Category LYRICS

My best friend told me to let her be
she’d rather sit under that old wishing tree
and wish her way back to the stars
but those stars aren’t ours-they’re just candy bars

And a friend’s a friend til you get too close
and you find what really matters most
and what matters most ain’t a fool like me
when you can run on back to your wishing tree

Chorus:
But don’t take me back to the wishing tree
don’t take me back that’s enough for me
why don’t you give me a reason to stick around
or take me back to where I was found

And a good friend told me about her fears
she said we could heal the world with tears
all I had to give her was all I had
and then her pain wouldn’t feel so bad

And a friend’s a friend til you get too close
and you find what really matters most
and what matters most ain’t your stupi...

a bird in the hand ain’t spit to me
you give me one i must need three
enchanted by insanity
my dirty glass is empty

can’t find the dime i used to keep
and now i find i’m losing sleep
but in the morning all i need
is four bucks for my coffee

lost my religion years ago
to a song i used to know
but i don’t need a god to tell me
that the mountain must give way
to the river in its day
even roughest rock can shine

so i tumble, tumble, tumble

i’m lost among the muck of men
so i’m changing up my meds again
i’m nothing if i lose my pain
all the colors look the same

i’ve buried all the evidence
i’m sure i paid my penitence
so now it’s simple common sense
to pass along the blame

lost my religion years ago
to a song i used to know
but i still want god to show me
that the mountain can give way
to the r...

My spirit says, when I’m moving around
With no place to lay my head,
Just go back to the beginning.

My spirit says, when my heart becomes blind
And cannot see its way into tomorrow
You must go back to the before.

But what about the before?
What about the beginng?
Were they not once a treacherous terrain?
And what about today?
What about ever after?
Tell me what makes the rough places plain?
I’d ask it of me but I’m already lost.
I’d just let it be but release at what cost?

So for a time I’ll turn it around.

My TV says, in a couple of days
My country will be at war,
it’s a matter of survival.
My leader says I’m a victim of chance
In a crossfire between good and “other”
The answer must be in defense.
(or did he say revenge?)

But what about the rage?
What about all the people we could
lose to...

Would you use my words if you thought they were wise?
Could you tell the truth from a lie?
Touching the hidden, the unforgiven
Show me the place where life meets the living

Would you take my heart if you thought it could fly?
Could you tell the earth from the sky?
Touching the hidden, the unforgiven
Show me the place where life meets the living

I am nothing but the silence that sits on the water
I am naught but stillness of birds
I am nothing but the sadness of my father
I am silent though I speak beyond words

Verse 1:
Did you see me on the windswept prairie
I was there waiting for the storm
Did you see me in the frozen forest
I was there trying to stay warm
and didn’t you see me in the barren desert
with a wish for the sinking sand
didn’t we come to this lonely mountain
with a voice from the singing lands?

Verse 2:
Did you notice that this world is crumbling,
dirty and defined
Did you notice that this world was written
by the architects of time
and didn’t you know we are only matter
and it’s only a matter of mind
didn’t we hold all the gold and riches
that your beauty ever finds?

Chorus:
Tell me the story of your life
is it a labyrinth to unwind
if we go in it will we find
the beast, the burdens and the feast
and all the lessons of your life
the arc of love and strife
and the reason?

Verse 3:
D...

Thank you to the mountainside
Thank you to the distant shore
Thank you for the miles to ride
I don’t study war no more

Thank you to the starry skies
Thank you to the times before
Thank you for the tears i’ve cried
I don’t study war no more

Thank you to the aspen grove
Thank you to the silver snow
Thank you to the life I chose
I don’t study war no more

Thank you for the broken heart
Thank you for the open door
Thank you for music and art
I don’t study war no more

I’m not afriad to sacrifice
The petty comforts of my life for the sake of peace

I’m only one of millions more
I’m gonna open up the door
To what’s inside me
And I believe
Thank you to the mountainside
Thank you for the distant shore
Thank you to the ending of lies cause
I don’t study war no more

my father used to say
“my darling, what’s your strategy?
cause your people won’t survive alone
on all your theory
use your mind and use your heart
to be the change you want to see”
so this is how i walk the path
creator made for me

when i eat the rice, then i clean the bowl
if i scorch the sky then i mend the hole
if i slay the herd, everyone pays the toll
because we all have to drink the water

i left home for education,
to replete an eager mind
with my wisdom to recover,
and my young will to refine
what my people knew of fishing
they’d forgotten over time
so i returned home to my people
with a fishing line

and when we eat the rice, we clean the bowl.
if we scorch the sky then we mend the hole
and we’ll catch the wind
because we can’t clean the coal
and we all have to drink the water

100 y...

Tell me have you heard the people say
to meet the dawn you must survive the day
everybody has a part to play

tired and broken and your mind is numb
lost the battle but you’re holding on
that’s the time you gotta sing this song

we walk upon the water
the only way we ever survive
we walk upon the water
it’s how we change to stay alive
now the temperature is rising
but we’re not in it baby just to get by
we walk upon the water
anything, anything is possible

even when you think you stand alone
something in you knows the time has come
to live the truth of times long gone

we walk upon the water
the only way we ever survive
we walk upon the water
the way we change to stay alive
now the temperature is rising
but we’re not in it baby just to get by
we walk upon the water
anything can happen if you
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We were warriors, once
Stepping back over love’s creation
Raising our swords with anticipation
We defended the notion of separation

We were warriors, once
Burning the sea into a boil
Bleeding our pain down through the soil
And we prided ourselves for withstanding toil

Our hair turned white and our eyes turned grey
Could there be another way?

We are warriors, now
Moved the battlefield to our souls
Lost and lonely is all we know
And we pray for salvation but we’re getting old

We are warriors, now
Can’t stop our wartorn arms from killin
Can’t build a better world for our children
And we cry every day but we won’t admit it

Our hair is white and our eyes are grey
Could there be another way?

We were warriors, once
We are warriors, now
And we’ll be warriors still if our love keeps on hiding
We’ll...

If I was a little bit stronger
I would fly away home
If I’d wept just a little bit long,
I’d take my pain and call it my own,
But I’m just a soldier, a pawn of war
And ain’t no one told me what I’m fighting for
But if this was a little bit stronger
I’d fly away home.

If I pushed just a little bit harder
The my walls would come a tumblin’ down
And If I paid every hard earned dollar,
The my voice would finally make it’s sound
But I’m just a woman standing alone
And ain’t nobody gonna throw me a bone
But if I was a little bit stronger
I’d fly away home.

If I shook the hands of all the right people
I’d tell them I’m not that much different from they
I’d tell them I’d marry anybody they told me
Prove that it’s to the same G-d that we pray
But I’m just a sinner headed for hell
And what they don’...