1. |
Firefly
05:53
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This is so new
I know what to do
I've got to thread through the tangle
I need to climb to the blue
These windows of sense
I cannot explain
drawn on this primal heat
awoke in the day
Sun going down
Tall grass a road
the music inside me burns
I'll give it away
My breath is deep
too small to compare
glowing like jewels
fit to grace
the night air
My moment has come
soon will be done
rejoice in the rising breeze
until it's gone
I cannot speak!
I cannot refrain!
nor turn from the coming night
will I rise again
This is my peace
my given name
lit like a fire
will I rise again
This is so new
I know what to do
rejoice in the here and now
until it's through
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2. |
Soldier On
03:41
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I'm gonna soldier on
go out and see for myself
I know it won't be long
go out and see for myself
So tell me why
should I be so afraid
why should I hide
just because
they don't like what I've made
I know I'm right and wrong
Just the same as everyone else
I have been weak, I've been strong
I won't forget how it felt
No matter how much I may want to
I know that I can't change this on my own
When others tell me to
It just makes me feel alone
I know there's one way home
I can't go for anyone else
No matter where I roam
I have to be good to myself
So tell me why
Should I be so afraid
Why should I hide
just because
I don't like what they've made
I'm gonna soldier on
go out, go out,
go on out, I'm gonna go on out
and see for myself
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3. |
Refugees Rebuke
04:56
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Today your life is shining
you're young, you're strong
and you're high
But you are flirting with disaster
and in her arms you are not shy
Keep flirting with destruction
but don't expect relief
you can only go so far in this direction
before you find out what it means
So you had to leave your home
believe me, I understand
You're going to need a place to hide soon
you're going to need a helping hand
Don't bite the hand the helps you
Don't try to pass the blame
you've made the move now move on
I've had to do the same
When you can't win for losing
and you find you're on your own
Take an honest look
You have to carry it
or let it all go
In the halls of the sublime
we took the potion
passed all time
watched as the fragments danced
yesterday
Tomorrow
we tasted joy and sorrow
saw they are the same at second glance
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4. |
Dragonfly Season
05:33
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The temperature is up
a heat wave smashes
onto these stuffy bodies
the crushing air crashes
one hundred degrees
one hundred and rising
there's a dull milky haze
disguising the horizon
there's a million mosquitos
frantically weaving
through the predators palace
this dragonfly season
There's a shortage of shade
tempers are flaring
the hideouts are praying
for their air conditioning
Well I thought I heard thunder
I'm only teasing
It's just a darting winged wonder
this dragonfly season
Things aren't the same
when the weather is freezing
so come out and play
this dragonfly season
The pressure keeps climbing
invisibly gripping
the unwary busybodies
go on with their shopping
work smothers on
with no rhyme or reason
when everyone
should just sit and listen
I'm not falling out
I'm not going to pieces
I'd rather enjoy this
Dragonfly season
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5. |
Riddle
05:15
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I'm no good
what does that even mean?
I've got scars where my hands
are tied to the machine
I'm strolling through nature
where I'm bound to explode
no one can tell me
how not to go
I'm so hot till I'm cold
and there are stones in my eyes
while the present unfolds
I'll be watching the skies
I'm around but I'm square
I'm young but I'm spry
Deep down inside
I can't help wondering why
I'm no good
I've been watching you fall
I won't' go for a little
As I've come for it all
I suffer terrible visions
you don't know what I've seen
there in the dark
all eyes glued to the screen
I'm no good
There's no turning back now
I own your reflection till you figure out how
I'm an outrageous liar
and I don't have free will
I die all the time
but I'll be living here still
I'm the wily serpent
in the curve of the tree
I'm the maid by the water
brings her dinner to me
I'm a king in a castle
who thinks you're not even real
I'm the outlaw hunted
for refusing to kneel
I'm no good
I watched the dawning of time
If you read the scrolls
then you've heard of my kind
you don't even know it
let me proffer a clue
when you're looking at me
you're only seeing you
I'm no good
I wear a blanket of blindness
Don't you know being nice
is the devil's version of kindness
I absorb your weakness
until I make it a trend
Only my victims
will be known as my friends
I'm full of sorrow and anger
do you find me aloof
your tribe has estranged me
without any proof
a river of words
marks the twist of my trail
the root of my weakness
is how deeply I care
I'm no good
a rare event in the skies
you're very own molten
mysterious prize
I absorb your weakness
till I make it a trend
only my victims will be known as my friends
I'm no good
IIIIIIIIIIyeeeemmm
no good
IIIIAAAhhhhh
no good
IIIIIyeeeeeIIIi
No good
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6. |
Mountains
06:01
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I can see the mountains
when I close my eyes
mountains that I run to
when I fail for all my tries
there's fire on the mountains
time records the place
a moment caught in fear
only love can erase
Oh sister of the mountains
be my sober bride
take me to the flower fields
where the sweet water resides
for our introduction
a broken warning bell
who was I to think that
I could never tell
Of all that we thought we'd gained
appears so small
of all that we had loved
of all that we had fought for
all that we had made
seen so far below
Flee the burning city
race the setting sun
no danger in the canyon
gonna set me on the run
Flee the flooded valley
the all consuming tide
raise your gaze up to the heights
where the soaring eagles rise
so far and so high
they almost reach the sun
cast their shadows down
on everyone
dare and try and reach it
better dare to reach the peak
name me one thing anyone
who lives down here would seek
The mountain view exposes
the valleys hidden lives
an ark of light it traces
across these weary eyes
I feel this every evening
and even when I wake
what's left when it collapses
is that which cannot break
When all that we thought we'd gained
appears so small
all that we had found
all that we had fought for
all that we had made
seen so far below
The wind upon the summit
so strong it makes you fear
causes one to question
all that you held dear
there's sweetness in these mountains
few will ever taste
there's even joy in sadness
when the mountains laid to waste
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7. |
Tentative
05:51
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A road leads off, into sun warmed green
I'm deep in thought, eating rice and beans
Whenever I cross the ponderous tar
I think of you
I can't give up, I can't give in
I work till I break blisters still, I'm barely getting by
Often get the feeling, I'd rather lay down
But I can't give up, I can't give in
I can't give up, I can't give in
For now I ride down the freeway
past the cities forests and fields
hopeful ever hopeful in a reunion
who knows what the future yields
There is an ache behind my eyes
I feel I may be in for a big surprise
As if all of my grey internal skies, are finally turning blue
and I can't give up, I can't give in
I can hear the strangers crying
darling I am trying so hard to see our love go through
I've got four thousand years of bad vibes,
mistaken identity laying on my head trying to make me blue
and give up on you
but I can't give up, I can't give in
A bent path through the woods heard my footsteps
where the light burst in gold through the leaves
given our brief time together, if you called, I'd roll up my sleeves
A road leads off into sun warmed green
I'm deep in thought, eating rice and beans
Wherever I go, both far and near, I always think of you
and I can't give up, I can't give in
I can't give up, I can't give in
…...
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8. |
Anna Liffey
03:57
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Capture a lonely heart
give her a little tender touch
and you'll see her start
to bloom more beautiful
than the mountains in the spring
more wise and wonderful
than all of nature's lovely things
Speak her name
but don't hesitate
this miracle will blow away
should you have to wait
like the laughing river
she will roll along
you must do more than want her
or you must wander on
You and I
once were thick as thieves
two of a common pattern
like the falling leaves
and all that passed between us
always will remain
along as there is sunshine
this dull annulling pain
Anna Liffey
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9. |
Without You
02:38
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From a sunlit room in Charlottesville
where you and I made love
without expectations
I face a new morning without you
without you
without you
I face a new morning without you
I cannot call your name
and hear your sweet reply
this is not the time
for asking permission
there is more to this
and it will tell
for this is not me dreaming
my heart's desire is to spend my life with you
shake these blues
pace no more
the sleepless halls of wondering
while my labors spin
out of the hands
of any who'd refuse them
so when you greet the dawn
with your smiling eyes
and your coffee cup
so physically grateful
will you remember dear
how I loved you
and I know
you're thinking of me too
thinking of me too
thinking of me too
you're thinking of me too
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