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Some Folks
04:21
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Some folks just never been around
Been around – been around so much love
Some folks just never been around so much love
Standing hands in pockets
Acting rough like you don’t care
But I know you do
I know you desperately do
Chorus:
Some folks were told very early in life
There’s not enough for all
But there’s room enough
For perfect strangers and room enough for us
I can’t make you want to stay
I cannot hold your feet to the ground
And make you walk your road
That’s between you and your maker
There’s plenty of room for difference
Plenty of room enough for our cares
Room enough for some unexpected
Room enough for us
(Chorus)
I got a few kind words – But no guarantees
About the world that so divides us
Well there’s room enough for perfect strangers
That’s room enough for us
Some folks just never been around
Been around
Been around something so rare
Some folks just weren’t told how to take good care
Some folks dress their hopes in worn out clothes
Just to be safe
It’s hard for me to know you ‘til I see right in your eyes
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You are here in my dreams like an angel by my side
Telling me I will be alright
Leading me bravely through dangerous waters
And living through horrors that I also suffer
When the light comes shining into the window
One of us dares to pick up the phone
Differences seem to outnumber connections
And I hang up feeling confused and alone
Chorus:
And I don't know where all this is going
How I long for wisdom I do not yet have
I must trust in myself and in love and in you
May we someday understand and know the truth
Sometimes in dreams you tell me I'm doing great
Sometimes you hestitate before walking away
and brother you seem like a blind boy before satan
While I lie there quaking, you have nothing to say
But the day came when you were standing by the ocean
And I found the courage to stand next to you
I remembered the dream where you were the angel
I felt our roots going back as deep as our lifetimes
interwined beneath the known
(Chorus)
Lately in dreams I've had something to offer
Gave you a blanket when you had no bed
And I saw how tender you are in your heart
Still when faced with our sorrow, you turn your head
But there's an ocean of light streaming around us
We don't give up completely 'cause we both feel it there
And I'll have to live with my doubt and confusion
Never let them make me forget
The dream where you were the angel
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3. |
Which Way Forward
02:53
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4. |
Picture Smile Perfect
03:50
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Picture Smile Perfect
In the mean time in the morning
In the evening that beckons you
What the hell its something to do
Instead of think about you
Chorus:
I ain’t crazy
I know what I need
to keep my body and soul together
and give as I can
Love as I can
as I can
Write a letter
Try to make it feel better
Like its practically a sane thing to do
Like a well lit street on one of those nights
Wondering should you just retreat
(Chorus)
When I am in condition red
My list of things to do
Is ever growing longer
I’m no stronger
Some days I’m just bone tired
I’m just bone tired
(Chorus)
Deep breath warm sigh, relax
Like interpreting a dream
It’s really just the thought that counts in the end
and the feeling
(Chorus)
Count the miles in the daytime
Counting sheep at night
What the hell. It’s something to do
Its something
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5. |
Mojo
03:51
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6. |
Come And Go
03:10
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I don’t know how to reach her
She comes and goes
She comes and goes
And when she’s here her smile is all
I need to let me know
That its much too hard to watch her come and go
Come and go I want to be there
Here and gone I am afraid
If you’d tell me you’re returning
I could keep this fire fed
It could be enough to warm you when you’re feeling cold and blue
Come and go
Come and go my door is open if you need a place to hide
With your trust approaching, I hear that child cry
And if you come to be beside me, I will know its for awhile
I’ll be grateful for these moments when you choose to reside
Within my love, Oh within my love
Come and go I want to there
Here and gone I am afraid
If you’d tell me you’re returning
I could keep this fire fed
It could be enough to warm you when you’re feeling cold and blue
Come and go again
There is a place of rest to find
Somewhere in your heart
I can not lead you where I have not been
Or places I don’t know
But as long as I am able, I’ll await you sale return
And it’d still so hard to watch you come and go
Come and go I want to there
Here and gone I am afraid
If you’d tell me you re returning
I could keep this fire fed
It could be enough to warm you
when you’re feeling cold and blue
Come and go no more
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7. |
How I Feel
03:16
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Every time. you ask me what’s going on
It’s all I can do
To look into your eyes
And every night when you ask me
Where I’m going to I look away
And tell you lies
(Chorus)
‘Cause how I feel
Is like a river that’s running
Running wild into her arms
And while I can’t tell you
what’s burning inside of me
I can’t see how it could do you any harm
(And while I’m there I feel so sate and secure
I’ll never see, so I never see how
it’ll do you any harm.)
Every time the phone rings late at night
And you come to tell me
It’s that friend, on the phone again
With my heart pounding
I go to take her call,
I don’t know why,
I can’t let you in.
(Chorus)
And every time you ask me why I haven’t brought someone home
o meet you yet; I shuffle around
I’m looking down at my feet
I’m thinking no, no
you’ll never understand my life
what if I said
there’s a woman I want you to meet.
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Storyteller
03:50
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Storyteller tell me a story from back in the day
When Panthers roamed
in search of a little taste of freedom
Tell me about Che and the way
he declined a desk job in favor of the spread of revolution
Crossing borders, Making waves
Spreading hope until his dying day
Set up to take a fall
Stay strong Geronimo
Don’t let them keep you in hobbles
After the chain is gone, Stay free in your mind
Geronimo’s free
Storyteller what if the man is you
Who finds himself on death row
Hanging on by a thread
It’s a technicality but it still means a lot to me
Storyteller what if the woman is you?
Ramona knows the story
Of Mumia Abu Jamal
But then again, somewhere
Don’t we all?
Set up to take a fall
Stay strong Mumia
Don’t let them keep you in hobbles
After the chain is gone
Stay free in your mind
Mumia stay free
Storyteller talk to me
Of history repealing itself again
inspire me with reminders
of struggles that have come and gone struggles come and gone
Set up to take a fall
Stay strong one and all
Don’t let them keep you in hobbles
After the chain gone
Stay free in our mind
You’ve got to be free
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9. |
Shooting Star
04:52
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Baby you’re a shooting star
With me for only a moment
And now you’re gone
Baby you’re a shooting star
My good fortune to have been there
As you passed through me
Threw me
Chorus:
I would have liked you to stay
but I don’t have no reins on you
I would have liked you to stay
but love’s a mist I’ve never understood
I would have liked you to stay
but you shone brightly
and then you went away
Baby you’re a wild eyed pony
brown and dancing
pausing briefly to take the sugar from my hand
Everybody wants a pony
but you got to run
where your restless heart demands
but didn’t we have fun
dancing
In the mist that rose before the dawn
(Chorus)
Baby you’re a shooting star
Can’t be still for nobody
But brighter than the other stars by far
Baby you’re a shooting star
Let me let go
Appreciate the show
Know that I’ve been blessed
By the light of a star in distress
And walk on
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Uniforms
03:19
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11. |
Playing Cards
03:46
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12. |
Women's Bodies
04:05
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A piece of the history of Western Civilization
is that women were permanent children under the law
You went from your father to your husband
and you had no rights at all
Does it strike you as connected to this piece of our past
that the women of today we hold up as ideal
are without exception small, slender and youthful
No room for variation, no room to heal
Chorus:
Don't teach me to hate my body
I'm a woman I've been around a while
Don't teach me to hate my body
I have a woman's body not a child's
I stopped watching television and looking at magazines
But I still feel oppressed
by our culture's expectation of me
Don't put me on a metal scale
and tell me I'm not small enough
With furrowed brow you imply that if I'm not small
I won't be loved
(Chorus)
Let's look at the roots of this sickly tree
We're livin' in the branches of 5000 years of patriarchy
Don't let it hypnotize you remove yourself from the scene
Your body's beautiful
the problem is the context we've been in
To be independent, strong and big
threatens the status quo
It's only been 75 years since women had the vote
The laws have changed misogyny went underground
Any time you hate your body soceity's doing just fine
Keeping you down
(Chorus)
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13. |
The Shores of Guatemala
04:27
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Rebecca Riots Berkeley, California
Rebecca Riots was a female “radical folk” trio founded in 1993 by its members, Andrea Prichett, Lisa Zeiler, and Eve
Decker.
"A band with a conscience that heals minds with its social and political commentary"
- San Francisco Chronicle
“The trio is far and away one of the Bay Area's most impressive bands. Rebecca Riots should be a household name.”
- East Bay Express, California
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