Let Go of the Gold...
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Intro Lyrics:
When I let go of all of the gold
Time is mythical
Life is liminal
Love is imaginal
Ready set go...
Let go of all of the gold
To feel passion's burn
In love's fiery return
When I let go of all of the gold
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Verse 1:
To keep peace with myself
I'm running as fast as I can
While trying to pass go
Without all of the gold breaking my hands
I've always tried telling you so

Verse 2:
When I was trying to break free
Of the weight of the gold
Without a reason or a rhyme
My hands got bound up in time
That a false love couldn't unbind
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Chorus:
So I'll let go of all of the gold
That's weighing down my soul

Yeah I'll let go of all of the gold
So I can free my hands
Free my hands from the weight of the gold
Free my hands, free my hands, free my hands

When my hands are free
Free from the weight of the gold
Hands are free, hands are free, hands are free

I'll be as light as a feather released from a bird
Free as a bird released from a cage
Free as a bird, free as a bird, free as a bird
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Verse 3:
If I don't pass go will I lose myself
When if not now will I take a stand
For holding on to all of the gold
That's weighing down my hands
I've always tried telling you so

Verse 4:
Will I ever find myself
If I get lost inside yesterdays
While holding on to all of the gold
Dreams chasing me down hallways
Where memories slowly fade away
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Chorus:
So I'll let go of all of the gold
That's weighing down my soul

Yeah I'll let go of all of the gold
So I can free my hands
Free my hands from the weight of the gold
Free my hands, free my hands, free my hands

When my hands are free
Free from the weight of the gold
Hands are free, hands are free, hands are free

I'll be as light as a feather released from a bird
Free as a bird released from a cage
Free as a bird, free as a bird, free as a bird
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Verse 5:
One day I'll slow myself down
Leave enough time to pass go
Let go of all of the gold to free my hands
All of the gold weighing down my soul
I've always tried telling you so

Verse 6:
Letting go of all of the gold
Weighing me down will break me free
From time binding my hands
So my heart can finally be found
Inside a true love freely unbound
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Chorus:
So I'll let go of all of the gold
That's weighing down my soul

Yeah I'll let go of all of the gold
So I can free my hands
Free my hands from the weight of the gold
Free my hands, free my hands, free my hands

When my hands are free
Free from the weight of the gold
Hands are free, hands are free, hands are free

I'll be as light as a feather released from a bird
Free as a bird released from a cage
Free as a bird, free as a bird, free as a bird
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Outro Lyrics:
Free as a bird, free as a bird, free as a bird
To really be as free as a bird
I have to let go of all of the gold
All of the gold that's breaking my hands
All of the gold, all of the gold, all of the gold
I need to let go of all of the gold
All of the gold that's weighing down my soul
To really be as free as a bird
Free as a bird, free as a bird, free as a bird
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Double Talk...
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Intro Chorus:
Oh I know I can turn out a better hand
If I don't stop to self-reprimand
'Cause the dry truth is a sober walk
That requires a lot less double talk
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Verse 1:
Even on days that seem to go astray
Inside winds blowin' this and that-a-way
I won't stop to ponder the unnecessary
That'll leave me feelin' less than wary

Verse 2:
Oh I know nothin's ever your fault
It was all caused by cheap liquor malt
That brought us both heartache and pain
Under a love that we tried to feign
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Outro Chorus:
Oooooohhhh snippety snap dippety dap
Double talk double talk
Everyone wants a little double talk
As they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone needs a little double talk
When they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone loves a little double talk
While they back walk
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Intro Chorus:
Oh I know I can turn out a better hand
If I don't stop to self-reprimand
'Cause the dry truth is a sober walk
That requires a lot less double talk
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Verse 3:
Boy you better stop twistin' your tongue
Before you get a bad case of black lungs
'Cause what'll you do when you can't speak
And your buddin' new love is at its peak

Verse 4:
Oh I know you think you're fat with smart
That causes your britches to split apart
As you think away your life in the dark
While people play horseshoes in the park
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Outro Chorus:
Oooooohhhh snippety snap dippety dap
Double talk double talk
Everyone wants a little double talk
As they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone needs a little double talk
When they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone loves a little double talk
While they back walk
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Bridge:
Oh I know our love is problematic
Like four letter words that are automatic
Still we must fess up to all our mistakes
As we shake inside this emotional earthquake
That lies over and under life's daily grind
That high heaves and slow hoes our love behind
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Intro Chorus:
Oh I know I can turn out a better hand
If I don't stop to self-reprimand
'Cause the dry truth is a sober walk
That requires a lot less double talk
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Verse 5:
So how do I impose it upon you
Now do you suppose it to be true
While we stare out love's open window
Watchin' our neighbors put on a show

Verse 6:
Oh I know my words leave a bad taste in your mouth
So please remember on your travels down South
I've never been pc and I've never been new age
Even when it was the latest hammer and rage
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Outro Chorus:
Oooooohhhh snippety snap dippety dap
Double talk double talk
Everyone wants a little double talk
As they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone needs a little double talk
When they back walk
Double talk double talk
Everyone loves a little double talk
While they back walk
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...jmf (c) ...

When the Levee Breaks...

Verse 1:
Time is a salutary snake charmer
Casting off old emotional scars
Of fragile skin woven and worn
Over life's built-in self-defense
In love's bid for self-protection

Verse 2:
Yeah life may push us down
But our dreams will pull us back up
If love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 3:
Love is time's peaceful disarmer
Gently dissolving life's built up walls
Liberating us from our bound past
When destiny's die was fatefully cast
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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Verse 4:
Time is the taker of our taming years
Who releases our soul's wild nature
To reveal dreams beneath live flesh
Held deep within our feral hearts
Under love's sheath of self-preservation

Verse 5:
Sure life can push us out of bounds
But our dreams will pull us back in
When love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 6:
Love is time's morphing shapeshifter
Life's ancient seer transforming us
From idle dreamers into ardent doers
Chasing chimeras across seven continents
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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Verse 7:
Time is a mystical dream weaver
Sifting visions through an hourglass
As we wildly wander and search
For life's sacred gathering houses
Where spiritual love is boundless

Verse 8:
So when life pushes us down
Our dreams will pull us back up
If love's levee breaks the ground

Verse 9:
Love is time's gathering hands
Tenderly weaving our kindred lives
Connected by life's liminal moments
As we cross great divides to live harmoniously
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Chorus:
Standing at the edge of a precipice
Time leads us to ask these questions
When we're looking for love's answers

Who are we gonna call?
If the levee overtops
Will we take a fall?
Should the levee breach
Will we lose it all?
When the levee breaks

Time's questions leave their mark
That weigh heavy on love's levee
As we listen to the song of the lark

Will we heed the call?
If the levee overtops
Will time break our fall?
Should the levee breach
Will love save us all?
When the levee breaks
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... jmf (c) ...

Crimson Colored Hands of Time...
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Intro Lyrics:
tick... tick... tick... Every day
tick... tick... tick... I try to escape time's complacency
tick... tick... tick... While crimson colored hands of time
tick... tick... tick... my life slowly away
tick... tick... tick... Every day
tick... tick... tick... they steal more of my time away ...tick... tick... tick...
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Verse 1:
Crimson colored hands of time
Whispered to me love's dissolution
Revealing your words of veiled deception

Verse 2:
Envy slits open hallowed wrists
Jilted hands hide my broken heart
While love bleeds out of hollowed wounds
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Chorus:
Every day I try to escape time's complacency
While crimson colored hands of time
Slowly tick away my days
Every day stealing more of my life away

Every night I try to escape time's chokehold
That their crimson colored hands of time
Tightly have me in
Every night they steal more of my life away
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Verse 3:
Crimson colored hands of time
Carried our love into nevermore
While you swayed with your new paramour

Verse 4:
Watching with acrid eyes from the side
While winds of change sullenly blew sorrow by
Love's fate pushed me into her growing shadow
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Chorus:
Every day I try to escape time's complacency
While crimson colored hands of time
Slowly tick away my days
Every day stealing more of my life away

Every night I try to escape time's chokehold
That their crimson colored hands of time
Tightly have me in
Every night they steal more of my life away
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Verse 5:
Crimson colored hands of time
Solemnly cut love's fractured bond
In hushed fields of wistful emptiness

Verse 6:
Loneliness bitterly fills my empty nights
As lost time colors this jaded life
With multiple shades of love in mourning
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Chorus:
Every day I try to escape time's complacency
While crimson colored hands of time
Slowly tick away my days
Every day stealing more of my life away

Every night I try to escape time's chokehold
That their crimson colored hands of time
Tightly have me in
Every night they steal more of my life away
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Outro Lyrics:
tick... tick... tick... Every night
tick... tick... tick... I try to escape time's chokehold
tick... tick... tick... that their crimson colored hands of time
tick... tick... tick... tightly have me in
tick... tick... tick... Every night
tick... tick... tick... they steal more of my life away ...tick... tick... tick...
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... jmf (c) ...

Songbirds...
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Sung Senryu 1:
songbirds at sunrise
fill the dawning air with song
gently waking all
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Verse 1:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Fill us in the morning
With songs of paradise
That taste like apples

Verse 2:
Under the waking sky
Morning crisp and clear
Minds emptied of yesterday
Except for the taste of love

Chorus:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Sing sing sing us
Sing us your song
Of apples in paradise
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Sung Senryu 2:
sweet songbirds in trees
fill the day with melody
singing songs in pairs
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Verse 3:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Dream us through the day
With songs of paradise
That taste like apples

Verse 4:
Under the blueing sky
Ending on a double rainbow
We swing our worries away
Kicking sand into the wind

Chorus:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Sing sing sing us
Sing us your song
Of apples in paradise
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Sung Senryu 3:
daylight is waning
songbirds in the dusk echo
a chorus of song
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Verse 5:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Sing us through the night
With songs of paradise
That taste like apples

Verse 6:
Under the dreaming sky
Wish upon the moon
Our hearts go all a flutter
Putting this day to sleep

Chorus:
Oh beautiful songbirds
Sing sing sing us
Sing us your song
Of apples in paradise
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Sung Senryu 4:
songbirds of midnight
perched upon our windowsills
sing us into sleep
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Autumn's Changing Skies...
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Sung Senryu 1:
autumn's sun rising
our bound feet are slowing down
days they grow shorter
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Verse 1:
Autumn birthed from summer
Shed leaves onto the fertile earth
Its seasonal sacrificial offering
Brings endings to new beginnings

Verse 2:
Slowly we transition in a time of flux
Inside a change of season taking place
Our mercurial roots reconnect
To the earth shifting beneath our feet

Chorus:
Autumn leaves are turning shades
Of vibrant red, gold and brown
Branches slowly release them
Falling softly to the ground
They blow in equinoctial winds
Below autumn's changing skies

Autumn leaves are falling down
Spiraling down to the ground
Onto sidewalks where we step
Leaves crunch beneath our feet
As we walk together hand in hand
Below autumn's changing skies
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Sung Senryu 2:
emerging from earth
autumnal limbs open wide
love falling like leaves
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Verse 3:
Falling leaves spin through the air
Crisp winds blow them in a round about
They cry out hallelujah as they spiral down
With our hands and feet touching ground

Verse 4:
Golden leaves dance on lilting grass
That cascade down from fiery trees
Inside circular winds blowing east
As we gather for the harvest feast

Chorus:
Autumn leaves are turning shades
Of vibrant red, gold and brown
Branches slowly release them
Falling softly to the ground
They blow in equinoctial winds
Below autumn's changing skies

Autumn leaves are falling down
Spiraling down to the ground
Onto sidewalks where we step
Leaves crunch beneath our feet
Below autumn's changing skies
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Sung Senryu 3:
amber leaves falling
blowing in autumn's crisp winds
chase us from behind
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Verse 5:
Fluttering leaves fall beneath azure skies
Our earthen flesh alive with pagan longings
Pull us deeper into nature's living realm
Where we mingle with earth's umber blood

Verse 6:
The crimson sun sitting on the horizon
Waits to slide behind the harvest moon
It sings out hallelujah to the birth of autumn
To rejoice in those reborn with new life

Chorus:
Autumn leaves are turning shades
Of vibrant red, gold and brown
Branches slowly release them
Falling softly to the ground
They blow in equinoctial winds
Below autumn's changing skies

Autumn leaves are falling down
Spiraling down to the ground
Onto sidewalks where we step
Leaves crunch beneath our feet
Below autumn's changing skies
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Sung Senryu 4:
autumn's moon rising
we walk upon the cool earth
nights they grow longer
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Dance Your Essence - (Cosmic)...
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1 - Dance your essence...
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Intro Lyrics:
Come dance with me
Into a cosmic spiral trance

I'm your spiral sister
Whirling in and out of your galaxy
Twirling in and out of your cosmos
Swirling in and out of your universe
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2 - Dance your essence...
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Verse 1:
Dance to free yourself
Dance to see yourself
Dance to be yourself

Verse 2:
Dance your essence
Within your presence
Spin and twirl
Into a spiraling whirl

Verse 3:
Dance your essence
Back into your presence
Around you spin
Back to life's begin

Verse 4:
Dance your essence
Beyond your presence
Close your eyes
As your body sighs
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3 - Dance your essence...
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Bridge:
Come dance with me
Into a cosmic spiral trance

Come...
Whirl with me
Twirl with me
Swirl with me
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Verse 5:
Dance your essence
Away from your presence
Free your being
With your 3rd eye seeing

Verse 6:
Dance your essence
Outside your presence
Let yourself transcend
Beyond your mind's end

Verse 7:
Dance your essence
Into your presence
Trance to be one
With the infinite sum

Verse 8:
Dance to be yourself
Dance to see yourself
Dance to free yourself
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4 - Dance your essence...
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Outro Lyrics:
Come dance with me
Into a cosmic spiral trance

We'll...
Whirl inside Venus' cosmic swirl
Twirl inside Saturn's nebular whirl
Swirl inside Mars' red sky twirl
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5 - Dance your essence...
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Dance your Essence - (Ecstatic)...
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1 - Dance Your essence...
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Intro Lyrics:
Shake your booty
To body breakin' beats
That'll alter your mind
Under psychoactive sounds
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2 - Dance your essence...
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Verse 1:
Dance to free yourself
Dance to see yourself
Dance to be yourself

Verse 2:
Dance your essence
Within your presence
Spin and twirl
Into a spiraling whirl

Verse 3:
Dance your essence
Back into your presence
Around you spin
Back to life's begin

Verse 4:
Dance your essence
Beyond your presence
Close your eyes
As your body sighs
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3 - Dance your essence...
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Verse 5:
Dance your essence
Away from your presence
Free your being
With your 3rd eye seeing

Verse 6:
Dance your essence
Outside your presence
Let yourself transcend
Beyond your mind's end

Verse 7:
Dance your essence
Into your presence
Trance to be one
With the infinite sum

Verse 8:
Dance to be yourself
Dance to see yourself
Dance to free yourself
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4 - Dance your essence...
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Outro Lyrics:
Dance the ecstatic
To psychoactive grooves
That'll shoot up your spine
Straight to your mind
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5 - Dance your essence...
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... jmf (c) ...