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Reticent

by Jim France

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1.
Chasing Love 02:18
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Chasing Love Sunshine in the desert sky Beating down as the miles go by Light dancing on the shifting sand Keeping time with the broken land Chasing love Chasing love Chasing love Where love can Heart cries from a lonely place Seeking love in life’s race Drawn to this barren land Love eases life’s demands Chasing love Chasing love Chasing love Where love can Love’s found where you least expect Look around where will it be next In the sky under desert sun Or in the place where you come from Chasing love Chasing love Chasing love Where love can
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All Around 03:58
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All Around Six AM on a Friday morning The sun creeps in And whispers in my ear I turn my head and look beside me There you lay Within my vision clear Memories of the night before Come flooding back Spilling all around All around You’re sleeping there Upon your pillow With your hair Flowing all around All around Your body lies enshrined in first light As the dawn Slowly climbs the sky I can’t believe you’re here beside me As I gaze at you With moisture in my eye Memories of the night before Come flooding back Spilling all around All around You’re sleeping there Upon your pillow With your hair Flowing all around All around Though I know I don’t deserve you Still you’re here Laughter in my heart Still you give your love to me freely As you did From the very start Memories of the night before Come flooding back Spilling all around All around You’re sleeping there Upon your pillow With your hair Flowing all around All around
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Joey's Song 04:21
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Joey’s Song The rain falls loose Upon the streets of town It shelters me From every other sound It helps me think As I pass this way alone About the dreams And memories long gone The time it seemed To pass by way too soon As I find myself Within this lonely room It slipped like sand Through my clenching grasp It’s gone for good Into the distant past As I turn the corner At the old café The laughter clings Like it was yesterday But the windows dark And the voices silent now And my friends are gone And I don’t remember how The time it seemed To pass by way too soon As I find myself Within this lonely room It slipped like sand Through my clenching grasp It’s gone for good Into the distant past
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Build Our Love Anew 03:42
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Build Our Love Anew I raise my voice just to drown you out My inner beast begins to shout As tempers flare And reason can’t be found I insist I’m right but at what expense And behave the fool under false pretense As I set my pride And stand on shaky ground This isn’t what I promised you The day we said I do Back among our dreams Forever true So much more was meant to be The love between we two Let’s go back And build our love anew I see your pain falling from your eyes It melts my heart and my false disguise As I hit my knees Knowing what I’ve done I broke your faith in the man I was The one that listens the one that does Anything Just to see you smile This isn’t what I promised you The day we said I do Back among our dreams Forever true So much more was meant to be The love between we two Let’s go back And build our love anew
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Winter Came Too Soon 05:28
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Winter Came Too Soon The moss covered face of an old stone wall In the morning chill the voices call Telling me All that came before How this house this home in this spot grown cold In years gone by, years grown old How it used to be Filled with warmth and love The winter came too soon one year And dashed all dreams Within a frozen tear The winter winds blew long and cold Among the pines Before the driven snow They built this house in ’33 Upon this land among the trees Planting gardens here Providing what they’d need They worked the fields from dawn to dusk Building hope, building trust As their family grew Always working to succeed The winter came too soon one year And dashed all dreams Within a frozen tear The winter winds blew long and cold Among the pines Before the driven snow Father was the first to go Taking sick and fading like the Fall Then the twins they did succumb Leaving Ma and baby all alone When spring arrived in March at last Mother left her buried past And took her babe And left this broken home Now here I am after all those years My eyes to see the source of countless tears Standing here Where my life began The winter came too soon one year And dashed all dreams Within a frozen tear The winter winds blew long and cold Among the pines Before the driven snow
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I Won't Back Down 02:57
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I Won’t Back Down Flickering light of a candle flame Reflecting back from the window pane Drowning out the pain inside From myself I want to hide As the night it gathers round Pushes at my soul unbound I will not run I will not hide From the raging storm inside From my past I won’t back down I’m free at last I won’t back down Through the veil I see the light Drawing at my waning sight The future’s there it calls to me Though it’s form I cannot see And as the tears begin to flow The hope inside begins to grow Through the pain I will emerge Standing here at love’s verge From my past I won’t back down I’m free at last I won’t back down
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Till Now 03:16
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Till Now Hiding behind the windows of my soul I guard myself, I need to keep control Afraid to let anybody really see What lies inside, what is really me A fear I’ve fought for most my life Till now Take my hand And help me through somehow Building walls around my brittle heart To keep it safe, to keep myself apart Afraid to let anybody really see What lies inside, what is really me A fear I’ve fought for most my life Till now Take my hand And help me through somehow Tear down the walls and let the world see in I’ll hide no more, behind a foolish grin Afraid to let anybody really see What lies inside, what is really me A fear I’ve fought for most my life Till now Take my hand And help me through somehow Afraid to let anybody really see What lies inside, what is really me A fear I’ve fought for most my life Till now Take my hand I’ll make it through I vow
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Time 04:44
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Time Time Always seems to run from me Never seems enough for me On this upward climb Time Running through my memories Why’s it always seem to be? We’re losing out on time As the sun beats down And the earth spins round Beneath our feet As the hours flit by Can you tell me why? We even meet Why Why does life go so fast? Future’s heading into past At such a quickened pace Youth Such a waste on everyone Seems that life had just begun Thrown into this race As the sun beats down And the earth spins round Beneath our feet As the hours flit by Can you tell me why? We even meet Love Love is all that will explain Why we sing this brief refrain And share a little light And love Love is all that matters now We give example showing how We head into the night
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Only Love 04:21
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Only Love Quiet now As the sun sets It’s silent now As light fades Into the shadows of the coming night This day is done Gone forever To be no more There’s no regret Doesn’t matter if you’re wrong or right There’s only love When the light’s gone Only love As the shades drawn Only love to hold your hopes And set your heart alight Only love To gather strength from Only love To help you dream on Only love Can give you wings And loose your heart in flight What has been Doesn’t matter What’s to come Is all you see As in my arms you lay your weary head Tomorrow brings With the first light A new beginning Wait and see So set your heart upon the words I said There’s only love When the light’s gone Only love As the shades drawn Only love to hold your hopes And set your heart alight Only love To gather strength from Only love To help you dream on Only love Can give you wings And loose your heart in flight As the sun Crests the morning As the dawn It fades to light And welcomes you to another day I make a vow Here beside you To remain For all my days And hold you close as these words I say There’s only love When the light’s gone Only love As the shades drawn Only love to hold your hopes And set your heart alight Only love To gather strength from Only love To help you dream on Only love Can give you wings And loose your heart in flight
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Forever Young 03:53
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Forever Young High school age in the hazy past Summer days that we thought would last Forever Underneath the sun Vibrant hopes that were yet to be At that time we could clearly see We never Gave up on the fun We Were made to be Forever young Fly Beneath blue skies Forever young Driving fast down a dusty road Music blaring on the radio And singing Running Down a Dream Nowhere to go with the windows rolled down Thunder in our wheels and grooving to the sound And laughing Forging memory We Were made to be Forever young Fly Beneath blue skies Forever young No thoughts then for the time to come The wind in our hair and the constant hum Of freedom Living on a Prayer Didn’t really know what was yet to be Didn’t really think that we’d ever see The ending Of that summer there We Were made to be Forever young Fly Beneath blue skies Forever young

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This is the first full length album release by Jim France.

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released May 24, 2021

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Jim France South Haven, Michigan

Drawing from a varied pallet of musical influences, Jim attempts to create songs that sound uniquely familiar.

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