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oooh oooh oooh oooh
you can talk to yourself
try to come up with reasons
reasons just to make you stay
me, I’ll keep my head down
and keep from talking
sometimes its best to push it away
I’m gonna push it away
p-p-p-push it away
I’m gonna push it
oooh oooh oooh oooh
I’m gonna push it away
p-p-p-push it away
I’m gonna push it
you can keep your head up
pull it together
stand up and act like a man
well, you can talk to yourself
and find all the reasons
… I’m gonna push it away
I’m gonna push it away
p-p-p-push it away
I’m gonna push it
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He was born on the banks of a river
Near Salem’s Shoreline In 1804
He would waltz through his life on the coattails
Of History of Anger and Love of the war
You could see in his eyes he’d been dreaming
About everything but the world that he lived in
You could that his ankles were swollen
From all the walking he did
Take your riches and do yourself favors
Hide them away where nothing will be seen
Take your cold hands and put them against her
The faithless are blue but their money is green
Let me see through the eyes of a blind man
Let me speak with the words of a saint
Believe nothing and get what you pay for
Always ask questions and show some restraint
Some remember the works that were published
Some remember the life that they live
Some remember to do onto others
Some remember the bad things they did
So I’m asking you one simple question
Did you end with a bang or a thud
Take your pen and go waltzing away now
Life is made up of marble and mud
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I CAN’T FIND A REASON
TO TURN OUT THE LIGHT AND SLEEP
I’M WAY BEYOND TIRED
WE’RE PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK
AND IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING
YOUR SOMETHING THAT MY BODY NEEDS
YOUR GHOST IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME
BUT YOUR SO FAR OUT OF REACH
YOU MUST HAVE THOUGHT I’D GIVEN UP
LIKE I WAS TOO AFRAID TO MEET
WELL IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING
YOUR SOMETHING THAT MY BODY NEEDS
I’M HERE IF YOU NEED ME
YOU CAN TELL ME ANYTHING
I’M ALWAYS LISTENING
YOU CAN TELL ME ANYTHING
I’M HERE IF YOU NEED ME
YOU CAN TELL ME ANYTHING
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Watching the blows rain down
I don’t know how
you’re still wearing your crown
Maybe you need to prove
you’re hard as a stone
And you’re not gonna move
Galaxies dance and the stars spinning round
Still you don’t give it away
Walls start to crumble and trumpets will sound
Holding the lions at bay
The wonder never ceases he
Left you all in pieces
In a deep dark shadow to drown
Thought you saw the sun shining down
It’s just a hole in the clouds
Nobody taught this class
Learning to laugh
At the snake in the grass
Finish where you begin
No one can break
Through your cast-iron skin
Galaxies dance and the stars spinning round
Still you don’t give it away
Walls start to crumble and trumpets will sound
Holding the lions at bay
The wonder never ceases he
Left you all in pieces
In a deep dark shadow to drown
Thought you saw the sun shining down
It’s just a hole in the clouds
You never wanted
Hothead and haunted
But you’ve been holding it out
I wanna smash it
Twist-top and trash it
But you’ve been leaving no doubt
The wonder never ceases he
Left you all in pieces
In a deep dark shadow to drown
Thought you saw the sun shining down
It’s just a hole in the clouds
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here we go down the river o
take my hand don’t you let it go
we might die on the rocks below
here we go down the river o
brace yourself for adventure right
we”ll be cold and wet through the shivering night
in your eyes there’s a burning light
brace yourself for adventure right
feel your heart start to quicken now
feel the sweat beading on your brow
we don’t know why and we don’t know how
feel your heart start to quicken now
you can smell my fear I can taste your fury
i’m a quiet sort but your here to cure me
you got me wound up in a hurry
cause i never can tell you no
so it’s ready and set and go
solo
here we go down the river o
take my hand and don’t you let it go
we might die on the rocks below
but here we go down the river o
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She wears a smile
To hide the scars
And she’ll walk a mile
And say it ain’t too far
She lies when she tells you
That everything’s just fine
She don’t know the world can see
There’s never been a better time
The she looks at the stars and drifts away
She says green’s it’s just so melancholy
Red’s the fire’s burn
Yellow’s nice to paint sunflowers
Purple’s had it’s turn
She says black’s her favorite color
But in her heart it just ain’t true
She can’t help it - she loves that color blue
When she calls her momma
She wears a disguise
Then when nobody’s watchin’
She lays down and cries
There ain’t nobody
To wipe her tears away
Locks the door to a brighter future
And tells herself she’d rather stay
Then she starts the car and just drive’s away
Hands ain’t there to hold
And hugs the don’t come through
And to forget the things that hurt it just won’t do
What’s on her mind she knows
But she ain’t gonna say
She just can’t believe that she’ll ever live to see a better day
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Staring down the barrel of a gun, times like this are hard on everyone
Hard to find the light, hang our heads or fight
Not so patient waiting for the sun
Together, alone
Together, we’re landing
Together - oh oh
Alone, still standing
Still standing
Shaken by the nightmare want to scream, pushing hard and running out of steam
Hard to find the way, run and hide or stay
Can’t forget to focus on the dream
Refrain:
You - Can’t Knock Me
Can’t Knock Me
Can’t Knock Me Down
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Sometimes it’s hard
Sometimes the sun gives way to rain
Can’t know the sweet
Without the bitterness of pain
Can’t stop the march
Golgotha smells blood in the air
Losing the fight
Their nature to not even care
It’s alright,
It’s alright to sometimes not be okay
Let’s get together
And do, and do a little void screaming
A little void screaming
Saying goodbye
Facing oceans and palisades
Ain’t asking why
It’s hundred and ten in the shade
It’s alright,
It’s alright to sometimes not be okay
Let’s get together
And do, and do a little void screaming
A little void screaming
Lay down your life
Oblivion saints to the breach
Sing me a song
Render breath to your reverie
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Like A Drone
Dreaming Drifting Flying like a Drone
Floating Glowing like a glistening stone
Gazing down from a mountainside
To a crystal river below
Easing down on a magic carpet
I go sailing home
Wishing longing for a lyric poem
Words revealing from an ancient tome
Walking down from a Spiral Staircase
Through an open door
Sliding down from a waterfall
Through the ocean floor
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I wonder how long this river really goes
Does it end just around the bend, no one here knows
I'm just sitting here letting my mind wander around
No one here and silence is the only sound
And I'll stay right here
just a little while more
til I have to go
Back to the world
Throw a rock watch it skip across the blue and green
I'm so small compared to it all, and so much I haven't seen
Am I a leaf just floating down a river wide
or can I steer somehow where I go can I decide
I don't know but I'll stay right here
just a little while more
til I have to go
back to the world
Look at this scar I remember that day
I've had so many more since then, I'm not the same
It's a blue blue day not a cloud in the sky
If I stayed a bit longer, it would be a starry night
But so many paths and so many roads
Calling me saying
it's time to go
But I'll stay stay right here
just a little while more
Even though
I know
I have to go
Back to the world
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(Then I Remember That I Was ) Born In October - by Shu Nakamura - 9 words
9 instruments
drums
bass
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bow
piano
synth
lead vocal
backup vox2
I even did the assignment from the previous week “better” or “believe” in lyrics!
(Then I Remember That I Was ) Born In October - by Shu Nakamura
The whole world is fading into a color of the land of emptiness
Everyone is falling each other eventually into darkness
Another storm just left now we’re afraid of coming of coldness, the coldness
Can’t you hear, what they are whispering?
Can’t you see, it’s getting closer
Don’t you know, we all are shuddering
Then I remember that I was born in October
Dancing to the tree that is shaking in the wind outside of chambers
Remove me from your memory so from now on you and I are strangers
Better to believe for your sake in a life with such failures, the failures
Can’t you hear, what they are whispering?
Can’t you see, it’s getting closer
Don’t you know, we all are shuddering
Then I remember that I was born in October
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v1:
If you're looking for resurrection, I don't think it's gonna come
We search deep in our hearts for love, where once there was none
We hang tight to road we think will lead us back home,
lead us home
ch:
These days I think I'm falling down too much
And I'm wondering if this whole world is slowly losing touch
We walk right past each other, won't help our brothers up
These days I think I'm falling down too much
v2:
If you're looking for repentance, yo know it ain't free
We all want to change the world, they say it starts with me
We hang tight to the road we're on, we want to believe
we've been redeemed
ch:
These days I think I'm falling down too much
And I'm wondering if this whole world is slowly losing touch
We walk right past each other, won't help our brothers up
These days I think I'm falling down too much
-- harmonica --
ch:
These days I think I'm falling down too much
And I'm wondering if this whole world is slowly losing touch
We walk right past each other, won't help our sisters up
ch:
These days I think I'm falling down too much
And I'm wondering if this whole world is slowly losing touch
We walk right past each other, won't help our brothers up
These days I think I'm falling down too much
These days I think I'm falling down too much
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Vines brown
Leaves whither
Hornets sleep
In cold whisper
Fires rage
Storms in Greek
Melting down
Frozen peaks
Poets die
Crooked cops
Chair’s gone
Music stops
Stage set
Painted red
Black and blue
White instead
Cards stacked
Hit the deck
Lights wane
Only specks
Kids detained
Prisoners freed
Save the babies
But won’t feed
Erect walls
Shoot the schools
Tear it down
Call it cool
Call it fake
Leave unchecked
Duck the facts
Autocorrect
Dumb it down
Long enough
Fall in line
Gospel fluff
What the hell
Raise it right
Dark covers
Up the light
Extra! Extra!
Aliens here
Barely a blip
What a year
And that’s not even the half of it
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What them go, stealth
Misguided mental health
Soldiers in the shadows
A weapon, born from torn pages
Blood in their eyes
And the battle cry
Terror
"I hope I die" they say
Well you will, anyway
Look up to your virgin skies
It's cloudy and raining lies
What guides you to the grave
The word, made you a slave
Terror
(we don't want your terror)
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Straight out of Flatbush
She left for Cornell
Without a momma to call,
She knew she better do well
Met her a man
Who cherished her mind
But she knew good and well
Nobody else was on her side
Fresh out of school
And pregnant with Jane
She prayed for the best and then
They soon cut her pay
Top of her class
With a fancy degree
Not a job to be found
Strikes against her were three
She was a woman.
She was a mother.
She was Jewish.
Just ‘cause we're Ruthless
Don’t mean we’re toothless
It’s time to write the laws that we deserve
Put on your collar
It’s time to holler
At every tone deaf man we pay to serve
Go get your ballot
Don’t make me shout it
These are civil rights, and they got nerve
Come to the table
If you are able
And legislate some hope for little girls
Her clerkship denied
On the highest of courts
This “inferior” woman
Was proud to report
The letter of the law
To the boys in charge
She defended a man
So they would let down their guard
For Equal Protection
Under the law
She shattered the ceiling
Threw many curve balls
By ninety-three
She took that high court seat
Fought for almost thirty years
By the skin of her teeth
Just ‘cause we're Ruthless
Don’t mean we’re toothless
It’s time to write the laws that we deserve
Put on your collar
It’s time to holler
At every tone deaf man we pay to serve
Go get your ballot
Don’t make me shout it
These are civil rights, and they got nerve
Come to the table
If you are able
And legislate some hope for little girls
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released September 21, 2020
