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Home
01:26
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Someday I’ll come home
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Holiday
04:00
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Welcome to the Universe
Here’s a souvenir from the wise:
Close your eyes and open up your ears
Precious, precious valentine, what am I to do?
Heaven help me not to lose it right in front of you
We never talk anymore. Tell me about your day
How am I supposed to love you from a thousand miles away?
Take a holiday
a holiday
a holiday
a holiday
Maybe, someday I’ll come home
Sweet, sweet serenity. I haven’t found her yet
I keep picturing my enemies drowning in regret
I could be grateful for creation taking care of me
The shelter and the oxygen coming from a tree
Waterfalls and rivers flowing to the sea
And the perfect poison beauty of the powers that be…
But I’m an absentee
On a holiday
a holiday
a holiday
a holiday
Maybe, someday I’ll come home
Don’t hold me responsible
for what’s inside my brain
Don’t hold me responsible
Just keep me entertained
The sky keeps raining sticks and stones on all my hopes and dreams
So I’m off into the wild again in a secret submarine
How did all my flesh and blood become a casualty
Looking for the answers from a shiny little screen?
It’s their job to fill your head with op-ed nicotine
A never-ending tale of God and guns and gasoline
I remember how they smiled when they raised the guillotine
If you’ve ever given up your child
Then, you know what I mean
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Where You Been
06:25
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Down in the valley
Kids used to play
Taking forever
to live just one day
King of the hill
Talk of the town
None of that matters
when you feel down
Oh, digital Jesus
Won’t you show us the way?
Won’t you please and appease us
when we go astray?
Where you been, now?
Lay down your burden
A scurrying pain
Hustle and hurry
A big ball and chain
Don’t waste your life crying
again and again
Don’t spend your life dying
Tell me
Where you been?
If tears were a treasure
and loneliness gold
Wealth beyond measure
A pleasure gone cold
When my days are over
I’ll sing you a song
Here there, Saint Peter
What took you so long?
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4. |
She Plays with Light
04:14
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Flora has a mind to make things right
The same kind of power
A flower that blooms at night
And if you ask me softly if I’ve got the right
I’ll answer something lofty in black and white
She plays with Light
Way down on the ground without a sound
Vines and moonshine all around
Been here forever, sleeping tight
Let’s put our hands together
It’s time to reunite
She plays with Light
Then she flies
Now look into her eyes
You can feel she’s deep and wise
You can see it in the southern sky
The clouds explode into butterflies
She wakes with sweet delight
The rays of dawn will break the night
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5. |
Choose Love
03:08
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Choose Love
Fill the heart with so much love,
there’s no room for anything else
Choose Love. Deep Breath
Sit strong in Sacred Silence
Choose Love. Deep Breath
Acceptance. Yeah, Acceptance!
Choose Love
We are Deep Breath
We are Acceptance and Compassion
We are One
So let’s Choose Love. Deep Breath
Acceptance, Compassion, Forgiveness
Choose Love. Deep Breath
Acceptance, Compassion, Forgiveness
Momma, yeah
Carry me home
Choose Love
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6. |
Marie Marie
05:10
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Do you remember the way things used to be?
So, so long ago, when you showed respect to me
This world is a nasty stinging beehive full of jive
I got something to say to you while we’re still alive
Marie Marie, won’t you talk to me?
Just when I thought we were getting somewhere,
you put me on the shelf
But this ain’t my first rodeo
No, it’s more like the twelfth
Treat me the hard way
Disregard me some more
But that can’t bring me down
I’m already on the floor
Marie Marie, won’t you talk to me?
Life don’t last forever now
Whatcha waitin for?
All these years, I’ve been here for you… to ignore
It’s so tough explaining it shouldn’t be this way
But enough complaining!
Pick up that guitar and play
Marie Marie, won’t you talk to me?
Before I go, I’m sorry I made you cry
I’m far, far from perfect, but I still try
And I’ve been thinking it’s time we reconciled
But what would I know?
I’m just the father of your child
Marie Marie, won’t you talk to me?
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7. |
Climb a Tree
05:36
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Here I am again
Wondering about you
Heaven knows how much I spend
Lonely days without you
I just want to hold my treasure,
but there’s a battle in-between
A frozen fury fortress
finding fault with me
If I could build a bridge
All the way across the sea
If only I could fly over that ridge
But I guess I’ll climb a tree
My phantom conversations
are amazed that I’m still here at all
“Be true to yourself” they say,
but when I do, they turn their face away
Maybe I’ll finally see you
out there beyond the wall
Maybe you might see me, too
but maybe… maybe I’ll fall
But for one shining moment,
Maybe… maybe it was worth it after all
A hundred years from now
it won’t matter who was right or wrong
All the dues I paid and all the plans I laid
They made for a damn good song.
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8. |
Dirt
06:50
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Met this cat down in Mekong
He told me no such thing as right or wrong
Upside bona-fide ding-dong
I contemplated that all night long
Come down, baby!
Right to the heart of me
You can't take the dirt
You can't take the dirt away from me
I found religion in a sleazy bar
Watching a commercial for a fancy car
Pretty people sell you a home in hell
Maybe they can tell who you really are
Won't you join our tribe?
Consume! Imbibe! Like and subscribe!
No thank you, ma'am
How really stupid do you think I am?
You’d like to put my soul in jail
My mojo ain’t for sale
Try, try, try and try
Keep on telling me a great big lie
You wouldn’t be the first
Go ahead and do your worst
You can't find it in a magazine
You won't feel it in a limousine
You so want a smidgen in your shiny scene
Your whole condition is squeaky-clean
Open up your mind and see
The greatest things in life are free
Excuse me while I violate propriety
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9. |
Stained Glass Eye
05:18
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It’s just a picture that you see
Just a name on a page
But you don’t know nothing about me
Check it out. All the rage
Fast car, rock star onstage
But you don’t know nothing about me
Crazy clothes. Wild hair
Done that, been there
Who cares?
All my life, I’ve been looking through a stained-glass eye
Hey soldier, where you been?
I’ve been born again
Been playing pretend
Reaping the wages of sin
How long? Heaven’s sake
Is this gonna take forever?
If you really want to know
Meet me here before the morning glow
Outside
Lay back, windshield
Take your time now
Tell me how you really feel
Listen to the stars sing…
Maybe someone up there
is wondering the same thing too
Maybe someone up there
Thinking about me and you
All my life, I’ve been looking through a stained-glass eye
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10. |
Canyons and Waves
07:25
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Griff Peters California
Griff’s signature musical voice is best described as “artistic roots-rock,” an amalgamation of rural Americana, blues, folk, elements of avant-garde, prog, and album-side rock. Besides being a sage and sensitive songwriter, and soulful vocalist, Griff Peters is a subtly virtuosic guitarist and a tone poet - a musician’s musician. ... more
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