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The Worth Of Things
03:17
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right in the middle of my life
the telephone in my brain begins to ring
and I am channeling
a song about
the worth of things
these things are old
these things are gone and
we have learned to carry on,
without knowing
the worth of things
the worth of things
burning through the hollow of my gut
all the thoughts of distant pasts
that I have got to surpass
to find a way
to make this last
these things are old
these things are gone and
we have learned to carry on,
without knowing
the worth of things
the worth of things
the worth of things
the worth of things
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2. |
I Want Love To Win
04:25
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Cyndi said, "anyone listening to God
ain’t hearing hate," but they still carry on
with prejudiced law and inhumane lies
“nourishing” souls with burger-and-fry homilies
just can’t let people be …
all of this fighting and all of this fear
in the hearts of a people united by sheer isolation
all of this fighting and all of this fear
in the hearts of a people united by indoctrination
I want this to stop
I want love to win
I mean it, I want this to stop
I want love to win
a big box of emptiness, circuits, and tubes
is a flat-panel god on our walls now
telling us sit and stand tall in our apathy
rise to no challenges, build no more bridges
and love nothing more of ourselves than our damages
burn out or blend in, the choice is yours …
but no choice stops war
and bacon tastes like death but still we eat it
I guess we want to taste the way out on the way in
born to trump the mundane
as bodies wither and wane
transcend … transcend …
refrain …
I want this to stop
I want love to win
I want this to stop
I want love to win
I want what we feel to matter
I want what we feel to matter
I want peace right now
I want peace right now
I don’t want to wait for it,
wish for it, pray for it
cry for it, fight for it,
bleed for it, die for it …
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3. |
Human Race
03:41
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the world is not round
it’s becoming square
it’s becoming air
the world is not wide
it’s grown smaller and smaller
burning out from the inside
again and again and again and again
it’s a human race to the finish line
around and around and around and around we go
and where it stops, nobody knows
the world is not safe
it’s spinning too fast
now it may not last
the world is not full
it’s becoming flat
it’s become a battleground again
again and again and again and again
it’s a human race to the finish line
around and around and around and around we go
again and again and again and again
it’s a human race to the bitter end …
to the bitter end
but the world will not end
no, the world will not end
there is more to do, there is more to say, there is time to love
there is more to see, there is more to hear, there is time to feel
there is more to find, there is more to know
there is time to forget the cares of this world
again and again and again and again
it’s a human race to the finish line
around and around and around and around we go
again and again and again and again
it’s a human race to the finish line
it’s a human race to the finish line
it’s a human race to the finish line
around and around and around and around we go
and where it stops, nobody knows
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pigtails, she loved pigtails
wore ’em every day to school
hopscotch, catch me if you can
but do unto them as they’d do unto you
that’s the golden rule
tears run, lines get blurry
when you’re afraid of who you are
broken crystal, shattered daydreams
lonely little brilliant star
when kids made fun
when life got hard
mommy held her hand
when it was more than she could stand
she would sing, soft but strong,
“there is nothing wrong with you”
it’s still true
pigtails, she loved pigtails
on her first love back in school
jumped, but never caught that love …
kids can be so cruel
when people stare
when they avert their eyes
no one holds her hand
but when it’s more than she can stand
she still sings, soft but strong,
“there is nothing wrong with you”
it must be true
it takes the shine off, don’t it?
“‘be yourself’ but don’t be you”
fit your heart into our boxes
and play by our rules
oh “do unto them”
means nothing to you
when you do this to me,
is it hurting you too?
but “everyone is special,
everybody’s unique”
that’s what they say,
and I’d like to believe it
so I sing, soft but strong,
“there is nothing wrong with you”
‘cause it’s true
oh sing, soft but strong,
“there is nothing wrong with you"
you know it’s true
nothing wrong, there’s nothing wrong,
there’s nothing wrong with you
nothing wrong, there’s nothing wrong …
with you
pigtails, she loves pigtails
ties her daughter’s hair for school
taught her hopscotch and “do unto them
as you’d have them do unto you”
that’s the golden rule
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5. |
Colors
03:26
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tell me how our children live their lives
growing up immersed in lies
like “girls are soft and sensitive,
boys are strong and brave”
tell me who our children think they are
reaching to become a star
when “what” means more than “who” or “how”
from cradle to grave
rocking blue, rocking pink,
as we rock our kids to sleep
singing, “this is who you'll be,
this is what you are to me”
well, you don’t have to tell me
who and what and where and when and why
I’ll find my own colors,
like the colors of the sky
there’s a kind of lullaby
that robs us of our will to try
like a thief who sings to you
as he steals your heart
there’s a kind of fairytale
designed to set us up to fail
when our choices aren’t our own,
they’ve been scripted from the start
rocking blue, rocking pink,
as we rock ourselves to sleep
singing, “this is who you'll be,
this is what you are to me”
well, you don’t have to tell me
who and what and where and when and why
I’ll find my own colors,
like the colors of the sky
and this is love, this is trust,
this is how we turn to dust
singing, “this is who I am:
I’m a woman / I’m a man”
well, you don’t have to tell me
who and what and where and when and why
I’ll find my own colors,
like the colors of the sky …
no, you don’t have to tell me
who and what and where and when and why
I’ll find my own colors …
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6. |
Sharper Side
03:23
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[instrumental]
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7. |
Every Place Is Home
04:03
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if I play for one
I play for all
from this truth, I cannot stray
fill this empty space
with what my soul creates
let this mind just fall away
I don't need to find one way to go
all I need is love, open sea and road
I don't need a place to call my own
when every place is home
sweeping landscape
surreal sunscape
urban faire and country rain
in the shadow
of our big dreams
we built a love that will sustain
we don't need to find one way to go
all we need is love, open sea and road
we don’t need a place to call our own
when every place is home
every place is home
picking up the pebbles, one by one
city by city, touched by love
distance calls us forward, out to land and sea
we'll roam this whole wide world, just you and me
every place is home
we don't need to find one way to go
all we need is love, open sea and road
every place is home
every place is home
every place is home
every place is home
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8. |
(Love Is) All Around Us
03:37
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spring ahead to summer’s glow
falling leaves and winter snow
there is but one true thing I know …
time is ticking, running out
to find the meaning beyond the doubt
we’re swimming upstream in this drought
but love is all around us
love in the turning of the earth,
love in the racing of the wind
love in the shadow of our light,
in the aching of our skin
it’s in the way we chase our sorrows,
hunter’s bow and violin …
we cannot fight it, we’ll never win
love is all around us
all around us …
is the universe conspiring against us
when our worlds come crashing down
or is it just the echo
of our pain turning inside out
as within, so we go without
still, love is all
around us
we cannot fight it, we’ll never win
love in the turning of the earth,
love in the racing of the wind
love in the shadow of our light,
in the aching of our skin
it’s in the way we chase our sorrows,
hunter’s bow and violin …
we cannot fight it, we’ll never win
we cannot fight it, we’ll never win
we cannot fight it, love is all …
it’s all … love is all around us
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9. |
Come & Go
03:32
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come back to me
don’t let me lose you in the ether
you’re either gone or trapped beyond
my line of insight
right on time and out of touch
you’re out of reach, I think too much
and we never meet
in the middle …
how can there be a middle
with no beginning and no end?
ideas, they come and come and come and go
ideas, born of nothing, born of knowing
I know nothing of what I know …
try to breathe, I try to see
just where you’re leading
shadows dance on our romance
and leave me dry
find my way back to the day
when I first heard you play
I knew right then
you were the one
but how can there be a future
with no present and no past?
ideas, they come and come and come and go
ideas, born of nothing, born of knowing
I know nothing of what I know …
come back to me
don’t let me lose you …
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10. |
Ebb & Flow
04:02
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can you feel me falling, sweetheart?
feet don’t touch the ground
was that “one last kiss” the start?
was that “I love you” the sound
of a long road back
on our way back home
of us growing up
growing old
and still in love
still on fire
though it comes and goes
ebb and flow
can you hear me calling your name?
we still know the words to this endless song
is this “one more chance” a game
or do we finally see where we belong?
in each other’s arms
each other’s soul
love is a choice
we can be whole
and still in love
still on fire
though it comes and goes
ebb and flow
one last hope is all I ask
one more 42nd chance at love
that was the question
and I’m counting on
your hidden tenderness
to see us through
through this long road back
on our way back home
see us growing up
growing old
and still in love
still on fire
though it comes and goes
comes and goes
ebb and flow
ebb and flow
ebb and flow
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11. |
Time To Let Go
02:57
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hand on the stove and burned
you don’t wanna try
you want me to sell you
tell you why
you should love me again
when you know you just won’t
you can’t, you haven’t,
you’ll never, you don’t …
you can’t help it
I can’t help you
it’s time to let go …
foot on the gas
and wind in my hair,
you’re driving and smoking,
you’re cool—you don’t care
how I’m dying to hear
the words you’ll never say
you’re not sure, you hold back,
you think it’s okay
‘cause I must see
that you love me
but it’s time to let go …
time to let go
you can choose to be right
or you can be a lover
feelings feel different
when kept under cover
so let’s get in bed,
let this rest for tonight
truth looks different
in indifferent light
and you hold me …
like the first time,
just as it’s time to let go …
time to let go
it’s time … time
time to let go
time …
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12. |
Merry-Go-Round
04:17
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what if everything they taught in history
never actually happened?
historic buildings being built,
memorials erected
all to keep the illusion intact
what if every morning
the world is re-constructed,
making us believe it’s been
here for years and years … and years
what if it hasn’t, what if it wasn’t,
what if it isn’t
all they told us it has been?
what if we never knew?
what if it’s fake, oh, what if it’s real?
now what will we do if everything’s a grand deception?
what if this merry-go-round is just
one big magic trick?
by the late ’80s
most of my childhood
was lost to the tide of time
butterfly hairclips, slinky bracelets
Showbiz Pizza, Rollaway Skateway
who’s to say they even existed?
well, who’s to say they didn’t?
what if every morning
the world is re-constructed
making us believe it’s been
here for years and years … and years
what if it hasn’t, what if they weren’t
just old figments of a journey
into imaginary dreams?
what if nothing is what it seems?
what if it’s fake, oh, what if it’s real?
now what will we do if everything’s a grand deception?
what if this merry-go-round is just
one big magic trick?
it’s all in our heads
this place in our hearts
that stores all our memories
at least the parts we can’t forget
they spin around in my head …
getting vacuumed up
when I go to bed …
this merry-go-round is just
one big magic trick
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Melissa Axel Los Angeles, California
Gorgeous piano, lush strings, and a fearlessly intimate vocal. Recommended if you like: Regina Spektor, Norah Jones, Tori Amos
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