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If the interest ever crashes for good all of a sudden, can we meet
somehwere? I’m not saying that it will but it really all could change in a second, it could change in a second
We can pick a place
and we’ll rendezvous there
revolution never felt so good
everything that I see is in need of repair
and it could change in a second, it could change in a second!
Break down
Rise up
Dream big
Don’t stop
Our world
Our stage
High time for
A new page
I’m so sick and tired of just waiting around
So I think that I’m just gonna do it today
And the more that I am then the louder the sound
It’s gonna change any second, it could change in a second
I can feel us all dreaming into the same tomorrow
Hear the call? I think it’s time to wake up
I will meet you there, it might even be fun
It could change in a second, it will change in a second
Break down
Rise up
Dream big
Don’t stop
Our world
Our stage
High time for
A new page !
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Bright Side
03:54
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The sun sets, I pull the shades down
So no one can see inside
The night time knocks on the windows
The winter leaves me wide eyed
The city is freezing over
But somehow we're still alive
My edges are getting sharper
Cutting through to the bright side
I am ready, I can say it now
Hold me steady, I am reaching out
The days are blending together
And I am doing my best
To hold each one in my fingers
Keep some and leave the rest
I wake up and for just a second
I toss and turn in the riptide
Then all at once my eyes open
Cutting through to the bright side
I am ready, I can say it now
Hold me steady, I am reaching out
Dark of the year and I'm lighting fires
Fanning the flames until I remember
I'm right at home in this endless night
Keep pulling sparks from glowing embers
I'll build a bonfire with the past
Light up the path to tomorrow
I'll plant a garden in the ash
Give it my time so that it can grow
Some days I feel like diamonds
Some days I feel like dust
Sometimes I'm all but empty
But faith never needed much
The angle is mine to measure
The story is mine to guide
My free will is getting sharper
Cutting through to the bright side.
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When Skin Turns Scale
03:11
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Mix me with water
Pour me on your garden
This land won’t ever
Dry up and harden
Can you teach me how to hide above the clouds
Can you show me where the night is ever dark
Can you teach me how to hide above the clouds
Can you show me where the night is ever dark?
I wanna go and I wanna run but I know I can’t fly away
I wanna go and I wanna run but I know I can’t fly away
So this is what it’s like when your skin turns scale
This is how it feels when you track down the trail.
My world changes twenty times a day
And nothing I can say could explain it
Sometimes I swear I feel enough in a week to last me a lifetime
Mix me with water
Watch how my colors spread
Tape me to the refrigerator
That way you won’t forget
Can you teach me how to hide above the clouds
Can you show me where the night is ever dark
Can you teach me how to hide above the clouds
Can you show me where the night is ever dark?
I wanna go and I wanna run but I know I can’t fly away
I wanna go and I wanna run but I know I can’t fly away
So this is what it’s like when your skin turns scale
This is how it feels when you track down the trail
How can I not be what I feel
How can I not be what I feel completely
How can I not be what I feel
How can I not be what I feel completely
How can I not be what I feel
How can I not be what I feel completely
How can I not be what I feel
How can I not be what I feel completely ?
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Ten minutes till the bus comes
Wind my mind like a patch cord
I am still in the motion
I am still wearing this skin
Eight minutes till the bus comes
He’s selling perfume and newports
And the children are laughing
While the grown ups look past them
Five minutes till the bus comes
Now there’s three of us waiting
And i wonder where she’s going
That girl in the fishnets
Four minutes till the bus comes
That was my song they were playing
Now they’re gone with the light change
Like boats on a river
Two minutes till the bus comes
There’s a tree inside the sidewalk
2-for-1 fast and easy
Hey miss can you help me
One minute till the bus comes
And everybody’s rushing
This part’s not important
This is only the middle
We are meeting in the middle
We are walking down he same street
We are meeting in the middle
We are all here at the same time
We are meeting in the middle
We are meeting in the middle
We are meeting in the middle
We are meeting in the middle
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Chance Encounters
01:35
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It’s just kind of the best thing ever
It’s two separate worlds, you know, like
The snow melt flooded river began to glow a pale pink as the half light brightened into sunrise. Her fingers were so cold she used her teeth to untie her card pack’s leather binding. What has happened to me, she asked *
When you let go of fear
I also am just here
The candlelight picked out elements of the fresco with which the high walls were painted. A person riding the back of a great fish, all the fruits of the land ripening on a single tree *
…Chance encounters that turn into a relationship and a moment because you just see right through people and you wear your heart on your sleeve and so do I and I can just so see that
At first, the hollow, melancholy, sweet music of the flute did nothing to ease Zanja’s frustration. Like the conversation, it seemed without pattern. One note led to the next, but without sense, phrasing, or predictability *
Chance encounters
Chance encounters
Chance encounters
*passages from ‘Fire Logic’ by Laurie J. Marks
love and thanks to 'Ren Walton for the other words
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Bread and Honey
03:13
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I can’t forget
Truth has a grip on me
I won’t let it slip
Shimmer like a memory
Welcome home look at me in my long blue dress
Welcome home did you see the arrows
All alone bare feet in my long blue dress
All I did was follow the arrows
Make a plate and leave it at the door
Bread and honey
What the hell are you fighting me for
You don’t belong to me
I can’t forget
Truth has a grip on me
I won’t let it slip
Shimmer like a memory
Welcome home look around you’ve been here before
Welcome home take your place at the table
Don’t forget there’s a star in your apple core
Thread yourself through the eye of the needle
Half moon I know that you’re complete
Don’t let them trick you
In the your darkest hour when you can’t be seen
That’s when you’re new
I can’t forget
Truth has a grip on me.
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Sparks
03:25
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Starting to care i’m
Raising the stakes high
This is a wildfire
Watch how the sparks fly
It’s only a matter of time
And i’m gonna care but not mind
And if its all mind over matter
Then let’s let the end of it shatter
Dreaming in riddles
Waking up singing
Edges turn middle
The world is changing
And the planets will spin
And the pattern will weave
Got an end to begin
Break down and believe
And the blueprint is there
On the back of your tongue
Spit it out and we’ll share
Better dance then run
It’s only a matter of time
And i’m gonna care but not mind
And if its all mind over matter
Then let’s let the end of it shatter
Starting to care i’m
Raising the stakes high
This is a wildfire
Watch how the sparks fly
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Fine Line
03:51
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Will I find what is mine
My love my love
Fine line, redefine
My love, my love
Come full circle
Rounding edges
I’ll be with you
Far from finished
Speak your mind iodine
My love, my love
Perfect rhyme, by design
My love, my love
Midnight purple
Blurs the edges
Fingers tracing
Eyes adjusted
Feel your way in
Ready to begin
Freely given
In time and season
Will I find what is mine
My love my love
Fine line, redefine
My love, my love
There’s like a quality
in your voice in these voice messages
maybe it’s just also me hearing you differently but I just
I mean why not?
Yeah but I think it’s also a good traveling song
you know like its got a really good rhythm and
you’re just like walking through the forest, you’re walking across the river stones!
It just feels like
I wanna go light a fire
It’s in our hearts
Where did you learn it from?
Did you fall in love or something what happened?
I don’t know
I can’t describe it
it’s so crystal clear and reaches right across to me
I don’t know
there’s a presence and it’s like
I can really tell that you are talking to me.
This is the lesson that we’re supposed to be learning before we can go back to the point
before we can go back to the center again
and that’s our feeling life
Będę sobie stała pod twoim okienkiem (i will be standing underneath your window)
Rzucę ci Jabłuszko w twojej sukience (a red apple I will throw into your dress) *
And we’re all in the right place at the right time thank god
It seems to be working out
I only had to wait seventy years
I can’t whistle that high
Like they weren’t there and now all of a sudden they’re here
*lines from ‘Będę babuleńka’ by Ania Broda, sung by Zosia Nowak
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Return Me
03:14
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Surprise me
And shuffle through the verbiage
Confirm me
Hold the mirror in your eyes
Entice me
A space already furnished
Return me i wanna go home
Let it go
Time to remember
Helio
Firelight burn
Vertigo
Time to re center
Domino
Fall and return
Time will tell
So tell me this now
Are we parallel or are we cutting corners
If I break the spell
And see it different
I wish you well
This love is never ending
One and one make three
The space between us
Open endlessly
A river overflowing
Take me out to sea
The space between us
Open ended free
Our love is never ending
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10. |
Word In Edgewise
02:46
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Sharp tongue and tender eyes
You can’t get a word in edgewise
Her February blue
Stops time and turns you counter clockwise
Am I falling or am I finding ground
I’m calling out in the ways I know
I’m reaching for the one who’s everywhere
Still needing to take it slow
Middle of the day but it’s midnight for you
There are stars in your eyes now
Dont know what to say but I’ll wait till you’re through
To the other side
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Last Song
02:06
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Where am I to go
Where am I to go now
Where am I
To go now
What if the night sky was in reverse
A white background
With black dots
What if the sunrise had a sound not a color
And it woke you up each day in a different way
What if we remembered all the things we forgot
Like how it felt to be five
And how to look into each others eyes
For real this time
Where am I to go
Where am I to go now
Where am I
To go now
It’s a loud-talk grid-lock secret-knock world
But I think I’m finding
My way home
Where am I to go
Where am I to go now
Where am I
To go now
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