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The moon hangs in the sky with a cockeyed grin
Something's coming my way but it won't say when
Something good, something bad
Tip a smile and it turns real sad
But I choose, I choose, I choose to believe
That the moon wears a cockeyed grin
A copper penny lays lost in a busy street
Tarnished by the wind, the dirt, the sleet.
Heads or tails, win or fail
Maybe luck will tip these scales
But I choose, I choose, I choose to believe
That good luck’s at my feet
Long have I sailed these salty seas
Red skies at dawn still frighten me
Wait for the evening's blushing sun
Blessings on a day well-done
Morning coffee and the daily horoscope
Cruise control or struggling up a slope
Preordained, free-will gained
Finding ways to cheat life’s pain.
But I choose, I choose, I choose to believe
But I choose, I choose, I choose to believe
I choose, I choose, I choose to believe
That every day brings new hope.
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Who’s that woman at the window pane
Watching the children play their games
Still as a statue day and night
Pale as a ghost in the soft moonlight
OH-oh-oh Lily Marlene
OH-oh-oh Lily Marlene
Prettiest girl the Northwood's seen
OH-oh-oh Lily Marlene
Once she was a big city girl
Desired by the fashion world
Walt met her on a quiet street
Danced with her swept her off her feet
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When Walt returned from foreign ports
He brought her north to his resort
Dances with her in the deep of the night
Bathed in the glow of the northern lights
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She stays upstairs and waits for Walt
Away from the dandies who waltz about
Fifty years at her window sill
In fifty years she’ll be there still
Chorus
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She walks in the world of the living dead.
Pieces of thoughts float through her head.
Twenty-five degrees out and she's running down the street.
Her coat's in the shower, there's no shoes on her feet.
Something stole, something stole,
something stole my mama's mind,
and I don't like what it left behind.
She calls out for Papa, begs him to come.
Where has he gone now, what has he done.
Someone tells her he's long gone, she breaks down and cries.
Oh my poor mama, grief is frozen in her eyes. Refrain
A lifetime of memories withered on the vine
Faces in photographs, names lost for all of time.
Time has no meaning, no future no past.
Tell me how long this prison's gonna last. Refrain
She sits near the window in her favorite rocking chair.
She looks like an angel, the sun shining in her hair.
I'm an orphan with a parent, and I'm on my knees to pray,
Oh my sweet Jesus, touch my mama's mind today. Refrain (2X)
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You came into my life and promised me inspiration
It was great for a while now I’m tired of the situation
You freeze me out in the cold and shut down at your will
I can’t live this way but you want me to love you still.
I don’t know how many times I can try restart
Each time I enter your web it just breaks my heart
I can’t delete my feelings or uninstall my pain
but I can disable you from hurting me again.
Back-Up, Back-Up
Baby I’m tired of your megahertz
shift it out of hard drive, take it off site
I’m posting on the blog that your gigabytes
Cuz baby I know how your system works
Baby I know how your system works
You tempt me with the apple and you make those google eyes
Say the gateway to heaven is through windows open wide
But the oracle of love has warned me of your ways
I’m done being fooled in this techno-loving age
Back-up…
You want me to reboot
You want me upgrade
You want me to download but aint nothing here to save
Don’t tempt me with that apple
Don’t make those google eyes
The gateway to heaven’s not through windows open wide
The oracle of love has warned me of your ways
I’m done being fooled
I’m done being fooled
I’m done being fooled
in this tech-no-lovin’ age.
Back-Up….
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Got my raise in pay just the other day,
The price of gas rose twice as fast,
And they told me I should be feeling good.
There’s hiring freezes till efficiency increases
And I’m breaking my back just to pick up the slack,
And I told them I was working as hard as I could.
And I get the feeling that no one is listening
They’re counting their money with eyes a’ glistening.
There’s not much I can say that would do any good.
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Board the train or get out of the way
It doesn’t really matter anyway.
We’re on Wall Street Time
And this engine’s moving down the profit line.
My middle-aged boss got the pen and the toss,
The department head’s now from Europe instead
And they told me I should be feeling good.
The bonuses are cut and the benefits suck.
The hours are longer; make the coffee stronger
And I told them I was working as hard as I could.
And I see the owner just once a year
On a videoconference from a yacht somewhere.
I’m just a number that impacts the bottom line.
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A new guru came with a famous name
And by Power Point ® he revised the joint
And they called him “Messiah of the Business Land.”
But there’s many others like me here
Trading our tongues for jobs I fear
And we told them nothing cause they wouldn’t understand.
If it’s all about money they sell some souls
You may be working on computers or digging for coal
Does money buy a ticket to your promised land?
Chorus.
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Rushing through life's calendar
the trees rush by in a blur
You cry to me about feeling lost
and I heard not a word.
Now you tell me that you may not find your way along our road.
And I fall and crumble beneath this heavy load.
I was not awake for you my dear
For the things your heart wanted me to hear.
Like a gentle breeze in a forest of trees
I lost part of you somehow.
Please forgive me now.
I sit on a stone on the forest floor,
the sunlight steams from above.
I listen carefully for your song
to speak to me of love.
I can only wait to receive your heart should you decide to stay
and pray for a whisper of hope upon this day. Refrain.
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Watching the cars go by
Under the indigo sky
And I sit above it all.
I could easily
Be in that driving frenzy
But here I am perched on this wall.
Don’t know why I stopped today.
Just sort of passed here on my way
To somewhere else, to somewhere else, to somewhere else.
Breathing a cleansing sigh
Under the indigo sky
It all fades away on a breeze
Leaving a skeleton,
Revealing a bone deep yen,
Remembering a dream with ease.
Funny how fast I became distracted
Only to find that the path I’m on led
To somewhere else, to somewhere else, to somewhere else.
And the indigo sky is blooming.
Not a storm cloud is looming…overhead.
Venus is the east is rising
And it isn’t so surprising
That I’m looking up…from the dead.
Watching the cars go by
Under the indigo sky
Serenity enters with rhyme.
She comes on the Easter wind.
Life is reborn again.
Rejoice in what is mine.
Gonna sit right here awhile
Till I figure out how to keep this smile
Before I go, before I go, to somewhere else
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When I look back upon my life, it’s all clear to me.
My life is like a river flowing surely to the sea.
The rocks that make it bend and twist as it flows from the source
Are the people who cared enough to guide my river’s course.
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I’m tired of changing with the times. Let the times change with me.
Set my heart as a compass on the human sea.
Let me be the rock in your river, the stone in your stream.
Let us make something real of a far-reaching dream.
When all is said and all is done, I’ll leave a legacy.
No buildings, rocks, no monuments will be named after me.
But a heart that’s lit from within and a spirit flowing free.
What better fate could I choose for my destiny. Chorus.
A wellspring of love flows from my heart.
Come with me and be a part of a dream. Chorus.