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Long Road
04:02
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Its been a long long long long long road
Through the valley of tribulation, with its' beauty and its stone
Always chasing after phanotms, you aint never gonna catch them
Cause there aint nobody there
Just the vision of a beauty with her long flowing hair
They say every river eventually finds the sea
I sure hope their right , then there's still some hope for me
Remember no matter where you been you're gonna get to where you're going
Its been a long long long long long road
Through the back streets of the city
Smell of smoke and gasoline
Oh the faint memory of the past
Just like a finger print there buy not always seen
Sweet Mother of us all bless all your children
On their way home on their way home
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Restless Heart
04:55
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I've been digging deep and I've been looking all over
Trying to find the root of it
My restless heart
Won't let me rest til the morning light
Strong and hidden one puling me here and then there
Doing your best to protect me
I didn't know you where there
My restless heart
Won't let me rest til the morning light
I've had a taste I've had a glimpse of what lies beyond you
Stillness in motion and silence abide
Beyond my restless heart
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Dear Companion
04:40
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Dear companion
We walk down one long path of shadow and light
We pass the time with games of love
Teaching each other how to play
Oh you know how I adore you
Your mysterious ways
Oh you know how I adore you
Your plain and simple ways
You and I we trek through time
Picking the fruit along the way
Sharing stories of the beauty
Singing songs against the fray
Oh you know how I adore you
Your mysterious ways
Oh you know how I adore you
Your plain and simple ways
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4. |
Moss Upon This Rock
03:49
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The older I get the more I see the more I see the less I know
I bet the moss upon this rock is probably older than my bones
The vital pulse of youth it comes and goes
The wisdom of age you know it gathers and it grows
And where this wisdom's going well I don't really know
A dying man told me that death is like a window
And the light of your life it shines right through
And what this really means well I don't really know
Though it sounds about right so with that I'm gonna go
The vital pulse of youth it comes and goes
The wisdom of age you know it gathers and it grows
And where this wisdom's going well I don't really know
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Benevolence
04:07
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Bath me benevolence and cover me in joy
Bury me in peaceful thoughts by whatever means you must employ
Call it sentimental call it soft and trite
Call it anything you like until theres nothing left to fight
Holding on to anything long enough feels tight
Letting go of holding often feels like gaining sight
I don't care how it happens or what the strategy is like
Just hold me to the fire let the flames burn out the blight
Sing a little melody and make my heart take flight
Just as the green emerges from Spring's mysterious store
Find the software of new growth and run it in your core
Until the sound of gratefulness is thumping...
thumping through the floor
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Black Hole
04:02
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I gotta black hole in the center of my universe
It's gotta gravity that pulls on me every day and every night
You gotta white light in the center of your spinning heart
And it glows and it grows in the dark of the world no matter what you say
Its a mystery the sound of the breeze
It will humble you bring you you to your knees
Oh it will humble you bring you to your knees
You gotta bend down low you gotta make it known
You never did it yourself you never do it alone
So don't listen to the rumors just listen to the truth
This life is a dream from the skin of your tooth
So don't give up no hope don't put your head in no rope
Cause this dream is but your life
Make it what you will
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Love of the Rain
03:08
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Oh how I love the wind and the rain
The sky with its open yawn to the day
And Oh the memory of the wild
Implores me to say
We traded the songbirds for a pocket full of gold
We dug up our garden blindly doing what we've been told
Traded the trees for glossy magazines and after the orgy is over
The hunger still remains
Please forgive us
We got lost in the fantasy
Where to we go from here?
We traded the love of the rain
For nameless things we could attain
Traded the wisdom of silence
For a crowded stage striving for fame
We traded tomorrow for yesterday's waste
Traded the ocean for one last taste
Where do we go from here?
Please forgive us
We got lost int he fantasy
Where do we go from here
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Listen
03:56
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We've been holding like a sailor in a storm
We've been holding on like a stitch in something torn
And I don't know if it's a death or something being born
Just listen
Beyond the world with its toys
And your mind with it's endless noise
Lately I've been hearing a whisper
Halfway between silence and a voice
Saying something about a journey
From the cradle to the grave
Its more about letting go then it is to save
Oh the road how it curves and it turns
And you might loose everything along the way
Just listen
Beyond the world with its toys
And your mind with it's endless noise
So remember all that you've been told
Maybe its not so hard to come in from the cold
Keep it loose and a little bit bold
You'll survive the storm if you yield bend and fold
Just listen
Beyond the world with its toys
And your mind with it's endless noise
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Great River
04:35
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Well I'm moving far away from what I know
Trying to find a path a thread a place of where to go of where to go
Falling from a plane I forgot to pack my parachute
So I'm flying as I'm falling like an arrow from a bow
Like a bow to freedom like a last salute
Is it true there is a flow
You say yes it takes you its goes
A great river
Well I wake up in the morning and I'm aware I'm still in wonder
I am falling I am calling for a truce from every war
that I have waged
Still I love the sound of all these bombs to me they sound like thunder
So I wonder what shall I say what shall I do
So I raise the white flag
Is it true there is a flow
You say yes it takes you its goes
A great river
Invisible and everywhere
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10. |
Liberated Mind
03:50
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Through eons and ages and 1000's of pages
Life upon lifetime I've walked this path
Though there's smoke and there's mirrors
Cloudy skies they grow clearer
All that was hidden shall one day be seen
So wash your eyes with light
Cleanse your heart with the dark of the night
Put down your wanting mind
Plant faith inside your garden
And you shall find a liberated mind
We've made our own chains and we've caused our own pain
We Keep telling the same stories and playing the same game
With our hope and our fear we've grown deaf and can't hear
The moment is calling its empty and clear
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Alex Goldfarb Minneapolis, Minnesota
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