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Precious
04:04
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the change you wish to see begins within
the change you wish to be begins within
when you fall
fall to pieces
then rise
like the phoenix
the thoughts you choose to think will shape your world
the words you choose to speak will shape your world
all that you see
and all that you imagine
pours from the mouth of the dragon
as grandmother always said
"speak love"
as grandfather always said
"you are precious"
and the change you wish to be begins within
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The Art of Living
04:16
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How do you perch upon the seat of your discomforts?
how can you maintain a state of such disconcern?
how can you sleep at night
leaving your people to die?
you're a cageless bird to purge the weight of stealing
cuts from the loaf of the unlearned and the healing
now you're a bird who flies
without a friend in the sky
watching you watching me with binoculars from the window
the season to kill may come, til then i will savor the taste of the sun
i watch you build another fence, n' i think
"why can't we all be fed from the excess?"
come the dying child of God, strewn up against the stars
and a new moon
some shining light pervades, explodes, and then it fades
now imagine that child is you
who's to say you left too soon, if you did what you had to do,
with love and a gentle heart
its a dying art
Make it live again.
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When No One is Watching
04:14
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when no one is watching
what is the story that you wish to write?
when no one is listening
what is the story that you wish to tell?
what can you smell that I can't?
when all your loved ones are crying and dying
what is the medicine that only you can provide?
what can you heal that I can't?
and will you share?
if time is a river
and you feel like you're lost at sea
what kind of song will you sing to yourself?
and how does it sound?
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Transitory
00:58
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5. |
Loves the Answer
03:58
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Love’s the Answer - lyrics by Alexander Bissell
If you add it all together
After ev’rything is over
As if looking for a number
Hoping that will be the answer
Add the times when you were sober
(And the times you don’t remember)
Add the times when you were master
(And the times when you surrendered)
Add the times when you felt horror
(And the times when you felt wonder)
Add the times when you were Luther
(And the times when you wore leather)
Still the list grows ever shorter
As it’s multiplied by zero
And your summer turns to winter
As your body starts to shiver
And although you’re trapped in amber
There is something to consider
To keep score here is to suffer
For you’ll never outscore nature
But if you can meet each creature
With the courage to be tender
(To yourself as well as others)
Then your answer’s not a number.
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Garden Goobers
03:27
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Animal Medicine
04:54
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a deer to the east
a horse to the south
coyote go west
to the north, fly the owl
as above the crow
so below the buffalo
as the raven within
pulls at my skin
where have all the humans gone?
where to begin?
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8. |
Optimist
06:14
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if i don't like your opinion
if i don't heed your advice
if i walk my own stubborn path
out of the safety of the lamplight
take no offense
pay me no mind
and don't you worry where my path might lead
or what I'm hoping to find
cuz i am an optimist
and I'm sure as hell
that all is together
and all is well
I cup my hands in the water
and i think of my mother
i speak a prayer to the web of time
and the ever graceful movement of the weaver
then I look to the sky
I whisper a lullaby
that casts across the mountains
and lands out of sight
I am an optimist
and I have no doubts
that all is forgiven
and what goes around comes around
if you don't like my opinion (thats alright)
if you don't like my advice (i don't mind)
go on and walk your own crooked path
just do what you feel is right (what do you hear on the inside?)
I am an optimist
you see this smile on my face?
i know that our paths will meet
in the same place
yeah, I am an optimist
and I'm sure as hell
that all is together
and all is well.
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9. |
Do What You Can
05:02
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it was all messed up
long before i arrived
it isn't my fault
I'm just doing what I can
wanderers of the wastelands
dancers in the darkness
dreamers in the nightmare
healers in the hospital"
you are not alone
just keep doing what you can
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Anthony Carson Erie, Pennsylvania
Musician & Illustrator, barmaid for the milk of the ineffable.
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