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We Added It Up
04:04
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There was you there was me
We never could agree
If I was up you were down
You were there I was here
A grand puppeteer stuck it all together
If I was cat you were a dog
If I was tied up you were a hog
If I was flat you were a ball
If I was charge then you were cash
If I was tots your were the mash
If I was loud then you were shhhhh
We added up
We added up to zero zero
Flying neutrinos fly through
My skin my hair my feet
What a pair of disagreeable agreeables
Your hands my hips your grip
What a fit of exhausting inexhaustables
Fusion makes the world go round
Confusion with the making of all that sound
Oh I hear a quieter voice
It says, “love binds the world,
love binds the world forever and ever”
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Though there is stillness I can hear a heartbeat
Though I can’t see you I can hear a sound
Through a veil I feel a hand near me
Reaching through to the other side
I receive this body mine
From womb to grave
I now walk an ancient line
One foot follows the other
This stone, this finite place
Is it limitless?
To touch the boundless
I hear a measureless rise
It seems so wondrous
Just to be alive
Hindrances, distresses of substance
I turn them over
Those forgotten I remember
And gather them up in my arms
Like some magic thing twisted and winding
It carries me on
Oh how gorgeous, oh how gorgeous to struggle now
To struggle now in time
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In The Beginning
04:19
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In the beginning there was a spark
Like two great cymbals clanging we met head on
There was no time
All of life suspended
And when you spoke one heart jumped into action
This the oldest story this the finest tale
Our time, our question awaits
Will we seize it
Can we catch it, our reel to reel
My only chance at this
I will take hold of it
This glorious day the earth is shaking hallelujah
And I will join the unending hymn hallelujah
No matter no matter no matter what
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4. |
Escape Routes
03:27
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It takes a lifetime to learn how to love
It starts with a flicker that bursts into flame
Then it fades to an ember with fights
and with fingers pointing out blame
Oh to exercise the act
of falling in love with you over and over and over
Let’s close off all our escape routes
Let’s not put it off tonight
Let’s close off all our escape routes
We can have it all tonight
It takes a lifetime to learn how to love
Most the time I’m taking too much in my turn
But I yearn for your closeness and a gentle return
My arms snake around yours
Your lips open explore
These promises we have saved
They hold us
They hold and maintain
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Be Brave
04:16
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I am a bird in water, a whale on sand
I am the flood, the fire, the oil spill
I’m feeling scared and I am overwhelmed
And so I don my mask and finger bells
Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work
Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone
I am slave, I’m under house arrest
I am the beater, I am beaten for less
Than being punk and feeling anger swell
And so I don my beaded dress and finger bells
It’s so hard, it’s so heavy
To be hungry, to be happy
It’s so light, it’s so easy just to be
Oh God, what would you do with me
Oh God, what’s my responsibility
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She does not know the fruit of her labor
She does not rest ‘til late each evening
She does not know her beauty grows with age
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day
She does not hear words to flatter
She does not take much ease or pleasure
She does not wait to love
She does not bend or break or run away
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day
She does not build the fortresses or touch the farthest moon
She does not climb the ladder, nor hold the silver spoon
She does not make the history lists, nor do monuments portray
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day
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Ding Dang
02:30
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You were workin’ for a man behind a velvet curtain
You were good and you were certain of what you were headed for
But then snap kerplam kalamazoo
Low and behold he was lyin’ to you
And with revelation come repercussions
That have you at your end
In a great S.N.A.F.U your arrow bends
Did you set your sights upon a target moving
Did you hope in some fickle false fable
A glass is at the top, but the diamonds on the bottom
What is a rightful dream or a better expectation
All things are not as they appear
That which was far has become near
In a great S.N.A.F.U it comes but disappears
All things are not as they appear
That which was far has become near
In a twist or two you’re grinning ear to ear
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8. |
There's a Rat
04:08
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There’s a rat in the kitchen and he’s eatin’ my cheese
Eatin’ my cheese, eatin’ my cheese
A rat in the kitchen and he’s eatin’ my cheese
Eatin’ my cheese alright
There’s a snake in the cellar and he’s drinkin’ my wine
Drinkin’ my wine, drinkin’ my wine
A snake in the cellar and he’s drinkin’ my wine
Drinkin’ my wine alright
Well I ain’t gonna let ya keep on eatin’ and eatin’ and eatin’
Ain’t gonna let ya keep on takin’ and takin’ and takin’
I’m gonna treat ya like the mouse that you are
Creepin’ in and eatin’ up my house you are
I ain’t gonna stand it
I am gonna turn ya out crack snap trap
This is my home step back!
There’s a moth in the closet and he’s eatin’ my clothes
A mole in my garden and he’s chewin’ my hose
A bird in the attic and he’s stealin’ my song
A man at the door and his motive is wrong
Oh bankers, lawyers, thieves!
Gov’ners, mayors, police!
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Oh bankers, lawyers, thieves!
Cheaters, dealers, disease!
No I ain’t gonna let ya keep on eatin’ and eatin’ and eatin’
Ain’t gonna let ya keep on takin’ and takin’ and takin’
I’m gonna treat ya like the mouse that you are
Creepin’ in and eatin’ up my house you are
I ain’t gonna stand it
I am gonna turn ya out crack snap trap
This is my home step back!
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9. |
High Low Middle
03:33
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When you’re privileged you don’t even know you’re privileged
When you’re not, you know
When you’re happy you don’t even know you’re happy
When you’re not, you know
Righteous heathen
Blinded and seeing
You’re next you’re before
You’re pompous you are poor
You’re hungry yet strangely
You’re working like crazy
Selling buying
Laughing and crying
High low middle
High low middle
High low middle
Keep yourself low, but not too low
Saving wasting
Dying for a tasting
Banging for a buck
And you’re shit and out of luck
Are you fat or are you eating up your hat
Are you fat
Are you
High low middle
High low middle
High low middle
Keep yourself low, but not too low
Lord help you when you’re growing old
Lord help you when you’re tired and cold
Lord help you when the dealings done
Lord help you when the gettin's gone
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Everything is in Line
04:31
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Come sit next to me and tell me what you saw
Six blackbirds flying north
Icicles dropping from the rooftops
Come sit next to me and tell me where you’ve been
You seem a little out of breath
I ran down to Mr. Kimball’s house and then I turned right back around
Everything is in line all things will unwind
Come sit next to me and tell me what you dream
One day I’m gonna sail across the mountains in a hot air balloon
I don’t doubt you, no I don’t doubt you
I’m so sorry I forgot your birthday
A wish upon a card of peacock blue
I’m so sorry I forgot your birthday
How are you
Everything is in line all things will unwind
How can you say that
How can you?
Upside is downside
Downside is up
The tide is not subsiding
I don’t doubt you, no I don’t doubt you, no I won’t
Everything is in line all things will unwind
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I have never loved someone the way I love you
I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow to be a king or clown or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I hear your laugh I know heaven’s key
And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard
I will send you all my love upon the breeze
And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you you’re okay
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My Brightest Diamond Detroit, Michigan
Musical firebrand Shara Nova (formerly Worden) has continued to weave her own way through pop, experimental and classical worlds, this time landing squarely on the dance floor with A Million And One. Nova has marshaled the influences of a youth spent listening to Detroit radio into a visceral love letter to the city, an electronic pop record both vulnerable and full of a fierce fighter's spirit. ... more
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