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The Best Life
06:29
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Sit on the sidelines Watch the world spin slowly by
Trapped in my confines But somehow I have to try
Live my best life live the change that I can be
Live my best life all that I can see
Live my best life live the change that I can be
Live my best life
I watch the t.v. They’re all dolled up and looking fine
I don’t always agree What’s good for them may not be mine
Live your best life live the change that you can be
Live your best life all that you can see
Live your best life live the change that you can be
Live your best life
If you leave it to fate, fate will come to your door
Fate will take you down
If you can create, you can create more and more
Fate can’t take you down
If you fold your cards, withdraw before the final hand
Fate will take you down
If you believe in self, rise up and make your brand
Fate can’t take you down
Inside every one of us Are the seeds from the past
The strengths we’ve amassed Inside everyone
Out of the dark haze Shrug the shroud as we shine bright
Focus on my praise Shine so bright make day from night
Live your best life live the change that you can be
Live your best life all that you can see
Live your best life live the change that you can be
Live your best life
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2. |
Pura Vida
05:57
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The plane set down on your first time in a country outside North America
Passed thru customs waiting for the bus
The busy city roads spoke of home for people you had never known
Walked through crowds living way of life
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the highlights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the way of life
In a rural town we walked around then local boys had you join
Watched you playing ball in the square
On a river cruise treehouse food hanging on the power chord
Walked through mud staring volcano high
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the highlights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the way of life
Rain came down you went up to heights you’d never been before
Only one line a strap and a hook to get you across
Road blocked in an impromptu event you chilled in the sun
Only one way a life and a day you it runs through their blood
Bird’s fast wings a viper looks down from a hanging bridge
Only one trip but more than a trip in South America
Call to home he wants to go home to what he knows so well
Only one week a boy and his dad they’ll grow the bond
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the highlights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Adventure in our sights
Costa Rica Pura Vida Live the way of life
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3. |
ink
03:52
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Lifting my sleeve seeing the colors so bright
Feeling my grief knowing the end of the fight
I hold you can’t hold you I hold you inside
I hold you can’t hold you I hold you outside
A piece of you on a piece of me
Gives me peace this pic of we
You’re gone
Fearing and caring the lifeforce receding
Crying and trying the process proceeding
Wanting and needing the last breath of leaving
Our life
Piercing and digging the needle creating
Holding and hoping the colors portraying
Meaning and being the skin now displaying
Our life
Lifting my sleeve seeing the colors so bright
Keep you with me you’re a part of my life
I hold you can’t hold you I hold you inside
I hold you can’t hold you I hold you outside
A piece of you on a piece of me
Gives me peace this pic of we
You’re here (with me)
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4. |
Hold Me Softly
05:10
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And I know what you might want right now and I know what you might say
You can tell me what you want right now but I say please go away
You can tell me everything I need but I know I don’t need that
You can tell me what you want right now and I’ll tell you please stay back
Hold me softly tenderly
Hold me softly please
In the car you come over for an hour you come to stay
It’s a night of delight just not right today
So serious we just can’t miss we miss it anyway
I want it not to want it even though its underway
Hold me softly tenderly
Hold me softly please
Its time to go
Don’t tell me so
Tell me now
Please
Its time to go
I hear you so
Its time to go
Away
And I know I don’t know right now what right now means to me
I want I want I want so much just what is it I need
Closeness from a world apart closeness far away
Deep deep down within my heart can’t come close to stay
Hold me softly tenderly
Hold me softly please
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5. |
All Alone Together
06:22
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When I look in your eyes I see fear and despise
Who I’ve touched What I can give
When I look in your eyes I see harm in disguise
When you’ve been Where you live
All alone together
All alone apart
We pass it on on and on
And we touch so many lives
When you look in my eyes You see shock and surprise
What has transpired Who we’ve become
When you look in my eyes You see a world in demise
Where we’re heading When it will end
All alone together
All alone apart
We pass it on on and on
And we touch so many lives
Now is the time for us to really stop and think
To contemplate how we relate
Choosing how we want to be
Now is the time for us to really stop and think
To demonstrate it’s not innate
We can choose how to be
This is the time to reconcile our relationships
Is it our right to cage what we own what does exist
When I look in your eyes I see what that implies
When we are safe Where we can go
When you look in my eyes You see a likely ally
What we can do Who contacts who
All alone together
All alone apart
We pass it on on and on
And we touch so many lives
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6. |
Jenga
05:00
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It was time to build
Time to start something new
‘Nother player in the game
Shed the past with a new name
Laid the blocks so firm
Foundation for the life-long term
Twenty levels strong
Solid standing can’t go wrong
Yet a piece astray
How did it get this way
Put the tower higher
Third player a magnifier
Structure wobbles now
Fourth player we don’t know how
Still hope for a piece
Through the babel there is no peace
You, pushed the block, pushed it hard
Pushed too far the structure’s fallen down
ignored the rules, quit the game
pieces on the ground
You, want to win, above anything
Refuse to entertain rebuild
No compromise, a bad sport
Skills you cruelly wield
Don’t you know we began to play every day so the blocks don’t sway
Don’t you know it wasn’t fair, you don’t care, to play again
Don’t you know you and me, we called it we, we had agreed
Don’t you know no runner-up, I’ll clean up, pick up the game
Don’t you know I can build, it’s my will, to be fulfilled
Don’t you know I know the rules, been a fool, in this duel
Don’t you know no need to fight, no black and white, no wrong or right
Don’t you know put the game away, it can stay, for another day
Don’t you know despite the pain, I remain, I’ll play again,
Don’t you know I played my hand, wasn’t planned, it’s the game’s end
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7. |
Wild Eyes
02:34
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Wild eyes
Behind the glass
End of
Loneliness
Small stood tall you were a buddy an old friend
Pied piper in the morning when the quiet ends
Days ago nostalgic when you’re crusty and loud
Comfortable, tolerant, polite, and proud
Wild eyes imploring chilling over time
Behind the guise of knowing infrequently to climb
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8. |
How Do I Compare
04:32
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In the cold of the night, I see you there
Laughing in the breeze, holding hands
Ghost of a memory, finger bare
A black shroud, lifetime brand
Chorus:
How do I compare (x3)
Just tell me how do I compare
Shiver as I remember, ruthless tears
Haunts my best self, through the years
They metastasize, all my fear
They paralyze, lay me bare
Chorus:
How do I compare (x3)
Just tell me how do I compare
Can’t you touch me, know what I am needing
Don’t you see me, a black hole that’s blinding
Can’t you feel me, ruined and bleeding
Don’t you hear me, in pain and screaming, please
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9. |
Worlds Away
06:13
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Remember when you held me close
Remember when you taught me life
Remember when we laughed anyway
Remember when we cried all night
Chorus
You’re worlds away I’m here today
So far away From you
You’re worlds away It’s not okay
Can’t hear me say
You’re worlds away I’m here today
So far away From you
You’re worlds away Can’t hear me say
Goodbye
Remember that minutes are lifetimes
Remember that my heart is unbound
Remember that miles are deceiving
Remember that our lives are entwined
CHORUS
Through the glass your face so frail your voice so low but I still feel your soul
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10. |
Be Normal
06:18
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Time again, you say the words that frighten me
They bind my wrists drain my mind hold me down for everything
Holy scroll, the stares glare so unsparingly
A pillory in the sun on display for everyone
What do I do that’s so wrong
Be normal, be normal, be normal
Be normal, be normal, be normal
Be yourself, they say then say play the game
Choose the color within the lines “kid, you can do anything”
Society, an old cage locked with rusted gates
Stand up tall accept the fall look inside to find the key
What do I do that’s so wrong
Be normal, be normal, be normal
Be normal, be normal, be normal
Come together look around if you think then don’t make a sound
Fall in line make your mother proud
Watch the shows that let you know how to keep the same tempo
Play the chord and not the arpeggio
Read the books follow the signs pay attention to the guidelines
Choose your words for another rhyme
Time again, they say that I don’t play the game
Change my clothes change my name I should change most everything
Be myself, a rainbow when there’s no storm
Choose to shine outside the lines no way I can be contained
What do I do that’s so wrong
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11. |
Loving
05:18
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In a small Virginia town
Racing cars and hanging out
The young sister of his friend
A love they did not intend
Emotions became physical
One day she was with child
Their union not authorized
They decided to cross the line
They became Loving, Loving, Loving
Newly married Black and White
In the middle of the night
Torn from their private bed
Dragged them from their homestead
He made bail the next day
Three more she had to stay
Judge ruled they leave the state
They didn’t know what would await
They left the state Embraced their fate Took on the weight
Troubles so strange Who could explain We needed change
Pictures in Life Describe their strife Husband and wife x2
A country in a divide
The court did not take their side
They knew they had to disobey
Appeal it up all the way
The highest bench then ruled
Civil rights ensued
Can’t be stopped by race
Loving put it all in place
They became Loving, Loving, Loving
June 12th of every year People’s bonds can persevere
We all can now celebrate Loving Day
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