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1. |
When I Saw You
06:30
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When I really saw you
I knew that I'd need you
When I really saw you
I knew that I'd always love you
You
Two as one, defies all reason
Two as one, brightens everything
Letting go of myself, I fell into you
On the day when I really saw you
When I really saw you
I knew that I'd always love you
You
Two as one, defies all reason
Two as one, enlightens everything
Letting go of myself, I fell into you
On the day when I really saw you
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Tell You
06:26
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I don't know how to tell you
How grateful I am
For holding back the dark
And I know you'll never leave
I don't know how to tell you
About the void you fill in me
How you show me everyday
That I matter somehow
I've got to tell you somehow
I don't know how to tell you
All the pain and hate
And anguish around us
You make it all go away
I've got to tell you somehow
How I live for you
How I'd die for you
I'd kill for you
I live for you
You're everything to me
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Waiting
04:20
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It's a lonely place, the city
Under its starless sky
Alone while others find love
And you're left asking why
You feel you're always waiting
As love passes you by
No one to share your burden
To dry the tears you cry
You fill out questionnaires
But who are you inside?
Will you join me on this journey
Or will you cast me aside?
You feel you're always waiting
As love passes you by
No one to raise your soul up
To a clear, unending sky
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Saturday Morning
03:58
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Grey cat on the sill in the morning sun
Brown cat's under the bed, scared of everyone
Sunrays flashing through, warming up the room
I wake up, amazed, next to you
The garden's overgrown, but we sleep in late
So many things to do, but they can all wait
We're burning up the best years of our youth
Doesn't matter now, because we live in truth
Our time is now
Nothing else to do
Our time is now
Nothing else but you
I wish time would stop moving, I could just look at you
So many things I want to say, but I guess you knew
I'm not the kind to change the things that I need
I'm always on your path if you will lead me on
Our time is now
Nothing else to do
Our time is now
Nothing else but you
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“I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” was written by Justin Hayward and originally recorded by The Moody Blues (Copyright Kobalt Music Netherlands Obo Nightswood Ltd.).
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6. |
Galaxies Turn
04:05
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Night falls on the city
The sun drips blood on the glass towers
In our little room
We sit together in silence
And overhead the galaxies turn
I look deep in your eyes
And I see there to the edge of time
Where our laws don't apply
Where all is beautiful chaos
And overhead the galaxies turn
All around us is the void
Stretching as far as the mind can reach
Our little lives mean nothing
But so much to each other
And overhead the galaxies turn
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7. |
My Mother
05:18
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Oh my mother, my guiding star
You transcend all suffering
Despite your pain
You bring us joy
If I could take it all away, I would
But we can't turn back the years
Let's walk on
Hand in hand
Let it all go, and laugh with me
Oh my mother, it's been hard
To see the blows take their toll
Unbowed, never broken
You are my light
Let it all go, and laugh with me
Let it all go, and cry with me
Oh my mother, it's all right
You know you'll always have my love
In this life
And what may come after
Let it all go, and laugh with me
Let it all go, and cry with me
Let it all go, and smile with me
Let it all go
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8. |
She Remembers
04:23
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Sometimes you cry
All your hurt is inside
All the lost ones you miss
Still so clear in your mind
The face of the one you love
Will never fade
The joy and the pain
Still remain
Life is speeding up
We can't stop for a breath
Try to be here right now
For all the ones we have left
The face of the one you love
Will never fade
The joy and the pain
Still remain
So remember…
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Another Life
04:03
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I know what it's like to leave dreams unfulfilled
The light that burns within, so hard for us to show
Will we be whole
In another life
Will we be home
In another life
How can we be heard, when quiet is our tone
May our voices strengthen in our remaining years
Will we be born
In another life
Can we move on
To another life
It's ours, not theirs, the wonder all around
The beauty of this world is part of those who love it
Will we be whole
In another life
Do we dare to hope
For another life
Will we be whole
In another life
Will we be home
In another life
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My Love
06:36
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It's all right, my love
We know all things must end
Please believe in me
And I swear we can stop time
My love
Tears of loss could drown us
As the ones we love depart
Walk on this path with me
And let's never, never forget
My love
Nothing ever dies
Nothing ever ends
It's all one
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Goodbye, my friend
All songs end
And this song is over
You were down in the basement
When I knocked on your door
Song undelivered
Goodbye, my friend
All songs end
And this song is over
You spurned my advances
When I opened my heart
Now my heart is broken
Goodbye, my friend
All songs end
And this song is over
I come seeking closure
So let's close that door
No more serenades
Goodbye, my friend
All songs end
And this song is over
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Drone Undelivered
10:00
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Black rain invades through broken windows
It washes some more of the paint away
A mound of earth covers all the signs
Of the countless lives spent in this place
They are gone now
They are gone now
A murder of crows wheels across grey sky
They’ve never seen anything move on two legs
They perch on the steeples of our arrogance
We cast the gods in our image, such folly
We are gone now
We are gone now
The road, though broken, stretches on
Leading nowhere, it fades into tall grass
The forests stretch on unharmed and unrazed
No one to take and to hate and to hurt
To destroy everything
They are gone now
The earth reclaims what they stole from it
The earth has forgotten they ever lived here
They are gone now
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Bomber
04:30
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(NOTE: In these lyrics I have taken on the historical voice of people in wartime using the dehumanization of their enemy to justify violence against them. This does not in any way reflect my own views — it is a device.)
In 1945,
I’d been in that war for three long years
Dropping bombs on the Japanese
So that their sun would never rise again
Everybody knew the score
Don’t think too much about what you’ve done
Don’t think about the people you’ve killed
Just dream about your sweetheart at home
Shadows on the ground
A bright new sun in the sky
Nothing would ever be the same again
One day they came to me
Said we’re looking for a good man
Someone who’ll live in history
For fixing those yellow bastards for good
It was an honour to serve
All I had to do was fly that plane
Just another mission
Raining down death from the sky
Shadows on the ground
A bright new sun in the sky
Nothing would ever be the same again
The stars were so bright
As we rose into that beautiful sky
I prayed this mission meant
I’d be going home soon
Over Hiroshima,
I thought of the people down below
Trying to survive, just like me
Then we let it go
Everything turned to light
I thought that the kingdom had come
Now I had become death
Destroyer of worlds
And I will deny
That I did anything wrong
I just followed orders
But there’s so much blood on my hands
Shadows on the ground
A bright new sun in the sky
Nothing would ever be the same again
Nothing could ever be the same again
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Lazarus
03:58
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It’s dark here under the overpass
Among the weeds and trash
Your modern world left me behind
My dreams all turned to ash
You walk by me in silence
As though I’m not even there
But someday I will rise
Someday I will rise
The winter morning wind is so cold
It cuts right through to my bones
The daylight comes so early
And I wake up so alone
The train goes rushing by
Taking you to your life
But someday you will fall
Yes, someday you will fall
The meek shall rise
And take their due
And when we do
We’ll take it all from you
When all hope seems lost for you
You cling to what little hope you’ve got
As this sad old empire of man
Slowly dies and rots
There’s a home that waits
Beyond this hell you’ve made for me
Someday I’ll be free
Someday I’ll be you and you’ll be me
Some day I’ll be free
Someday I’ll be you and you’ll be me
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Demagogue
03:21
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Here’s the new boss on the scene
Always raging, lying and mean
He knows five wrongs erase one right
Just give the masses someone to fight
Someone to hate, someone to hurt
Someone who’s different, sound the alert
Pick those traitors out of the crowd
Make an example, make us all proud
The demagogue is coming
He’ll give you riches at no expense
He’ll cut your taxes and build a fence
To keep out foreigners who’d take what’s yours
Your plastic and metal, all you adore
He’ll usher in the bright white new age
He’ll fight progress and turn back the page
To a past that never really existed
A vision of glory so evil and twisted
The demagogue is coming
Take to the streets before it’s too late
You can’t beat him with status updates
His followers ride his wave of hate
This fight is eternal it never will abate
The demagogue is coming
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Offended
03:15
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I know you come from a different place
It’s just the face of another race
I know you just do things differently
But you’ve offended me
I don’t like views that are contrary
To what I’ve come to passionately believe
You have your own ways to see
But they’ve offended me
That’s all that matters to me
The way things make me feel
On the virtual frontier of mob mentality
The shallow and the cruel spread their hatred freely
Exercise their ignorance from the left and the right
(but mostly the right)
There’ll be no end to this pointless fight
Until we’re all dead
I know you are a human just like me
You just have a different way to be
But we’ll never get from us versus them to we
‘Cause you’ve offended me
From now on it’s you or me
That’s all that matters to me
The way you made me feel
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20. |
Taken Away
04:09
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We saw it coming but we wouldn’t believe it
So wrapped up in each other, we just couldn’t see it
Mundane life was so important, nothing else mattered
Until the day came when they took you away
The men in the van came and took you away
I pleaded and cried, but they wouldn’t let you stay
With me
The signs were everywhere, but we wouldn’t heed them
Heads in the sand distracting ourselves, always buying
Buying love, buying happiness, a false, deluded life
While the powers were waiting for their moment to strike
Something you said caused them to take you away
And I’ll never know what until my dying day
What you said
We saw it coming but we wouldn’t believe it
Our world of false freedom came crashing down
While the sheep were led through the gates to the slaughter
The end of all dreams of peace and order
The men in the van came and took you away
And I’ll never know where until my dying day
And what they did
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The Animal's Song
04:58
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I was born on the streets of this old city
In a dark alley I came to be
In the dust and the dirt of the human world
Hiding and running away in fear
I scratched out a life in the gloom and the trash
Eating the scraps that I could find
Dodging their spit and their kicks and their curses
Living in fear of their cruel kind
One day I was taken from the street in a trap
Caged up and stolen with others away
To a place of light so bright and so cold
It was there I would spend my short life
So come all of you that know no evil
Listen now please to our cries
Save us from torture, anguish, and pain
Make us all whole again
The others around me were crippled and maimed
Reduced to mere shells of their being
Used and abused for the human purpose
Not pets, not friends, only victims
They came in their white coats and took me out
To a room full of sharp tools and a foul smell
They burned me and cut me as I cried out
For hours I whimpered then I died
Some come all of you that are not evil
Listen now please to our cries
Save us from torture, anguish, and pain
Make us all whole again
No one will mourn me for I was nothing
My long, painful death already forgotten
Used by the cruel ones that stand so tall
So they could feel safe, that was why I died
So come all of you that know no evil
Listen now please to our cries
Save us from torture, anguish, and pain
Make us all whole again
Make us all whole again
Make us all whole again
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Soldier Song
04:00
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I’m the archetype of a soldier
My story’s often told
My parents needed money
So to the army I was sold
I serve my masters well
Spreading fear across the land
Don’t know how many children
Met their deaths at my hand
I’m the willing tool of leaders
Who care only for power
But I’m a human just like you
I want to cherish every hour
I want to spend my days in peace
And feel a lover’s hand
But if your lover’s in my way
I’ll shoot him where he stands
I’m the archetype of a soldier
My story’s often told
My parents needed money
So to the army I was sold
Every minute of this life, like you
I’ve felt love and pain
But when I have my orders
I'll steal your life away
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The Holy War
03:51
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Maximum Darkness
03:13
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Here on this shore, when we were young, we could still see the sky
Watching countless stars glow above and beautiful birds still flying
I stood there with her, hand in hand, she gave herself to me
The world was ours, no end in sight, as far as we could see
But the sky was poison, the seas were plastic, the ice melted away
And the time finally came when we knew that we just couldn’t stay
A long march in search of shelter and food, we starved along the way
Some stumbled and cried and fell down and died every single day
Why did we do it?
Why wouldn’t we listen to the wise ones?
Why could we not change?
Living on trash, the detritus of the damned, finding whatever we could
We cursed ourselves and our kind for not doing what we should
But still I had her to light my hope, happiness could be found
Until her strength gave out and she died and was left abandoned on the ground
Now I stand old and tired by a dead, brown, choked sea
And I wait for the mercy of death to claim what’s left of me
One of the last of a ruined species that destroyed this whole earth
That raped and cut and bruised and finally killed the place of our birth
Why did we do it?
Why wouldn’t we listen to the wise ones?
Why could we not change?
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27. |
Loss
06:03
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I long to see your face again
I long for times that won’t come again
Never again
I long to touch your hand again
Your image recedes from my mind again
I long to feel your love again
But I’ll never know that life again
Never again
I wish I’d known what was coming
I wish we’d hidden ourselves away
I wish we’d lived a thousand years ago
I wish we’d lived a thousand years ago
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Epilogue: Barren Planet
05:00
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The sands have run down the glass
The long day fades into sunset
The wind blew all they had built away
When they decided not to pay their debts
They never found their way home
The barren planet mourns alone
They were like animals trapped in a cage
And they grinned at death like mannequins
While those who foresaw the future wept
They knew too much, they’d worn too thin
They never found their way home
The barren planet mourns alone
They’ll never return
They threw it it away
They watched it burn
And danced in the flames
And laughed in their pain
Who will watch now in the withered land
As deserts engulf the city streets
Who will mourn now for a finite world
And laugh in the face of the fate
That he must meet
They never found their way home
The barren planet mourns alone
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29. |
My Dream
05:33
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I see a world of harsh words and dark dealings
Maybe you don’t mean to do wrong
I see a world with so many searching
For the will to go on
What will it take for you to finally be
Free of your greed, all your suffering
My dream
Is for peace to come home to your heart
My dream
Is that love takes root in your soul
My dream
Is for light to beam into our lives
My dream
Is that love…
When I look at you, all I see is you crying
As the love in your heart slowly dies
Reach out your hand, surrender your ego
Love is the best thing we know
What will it take for you to finally see
The only way for you to be free
My dream
Is for peace to come home to your heart
My dream
Is that love takes root in your soul
My dream
Is for light to beam into our lives
My dream
Is for love to make everything alright
You can read books of fantasy and lose yourself on screen
But this is the only world we’ve got, to hold our hopes and dreams
It’s time now to stand up for all that lives and breathes
It’s time to create a world your children can survive in
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30. |
Hymn to Life and Death
03:38
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I see it in the shades of the sky
I see it in the way the sparrow flies
I see it in the passing of our days
I see it in the ever-changing way
I see it in the vastness of the wild
I see it in the birth of a child
We can see it in the death of a man
Finally returned to love's hands
All is one
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31. |
Falling Away
05:13
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