1. |
Fifty-Seven
06:48
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All that I believe in.....it’s...... words in the sand
Everybody’s leaving
A billion odd galaxies....I’m a speck in the sand,
I don’t believe in prophecies
Can you feel the power
Tell me can you feel the power
Feel the Power
I have felt the power of...
A little from the past...
A little to the future...
But mostly from the blast.
If all the good that’s leavin’......
Takes some evil along,
‘t least it’s for a reason.
It’s a human obligation,
It’s Original Sin,
It’s a cosmic complication.
Love is what you’re leaving, It’s your only legacy.
That’s what we’re all grieving, a melancholic ecstasy
Fifty-seven, is the number I chose to quantify how much I love you
If there’s a heaven, it must be crowded with those who’ve left with their equal in evil.
Love is the answer, it’s the ultimate cleanser , a catalyst, for our redemption.
My Fifty-seven, is the number I chose to signify , how much I love you.
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2. |
Elements
04:40
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One more time for the people that I have known
The people I have loved,some people not so much.
Taking time to reflect on how winds have blown
Though it’s clearly not enough, I have been very deeply touched
These are the the elements that constitute the essence of my life.
Still I thank you all.
People and places and things that we’ve done.
Run in a river that shines like the sun.
Pieces of a puzzle, each one, absolutely vital,
The smallest as the large ones, into metamorphic symbiosis,
Anarchistic, philharmonic, altruistic, egocentric
You………….
A beautiful and wondrous compound.
Naturally, I speak in all humility
and for all humanity,
Taking one more step along this path that lies here…
before me.
(preserving this god-given, everlasting, awe-inspiring fragility. )
(In celebrating - the elements that make us who we are)
All of these pieces of me,
interlocked and sealed, varnished for eternity.
Even when it’s over. Often long-forgotten by constituting elements,
That never seem to realize…..
The role they play in my life, The guidance they’ve provided,
The countervailing attitudes making things a little clearer, smoothing out the edges,
tempering the passion, this is why today I thank the elements
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3. |
Green In Blue
04:28
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If I have learned a thing or two
From all the fuss we’ve made
about climatic change.
To cherish every minute,
Every moment when I’m in it
Every mountain range.
The midnight conversations
with the scotch pines that surround me
seem like monologues
The wisdom in their silence,
Like a session with a therapist
That gets you to some place
that you’ve had locked-up deep inside of you
Now I……..
Can’t fly
I’ve plucked the feathers of my wings
To line my nest now I can’t leave it anymore,,,
That’s why I
Feel Green in Blue.
How can we find a common ground
With Nature if we haven’t found
A reason …..
(We’re, every single one of us,
Responsable
for each other.)
To Finally get our act together,
Try to get on with each other
Fix this broken home that we depend on for survival
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4. |
I am One (1)
08:05
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Shake me, shame me,
take me somewhere,
Where I’m not a lot.
Sass me, baby,
Ridicule me,
Give me all you’ve got
Someone, somewhere,
Seems to think
What really makes them hot.
Shake me, shame me,
Ridicule me,
Give me all they’ve got.
It’s a vicious site
I cry alot
you know I wanna fight
but I’d rather not
I’m an empty shell
I’ve been hollowed out
Life has turned to hell
And I’m breakin’ out
It’s a rocky road,
it’s a bumpy ride,
I’m gon’ share my discomfort with the other side.
I am One................
And I’m breakin’ out
I am One
I’m without a doubt
There’s something cruel ‘bout
a generation, They use Intimidation
causing alienation.
I think we need to focus on the one,
It’s the only one
not the lonely.
I am One................
And I’m breakin’ out
I am One
I’m without a doubt
Good sense dictates - ya wanna be careful
The people ya choose to love
Some folks flash while they’re talkin their trash
But the proverbial push comes to shove.
I wanna turn this thing around,
Paint a bull’s eye on a bully’s back
There’s a new sherif come to town
Let me introduce you to the new leader of the pack.
I am One................
And I’m breakin’ out
I am One
I’m without a doubt
When the shadow of collective instigation
Turns to aggression
Every morning brings a new-found isolation
Deep in depression
I am one
admittedly different
A little belligerent
I won’t run
I am one
admittedly different
A little belligerent
I won’t run
I’ll take away your credibility
Let you fester in profundity
I’m taking back my dignity
You took from me No apology.
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5. |
I don't Know
04:00
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You never told me so.
I should’ve seen it comin’
Ya beat me right down flat, right where I sat and I’m thinkin’ I don’t know
I can’t find no semblance of a reason to explain.
I keep squeezing lemons but I can’t make lemonade.
Ya can’t make assumptions ‘bout the pain here in my brain
I don’t want to celebrate before we all get paid.
I Don’t know if your left or right
if you’re black or white nor
if you like to fight
I Don’t know if the sun will die,
If the stars will fall,
If you’re wrong or right
I Don’t know, I Don’t know,
I Don’t, I Don’t know
When the sun rises in the east, tomorrow,
you can ask somebody, if they’ll beg or borrow
If they’re feeling something like glee or sorrow
You can to sleep with a smile at night.
I Don’t know if your left or right
if you’re black or white nor
if you like to fight
I Don’t know if the sun will die,
If the stars will fall,
If you’re wrong or right
I Don’t know, I Don’t know,
I Don’t, I Don’t know
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6. |
In The Dark
07:50
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I’m standing out in the rain.
There’s always room here for the lost
It’s like a harbour for the pain,
While you sit contemplating cost.
I saw the children playing out there
in the middle of the park
It seems like something you can do
When there’s no venom in your heart.
Stay with me
Why don’t ya play with me
I need to have some company
Everybody here….
Is tired of playing in the dark
Here in this darkness of a night, that never seems to end
You’ve got to muster up some light, ’t least enough to find a friend.
There’s not a cloud on the horizon,
When you’re living in the dark
You make your own illumination
‘Cause the light is in your heart
Stay with me
Why don’t ya play with me
I need to have some company
Everybody here….
Is tired of playing in the dark
Stay with me
Why don’t ya play with me
You’ve got to keep me company
Can’t you see,
They’ve turned out all the lights
They’ll point a laser where they choose.
Technically,
There’s not a cloud in sight,
It makes it easy to confuse.
Everybody here….
Is tired of playing in the dark
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7. |
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Hit the ground running on a Saturday night
I was barely seventeen - In a flicker of light!
Tossed into the frenzy of a terrible fight
And then - Out went the lights!
Eerie & stunning, She was nimble and cunning,
Seductive a swagger with eyes like a dagger
that stab at your soul, ‘ Reached out to touch her
And then - Out went the lights!
Chorus
I never look back, It’s all screwed up!
Don’t nobody try to look me up,
It’s all in the past, It’s a ship that has since set sail
I’m the captain aboard
I’m dead-on the track, I’m all cued-up,
Don’t nobody try to hook me up
I’m comin in fast, with the weight of a killer-whale,
I’m the chair of the board
Bridge
Chorus
I got a ten dollar bill in my pocket,
till the day after tomorrow,
I got the wind in my back,
A bottle of “Jack”
And a tell-tale five-O’clock shadow
Chorus X 2
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8. |
Run
04:17
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Run like the devil,
Never be back no more
The moment you’re out the door
You’ll never know what lies in store.
running to the edge of the universe,
Nowhere left to hide from the family curse.
Out here, in the wild and cagey, disinclined and unattached, dawning of the day that you will kiss them all good-bye.
Everything around me seems to tell me what I’m here to do
Seems like kind of a sentence
Walk with me, Help me see,
I could use a little guidance from you now.
Take me to a higher place
I’ve given everything,
There’s nothing left at all
I would ask you to remember
That I’m from Montreal
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9. |
Time Line
11:13
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‘ five in the morning, I’m standing here among the trees.
Look very hard, you can see my reflection
To sail ……… from body to body,
Would I hang on to my spirit
If I could bail and keep on telling stories,
Then maybe, I could find a reason
Far off in the distance, There is motion, some kind of plasma
………………Angels calling in the distance
………………Blinding light, a crystal brilliance
………………Draws you in with vigilance
bar 70
Look inside the bubble, you can see, it’s not so subtle
There are organisms just below the surface ….
Their existence, a reminder of the density of life, contained in this
U - ni- verse……………
Try and find a time to make your place.
Running thru this mess of time and space
What’s your handle? Tell me, where are you going?
You’re not really anybody, you’re not in any way, entitled,
You just happened here and now you’ve got to justify.
It’s a bigger, bigger, bigger picture,
we are really just a a puff of smoke, so quickly evacuated.
Try to find a time to make your place
Careful not to mess with nature’s grace
Count the seconds to the time line,
Life is in your face.
The countless, lonely fallen trees are real.
It’s not because they’re never seen
but more about the time they’ve been,
microdots in sprinkled clusters
that’s the human race.
Easier said than done I must admit.
Now I’m gone, gone, gone,put your helmets on
‘cause the ride’s about to get exciting
I had a very good reason
but now I’m gone, gone, gone.
When the masters gone It can all go on,
Everything will, unencumbered, simply carry on.
Life is not endangered, cross-contamination of the human kind is simply doomed, and for the sake of continuity best be rid of.
So Celebrate the remnants, for they are what will constitute the return to Eden.
When the people’s gone
‘Cause the ride’s about to turn into a marathon.
When the master’s gone, It will all go on
Everything will unencumbered, simply, carry-on
Just like a mountain wind……. I’m not
Count the seconds that your life-span represents.
Are you done yet? are you done yet?
All the missions and the projects simply compressed into one single sleepless night,
A sweet reminiscence for a dead man rotting in his grave.
You can find me here, you can find me there, I could never make a difference for anyone out there.
Anyone can see, Everyone can hear, It’s been quite a ride but it’s changing
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10. |
Washing Away
03:00
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Rain, Rain, Rain.
Is falling in my brain,
washing away,
What they say
Every day.
Took a licking at the black jack tables
Went home with a headache and a toasted bagel
Started streamin’ in the talking heads
I got to thinkin’ ‘bout the things they said.
Over-analyzing junk mail,
scanning bovine body-language
talk, talk, talk.
Nothing but talk
Tell me please where I can find some
harbour from the bottom-feeding pond scum
I’m washing away,
What they say
Every day.
Just the other day, I thought I heard somebody say
We’re all just headed for, the nevermore,
It’s a price we’ve got to pay.
We’ve been abusing and polluting
To self-destructive disarray.
Sometimes I wish that people didn’t talk at all
I’m washing away,
What they say
Every day.
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