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Does heaven need another angel?
Does time really heal all pain?
Does everything happen for a reason?
Maybe we make the reasons to ease the pain.

Is everything meant to be? Tell me is my baby in heaven?
How can we believe in a God that would take such a delicate life?
Who says we’re never given more than we can handle?
‘Cause I’ve been given too much far too many times, far too many times.

Staring at the precipice, looking at beyond.
We can see what we have missed, still we keep holding on,
Holding on to what we have leave the rest behind.

I’m beginning to understand we don’t forget or get over it
We find a new way to carry these things inside
‘Cause we’re all broken little pieces of pottery
Repaired with gold dust and glue
to let in the light,
to let in the light,
to let in the light.

Staring at the precipice, looking at beyond.
We can see what we have missed, still we keep holding on,
Holding on to what we have leave the rest behind.

I can’t see beyond the horizon
If you show me I can find a way
I can’t see beyond this dark tunnel
If you hand me a candle that will light the way,
So I can find a way,
So I can find a way

Staring at the precipice, looking at beyond.
We can see what we have missed, still we keep holding on,
Holding on to what we have leave the rest behind.
Leave it all behind,
Leave it all behind,
Leave it all behind.

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from You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea, released September 30, 2020

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Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California

Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more

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