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It Took the Village

by Joe Atman

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1.
Arrest Me (free) 06:08
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)
2.
Another Day 04:08
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
3.
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
4.
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 …
5.
Refined Way 08:18
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
6.
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
7.
Walls 02:27
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
8.
Consoned 04:23
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......
9.
Cats 04:39
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
10.
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
11.
Part I Lama 06:54
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.”
12.
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
13.
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 ....
14.
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
15.
Part V Outro 03:24
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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released September 22, 2012

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