1. |
The Avenue
04:20
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The Avenue’s a river
I have watched it for years
as it flowed and ebbed
as it reveled as it hid
its aching need
Beauty like a flower
Fragile as a flower
child grown old
She’s reaching out
to strangers for love
because there’s no one else to hold
(chorus)
The way this river flows
You just hold on
with all your might
It's dangerous and beautiful
Raging rich with life
The avenue’s a river
With predators and safe shore
The ave is a late night friend who welcomes me
when no one’s home
Flocks of tattooed children
Land upon this shore
To rest their wings
by the riverbank
When there’s nothing else so sure
(chorus)
The way this river flows
You just hold on
with all your might
It's dangerous and beautiful
And raging rich with life
(bridge)
We’re swimming
fighting our way upstream
for a reason that no one knows
when at last we find our way
maybe we can return to the ocean
The avenue flows out around
the light the dark so intermingled
this river made me the way I am
and carved me like a stone
Some they walk so quickly by
That they miss the fortune tellers
when you look into their faces
won’t you read between the lines
The way this river flows
You just hold on
with all your might
It's dangerous and beautiful
And raging rich with life
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2. |
Looking to You for Home
04:24
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Looking to you for home
When will I ever stop looking to you for home
Looking to you for home
When will I ever stop looking to you
VERSE 1
What’s become of navigation?
Shake my fist futile frustration
I am tossed on the open sea
My heart is my compass
Love you are my guide
So what or where is my destination?
CHORUS
Looking to you for home
Where I can let my guard down
Where I'm at ease
Looking to you for home
Someone so familiar
One thing I know
VERSE 2
You are the eyes in the mountainside
The being in the breath
Something that’s so ancient
Nearly makes me forget
You are familiar as the morning
Spacious and close in
Knows just where the hell I’ve been
(CHORUS)
Looking to you for home
When the day is done
And my trials have come
Looking to you for home
It's a habit see my bones even know
Where to go
BRIDGE
And if the weather is good
or the weather is bad
you are where I am
You are where I have always turned
VERSE 3
A thousand lives we scheme
while precious moments fly
And after this is past
And we have shed our names
even if we don’t drink deeply
a taste could be enough
Bow my head to the four directions
Seeking my true North
CHORUS
Looking to you for a word
That gives me just a grain
That helps me maintain
My hope, my love
Shall we turn the page
Or can we begin again?
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3. |
Music Lifted Me
03:36
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I can’t take no more
Bad news no, no, not today
Nothing seems to matter
And it all just turns to gray
You found me when I needed you
You gave me what I need
A message from the other side
Says spirit is free
(CHORUS)
Music lifted me
Music lifted me
Music lifted me
With you I have found my home
I’ve truly found my home
Where I can dream boldly
where I can be known
Boldly laughing, singing, crying
Boldly living, bolding dying
And all the while
An old song on my lips
(CHORUS)
The times they are a changing
And they won't go back again
Both eyes on the future
Although it breaks my heart
I want to hear the voices
That inspired and revived her
Giggling girl
Now see how you have changed
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4. |
The Frame
04:31
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In my lifetime
I was freer to roam
no one could find me so far from home
now there’s walls and barriers
meant to keep them out
meant to keep us in
Be a gambler now
And play to win
Let’s turn the tables
Let's start again
Speak your truth
and don’t look down
don’t look down
Where you hold the frame
Will decide what you capture
let this moment go
and what will come after
It’s a musical chairs
and the music has stopped
this is your moment (2X)
Lucky fellas think
they own the world
I think it's time to break the news
That wealth is just a notion
They put in your head
Just to dazzle and confuse
Gardeners in the city
Gardens on the roofs
Coaxing life from concrete
dizzy with the thought
of all that freedom
and the power to decide
(End)
close my eyes
Sun upon my face
Lift my head /Speak my truth
fear dissipate
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5. |
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Would you know a good thing
If you held it in your hand
If I held you so completely
Would you finally understand
Like a wedding glass of wine
Too refreshing just to sip
Dance and twirl my darling
Will you catch me if I slip?
(CHORUS)
Do you want me to come visit
in the night upon a hill
Am I some apparition
or just a story that you tell?
Do you need an anchor
or a friend along your path?
Do you want us to be
something built to last?
(CHORUS)
I have seen you in the dark
I have seen you in the light
Neither of us perfect
Mostly it's twilight
We could drift like this forever
keep each other company
But I think I need to know right now
Who you want to be
(CHORUS)
We’ll never know from talking
Walls of words that keep us out
Sometimes it’s the silence
That makes me want to shout
Are we killing time my baby
Or are we going somewhere?
Sink or swim survival
Or will you take me there?
(CHORUS)
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6. |
Mama Learned to Pray
04:18
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Mama learned to pray today
it's been so long coming
I want to call you all and say
the magic works
and she’s coming home
There a farmer’s daughter
feed the cows and haul the water
prove them all wrong
Beautiful and headstrong
Some roads bring you closer
Some take you farther away
Some things get broken
some things get worn away
Grace, sometimes
you gotta dig so deep
Grace, sometimes
you gotta let it go
Bridge:
Was your dream deferred?
Did we get it right?
Can we offer words
instead of fight?
Easy chair don’t seem so easy now
The queen hit the floor
but she didn’t bounce back
spent a long, long night
contemplating her fate
She was ready
when the morning came
Bring a blouse and a make-up case
She said I don’t really need much
where I’m going
Grace, sometimes
you gotta dig so deep
deeper till you understand
Mama learned to pray today
It's been so long coming
I want to call you all and say
the magic works
and she’s coming home
coming home
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7. |
Heaven, Earth and Me
03:41
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Channeling all of this pain and disaster
Into something better that maybe come after
Learn a lesson or two along the way
Bout a how to move yeah, from day to day
Standing under a waterfall
Inside my brain it’s a free for all
Bones hold my structure everything’s fine
the wave move through my body and my mind
all at the same time
oh all at the same time
Cause somewhere between
heaven and earth is me I learn to fight
I got a duty and a right yeah
Show me how to move
with so much less resistance
get out of my own way
I can do anything today
Macro cosmic universe rolling up and down
and then it can reverse
spiraling down let it hold you deep, down deep, deep in the earth
no slack in your back, ready for attack
iron shirt will defend me six directions wide
My breath holds my place it's my guru and my guide
Back to the mountain oh mountain
Teach me how to climb
That somewhere between
heaven and earth is me I learn to fight
I got a duty and a right yeah
Show you how to move
with so much less resistance
get out of your own way
you can do anything today
My how you’ve grown
My how you bow
With so much tension
There is sure to be release
You got to move the center
If you want to live
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8. |
When The Ohm Comes In
04:32
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Sometimes I think how wonderful if we could live forever
Other times I cannot see beyond another day
Times are so uncertain and there is nowhere to hide
Still I want to have some influence on how I live and die
That’s when the ohm comes in
That’s when the ohm comes in
Grateful for these gifts and treasures so surrounding me
Uncertain how to hold them all or maybe set them free
Concrete on my shoulders and perfume in my hair
I want to carry the load and still be sure there is a joyful place somewhere
That’s when the ohm comes in
That’s when the ohm comes in
Stumbling down a corridor of darkness and derision
Wounded now I’m wounding, afraid now I am feared
Roiling up inside me now this passion and this rage
That’s not how I want to move in this later age
That’s when the ohm comes in
That’s when the ohm comes in
All good things come to an end and even bad things they must fall
Don’t you get too comfortable, you can never be too sure
The cycles turn the soil and the old becomes like new
Then we start to understand what the ancient people knew
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9. |
Bended Knee
03:42
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Many days I have reread in my mind you see
All the time and places that you been with me
I see laughter tears of joy and reckoning
I see clouds that won't part cause we tell them to
And I am falling down on bended knee
And I’m calling, calling out for mercy
Excavations of our long lost history
Only love could ever cause such misery
Years have grown a comfortable barrier
Trouble is you lost what you were looking for
And I am falling on bended knee
And I’m calling, calling out for mercy
Sorry that I didn’t regret it fast enough
I was still in shock at the wonder of
Maybe someday there will be a monument
To a love that was so one of a
Kindness knows no shame
And its easier to blame
Than breathing through the tangles
The things we didn’t know
The weak and trembling places
The wound that doesn’t show
Many days I have reread in my mind you see
All the time and places that you been with me
I see laughter tears of joy and reckoning
I still pray that there will come a someday
And I am falling down on bended knee
And I’m calling, calling out for mercy
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10. |
Line in The Sand
04:25
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I want to be with you but you’re somewhere else
Captured by the small device you hold in your hand
Baby can you hear me? Baby can you see?
What have they done to you?
Cyber tigers make a big splash
But we all know this just won’t last
The next best thing is coming, and they want you to drool
I may be unaccustomed but I ain’t no fool
CHORUS
Searching for a line in the sand
Searching for some crystal clarity
Searching for our very bottom line
Then we hold on to for dear life
Little children make their way to the border
Asking for help and I think they ought to
Get a big welcome some love and attention
Not years and years locked up in detention
Once upon a time this land could welcome a stranger
Now newcomers come but they represent danger
A busload of refugees got stopped by an angry mob
And the cops wouldn’t protect them cause that isn’t their job
CHORUS
We are watching the closing of the window
What are we made of? How will we fight?
Its unacceptable to keep watching the warning signs
Without giving a peep, or moving a muscle
So today we start all over call the game we’ll say you won
But monuments don’t sparkle under a plastic sun
And there’s no forgiveness for the innocents
And they tell me that the struggle is real
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11. |
Forever
03:07
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I get so used to my heavy coat
That I don’t notice
when the spring has come
It takes me awhile to decide that
The coast is clear
And we’re finally safe here
The doors of my heart slide open
And you go inside with ease
I play it cool for a moment
But that isn’t really what I mean
CHORUS:
Cause what I want to give you is forever
I want to give you blue skies and water
That’s good enough to drink
Good enough forever
Broken branches after the rain
The power of the wind
is an awesome thing
Clear away the brush
I love you just as much
My love for you is like a mountain
It goes much deeper than you see
I’ll be here for a long time
And you can depend me
CHORUS
BRIDGE:
And what does it mean to swim through
These complicated waters
We all have a future
We all have a past
We do the best we can
The best we can
So if I’m not always there
when you want me
Just know I’ll be there if you need me
For now I’m trying to make
a place for us
Where we can meet our maker
and think for ourselves
And if that ain’t love
I don’t know what it is
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