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Nothin' Doin'
02:50
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In the seasons of my youth, I have fought to find the Truth
Through the pleasure and the pain, this old yearning stays the same
Try and try, all my might, when I go to sleep at night
will I wake up at dawn or will I see another mo(u)rn?
If I opened up my heart it would tear me apart
for to let down my guard it would take the grace of God
It'd be more than I could bare, for me to let you in there
All my vulnerable desires would be tinder to your fire
If I could speak the Truth it might be I cannot do
really, anything at all. Even let the banner fall
or surrender by the skill of my own free-ish will
Nothin' doin' nothing done, whether I have lost or won
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Temperance
04:15
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So seek and ye shall find
what's before and behind
the forest of your mind
and all you think you know
It's not what it has seemed
and between you and me
there's nothing so discrete
as a flame and a shadow
o my heart, let me go
o my head, don't wait until I'm dead to feed me the sweet bread
of letting go
push or pull
empty or full
wrong or right
fight or flight
here or there
unjust or fair
changing or still
do what thou wilt
I believe to be what you want to be
you have got to give it all absolutely
but when the carrot is always out of reach
what else is there to do for me?
push or pull
empty or full
wrong or right
fight or flight
here or there
unjust or fair
false or true
it's up to you
To separate the Truth from all the lies you have got to see it from the outside
but if when I have tried all I can try, and nothing seems to satisfy, love
what is it that has to die?
I believe to really succeed at getting what you want you've got to let it be
'cause if your life is a gift to be received, what else is there to do but be
Love
ain't nothing else to do but b e
will or fate
gateless gate
slow or fast
pathless path
long or short
effortless effort
lost or won
Thy Will Be Done
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3. |
Jacob's Ladder
06:09
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blinded by a restless urge
underneath all i have purged
sometimes you have what you don't need
sometimes i starve what i should feed
rise up, rise up, if you can
cast off your useless skin and leave it in the sand
i don't want you to do what you don't wanna do
ladders up to the sky
leave behind your offerings and never question why
i would wait for you to sail into the blue
touch my feet back to the Earth
so see the Sun for what it's worth
Sacred Garden, Paradise
silhouettes in the sunlight
rise up, rise up if you can
cast off your useless Skin and leave it in the Sand
sometimes you have to do what you don't wanna do
Ladders up to the Sky
leave behind your offerings and always question why
i don't have to wait for you to Sail into the Blue
there are Seven Days and Seven Rays
and Seven Bridges along the way on the Seven Bridges Road
there are Seven Histories, and Seven Mysteries
and there are Seven Myths to Be, along the Way Home
there are Seven Wonders and Seven Wanderers
and Seven Thoughts to Ponder along the Way Home
along the Way, along the Way, along the Way Home
there are Seven Ages and Seven Sages
and there are Seven Stages along the Way Home
there are Seven Heavens and Seven Blessings
and Seven Reckonings along the Way Home
along the Way, along the Way, along the Way Home
but there's no Church, no Steeple
no World, no People
no Good or Evil
Along the Way Home
There's no Truth to See
No Love to Be
No You or Me
Along the Way Home
Along The Way, Along The Way, Along The Way HOME
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4. |
Here and Gone
02:46
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If I didn't remember who you are
would you listen to the World in my heart?
Feeling stupid in the back of the room
through the darkness, all the smoke and the gloom
I fall on my knees to feel your soul
Or I wouldn't remember who I was
and trade your memories for all of my trust
Feeling stupid in the back of my head
the silence fills it loud enough to wake the dead
and fall on my knees to feel your soul
all that I am is here and then gone
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5. |
The Loop
04:57
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from all that I've seen from the lives of the lucky, they don't seem so lucky to me
they've built their whole lives on the sins of their fathers and not bothered to look underneath
(chorus)
but the thoughts in your head, the words that you've said
the things that you do will all come back to you
and you reap what you sow, you love what you know
you hate what you can't understand and you go
on and on on your loop
born into life, thrown into being something feeling, seeming alive
a link in a chain in a web of creation, but isolation and emptiness inside
so you work for some wealth and you pine for some meaning but the feeling that you're lacking never leaves
and the tracks set in space that you lay by their doing are the viewing of what you really believe
(chorus)
it's easy to say that there's no meaning, and it's freeing in a certain way
but the tracks in space that I lay are leading towards meaning something more for me each day
(chorus)
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6. |
AC's Song
04:12
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I know I told you what I think is true
all love will fade away like the morning dew
and it's a fool, love, who believes
heartbreaks for fools because true love don't leave
and it's a tender thing, easily killed
by suffocation or by ill will
or with complacency, or through abuse
or just with time my love, and with disuse
and I'm no angel, neither are you
but I'm not jaded, and I'm not a fool
and if anything is, this much is true
I could float for hours on the thought of you
and there are many others in the world
beautiful women, and pretty girls
but I have traveled from east to west
and it's your loving that I like the best
and so if heartbreak is to be my fate
I'll bear it gladly, though a fool I'll make
because of anything, of this I'm sure
all feelings fade away, but memories endure
but if when we are old and our love's still true
I'll thank the angels for the love of you
and I'll remember when we were young
and I was fool enough to write you this song
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7. |
Simple Care
04:42
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I walk the woods on a winters day
while troubled thoughts bubble away
with worries of what others say
with wishes to change yesterday
and I am barely here
(chorus)
I wanna know
just what is this living soul
what is the part, what is the whole?
I wanna feel
just what is really real
is there more than death can steal?
the glory of life's majesty is revealed in a hawthorn tree
to heal the hurt, to set it free
to feel the love from you to me
the touch of simple care
to revel in the Living Earth is to know the agony of birth
through the blood and pain and hurt
the suffering that it is worth
the price of Life is fair
I wanna know
just what is this living soul
what is the part, what is the whole?
I wanna feel
just what is really real
is there more than death can steal?
I don't know what else I can say
I cannot relive yesterday
I can't go back or turn away
and I wouldn't want to anyway
I do belong here
to have a body is to die
to live at all is to wonder why
to seek the sun beyond the sky
to see the Truth beyond the lie
to transcend the fear
I wanna know
just what is this living soul
what is the part, what is the whole?
I wanna feel
just what is really real
is there more than death can steal?
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8. |
The Candle
05:22
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the Candle burns in the window
to see me Home
all my fears burn inside me
i'm getting close
no matter how hard i've tried
to see my soul
when the Candle burns out
will i be Home?
the Road is long in the Mirror
but up ahead
the Horizon glitters
as close as Death
and of all the miles that have vanished
through my eyes
when i hit the Horizon
will i Find
that i'm always Home
I'm always Home
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