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Summer's End
04:49
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Sunset, the breeze blows your hair back
Autumn wind is summer lost
say goodbye to all the creatures of this beach here
this town is closing down
baby are we going crazy?
let's stay here
a little while
Let this lonely feeling linger
lets stay and haunt this hollow place
feels like we've been here forever
can't seem to get the smile off my face
Jamie, are you going to college this year?
No man I've got better things to do.
Baby do you think we better leave here,
before the dancing nights are through?
Before the snow starts coming down
before the nights start getting longer
before the money starts getting shorter
before the trees start getting bare
and all we do is stare at the walls
No I don't want to go
cause I'm not ready yet
no, I wouldn't wait for me
'Cause I won't go.
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He's Alone
03:58
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He waits alone under the stairs
he knows nobody else cares
He's an idol dreamer
he's a secret schemer
and wishes someone cares, somewhere
Days will go by unannouced
and he feels he's rarely challenged
Everything's arranged
but he is so afraid
He is everybody's child
he knows nobody sees him when he's alone
he knows nobody is there for him at home
he knows nobody is there at all
and nobody is going to wait for him to show them the way
he says it's all okay
When the day is long
He'll carry on and on, it's the only way
That's okay
because when he's all alone it won't show
he knows he know he knows that he's all alone
he'll never have to leave or let it go
He says it's okay with him that it's wrong
he says that it's okay with him.
No more lonely anymore.
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On the Rocks
05:45
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I'm on the rocks
can't seem to beat
that smell of hatred
coming up off the street
Get me out of here
let me off the planet
I want a better world
to have children in
Sunlight is nice
out on the green
but the sun is shining
on some awful things
I want to move the scene
to the green
and make is nice and clean
It's utter nonsense
the way we move
i want to walk until i lose the blue,
I can't take the weight of what's going on
on God's good earth
And we think we know what is right and where to go
So little is done for
things that matter most.
Are the countless impoverished
just a vast silent ghost?
or do we feel the need
through our greed?
And silence cannot keep my culture intact.
Ignorance can't keep out, that which is a fact
because only so far can we run
before we're called upon
to look around
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Born With the Need
04:59
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Born with the need for the one that was before us
Yet wrapped in a circle of hate and confusion
We emerged from His forever forest
and said we know now what stands before us
I don't think we understand
Worship the creatures swimming under
follow on to where this leads.
They are beautiful
Who could be their maker
I wish I could see.
Look into sunlight
Look into rainbows
Don't blink your eyes
The modern life it seems is devoid of meaning
and I think that we might be suprised
and I don't think we understand
Not a man.
Time was that man was at the fire and
was spooked by darkness and then he ran
Run run and now we've got our city
and whoo ooo isn't she pretty
Everything we need and ever desire
you'll never see us return to the fire
We've left it far far behind
I'm afraid that some day we'll find
We've been so blind.
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The Message
04:12
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All I know
is what i see
All i know
is some things i read
and what of knowing these things have come around
that the King has come and touched the ground
and what of seeing, the truth is plain
so plain that I can understand
So why don't we put more weight to what we read
from the people in history
and the words and message they leave
From that major distance we are advised
of a message that can guide our lives
a messge like a shining light
the message says that it will be alright
Because it's love, love, love,
Shining through shining from up above
because it's love
Shining through shining from up above
Shining brighter than the strongest light
Shining forth through a darkening night
Shining through the heart of darkness here
Shining when you call you bring it here
Shining when you call you bring it near
So now we're waiting to see the signs
to live awake
to be alive
to live in love
to know the truth
to take us to unending youth
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Rock of Ages
05:12
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I've stayed the resistance
always ends up the same
credit me with persistence
this is no small game
I believe
though it does come hard
I know that i
am overpowered by Him
Surrounded as i am with all He has made
I am perplexed
though I can't protest
who am i that i can wonder at these things?
blessed as I am
to be crawling from the mud.
Confusion is easy to understand
when there is too much dark
Hope a thousand bright diversions
might keep up from the spark
the spark that would say-
'You are nothing, you are more than you understand
Colliding man,
no longer hollow
Breath deep and seize the hope that will provide
shelter fom this life
It's free to follow'
Follow me he calls from across two thousand years
and whispers through the tears
of generations gone.
How long can we deny
How far can we fly
we have fled for far too long and one day will die
and though there seems little else we should care about right now
i believe that we should see the world beyond our eyes
and beyond our seeing, past the flying fantasies we wage
beyond our own momentary existence on this stage,
Lies a heart of greatness, the source of all that can
Bring from the darkness
a light across the land
Yes He is a living, a living being and power above us all
if you hold on to nothing else, lean upon this wall
Hold on to the rock of ages.
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Get it to Go
03:13
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8. |
It's Raining
03:33
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Comfort All
03:11
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10. |
Going to be Okay
03:37
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Do You Believe?
02:59
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Dance the Dark Duet
03:48
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Dance the dark duet with me.
and tell me there are miracles.
Tell me that there are!
Dance the dark duet with me
No one as lowly as what we'll be
Dance along the poisoned sea
foiled sky and boiled breeze
Dance beside the burning trees
Tell me there are miricles
Tell me that there are.
Dance the dark duet with me
tell me where we will be
in the next centrury
Dance the dark duet with me
loving people or long dead sea
I ask you where we might be.
Tell me there are miracles
Tell me that there are.
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Greg Paquette Hamilton, Ontario
Was born on a derigible to Russian foreign operatives during the 2nd World War. An accident over Germany's Black Forest left me alone and helpless. I was rescued by a band of kindly squirrels who raised me as thier own. Two years later I was discovered by a band of travelling gypsy minstrels, I was ravaged by scurvy and rickets but they took me in and taught me music. I still had scurvy. ... more
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