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Strange Faces
04:27
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Did she like school? Did she have lots of friends, or
just one or two that she could count on?
Was her life a bore, or did she have lots of hobbies?
Or love her parents? It seems they really loved her.
In the woods, there is a stream gone running
They found her body floating there
Now they show her smiling face and
We wonder what she's gonna miss
In the sun, we are running faster
We'll be gone as if from some disaster
People will erase all the sins that we've collected
I know as well as you I've led no perfect life
When people die! We want so bad to love them!
But when they're alive! It's easy to resent them!
Pick a life, look at it closely!
You might find something to root for!
Don't wait for death to look past our failures,
And don't forget them when we die!
And every day
I hear from the kitchen
The news at ten
The world seems death infested.
Stay inside
the world's so dangerous
don't you know you're gonna be killed?
The waterside collapsed, she's gone
His arm got cut off out the window
The lightning struck him
a tornado killed her
The ground fell out
below their feet there
A good kid murdered
Around the corner
Don't you know the whole world hates you!
But I walk out side
And it seems so peaceful!
The wind blows gently past my arms.
The sky so blue
Is it really so bad?
Even when it's raining?
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Morning Time
03:58
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When I was young, I met a man
and he is now a ghost
Our love was strong, and we grew old
and then one day he left
(he said)
"I'll see you in the mornin' time"
but he did not come back
I'll see you on the morrow dear,
he lied, he next day left
I stare into the night time
I wonder if you're there
I wait in the silence
Desperate to hear
some sign of you living
and laughing
once more
But I'll smile no matter what
Our house is old as we are
Our children have moved on
Forgive me dear, I've left you
Alone in this world
But I'm still here, around you
In all your memories
My body may be gone, now
as my spirit lingers on
You've not long to wait now
We'll be together soon
Try to be strong now
don't be consumed
By the grief of me leaving
this beautiful earth
I'll see you when the time is right
The time is here, life ending
As another one begins
You travel to the unknown
hoping for some grace
and now we're here together
now it's time to leave
this world behind and enter
some place, and hope for peace
I never believed in heaven,
I don't know what's next
But our time's just beginning
it's time that we've left.
we're here, in the morning
the day now is young
I've waited, I've waited, for you.
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3. |
Only Rain
03:42
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Rain fell 'cross Commonwealth Ave and
Soaked deep, I can't help but laugh
I smile as people run to the train
to stay dry.
Wind blew me into the street
People struggled to stand on their feet
I go back to a place in the past and
I recall a time…
where I stand, I stand on the back porch
by myself
I stand there with a stone in my hand
And I think, I think,
How this is like my life,
I turn a stone over while listening to rain
The earth shook and people fell in
Cell phones, computers, and sin
And I find comfort in storms for they recall…
the times that I could rest
And I wonder, I wonder,
where do I belong?
On the back porch, with a stone, all alone?
Is there someone, someone,
to stand there with me?
To hold the stone and in turn let me hold theirs.
Hide my young machine
in time you'll see the truth
Sure, hide, my young machine
Your life is all you'll lose
Wait, my young machine,
the time has come to quit
Wait, my young machine,
You've been fooled
A damp smell foreshadows the rain
A quiet world and light wind remain
A solitude as heavy as haze
alone as those who smile in a storm
And I stand, I stand,
on the back porch by myself.
I stand there with a stone in my hand.
And I think, I think,
How this is like my life;
I turn a stone over, and think, "It's only rain."
Just think, just think: it's only rain.
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I'm gonna be strong,
I'm gonna be brave,
I'm gonna take the world by storm.
I'm gonna fight.
I'm gonna fight!
I'm gonna fight
against
myself
I'm gonna fight,
I'm gonna fight!
I'm gonna fight
against
myself and
I'm gonna win.
Down in the valley nurse the wound that I was hiding
There are teardrops in my eyes from the wind that I've been fighting
And I told you that I didn't feel a thing that happened to me
So that I could be alone with my sorrow and an oak tree
and oh oh oh
oh oh oh
I will fight, fight fight,
I wont stop, stop stop
And every time I notice I've been standin' in a shadow
I can stare into the light and shoot my mind out like an arrow
I could hold my guts, i could whine and sigh and bellow,
or I could smile at the life that I been living all the while
and oh oh oh
oh oh oh
I will fight, fight fight,
I wont stop, stop stop
I heard life calling from the bottom of a river
So I climbed up on a mountain so that I could try to see her
And I gathered up my courage and I gathered up my wit
and I shouted down across the valley that I was part of it!!
OH OH OH etc.
As I sit down to rest, and you ask what had happened
I looked in to your eyes and couldn't stop myself from laughing'
You sit and you wonder about the things that happened to me
well I will try to tell you, but I will mask it in a story
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5. |
It's Nothing, Really
05:21
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A woman screams as a life slips out her legs
They place him, soft, inside a crib
A man shudders as his soul slips out his mouth
They sink his body to the ground
A baby boy, does he know that he will live
A million fists slammed into walls?
A grown up girl, is she thankful for each choice?
Or resent the fate that brought her here?
Oh, my life, my life
has come
and gone
My life,
has come
and gone
A business woman 20 years at the firm
She's gotta work to feed her kids
A character on the TV her children watch, alone, asks
Is it the world or is it me?
Is it me?
Why, why why,
do I live
this way?
"They told us we could be
anything that we want
A gardener or even president"
"Then they throw us into schools
Sort our classes by our age
And tell us all to get
Straight As"
Hear us, Hear us!
There's not much we want!
Tell us Tell us!
It's not much at all!
Answer, answer!
Do we have some control?
Now she's staring in a mirror
in a bathroom down the hall
The picture blurs as her eyes feel wet and hot
A colleague walks in and asks
"How are are you?"
She turns her head and replies,
"I'm fine"
I'm FINE
I'M FINE
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