Lyrics

Well, it was gettin to be too much, responsibilities and such,
I was feel’in way out of touch, like everybody was speakin Dutch.
I was lookin for a hideaway, a place where I could take time to play
I need more than a minute to myself today…..I need

Chorus
Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
Time to get away
Time to get away

Away from the city, A little place by the lake.
Where the sunsets are pretty, And I can hear the breeze in the trees when I wake.
A hammock in the front yard. Round the fire in the back yard.
If it’s rainin we can play cards. You know it can’t be that hard to find

Chorus
Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
Time to get away
Time to get away

Well they’ve been callin on my telephone textin’ on my cell a phone
I got a hundred emails.
Standin in a long line headin to a deadline the traffic’s movin like snails.
I’m hangin on for dear life is this really real life you know what I need?

Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
For myself to find time to chill unwind
Far away from the grind Where I’m feelin fine

Time to get away…

I'm gonna live in a house by the ocean
Wear nothing but suntan lotion
Only work when I get the notion
I'm gonna win the lottery

I'm gonna be a millionaire
I'm gonna live life Les e fair
I'm gonna dance like Fred Astaire
I'm gonna win the lottery

I ain't livin in reality
What's so great about reality?
I found a better place in fantasy
I'm gonna win the lottery
I'm gonna win the lottery

Meanwhile I'm livin in heaven
Don't have to work from 11 to 7
I live to play and I play for a livin
It's like I won the lottery
It's like I won the lottery

I'll be drivin a bus that's a monster
And tow behind it a Tesla Roadster
If you're hitchin I'll pull right over
Cause I won the lottery

You say the odds are a billion to one
I say I'm gonna be that one
Playin the game is at least half the fun
I'm gonna win the lottery

The universe has it all lined up
Knows exactly where I'll wind up
All my loose ends will be tied up
When I win the lottery
I'm gonna win the lottery

Meanwhile I'm livin fine
"I got you babe" and "Red red wine"
And I'm havin the life of my time
It's like I won the lottery

I've tried to image who you are, where you are, what were you feeling the day that I was born?

Somehow you slipped away and I lost you before I knew your face I lost my place.

Don't get me wrong I'm not blaming you, I know there was nothing you could do when she chose to go and

I have a good life full of laughter full of love and still I need to know.

Chorus:

Did you ever think of me over all these years?
Did you ever want to see the me that I've become?
I'm not asking you to change or rearrange your life.
But do you ever think of me when I am thinking of you?

I was a young man and I was not expecting you

From a romance that never had a chance

But somehow you slipped away and I lost you before I knew your face, I lost my place

Although you never knew the father who was singing in a new town most every night

Never staying long you have have your own voice, strong and truly knowing who you are, found your song

A voice on the phone out of the blue. You're asking the question I'm asking you

Did you ever think of me over all these years?
Did you ever want to see the me that I've become?
I'm not asking you to change or rearrange your life
But do you ever think of me when I'm thinking of you?

Do you ever think of me?

In the air like a winter song
Making everything white all along my path
Over memories of autumn hues
It's music to my eyes

And I've always loved harmony
Cuts to the very heart of me
Like fire in December
Down to my soul it warms me

Chorus:

Like the promise of love in the spring
It's in the way that the sun makes me sing
It's in the way that the autumn can bring
A grateful tear to my eye
Every season is calling to me
'To be the changes that I want to see'
In the world full of disharmony
I'll sing my winter song.

I know sometimes it seemes
Winter freezes everything
But what appears to be cold and still is only sleeping
And sleep is when we dream
Of the songs we want to sing
From the darkness and the silence
Comes a new refrain.

"What appears to be cold and still, is only sleeping."

Joni Mitchell - Sony/ATV Tunes LLC OBO, Joni Mitchell Publishing Corp.

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Ph I was I had a river
I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
They I'm going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

She tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh I wish I had a river
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on.

Donovan Leitch - Southern Music Pub Co. Inc.

In the chilly hours and minutes,
Of uncertainty, I want to be
In the warm hold of your living mind.

To feel you all around me,
And to take your hand, along the sand
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wing/

When sundown pales the sky
I wanna hide a while, behind your smile,
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find.

For me to love you now,
Would be the sweetest thing, 'twould make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.

When rain has hung the leaves with tears,
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind.

For standin' in your heart,
Is where I want to be, and I long to be,
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.

Percussion by Marc Anderson

Marc Anderson actually sent Michael a percussion track he created which inspired Michael to create music around the percussion. It wasn't until he played the "Snow Leopard" baritone guitar that the piece came together.

Sky Blue and evergreen
On a sea of sparkling white
And I knew this morning scene
Would make me feel that all is right.

So easy to be at peace
So at home here in the woods
I would carry this feeling
Always with me if I could

Chorus:
Oh winter embrace me
Show me who I am
From silent to stormy
My heart is in your hands.

Gliding through the green corridors
A whispering train on a snowy rail
My best friend's behind me
Every morning without fail.

Sometimes a moose or a deer
Or a wolf will cross our path
If we don't meet them face to face
We can always spot their tracks

From the warmth of my cabin
I see the snow wind through the ines
Through a blizzard is raging
A quiet gift is left behind.

Sky blue and evergreen
On a sea of sparkling white
And I knew this morning scene
Would make me feel that all is right.

Hey, ho, nobody home - Meat nor drink now money have I none, Yet shall we be merry-

Hey, ho, nobody home - Meat nor drink now money have I none, Yet shall we be merry-

Hey, ho, nobody home - Hey, ho, nobody home

Soal, soal, a soal cake - Please, good missus, a soal cake
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry - any good thing to make us all merry
One for Peter, two for Paul - Three for Him who made us all.

God bless the master of this house and the mistress also-
And all the little children that 'round your table grow

The cattle in your stable, the dog at your front door
And all that dwells within your gate, we wish you 10 times more - Soal, a soal, a soal cake.

Go down into the cellar and see what you can find
If the barrels are not empty, we hope you will be kind
We hope you will be kind with your apple and strawber'
For we'll come no more a 'soalin' til this time next year
Soal, a soal, a soal cake.

The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin
I have a little pocket to put a penny in
If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do
If you haven't got a ha' penny, then God bless you
Soal, a soal, a soal cake

Originally the "Theme From Narnia" a Grand Marais Playhouse production of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," in 2006. Michael was commissioned to compose music for Tim Styles (aka Tim Suck). A high school student played the banjo, mandolin, and guitar as part of the Cook County Mentorship Program.

This is the time of awakening
The season has come for new life
The cold giving way to a warm wind
The darkness is 'chased by the light'

The world half asleep since the snowfall
Turning her face to the sun
Somehow the seeds still remember
To spring from the earth as one.

Chorus:
And we sing the songs of love and we watch the stars above
For a sign of the change in the seasons, a return of the light of love.

Some of us stay through the winter
And some of us fly to the sun.
Those who remain know the joy that comes
With the taste of spring rain on the tongue.

Is this the reason for living
To learn from earth how it's done
We're never far from our mother
She's where we are going and where we're from.

Inspired by the spring melting snow along the Cascade River, North Shore of Lake Superior, MN

We built our house of logs in the woods
Built it ourselves because we could
When it was done we said it was good
We wanted to live the simple life

I gather wood right off our land
Split it for fire with my own hands
Haul my water from the spring when I can
All so we can live the simple life

I just couldn't live in the city
Way too many roads and not enough trees
I can only take it for a day or two
Then it's back to the simple life

I was brought up at the edge of town
One foot on pavement, one on ground
Crowded days at school spun my head around
So I'd hurry back to my simple life

I can't seem to give up one or the other
The city's my work the country's my lover
So I'll be between the two forever
As long as I can live my simple life

I just couldn't live in the city
Way too many people and not enough solitude
I can only take it for a day or two then it's back to my simple life
I just couldn't live in the city
Way too many building and not enough air to breathe
I can only take it for a day or two
Then it's back to the simple life

So now I find my music in the woods
In between chores of water and wood
Then I pack up my songs of strings on wood
To bring you a taste of a simple life

You know it's all inside our heads
No matter what we do or where we make our bed
As long as we are loving and we're fed
Anyone can live a simple life
Everyone can live a simple life
I just want to live a simple life

Growing side by side
With no fear of who is standing near
Our roots are intertwined what's your is mine
We're all just reaching for the stars

And one they named sol the sun
On this Earth we all draw our life from
She sees us all below as one boundaries none
Life and light for all

We could take a lesson from the trees
We could take direction from the breeze
We could take a moment to see
Everything is as it should be

Changing poison into air
Growing branches where we loose all our cares
Living Long going nowhere
Watching as the world passes by

And though this old poplar fell
It's living on with a song to tell
So can we make harmony from the people falling needlessly

Chorus

And as the moon rises high
And casts the shadow of a leaf on my eye
I know I don't have to try to understand
The mystery in a sigh

I didn't know what I needed
I only know I needed something
A little help with life's puzzles
A chance to be myself in the light
And when I need it the most
A listening ear or guiding hand
A word or two in the right direction

Chorus

Then I found a house I could call a home,
For a while or a place to learn an be and grow
A place full of love and open arms

I found some people I could call my own
Understanding and a felling that I'm not alone
It's what I needed most to move on to now

You can get caught in the middle
When everything seems like a riddle
And you don't like the game
Everyone is playing
Well all I wanted was to be real
And understand the things I feel
And to feel like I have some direction

There's a light on the horizon, and it's calling out my name
And before I know what I'm seeing, it's the heart-breaking rust of sunrise
Sunrise
There's a river deep inside this canyon , and it's calling out my name
Step by step and turn by turn, she fills my heart till I'm singing
Calling... calling... calling
There's a bird on the wind, and she's calling out my name.
To be free once again, to be me... ah that's the game.
There's a longing deep inside my soul, and it's calling out my name
Flows through my life just like the river... cuts through my heart just like sunrise
Calling... calling... calling

Falling down on the snow
It hardly seems like the same sun as oneawa oahu
It's always beautiful there even if it's raining
It's warm and it's so inviting
Not like winter I'm so tired, it's so bitter, it's for Norwegians
I'm in a thin skin, I was meant to live in a browner skin all year long
Picking fruit from the trees and drinking from a cool stream
Living on a beach peacefully
Why am I spending my days digging crystals
Made of water when life oughter
Be easier instead of freezing here I could be melting into the ocean
Singing songs to my someone who deserves some of the good life oneawa

I could have stayed right there
I didn't have to leave
I only thought I had responsibilities
Now looking out at the snow it seems so far away
That paradise on the beach where we gave back out lays
To the ocean and sand the flowers slipped though our hands
Just like the time we shared on Kailua
Oahu... Oneawa
How was I to know that I would feel so empty
Coming home nothing was the same
Everything so still so frozen and so black and white
Cloudy days, long nights, so much darkness
What's this loneliness? Where's my happiness?
I think I can guess... Oneawa

Oneawa... Oneawa

Happy Birthday, my darling
This is your love minstrel at your feet again.
What to give the woman who has everything
A beautiful life, a beautiful man, a beautiful car, and natural beauty

Chorus

How can I give you what you already have,
How can I surprise you? You're reading my mind...
So I don't have to tell you that you already have
All of me

I could build you a house on a hill over looking the lake, but I did
It's a funky house on a little hill but it's a really big lake
I could sing you a song saying how much I love you
But I did and I and I am... it's for you.

You're in my vouce, you're in my mine
You're in my heart, all of the time
You're in my hands, you're in my hair
And where you are, my strength is there

If I were perfect I'd be done
If I were human we'd be one
If I were happy I'd have fun
If I'm just whining is this art?
If I don't stop I won't have to start
If it's all a movie I'm just playing my part

How long can I keep this body?
Can I trade it in when I'm done?
For another one just like the other one
I want to give it another run

If I weren't frozen I'd be alive
If I start walking I'll arrive
If I get tired I might ride
If I don't die I will survive
If I survive I might just thrive
If I can thrive then I can fly

How long can I keep this body?
Can I trade it in the end?
For something completely different
I want to begin again

If there's no pain is there still gain?
If I'm not crazy am I sane?
If everything goes down the drain
If it's not hell then is this heaven?
If I'm not there well where am I then?
If I can bring my dog I'll be happy

How long have I had this body?
Can I trade it in when I'm done?
For a spirit or a drop in the ocean
On a planet 'round a purple sun
If I were perfect I'd be done

Peace of mind I can find when I'm sleeping
It's not hard to run away from everything
But I'm lost when it comes to living in this world
And doing something meaningful

What's not been said what's not been done
A million times before by the best and brightest humans
Who am I but another craxy minstrel getting high
By singing songs about me

Chorus

I'm caught in the middle of time again
Runnin' around like I can't find my own end
Too old to be wanderin too old too young to be old
Too long on this journey to question the road

The best of them had lives filled with hell and fury
Walking through fire purified their spirits
But I'm spoiled on the path of least resistance
Go with the flow it'll all come back around again

Just enjoy the ride it'll all be fine in the end
Remember why you love to sing and dance
There's no reason why not to indulge in the beauty
Of this world it'll all be over someday

She looks across the kitchen table
At the man she's loved for sixty years now
Maybe all of them weren't so grand
But she can still see him as a handsome young man
She used to hear him from across the park
Singing to the crowds on Saturdays
And as she watched the children in her care
She imagined that they were theirs

Chorus

And she could see beyond her twenty years
To a day when they would be one
To a day like today happy and gray
They can still sing "you are the one"

Well it wasn't quite how she'd imagined
Overseas and so far from home
He's off somewhere in his uniform and
She's waiting for him all day all all one
The loneliness almost drove her crazy
She tried to fill her days with empty chores
Things he didn't seem to notice
They were grooming him for war

But she could see beyond those painful years
To a day when they would be one
To a day like today, happy and gray
They can still sing "you are the one"

And now she hears him from down the hall
Singing as he works at his desk
She's rearranging photos in the living room
And remembering all the things
That she loved the best

On his arm on their wedding day
Their first child on her breast
The way she feels when the family's all together
And the fragrance rising from the cedar chest
Brings her back to the day they met

And she could see beyond her twenty years

Meanwhile back in the year one
When you believed in no one
You didn't stand a chance son
If your parents were undone

Cause you were bred for humanity
And sold to society
One day you'll wake up to the present day
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be

Chorus

Skating away, skating away
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day

And as you push off from the shore
Won't you turn your head once more
And make your peace with everyone
And those who chose to stay
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should have done

And as you cross the wilderness
Suspending in your emptiness
And you feel you have to pray
Searching for a sign that the universal mind
Has written you into the passion play

And as you cross the circle line
Well the Oswald breathes behind
You're a rabbit on the run
And silver splinters fly in the
Corner of your eye
Shining in the setting sun

Do you ever get the feeling that the stories too damn real
And in the present... tense?
Everybody's on the stage
And you're the only person
Sitting in the audience

I had a dream I was dancing by the fire
I was native of this land many years ago
Loving my people and hating the strangers
Who came from nowhere and drive us all away
Now I find myself busted at this table
A few chips and my cards in my hands
Loving the game and gating the dealer
Ojibway watches as I throw it all away

Chorus A

But what if I were you in another life?
What if you were me next time around?
What if when we hate were really hating ourselves?

I fell in love and we had a daughter
She was the center of my world for seven years
But love turned cold and I had to leave her
And to this day she wonders what was wrong with me
I thought for sure I could do so much better
That my mother and father before me
Till I repeated their words to the letter
Words I swore would never come from me

Chorus B

What if we're all in the same boat?
What if we only think we're special?
What if when we love we're really loving ourselves?

Do you ever feel like you work up
On the wrong side of the universe?
Don't you just want to go back to sleep
And find your way back home?
But what if we're all from the same place?
What if we only think we're different?
What if when we're lonely we're just missing ourselves?

Are we loving ourselves?

What am I doing here? What are we doing here?
That's the question of the day
Is it a privilege? Is it a prison?
Is it a school? Will we graduate?
Then who is the teacher? What was the lesson?
I'd like to know if it's not too late
But nobody asks any more
Nobody wants to be a bore
Nobody wants to the one to say

I've got one stupid question that's been
Hanging in the back of my mind year after year
When I'm sittin by the fire in the moonlight
I just can't help but wonder what am I doing here?

Will you still love me when I'm not pretty
When I can't sing anymore?
I hope I'm not there yet
Let me know if I missed it
I'll do it till it don't sound good any more
Maybe when I'm 84 and I don't want to sing anymore
I just want to sit on the floor and meditate a little more
On that one stupid question that keeps
Hanging in the back of my mind year after year
When I'm sittin by the fire in the moonlight
I just can help but wonder
What am I doing here?

Maybe that's not the question
Maybe I'm wasting precious energy on things
I'll never know
Why can't I just live my life doing what I think is right
Doing what I hope will help me grow?
But I just can't ignore it can't seem to let go of it
Like a dream that I can't recall in the day
And if life is really just a dream
I hope it's a really good dream
And when I wake up I'm gonna say

I've got one stupid question
That's been hanging in the back of my mind year after year
When I'm sittin by the fire in the moonlight
I just can't help but wonder
What am I doing here?

The only reason that it's scary getting old
Is people treat you like you're too big to hold
And you still feel just like a kid

You call my bluff when I pretend to be at peace
You take the water that I finally release
Close your mouth, open your arms

That is why I reach for you so much
I think I'm drowning
Until we touch
Life is an ocean we fall in
When you hold me I can swim

In this hospital the beds are made of steel
And metal instruments are all some people feel
But what you need is something soft against your skin

So you don't have to pretend to be at peace
I'll take the water that you finally release
Close your mouth, open your arms

That is why you reach for me so much
You think you're drowning
Until we touch
Death is an ocean we fall in
I will hold you while you swim

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you

May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung

And may you stay
Forever young

Forever young
Forever young
May you stay
Forever young

May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you

May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong

And may you stay
Forever young

Forever young
Forever young
May you stay
Forever young

May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift

May your heart always be joyful
May your song always be sung
And may you stay
Forever young

Forever young
Forever young
May you stay
Forever young

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said I'd be better dead that live
I didn't listed to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought
I was crazy but I'm not
Oh no

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
He said I'd need treatment
But I'm not that easily led
He said I was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
And he thought I was nuts
No more ifs or ands or buts

They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening
I knew I was genius...
What's so strange when you know
That you're a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be

Now I heard little children
Were supposed to sleep tight
That's why I got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic
Didn't know what to do
But I saw some crazy scenes
Before I came to
Now do you think I was crazy
I may have been only three
But I was swining

They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at Edison
And also at Einstein
So why should I feel sorry
If they just couldn't understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in my head
I had a brain
It was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When I refused to ride
On all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
But I said dear doctor
I think that it's you instead
Because I have got a thing
That's unique and new
To prove it I'll have
The last laugh on you
'Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one

I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you've got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
The cold is biting
Through each and every nerve and fiber
My broken spirit is frozen to the core
I don't wanna be here no more

Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day?
Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away?
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side?
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care?

You must be joking
You don't know a thing about it
You've got no problem
I'd stay right there if I were you
I got it harder
You couldn't dream how hard I got it
Stay out of my shoes
If you know what's good for you
The heat is stifling
Burning me up from the inside
The sweat is coming through each and every pore
I don't wanna be here no more
I don't wanna be here no more
I don't wanna be here no more

Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes
Even if it was for just one day?
Wouldn't it be good if we could wish ourselves away?
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side?
The grass is always greener over there
Wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care?

I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
You got it easy
You don't know when you've got it good
It's getting harder
Just keeping life and soul together
I'm sick of fighting
Even though I know I should
I don't want to be here no more
I don't want to be here no more

I try to talk, but I know you’re not listening.

Our experiences aren’t the same. They say love is fickle, they say love is blind.

But we could love so easy, if we just clear our minds.

Chorus

Can you really tell what I am thinking?
Can you really feel what’s in my heart?
Can we really know what we are doing?
Oh, life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery.
Life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery.

You try to talk but you know I'm not hearing you
My experience it clouds up my mind sometimes
If we can remember our common existence
We will see we're all of one kind

We hold so tight to all our expectations
And stuff 'em in our ears like a ball of cotton
So how can we hear the ever changing music
Of this beautiful life, this beautiful life
Oh so open up your ears now, open up your eyes
Forget what you think you know 'cause
We've been fed so many lies
I said life is a mystery, it's a beautiful mystery

Yes, I said I love you but I won't try to own you
Where'd we ever get the notion we could control this emotion
Well it comes and it goes like the wind like a rose
Like the dance we danced last night, the music stops but it's all right

Chorus

Oh this love is simple, this love is free
This love isn't some romantic dream
Sometimes we don't get along
Sometimes we fit like a glove
But underneath it all it's simply love

I'm tired of pretending forever romance, happy ending
When the music bring up old emotion I try to remember
Love is a potion, makes me laugh, makes me weep
And my heart slowly falls asleep
And I forget our hearts are free
That this love comes from you and me

Sometimes I can go all night
Sometimes all I do is fight
But it's all part of the dance I think it might just be a game of chance
But I go on anyway
And I won't settle for marriage or hate
I won't freeze at true love's gate

Ever since we've been together
I can think about just one thing
It's forbidden fruit from the garden
It's the thing that makes me sing
You know I've tasted every kind of sweet from the tree
But I just can't seem to get enough of you and me

Now that I've found my kiwi fruit, no other juicy fruit will do
I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet
But only kiwi fruit makes my meals complete
Only my kiwi fruit, only my kiwi fruit will do

In the morning, when I wake up after twelve next to you
I've got to find my breakfast served complete
Bring me kiwi fruit and please hold the meat
When my icebox is bare nothing can compare
To my kiwi fruit, there's no substitute
I'm gonna stay under the covers 'til you bring me my kiwi fruit
Only my kiwi fruit will do, only my kiwi fruit, only my kiwi fruit will do

Now that I've found my kiwi fruit, no other juicy fruit will do
I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet
I sued to like Carmen Miranda's peaches best
But the kiwi fruit tastes better than all the rest.
Only my kiwi fruit, only my kiwi fruit will do

I did my yoga in your bedroom
And in the kitchen you were fryin up breakfast
And I could tell by my bones and your bagels
This kind of morning would not be our last
And by 9am, I was all along on the turnpike exit 69
And I could still feel your kisses on my face
I could still hear you singin our favorite line

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Love will find us again because time is our friend
And when loving should end, it will end
Love will tell us the time, love will drop us a line
When our loves should entwine again

It would have been so easy to stay
Too easy to fall, too hard
And every time I do when I pick myself up
I find another crack deep in my heart
And I know that you don't need a husband
You know we both need romance
So I'm sending you this love song and
One day soon there's a chance

I've been looking for a mother
I've been looking for a child
I've been looking for somebody
To keep me from running wild
Right in the middle of the loving
I somehow become a little boy
Still looking for love, still wanting his toys

What is this thing we do
Something pulls us together
And we act like fools
What shall I be free or woman hungry
It looks so much like romance
You know how I love to dance.

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Can we learn to love
Can we ever be free
Will we ever rise above
All of the problems that we carry

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
With mother earth all around me
Still I cannot see
My friends all love me
So why can't I
I'm not along in this world
We breathe the same air you and I

Twice in one day
I find myself in that twilight
Between sleeping and waking, coming and going
Just before my eyes open and before I fall at night
A moment of silence
Twice in one day

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And I've got to have some silence
Twice in one day, twice in one day
And I've got to have some fun
Twice in one day, twice in one day
And I've got to have some loving
Twice in one day, twice in one day

Twice in one day we made love
And she took me to that feeling
Of knowing who I am without caring, without worrying
It was not her intention to enlighten me
To make me see but it happens sometimes
When the act goes to deep
And I've got to have some living

Sometimes I get so busy
I forget what living this life is for
Uncentered and dizzy, I start thinking
I've got to work for this life
Like I've got to scratch to get what I deserve
But I always seem to get just what I need
And I need to have some fun

Follow your happiness
Follow your happiness
If there's one thing in this life to remember
Follow your happiness

Now when you're lost in confusion and you don't know your no from yes
This advice I would give to your, follow your happiness
Now it ain't easy bein' human and yet life can be so delicious
So much pleasure, so much pain
Sometimes I can't tell the difference
So once in awhile I stop -
And let the rest of the wold pass me by
In the quiet of my heart I find the reason why

I mean really if it's all just a waste of time
Playin somebody else's game
Singin somebody else's lines
Well I'd rather die
But I know whne I feel happy
And I know when something's askew
When I'm happy, I'm living in harmony
And I feel closer to the truth

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Well I love all kinds of music
But I don't do rap
I hear many kinds of music
But I don't play much jazz
I've had my share of sorrow
But I don't sing the blues
I love all kinds of music
And I play what I choose

Now rap is just music without all those notes
Free ramblings from the brain
But I'm tired of talk, I don't want a word up
I just want to sing

Music is rhythm, music is truth
Music is melody, music is youth
Music is harmony, music is listening

Sometimes people ask me, they say what do you play
After I've been sinin for an hour or so
And I say to myself, how can I possibly put it in a box
I love all kinds of music

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I play a little bit of reggae, a few love songs
And a touch of rock and roll
Calypso and jazz, but no Madonna
Original music fills my soul
I've got to sing my own songs...
We've got to sing our own songs

I don't think about insurance except to drive my car
I keep my money in a red bag
And it doesn't go very far
I don't have a plan for retirement
I can hardly think three weeks ahead
Every day is a brand new world
You can pass through it living or dead

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Are you hear now?
Here now?

I try not to think about tomorrow, I try to forget yesterday
All we really have is a day at a time
Tell me how many moments are in a day
Moment to moment it's heaven or hell
Are you missing this moment to worry about the next
Are you living every day as if it were your last
Or are you waiting for a time when it all will be past

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Living in your head, trying to make sense
Of a life that is more than paying the rent
Try to fill your life with a future and things
But you simply can't ignore when your heart of heart sings
Kick back into the inside, just forget about the outside for awhile
Use your freedom, feel your love
Take the time to do what you love

I'm up, I'm down
I'm wandering all around
Things change, I change
Always one foot off the ground
One day I know where I'm going
And the next I'm lost at sea
But the fun is in the going
I may not reach what I see

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Going nowhere
Now here
Loving, living, laughter, silence, tears
I'm in love again and again
But things change, I change
In the end we being again
Like a river ever flowing
I will go where I will go
And the joy is in the knowing
That I go with the flow

At the end of the day when Terra turns her face from the sun
All feathered minstrels end their song but one has just begun
He sings to the moon and the stars in a round that goes on and on
He sings of the the circle of life that we all turn upon.

Never tires of the song He's been singing since time out of mind
What we all take for granted He sings like the very first time
Keeping a secret that remains a mystery to our kind
And to all who will listen He sings the clues for us to find
And if we are quiet, and if we are wise
And we open our ears, and watch fireflies
In the twilight we will hear the song of the whippoorwill

And if we are quiet, and if we are wise
And we open our ears, and watch fireflies
In the twilight we will hear the song of the whippoorwill

At the end of the day when Terra turns her face from the sun
He sings of the circle of life that we all turn upon
Never tires of the song He's been singing since time out of mind
He sings to the moon and the stars in a round that goes on and on

Our love's like scattered showers, we're never quite out of the rain
They say it makes the flowers grow, but flowers never show the pain
Like you do and I know that you're never quite out of my mind
And it keeps on raining...

Summer rain, our love is summer rain
We walk under clouds of joy and pain
And we're never quite out of the rain

Why do I keep on singing songs of sunny skies?
Why do I curse the weather when the rain is in my own eyes?
And you eyes, I wouldn't trade em for a thousand sunny days
It keeps on raining

Summer rain, our love is summer rain
We walk under clouds of joy and pain
And we're never quite out of the rain

And your eyes, I wouldn't trade em for a thousand sunny days
So let it rain.