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I
03:36
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This world’s on its last breath
I think we’re better than this
Can we not sacrifice to make a world where we can thrive
I think it’s time to change our plans
I think it’s time to change our plans
I think it’s time to change our plans
I think it’s time to change
I
Want peace
I
Want change
Don’t think we’d let ourselves die
To live our life more comfortably
My heart’s in overdrive with every single new device
Can I not learn that what I need is here inside of me
If we can open up our eyes, we will begin to see
I think it’s time to change our heads
I think it’s time to change our heads
I think it’s time to change our heads
I think it’s time to change
I
Want peace
I
Want change
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Rebel
03:57
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Staring into the screen that fills the space
I look into its face
It emulates my longing for change
Google, show me where I’ll be content
Low rent, mountain
Somewhere I’ll be(Come) more present
No shortage of people anywhere
No shortage of anything but clean air
I can’t complain but I will
I will complain
Rebel
If what they taught you isn’t love
Rebel
Though I am part monkey
With the worst of you in me
I can see what’s underneath
And I know I can be free
I know I can be free, just repeat
Be free, be free, be free, be free
Be free, be free, be free, be free
Death to our pain, reawaken
Reawaken
Rebel
If what they taught you isn’t love
Rebel
Be free
Death to pain and misery
Be free
Be love
If what they taught you isn’t love
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3. |
Here In My World
04:19
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Walking in this place
I can see patterns in the space
Pictures are singing their embrace
I can be happy
If when looking at a tree
I can see it is just a tree
A living, perceiving entity
We are this place
Here in my world
I can hear the birds
I read your pain online
I feel your pain
Talking in your sleep
I respond, Taylor, you hear me
Are you still inside your dream
Are you happy
Waking up at dawn
I can see the sun is being born
Clouds above are making love
Was I dreaming
Our car is freezing cold
On the side of this old road
My bladder might explode
We are living
Here in my world
I can hear the birds
I saw your pain online
I feel your pain
Here in my world
I drive through deserts
You are the thing you need
You are me
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4. |
Serpent
03:07
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I’m a serpent
Whispering away my song
Everything you know is so wrong
Everything knows what you’ve done
If life has purpose
Let it be to sing our own song
Let it be to think for our own
Let it be right here all along
Let it be to reap what we sow
Let it be the death of ego
This life is so perfect
Yet we throw away what we love
Burning down truth down with God
Left with a body we pay for
Am I its servant
Or a part of God
These questions won’t leave me alive
If it’s not working
Why don’t you make it a dance
Moved by the wind in a trance
Letting the stream carve its path out
Look in, we are empty
But we still think we are I
Turning the lights off to wake up
Eating the fruit that we gave you
The light turns purple
When it meets what is unknown
Everything you think is a fable
Left out of your riddle
If our pain is worth it
What do we gain from our mourning
The answer is calling
The truth you are longing
The All is forgiving
Eternally bonding
All is forgiven
Lying awake under the stars
Knowledge is freedom from the gods
We are the answer to the cosmos
I’m your serpent
And I won’t leave you alone
Until your answer is born
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Grace
04:40
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Grace is pain erased
If I could set myself free, I’d be free
While we’re chasing safe and frugal advice
Well if I were in your seat, I’d think twice
What I begin to see
Loving you is loving me
The hell that you are in is temporary
Breathe, let go, be free
Grace is pain erased
If I could let myself be, I’d be free
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6. |
Wearing Me Down
03:04
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I see a hateful narrative
Bashing another hateful narrative
I think that you’re a hypocrite
I think that I’m a hypocrite, too
I see a world not built for us
Consuming all its energy
There ain’t no job for me anyway
We are our worst enemy
Enough is enough
My contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love
Is wearing me down
If I’m aware that I’m more than flesh and word and thought
I’ll figure it out
I see plastic water bottles
In the most pristine scenery
Nothing lasts forever anyway
Do we still care about anything
Enough is enough
My contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love
Is wearing me down
If I’m aware that I’m more than flesh and word and thought
I’ll figure it out
Ya, your contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love
Is wearing me down
If we’re aware that we’re more than what we have been taught
We’ll figure it out
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7. |
Learn to Unlearn
04:13
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Wake from your sleep
In a dream
Every being suffering
Nothing will remain
Let go of your pain
Let go of your name
Remain
Nothing will go away
Be a wave
Be still
Be change
Believe me
All is hopeless
All is love
Fulfilling our purpose
Learning to love
Thich, help me
My mind won’t quiet
The window is closed
And so is my fellow man
Locked inside
Fear of death
Fear of life
Remember what I heard you say
There is no birth and nothing dies
All is hopeless
All is love
Fulfilling our purpose
Learning to love
All is perfect
All turns to dust
Forgetting our purpose
Learn to unlearn
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8. |
Hot Springs
03:07
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Waking up in my tent I feel the cold
Might as well, you’re getting old and tired
Just want to live like I’m retired
Spend my days on the road to better things
How far’s the drive to Santa Fe
We could camp next to the hot springs
Being here with you
With this mountain view
Watching fish kiss me
In these hot springs
Growing up I felt
The world was ill, rebel
I still feel how I felt
So, I’ll be here with mother earth
Being here with you
Under the desert moon
Watching blues turn pink
In, in, in this
Hot spring, hot spring, hot spring
In and hanging out
7 miles to be here now
I don’t mind the pain my legs feel
When the world becomes my bedroom
Being here with you
In the forest gloom
Watching fog cover trees
In these hot springs
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9. |
On My Own
05:23
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On the top of white mountain
I get no cell service up here
I don’t think anybody’s near
I could just stay here
In my bedroom where I write
I can sit comfortably and quietly
Watch the voice inside my mind
I can just sit here
In the canyon by the spring
I can read Jung, Pinchbeck and see
The Dao flowing through this precious stream
I can just be here
On my own
In the car on the highway
I can watch drivers swerve and sway
Just to arrive without delay
We are just people
In the camera lens I find
Scenes of the most fluorescent kind
Stars are born on top of light
In this river
On my own
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10. |
Begin Again
03:48
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I know who I want to be
I think more than I need to think
Retreat into my melody
Concrete covering everything
Can we let go of jealousy
Repeat the daily offering
Indeed, we are perdurable
Set free, we will endure more
They compete with foreign markets
Hungry, they fill their pockets
Can’t eat if there’s nothing to eat
Can’t see what’s right in front of me
Well I can presume what your intention was
Consume and say the world is ours
Too soon to say if all is lost
I too am part of what I cause
But I know that I can begin again
Begin again
Begin again
I can begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Hardly where I want to be
Until I have some money
I’ll have to look in front of me
Boredom’s a healthy therapy
Do I belong in cities
No stars and no forgiveness
No time for spirit business
My mind is not for your control
But you can have a piece of what I think
You treat humans like they are sheep
We sleep but intermittently
Our dream is coming to its end
And you know that we can begin again
Begin again
Begin again
We can begin again
Begin again
Begin again
I can begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again
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11. |
Eye
03:20
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Can’t deny
What I have seen in my mind
Taste something sweet in my eye
Redefine
What does it mean to be alive
If we are free, then who am I
Eye
Need to find
Replaces need to unwind
Replaces need to climb
If I’m an eye
Then what I see is my bride
What’s seeing me is inside
I to eye
Insufferably, we opine
Long for a dream we design
I
More, we want more
More, we need more
Love, we are love
Love, we need love
Eye
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