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On a Day
02:05
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On a day when ice was falling from the sky
I thought of you somewhere by the sea side
The picture pleasing to my mind’s eye
Frozen tracks but the trains still fly on by
If I’m off roaming as the day turns into night
Spiraling colors, how can I explain the sight?
The dust settles upon me, I pedal on
My ears are tingling as I hear a thousand songs
And if I live to see the man come tumbling down
I’ll stay up watching as he burns all to the ground
Oh come will dance upon the cinders the next day
And sleep won’t come until there’s no more strength to play
You won’t believe me when I share the hope I’ve seen
Cannot conceive until you yourself have been
To the desert love, we’ll go there overnight
By the mountains and the salt flats wayside
Despite the 5/0 and the hassles of the ride
I’ll risk it gladly to see the pretty lights
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Crystal Children
02:56
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The way I knew is gone
My purpose I am learning
Today I will be home
My heart no longer hurting
Meet me by the gate love
The bells there will be tolling
No longer will I roll off
Our new words hear them forming
Dear crystal child sleeping
Your siblings all are fighting
Awake from hibernating
You’re not safe meditating
It’s peace you want, it sounds true
But war has come despite you
The game is set, the rules made
Now contemplate your every move
Resonating Virtues
Our histories escape you
The powers that be tell you to
Lay back while they take you
There’s one more trick I entreat
You gladly use and not grieve
For brethren of the blue sleeve
For sistren lying through teeth
Throw tyrants from their high seats
The spoiled rotten must meet
The earth and our dear sun’s heat
And be cleansed by the fire
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Hard to be Kind
04:26
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My poor head is aching, and my fear I can’t hide
The way things are going, how can I abide?
My true love was taken, by a swift beam of light
While I fitfully slept, it happened overnight
Got me feeling so sad and lonesome, it’s hard to be kind
Now she’s light-years away and enjoying the sights
While I’m planted in the earth, wishin the sun would shine bright
You went down to the station and bought a ticket to ride
But me, I’d no money, and no spirit of flight
Like a fire that burns, consuming it’s right
How all came about, too, too quickly
Though so badly it hurts, of course it’s your right,
It’s just you’ve cracked my shell completely
I took comfort in the arms of strangers who held me, as I wept like a child
The easiest way is to listen to your soul
Do what your own sweet heart does tell you
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4. |
The Fox Path
04:17
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If you follow the fox path
Through the snow covered wood
Little one will teach you
Never take more than you should
If you go with the butterfly
On their migration drift
Let yourself be remade
Put your faith in the wind
Take a lesson from the brown bear
In the caverns they sleep
When you have reawakened
Share with us your grand dream
From the turtles repose
On the banks of river swift
Go as slow as the moss grows
Just meditate and sit
Let your heart find this wisdom
All but humans seem to know
Live at peace with our mother
Earth is where all life has grown
Earth is where all life is grown
Earth is where all life will grow
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Phoenix
05:47
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Much travel is needed
Before that raw man
Is ripened
Many seeds must be sown
And the rain must fall
To feed all of the mother’s children
For the phoenix to rise
It must go through the fire
And the eagle must go up in smoke
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When the troops come home
and we've come to ground the drones,
can you even picture this,
well we get them to enlist
in a task of transformation
building new our fallen Nation
accountability for action,
understanding all our impact and
no longer will we seek
to dominate all of the people ,
never again perverse
and make A spear out of the steeple;
With once military dollars
we will pay organic farmers
to retrain all the vets
to sing sonatas to the "pests"
Ala Rawles and ala Jesus
and all those who've come to teach us
We can feed all of the people
be at peace with all the creatures
Dig deep down to name our fears
Be not afraid to shed our tears
When there's no one left to blame
We'll admit we're all the same
We love we sing we laugh we cry
we all deserve another try
the struggles we all face inside
are mirrored in each other's eyes
With all the ways to demonize
And all the means to penalize
Instead with every ounce of zeal
Let's strive all hearts to mend and heal!
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Picture this, I invite you
Picture this, I trust you
Picture this, I love
A bunch of roses can block the road
The whole of the empire brought down with a kiss
The tide is turning albeit slow
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Lord Dear Lord
03:51
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Lord dear lord you don’t see me for who I am, what I am, who I am, what I am, Lord dear lord you don’t see me at all
Work got hard, the road got tough, my feet grew tired and my hands grew rough
Tell me did you ever think to look my way
Lord dear lord did you notice just what I did and where I went and who I saw and time I spent
I said lord dear lord, did you notice at all
By the light of heaven I can see the shadow’s shade
At dawn and dusk hard lines of truth are made a certain kind of gray
Struggling with virtue, searching through both dark and light
Sometimes it’s hard to follow in the narrow path of light
Seasons change I walk along and watch the shift of sun
Skies of gray and days of blue and over everyone
As the cycle turns its course I wonder where’s the source
And does the god in heaven ever think to show us some remorse
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What Kind of World
04:38
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There were people dying, all the spectators came
The response of the nations - was a goddamn shame.
Not a one could say a word against it; cause they was all doin' the same -
What kind of world have we made?
There is a certain sort of chill to the numbness of our sleep, when we turn from all but the company we keep
The coolness of our shoulder brought the poor right to their knees.
Momma rock us into seeing, it's our future that will weep.
The coolness of our shoulder brought the poor right to their knees.
Momma rock us into seeing, it's our future that will weep.
Some of them boys was throwing dice, huddled ‘round a cold street
Risking their last dollar, cuz dem babies couldn't eat
and if the cops showed up; then it was jail and to get beat - 2
Who's saving who, what's left to fight?
The pendulum of blame keeps swinging swinging side to side
when has the whipping ever rid us of a sin?
Momma, rock us out of keeping on the way we’ve always been
when has the whipping ever rid us of a sin?
Momma, rock us out of keeping on the way we’ve always been
Can’t call it peace when it’s a gun that made them leave
Can’t simply be till all our shackles are set free
Got truth to speak but no one wants to hear you preach
to our consciousness give heed
for too long we've been deceived
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Wrinkled
01:42
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10. |
Apples
05:19
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I am breathing, breathing, breathing
Oh this debt that I owe the universe
This life-giving life-giving life-giving life that I never deserved
I belong to the people who raised me
And
To the earth that provides, that provides
I belong to humanity choked on our vanity, blinded by pain and by fear of more pain
I remember a future where soil was precious as spirits of children
Which in turn were as dear as consent from a woman
I haven’t forgotten the past that still lives in the prisons and suits and the black combat boots
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You can’t even imagine the apples you’ll have in six years or ten
If you plant your tree now
From that one tree you’ll feed all your neighbors, too many to pick
They’ll need to bake pies
Remember the future you hold in your mind’s eye.
As you walk through the world, it emerges
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