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I could always count on your understanding
Your patience to take the time with me
When I can't see so clearly
And I know these virtues are so rare
In a world so driven by the self
And so focused on locking down more than opening up
But I know we're not just one
And acceptance is a condition of love
Acceptance of difference and people in life
To take folks as they are and look for their light
There was a time in my life
When anger got the best of me
It made it hard for me to see
The world, the things right in front of me
But your existence made me know another way as a possibility
That you could hold a smile and handle things so skillfully
So i know we're not just one
And it takes effort to cultivate love
Putting forth patience for people in life
Meeting folks where they are
Seeing less of wrong and more of right
And as I grow I hope to be a little more like you
I try to grow it inside of me
That compassion comes from understanding
A heart more accepting, open to difference, open to life
It's what I've learned from seeing you live
And hearing your words, and knowing your heart
It's in everything you do, it envelops you
Thank you
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2. |
Present (Remastered)
02:04
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How old
Will we be
When we see
What once was
Can't be again
And be OK with past being past
I try to be in tune with my life
And do the things i have in front of me
And be the person i need to be
At this moment in time
And not long
For a moment
That isn't feeding
The excitement that i have
The air that i breathe
Is being refilled presently
With new hopes and feelings guiding me
To a new place
To build what i need
To fill what i feel
To make something new
More than i can see
This compass guides me
Feeling what i feel
Aiming what i know true
Inside of me
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Rearranging (Remastered)
02:20
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Sometimes I need to
Move some things around
Find my needs
And unfuck everything
And find what works and maximize the good
I take the time
To find a better way
Connect with something inside
And make things a different way
I've spent too much time
Giving extra a place in my life
At the expense
Of my sanity
When it needs to leave, when I need to open up
The things in our lives can sometimes block our way
So we break it up, and we recenter on what is good
So we make the time
To find a better way
Connect with something inside
And make things a different way
And when I feel myself
Dreading a thing I need to do
I try to fix the way
It's aligned in my life
We only carry so much
So I carry what I need
For myself to live
For myself to grow
Aiming for the good instead of aiming for everything
So I make the time
To notice the things in my life
And ask myself
If they are working for me
Helping me to move
Or are they holding me
And then I put them in a place
In a way that works for me
And how I want to live
That works for me
And not for my fear
I try to put them in a place
That works for me
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Best Friend (Remastered)
02:34
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What does it mean
To be a friend
It means a bond
It means i got your back
And against this world
I'll stand by you
Never leave you open
Against the world with you
And it takes a a lot
For me to make that pledge
It requires a trust
And faith placed in you
To live a noble life
To always try to be the better man, or woman
Some folks think
Friendships just being kind
Accepting positions
And standing by someones side
But I've seen it go
From anchor to support
Support for bad actions
Support for their worst
Its a give and take
This things a dialogue
Where we boost each others strengths
Where we call each other out
And try to help our friends be
The people we know they can be
And it ain't easy
Telling someone that their wrong
When you see their hurt
When its someone that you love
But it's our friends who will help get us through
So a lot of what they know depends on you
So you try and speak, speak from your heart
Hoping they hear the intention with your words
We are only as good as our best friend
We are only as good as our best friend
We are only as good as our best friend
We are only as good as our best friend
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Rising (Remastered)
03:23
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I try to make it good
And show them a life that seems to hold
All the good things that it should
While being true to intention of their memories
To the balance of life
We live belief
Before disbelief
And I give them clues
To the way that things work
When Your putting your heart at the front of intention
When your putting love at the front of thought
And hope it clicks as good
We live belief
Before disbelief
But I cannot always tell what they are taking from the
Catastrophe all around me
So I try to make sure they have every bit of
Understanding, coming from me
We live belief
Before disbelief
And its a lot to weigh
How so much good could come with so much pain
But I try to show the balance as a positive
Even though we tend to remember the sting
We know its only because we care
We live belief
Before disbelief
And we hope that they find
Life as a thing they want to do
Even when it gets heavier
Even when it gets harder to do
Because thats when it really counts
We live belief
Before disbelief
And we can show the ways that we can make our days
Better than yesterday
And hold a candle for the people having trouble
Seeing light in their day
Because we got a choice
In the lives we live
In how we see others
In how we live
In how we see the world around us
In what we choose to see
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We come into this world as two separate people
With separate hearts
Each having a purpose that emanates from our core
And when our lives intertwine
We find ourselves across from each other
And we start to contemplate
The merging of our self
And we begin to contemplate a way
To bring together two different people
That exist apart
And we judge this love
On a spectrum
That looks for the difference
And asks how much can we cope
And we begin to see our difference as
Something in the way
As something to change
But I love
The things of you that aren't me
And I know in time
I'm better having that difference around me
There's too much focus
On making things the same
Making conflict not exist
Trying to make everything so easy
But I know we can't just stand for easy
Because sometimes we have to learn
In order to grow
To deal with difference
To resolve conflict
To learn to be better people
To give space for others to exist
And if love was the easy path
Then it wouldn't be worth a goddamn thing
So when I see us walking side by side
I know it's because of a love
And not because it was an easy thing
It took something inside
Committed to the value that we saw
And decided to help grow
While respecting the person that we love
And that things that make them be
The things that make you, you
The things that make me, me
And loving instead of changing
Listening instead of trying to make the same
And valuing the difference
As something that adds value to
Our lives
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It used to be hard for me
To advocate for me
Silencing my needs
For the needs of others
But when I saw it spill into
Resentment and discontent
I knew it wasn't just about me
Cuz we all are living in this world together
I used to put off taking care of myself
Equating taking time with selfishness
Cuz I thought I could always do more
But I didn't see, it made a weaker friend of me
Cuz what we feel, we all feel
When we live in this world together
And its so easy to see
We are community
And if you depend on me
Then I gotta take care of me
Cuz if one falls, we can all fall
When we live in this world together
Its hard to see the value
In what we take for granted
And a lot of us
Take ourselves for granted
But if your a friend to yourself
You'll see that dialogue
Does not show the kindness of you
So we gotta be not taking anyone for granted
When we live in this world together
And I know it's hard
To see yourself
As a place of value
Just like anyone else but
Just know
We live in this world together
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8. |
Time Out (Remastered)
02:25
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Time out
Its time for being something more
Cuz we are their everything
Everything that they know and love
We try to hold up the sky, even when the ceiling is crashing down
Try to put value in their heart, so they never want for anything less
And i got one job
Keep it together
For one heart i do it all
In the hopes it will multiply
And grow into something powerful
By action, by word, i make my mark
Careful to make the mark you want to leave
Cuz if we make spark
It may ignite into a love
And spread to their entire being
Weave itself into their life
Become the normal they know and trust
Building a better place
A better place to start
Cuz everything we see
We judge by the contents of our heart
So make the time
To make them better
And sow a seed who's growth will never stop
And will see the entirety
Of everything they touch
It wasn't done for me
That hole is my blueprint
So i build in the heart as a way to undo
And break the cycle
And build one new
Based on everything
I wish i knew
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She was a straight thug
Punk rock girl with dark brown hair
Tattoo on her neck
Standing proud against her soft brown skin
And you knew she'd fight you
But she had nothing but kisses for me
And so we dated...
Till I woke up to her nodding out on me
I guess she needed a little more
Than what our hearts could hold
Something to change the balance
A little more, a little less
But I hoped it was something, it was something we could fill
He always had a place in his day to talk to me
Until he didn't
And would disappear for a few weeks
And when he'd come back, that same tough mug, looking sickly
Sadness in his eyes
Something he could not explain to me
I guess he needed a little more
Than what our hearts could hold
Something to change the balance
A little more, but a little less
But I hoped it was something, something we could heal
Instead of trying to fill that hole
With something that takes more than it gives
And find a better way to find
The love they needed
In their life
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Momentum (Remastered)
02:38
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When it gets too precious, it gets dangerous
We start hesitating
And second guessing
When the beating in our hearts, can't hold the rhythm
Our expectations kill, our potentialities
And were afraid
To be ourselves
We just gotta keep moving forward
And we just gotta doing the work and
We just gotta keep moving forward
And give ourselves a chance to grow
To be vulnerable
Not afraid to risk everything
There's no safety in silence
Just the past, just yesterday
And who i was, and who i could not be
With no room for correction, no way to make better
Its a deadening, in my memory...
I never want to
Repeat yesterday
I never want to
Do the same things again
It betrays the purpose of, the purpose of life
To try a different way, and sometimes fail and fucking grow
Cuz if we make mistakes
We get to learn
So I gotta keep moving forward
And I gotta keep doing my work and
I just gotta keep challenging myself
And give myself a place to learn
And making myself better than the person that i was
Cuz i need to learn to be a better person
And not make the same mistakes
I made yesterday, again today
And i need to build understanding
For the reasons things, didn't work some way
So If I fail, at least I will fail
Trying to be something I thought I could be
Something better than I had ever been
In this understanding in hope of something better
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Neverending (Remastered)
02:46
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Sometimes theres more to a thing
Than the little that you can see
Something hidden inside yourself
A power that is never ending
Its here then it seems its gone
Its gone away
They can call it a miracle
But its never ending
Cuz it never really ever runs out
And it grows in you each day
To give the fuel to the things in your life
And it never seems to stop
You just gotta let it come from your heart
And they say its a rarity
So rare to see
And we think it comes from something else
Cuz it couldn't come from me
I could not see it come from me
Break down
This non virtue
Break down
This isolation
And give it the fuel, the fuel that it needs
We depend on its light
To bring joy to our lives
And its not so mystical
This human feeling we all have inside
Share it once share it twice
And you'll see
A feeling of connectedness
A good feeling
Like water for our fucking souls
So when your feeling down
Just remember you have this inside
The power to repair
The stitching of humanity
So send it wide and send it free
Send it to every one
And send it to your enemies
Just always send it
Cuz we all need this love
This love
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12. |
Never Stop (Remastered)
02:25
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Some see fate as some external thing
When I know a lot comes from inside of me
I gotta get up to meet my day
So it ain't lost to me
And so I never stop
Never quit
Never give in
Because I know its
All about seeing things
To the end
And making sure I'm ready to meet them
Some things in life come so easily
But some things require a little more from me
Its almost like a test to see whats good
To see what I'm really about
So I cannot ever stop
Ever quit
Ever give in
Because I know its
All about seeing things
To the end
So I cannot ever stop
So I cannot ever quit
So I cannot ever stop
So I cannot ever stop
So I cannot ever stop
So I cannot ever stop
So I cannot ever stop
Cuz that's when we see what it really means
Everything in life is running its own path
And sometimes those paths intersect with me
They could bring joy or they could bring pain
But it's certain that they bring
And so I never stop
Never quit
I never give in
Because I know its
All about seeing things
To the end
And I know that
If I try
And never quit
I'll get by
And I know I'll
Learn the things
I need to learn
To grow again
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