There's a nature we innately understand that we rarely listen to
How strong am I,
I know the legacies I live within,
how strong am I
to use what I've learned with discipline
How strong am I
to take this resistance and make it free
how strong are we
Can you still hear me thro' all these distractions
and can you still see me tho all this smoke,
And do you have purpose
or you just paying off mortgage
and do you take rich drugs or poor drugs
to hide your ache for something more
How strong are we,
we know the legacies we live within,
how strong are we
to meet each other thro' this division.
How strong are we
to rise beyond these blinded leaders
how strong are we
Who spent the money, and who pays the price
to not be responsible must be so nice.
Did you hear about karma, and how it comes back,
too late to wear glasses when your sky turns black.
How strong are we we know the legacies we live within,
how strong are we
to meet each other thro' this division
How strong are we
to take this resistance and make it free
How strong are we
There's a nature we innately understand
that we rarely listen to
How strong am I
You're a ghost in my snow now
And a light in my red moon
You flow across me in waves
of I hope to see you soon
Your anchor drags behind me,
I feel your imprint on my thumbs,
And everywhere I go I hear you in the words that I use
In my theories, algebra and sums
Cos I've kicked myself for months now
It's bread and water without you
Bread and water
It's bread and water without you
So you stare at me through keyholes
like I'm some religion in the rain
Your defenses highlight my weaknesses now
When before you loved me all the same,
yeah you loved me all the same
I wonder what you're doing
I think of what I've done
Ghost in my snow now...
Something rumbling underneath my skin
I could not define it or invite it in
To let it in would be to liberate
To keep it in darkness is to propagate
It’s all about
Believing through something that you always doubt
When you have faith, you will be willing to wait
When you have faith, through all that logic and haste
It’s never too late
So try to create cos the last thing that breaks,
the last thing that breaks,
the last thing that breaks is your faith
Something shouting from behind my eyes
I'm looking too closely to recognize it
To gain perspective think it would be wise
Would you please listen while it testifies now
It’s all about
Believing through something that you always doubt
And I surrender to this storm
I'm tasting raindrops sweet and wet and warm
And may I never lose this faith that I've found
Keeps me anchored onto solid ground
So let lightning flash and wind swirl around
around, around, around
The words I have to say may well be simple but they're true
Until you give your love there's nothing more that we can do
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what I mean,
Have your eyes really seen
You say its very hard to leave behind the life we knew,
But there's no other way and now it's really up to you
Love is the key we my turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
When I was born,
my confidence was unmatched
by anyone.
And I could have sworn, my soul came from the sun.
When I was born I looked again one more time,
back to the light,
I waved goodbye and then I boldly
stepped into this night.
Into this maze of conditioning
no choice in my positioning.
Into this thicket with no return ticket,
'til I get to the other side.
Well, I passed a church,
they were crying on the floor.
And I passed some children,
they were eager playing war,
my eyes grew sore.
And how do I save myself from this disease
and how do I keep my soul pure,
Please
Into this maze of conditioning
no choice in my positioning.
Into this thicket with no return ticket,
'til I get to the other side.
I was lost now just like tears in the rain,
And I fell angry
with this burden of pain with no refrain.
So then I decided that even love was a lie
and all I had left was me alone
I
Ruby's smiling
not because she's happy,
but cause she's planning her escape,
Ruby's smiling to make sure you feel comfortable
inside your smiling world
behind your smiling tape
Ruby take us to the Promised Land,
Ruby you are Moses with a different band
Speak the truth girl so the slaves will understand
We'll find our real smiles hidden in the desert.
No one suspects her
no one can see a difference,
because she smiles the way you taught her, candycoated.
An' she can play you
better than you ever could play her
but its boring she's kind of bloated;
and sometimes she finds she will play herself now that is dangerous that is lying.
That is lying.
So she is leaving
she is taking everything, she's not coming back, no
she's not coming back.
We've seen this smile before
on Lilith's face as she slammed the door.
Left Adam standing in the Garden of Eden
he had a hard-on and was ready for breeding,
she didn't want but he couldn't hear.
She said "cook your own meals and have a wank
my dear."
I knew I was treading water,
and your baggage floated all around.
There were no lifeboats,
should I grab a suitcase,
it was sink or swim to higher ground.
An' I stretch between, telling you everything
and nothing at all.
Delilah saw the yellow flowers before us,
just in case you didn't know.
They rooted for me because I wore their colours,
told me not to linger, just grow.
I'm glad us girls could get over Salem,
And not divide each other not watch each other fall.
I deliver what I want you to see,
Just like you have always done for me,
But this can never be a war.
The object of this game is to leave with equal score.
And the moth and the streetlight were in their infinite tease,
and Icarus shouted down from the clouds and the trees,
Well, he tried to warn them both,
be careful of the fire,
be careful of the air,
for he will never tire and she is rarely fair.
Love's not the illusion of desire,
still he tried to break their stare,
what choices will you make he said with failure in his smile,
I'm sure this beauty's fake, I'm sure this love is vile.
But the moth just saw the fire, beautiful fire,
kept her warm and was fuel for her dance.
The lamp marveled as she swam through the air,
is that something, was that something,
maybe something there.
Seven fat Englishmen sit around you on bar stools
Blood red faces unaware that they're dying fast,
And as this blood squeezes through their blocked arteries
These farming men, drinking gin, pickling their livers
It's normal here
And I reach into this circle
To fetch you out
and I reach into this circle to fetch you out of this
sticky mess of
gin and blood and soil but
you can't leave,
gin and blood and soil but
you can't leave.
And as the Spice Girls prostitute girl power in the background
On tinny speakers you smile, and desperation
seeps through your teeth
as you laugh with them
Agree with them,
make business with them
Cos this is your life
I have nowhere to take you
and you have nowhere to go
I think it's just too painful for you
to think there's any better
I won't get lost in you however my will wants me to
and I will feel you more if I walk now and close this door
But that is not to say
that it will end that way,
although I know it's out of my hands.
Forever reasoning mind
knows it will never find
a way to foretell how the pennies land.
how the pennies land.
So I'll attempt to entertain the idea we're just not the same,
I'm pushing hard against this door your breeze
keeps whispering to explore
There is no logic here I'm lost in every tear
and swirl with every wave that's breaking.
The knots that reason weaves, unravel when your sleeves,
are holding warm and soft around me....
around me (just memories now)
It's not as if I can't remove you from my brain
It's gonna be a surgical procedure but I,
I can do it, I can do it again.
And again and again and again
So I won't get lost in you however my will wants me to
and I will feel you more if I walk now and close this door.
But I won't get lost in you
But I won't get lost in you
Won't get lost in you....
Baby I must leave you soon
It's all I know, how to protect myself
You say you want to know
I reveal and then I show
Oh, I'm the fool
Cos I can't find you anywhere
An' I am left here on this beach
With these fruits of ours
They are rotting in the sun
Come...
Come to me again
This time I will give you my mouth
This time I...
I've been quizzing all the trees
One by one
What they know of your alchemy
please
Cos you reveal myself to me
In my darkest place
And you've unlocked and left my cells
And depart with out a trace
Come to me again
This time I will give you my mouth
Come to me again
This time I...
It's all I know, how to protect myself
how to protect myself
We talked about loss and the patterns of past
and the pieces of ourselves we'd killed over time
We thought then of love, and surrendered our eyes
and I looked for myself through your dissolving disguise.
My breath in is your breath out,
we begin and for a moment lifting this deception of being separate from you
My breath in is your breath out,
we walk in, into the ocean, shifting my perception of being one drop of dew
We talked about God and the limbs on the floor,
and the legalization of deviance
We thought then of sense and how often it's veiled,
and how the machines and their components have already failed
My breath in is your breath out,
we begin and for a moment lifting this deception of being separate from you
My breath in is your breath out,
we walk in, into the ocean, shifting my perception
of being one drop of dew
It's been years and I'm still here
longing for what has always been true,
life and death, us and them are two parts of one
whole just misconstrued.
My breath in is your breath out,
we begin and for a moment lifting this deception of being separate from you
My breath in is your breath out,
we walk in, into the ocean, shifting my perception
of being one drop of dew
My breath in is your breath out
My breath in is your breath out
I bought six sunflowers at Sunday's farmers market
The one near Selma and Vine
I took them all home put them into a big green vase
And they were pretty
I was proud they were mine
They brought fire into my house for six or so days
Soon they were droopy I thought
Hmm, time pays
But one just kept on burning
Like she was looking me in the eye
Saying fuck you bitch
I'm gonna live without the soil, the sun, the sky
Even tho' I have no roots and I'm dismembered and on display
I will burn
You'll drink my life blood 'til consumption is passé
I will burn for all my sisters and for my brothers too
And all the flowers long forgotten
Yeah I will burn for you
I just looked into her face
Seeing her triumph her struggle and our race
And I saw my comfort then and the numbness and self pity it brings
Like that's some kind of excuse like I can cut myself off another self
Indulgent illusion to hide my violence to hide our violence
Well, we all cut this flower down
Be she in yourself in a field in a sweatshop or in a small zapatista town
Yeah we all
When will war be over
When will war be over
When will war be another cliché
Just like peace is packaged today oh when will war be over