This production is made possible in part by the Bellefonte Art Museum, showcasing art from local and global artists in six rotating galleries and the gift shop information at BellefonteMuseum.org (bass notes thumping) - [Sound Guy] One, two, check check, hey!

(guitar strumming) - [Narrator] On this episode of, The Local Groove Presents: Hannah Bingman, from State College, Pennsylvania.

- [Sound Guy] How is it, level wise?

(folk music) ♪ Been picking up bad vibrations ♪ ♪ So far away from home ♪ Been wondering all creation ♪ For Kingdom Come ♪ Some say I lost my mind ♪ Some say I made this bed ♪ Turn down them sheets and I ♪ I'm gonna lie in it ♪ I'll go back to that mountain ♪ ♪ Stretch out my weary legs ♪ I'll leave it as I found it ♪ White blaze to blaze ♪ They tell me take my time ♪ To listen to my head ♪ I push my ear up tight ♪ I hear my heart instead ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ For water from the well ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ Sometimes it breaks itself ♪ And when my ship comes in ♪ It's gonna be too late ♪ My heart keeps on hunting ♪ White blaze to blaze ♪ Some say I lost my mind ♪ Some say I made this bed ♪ Turn down them sheets and I ♪ I'm gonna lie in it ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ For water from the well ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ Sometimes it breaks itself ♪ Been picking up bad vibrations ♪ ♪ So far away from home ♪ Been wondering all creation ♪ For Kingdom Come ♪ They tell me take my time ♪ To listen to my head ♪ I push my ear up tight ♪ I hear my heart instead ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ For water from the well ♪ The heart's a lonely hunter ♪ Sometimes it breaks itself (calm folk music) ♪ I am a stranger, wayfaring and poor ♪ ♪ Shaking dust off my boots at my neighbor's door ♪ ♪ I've come many miles and I'll go many more ♪ ♪ But I am a stranger ♪ Give me a name that I can keep ♪ ♪ So when I am called, I know how to speak ♪ ♪ I walk hand in hand with the foolish and the weak ♪ ♪ But I am a stranger ♪ Who am I ♪ Who am I ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ Stuck in this skin, I drag my plow ♪ ♪ Planting the seeds as I till the ground ♪ ♪ I come and I go, but in my own town ♪ ♪ I am a stranger ♪ There ain't no heaven I find on this map ♪ ♪ But straight is the way, and narrow the path ♪ ♪ The earth is round, but this world feels so flat ♪ ♪ So I am a stranger ♪ Who am I ♪ Who am I ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ I am a stranger, wayfaring and poor ♪ ♪ That's how I'll be until I am no more ♪ ♪ Until I am more, until I am no more ♪ ♪ I am a stranger ♪ Who am I ♪ Who am I ♪ Who am I ♪ Who am I ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ Nobody knows me ♪ Nobody knows me (gentle folk music) ♪ My heart is so heavy, so broken and unsteady ♪ ♪ That it just can't compete with all the rest of me ♪ ♪ My heart is so tired, exhausted uninspired ♪ ♪ Just waiting for the muse, to set it back on fire ♪ ♪ Set it on fire ♪ My heart on fire ♪ My heart is so sore, from trying to do more ♪ ♪ Those things I cannot change but cannot ignore ♪ ♪ My heart is so confused, just trying to find some truth ♪ ♪ A place to put this faith, and put myself to use, to use ♪ ♪ I'm trying ♪ Do I make you proud ♪ Tell me what's my part ♪ Lay this burden down ♪ Lift up my heavy heart ♪ Heavy heart ♪ Feel my heavy heart ♪ My heart is so heavy, filled to capacity ♪ ♪ But always gathering, pumping and pumping pumping ♪ ♪ My heart is so tired, worn out but wired ♪ ♪ Just waiting for a flame to set it back on fire ♪ ♪ Set it on fire ♪ Heart on fire ♪ My heart is so scared, uncertain unprepared ♪ ♪ What if I reach for something, and it isn't there ♪ ♪ My heart tries so hard, to stop picking things apart ♪ ♪ Just let myself be loved, and love things as they are ♪ ♪ As they are ♪ As they are ♪ Do I make you proud?

♪ Tell me what's my part ♪ Lay this burden down ♪ Lift up my heavy heart ♪ Heavy heart ♪ Lift up my heavy heart ♪ Do I make you proud ♪ Tell me what's my part ♪ Lay this burden down ♪ Lift up my heavy heart ♪ Heavy heart ♪ Feel my heavy heart (gentle folk music) ♪ All I ever wanted ♪ Was for you to want to know me ♪ ♪ Instead of that girl in your fantasy ♪ ♪ Who writes songs for you ♪ Pines the day long for you ♪ Lives for the air that you breathe ♪ ♪ Still I fell for you ♪ All of your tattoos ♪ Your unwarranted loneliness ♪ When all I ever wanted ♪ Was for you to just hold me ♪ And love me as is ♪ I let you practice on my heart ♪ ♪ But I could not play the part ♪ ♪ You wrote for me ♪ Last time I saw you ♪ You were the same you ♪ I was a different version of me ♪ ♪ Still blowing your bull ♪ Preaching your pride ♪ And calling yourself free ♪ Still I fell for you ♪ Now these years later you ♪ Still haunt me in my dreams ♪ I wake up wanting ♪ For you to just hold me ♪ And love me for me ♪ You let me practice with your heart ♪ ♪ But I could not play the part ♪ ♪ You wrote for me ♪ I know love shouldn't hurt like that did ♪ ♪ But it did ♪ You left me so much lonelier in the end ♪ ♪ Before you and after ♪ You take up the space ♪ Between every tongue I taste ♪ I got regrets I wish I'd forget ♪ ♪ I wish I'd forget ♪ We were just practicing with our hearts ♪ ♪ But I could not play the part ♪ ♪ You wrote for me ♪ All I ever wanted ♪ Is for you to want to know me ♪ ♪ Instead of that girl in your fantasy ♪ ♪ Ain't gonna write songs for you ♪ ♪ Pine all day long for you ♪ Just gonna live for the air that I breathe ♪ (uplifting folk music) ♪ Fire, fire, I thought I felt fire ♪ ♪ Felt a shock from my head to my feet on a wire ♪ ♪ I said I was going home, two drinks ago ♪ ♪ Ashes, ashes, clear my heart of the ashes ♪ ♪ Build up a flame of eyes and eyelashes ♪ ♪ Said I could stay for one more, we closed down the bar ♪ ♪ Follow, follow, follow me home ♪ ♪ If that's where you think that you belong ♪ ♪ I have been fine on my own, now I don't know ♪ ♪ Clearer and clearer ♪ There's a different face I see in the mirror ♪ ♪ Than what I was before thee ♪ Than what I was before you loved me ♪ ♪ Show me, show me, show me your scars ♪ ♪ Everything that makes you who you are ♪ ♪ Show me your sinner and saint, see me just the same ♪ ♪ Lay down, lay down, lay down your roots ♪ ♪ Extract from me whatever you can use ♪ ♪ So mineral-rich I am bursting ♪ ♪ So full of the earth I am thirsting ♪ ♪ For clearer and clearer ♪ There's a different face I see in the mirror ♪ ♪ Than what I was before thee ♪ Than what I was before you loved me ♪ ♪ I know I am but one breath so mere ♪ ♪ And I want to spend it, how can I spend it ♪ ♪ I want to spend it in your in your atmosphere ♪ ♪ Clearer and clearer ♪ There's a different face I see in the mirror ♪ ♪ Than what I was before thee ♪ Than what I was before you loved, loved me ♪ ♪ Fire, fire, I thought I felt fire ♪ ♪ Felt a shock from my head to my feet on a wire ♪ ♪ I said I was going home, two drinks ago ♪ (gentle folk music) ♪ Stay away from my fields ♪ The land of my will ♪ Stay away from this soil ♪ My last name has tilled ♪ Keep away from lover ♪ My neighbors and friends ♪ Though you make a fine offer ♪ I see how some might give in ♪ But I am no gambler ♪ When it comes to this farm's fate ♪ ♪ Money may be lovely ♪ But what can it cultivate?

♪ You can keep your white collar ♪ ♪ And your tailored suits ♪ You can keep all your dollars ♪ ♪ If that's what pleases you ♪ If you could hear the farmer's prayer ♪ ♪ See her visions vividly ♪ You'd see that she dreams of ♪ A different kind of green ♪ God save my town ♪ When the factories disband ♪ And take their homes south ♪ I pray for every idle hand ♪ God bless my farm ♪ My neighbors and my love ♪ That he will stay with me ♪ When harvest time comes ♪ So get away from my fields ♪ The land of my will ♪ Get away from this soil ♪ My last name forever tills ♪ And what can you offer ♪ But a wealth that fades away ♪ Money may be lovely ♪ But what can it cultivate (uplifting folk music) ♪ There ain't no country on this earth ♪ ♪ That can quantify it's worth ♪ Without the people, places, things ♪ ♪ All the nouns before the verbs ♪ ♪ There's no number that can speak ♪ ♪ For what that one digit could be ♪ ♪ Some one person out there ♪ Who could just as well be me ♪ And you can see it from a distance ♪ ♪ This frail human existence ♪ Even when it seems so bad ♪ Still there's just so much beauty in it ♪ ♪ But we can let the world spin for awhile ♪ ♪ Keep breathing in and out ♪ Like it's going out of style ♪ I know it's gonna hurt like hell ♪ ♪ Baby give it time ♪ All will be well, well, well ♪ Spring just comes in like a lion ♪ ♪ Storm clouds on the horizon ♪ Waste deep in the unknown ♪ Ever clear yet mystifying ♪ But there ain't no news that can't predict ♪ ♪ If there is ever more than this ♪ ♪ Ever more than just right now ♪ ♪ Either way I know I'm blessed ♪ ♪ You can see it from every position ♪ ♪ This strange human condition ♪ Even when it seems all wrong ♪ There is still just so much good in it ♪ ♪ And we can let the world spin for awhile ♪ ♪ Keep breathing in and out, like it's going out of style ♪ ♪ And I know it's gonna hurt like hell ♪ ♪ Baby give it time, all will be well, well, well ♪ ♪ And if I say it loud enough ♪ If I got someone to tell ♪ If I just believe it ♪ For myself ♪ That all we need is time ♪ Honey give it time ♪ Yeah, all we need is time ♪ All will be well, well, well ♪ Let's just let this world spin for awhile ♪ ♪ Keep breathing in and out ♪ Like it's going out of style ♪ And I know it's gonna hurt like hell ♪ ♪ Baby give it time ♪ All will be well, well, well This song is called, "Tween the Mountains," it's a song I wrote for my nephew, Maurice.

(gentle folk music) ♪ Go tell it, let's tell it tween the mountains ♪ ♪ About your mother and your daddy and your sister's news ♪ ♪ Go tell it, let's tell it tween the mountains ♪ ♪ Everybody in this world's gonna love you, too ♪ ♪ It was a mild, mild winter ♪ It was a dry, dry June ♪ It was the middle of summer ♪ And baby you bloomed ♪ I told it, I told it tween the mountains ♪ ♪ About your mother and your daddy and your sister's news ♪ ♪ I told it, I told it tween the mountains ♪ ♪ Everybody in this world's gonna love you, too ♪ ♪ Had your heart on my mind ♪ Had a story to tell ♪ Had your name in my mouth ♪ I couldn't keep it to myself ♪ Cause before you came we already knew ♪ ♪ Was a hole in my heart in the shape of you ♪ ♪ Before you came, I already knew ♪ ♪ Was a hole in this world in the shape of you ♪