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Hello
02:28
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“With a bang”
She said
“Start it with a bang.”
“Like the bang,”
She said
“When the Universe sang
See the star
Overhead
Yes, look to that star
Feeling cold and alone
And in need of friends,
What, perchance, do you think it said?”
“Here’s a clue,”
She said
“Start with me and with you.”
“Like a game,”
She said
“You begin with your name.”
“Here’s a plan,”
She said
“Start it with your hand
Say your day is empty
Like a refill cup
Guess what you can say
To have someone come and fill it up
Hello!
So, what do you say?
The magic word!
Now have you heard…”
(solo)
“Here’s the thing”
She said,
“A friend is pure cosmic bling.”
“And the shine,”
She said,
“Well, it’s yours and it’s mine
Like the star
Overhead
Reach out like that star
Like it’s done every day
Since the way-back when
Spread your orbit out and begin again”
Hello!
(hey! ho! hi! gotta say hello!)
Like a true north star,
Like a rising sun
It lights the way for everyone
Hello!
So lift your head
From your dream pillow
(Shed your sleepy clothes!)
Count your fears
On your little toe
(What a wee fellow!)
And start your day
In a better way:
With a big – Hello!
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2. |
Be Seven
03:34
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My baby girl
Defines her world
Heard the TV
Say, “Here’s what you can be…
You only have one voice
You maybe get one choice”
But I say, “No, rejoice
And don’t be one, be seven”
Please be inclined
To speak your mind
(ha ha la la)
My daddy went
A traveling salesman
Said, “The true journey
Should fill the space ‘tween you and me”
He said, “Son, do enough
To navigate the roughs
‘Tween you and what you love
Don’t see one path, be seven
Please be inclined
To tweak your mind”
(ha ha la la)
It’s easy to see
The alchemy here
In a spark to flame
Linking voice and names
Hey, there’s yours and mine
There’s a load to haul
So heed the call
Of ample opportunity
Sharing in the call
With those on the line
My mama sang
Melody brang
A remedy
Of tune and verse and harmony
She said, “Don’t sing alone
Give other voices homes
‘Cause baby, as it’s grown
You’re not just one; be seven
Please be inclined
To pique your mind”
(la la ha ha)
It’s easy to see
The alchemy here
In a spark to flame
Linking voice and names
Hey, there’s yours and mine
There’s a road to hoe
And if we don’t go
Together, know
That Destiny
Manifests, in “less than we”
Down the line…
Hey, my country
A desperate plea
A recipe
The price of Free
Is you and me
And how we see
And working out what we can be
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3. |
The Cormorants
04:38
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Cheese!
Cheese!
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5. |
Lost & Found
04:36
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Days old, one can probably see
(foretold or serendipity)
The paths and plans of fate or ceremony
Do they stray or do we shuffle scores?
Chorus:
When the paths leading home
Fail to begin
All the promise within
Another skin
I feel inclined to these memories
Those of you and me
Yesterdays and aways in the wind
Fears stream and I wake looking for you
Cold dreams and all the things one can lose
I swear I knew exactly where to find you
But to my surprise
I come to realize
That this room lies
As cold as the floor
Chorus
Dreams stay like a track or a scar
Steadfast, just as promises are
What once was stone
Outlived all and is all alone
Like you and me
And all we choose to ignore
Chorus
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6. |
Her Majesty
01:42
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Crux cartulary
Yen inventory
You are the only for me
As fire is to blight
I want you tonight
You are the only for me
Circumstance offers sweet perchances
Lady, maybe, fall for me
As sun is to star
As touch is to scar
You are the only for me
You are the only for me
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Measure the flowers
Tally the time
A lovely day’s recipe
Is an ease to follow
Cook up your nooks
Spicy your life
By adding a daily
Dosage of ukulele
One part bugs
And ten parts bugs
And twenty three parts
Laughing with silly people
Grab your bassoons
And your spoons
And let’s go
The smiles are all pies in the skies
Of the singing kitchen
The tangy meringue
Topping your world
Is like a chem-is-try
Where the lime’s the key
So serious?
So riddle me this
All of the best days
Are taken with a salty grain
Sunny side up
Is easy as pie:
Before you learn to fly
You must learn to folly
Grab your kazoo
You’re welcome here too
The smiles all are pies in the skies
At the singing kitchen
Life is your dough
The sum’s in the yeast
And we can rise in the fires
Of a zestful oven
‘Tis meadowlark
‘Tis lemon mark
All master chefs are bred
With imagination
Every day
Together we see
That everything borders on
Serendipity
Enjoy the view
It’s your window to
The smiles and the pies in the skies
Of the singing kitchen.
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8. |
Sasha's Sashay
04:05
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10. |
Clayfoot
05:22
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A sad palooka may gladly chew Bazooka Joe
When teeth are bad
But hankers something chewy
Loud librarian reorganize the books and poems
By sheets of rain
Instead of something Dewey
A mood of indigo’s a favorite shade
But so you know
It’s less cerulean and more the big kerblooie
I think we bleed when we open up the Twitter feed
To better read
The situation, do we?
Healthy feed,
Talkin’ broccoli monopoly
The way for me
Unless I kinda crave a Twinkie
Homeland, you try to understand and lend a hand
‘Til trouble began
Between the thumb and little pinkie
Stand or sit
All our communities need leadership
You squat right down
You leave behind a civic duty
Why read a Library of Alexandria
Just switch a tab
And Google ogle someone’s booty
Why, oh why try to blind the eye, baby
Tell me why pace and lace up to race
With feet of clay?
Why, we work so hard to try
So near and here you bluff, spit, don’t forget to rail a bit and step away
I, oh I find to bind a mind, sugar’s
To entwine smoke or fire stoke with gasoline
Why, we work so hard to fly
Why choose to lose the paid dues we should keep in mind?
To fortify the ridge or build a bridge, irony is
To scratch the itch
It doesn’t take a big retooling
A brassy ring to draw a deuce who bluffs his way to King
And then the sting
To find the Joker’s only fooling
I do declare that the truths that flare around us there
And how we share
Seem to depend on who we’re wronging
Baby steps are what may save us when we’re out of depths
It’s okay to be longing for some loving and belonging
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11. |
1milliongazillion
03:02
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12. |
Weight
06:08
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Nancy says,
The times can be quite pressing
The weighted days
The shade as window dressing
“I once knew a boy who
Grew and grew ‘til manhood claimed him
He started out so young,
But really no one blamed him
Now the boy nor man are nowhere
But the mantle where I framed them.”
So Nancy stares
Says a reason’s sure to follow
Though we’re aware
It won’t as far as we both know
There’s a line around me
Gently tugging ever forward
Fishing for a soul
Just a nibble towards and towards it
Started as a whisper’s tickle
Left in youth ignored
Stronger here somehow
The sensation stays now
For days now….
Nancy declares
“Amazing, all the trappings
A life can bear
When it’s allowed to happen.
There’s a heft to wisdom
Gathered decades long in making
There’s a mass to friendships
Built up, strong and quaking
A simple life’s foundation
So worth the making
Worth the waiting, fate –
Surely worth the weight.”
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13. |
MOAI/Grace
04:00
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Hosanna! Gratefully we say
Thank you for this food today
Hosanna! Gratefully we say
Thank you for this place to play
Hosanna! Gratefully we say
Thank you for this lovely day
Hosanna! Gratefully we say
Thank you for this family
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