Afterlight
1,000 sleepless nights 1,000 empty days
Try as I might it’s hard to find the way
As a little boy I had a dream
I would grow up right I would be something
So I took that dream & brought it to life
Started to let it sing and let it shine
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Everywhere I turn I find a wall of greed
Trying to break my heart but it wont succeed
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I will die trying to light the night sky
Im fine cuz I am trying
You don’t see the stars but you see their light
Theres no perfect path that climbs straight up the mountainside
Theres rocks & stones & ticking time
So I hold my dream right by the side
Cuz it gives you things when you get tired
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Their afterlight… afterlight…ooh…ooh
1,000 sleepless nights 1,000 empty days
Try as I might it’s hard to find the way
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You don’t see the stars but you see their afterlight
You don’t see the stars but you see the afterlight
You don’t see the stars but you see the afterlight
afterlight… afterlight…ooh…ooh
Expedition of the Heart
If the jasmine grows thru the mud and snow
If the ocean flows in sun and storm both
Think of what the night will bring
What the constellation’s pointing to
If the redwood tall born of fire’s call
The mountain is cuz everything shifts
Think of what the knife will bring
When it cuts thru all the packaging
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All I got to do is feel it
Crawl beyond the skin that’s peeling
All I got to do is breathe in
Woo hoo hoo everyday I start
Woo hoo hoo expedition of the heart
If the child cries out of mother’s eyes
When the moonless skies call her painful tides
Think of what the storm will clear
Til only love is sitting here
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Woo hoo hoo every step adopts
Woo hoo hoo expedition of the heart
I’ll find my way reincarnate a hope out of all the flames
I’ll give away all that fades to dance in the nameless name
(Verse chords quiet) All I gotta do is feel it
All I gotta do is breathe
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Birth of Fire
You paint my mind in the moonlight
Dream of the warmth of the sunshine
Toss & I turn toss & I turn
Hold me tighter that I might burn
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Fire rises til it’s gone
Higher
Fading the lines of magical and impossible
Dream of the night of hot soup and singalongs
I twist & I turn stomp and I yearn
Hold me tighter I cry til I burn
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Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Im getting closer Ive been listening to the clouds
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Im focused pouring my heart out into my hands
(Quiet) Fire lights us like the dawn
Higher
Fire learning from God
To lighten up
No Song
A sparrow don’t ask is my voice pretty
It just sings its song
Don’t ask when you know the answer
Just sing your song
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I want you
To take me
By the hand
Baby
Believe me
I’m your man
A tree can grow tall and straight when there’s no wind
Your soul can do the same thing too
In the spring time all the flowers bloom
Every day’s spring in you
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You can say you’ve been loving
You can say you’ve been kind
You can say you’ve been lonely
You know that’s all in your mind
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There’s song then no song
A song once again
There’s song then no song
A song once again
Who-hoo wha-hoo…
Miracles Abound
Maybe there’s fame & fortune out beyond the city lights
Maybe there’s coming darkness on the other side
Maybe this song is precious maybe this song is lies
Maybe there is something beyond you & I
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Don’t let it stop you from living now
Don’t let it stop you
Miracles abound Here and now
Miracles abound the heart gets around
Take it on inspiration there’s more than meets the eye
Take it as education earth wind water life
Maybe this step is painless maybe this step takes flight
Maybe time is ever on your side
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Take it as inspiration you’re made for these times
Give it imagination the dance is all you find
Days are slow you can run like dogs after an afterglow
Trained to stow away all the things that’ll help us grow
Tied to the show by a string made only of yes or no
You see a snake and not a rope
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Meadow
I wanna wake up on a mountaintop
Look out over it all
See the river twist and curve and sing
See what man could be (could be)
Feel the wind blow my soul breathes it in
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Im a wildflower in a meadow in the sun
Im a wildflower in a meadow on a mountain
I sing and dance cuz im my mothers son
I am the mountain
I wanna wake up where the seasons never stop
And live off what the sun conjures up
See the hope of all of us rise & magnify like trees in the breeze in the summertime
Realize what ive been looking for was never that far away
Feel the wind blow my soul sends it on
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Whoo-oo- ooh-oo…
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Im a wildflower lifting my face up to the sun
Im a wildflower lifting myself up…
I sing & dance cuz im my mothers son
Oh I am the I am the I am the mountain.
Fantastic Mystery
Complete the circle hand in hand
The sea is turning life has a plan
Complete the circle It’s a dance dance dance
The waves bear tidings She is wealth she is sand
All that I have All that I need
Is standing here Alongside me
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We sing & dance as a choir now
With my part & yours is the harmony
Sing & dance as a choir now
With your part & mine is in harmony
Complete the spiral it goes on and on
The stars are dreaming You are the dawn
Complete the spiral You’re inside and out
Universe reflecting All you weep & shout
All that I bear All that I see
Is standing here within everything
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Tied to us all is a cloth of golden light
It follows me on life thru life
Everywhere I go it weaves out a tapestry
Wired to us all is a voice of golden light
It sounds along day & night
Everywhere I go it weaves a garden of rhapsody
A majesty of fantastic mystery
Complete the circle you’re the circumference
The ground’s been waiting for your feet
Complete the circle each action remembrance
Wondrous abundant mystery
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Looking for Land
Well I am about the happiest man you will ever know
In the darkest cloud I still see a smiling rainbow
But now and again I cant help feeling this is a living hell
Some days I am caught up in a hurricane
Cant tell which way is up or out back to safety
And I cant help but wishing for an easier mission
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But Im a polar bear looking for land
Yes im a polar bear swimming as fast as I can
I live my life following the constellations of my heart
Searching for love following the dove knowing happiness is in the cards
But id be lying to everyone if I said I never felt like giving up
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Nobody knows just where I am
Its getting colder and colder I feel im giving in
When the morning comes I hope im done swimming
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Im a polar bear looking for land
IM a polar bear on my own til the end
Just one out here out like a no-man
Just one out here who could use a hand
Im a polar bear looking for land
Don’t know where but I hope to see home again
But im a polar bear takes more than heat to do me in
If anyone can get thru this and stand
You better believe I can
Jackson
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Ive gone to Jackson
Found God on the mountaintop
Laid in a sage field
I found my place
Summer sunlight breathes down on my face
Cant have worries in such a wide open space
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And its true the skies are not cloudy all day
The mountain blooms and it’s everybody that wants to play
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Summer evenings on the square
Oh God is everywhere
And its easy to hear
When you listen to the mountain air
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I found my place
Eye For An Eye
In the dust falls the crust of a boy
But his soul’s been dried for years (and years)
Ever since the day his family was taken away
Replaced by hate
The fire in the sky says USA
The gun in his hand says USA
Who do you think he thinks is to blame
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This is an eye for an eye
Id give anything for my sight
I miss the colors of the spring time
Lord I pray for a sunrise
In the rust belt sits a man
Never really had him a chance
Born on the wrong side of town
Only work he sees is when the sun goes down
The fire in his eyes says us vs. them
The gun in his hand says I just want to live
Do you understand that monsters are made
Chorus – lord I pray to look in her eyes
We’ll never put down our guns
Til we see the blood’s on everyone
We cant win by killing them
Cuz we are them & they are us
Chorus – id give anything for a little light
Lord can I see if I really try An eye for an eye…
No Words Are Needed
Im planting pines higher than the midday sun
Im planting light in the hearts of everyone
And I wont see the fruit or the flower but I hear the songbirds sing
Im standing tall tall as I can be cuz I wanna see the source of it all
I am where I am on the blood & the backs of millions of women & men
We couldn’t flower if they didn’t plant seeds
We cant dance without the beat
Theres a little voice inside I wanna believe
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Listen to the heart that cries no words are needed no words are needed
Living with the heart in flight you’re a goldmine you’re redefined
Open your books some things you can only find if you stop to look
Get yourself shook time is just passing a breathing transaction you’re the picture in a picture book
And I want to see the end of the story but I hear that there’s glory in every scene
We couldn’t flower if they didn’t plant seeds
We cant dance without the beat
There’s a little voice inside learning to lead
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Bridge – oohs
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Im planting light in the hearts of everyone (3x)
Stone Inside the River’s Flow
If I was a song would you sing along
Dance my melody upon your tongue
And if I was a cloud would I stand out
Like a heart against the blue before I fizzle out
I stand my ground as it slides down
Ive heard it said that a heart outlives death so we’ll see
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Home is where you dig my bones
Home is where my song echoes
Unknown only the heart can go
A stone inside the river’s flow
If I was a tide would you wander in
Dance within the wave in a moonlit grin
If I was a mountain would you touch my face
Like a heart that only knew to hold space
Whatever I am an atom or the wind
Time and time again nothing less than your friend
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From my star there’s a line
To your heart thru time
One little star one little line
One symphonic heart no word can define
If I was a song would you sing along
Dance my melody upon your tongue
If you were a song I would sing along
A harmony beyond death’s lungs
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Tomorrow Never Knows
(John Lennon/ Paul McCartney)
Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
Yet you may see the meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all and love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the colour of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Angel By My Side
In the darkness of the night
I see your face in my eyes
In the mirror the mirror
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And everything’s better
And everything’s fine
And nothing could be better
If we could spend some time together oh
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And if I go down swinging
I didn’t throw the fight
Cuz even if I go down swinging
Ive still got my angel by my side
In the darkness of the sky
I feel the clouds in my eyes
Like a fever in the mirror
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I might fall in love with you
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