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Day after day, I participate and ingratiate myself to all that connects me
Time after time, though I obfuscate I articulate myself and they all suspect me
Night after night I illuminate and personicate myself in all that expects me
And it’s time to take my time, you’ve gotta read between these lines, but you can’t convict me
Day after day after day after day, they always arrest me, they always arrest me
Day after day after day after day, they always arrest me, they always arrest me
Day after day when I meditate and I contemplate myself and seem to forget me
Time after time I inoculate and emancipate myself from all that infects me
Night after night, I pontificate and perseverate myself but they don’t detect me
And it’s time to take my time; you’ve gotta read between my lines
You don’t have to make my choice – but you can’t come and say it, boy; I can’t come and say it, boy
CHORUS
Day after day as I sit and wait and I orchestrate myself in the music around me
Time after time when I get it straight I communicate myself and it all accepts me
CHORUS (X2)
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Another Day
04:08
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Lately I’m just not myself I look around but there’s no one else
I’m alright and I’m okay, yes I’ll be fine on another day
Lately I’m just not myself I get so high and above all else
I’m alright and I’m okay, yes I’ll be fine on another day
Lately I just get so low I stop and start there’s nowhere to go
Things get fast and things get slow, but I’ll be fine at least that I know
Lately I’m just not myself I’ve come to find that there’s nothing else
I’m alright and I’m okay, yes I’ll be fine on another day
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3. |
Johnny-Johnny Red Bird
04:35
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JJRB you better leave your nest alone
Mama’s found a new bird and she’s takin’ that little birdy home
JJRB you better learn to fly alone
BBBB is living in your home
When you believe in things that you don’t
it’s coming Right back one of these days
When you concede to things but then you won't
it’s coming right back one of these ways
JJRB your wing is like a stone
JJRB it’s better you fly low
JJRB you’ve got no place to go
BBBB his home was once your own
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Know the Wind
06:43
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I want to discover the wind why it blows
And then I’ll uncover what nobody knows
And then I will lean something and then I will see
What makes the wind blow so hard between you and me
I just worry about things like that – and it shakes down the walls of love
I just worry about things like that
And when next the wind brings you here from wherever you roam
I might not be gone but I won’t be alone
See I’ve got the wind right here and it’s always with me
And when we’re together our love’s a breeze
It shakes down the walls we build through our hearts
It brings us together and it tears us apart
We’ve got each other, baby – that’s how it goes
And why it all happens this way is just how the wind blows
I just worry about things like that
You sing bat-nah-na … I just worry about things
Won’t you hold on this / some time
City likes addiction is your home / where you roam
Won’t you just blow away, blow away, blow away …
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Refined Way
08:18
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I see them mobbed around my door in a refined way
I bet you don’t take the road I’m takin’:
The track you took is all forsaken now
The ways you wrought are all mistaken now
You see I see it’s all been shaken out
The songs you sung have all been taken out
The seat I seek is almost coming up
Two, three times and it goes on and on
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Moon-Sabled Nights
04:45
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In a place \ world I know
Somewhere\place fast of slow
Where your garden grows, through the night
I get a real good view, of what’s inside of you
From moon sabled nights, talkin’ moon sabled nights
And when the sun goes down
And there’s no moon around in the night
I get \ you give a darker hue which is mostly skewed by\from\with moon sabled nights
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Walls
02:27
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Right on down the road we went My time with you was time well spent
Where we’ve gone and where we’ve been all these times we can’t amend
Like all these kinds of loves we see replace so much mediocrity
Where I go and what I do, are forever now incurred in you
And then there came that time there when you turned to me and you said
I just got so much love to give; it’s hard to see the pain some live,
Makes me hollow
We shake down the walls
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Consoned
04:23
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Once I find you I’ll fade around you
A ghost in your bed
I think about you but it’s sometimes hard to
Get you right in my head
Touches of you don’t always feel through
Which way to go
The day gleans around me
But still I can’t quite see
I can’t decide what I know
But I … I'm so consoned …
Once I find you I’ll reign around you
You’ll lie in my bed
I’ll pull you right through and stay around you
It’s just that I haven’t yet
Reign, reign, reign......
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Cats
04:39
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The cats are on my back
Something’s in the air
I tell you way too much
I ain’t goin’ anywhere
The cats are on my back
One of them decides to sleep back there
I want to move but I won’t
I don’t want to wake her
Wanna go out tonight, get high as a kite
Drive through the hills, see the lights
Knowing you’re out there … Somewhere
It’s getting cold, lights down low
If these walls could talk, they’d be saying things I don’t wanna know
The cats are on my back – both of them decide to sleep back there
I wanna move but I won’t; I don’t wanna wake them
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Sunshine When It Rains
04:34
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Every day I’m reminded of all the things we’ve done
And how much fun we had all along the way
And never would I change a single part of anything
All out memories bring me sunshine when it rains
Past mistakes we made played out in a melody
But lately I ain’t singin’ straight
Left alone I breathe the quite of serenity
And all my presence here escapes
And never would I take for granted all these memories
As if these times with you were just another day
Silouettes of fingerprints upon my mind’s page
And all out memories bring me sunshine when it rains
When it rains, when it rains across the day
When it rains, when it rains across the day
Sunshine – sunshine when it rains
Sunshine – sunshine when it rains
Do-do-do-dit-da-do-da-do
Do-do-do-dit-da-do-da-do
Silouettes of fingerprints upon my minds page
And all out memories bring me sunshine when it rains
And never would I change a single part of anything
All our memories bring me sunshine when it rains
(Yeah, when it rains)
When it rains across the day, yeah when it rains
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Part I Lama
06:54
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I think we’re sinking said the man to his boat
But you are my Lama and I am your goat
We’ve sailed the kingdom and we’ve sailed the queen
But they weren’t so royal from what we had seen
You are my Lama and you are my boat
You are the wise one who keeps me afloat
Winds keep on shifting and the tides they may turn
But why it all happens we have not yet to learn
The king he smirked smugly and then the kind he spoke loud
To those who listened in his loyal crowd
“We’ll work together”, he said, “and we will work as one
“To keep our hearts open and our eyes to the son
“Of our own creation, for this is not how we lean
“And what we’ve been searching for we cannot find to seem – find to seem- I mean you know what I mean.”
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Part II Smithorines
02:22
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It’s the way that I walk
You cover my motion
And cripple my talk
With love and devotion
You thinking those thoughts
They carry emotions
And playing these songs
Like musical potions
My darling … (blow it all to)
Smithorines
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Part III Dharma
04:01
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Dharma: had I know that all you own I would sell, had I thought I would’ve dug you a well, cast down wishes I would tell into the well
Dharma: had I thought you would’ve come back so soon, had I known I would’ve dug you a lagoon; sit by it and swoon, unless it’s too soon, at the dark and sabling moon
Dharma: had I know what a mentor you’d make, had I figured I would’ve dug you a lake; oh what motions we’d make for what’s at stake, we might create quite a wake, they may get on their knees and say for heaven’s sake
Dharma: oh how you’ve come by and garnered my devotion, and now I know so I will dig you and ocean, we’ll fill it all with what we see, like Johnny Red B. How 'bout the Lama the boat and the Queen? Consoned, Sunshine and the rain, another day, Wu Wei just don’t arrest me.
Becuase everything's forced ....
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Part IV Wu Wei
05:24
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Everything’s forced; nothing is flowing; everything’s gone, except for the going
And these things…that seem so real so strong, die so hard because you let ‘em so long they are, keeping you on …
Now I met the Lama, and we went for a walk; I did the walking and I let her do the talk. She said, “Son it don’t really matter what you do just as long as you do it with feeling. The world might not always be spinning for you but don’t let that keep you from living. You spend all this time and you are trying to pursue a thing you’ve already been given. Forget what you know and you might just find that heaven’s but the moment that we live in – that’s what I’ve been trying to say.”
Everything’s forced; everything’s crawling. Even my horse, of course, gets a kick when she’s stallin’.
1 time 2 men they offered 3pence 4 my thoughts
But their 5 sensed ways 6 shot a haze through the 7th heaven that they sought
8 up 9 lives that were in10ded to 11vate
But the 12th night came and with things the same the 13 signs await
Everything’s forced; everything’s fallin’.
Everything’s soft, except for the calling,
Of a voice whose tones are my own. From the inside it speaks upright but alone
and it says go and you’ll find all the world is your mind and your mind is no one’s but your own
So now that you know and you’ve heard my confession
The fate of the world – yeah the world – is at you discretion
Because son it don’t really matter what you do just as long as you do it with passion
The words might not always flow to you, but don’t let that suppress your expression
You can’t let it, no. You can’t let ‘em know … Wu Wie, Wu Wie
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Part V Outro
03:24
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Life ain’t fair but in the end
All I need is you
To get me through the nights and days
I don’t despair because here again
It all comes down to you
The doubts in me you cast away
We get what you give and we go
I don’t care just who I am
As long as I’m with you
Enlighten me and show the way
We get what you give and we go
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