'm falling down falling down CHORUS You wanna be right you wanna be perfect The way you're living your life it's kinda like pounding a nail A judge in a fight shouting a verdict throw down your vote you're bound and determined to fail. BRIDGE But you, you're making me nervous I don't need no trembling heart to cause me pain I think you, you done it on purpose Can't you see these teardrops fall like rain
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Missing Your Love 02:20
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MISSING YOUR LOVE You got a hard line Drawn in a circle Sent me the long way round to your heart Kinda like a bottle That I’ll never drink Gatherin’ dust in the dark It’s been a hard ride down to your doorstep I’ve swallowed much more pride than you know Gonna take much more of your intention Before I pack my bags and go Ooooh oooh Somebody’s missing your love Bridge Hey don’t hold the fear Just feel the light Don’t fight the dawnin Hard to find the right way When your dark thoughts flood the mornin You’re all alone now Cause you are certain That you know that’s how it should be Don’t never stop and think of what you’re losing When you don’t make room for me Ooooh oooh Somebody’s missing your love
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Star 02:43
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Star When the sun comes to love you you say you only like the bright ones Then you float through the party like it was a place that you own and the men whirl below you a cluster, flocking round a black hole CHORUS Nobody warm, nobody home no one to suffer nobody comes back from your pull Well the sun's finally dying time for sleeping off the starlight but it won't keep you trying to become a star of your own so I thank the heavens I'm on the planet all alone CHORUS and so I thank the heavens I'm on the planet all alone BRIDGE undeniable unreliable unenlightened more of the same pick yourself up count on your luck deal yourself in love is the game and I know that your heart ain't so hard when it's aflame
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Comet 03:13
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Comet there’s something that you came for Something we both know is true you just love a detour no sign of what I did for you I know you’ve never been lonely You’re used to getting your way But the earth don’t spin for you only The sun sets here today CHORUS Out on a moonless night You set the stars on fire churning the sky With the stuff of heaven I watch you flying higher CHORUS Talk about a grand revelation Lighting up my mind on review I’m fighting off the sad sensation Something that was one is two CHORUS But I got my own reputation Kept me some pride in reserve I wait in anticipation To see the comedown you deserve But that's not enough for you That's not enough for you It's not enough for you
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My Party 02:48
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MY PARTY Come to see now that I let it go How I had sunken low still hung up on the same mistake some rules you never break. But I've fallen I'm shattered heat lightninged , bug splattered still I don't believe it I don't believe my time is done CHORUS Cause this is my party gonna wake up from a trance shine on up my body and I won't mind fallin cause this ain't a competition no one's gonna make it through. I Thought my mojo had gone and died That I had shrunk in size counting failure in all I tried could not be satisfied but I'm learnin, I'm plannin no crawlin, quicksandin Now I understand it The things that I decide come true BRIDGE this isn't over no it's not through this isn't over til the fat man gets to dance tappin' up the stairs for you this is my party AND NOW I'm gonna dance
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Satellite Wars 02:42
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Satellite wars You got an app for discontentment helping you forget You got an ATM resentment Keeps you in debt You text at every function Vibrate in your sleep You got a tweet and run compunction Byting you deep CHORUS A thousand TV stations full of useless information and you don't really see why they don't carry yours Satellite wars They're swiping all your credit your Tivo's on the blink here's your password, don't forget it Just click on the link CHORUS You got a high speed connection leave your pixels on parade you got virus proof protection but CIA raids CHORUS BRIDGE I can download I can barcode I can like you now. Thanks to satellite wars.
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Finding it Hard 03:05
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Finding it Hard Over this bridge I'm burning I've tarried for far too long I stayed for the view to watch the seasons turning Took all of this time to surface After drowning in "I don't know" Deep in the water I saw the soul of darkness CHORUS But I'm finding it hard finding it hard to move from the fight to trust to the light to give all of the love that I'm able Finding it hard. Of all all of my strained decisions this was the hardest one Gaining a vision Through all the scars I'm earning Finally finding purpose in returning from fear to love I turned my back on the "why do I's" and I'm CHORUS
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You're Gonna Live 03:59
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You’re Gonna Live Take me down along the flowin river Bathe me in the coolness make me whole Take me from my sorrow Make believe me Save my soul pillow me a ring of piney needles, wrap the moss a halo ‘round my head lay me down from evil in the evening in my bed CHORUS It’s come, the final call Running with the wind Spinning like a dreidel and all the signs await you Tossed on the bough Crawlin from the cradle So now you’ve fallin from the top You’re gonna live, CHORUS Take me to the hill to feel the fire Turn me round to face the starry sky churning up with embers Painting pictures Off they fly CHORUS
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Turn 02:56
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Turn Drawn to the arctic circle Blown to the northern sea I sing to the darkest heaven lightness everywhere I see Memories strand like driftwood Comets trail the sky wreaths of smoke and sorrow veils across my eye CHORUS Turn Turn lightly Turn to the rising sun Burn Burn brightly Gone when the day is done So now I’m undecided My friends have already flown Light streaks draw the silence I’m longing to be home Spring will come the morrow Wheel and churn, the night I scan passage over It’s calling me to flight
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I Can See You Shining 03:01
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I can See you shining With the stoplight And the dogfight Dare you now recite the poem? When the love dies And you don’t cry When you’re beside the point Turn back On sorrow On the silence in your room Trust that Tomorrow The world might then resume (and you might yet change its tune) CHORUS I can feel you rising I can see the sun inside you I can see you shining I can feel the sun Inside me When the day breaks And your mind wakes Will you recall these words we’ve spoken? When the crow flies And your hopes rise When the night is done BRIDGE Will you be sad? I don’t will know The sky turns blue Put your bet on that When it seems You’ve lost your grace It somehow seems to make it back CHORUS I can feel you rising I can see the sun inside you I can see you shining I can feel the sun Inside me I can feel the sun Inside me I can feel the sun Inside me
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Under the Moon 04:42
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UNDER THE MOON I'm out of my mind cause time after time you threaten me that you are through so why should I be blamed if I have failed to take my cue Out in the night final goodbyes float like clouds in the cold and dew I saw the sorrow in you eyes and said this can't be true CHORUS- three times Under the Moon With kindness and lies you take my hand and you try to convince me there's nothing to lose like falling out of love like this is something that I'd choose CHORUS BRIDGE Honey I tried to tell you something you ought to know that I won't be the one to say it's over It will never be It'll have to be you I stood alone in the darkness and I watched you fade from view I turned my back and wiped the tears It's all that I could do CHORUS
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Distant Shore 03:44
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Distant Shore Gonna lock the door turn off the phone I'll sit in the silence Pretend nobody's home Well some might say it's a folly It's a lost cause waiting for you I don't know why I should have to settle for you saying sorry and why you have to go I'm not the kind to give up on a story But I gotta say I've begun to worry. CHORUS We fell in love on a distant shore ran aground on a distant shore you said part of me was fallin part of you keeps calling me Fallin in love with the silence Finding that it's easy to choose Between the not much and nothing that you offer Cause ither way I lose Can't abide the reason that you're giving Gotta find a way back to the living. BRIDGE Can't abide the reason you've been giving Gotta find a way back to the living All along you've opened up a doorway Know you come and say You must be on your way CHORUS
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Migration 02:37
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Migration When the sun leaves the sky when the stars find the meadow when silence has finally arrived Will you open your eyes will you see something better will you finally decide it's time. CHORUS Time to move on time to grow time to be loved time to let go time that you know you've become a sun of your own Star of of your life star of the light star of your own When a fire breaks the sky when the thrush calls in purple and you rise in a dream and fly And then where will you go when it's all that you know is where it's all you can do to survive BRIDGE Through the dark night the stars shining the moon guiding you home with hopes rising you realize that there's nothing for to atone. When the sun pales the sky will you see something better will you open your wings and take flight
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Winter Clearing 05:16
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My fourth CD, Clear Air is really almost two volumes; the first, more like my earlier work, deals with relationship and the human condition. The second half features keyboard almost exclusively, and tends toward the inspirational.

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released December 14, 2017

All music and instrumentals by Phil Poirier, David Burgess plays guitar on Pardon Me, Star, My Party

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Phil Poirier Portland, Maine

My music has been described as “contemporary folk with a touch of the blues”. It features strong, thoughtful lyrics and hook- driven melodic sensibilities. ​

What do I sound like? I’ve been told “a melodic Dylan”, with hints of Mark Knopfler, James Taylor, Paul Simon, John Sebastian, Arlo Guthrie, maybe a bit of Gordon Lightfoot. I take all of these as compliments. ... more

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