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Ancient Drums
04:25
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Ancient drums are
Pounding, sounding an alarm
Poison in the soil
Festering in forests and farms
Invisible ills ooze into our bones
A sweet child smiles
While decay claims her home
The earth turns
The sky burns
Ashes block the sun
The ice melts
The seas swell
Threatening everyone
Hearts are dark
Wildfires light the night
We choke on smoke
Eyes aching and blind
In this deadly dream
A hand muffles our mouth
Running as we scream
But there's no way out
The earth turns
The sky burns
Ashes block the sun
The ice melts
The seas swell
Threatening everyone
A child drops a seed
deep into the earth
A child tries to hea
everything we've hurt
Weather wanders
A rude intruder who is lost
Storms grow stronger\
With catastrophic cost
Are we listening now
While disasters rise
How can we allow
What we see with our own eyes
The earth turns
The sky burns
Ashes block the sun
The ice melts
The seas swell
Threatening everyone
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Dirt
02:46
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Camels can travel days without drinking
He can't even make it til noon
That damn sun burns without ever blinking
He waits for the wafer of moon
Days bear down and make your head heavy
Days bear down and make your head hurt
You were promised a Garden of Eden
You were given nothing but dirt
He's got a shirt that's shiny with medals
He's got some steel in his legs
Sometimes he struts as proud as the devil
Sometimes he just stays in bed
Days bear down and make your head heavy
Days bear down and make your head hurt
You were promised a Garden of Eden
You were given nothing but dirt
Silver things in a screaming sky
He'll hear their wings til the day he dies
Maybe some day his war will be ending
Maybe there will be a cease fire
He can't remember what he's defending
He can't remember who or why
Days bear down and make your head heavy
Days bear down and make your head hurt
You were promised a Garden of Eden
You were given nothing but dirt
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3. |
Her Dry Eyes Won't Cry
04:47
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She chopped off all of her beautiful hair
And laid herself bare
To the heartless hands of time
They'll cut her and gut her
For what lies inside
She cannot hide her original crime
Her round mouth will scream
For what might have been
But her dry eyes won't cry
She stenciled her skin with
A heart and a spear
Offering her fear
To anyone who'll hear
Alters have called her
Their lost little lamb
But isn't she damned
To a fate heaven planned
Her round mouth will scream
For what might have been
But her dry eyes won't cry
Will bravery save her
Or will she be changed
Tamed by the pain
Always sad and strange
She chopped off all of her beautiful hair
And laid herself bare
To the heartless hands of time
Her round mouth will scream
For what might have been
But her dry eyes won't cry
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4. |
I Walked with an Angel
03:35
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I walked with an angel
Somewhere stranded in the sky
Looking down down down where
All those broken birds fly
She held out a tender hand
While she twisted my spine
She took my pain like communion
I drank my pain like wine, sweet wine
I live like a pauper
I sang in a crooked choir
With nothing to offer
And desires for someplace higher
Looking for a tender hand
Someone to pull me through
Suddenly I understand
I've been looking for you, only you
Now deep in your kisses
Still I ache for grace
I've searched the whole world over
For your familiar face
You hold out a tender hand
You're leading me to believe
This is the promised land
But part of me still grieves, I still grieve
I walked with an angel...
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5. |
Divided
03:25
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You've got your father's name and your mother's soul
Maybe that's why you never feel whole
They split apart when you were three
Guess that's why you're destined to be
Divided
A little of this and some of that
Undecided
Between what you want and what you have Life's lopsided
Sometimes happy but mostly sad and divided
You've got a rebel's mouth and an angel's eye Feeling like you live in disguise
Praying to stay with one foot out the door
It's hard to say when you've been more divided...
Far too broken to patch up
Too many pieces to match up
Too far behind to catch up
When you're divided...
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6. |
Only Me
03:37
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Out here on the sidelines
Writing with no bylines
I'm a ghost with a pen
Out here on the fringes
All I've ever been is
Who I am
I'm only pretending to live this larger life you see
When every day's ending and everything's still I'm only me
Faces and mbraces
Searching for small traces
Of sincerity
Balancing on ledges
Circling round the edges
Of society
I'm only pretending ...
I am not broken
Only smaller than the big wide open life that I planned
A thin voice is fluttering
Cutting out and cutting in
No one hears
Static in the atmosphere
Threatening to interfere
Til I'm hardly here
I'm only pretending...
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7. |
Solitary Soul
03:01
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She stayed hungry and humble she did
Balanced on a broken past
Half she showed and half she hid
Dreaming of a feast in her fast
She's a solitary soul
Not quite whole
Wondering how the rest of the world turns just so
She tries to sing a tender tune
To a world that's too tough
Like a sip of soup from a dirty spoon
It's just too thin
It's not enough
She's a solitary soul...
She siphons hope from the stars
That she can barely see
Wondering in her desperate dark
When will their light shine on me
She's a solitary soul...
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She was a young girl with eyes of brown
Spent three days all alone on an island
Where the wind and the rain make a pitiful sound
And the sun and the sea endlessly pound
The rocks on the shore and the white sand
On the first day she wrote with a stick in the sand
Words of welcome to all passing sailors
But as evening fell on that very same day
The tide coming in washed her words away
While the light of the moon grew paler
On the second day she stood at her window and sang
A beautiful song to the morning
But no one was there on her island to hear
And the beautiful song that she sang disappeared
While the sound of the rain kept falling
On the third day she woke and she planted a seed
For a rose that would bloom in her garden
But the sun beat down and it withered the rose
For she'd chosen a place where no river flowed
In a land there that never gives pardon
And though none ever read what she wrote in the sand
Or heard what she sang from her window
Though the rose that she planted died in her hand
For three days the cruel world was a lovelier land
For the brown eyed girl had made it so
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9. |
Hummingbird Heart
02:52
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Looking for a mystic
To take your life and fix it for you
You believe in the soothsayers
Offering up prayers for you
You are just a speck of sand
The universe is way too grand
You must go so very far
On a hummingbird's small heart
You are a pilgrim
One in a million wandering souls
Hoping for a vision
To make your wisdom whole
You are just...
Flying over oceans
You're brave but you're broken too
In your restless roaming
There will be a home for you
You are just ...
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10. |
Song for Lilac
02:41
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There is no wind in the stars tonight
The moon hangs mute in a frozen sky
It's still, so still
The darkness keeps repeating
Silence as a lullaby
The whole night is breathing
The soft hush of goodbye
Your tender eyes held my gaze this morning
Your gentle soul floated from its mooring
You're gone, you're gone
Free from pain and sorrow
Sailing those eternal seas
But in some far tomorrow
You'll be coming back to m
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