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Wade
05:45
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Wade in the water I’m coming down
Leave on the bank the fears that fill my pockets
Stones to drag me down
I need to believe the light in me
All of these jesters wearing crowns,
Easy to see the ones who’d have you bear their burdens
Drag you down
I need to believe the light I see
For all of their hollow hearted words that darken days
I need to believe
We’re learning to see the light
Why do we follow them down? 3x
Songs of our mothers songs for you
Songs for our children songs or the present
Songs to share our hearts through
We sing to believe the light
A word to the jesters wearing crowns:
We will not abide your trying to tear us down
We rise to see the light
For all of the hollow hearted words That darken days
I need to believe
We’re learning to see our light
Why do we follow them down? Why do we follow them down? Why do we follow them down?
Jesters wearing crowns
If there’s a reason, if ever there’s a time
To wade into the water to let go and leave behind
I wade that know I’m falling awake and now I’m e free
We remember, we remember, this precious light to breathe
Why do we follow them down?
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Lady Good Hair
06:18
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Lady Good Hair, Gimme a bright blue sky and air to breathe
Lady good hair, All I want’s a nation where I’m free to be
There’s a war coming on and I know they’ll blame me
Lady good hair, I’m just trying to make you see
That I’m so tired- tired of all your people getting loud
Tired of them tryin to bring me down
We’ll all trying to make it through
And I’ve felt loss, and hatred too.
Ain’t nothing wrong with the way it’s designed
If you’re breathing while brown, let the punishment fit the crime
Lady Good Hair – you’re the kind that’s easy on the eyes;
Lady Good Hair- I don’t see you as, well, what you’re tone implies
And they way you speak, so articulate,
Not like those angry girls who feed hate
Don’t they know their outta line- Thinking their lives are more important than mine
Lady Good Hair- I know you understand me
Cause I’m so tired- Tired of all those people making scenes
Acting like the world treat them differently, forcing me to be PC
Don’t they know not to laugh so loud- or raise their voices in a nervous crowd Protest has it’s time and place, but now they’re taking to much space
If you don’t want trouble don’t make none, don’t say we’re deaf blind and dumb Ain’t nothing wrong with the way it’s designed
If you’re breathing while brown, let the punishment fit the crime
If you’re standing, or you’re frowning Hand up, or hands downing
If you’re playing in a parking lot
If you’re honest at a traffic stop
If you’re angry cause you know your rights If you’re twice as good to protect you life
If you’re hustling just to get by
If you’re daughter ought not watch you die you’re still headed for the pipeline
Or the mugshot blast on dateline
If you’re a black life or brown life, let the punishment fit the crime. Lady Good hair.
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Spider in the Saint
03:06
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There’s a Spider in the Saint
And her web is a whisper,
and you’ll only hear her in a certain light
There’s your shadow in the paint, baby And it’s years since I’ve seen you today and I mean to, but it’s alright
Am I alone in what I want and wish?
Running out of boys to kiss and trees to climb
Running out of things to hide behind?
Am I afraid, or is it laziness?
Running out of things to blame and doodle on?
Running out of going, gone?
There’s a hollow in my heart
And no matter how I fill it,
every grain seems to spill into the pit of me
But there’s got to be a way
Cause I watched you grow up big and strong
Watched you, at least, to carry on
Do you remember all the stars we saw?
Running with the water just to watch it fall Running form a drunken hand to jaw
Can you keep holding me as I appeared
Holding me as one you love so true and dear?
Holding me those thousand years
There’s my daughter in your name;
and I know that the day she’s born
she’ll draw from your fingertips her frame and form.
So I’ll let that spider be
In the hopes that she’ll see her too, and tell me so That I remember you.
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Let The Great World Spin
04:51
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She- she knew the road
Took his hand, took his heart and then she let go.
We- we knew the signs,
took a breath, took a step in this life
Can’t afford this space between the two And I do, need you
It’s more than I can take, to turn to
Let the great world spin I’m still in love with you
Let the great world spin I’m still in love with you, with you
I knew the way
Knew your smile, knew the words you might say
You- you knew my mind
Knew the fears, knew to stay my running mind
Can’t afford this space between the two And I do, need you
It’s more than I can take, to turn to
Let the great world spin I’m still in love with you
Let the great world spin I’m still in love with you
Can’t afford this space between the two and I do, need you
It’s more than I can take, to turn to
Let the great world spin I’m still in love with you (repeat to cue)
She, she knew the road,
Took his hand, took his heart and then she let go
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