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TELL ME
03:48
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I remember the day the rain began to fall
I remember thinking that hope would save us all
Oh, but the sky gets more grey everyday
Our lips are still stained red with Kool-Aid
Tell me, when did greed become a virtue?
When will we get to decide what we have a right to?
Feel my resistance
Feel my resistance
I’ve gotten used to the idea of getting wet
I’m not sure yet where that will get me to
Oh, but wherever it is, I hope I get there soon
A change of view is long overdue
Tell me, what good is staying dry?
If you never get to see the sky
Feel my resistance
Feel my resistance
Let’s take our fight to the streets
We’re all water, that’s why it’s so easy to meet
Let’s be a river, the same river
Let’s rise from our bed united instead of divided
I’ll tell you, the truth knows how to swim
Let’s take back what’s ours again
Feel my resistance
Feel my resistance
Feel my resistance
Feel my resistance
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$$$
02:50
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$$$, makes the world go round
$$$, gonna bring the whole world down
$$$, gonna drive you straight into the ground
Bailout, buyout, cash in, cash out, tell me what's your price
Would you sell your soul for worlds of gold?
Could you be enticed?
As for me, right here with you, I'm doing' alright
And I'm broke as shit, cause...
$$$, for the government
$$$, oh good lord, amen
$$$, how much more can we spend?
Broke down, drownin', twisted round and
Tell me what's the cost
Can you afford the wealth of this world?
Can't be found once lost
As for me, I'll live in my means
I've got quite a lot
And I'm still broke as shit, cause...
$$$, can't buy the way the music hits you
$$$, will die when we do
$$$, can't buy your love so true
The only green for me is the grass and the trees
Don't need no currency
Oh, money can't buy me.
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READY OR NOT
02:13
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They say our sins are paid for, so everyone’s going to war
Ain’t no shame in killing, when you’re not the ones paying the bills and
The purse strings are growing tighter with all that ain’t right in the world
But it keeps on turning, ready or not
And I’m trying my best, but I must confess
It’s not always easy to play the part
And I’m looking out my window, but no matter how far
I can’t see a break in the clouds, except for where the lightning strikes
And I’d take you tonight but I’m begging you baby
Please don’t make a sound
Cause the thunder’s enough, the noise is getting so loud
While the rain comes pouring down
And we’ve got one shot at this, one shot tonight
One shot to turn this around, oh
Cause they’ll take your soul but they don’t tell you bout the fee
Didn’t you ever learn, eternity ain’t for free?
So I guess I’ll die like the rest of them
Broke and debt free
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4. |
COME QUICK
03:38
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Come quick for Mother has been killed
Liberty’s soul away so it was willed, oh
Hush now says Big Brother, ease your weary soul
Hush now, says Big Brother, do exactly as you’re told
For Father should you disobey, would surely lose his temper
So quickly you may fall from graces
As fall painted leaves in September
aleft to rot and wither with all the others fallen
Sink together down through dirt to be rebirth
And together answer Redemption’s calling
Redemption’s calling you
Hush now says Big Brother, ease your weary soul
Hush now, says Big Brother, do exactly as you’re told
For Father should you disobey, would surely lose his temper
So quickly you may fall from graces
As fall painted leaves in September
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DON'T STAY
04:17
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The sunlight settles in the evening fields
Where we stay sometimes when the world is too real
I know you don't like to stay up late
But I can't find dreams in this sweltering heat
Won't you keep me company, while I wait for relief?
I need you with me on the other side, baby
I can't go knowing you'd be here
You know they'll always find us if we stay
Oh, and leaving's the only way
Yeah, on the other side everything looks different
Even me and you, but I still love you like I do and
Nobody worries bout a thing
Not even time or money or how we're gonna pay the bills
Or why everyone is taking pills
Oh, what a shame
You know I don't like
You know I don't like
You know I don't like to medicate
Or put myself into a passive state
Oh, I can't see straight but I won't stay
No, no I won't stay
One more minute in this place even if they tried to make me
Oooh whoa, I will not stay ooh
You know I don't like
You know I don't like to waste the days away
You know I don't want
You know I don't want to leave you here this way
I need you with me on the other side, oh you know it's true
I know I'm young but I know what I want
And girl it's you
Now we grow a garden by a cabin in the woods
And I know you never thought it'd be this good
I'm gonna love you like I should, but never could
When the world was weighing on me like I used to
Whoa, whoa I'm free
Free as a bird, flying high up in the sky
But how I wish I did not have to leave all these people behind that I love
Oh what a shame
There ain't no time to waste
Ain't no time to hate
Oh, there is an escape
Don't listen when they try to tell you, you don't have a choice to stay or go
You can always leave and
You best believe, there's more than what they offer up
Tell me do you have enough, is there more that you dream of?
Don't stay, whoa don't stay
There's more through the door, all you have to do is explore
What are you waiting for?
Don't stay, whoa
Come along, come along, come along this way
And don't stay
Don't stay, don't stay, don't stay, don't stay, don't stay...
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6. |
THIS YEAR
03:32
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Well, I got my woman and we’re headed North
Gonna cross the border and escape the war
Well, it ain’t desertin' if you didn’t enlist
Feet are hurtin’, but I ain’t raisin’ no fists
I don’t know where the road may go
but I know it’s gonna be sure damn cold
Hey, I don’t know where the road may go
but I got my baby and a nice warm coat
Yeah we’ll gather some sticks and we’ll make some heat
Boil the water, make love so sweet
Yeah, me and my baby never been so free
Don’t even wanna know what’s on TV
Sky so big, it’ll make you seasick
Never be lost, long as we can see it
Sky so big, it’ll make you seasick
Never be lost, long as we can see it
Oh, and I got the notion that I should write home
So I picked up the pen and this what I wrote
Dear Mom, Dear Sister, oh you know, I miss you dear so
Won’t you come and meet me here
I got a feelin’ it’s gonna be a good year
Woah, this year
Ooh, this year
Well, they packed up their bags when they got the word
Hit the road at the first sign of dirt
Snow was meltin’ when they headed my way
Got to me in the middle of May
Words can’t say what it meant to me
When I saw em’ coming with the whole family
Yeah, Pop and the Boys and the Little One, too
I smiled real big, cause that’s when I knew
Woah, this year
Ooh, this year
Woah, this year
Ooh, this year
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Josie Martin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
My music exists to me as a source of comfort in the face of life's mysterious
unfolding.
It doesn't claim to be an answer, nor is it a home for those who seek to quell the absurdity of wondering about what can never be known.
It is emotion.
It is satire.
It is art.
It is infinite.
It is.
As I wish to be.
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