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San Diego

from The Ropes by Hugh Christopher Brown

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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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from The Ropes, released July 24, 2020

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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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