1. |
Awakening
02:43
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2. |
Velocity
04:31
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3. |
Good Things
05:45
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instrumental
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5. |
Break of Day
04:00
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Sitting like a little Buddha so serene
Painting with some colors I've never ever seen
Waiting for the break of day
Waiting for the tide to come and float our tears away
What do you say
Watching like a tiny baby so aware
Covering with velvet stars way out there
Soon to see the break of day
Soon to see the tide come and float our tears away
What do you say
Will you be there by my side
Or will time and distance soon divide
How I wish that I could know
The channel and the course
The stream of life will flow
How can I know
How can I know
Sleeping like a fragile bird in a tree
Trying like a summer wind to be free
Long to see the break of day
Long to see the tide come and float our tears away
What do you say
What do you say
What do you say
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6. |
Days of Gray
04:45
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It's a gray day
and that's not a bad thing
It's more of a sad thing
and that's okay
To feel the brightness
cheer, and lightness
You must have days of gray
Walking alone
can be depressing
But not distressing
Don't stay at home
To feel the satisfaction
of human interaction
You have to walk alone
The world is full of light and shadow
Temporary spectral imagery
Our minds cannot experience
in terms of absolutes
We have to have some relativity
Being apart
for just a season
It has a reason
in what we are
To glimpse when we're together
Visions of forever
There must be time apart
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7. |
Cymbaline
02:02
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8. |
His Last Few Days
04:27
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Didn't have that much to say
before he want away
We didn't know
They were his last few days
We tried to get in touch
he wasn't talking much
Time to go
His last few days
Always seemed to be
a living mystery
a cypher no one even cared enough to solve
Doesn't feel right
went off into the night
after passing
His last few days
So now we wonder why
he felt the need to fly
into the Flow
the last few days
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9. |
Seascape
03:39
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10. |
Think Ya' Know
04:03
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THINK YA' KNOW
You come to me with sage advice
from another day
Go give your message to your mirror
practice what you say
Set your own house in order now
before you look at me
Fix the messes in your life
Don't tell others how to be
And so it goes (you think you know)
You're a white sepulcher
filled with rotting bones
just a polished surface
your life is not your own
Thank you for your kind regard
I wish I could conceive
That you're not wishing privately
that I would simply leave
And so it goes (you think you know)
So it goes (you think you know)
Each passing moment is opportunity
to pay attention to your mind
increase your clarity
So much work is needed
in just this one lifetime
Controlling other people
is an emotional crime
So take your counsel elsewhere
No, don't apologize
Being self-deceptive
is the worst of all the lies
Go find another victim now
there's lots of sheep you see
But look into my eyes one last time
then just let me be
And so it goes (you think you know)
So it goes ( you think you know)
So it goes ( you think you know)
You think you know
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11. |
Butterfly
03:25
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12. |
Mr. Su
03:36
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Mr. Su, I see you almost everyday
Practicing your Tai Chi moves in your driveway.
A little useless cigarette is clamped between your lips
How do you do, Mr. Su
Mr. Su, I smile and wave a brief hello
As I'm jogging by your house on Winget Road.
You respond by grunting with the very faintest nod
The day is new, Mr. Su
Mr. Su
Mr. Su, I sometimes wonder 'bout your life
I've never even seen a hint of children or a wife.
Do you have a hamster, dog, or cat? A turtle? Or a bird?
Mr. Su I haven't heard.
Mr. Su, I question if you're very wise
Quietly observing life with knowing eyes.
Or maybe you're a criminal, with secrets from the past
Don't have a clue 'bout Mr. Su
Mr. Su, I doubt you think about me much
As you do your exercises, work, and such
But sometimes unexpectedly, I must admit it's true
I think of you, Mr. Su
Mr. Su
Mr. Su, We're not neighbors, we're not friends
You're just a guy I see when I go running; why pretend?
But I'm intrigued at times by the mystery that is you
The mystery that is you
Mr. Su
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13. |
Saint (On The Shelf)
04:55
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SAINT (ON THE SHELF)
It's an uphill climb
And it's facing her all the time
showing a face that's brave
finding a life to save
Discerning a goal of life
through all of the trying strife
Appearing to face her fears
But staying away from mirrors
(ch) Focusing only on others
Avoiding confronting a self
Taking all the deeper questions
And putting them on the highest shelf
Ah.....keep 'em up on the highest shelf
Ah.....don't look
Of course life's supposed to be hard
But someday will come a reward
At least that's what she's been told
By other poor lambs in the fold
No one would say that she's wrong
Been practicing this for so long
Staying with what she knows
Ignoring the wind that blows
(ch) Focusing only on others
Avoiding confronting a self
Taking all the deeper questions
And putting them on the highest shelf
Ah.....keep 'em up on the highest shelf
Ah.....don't look
(br)
Identify problems, and focus attention
Who is the judge in this scene?
Bringing a god force into the equation
asking the shepherd what does it mean
(what does a shepherd know?)
(what can a shepherd know?)
,,,,,,,,,
Musical verse interlude
Then chorus
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14. |
Push It
04:39
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(V1)
Displaying all your biases
like a badge of honor
Proud of idiosyncrasies
Truth repelled, like oil from water
Righteous indignation
coiled up like a tightened spring
Emotions a hair trigger
waiting for one who's willing to
(CH)
Push it
and push some more
A button made (and displayed)
What's a button for?
Push it
and push some more
I will just keep pushing it
'Til you push me out the door
(V2)
You're just a tad too hand in glove
world of black and whiteness
perception too reliable
trusting too much in your rightness
But I can see quite plainly
devices you have made
contraptions of illusions
the mechanism begs for me to
CH
(BR)
"Comfort the disturbed"
The maxim gently prods
But, too, "Disturb the comfortable"
challenge all their gods
If they show a doorbell buzzer
Plain for all to see
Someone has to push it
Might as well be me to
(OUT)
And later on, when you cool down
I humbly ask of you
When you see my head's too big
Will you push me, too!
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15. |
Always It Gets Better
03:28
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I
Life, with its twisting turning plot
Contrast sometimes hurts a lot
The clouds
will block your view
Hard to remember open sky
when the sun has said goodbye
so it seems
in the shifting dreams
CH
though it's hard to see
always it gets better
blue sky waiting up just out of view
try to let it be
nothing lasts forever
Find the strength that lives inside of you
II
Vistas will change as you go on
Darkest hour before the dawn
The rain
will change your plans
Rocky and steep the path can seem
but up ahead you'll see the gleam
of the hope
of a peaceful place
CH
Life, with its twisting turning plot
Contrast sometimes hurts a lot
The clouds
will block your view
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