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KS Rhoads - Chains
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And then I rose to the top of the world
and saw that I was blessed
I saw that it was built on the backs of the poor and the oppressed
I saw this endless spinning
Of ending up back at the beginning
Of headlong races to where we sat
But oh the places we could go if the world was flat
And I was tired and defeated
With nothing turned out as I thought
But if I always do what I've always done then I'll only get what I always got
I saw the masses yawning stolen breaths
That they might breath the next
Tall drinks, queen ants and half mast cigarettes
The same lives the same pain
Lay like embers in the rain
And I saw all things invisible that bind me
Lady luck was smiling but it was at the guy behind me
Green and brown girls of the sea
Take me, but don't ever wake me
You want to be free
You want to be free
You want to be free
Why are you living in Chains?
And I saw my supposed enemy
But I looked exactly like him
I saw the boat was sinking
So I got out and learned how to swim
I saw the sorrow of the centuries
In sulfur smoke from the stacks
I saw bullets being buried in our old man's backs
I saw the poetry of the prophets
And they wallpapered over it, they did
The same words written years ago on the back of my eyelids
I saw tax collectors as national protectors
Tables being turned, books being burned, and bodies washing in from the sea
You want to be free
You want to be free
You want to be free
Why are you living in Chains?
You can change into a bird
With nothing but a word
You want to be free
Why are you living in Chains?
You want to be free
You want to be free
You want to be free
Why are you living in Chains?
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Let me tell you something
all the kids I know say there's no one
who will deal with the problems that are closing in around them
they turn on the radio, it's some regurgitated pop
or some 30 year old love song that was written for their parents
don't come singing about her hair by the window
or her eyes in the moonlight or her kisses in the morning
I don't need another song about the ocean of your love for a sweater
that you gave to your boyfriend - these
these are desperate times
pay attention look up and read the signs
believe
these are desperate times
all the grown ups say that all the best music
was written 20 years ago in their generation
well we've had another 20 years of devastation on this planet
made real by a nation being lulled into submission
shut up! I don't care about the dress that she wore
when she walked through the forest on the cool summer evening
I've had it up to here with all these feel good ditties
about how life would be much better if we'd ignore all the problems - these
these are desperate times
pay attention look up and read the signs
believe
these are desperate times
all around the world the guns are being cocked
and they're pointed at the others caught staring at our table
well drink up americans because the time is running out
before the picture gets flipped and we're all looking down the barrel - these
these are desperate times
pay attention look up and read the signs
believe
these are desperate times - these
these are desperate times
pay attention look up and read the signs
believe
these are desperate times
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Tom Burris - For Sale
03:58
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"Make A Noise"
Words and Music by Katie Herzig
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Look up
You see the sky on fire
Look out
The water's getting higher, now
Believe, that you can change the world
Your dreams, have been living in a code of silence
So let them out
Find your voice, find your voice
Make a noise
You try, to find the words you want to say
You might, be looking much too far away
To recognize, we’re all disguised
Find your voice, find your voice
Make a noise
Oh, we all were born before the war, but worlds collide
Look at all the people fighting for the same side
We all were born before the war, but worlds collide
You can’t have the peace you’re looking for without a fight
Oh, we all were born before the war, but worlds collide
(You see the sky on fire)
Look at all the people fighting for the same side
(The water's getting higher)
Oh, we all were born before the war, but worlds collide
(You see the sky on fire)
If you see the world you want more, then make it right
(The water's getting higher)
You see the sky on fire
The water's getting higher
[repeat]
Find your voice
Make a noise…
Don't run away run away…
Don't run away
Don't run away run away…
Don't run away
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Darkness to Light
Words and Music by Arthur Alligood
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I'm waiting for the morning
Waiting in the night
When that sun comes over the mountain
She gonna turn this darkness to light
Now its been a long throw
since we first took to this soil
We found an itch to scratch real quick
and called it war
All this fighting it ain't nothing, but
a symptom of our sickness
and we still ain't found a cure
We keep walking down that same path
that worn out, crooked way
Stepping over all of history's little tracks
Falling it don't come first
pride will push you to the edge
and once you start falling
can you ever go back?
How do we answer our children
when they wonder what went wrong?
Do we scratch our heads and tell them
no one know really knows why?
Do we go back to a garden, a perfect little world
to two lovers who couldn't keep it right?
credits
from One Silver Needle, released 25 April 2012
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Not Ours To Lose
Words and Music by Chris Velan
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We’re all outside your house tonight
We’re wondering where you went
No time for left delusion
The money’s all been spent
And the dinosaurs behind closed doors
Seem to have your ear
But we’re still here
Dark storm clouds are forming
Over the land reason’s end
And we all feel the heat
But still they’re trying to defend
Every hour on phantom power
As if it’s going to last
But it’s going fast
CHORUS
Does your mind know that much
Do your eyes see that far
Do you speak for generations
With the risks being what they are
Can you leave it the ground
Or will you help to light the fuse
This world’s not ours
This world’s not ours
This world is not ours to lose
Which master do you bow to
Whose interest it in
Does money buy the outcome
Is the fix already in
Do you represent a few
Or do you represent us all
It’s your call
Those who reap the benefits
Will die happy and blind
To any harm they cause or
To the mess they left behind
History will wonder
How we knew it all along
We still chose wrong
Does your mind know that much
Do your eyes see that far
Do you speak for generations
With the risks being what they are
Can you leave it the ground
Or will you help to light the fuse
This world’s not ours
This world’s not ours
This world is not ours to lose
BRIDGE
Miles of dirty veins
Pumping dead blood through the planes
Leave us strung out
Like a junkie who is lost
Are we so insane
So selfish to complain
That we have a right to progress
At all cost
Does your mind know that much
Do your eyes see that far
Do you speak for generations
With the risks being what they are
Can you leave it the ground
Or will you help to light the fuse
‘Cause this world’s not ours to lose
Does your mind know that much
Do your eyes see that far
Do you speak for generations
With the risks being what they are
Can you leave it the ground
Or will you help to light the fuse
This world’s not ours
This world’s not ours
This world is not ours to lose
This world’s not ours
This world’s not ours
This world is not ours to lose
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What Will Power It All
Written by The Great Unknown and the America SCORES students of FDR Middle School, Boston, MA; ALL lyrics by the kids, arranged by & music by The Great Unknown
© 2011 Todd Henkin, SeaStarved, ASCAP
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGpH2YbkjQ
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Help us invent the light bulb again
I can take the lead
I am the spring morning sunlight
The beginning of new things
Last night I had a dream
Of new inventions
What will power it all?
Spring can rain
People see that I’ve changed
They’ll know how we survived
I do a lot in this world
I almost got hit
We must try not to die
We survive like Deja Vu
We grow our own food
I was fighting in an army when the flowers bloomed
Last night I had a dream
Of new inventions
What will power it all?
Agree to disagree
What will power it all?
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