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Good News
04:28
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I’ve been feeling a little cluttered
Like my thoughts don’t fit the space
Every word I never uttered
Getting restless in its place
I could use a little purging
Take some pressure off the doors
Something soulfully re-burgeoning
Something stirring in the core
So give me that news
Give me that good news
I’ve been feeling a little tired
Like my body’s old and worn
Sitting chewing on my fingernails
‘Til the flesh around is torn
Need some new life in these legs
Need a new sound
Clear the old webs from my head, now, right now
I ain’t finished yet, I ain’t erased this debt
For all the sleep I lose, I need more good news
Oh no I ain’t quite done, I gotta get me some
For every unhealed bruise, I need more good news
It ain’t over now, I gotta get bold somehow
If it’s gonna be courage I choose, I’m gonna need more good news
I ain’t at my end, I gotta feel whole again
I gotta get a will to move, I’m gonna need more good news
Give me that news, Give me that news, give me that good news
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I am waking, I am sleeping, I am grieving, with the news
Yet another solemn meeting in the hallows of the pews
Salty water, sweet communion, stillness stale as chapel bread
Only the hopeless, the expectant and the dead
In my aging I am losing all my bloodlust for my health
Every wound I once would give you now a wound within myself
May we never in our quarrels be unyielding or unsaid
Only the hopeless the expectant and the dead
I am music, I am soul, though I’m magic I am real
I am rising reimagined, reignited, re-appealed
No don’t put my fire to sleep don’t put my history to bed
Only the hopeless the expectant and the dead
In the morning, I am retching, we are losing more than lives
We are keeping buds from blooming, oh the weeds are thick and high
I am wounded, I am reeling, but I am nowhere near destroyed
I won’t take on inhibition, I won’t give away my joy
And I decline your invitation, to take no pathway make no tread
Only the hopeless, only the hopeless
Only the hopeless, the expectant, and the dead
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Dance Sister Dance
04:33
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I see your palisades have crumbled down
I can barely take the sight
And here inglorious I see you now
Battling dark and light
I know how blessed I am to see you weak
That beauty loud and real
My soul may finally see your soul complete
On this holy ground we feel
I don’t know what you came to do but, I came hoping you’d
Cast off your cares and lace up your shoes and, show me something
If you made other plans, you won’t need them
Demands on demands, we won’t feed them
So dance sister dance, like you got the freedom to dance
Cause you got the freedom to dance
Oh you fought for love you fought in vain, it left your spirit burned
Darling the love you sought was loss to gain, that fondness needing earned
Now in courage you have opened palms, I got your swift reward
Oh darling I don’t carry any alms, but now my soul will see your soul adored
Now we all got weight, we just carrying around
Well tomorrow we might break, but tonight, we gon’ break this down
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Love and Affection
03:26
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I know you mean me well, so you say, so you say
But you know you kill me dear, to draw that line, but give me time
So what I waste ‘til you’re mine, waiting time, for dated wine
I’ve had my fill of drink cheap and new, give me you
Don’t you want my love and affection dear I want to give you it all
Don’t you need my love and affection dear, what’s all this waiting for
I’ve had enough of hands touched my chance, sidelong glance
While I hold my breath and tongue, cursed to choke, bust a lung
I see you stacked up, bowed up, brightly wrapped up like it’s Christmas Eve
I’d see your wrappings torn, haste the morn, when Lord is born
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Burden (Live)
05:07
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Burden, could you be more in my chest
Pilfering every semblance of rest with my breath
You masterful mason, walls out of air
Closing the gap ‘tween my soul and despair, soul and despair
Burden, could you be more in my mind
Pondering you every bit of the time I can find
We are but lovers, sad to have wed
Wedged by resentment but sharing a bed, sharing a bed
No more resistance, bone grinding bone
I can’t take anymore steps on my own, ‘neath your load
Oh burden, could you be more in my heart
Have I been destined for you from the start, from the start
Try as I might, plead though I plead
No less a part than the blood that I, no less a part than the blood that I
No less a part than the blood that I bleed are you of me
Are you of me
Are you of me?
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'Til It's Gone
03:45
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My light don’t make no sound, it gets brighter when the sun goes down
More glaring in the dead of dark, you won’t ever see a sight so stark
Go on love me, love me ‘til it’s gone
My light don’t make no peep, but it wakes me when I’m fast asleep
It bids me to come back to, reminds me that there’s more to do
Go on love me, love me ‘til it’s gone
Won’t you, love me with a bathing light
Like you, trying to find the fear I hide
For to, break it like the coming dawn
Go on love me, love me ‘til it’s gone
My light don’t raise no voice, you can see it in spite of this noise
It don’t need to insist on it’s way, sun need only exist to make day
Go on love me, love me ‘til it’s gone
Now my light don’t speak no word, but ain’t never one to go unheard
It’s resonance strong and sweet, we all humming on the frequency
Go on love me, love me ‘til it’s gone
Go on love me, go on love me ‘til it’s gone
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Second Assurance
05:21
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Second assurance blessings afresh
I hear you’re overflowing, well I’m empty yet
Come on do better, give me my due
Wasting my vigor working for you
Now how do I know, if I’m good anymore
Watching and waiting, looking around
Like I’ve been upstanding and you let me down
Farce is a fixture, fiction holds fast
Fast to forget you, first shall be last
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8. |
Don't Leave Me Now
04:58
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We were a rolling thunder
No one could see us bonded strong
But I know they heard us rumbling
We shook the earth they’re standing on
You said Ooo don’t leave me now
Ooo don’t leave me now
I may be born to have you
My parents’ blood a funded trust
My brothers and my sisters
Our spoiled hearts were threat to bust
I have myself to blame then
Now that I loosed my grip on you
Will you in turn release me
Lord knows I’d plummet if you do, Lord knows I’d plummet if you do
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9. |
Can't
04:17
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This discontentment is a bane and it may as well be sin
Cause it lusts as lucid in the day as whenever lights go dim
It breeds depression hard to bind but it’s harder not to start
Cause it’s slow and steady in your mind and then quick to reach your heart
I might want to but I can’t quit yet
Don’t know what I’m gonna do but I can’t quit yet
We often see each other plain ‘cause we often see ourselves
We put our brokenness away and our glories on the shelves
Our failures nowhere to be shown, what of our empathy?
Unused and little even known, gang way for vanity
I can’t quit yet
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10. |
On Hope
05:28
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Sometimes I think that I’m best alone if I’m rarely lonely I must be free
No need to see but that of my own, then I look at you like slavery
Sometimes I know I am self obsessed, I think of myself every time I think
The larger I loom in my narrow mind, the smaller my joy begins to shrink
Oh dry reservoirs, oh no deep as they are
Oh no more face to save
I am running running on hope
Sometimes I don’t follow through well I’m not the best in the worst of days
I always had a heart that just quits, I mind that can wander far away
Sometimes I ponder future regrets, what will I wish I would’ve done
Down in my soul, deep sorrow sets, a decade’s remorse already done
Just so you know once you have hope you can’t help but hold on
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