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Streets of Love
04:51
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Walk, Walk
Walk these streets of love
Walk, walk
Walk these streets of love
Believe in every step you take
You can not afford to fake it
Walk, walk
Walk these streets of love
Passerby, don’t pass me by
Walk these streets of love beside me
Walk, walk
Walk these streets of love
Walk Walk Walk Outside
Its free, ya know, you don’t have to hide
Walk Walk everyday
Somehow we must find a way
Find a way, find a way, find a way
We are all one at the start of each day
As darkness falls we are still that way
Our enemies far, our loved ones near
We are all one, this much is clear
When the circle is closed, our lives are complete
Souls in the heavens, bodies in the peat
The good, the bad, the joyous, the sad
We are all one, that’s all we have
That’s all we have that’s all we have
The wind is calling the children home
Homeward, homeward, the children go
Some go the wrong, some go the right
Some turn to Jesus, some turn to fight
The wind is calling the children home
Homeward, homeward, the children g
Some go the wrong, some go the right
Some turn to Jesus, some turn to fight
Some go the wrong, some go the right
Some turn to Jesus, some turn to fight
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2. |
In My Thoughts Today
04:10
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Saw you this morning
Right out by my window there
Right out by my window
Breathing in the morning air
Every cloud I ever knew
Every care I ever cared
You make ‘em go away
From my thoughts today
In my thoughts today
You were safe and you were warm
You control my weather
You’re my sun and you’re my storm
You’re everything I need
Just like yesterday
You didn’t run away
From my thoughts today
I really love you
You know you’ve got a lot of class
I’ve got questions and I don’t know who to ask
I listened to my Buddha and I read some more of Zen
But every time I look at you
You look the same again
Saw you this morning
Right out by my window there
Right out by my window
Breathing in the morning air
Every cloud I ever knew
Every care I ever cared
You make ‘em go away
From my thoughts today
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3. |
Out on the Levee
03:54
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I had a dream
We raised the mountains higher
We put back the wood
We burned in our fires
We separated whim from what was true desire
Covered up our tracks
And peace transpired
Oh what a dream I had
Oh what a dream I had
I’m all alone out on the levee
I was walkin’ home
I wasn’t ready
But the levee broke and suddenly peace was upon us
And the ghosts that went before
They kept us honest
Now quiet is the sound
Of a change in the East
No lives are on the line
No one bothered in the least
No noisy celebration
With our weapons of peace
Men set boundaries at the table
But no one came to the feast
Oh what a dream I had
Oh what a dream I had
Now I’m all alone out on the levee
I was walkin’ home
I wasn’t ready
But the levee broke and suddenly peace was upon us
And the ghosts that went before
They kept us honest
I hope the ghosts that went before
Keep us honest
Now I had a dream
We raised the mountains higher
We put back the wood
We burned in our fires
We separated whim from what was true desire
We covered up our tracks
And peace transpired
Oh what a dream I had
Oh what a dream I had
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4. |
Peace Comin'
03:53
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Peace comin’, don’t know why
Peace comin’ ‘neath a cloudy sky
Peace comin’, don’t know when
Peace comin’ in spite of them
If all along, we knew the way
It didn’t take long before we threw it away
Where’s it all go when the people pray
In one ear and out the other way
Peace comin’, don’t know why
Peace comin’ ‘neath a cloudy sky
Peace comin’, don’t know where
Peace comin’, everybody’s scared
Promises that peace would come
And we wouldn’t have to wait ‘til all the oil was done
Who’d a thought we were built that way
Remember one thing and let the other get away
Peace comin’, don’t know why
Peace comin’ ‘neath a cloudy sky
Peace comin’, don’t know how
Peace comin’ and it’s comin’ now
The season of peace runs 24/7
3-6-5 and on into the heavens
Leavin’ in the morning, flyin’ with the best
Hope we get in with some heaven left
Peace comin’, don’t know why
Peace comin’ ‘neath a cloudy sky
Peace comin’, might as well
Peace comin’ can’t really tell
Peace comin
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5. |
Molly and the Rogue
06:42
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They say that I have come for you with a message from afar
On words that can’t be written, voices spoken from the heart
On echos that ring louder than a musket shot
They say that I have come for you but Molly I think not
Your family asks about religion, what manner of God I know
That could keep me on this open road, Molly I don’t know
They ask if I keep Jesus deep within my soul
You say it shouldn’t matter, but Molly, I think so
She brushed against his amber mane and something did feel wrong.
No sign of the future in the sound of his song
A single red hair on her linen lay
And she asked the wind gently not to blow it away
Molly, many will come and go but you’re in my epilogue
Like land is to a sailor through a lifting fog
I will always be a rogue, Molly, always seem unkind
There’s no road I’ve yet to travel, and no heart I’ve left behind
She brushed against his amber mane and something did feel wrong.
No sign of the future in the sound of his song
A single red hair on her linen lay
And she asked the wind gently not to blow it away
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6. |
Trapped
04:55
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I know that there’s a name for this patch of greenery
This not so vast last stand that mingles with the understory
For me its just a memory I remember when I had it
And it seems cruel to be this close and stuck in traffic
The monsters moved out from under my bed
But they are still there, still in my head
I won’t be free, it isn’t fair
Until the pills up in the cabinet don’t bother me there
Theres a brave cat out there, strong but relatively small
Like a scared mountain lion, trapped in suburban sprawl
While doe-eyed humans stare stupid at the sound
Not wanting to admit it but mowing everything down
The monsters moved out from under my bed
But they are still there, still in my head
I won’t be free, it isn’t fair
Until the pills up in the cabinet don’t bother me there
We don’t like the thought of this growth all around
No better than the one of our friends leaving town
We chase them away or if they stay then we rob them
Thinking like this and won’t solve the problem
I know I am a good man, I heard it from my brothers
But the world is a better place on the strength of others
Strengths I do not have, lives I have not lead
Eyes I do not use to see the vision up ahead
The monsters moved out from under my bed
But they are still there, still in my head
I won’t be free, it isn’t fair
Until the pills up in the cabinet don’t bother me there
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7. |
Sanctions
04:36
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I am half out of mind, half of the time
and what the other half knows
Ain’t enough you say, as you be runnin away
The way it used to be, one look at you
and it would all go away
The push and the shove, I’d write it all off to love
Lets bring love up on sanctions for cheating, drugs and shame
we all hate the players but we love the game
and when its all said and done and the moon is aligned
you will turn and run, or you will turn and love me one more time
I’ll put the stars at your feet, it ain’t fair but I’ll cheat
Pay attention to me.
I ain’t doing this for my health, or the heath of someone else
The good and the bad, there nothing we had
that we could ever retain
Not even memories of our past, because it hurts too much to laugh
Lets bring love up on sanctions for cheating, drugs and shame
we all hate the players but we love the game
and when its all said and done and the moon is aligned
you will turn and run, or you will turn and love me one more time
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8. |
There Goes a Train
04:55
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Do you ever wonder what’s happenin’ over there
People dancing naked in the streets, people breathin’ different air
I can feel a rumbling,’ time to take my leave
too little room for error, and not enough room to breath
There goes a train, I should be on that thing
The iron horse is leavin’ town and it’s taking with it everything
You cheat, you lie, your reputation on the line, want to change the way its goin’
reconciliation on your mind, but that ain’t the cards you’re showin’
Don’t have to talk to each other like you never even met before
He did it, she did it, nobody keepin’ score
There goes a train, I should be on that thing
The iron horse is leavin’ town and it’s taking with it everything
Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, swallow without even chewin’
Remember to give something back, don’t leave it to your kids to do it
Not a lot of give and take, everything is easy here
most people have all they need, most of us bored to tears
Can’t decide if we want to ride, or maybe just disappear
Pardon me but its part of me, I have to leave, maybe I’ll be seein’ ya.
There goes a train, I should be on that thing
The iron horse is leavin’ town and it’s taking with it everything
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The view’s pretty good through the bars on the sill
He can see clearly all the dreams that he killed
but he won’t know til later, after he’s free
Who he robbed was his wife and the kids that she feeds
but she had some help from an unlikely source
never knew any names, couldn’t see them of course
and after changing her world on the brink
did the angels just go home and drink
No one saw the big wind til the Levees all broke
some got there fast, some got there real slow
some sat on the sidewalk and blamed Uncle Sam
but time left for that was time to lend a hand
They flew in on choppers and they rode in on boats
They hovered on wings, where hearts sank they could float
They just do what they do, they don’t have to think
and then they angels just go home and drink
Who are these people with wings we can’t see
where do they come from and how do they come to be
and after changing a world on the brink
do the angels just go home and drink
Our soldiers are weary, they can hardly keep pace
forever front and center on the world stage
the things some will do just to save face
lets bring them all home and get out of that place
And if you knew one or know one did you take them aside
and thank them for doing what’s burned in their eyes
knowing it all could be gone in a blink
Do the angels just go home and drink
Who are these people with wings we can’t see
where do they come from and how do they come to be
and after changing a world on the brink
do the angels just go home and drink
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10. |
Requiem for a Poor Boy
04:29
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I am just a poor boy
My story’s yet untold
I pride myself in numbers
Of years out on the road
I’ve been a whore
I’ve been ashore
Searching for the gold
And I’ll split the serpents tongue
as my story does unfold
And I am just a loner, a poor boy on my own
I use my head and not my heart and soul
My father was a carpenter
My mother was a maid
They barely made a living
And yet they had it made
But people blamed their poverty
That I should turn out wrong
They could have been the royalty
And I’d still sing this song
And I am just a loner, poor boy on my own
I used my head instead of heart and soul
I was on a bright road
Then I changed my mind
And I rode into the darkness to a place I hoped to find
Where people lived with luxury
No one had to crawl
Unknown to my empty head
I was bound to fall
and I am just a loner, poor boy on my own
I used my head and not my heart and soul
Mistakes were really all I made
All that came my way
How many more mistakes before I’m finally waylaid
I should have been a carpenter
Paw would have been proud
I’ve built a wall so tall around me, now I can’t get out
And I am just a loner, poor boy on my own
I use my head instead of heart and soul
They tell me it was God
Who put these perils in my path
So I prayed to him a hundred times
To kindly take them back
And as I drink each sober thought
Fades into the past
Til there’s nothing but the spittle
In the bottom of the glass
And I am just a loner, poor boy on my own
I use my head instead of heart and soul
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Well winter is behind us
Just three more months til June
The rain it is a falling
And I recognize the tune
It’s springtime in this northern clime
Everything’s awake
The frogs a Tintinnabulum
And the loons upon the lake
The rain gives way to stillness
And a heat that’s not unkind
If you muse out in the meadow
With nothing on your mind
Soon you will be fast asleep
And no one gives a darn
Till she finds you lying all alone
And wraps you in her arms
There’s a field that rolls away
And in its shadow lies a lake
In mind different people
On different days I’d like to take
But only one comes forward
From the meadow long ago
And we go wandering round the seasons
So fast they seem to go
Well you can hear the changing of the leaves
From green to red to brown
You can feel the smell of autumn
As it lays there on the ground
Fall has been so fine for me
My memories are pure
And with winter bearing down on us
We manage to endure
Jack Frost has no conscience
We would never get along
December dim and sour faced
And the nights so cold and long
But if war is in these roses
There’s peace within these squalls
The seasons all have passed
And I confess to live them all
There’s a field that rolls away
And in its shadow lies a lake
In mind different people
On different days I’d like to take
But only one comes forward
From the meadow long ago
And we go wandering round the seasons
So fast they seem to go
We go wandering round the seasons
So fast they seem to go
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12. |
Wade in the Water
04:43
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Wade in the water, Wade in the water, wade in the water
We’s all gonna trouble the water
We got social inequality in the information age
We got educated people rotting in the cage
We pander to plutonium, baby it’s the rage
Lets take out all their bridges, and make the children wade
Wade in the water, Wade in the water, wade in the water
We’s all gonna trouble the water
See that empty player with his book of empty plays
His locker room remodeled like the bank on b roadway
Forget about the petrol, can’t afford it anyway
I park my Prius in the park and get back on my bay
Wade in the water, Wade in the water, wade in the water
We’s all gonna trouble the water
We got feckless politicians make decisions just for fun
And they’re sending in the ground troops and they’ve taken planet one.
Maybe it’s the half of me that hasn’t come undone
But I don’t see the humor, Mother Nature’s on the run
Wade in the water, Wade in the water, wade in the water
We’s all gonna trouble the water
Well, they talking about Peter and they mentioning Paul
But they not on my TV, and I don’t read at all
I never saw it coming, that storm that smoked the air
Lights out at the Pentagon, no power anywhere
Wade in the water, Wade in the water, wade in the water
We’s all gonna trouble the water
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