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		<title>The sky above is in your eyes&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/12/07/the-sky-above-is-in-your-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been seeing a faraway mountain, rising pale and strange behind familiar peaks. Mountains Come, Mountains Go http://www.archive.org/download/TkMajor-Ayos-2007-12-06-MountainsComeMountainsGo/2007-12-06_mountains_come_mountains_go-motuAnalog1_2.mp3 more stream &#38; DL options previous versions Saturday, January 07, 2006 Thursday, August 10, 2006 lyrics Mountains Come, Mountains Go Mountains come and mountains go but a love like ours will surely show the stars themselves [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How many times must I fall down?</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/06/25/how-many-times-must-i-fall-down/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New song alert! When he was a kid he&#8217;d lie on his back in the sand just above the tideline where it dropped away to the bay, listening to the murmur of his grandparents talking by the firepit, watching the stars shimmer and wave above the fire, red glowing bits tracing the undulations as they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nope&#8230; You really CAN&#8217;T get there from here.</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/05/05/nope-you-really-cant-get-there-from-here/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember a Sunday so long ago, the concept of Sunday was a new one&#8230; this special day when no one worked (in those days my mom worked weekdays and my dad was off on Tuesday and worked Saturdays). On this day we were driving out to the country &#8212; the outskirts of the then-small [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Land So Far Away</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/04/30/a-land-so-far-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEW SONG ALERT! Written a few hours ago&#8230; It&#8217;s not normally my practice to comment on the images that accompany my blog posts but yes &#8212; that really is the town where I was born in the image above&#8230; as represented on an orange crate label from the Orange Fuit Co. And, yes, I remember [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Duke</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/10/23/duke/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He was thin and white when I found him in my backyard. He was sick and so tired he couldn&#8217;t even bring himself to run away. I brought him a bowl of water and came back out in 15 minutes and it was all but gone. In for a penny, in for a pound. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>No One Said Nothin&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/09/23/no-one-said-nothin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My buddy James would have said it was all just a little too on the nose. I first met him around &#8217;75 or &#8217;76 in a class on Surrealism. He and his brother Dave were both in the class. I didn&#8217;t get to know them then. I don&#8217;t even remember talking with them. I think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In the end there is ony the dance</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/02/20/in-the-end-there-is-ony-the-dance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Partners will come, partners will go waltzing off into the past The music goes on, long after we&#8217;re gone in the end there is only the dance http://www.archive.org/download/Only_a_Dance_v.2/20060219_Only_a_Dancev2.mp3 previous AYoS verion Only the Dance music plays from far away let&#8217;s give it one more chance why should we stumble, why should we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Might Be the Wind</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/01/18/i-might-be-the-wind/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I first got to know Rick Routhier in 1976 when I moved into a tiny shoebox of an apartment a 30 second walk from the bay in Long Beach. When I met him he was drinking a beer and sitting on the second floor sundeck staring off into space picking out &#8220;I Shall Be Released.&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mountains Come, Mountains Go</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/01/08/mountains-come-mountains-go/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    In 1999, I collaborated over the &#8216;net with an English techno kid named Deakin Scott. He&#8217;d heard my trip hop stuff on the old mp3.com and he asked if I wanted to write a vocal part for a 140 beat per minute mix he was working on. He emailed me a work mix [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jennifer</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/12/30/jennifer/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    It was a Thursday night back in the mid 90s and I was playing a coffee house gig with a guitar and a couple of notebooks of songs. It was a tiny joint, so it was easy to fill it. That night, the only people I knew in the audience were sitting near [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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