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My Anchor
02:44
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I'm grounded by my ghost,
Things I keep deep inside, seldom seen or shown.
Be it a soul,
Call it a state of flow,
Safe haven, the place I go when I am peacefully alone.
My anchor when life begins to change, Deep breath, release, I'm listening, When life's unfair and I'm insane, Nothing stays the same.
when you think about it,
We'd be better off without it,
A path we've always doubted,
Don't believe it.
I won't take the road that's crowded, Or leave my heart impounded,
I needed hope,
I found it now.
My blue sky,
How I've found this hope I needed, Lift my eyes to the clouds I see it. My blue sky,
I won't take this path I've doubted, I won't leave my heart impounded.
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2. |
Trees
01:58
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I know there is a love in the fear of letting go, so I hold... Weeping eyes, hope inside,
A curtain swings as the season dies,
How do the trees know?
To embrace the cold,
And slow the growth,
Seeds find a place all their own,
Clawing out a brand-new home.
When I think there is no way, Something sleeping springs to life, Holding my breath for day to break,
I trust the dark and give it time. Mystery, intertwined,
Redefining what is wrong and right, The shadows they throw,
A winding road,
Ascending heights,
I'll thank the joy and sadness both,
(like leaves) evidence of the current's flow.
When I think there is no way, Something sleeping springs to life, Holding my breath for day to break, I trust the dark and give it time.
All of a sudden,
From out of nothing,
Clawing out from deep inside of me. I've got everything I need.
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3. |
The Weight
02:10
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I need a way to live forever cuz I don't think I could ever,
I don't ever want to say goodbye,
I know that life is in the making, all these steps I have been taking, I'm dreaming just to keep you by my side,
I want every day, tell me the way to keep you by my side, All the weight we carry, I feel so alive,
Dig up the dead and buried,
Giving up on ever knowing, which way the days are going,
I want to grow until I reach the sky,
And all the seeds that we've been sewing by the rivers' steady flowing, Come up day by day right by our sides.
I want every day, tell me the way to keep you by my side, All the weight we carry, I feel so alive,
Dig up the dead and buried,
Time won't walk out fairly, resuscitate revive,
We've got what's necessary.
Down to hell, unraveled and unfurled,
Wading through pieces of my imaginary world,
I've learned to walk with questions,
I've learned to love the lessons,
And now I know what I want is everything that I've got.
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4. |
Open Hands
03:07
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I'm waking up today like I will never be the same,
And as the moments play open hands lift a new name,
For so long there wasn't space to give my heart her proper place, Now that I found my way open hands life a new name.
To know I'm enough and never too much,
Throw off the weight of indecision,
Bitter words, things I left unsaid.
The love of my life, and Ayla's green eyes,
I'm making room for the purest feelings,
Blue skies come after the night, I can't help but sing.
I'm waking up today like I will never be the same,
And as the moments play open hands lift a new name,
For so long there wasn't space to give my heart her proper place,
Now that I found my way open hands life a new name. I've suffered my lows, went through them alone,
Betrayed by the ones I loved most,
Bones on the pile, I'll keep my smile and say,
What I know and I don't
Things I'll do and I won't
The mystery each day ahead holds,
Blue skies come after the night it is well!
There's not control enough,
With spit we shape the dust,
And expect the work to last,
Instead let's forgive our past,
Take off the masks we wear and face the things we fear, And watch them take off into the air.
I'm waking up today like I will never be the same,
And as the moments play open hands lift a new name,
For so long there wasn't space to give my heart her proper place, Now that I found my way open hands life a new name.
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5. |
Nonviolent Redemption
01:23
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With toxic words and lies, Rhetoric alienates and divides,
American dreams on the backs of the third world.
If we want peace lower arms melt down guns, Non-violent redemption,
Meet neighbor's needs like our own daughters and sons, Non-violent redemption.
No need for flags and signs,
Border walls keep out the truth of the times, American dreams on the backs of the third world.
If we want peace lower arms melt down guns, Non-violent redemption,
Meet neighbor's needs like our own daughters and sons, Non-violent redemption.
Can't you see we're on the brink and there's no need to overthink it, It's on us to keep this ship from sinking.
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6. |
Both/And
02:27
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It was always in the open sky,
Still I thought it'd be a deeper secret, Forever searching for a way to keep it, The more I learned the less I knew.
I'm reaching, the blind can see. This light ahead no fear,
Your love has brought me here.
What if I live like I will never die, Sharing the hope I've always needed,
Each step I take replete with, All goodness kind and true.
I'm reaching, at last I'm free. This light ahead no fear,
Your love has brought me here.
All the lies and the time I've wasted, Holding my breath and hesitating, The dead ends and new beginnings, How did things go so wrong?
All the pain and loss begetting,
The sunrise to my understanding,
I won't soon be forgetting, it always was, all along.
You can have your truth, and I can have mine too, Go on, love strong, one life my joyous song.
You can have your truth, and I can have mine too, Go on, love strong, grateful each new day dawns.
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7. |
To The Mourning
02:04
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For all the shit I could not understand,
In my depression, empty heart and feeble hands,
The anchorline's a strand and I'll be damned if I don't go,
These years were not for show,
I've watched the leaves fall from the trees and trust the ground will break after the cold.
The things you think you know,
Blown away with the first sign of a storm. So I keep looking for the grain,
In the soil for the unknown,
The life beyond my bones,
The words I need not say to hope, I'll reap more than what I have sewn,
Reading truth spelled in the stars before I lift my hand to throw a stone. Life is not what you hold,
I'll use my strength for letting go.
I won't ask why, I am using all my strength for letting go. Pages turn with the tides ever-changing coming and going,
And the clouds in the sky as they keep on with their rolling, Head down, take a step,
As I do my growing,
I am a flower that's open to the morning.
I won't ask why to the mourning.
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8. |
Sovereignty of Soul
02:26
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I woke up in a sweat my mind was racing,
With so many things that I want to forget,
There's a time and place when the misgivings of a few start to make sense,
And now I'm ready to break with the time and the heartbreak that I've spent building a kingdom for thieves, keeping the poor on their knees, holding up a patriarchal debt.
Not one more breath belongs to another,
I can't wait for a later day to drop out of all the games you play.
So sick of all the lies and holding my tongue when I face them,
Letting go of any need to choose a side,
Trusting the way that the truth can illuminate a path through the darkest night,
And now I'm ready to break with the time and the heartbreak that I've spent building a kingdom for thieves, keeping the poor on their knees, holding up the myth of wrong and right.
Not one more breath belongs to another,
I can't wait for a later day to drop out of all the games you play. Free minds to discover all the color will fade away,
Black and white replaced with gray.
I've said enough.
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9. |
No Escape
03:32
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The other night I went walking,
A steady pace like I was looking for something, Wandering streets in the town I grew up in, On the hunt, came up with nothing.
There's no escape.
I'm not running from anything,
Not to free or to forget,
I don't want to fill the space inside my head.
I fell asleep mid-sentence,
Pen in my hand, my faithful attendance, Light dancing down the hallway walls,
Like Kubrick playing late night that early Fall.
There's no escape.
I'm not running from anything,
Not to free or to forget,
I don't want to fill the space inside my head.
August, my dear, you'll surely find when you're older,
Not all the stories were true, some they cooked, and they sold you, My arms will be forever open wide to hold you,
And together we can ...
Love the ugly truth,
Take it for what it is, take no issue, Love the ugly truth,
No stories to tell, take no issue.
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Forty years, still hard to find,
Men who will close their mouths and open up their minds, Its not loving sacrifice to shame, subjugate, and pacify.
While manboys pillage and play,
Collecting bribes that they're paid. RANK AND FILE.
Forty more, I'll use my time,
Holding space and making place for those I find, In love with ordinary life,
The only need to be free and peace of mind.
The day's gold on display Won't fill anyone's plate And we all need to eat
RANK AND FILE
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11. |
Love Is All
03:54
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Will you accept the lies, televised, side effects not advertised,
A drug to give us back our lives if you'd believe,
The wolves and clowns running our states and towns
Cutting checks as we flail and drown, the unknown has us tied and bound with an anchor at our feet.
Don't buy in,
Let go of all of it.
I want to always be helping you chase after your dreams.
When there's nothing to believe in just know that love is all we needed.
It stands, the highest tree from a tiny seed, I grew up like a neglected seed'
Harriet helping dozens see sacred jubilee.
Truth will set us free,
Gandhi had a nation on its knees,
One pinch of salt down on Dandi Beach, invaders will concede.
Don't buy in,
Let go of all of it.
I want to always be helping you chase after your dreams.
When there's nothing to believe in just know that love is all we needed.
No one owns any other, In our love we commit to one another.
In our love we commit, we're gonna make it through the worst of it, I'm not sure what the meaning is, the mystical and mysterious, When I'm dead and done with this, celebrate like we always did.
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12. |
Grown Up & Gone
03:29
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So many times I tried to walk away from you with all my thoughts in my hands, Chewing my tongue biting lips, searching for a place to put all of this.
Grown up and gone,
If this is all that there is then I don't want to be strong, Humming along,
I don't know the words, I never learned the song.
With open eyes despite the ugly, honest, truth, I try my best to make plans, I know it is what it is but I don't want to face it,
So I just resist
Grown up and gone,
If this is all there is then I don't want to be strong, Humming along,
I'm not wrong, I don't need to know the words to belong.
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