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Thanks to the DJ
04:15
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She's up with the early birds
Bending over backwards changing the world
One spin at a time
On the air, and over the waves
On a ship that never sails away
We are pirates one and all
Singing along to a
New song like a brand new day
New song before we go insane
New song come along 'n make some sort of sense of the crazy
New song like a brand new day
New song makes you wanna stay
New song, a new way starts today
Thanks to the DJ
Plugged in like headphones
You're hip, hip, never alone
'Cuz you can always sing along
So tune in, it's time to go
With a transistor radio
Everybody belongs singing along to a
New Song...
But if you get lost in the world
Like there's not a soul who knows how you're holding on
You can find a signal in the noise
Let it speak to you and tune back into you
You can tune back into the station that's always
On the waves for you
But if you get lost in the world
Like there's not a soul who knows how you're holding on
You can find a signal in the noise
Let it speak to you and tune back into
All you ever wanted and a place to call your own
You sing in spite of sorrows with a stirring in your soul
You can tune back into the station that's always
On the waves for you
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The Story of Everyone
03:04
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Well your mother found a daddy and a baby was born
Yes here you are
You took a step, took a fall, n' got up again
It's the story of everyone
You got a butter-knife shock coming out of the wall
Yea you really blew a fuse
Momma gotta go and cry all alone
Never kicked them baby blues
So I know the story goes
Gotta Dig Deep, and Aim True
Well you mother was the daughter of an Irishman
He sailed across the sea
Found the promised land and worked with his hands
And the strength of ten men
Never stopped building 'till the day he died
Man he wasn't nobodies fool
Found his way back to his Dorothy
And didn't need any ruby shoes
So I know the story goes
Gotta Dig Deep, and Aim True
Photograph up on the wall says it all
There used to be a time and place when we were young
But that's gone
Yea, alright
Well your momma's got a motor like a muscle machine
She moves mountains everyday
Dandy Lion Momma with the wind in her hair
She's a flower in a bed of nails
Well Life ain't easy but it's on the line
Begging you to pay for the call
Broke down baby on the side of the road
It's high time to learn to crawl
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Destiny
03:16
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Ain't nobody gotta crash this party
I'll call my boys and you call your ladies
We'll get together 'cuz it's all happening
It's our destiny unfolding
Oh now get down and help me figure out
How good it's gonna be with so much love around
Hey friend rise up, find a friend in me
Ain't nobody gotta complicate a thing
It's our destiny
Won't you wonder 'bout me
Like I wanna know you
Hang on every glance and
Jump at the chance to find out
How you're moving to the beat
When your body's next to me
It's our destiny unfolding
(Hook)
Oh
It's our Destiny
Whoa-oh
Just like my momma told me
"Boy the best things in life are free
When you truly see" so
Put the weight of the world on a butterfly wing
Put the weight of the world on a butterfly wing
Don't wait on the world to spread your wings
Put the weight of the world on a butterfly
Away
Na na na na na...
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4. |
(Love) Until I Found You
04:45
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Long before we ever grew
Fool I was to think I knew
Love until I found you - oh Love
Time stand still
Let me have a moment in this
Perfect thrill
I'll fall until the next
Breathless until your breath
'N your world, it cracks open
Making room to believe
Your spirit as it shows you
All the light and me
Seek with your heart
Risk it breaking
Love until I found you
I was such a fool - I was a fool, yea
Time stand still
Let me have a moment in this
Perfect thrill
I'll fall until the next
Breath in with your breath
N' your world is wide open
Making room to believe
Your spirit as it shows you
All the light, all the light, and me
Oh crazy
Now you're in my arms tonight
Thought I had a pretty good idea
I was close but not quite
So glad I was wrong
I was wrong
This thought I had
Thought I had it all but
In your life I finally see the truth
That I thought I knew
Love until I found you
Time stand still...
N' your world is wide open
Don't you wait now to see
Your spirit's gonna show you
All the light, all the light, and me
Oh crazy
Now you're in my arms tonight
Thought I had a pretty good idea
I was close but not quite
Said oh baby
Run into your symphony
I'll let you leave the worrying to me
'cuz I thought I knew...
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Broadsword
05:42
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Hammer down
Out of the flame
Shape it up
Into a blade
Forged like a broadsword
Blacksmith sweat and blood
Meant for defending
Destined to destruct
When you find me
I'll become another
Once you figure me out
You're in trouble
'Cuz when you find me
I'll become another
Always under cover
Draw it out
Make the change
Into the fire
A better blade
Weak as a weapon
Laying down
We're caught in the middle
Reaching out
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6. |
Wish You Were Gone
02:47
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So another story goes
You're thinking for me
And I don't even know
Can't you see
We need a time for talking
'Cuz all this yelling
Is getting nowhere at all
It's been a long time coming
But I wish you were gone
A long time coming, yea
It's been a long time coming
But I wish you were gone by now
So come on I wanna feel
Caught up in all this fake I need the real
So come proud or don't come at all
Come loud
Come to tear down the wall
It's been a long time coming...
I could take a break
Turn it off for a little
I could break myself away
(Such a long time)
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7. |
Rollercoaster Baby
03:49
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Sticks and stones, flesh and bones
This all will pass
Tired eyes squinting in the sunlight
But night comes fast
Lullabies and high tides
Drift back to sea
The breeze is blowing easy baby
Won't you ride, ride it with me
Wherever you go
Oh girl don't hide so well
That I can't find you
I know you're near to me
I'm right beside you
So it goes, no one knows
How you'll feel
Know my love
Everything will turn out alright
Keeping it real
Rollercoaster baby
On the edge of your seat
When the wind is howling honey
Won't you ride, ride it with me
Wherever you go...
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H.A.B.
03:58
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Held up at the liquor store
Tied down like a hot air balloon
If things don't get any better
I'm gonna haveta get gone soon
Loosen up and free my strings
It's gonna be what it's gonna be
I think I'll rise in a basket
Case of mistaken ID
Ooh don't let me fly alone
Ooh I'll bring you back home in the morning
Ooh don't leave me on your own
Peel out and put some distance between
Your person and a dangerous scene
Catch your breath 'cuz eventually
You're gonna need to breathe
Hallelujah, sigh
We made it through another night
As we weave between the stars
And dream to fly
Ooh don't let me fly alone
Ooh I'll bring you back home when it's over
Ooh don't leave me on your own
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Tea with Einstein
02:41
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If you ain't got no agenda
Some will call you lazy
Some will call you crazy
But others will call you wise
Enlightened man go easy
Fool keeps banging his head
Against the wall
Now that's what I call crazy
Lord knows Al does too
They're having a laugh looking down on the zoo
At all us little critters stuck in our dead ends
Wanting a change but doing the same old thing
We all start as green as grass after a steady rain
We get knocked down too many times to get set up again
I was once a tourist but got schooled by the streets
From Birmingham to Boston, Baltimore to New Orleans
Been driving this old corridor each morning and the next
'Cuz I know what it means to me so I'll just do my best
To keep these wheels 'a turning and make it all worth the wear
The trip ain't bad as long as my mind's on the good I get to have
And you gotta leave to come back home
And it feels a little funny to fight for love
Yes there will come a time
For tea with Einstein
But until then
I'm sure that there's ... something left to try
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Keeping it Alive
03:10
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He's got white whiskers but he still works with his hands
He's building something and sticking to the plan
He wipes his brow and looks back at all he's done
He earned his pride and says goodnight to the sun
Maybe everything's alright
Long as we got a breath, we've got a fight
Maybe nothing really dies
Long as we're keeping it
Keeping it alive
She's on a rocket-ship, she's shooting for the stars
Yea she don't take no shit, she pulls out all the stops
Building a kingdom brick by brick and stone by stone
Gotta have a castle when you're playing game of thrones
They're laying side by side like any other night
Whispering sweet nothing in the warmth of the last light
Their family's gathered 'round but they know not to cry
No they drink and laugh and dance and tell eachother
Of a long lost love of all time
Through the valleys over the heights
In the darkness
Be the light
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Good Life
02:44
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I'm rich as a king 'cuz smiling is free
I give one away to everybody I meet
'Cuz in this life I do believe
All you give you shall receive so
Let's turn a good day
Into a good night
And roll 'em all into a good life
Let's let the sunlight
Turn into moonshine
And see each other to a good life
Got nothing but time but none to waste
Nobody can take it, I give it away
Good vibrations like a boomerang
I give you all I got and you let me keep the change
Won't let a little rainfall bother me
I'll run for cover under banyan trees
And all the doors will open with an ocean breeze
I never haveta pick the locks, I got the keys
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12. |
Creek Don't Rise
03:13
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We're living on the shores sweet and mighty
Did ya listen to the buzz humming like the highway?
But too many tears come down from the angels falling
Only gonna make that river rise
Still we keep on
Riding like summer won't ever end
Like the sunset froze suspended
The tear never fell, got caught up in the air
But the grains in the glass keep piling up
Gonna tumble on down forever
God willing and the creek don't rise
Maybe gotta push against the headwinds
Maybe gotta stand up to the storm
Maybe gotta find a crying angel
And help her find her way back home
Still we keep on
Lying like summer won't ever end
Like the sunset froze suspended
The tear never fell, got caught up in the air
But the grains in the glass keep piling up
Gonna tumble on down forever
God willing and the creek don't rise
I gotta go grow my wings
and see you in the sunshine
'Cuz we are more than angels in disguise
Riding like summer won't ever end
Like the Love goes on forever
And all the angels gonna help you sing your song
And the River goes on and on...
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Rest a while
Share your smile
I'm talking like a million times a day
It helps you feel good
Little darling as well you should
Stop getting in your own way
I see you in your head other thinking things
So why don't you come down out your attic
Use your senses while you can
And get a little omnisomatic
When thinking only brings you down
You might have to cut it out
I don't need no middle man
I don't need no puppet strings
I ain't controlling them and they ain't controlling me
So I step outside for a while let my head follow my feet
To the shuffle of the percussion of the palms
It's a sweet and soulful beat
Shaking hands or swinging fists
Either way you're knocking at the door
Opens up to a moment never known
Now's your chance to feel so much more
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14. |
Me and You (Bonus Track)
03:02
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On your mark ready set let's go
To the dance floor together
Better cancel all your plans
I've got a feeling it's gonna get late
And a one two three I gotta count the beat
When you move so effortlessly
You got me believing it's gonna be great
And it was you all along
I used to see you in the hallways
Yea we go way back
Back to the beginning
It was a small-town love affair
yea, yea
And now I see you in the morning
Look at the sunrise
We can count the colors
If it takes all night
You gotta know by now
It ain't no mystery
That it was me, it was me all along
You should've known right from the start
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Ever After (Bonus Track)
02:52
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When I look back on my life I hope
Visions of us smiling with our souls steals the show
Cuz I will spend the afterlife remembering
So I'll need enough of us to last a while
Living by a means
Dying by the times
So we gotta live it up
Till we gotta hitch a ride
I don't hesitate
No I'm just taking my time
Taking my time
Cuz I...
So I'll need enough of us for ever after
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It's a crime baby
That you're so far away from me
I'd be lying baby
If I said I didn't wanna scream
Yes I can get to the end
But you got your ways and means
That I wanna get me there
It's a crime baby
It's a damn shame
You could call my phone baby
But I wish that you were calling my name
I'm ready baby
N' all this waiting's got me going insane
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18. |
Boudin N' Cush Cush
03:41
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Garrett Anderson Baltimore
singer-songwriter out of Baltimore, MD
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