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David Crosby - Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)

David Crosby - Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: If I Could Only Remember My Name
Released: 1971

Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) Lyrics

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Writer/s: CROSBY, DAVID
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)

When David Crosby's girlfriend, Christine Hinton, died in a traffic accident in 1969, the singer was devastated. Crosby sought an outlet in work for his debut solo album and amongst the musicians he recruited from his circle of friends was The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, who contributed electric and pedal steel guitar.

Garcia proved to be a supportive figure to the singer after the tragedy. Crosby told Uncut magazine: "When I was making my solo record, I was in terrible shape because my girlfriend had just died. I didn't know what to do. I had no way to deal with it, so I hid in the studio – it was the only place I felt comfortable. Jerry came by every night. Every night he'd show, and we'd tap away."

This song features wordless scatting by Crosby. He recalled to Uncut magazine: "I had a double handful of songs, and were good. I was doing things nobody had heard before, like 'Tamalpais High' and 'Song With No Words,' using your voice like a horns stack. They were loving that we'd do s--t nobody else had done."

If I Could Only Remember My Name gained new recognition in 2010 when it was listed second on the Vatican's "Top 10 Pop Albums of All Time" as published in the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano. (The Beatles' Revolver topped the list).

David Crosby - Set That Baggage Down

David Crosby - Set That Baggage Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Croz
Released: 2014

Set That Baggage Down Lyrics

Set That Baggage Down

This gentle, reflective track comes from a personal place. "That's a thing you learn in AA," Crosby told Rolling Stone. "I went there for about fourteen and half years. You have to look at what got you there. You have to look at the mistakes, and I made some horrific ones, and then you have to learn from them, figure out how to not wind up there again. You have to set that baggage down and walk on. If you spend all your life looking over your shoulder at the things you did wrong, you're gonna walk smack into a tree."

Here are three more songs about learning from mistakes:

"The Way It Goes" by The Click Five
"Forget and Not Slow Down" by Relient K
"Dare You To Move" by Switchfoot

David Crosby - What's Broken

David Crosby - What's Broken Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Croz
Released: 2014

What's Broken Lyrics

What's Broken

This song was written by Crosby's son James Raymond and features former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler on guitar. Crosby told Mojo magazine: "I don't know him, except as a brilliant writer, guitar player and record maker, but a promoter friend in Italy said, 'I just had Mark Knopfler here and he's so good; maybe you could write a song together.' He spoke to Mark's manager and they said, 'Mark doesn't really do that, but he might play guitar on something,' so I sent him 'What's Broken' - James' song. He played perfectly, I don't know how I'm going to pay him back but I'll certainly try."

David Crosby - Morning Falling

David Crosby - Morning Falling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Croz
Released: 2014

Morning Falling Lyrics

His open eyes
At first light
We see
An echo of his mothers smile

At her breast
His sister pressed
Outside
The sun begins to warm the ancient tile

They came that day, hollow men
Agents of a god they could not know
A mile above, distant eyes
Miss desperate pleas that pictures could not show
The Morning Falling

A shackle snaps
Beneath cold wings
Below
The shepherd is pulled toward home

The shadow falls
A falcon calls
Below
His world becomes a mountain of stone

They came that day, empty men
Agents of a god they’ll never know
High above, those eyes
See what seems to be on screens that glow
The morning falling

His eyes can see
But his mind can’t hold
What he has seen
The absence of the lives they used to live

A world away
The trigger is pulled
And here there is no reason to forgive

Writer/s: CROSBY, DAVID / RAYMOND, JAMES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Morning Falling

David Crosby wrote this song, which is about drones killing innocent people, with his son James Raymond. They wrote more than half the tracks on Croz together and Crosby told Mojo magazine: "Right from the very first song we wrote together, it's been very good and easy. He seems to know where I'm going and I seem to know where he's going, I don't really even know how to describe it, but I know that I write better with him than with anybody else. That's a fairly difficult chemistry and doesn't happen fairly easily, but when it does it opens the door to another level and some of the best music I made."

Pianist James Raymond was born in 1962 and placed by David Crosby for adoption. He was reunited with his father as an adult and in 1997 Raymond began performing with him as a member of Crosby, Pevar & Raymond. After the disbandment of CPR in 2004, Raymond continued to work with his dad as well as part of the touring bands for Crosby & Nash and Crosby, Stills & Nash.