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| 1. |
| 3:46 | 
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I can run, I can race for hours and hours and don't stop
I can float I can fly to the highest mountain top I can breathe you, I can drink in your laugh I can live on your smile I can trip and if I can fall into your arms I can stay there my whole life I can live I can love I can be better with you, For real I can hear I can feel I can see I can tell, you are for real 2x I can stare, I can memorize your face, your hands, your hair Every part of you I can cut off any loose ends and not even wanna keep a few I can speak to you so honestly i can't even run any game I can hear a million angels singing in my ears When I say your name I can live I can love I can be better with you, For real I can hear I can feel I can see I can tell, you are for real 2x I can't smile, can't dream like a child Can't feel safe in this wide world without you I can't go can't disturb this flow Can't begin to know what I would do I can't see, can't find strength to be rather not be me without you I can't even deal, I can't even feel , without you I'm not real I can live I can love I can be better with you, For real I can hear I can feel I can see I can tell, you are for real 2x |
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| 2. |
| 4:28 |
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In a land far away where the sun doesn't spare a soul
and a twisted tradition has a girl in a strangle hold Lies a desert with the footprints of little girls with a secret of a pain that you and I could never know Little feet running fast as they can like the bird in flight through days of sand with a fire in the sky And through indigo nights she runs away from a life spent Being witness to other unwilling participants of a pain that you and I will never know (Chorus) Your'e a bravebird (bravebird) of the rarest kind (kind) You may be one of the walking wounded but still you fly You're a bravebird (bravebird) you put yourself on the line When you shared your secret with the world You saved another mother's child As she speaks, you can tell that the words are not easy to say They hold the power to transport her back to that impossible day but she hasn't any regrets cuz' she won't become a woman with a secret of a pain that you and I could never know you and I could never know you and I could never know (Chorus) |
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| 3. |
| 4:12 |
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As gravity is to every human
As the earth is to the trees I couldn't drift away from your love because it's implanted in my memory If there was some uncertainty [chorus] You're dear to me You know who you are You're always here with me You know who you are You're dear to me and I hope you know who you are Watching you slumber drawn to the splendor of your face when it's completely still Standing under the flood of your laughter into every cell in me you spill After you everything else is weak [chorus] It's out of, out of my hands you see [chorus] |
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| 4. |
| 3:50 |
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Got these feet
in these shoes they walked a mile or two, got these legs they've done work that's left them black and blue, got these hips they are wide but they know how to move, got these hands to lift the weak or slap down a racist fool {chorus} This is all I this is all I got Got this place I call my home but it's no Taj Mahal, got these pockets they ain't full grown but I won't steal from no one, got this heart well it's been broke but it's still beating strong, got this song it ain't much but it helps me carry on {chorus} Got a will that lifts me up when my body can't got a way of getting' through with no helping hands got a mind that lends me strength so I ain't afraid to stand got a love so deep in me can't be stopped by any man |
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| 5. |
| 3:05 |
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Across the room
across the street across the water where the two big blues meet across the widest space til you reach infinity my love will still be beyond the sorrow beyond regret beyond the tremors of a quake you can't forget beyond the hardest times man you ain't seen nothing yet my love will still be my love will still be It's out of , out of my hands you see chorus in your present and future over and under inside and outside close and asunder from the moment you awake til' the moonlight adorns your face when your memory begins to fade never will my love above the sunset above the trees above the highs and lows that make up reality above the resting place of the body that I leave my love will still be |
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| 6. |
| 4:57 |
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Can you tell that I've been hurt so?
Can you tell I wanna lay low? Can you tell that I'm a flower Waiting for a sunshower? Can you tell that love denied me? I need someone to revive me If you give me a reason, I'll be with you through the seasons (Bridge) And we'll shed of our skin like trees do with leaves We'll glide together down on winter breeze And rest in the earth intertwined at the roots Until we have grown into one, me and you... (Chorus) And we can be new And we can be new And we can be new Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo And we can be new Can you tell me a story That ends with morning glory? Can you tell I will believe you If I could remember how to? Can you tell the girl I once was Come back, there's nothing here to fear, love? If you give me a reason, I'll be with you through all seasons (Bridge) (Chorus) Want to begin, want to begin to grow our new future, love Where the ground is still fertile, full of hope and life Never again, never again will pain and lies do you in Let's bury them beside us, so they can remind us of when we... (Repeat chorus) |
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| 7. |
| 3:42 |
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VERSE 1
'76 when a man Told his wife 'baby doll sorry i can't stay' Left with 5 kids she was forced to become Superwoman and go earn some pay A college-educated girl Washing dishes in a man's world Now what good is a degree When you've got mouths to feed She is that girl, maybe you know her Maybe you've been, maybe you are today Insert your year where the year is If to this story you can relate CHORUS Giving something up We're always giving something up We are giving somethin up We're always giving something up We are giving something up We're always giving something up We are giving something up We're always giving something We're always giving something up VERSE 2 '97, a mother has no choice But to go find work and leave her kids alone Far from heaven, so she's gone 5 days out the week to bring a piece home Her man is off somewhere up some dress Bringing her back some other woman's sickness Her baby girl is crying 'Mama please When you're gone the neighbor's chasing me' Around the world, from Pakistan Down to Soweto, back to New York City Insert your year where the year is If to this story you can relate CHORUS BRIDGE (background repeated w/ each line: Giving, yes, ah) Giving, trying, self-relying Feeling, teaching, always preaching Dreaming, losing, being abused and Dying, crying, sacrificing Hurting, being told we're worthless Birthing, buried alive in the earth and Hoping, mending, spirits broken Flying and somehow surviving CHORUS (repeated w/ ad libs till end) |
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| 8. |
| 3:30 |
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Your eyes greeted mine
And whispered softly, slowly A secret only for me Your eyes took there sweet time Silently penetrating mine Sent a wave through me, through me Straight through me, through me Spoke to me, solely Just to me Your eyes, the sleepy kind So still and warm I had to dive So deeply, deeply To your meaning, meaning Those eyes, round and sweet Fruit they were, I had a piece And they fill me, fill me So full and sweetly Spoke to me, solely Just to me Sleepy eyes Will we meet again Do my eyes Make you feel like I'm feeling (Ad lib runs till end) |
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| 9. |
| 4:41 |
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Now could we go to the square they call Congo
I need to go and lay my feet upon the stone Where the first of us stood before, before, before Where we came and played to revive our depleted souls Where we went to forget our freedom was not our own Where we went to hold onto the memory of way back home Now could we Now could we Now could we go Get to cong, get to cong congo Get to cong, get to cong congo Repeat Now could we go to the square they call Congo I need to go and lay my feet upon the stones Where the first of us stood before, before, before Where we made music in remembrance of human bodies sold Where the sound of an old pain became a new music of hope Where they paved me a road so I could get to congo Now could we Now could we Now could we go chorus And I would not be here today if they had not been so displaced so displaced But still But still they made time to sing and play a song A song in congo chorus |
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| 10. |
| 3:44 |
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Is there nothing sacred anymore?
when celebrities are deified and we're still calling some countries third world and crimes against little ones are punished with little laws and girls are taught to hide their curves as though they're flaws and other girls are taught to expose them but not own them and boys are taught they can own it all Is there nothing sacred anymore? in the 21st century and I still get followed 'round in stores and governments are using our money for reasons other than what they say they're using it for and small countries fold as their big debt keeps on growing and silent pain is golden under the guise of religion and boys are taught they can own it all Is there nothing sacred anymore? well maybe there never was, at all |
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| 11. |
| 4:02 |
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you say you want it all
to dip your fingers in the green you say you want it all the sun, the moon and what's in between you say you want it all you want the world to know your face baby haven't you heard every star can be replaced ride the product line hop in your box but don't protest you just been signed to the three ring bull*!? business it's a players ball and the pimps come in black and white and that's about all as I turn in this song to my pimp tonight chorus oh, you ask me how you can win how many walls you gon' have to break down to get in oh, oh, oh as you're steady pushin through oh, oh, oh don't let it be breakin' you same who have it all are one big shiny lie they're selling us a story they know that we're gonna buy but don't you let them fool you baby they can't sleep at night their mirror shows a reflection of a person that they don't like ride the product line hop in your box but don't protest you just been signed to the three ring bull!?#* business check you're brain at the door then hang it up with you're orginality I can't say no more 'cause if I do then they won't let you hear from me chorus there ain't no real love up in here there ain't no there ain't no real love up in here there ain't no if you're lookin for real love up in here if you're lookin for gotta bring your own real love up in here bring your own chorus |
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| 2:52 | 
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