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1. |
From The River
04:04
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You do not ask the river where it’s going, you drink from it the same
And this is how we love
Not by maps
Not by aims
Just go out and come back as something different
And by your own change recognize the music in everything that’s constant
I’ve seen it in your eyes
Yes I’ve seen love in your eyes
And it feels like a pattern, some word from above
‘bout all these space in my life
You’re unafraid to express
And unwilling to live for less than the joy in your heart
Our conversation is so clear
Without expectation, and without fear
I guess I loved you from the start
And I don’t know your patterns
I just feel what your capable of
As these spaces in my life fill with love
Such strange courage that has been mine since we met,
I don’t trip over the past anymore
It’s hope that you encourage
It’s doubts that I forget
What could I have ever used hem for?
‘Cause I’m just trying to earn my heart
To live up to what I feel
And the more I learn about your joys and concerns
The more I know it’s real
And I don’t care about the patterns
I care what I’m capable of
Now that your face is in my life
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2. |
Waterfall
04:26
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Funny how sometimes
Without notice
You appear
And it begins
I don't know
Where it comes from
But I'm so glad
To let you in
Remind me of
Everything
That's beautiful
And makes me sing
That's you
Oh you
When it's late
And I'm feeling tired
I call you up
With my heart
I don't wait
When I'm inspired
By the dream
That we're apart
And I can find you here
Where time won't keep us
Like you're sitting by my side
Still, I'm wondering when
I will see you again
‘Cause there's the song
And then there's you
And somewhere in between the two
There's a dream that we're apart
You touched the curtain of my heart
I felt it part
Like a waterfall
You touched the curtain of my heart
I had a dream we were apart
Your heart is true / I felt it all
Our love like a river
Now without you
It’s a waterfall
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3. |
San Diego
04:48
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Waiting for you
On the streets of San Diego
Knocking around
Meditating on the sand
I didn't know you well
But my heart could tell
Something I have no need to understand
Because the way we we love feels like a belonging
Let's begin from all we want to give/this life
It's all too easy to live
for others
Let's take our hearts and focus them like lights
Because this world
Needs your love
And this love needs your heart
Don't give it away
to play anyone's part
You will First Love Yourself
Or resist the unknown-
For Love can't be given
It can only be shown
Hope you never do anything because it is expected
Hope you never showed anyone but yourself to me
And if you did, I hope the thing that you protected
Is not the part of you that's scared, but the part of you that's free
Because this world needs your love
To be clear and be strong
Like the feeling we had in each other's arms
Those nights on the lawn
Were like learning God's name
Will we try
Will we fall
Or resist every pain...
What have you survived?
We'll meet at the center of ourselves
Unnannounced but recognized....
Beneath all fear and all disguise
You let me see myself, said music to the dancer
You moved... I caught my reflection in your face
All too soon, the call will not be answered Love: to have and to hold
In silence and in space
Now this world needs your love
And this love needs your heart
Don't give it away
Don't play anyone's part
a piano
On the street
song for the night
Can you feel who you are?
This is what love feels like
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4. |
Goldmine
06:23
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Wildness-
the world begins
Recklessness-
how it ends
Too bad we don’t know there is a difference.
All you thought was silence
Was all you could not hear
And all you thought to worship was your fear
(not sung :You don’t choose god...
What isn’t god?)
if you choose to pray
Pray to the Gulf of Mexico
On a wing, oil glistening, God is listening
Unable to fly
And if you choose to look for gold
Find it, please, in your own soul
Love , unconditional, one life
Goldmine, goldmine
^^^^^^^^^^^
They showed the child the cross,
And all he saw was wood
They showed the child the prison,
And all he saw were men
Put money in his hand,
You’d think he’d understand
But all he ever felt was one life
Goldmine, one life, goldmine
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5. |
Methods
04:11
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One of these days
We’ll Learn not to fight
Over what was never ours
In the first place
In the morning
When the thoughts Come
And I can’t sleep
Just might need some
Protection
From my methods
One of these days
I will learn not to fight
With all these people who live
Inside of me
‘Cause they’re all different
And they’re alright
Especially if I just
Let them be
What do I know?
With my worry,
And my ‘work so hard’
And my hurry
Forgiveness, You ask me for my time
Compassion, You need me to be kind
Doubt, still waiting for a sign
What if I Was Mistaken?
What if it’s already shown?
So much to be forsaken…
Peace
You’re painful
And you’re slow.
One of these days
I’ll write you a song
But I’m so afraid of what it would reveal
A heart that holds you in such high regard
That it would need you if you knew how it feels
Ask her to dance
Ask her to choose
You live your whole life like you have nothing to lose
It’s time to put at stake
What you call the truth
Not as a gamble
But as proof.
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6. |
1st Snow
03:21
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First snow of the year / never thought I’d find you here
Storm clouds in my mind lighten all the time
Come from California / Where the breezes warm you
All that sage and tarmac- say you might go back
Bag of bulbs on my front porch
The earth is cold
But warm enough to sow
Come the spring, there’ll be colours all around
If I get em in the ground
Have you seen the papers? / the good news makes folks nervous
Have you seen the lovers?- carving up their hearts
Mostly saying “please” / mostly meaning “thankyou”
I believe your laughter is a place to start
Bag of bulbs covered in snow
The earth is cold
But tender to snow
Come the spring, they’ll be colours from the ground
And I hope you come round
Conversations play all the time
When I’m alone, you’re on my mind
Illuminations of spaces between
The will to love and peace of being
First snow of the year / never thought I’d find you here
Warming my heart so
like this fire burning low.
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7. |
St Francis
02:08
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8. |
It Starts Again
03:02
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From the blistering heat of worry
And the withering sun of doubt
Knowing you is shelter
Like a tree you shade me from myself
Oh honey you know what it’s all about
When it starts again
It starts again
I can’t name it, I can’t see it
But it hits me like a train
When It starts again
It starts again
Like something trying to escape me
Or find some way in
There’s an ache that doesn’t quit
Clinging tight to emptiness
And between cause and effect
You can dream up every kind of loneliness
But your love puts it all to the test
When it starts again
It starts again
I’ve been confusing right for wrong
I’ve been braiding love and fear
It starts again
It starts again
And until you came along
I just couldn't see it clear
Oh I want to be a better man
And I love this world ,
You know I do
I trusted you and you understand
Won't you let me do the same for you?
When it starts again
it starts again
Can you trust me with your sadness?
Do you know you've made a friend?
When it starts again
It starts again
Is it all to be repeated
Or somewhere to begin?
When it starts again
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9. |
Esselen
04:26
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I like running our time backwards
From yesterday to our first encounter
Just to feel what was contained
In that first hello on an Autumn day
There's a new way of living
And it's been there all the time
Where there's no cost to giving
It just takes love to find
California's future lovers
Beneath the stars still above the covers
Feel the waves and hold the space
These fields of gravity and grace
Did you find me?
Did I find you?
Did we find ourselves?
Do we make love?
Does love make us?
And there's something else
We don't hold on to
Songs rose by the firelight
While our feeling glowed like embers
Now the heart is open wide
more to be than to remember
And your soul is a garden
It will be revealed
To yourself and no one
How the past gets healed
Now you dance inside of me
With the peace of that September
And a heart that's open wide
More to be than to remember
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10. |
Oconomowoc
02:59
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Hugh Christopher Brown Ontario
songwriter, organist and pianist, clavinetist, what-is- necessaryist, to translate loveist, HCB makes music on Wolfe Island, in New York City and many other places. Founder of the pros and cons program producing music in prisons.
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