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Words
02:41
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Oh no, don't listen to
The words you file away lock away the truth.
You're choking on the things that you think you know
With the words you file away.
The words I've got they fail to serve
At describing what I'm finding on this good Earth.
The clicking and whistling only refer
To the words you file away.
I don't even want to worry
With all of these feelings to hide.
I find them so hard to swallow
When I lock them away inside
Oh, these words you file away.
The colors in my mind are brighter than their names.
All this chattering can't mean the same.
A hazy, grey cloud that shrouds the world
With the words you file away.
I don't even trust my eyes
Oh, and my ears are no good.
All they do is lie to me,
But they are all that I've got you see.
Oh.
All these words fail to serve me
At describing the wonder I see.
Cannot even tell each other
Just how beautiful we seem.
With the words we file away.
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Habits
03:30
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See with Beginner's Mind,
Without all the habits brought by life.
You will know the truth.
Your way was just too cruel.
Because the pain left in blasts the roots
And spreads all around
To poison you.
(If you) take without giving back,
the world will have nothing left to give.
Where will we go
When it all grows too cold?
Habits can be hard to break
If we don't know better
But good habits can be formed again
When we grow stronger
When we grow greater
Let the roots grow deep
And spread all around
To strengthen you.
Habits can be hard to break
If we don't know better
But good habits can be formed again
When we grow stronger
When we grow greater
I want to be stronger.
I want to grow greater.
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3. |
Come Down
04:01
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Come down to see what there is to see
I will sit and be
Think there is no choice
But there always is
Come on down
Hope you come down
All around bright and sunny rays
They shine here for you and for me
'Cause all there is to see
Is just what you want to see
So come on down
Hope you come down
Won't you come down?
Hope you come down
Won't you come on down?
These lights don't fade
They don't go away
They mean so much to me
On the ground smiling faces crowd
They're tired of being told how to be
Cause all you can spread is light
Darkness ain't nothing at all
Won't you come down?
Hope you come down
Oh, won't you come down?
Hope you come down
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Knotted
03:43
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Hey, man! Look at you there.
Mouth agape, but you're barely breathing.
Watching shoes stroll by.
None turn your way to see how you're doing.
Don't they know we are knotted by the same thread?
All these wheels roll by.
Everyone's in their own little worlds.
Can't see the glazed eyes.
Don't care for the dark haired kind.
They don't know we all burn hot as the brightest star.
We are meant to gather all of these embers
And give 'em breath to make them glow
Until the whole world glows.
Maybe then we'll know.
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." -Dylan Thomas
Don't expect them to get it.
They're all trapped in their little heads.
Can't see this life around them.
Only what's in their little minds.
They don't know we're the light shining through this darkness
We slumber sharing this one big dream.
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5. |
It's Enough
04:25
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Despite what they say
In all those childhood stories
You fly through the day sky
Not just light up the night
You have that pull on us
Even when we can't see
The light that is not your own
Shining through your lonely flight
And how would we feel
If you'd gone away?
And where would the tides go
Without you to give 'em their pace?
And the air where you are
Is not enough to fill our lungs
But the world you give below
Oh, it's enough
It's enough
Despite what they say
In all those childhood stories
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Get To Where I Go
03:06
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Dashed lines and miles signs
Chase the Sun to get there
Wiper streaks and oil leaks
Burning n my eyes
And it seems I get to where I go
Where that is, Heaven only knows
It only knows
City streets they bother me
When they lead me from you
The Moon she seems to laugh at me
For looking to the sky
And it seems I get to where I go
Where That is, Heaven only knows
I don't know where I'm going to
Keep my mind bathed in light
Once that darkness does fall
I don't mind this long night
Once I've seen your smile
And it seems I get to where I go
Where that is, Heaven only knows
I don't know where I'm going
But I know my way will always lead me back to you.
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7. |
You Can
04:14
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Shrug your shoulders of these burdens
And the weight you carried so long
This land may hold answers
All you need's around you. Yeah.
And it's always been.
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You can.
You can.
Maybe we should forget their way.
Stop punching clocks and working lives away.
Oh, and let that debt just fade.
All you need's around you. Yeah.
And it's always been.
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You can.
You can.
Talk about empires, but it's really just the land
With piled up stories of people done wrong.
Stop worrying 'bout what others might think.
Let it go.
Won't you, let it go.
Oh, let it go!
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You.
You can. You can. You can.
Go out into this world looking for beauty.
Well, my child, that's just what you'll find.
To be a jewel in their crown, they need your permission.
The peace you've always wanted, yeah,
Starts right here with you.
You can.
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8. |
So Close (Seasons)
05:12
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Never get a chance to see it
But, oh, it's so close can't help but feel
Steely eyes watch for approach, oh.
Cannot be open to surprise.
Hide amongst the rocks and grass.
No one knows where you're going to.
Hide along the narrow paths.
No one knows where you're going to.
Run with the changing winds where, oh,
The trees fall. Sun comes in.
Seasons give way to more seasons, oh,
But then so soon, your days end.
Hide amongst the rocks and grass.
No one knows where you're going to.
Hide along the narrow paths.
No one knows where you're going to.
Cuz you hide.
Hide amongst the rocks and grass, trees and shrubs, and narrow paths. No one knows where you're going to.
Seasons give way to more seasons.
Oh, it's so close.
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9. |
Not Fair
04:40
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It's better to let it out than to hold it in
Or some rubbish that we like to say
It's easier live without than to live within
Or something we babble to keep darkness away
But it's not fair
What you did
I don't want to run
I really don't care to crawl
To greet the silent ending
It comes, it comes
It comes to greet us all
So don't look at these faded photographs
Because they whisper stories of times long past
And speak of people who have met their end
And it's not fair
Can you tell when it is?
I don't want to run
And I really can't bare to crawl
To greet the silent ending
It comes, it comes
It comes, it comes
It comes to greet us all
To be alive
To be alive
Oh, I wish you'd chosen to
To be alive
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All I Can Give
04:03
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As I watch my
Neighbor's gardens growing,
I cast aside
My judgement.
For I've no clue of
The quality of soil
Given them
To cultivate.
Or the weeds and pests
They've had to endure
As they tend their plot.
All I can give is love.
That's all there is.
There is nothing else.
That's all there is.
All I can give is love.
There's nothing else.
That's all there is.
There's nothing else.
As I listen
To your troubles,
I cast aside
My advice
For my path is
Only my own.
I've no view
Of the one you tread.
But I'll lend my ears
And my shoulders
For you are
My friend.
All I can give is love.
That's all there is.
There is nothing else.
That's all there is.
All I can give is love.
There's nothing else.
That's all there is.
There's nothing else.
That's all there is.
That's all.
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