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| 3:38 | 
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There ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they intend to stay. I can't explain why we live this way. We do it every day. Preachers on the podium speaking of saints. Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change. Old ladies laughing from the fire escape, Cursing my name. I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same, A window and a pigeon with a broken wing, You can spend your whole life working for something, Just to have it taken away. People walk around pushing back their debts, Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets, Talking about nothing, not thinking about death, Every little heartbeat, every little breath. People walk a tightrope on a razors edge. Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons. It could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen, Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence. There ain't no reason things are this way. Its how they've always been and they intend to stay. I don't know why I say the things I say, But I say them anyway. But love will come set me free. Love will come set me free, I do believe. Love will come set me free, I know it will. Love will come set me free, yes. Prison walls still standing tall. Some things never change at all. Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all. Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all. Working your fingers bare to the bone. Breaking' your back, make you sell your soul. Like a lung, it's filled with coal, Suffocating slow. The wind blows wild and I may move. But politicians lie and I am not fooled. You don't need no reason or a three piece suit, To argue the truth. The air on my skin and the world under my toes Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes Chaos and commotion wherever I go, Love I try to follow. Love will come set me free Love will come set me free, I do believe Love will come set me free, I know it will Love will come set me free, yes There ain't no reason things are this way. Its how they've always been and they intend to stay. I can't explain why we live this way. We do it every day. |
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| 2. |
| 5:05 |
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When I heard the news,
my heart fell on the floor. I was on a plane on my way to Baltimore. In these troubled times it's hard enough as it is. My soul has a known a better life than this. I wonder how so many can be in so much pain, while others don't seem to feel a thing. Then I curse my whiteness and I get so damn depressed. In a world of suffering, why should I be so blessed? I heard about a women who lives in Colorado. She built a monument of sorts behind the garage door, where everyday she prays for all whom are born and all whose souls have passed on. Sometimes my trouble gets so thick, I can't see how I'm gonna get through it. But, then I'd rather be stuck up in a tree then be tied to it. There is so much more. I don't feel comfortable with the way my clothes fit. I cant get used to my body's limits. I got some fancy shoes to try and kick away these blues. They cost a lot of money but they aren't worth a thing. I wanna free my feet from the broken glass and concrete. I need to get out of this city. Lay upon the ground stare a hole in the sky, wondering where I go when I die. ...When I die. |
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| 3. |
| 5:10 |
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When I arrived in my own set of clothes
I was half a world away from my home And I was hunted by the wolves and I was heckled by the crows Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know Alongside my innocence I laid in bed awake Conflicted in these chains with the impetus of age But like a phantom she crept across the floor and out the window Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know From this place on the mantle my heart was taken down Scattered in a thousand little pieces on the ground And out below the streetlamp like an orphan with a halo Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know 'Cause it won't last - the worries will pass All your troubles they don't stand a chance And sometimes it takes more than a lifetime to know Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know The confidence is full with your faith etched in stone And I let clean comfort you from the wild unknown So bury your burning hatred like a hatchet in snow Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know If you have a broken heart or a battered soul Find something to hold on to or to let go To help you through the hard nights like a flask filled with hope Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know 'Cause it won't last - your worries will pass All your troubles they don't stand a chance And it always hurts the worst when it's the ones we love the most Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know Sometimes your path is marked in the sky Sometimes you're forced to fit in between the lines Sometimes all that you can do is say no Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know I said, when I arrived in my own set of clothes I was half a world away from my home And I was hunted by the wolves and I was heckled by the crows Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know I said, Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know We said, Darlin' do not fear |
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| 4. |
| 4:10 |
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only wanted to be closer to you
i thought i had something to prove instead i fled with my superstition because you are a woman now i was told since before i could speak a mans emotions are what make him weak i come to you more or less a humble man because you are a woman and i find most of the time i'm lost inside my own mind i look all over, all over to find it dont keep me satisfied all the conquests that i construe fail miserably in front of you have you ever been loved my such a charasmatic fool? and i'm a sucker for your love the self-centered strutted crowd the side walk parade and pose with phones and paper cups you walk like truth through a world of fiction because you are a woman and i find most of the time it's all inside my mind i look all over, all over to find it dont keep me satisfied and i find most of the time i miss the way your body coils around mine the slope of your shoulders the curve of your spine because you are a woman i change my strings and pack my suitcase i'm always leaving for some other place but i return to you again and again because you are a woman because you are a woman |
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| 5. |
| 4:31 |
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well the witches stare with their limbs akimbo
silhouettes of statues up in the window call me to come here with a crooked crescendo but i don't devotees dance among the pantomime on the promenade into a tabernacle on the lawn but i don't follow because she's mine, she's mine, she's mine, all mine yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm midnight moved across the people's park and i fled the fire like a spinning spark up onto a porch in the dark she was waiting right there for me she knows that my hands are empty as i go past the mothers of envy and i don't have to fumble in the dark for my keys i believe she's mine, she's mine, she's mine, all mine yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm the pupils gather in the yard around the pulpit made of cards and waited for their leader's words but his words didn't make much sense his mouth spat out a fist of daggers and his tongue swirled in a southern swagger and i looked at all the people gathered but they were all in a trance and she's mine, she's mine, she's mine, all mine yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm i was thrown before the court of canes tossed my soul to the furnace flames where all my heros had been slain, exiled, or put in prison because they rose above the mess and because their power posed a threat and because they spoke of something else when everybody else didn't the music fills the space between the deities and the prophecies of our bodies pressed seamlessly silent in the shade she looks at me so fearlessly and i take it all too seriously but it all becomes so clear to me and makes me understand that she's mine, she's mine, she's mine, all mine yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm yeah she's mine, all mine, all mine, all mine yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm yeah she's mine, mine, mine, mmm yeah she's mine |
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| 5:00 | 
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| 6:17 |
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well i dreamed i went out a wanderin'
i heard promises become fables forgotten i saw bridges stretchin' out across the water and towers pushing taller i knew my reality was clearly defined by the fences put up around my mind i watched them thicken into walls over time taller than any boarder line i saw civilizations deemed insignificant i saw people's history tatooed on their skin i saw families taken from their land dynasties shattered and stolen and i asked when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution in all the burdens of centuries accrue that get passed along to every generation's youth and all the allegories told in lieu of truth i watched them grow wild and spread like the flu i saw the rise of an untamed industry i watched machines paint a paper economy i saw my own self stand right in front of me and i didn't do a thing i saw poisons pushed in the street and prescription pills mingling in the mezzanine with a whole host of wealth of doctors and pharmaceutical companies still poor people were dying from disease and i asked when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution and i broke down at the break of dawn I saw new meaning in the clouds above the Pentagon as real as the hollocaust as stong as the Parthanon visions of Sudan Iraq and Vietnam i stood silent upon a flooded levy and stared at the ruins of a merchant city and the president who came to dine with the noble elite he didnt do a thing i saw three ships come sailing in through the passage of the CARIBBEAN i saw children coming home in coffins millions marching on washington and i asked when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution i asked when, when... is a revolution i asked when... is a revolution |
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| 4:47 |
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Momma got to worrying because her boy left home in a hurry again
Her photographs are fading, she keeps a box in the closet full of negatives Well, I left a note on the floor in my room I've always been stubborn and late to bloom I had to lay down my load, my burdens are my own It's a coming of age when you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know and I know, I know I was longing on a short summer night when I had the urge to leave I went out to find my muse with a eight in my pocket and a craving for some cajun blues I was following my follies when I saw her aboard the river queen I was courting my frail lady all the way to New Orleans But I was swoon by a luminous tomb so I climbed the roof and gave that woman my croon I had to tell her all I know, my business is my own It's a coming of age when you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know And I know, I know When you feel When you feel it you know When you feel When you feel it you know When you feel When you feel it you know When you feel When you feel it Well, mamma got to worrying she said "Now boy, I stay up late wondering where you been! Oh, soon your gonna have to give in no you can't live forever the way that you been." Oh, mamma I'm not trying to do not wrong I had to learn this is the way I get along It's a life that I chose, my reasons are my own It's a coming of age when you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know I know, I know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know When you feel it you know |
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| 9. |
| 5:57 |
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So Long, my misery
I don't need you you've only caused me grief forgive me if I fall asleep I haven't slept in centuries Daylight lives like a burden for me so I escape sent it strewn about the street beyond the ruins of my ancestry far past the pages of my disbelief I rose from my moat like a ghost from a grave sunken in the salty eyes of the wandering displaced I was heading through the mist across the golden gate all of my rebellions fall into the fog of fate So long my misery I don't need you you've only caused me grief forgive me if I fall asleep I haven't slept in centuries Spring time came again and Icarus fell I flew past the numb lipped nuns who'll never tell the secrets of the sailors and their 7 year spell I will not fall, nor will my wings ever melt if I could I would wash all these wounds away I would surround your room with a sense of mental grace I would paint your portrait over everything mundane more colorful than Easter Sunday so long my misery I don't need you you've only caused me grief forgive me if I fall asleep I haven't slept in centuries put me on a boat leave my inhibitions at bay my mind is spilling but I haven't much to say I was running through the canyons pulse the echoes of your name you were laughing at me like the sun laughs at a flame put me on a page in a book of beginnings let me scroll me through old volumes of ancient teachings let me reveal in all of these forgotten feelings lay me with the wretched in the arms of my queen so long sweet misery I don't need you you've only caused me grief forgive me if I fall asleep I haven't slept in centuries (x2) no I haven't slept in centuries I haven't slept in centuries |
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| 3:50 |
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Yeah
In the womb of winter, summer seems a myth In my desperation I throw my faith into the wind Born to a world where it is a fight just to fit in From the cradle to the grave, it never ends Someday, someday in a cloud of gray I will, I'll make my great escape So many ways to walk upon the earth I trace my footsteps to the place of my birth So what do you do with all your precious time So many ways in which to reach for the sky Someday, someday in a cloud of gray I will, I'll make my great escape Someday, someday in a cloud of gray I will, I'll make my great escape Say, little bit by little bit, someday I may be weary but I am not weak I can sing a song of suffering Maybe a song unsung is dancing on the tip of your tongue My salvation's ahead of me I can feel it calling me I know that I, I know that I will be ready Someday, someday in a cloud of gray I will, I'll make my great escape Someday, someday in a cloud of gray I will, I'll make my great escape |
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