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1. Here I Am

(Emmylou Harris)

I am standing by the river

I will be standing here forever

Tho you're on the other side

My face you still can see

Why won't you look at me

Here I am

I am searching thru the canyon

it is your name that I am calling

Tho you're so far away

I know you hear my plea

Why won't you answer me

Here I am

I am in the blood of your heart

The breath of your lung

Why do you run for cover

You are from the dirt of the earth

And the kiss of my mouth

I have always been your lover

Here I am

I am the promise never broken

And my arms are ever open

In this harbor calm and still

I will wait until

Until you come to me

Here I am

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

bass / guitar - Tony Hall

drums - Brady Blade / Ethan Johns

backing vocals -Julie Miller / Emmylou Harris

everything else - Malcolm Burn

2. I Will Dream

(Emmylou Harris & Kate McGarrigle & Anna McGarrigle)

In my imagination

You are my dear companion

And I'm the one you cling to

And your voice still calls my name

Before your heart began to wander

And mine was torn asunder

Before the fairer and the younger

Before the cryin' game

All those girls with their long dark tresses

Waltzing out in their Sunday dresses

All their sweet soft warm caresses

Cannot hold you like I do

And though you say you do not love me

And your dreams are never of me

I will dream my dream of you

In my dreams you are the swallow

Coming back to Capistrano

And I'm the sound of the bells you follow

But in this world dreams don't come true

Still when you're lost out in the desert

When your fire's a dying ember

The last light you remember

Will be the light I shed for you

Mine is no ordinary star love

I see exactly where you are love

And no one else could shine that far love

To bring you safely through

And though you say you do not want me

And made no promises to haunt me

I will dream my dream of you

The sorrows flow down like a fountain

Over the miles beyond our countin'

More than the flowers of the mountain

Or the raindrops in the sea

But if Heaven's just a dreaming

Surely my love will be redeeming

And you will dream your dream of me

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

backing vocals -Jane Siberry / Emmylou Harris

bass / electric guitar / piano - Malcolm Burn

3. Little Bird

(Emmylou Harris & Kate McGarrigle & Anna McGarrigle)

If I had a bird a little bird

I would teach that bird to sing your name

Prettiest song that you have ever heard

And your indifferent heart I will claim

So be off my little bird

Fly away, fly away

And when my love you see

Only then my little bird

Cry away, cry away and bring that heart to me

If I had a moon in the sky

I would light the world and pull the tide

And when the moon is full like my heart

It will surely pull you to my side

But in the darkest night I pine away

Pine away until your face I see

So throw your light my lovely moon

Shine away, shine away and pull his heart to me

If I had a wagon made of gold

Pretty painted horses numbered four

With a silver harness I would hitch them up

And drive that wagon to your door

And if my hand you choose to hold

Ride away, ride away with the pretty horses four

But darlin' if you heart's still cold

Hide away, hide away I'll trouble you no more

Trouble you no more

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris / Buddy Miller

bass - Tony Hall

drums / percussion - Brady Blade

electric guitar - Buddy Miller

accordion - Kate McGarrigle

backing vocals - Anna McGarrigle / Kate McGarrigle

whistling / piano / churanga - Malcolm Burn

4. Time in Babylon

(Emmylou Harris & Jill Cunniff)

Five-lane highway danger zone

SUV and a speaker phone

You need that chrome to get you home

Doin' time in Babylon

Cluster mansion on the hill

Another day in Pleasantville

You don't like it take a pill

Doin' time in Babylon

In the land of the proud and free

You can sell your soul and your dignity

For fifteen minutes on TV

Doin' time in Babylon

So suck the fat, cut the bone

Fill it up with silicone

Everybody must get cloned

Doin' time in Babylon

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn

The crows are in the corn

The morning sky is red and falling down

The piper's at the till

He's coming for the kill

Luring all our children underground in Babylon

We came from apple pie and mom

Thru Civil Rights and Ban the Bomb

To Watergate and Vietnam

Hard times in Babylon

Rallied 'round the megaphone

Gave it up, just got stoned

Now it's Prada, Gucci and Ferron

Doin' time in Babylon

Get results, get 'em fast

We're ready if you got the cash

Someone else will be laughin' last

Doin' time in Babylon

So put that conscience on the shelf

Keep the best stuff for yourself

Let the rest fight over what is left

Doin' time in Babylon

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn

The crows are in the corn

The morning sky is red and falling down

Let your song of healing spark

A way out of this dark

Lead us to a higher and a holy ground

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bass - Tony Hall

drums - Brady Blade / Ethan Johns

electric guitar - Buddy Miller / Ethan Johns

backing vocals -Jane Siberry / Malcolm Burn

percussion - Daryl Johnson

acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

5. Can You Hear Me Now

(Emmylou Harris & Malcolm Burn)

O the walls are closin' in

I can feel it in my bones

Like water risin' up to my chin

Another long night to be alone

I could go out on the town

Talk too much and laugh too loud

If I'm already on my way down

I might as well just work the crowd

Can you hear me now

O the stories I could tell

Sometimes I really hit my stride

We make our own Heaven and our own Hell

Tryin' to get across to the other side

But everyday ends up the same

One step up, two steps back

Like some old silent movie frame

Zoom in close, then fade to black

Can you hear me now

How did the load get to be so heavy

I used to wear my trouble like a crown

A bad flood's poundin' on the levee

And I'm gonna need some help

To hold my ground

But I'm sinkin' like a stone

To where in solitude this life I'll spend

In the coldest place I've ever known

I'm here just waitin’ until the end

I send up my S.O.S.

A message in a bottle set out to sea

It just reads "Soul in distress"

But nobody ever got back to me

Can you hear me now

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bass - Daryl Johnson / Tony Hall

drums - Ethan Johns

percussion - Daryl Johnson

backing vocals - Daryl Johnson /Jane Siberry / Daniel Lanois / Malcolm Burn

electric guitar - Buddy Miller / Bernie Leadon / Ethan Johns

acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

pedal steel guitar - Daniel Lanois

Fender Rhodes / percussion / harmonica - Malcolm Burn

6. Strong Hand (For June)

(Emmylou Harris)

He was a tall man

Raised up from the fields out pickin' cotton

In a hard land

Where the ground was poor and the wood was rotten

But when he saw her

All those bad times were forgotten

And he believed, he believed

She was the strong hand

A good sister and a daughter

Lookin' for one man

To love the way that her mama'd taught her

And when she saw him

She thanked God for what he'd brought her

She believed, she believed

And it's a miracle

How one soul finds another

Just one miracle

Is all it took my brother

For I have seen them

As they walk this world together

And I believe, I believe

It's a sad thing

When one must leave the other

And fly up where the voice rings

Out with all the multitudes that gather

But for a short while

Down here no song ever sounded sweeter

And we believed, we believed

For it's a miracle

How one soul finds another

Just one miracle

Is all it took my brother

And I will see them

Someday they'll walk again together

I believe, I believe

This I believe, I believe

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6- string bass guitar - Emmylou Harris

backing vocals - Linda Ronstadt / Emmylou Harris

electric guitar - Kevin Salem

arrangement - Malcolm Burn

7. Jupiter Rising

(Emmylou Harris & Paul Kennerley)

Why don't you call me

Do you think I won't answer

Jupiter's risin'

And the moon is in cancer

You been down in the hunger baby

I been around there too

Tonight you could be in the arms of

The arms of a woman who loves you

You got your questions

Maybe I got an answer

Or just the hands of a healer

And the feet of a dancer

Yeah it's all in the wrists now baby

And when the aim is true

There'll be no blink of the eyes baby

The eyes of this woman who loves you

Heaven's gettin' nearer

Transmission gettin' clearer

Now my love

Stars are fallin' over the ocean

Come on and show a little emotion now

My love

Why don't you call me

You know I'm gonna answer

Temperatures risin'

And the moon is in cancer

There's a road you can ride now baby

Out to that wild and blue

It runs right thru the heart of

The heart of this woman who loves you

Jupiter risin'

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bass - Tony Hall

drums - Brady Blade / Daryl Johnson

percussion - Brady Blade

electric guitar - Buddy Miller / Colin Linden

backing vocals - Gillian Welch /Julie Miller / Tony Hall / Brady Blade / Emmylou Harris / Daniel Lanois / Daryl Johnson

other things - Malcolm Burn

8. O Evangeline

(Emmylou Harris)

O Evangeline you been gone so long

And for a time it seemed

Every road you took turned wrong

But a second chance would come

With each new bridge you burned

I know you squandered some

But then from some you learned

And the point of rescue well

You passed that long ago

O but to hear you tell it was

Just another part of the show

O Evangeline your faith shone blind and true

We raise our glass and sing

Of you Evangeline

O Evangeline you with no kith or kin

The nights so hard and mean

You shed them like a skin

For you were always strong

When the bad slid down to worse

You still had that song

It was your blessing and your curse

But in your tongue

There is no word for home

There'll be no one

To roll away the stone

O Evangeline you have been a prisoner here

Bread and roses we shall bring

To you Evangeline

O Evangeline what are you fighting for

You stayed out in that ring

When nobody's even keepin' score

But round by round you earned

Your stumble into grace

Still with every turn the world

Becomes a sadder place

It swallows up the ones

You have loved the most

So you sleep with none

You wake with ghosts

O Evangeline

You have salted with your tears

Every lonely mile you've seen

Thru the years Evangeline

It's a fatal shore

You now wash upon

So weary of the war

And no longer young

O Evangeline your voice

Risin' sweet and clear

We close our eyes and dream

Of you Evangeline

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

backing vocals - Jill Cunniff / Kate McGarrigle / Anna McGarrigle

accordion - Kate McGarrigle

all the rest - Malcolm Burn

9. Plaisir d'Amour

(Traditional with arrangement by Emmylou Harris & Kate McGarrigle & Anna McGarrigle)

Plaisir d'amour

Ne dure qu'un moment

Chagrin d'amour dure

Toute la vie

Joys of love

Are but a moment long

Pain of love endures

The whole life long

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accordion - Anna McGarrigle

violin - Kate McGarrigle

acoustic guitar - Kate McGarrigle / Emmylou Harris

backing vocals - Kate McGarrigle / Anna McGarrigle

10. Lost Unto This World

(Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois)

I was once some mother's darlin'

Some daddy's little girl

More precious than the ruby

More cherished than the pearl

My heart was full of mercy

And my forehead full of curl

Now I am nothing and am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world...

They herded me like cattle

Cut me down like corn

Took me from my babies

Before they could be born

You can blame it on the famine

You can blame it on the war

You can blame it on the devil

It don't matter anymore

I am lost unto this world...

I was tortured in the desert

I was raped out on the plain

I was murdered by the high way

And my cries went up in vain

My blood is on the mountain

My blood is on the sand

My blood runs in the river

That now washes thru their hands

I am lost unto this world...

Can I get no witness this unholy tale to tell

Was God the only one there watching

And weeping as I fell

O you among the living

Will you remember me at all

Will you write my name out

With a single finger scrawl

Across a broken window

In some long forgotten wall

That goes stretching out forever

Where the tears of heaven fall

I am lost unto this world...

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris

electric orchestra - Daniel Lanois

percussion - Brady Blade

bass - Tony Hall

electric guitar - Kevin Salem

backing vocals -Jane Siberry / Daniel Lanois / Malcolm Burn

B2 organ - Malcolm Burn

11. Cup of Kindness

(Emmylou Harris)

You gave yourself up to the mystery

And sailed the oceans looking for

The secret of the key

To unlock a truth that you may never find

For it was in a cup of kindness all the time

You fee! the thirst

But none can make you drink

The answer's waiting for you here but

It's not what you think

It won't steal your soul or leave you blind

It was just a cup of kindness all the time

And when Mother Mary finally comes to call

She could pass right thru your heart

And leave no trace at all

While you were reaching for

The sacred and divine

She was standing right beside you

All the time

And the emptiness

You can't seem to fill

Beauty fades and pleasures cannot

Take away the chill

And the glamour lures you down into a lie

O but the cup of kindness

Never will run dry

You hear the vandals

Howlin' down your walls

And arm yourself against the ones

Who want to see you fall

Till some Holy Grail reveals

The grand design

Well it was in a cup of kindness

All the time

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acoustic guitar - Emmylou Harris / Buddy Miller

backing vocals -Julie Miller / Kate McGarrigle / Emmylou Harris

bass - Tony Hall / Daryl Johnson

drums - Brady Blade / Ethan Johns

electric guitar - Buddy Miller

Fender Rhodes / B2 organ - Malcolm Burn

Produced by Malcolm Burn

Recorded by Josh Muncy, Joe West and Todd Vos with assistant engineering/documentation by Dean Norman

Recorded February-June 2003 at Le Maison Bleu Studio, Kingston, NY: Masterlink Studio, Sound Emporium and Ocean Way Studios, Nashville, TN

Assisted by Chris Scherbak and Brando Marius at Masterlink and Rob Clark at Ocean Way

Mixed by Malcolm Burn with Josh Muncy at Sound Emporium, except "Can You Hear Me Now," mixed in Freda's house, Deep River, Ontario

Mastered by Greg Calbi, Sterling Sound, New York, NY (Greg, we trust your ears!!)

Production Coordination by Kathi Whitley

Design by Barbara deWilde

Photography by Veronique Rolland

Photographer's Assistant: Bert Meadows

Hair and makeup by Maria Verel

Stylist: Tina Zelinski

Wardrobe for booklet photographs by Ghost

Management by Ken Levitan, Vector Management

All songs © 2003 and published by Poodlebone Music, administered by Almo Music corp. (ASCAP), except tracks 2 & 3, also published by Garden Court Music (ASCAP); track 4, also published by Songs of Mosaic (ASCAP)/Streetwise Lullabies (ASCAP), administered by Mosaic Music Publishing LLC; track 5, also published by Neeha Music (ASCAP); track 7, also published by Irving Music, Inc. (BMI)/Littlemarch Music (BMI); and track 10, also published by Daniel Lanois Songs (ASCAP), administered by Chrysalis Music (ASCAP).

To all the musicians, singers, and technical folks on this album, I give my deepest thanks. Making a record is like sailing a boat and it takes many hands to keep it afloat. I couldn't have reached shore without their hard work and enthusiasm.

Malcolm and I invited Daniel Lanois to come to Nashville for a few days and put his unmistakable stamp on some of these tracks. It was a joy and an inspiration for me to see these two long time friends and collaborators hunkered down over a hot console again. I know Malcolm joins me in thanking Dan for the generosity of his time and remarkable talent, and his tireless energy in pursuit of musical innovation and excellence on "Jupiter Rising," "Can You Hear Me Now," and especially for bringing "Lost Unto This World" into the world.

Thanks to David Bither, Bob Hurwitz, and everyone at my wonderful label, Nonesuch, and my manager Ken Levitan for putting us together. Thanks also to the folks at Almo Irving; to Lisa Cain for introducing me to the joys of Los Incas, which inspired "Little Bird"; to Linda Ronstadt and Jane Siberry for the lovely notes and good conversation.

Songwriting does not come easily to me, and to those who joined me in the cage, I thank you: Jill Cunniff, who takes me places I could never go on my own; Kate and Anna McGarrigle, who have been an inspiration for almost thirty (!) years; and Paul Kennerley, who has always believed in, and continues to encourage, my efforts.

Many thanks also to dear Buddy and Julie Miller for always being there, especially to Julie for bearing witness to "Here I Am."

And to Malcolm Burn, our captain throughout it all, who clapped, whistled, sang, stomped, all the while pulling the songs out of me, thank you for keeping your hands firmly on the wheel.

The ship has landed.

Love,

Emmy

I simply have to say that working with Emmylou has been the high point thus far of my career. I have never worked with someone so talented, yet so open-minded, still with their instincts and enthusiasm so intact. And it has been a joy to see her grow as a writer into this album. This has been a true labour of love and I have poured all my heart and soul into it. She deserves it!!

Love,

Malcolm Burn

MALCOLM AND EMMY'S NOTES

To Dean Norman, "Dean, you rock!

Extra good cooking by Luthea Salom, Abigail Lavin and Eugenia Harris.

Kind thanks to Chad Hailey at Masterlink Studio and Scott Paschall at Sound Emporium for working around our schedule.

Much appreciation to Gary Whitaker at All Access Travel for getting folks here and there and everywhere, Trevor Goulding at Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt for providing a home away from home and to Cat's Pajamas Bed & Breakfast.

Special thanks to Maple Byrne for the beautiful instruments he lent us and, along with Josh, for driving Miss Vicky.

Extra-special thanks to Kathi Whitley for keeping it all moving!!!



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