1. |
Lost
03:31
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Take a while and think it out
To get a grip, and wring it out
The last I’d heard they promised you
A slate that’s clean, a path that’s true
And no one knows the way home
No one ever says
“Im just as lost as anyone,
No hint of a clue of what’s to come
How can I be where I am?
Isn’t every other man
Left to wander like me?
Just a leaf in the breeze…”
A bit of time and follow through
That nervous kid that follows you
The one who wears your shadow’s shoes
Had always feared but never knew
That no one knows the way home
No one ever says
“Im just as lost as anyone,
No hint of a clue of what’s to come
How can I be where I am?
Isn’t every other man
Left to wander like me?
Just a leaf in the breeze…”
How can I be where I am?
Left with two broken limbs on which to stand
Oh I’m serious, you wonder
If I’ve got your paper
But I don’t think it matters
who my pockets know
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2. |
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Such haste to make
To bare it all for anything
To open doors, to wage new wars,
To get first in line, be first to die
What waste to gain
Not knowledge, only facts in vain
What point is proved?
What wound is soothed?
The failing heart or the surface bruise?
It’s hard to say if
tomorrows more means less today
Who can stand to wait?
Is patience just a fool’s mistake
What’s left to lose?
A hubris stood in quaking shoes?
Is there no shame? Just misplaced pride?
Where’s humble gone? He’s not inside…
What modern plight,
entire selves out in plain sight
And no one hides
Because the forum’s wide
Keep your private ties from our public lives
It’s hard to say if
Tomorrows more means less today
Who can stand to wait?
Is patience just a fools mistake
We need it all
The world is ours, we’ll never fall
Who can stand to wait?
The virtue’s gone, it’s been replaced
So what’s the need to know?
To know the whole world’s story
And be in the middle now it’s just losses shown
And I know, though we hope,
I just know we’ve all gone cold and lonely
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3. |
Fair-weather Friend
01:47
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Am I a fair weather friend?
Do I come and go with the wind?
And when your wheels just spin
Would you call on my for traction?
In this world we live in where nothing is certain
Do you plant your feet or do you wander free
Like a question not for answering
Do you plant your feet or do you wander free
Like the fair weather man I’ve been
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4. |
Grays
04:09
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We all tend to break
When we bend this way
We’re not careful with ourselves
We’re skin stretched on broken bones
On the mend for days
Wisdom speaks while deaf ears play
We’re just careful what we are
We’re not careful what we’re not
And all this time spent trying to be
A perfect balanced symmetry
Push and pull to find a way
To balance out our grays
It takes time to learn
To stay in certain wars keeps peace for you
A grave sign, to seek no refuge from the storm
A badge no longer worn
And all this time spent trying to be
A perfect balanced symmetry
Push and pull to find a way
To balance out our grays
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Our Voice
04:15
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Wait at my side, oh patient one
We can bathe in the mid day sun
Keep the whole day for us
Say when it’s time and off we run
Though the world often weighs a ton
It’s no weight for us
We and our voice rival the setting Sun
We and our voice say when the day is done
Sing when it’s time our voices bloom
Hear the birds and their jealous tune?
Let them all envy us
We and our voice rival the setting Sun
We and our voice say when the day is done
There is no choice,
hold precious the gracious ones
We and our voice say when the day is done
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