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Growing Old

It feels like I’ve been around too long.

Every tune has become the same old song.

Every plight’s just a fight to no end

cuz there’s no way to win.

 

And I can’t help but notice as I’m growing old -

I believe less and less of what I’m told.

Cuz the world’s nothing more than

an endless round of spin.

 

Every voyage I take that’s pushed by sails

is another lap around ...

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Full Color

A morning walk, amidst the trees, beneath a sky of grey.

The sound of crisp from frozen ground breaks silence in the air.

I love the feeling that I get on such a winter day,

where light through all the empty branches somehow takes me there.

 

It makes me dream of times in spring where newness comes again.

Can’t help envisioning the grey transforming into green.

But then it ne...

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From The Look Down

Another spotlight, make the headlines.

A final shout-out to the ranks of the-do-fine.

Did I make you stop and think?

Now looking down… from the look down,

me and every other ghost in this town

who couldn’t live life on the brink.

 

And I say - hey. There’s got to be a way

for everyone who couldn’t be.

Yeah, I say - hey. There’s got to be a way.

Gotta be a way… for m...

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Foolish Crowd

There are a lot of mysteries, anomalies and such,

things that seem to have no explanation why they are.

One of these (above the rest) that makes me wonder much -

is how the foolish crowd is made of people who are far

 

from being foolish on their own. Yes, people who are good.

Yet somehow when they’re in a group, mysteriously they change.

It’s something I suppose just really...

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Do You Feel The Music

Do you feel the music?

Does it capture in your soul

the feelings that got lost in there

as you’ve played out your role?

 

Have you ever sat and listened,

let it take you far away?

Well, I’ve done it time and again

and I can clearly say -

 

that nothing else compares.

It’s like a portal out of time,

where you can let things go and heal,

submerged in the sublim...

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Eye To Eye

We are so different, totally.

There hardly is a thing

that gives us common ground at all,

but it is interesting –

that we can still live side by side

in pure peace if we try.

Cuz everything is possible…

when we see eye to eye.

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Eternally Alone

It doesn’t matter how the sun sets,

nor how the clear streams flow.

There is no joy in waves of grain

or brilliant fields of snow.

 

This world in all its glory

spins round eternally,

but glory melts to sand and grey

because there’s only me.

 

I once lived life upon a world

with billions by my side,

where I spent my time wishing

I could run away and hide.

...

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Dream In Color

Did I lie awake at night,

or did I dream in color?

Such wonderous things

I saw and heard,

that took me to the other

 

side of the stream

from whence things flow.

A magic filled the air.

So mystified, I was at home

completely unaware.

 

For time stood still,

bathed in the light

and love that make all things,

a message fell

like drops of rain,

and ...

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December Rainy Night

Starring out my window this December rainy night,

all I can do is long for you again.

Sometimes I feel I’m over you, like maybe I just might

move on and forget about all that’s been.

 

But as the raindrops fall, all of the tears I hold inside

come tumbling down as blue skies turn to grey.

And then it doesn’t matter much, how hard I have tried

to let you go and go another wa...

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Deserts Of New Mexico

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,

driven by the wind of change.

And I know… it’s not that easy.

Drove a million miles and it is all the same,

spinning through the circles of my mind.

And it’s cold… it’s not that easy.

 

But there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -

on the deserts of New Mexico,

I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.

Yeah, th...

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Depart

Have you perhaps, held on too long

to the place you call home?

Have you let too much time slip by,

avoiding the unknown?

 

It’s hard not to be scared of change,

it happens naturally.

The risk of taking chances, yes

it’s pure anxiety.

 

But staying in this place is death,

you’re meant to rise and grow.

Your heart is meant to be your guide,

trust it and just le...

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Corners

There’s a corner of eternity

where I’ve built a simple home.

A place that I can go to

when I want to be alone.

 

A place where winds of

time and space glide gently

through the air.

 

A place each time I leave,

I’m longing,

wishing I were there.

 

We deal with many things in life,

so much that brings us down.

We swim through burdens, paddling,

hop...

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Choices

Two birds left the nest after they had learned to fly,

setting off to find what the world has got to give.

Each had what it takes to ascend into the sky,

but each bird also had different reasons why they lived.

 

One lived a life to soar above, his days spent in the air.

The other lived to gather in and build a stable home.

One was carefree enjoying daily views beyond com...

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By The Light Of The Moon

I sometimes sit awake at night

unsure what I should do,

swimming through my thoughts

yeah, all the worries of the day.

I guess I like the solitude,

although I’m feeling blue

there in the quiet moonlight

softly, God opens the way.

 

In dim of night he reassures,

a peace rests in the air.

The things I want to worry of,

they simply melt away,

replaced by vis...

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Breakthrough

Who knows 

how many 

layers

over

generations 

have been 

used. 

 

Sprayed on, 

and caked on, 

and smeared on

thick

for the purpose 

of covering

the truth. 

 

Oh ye who

through the ages 

have done this,

though 

your layers

be deep,

know this -

 

that the truth 

will break though. 

Not a thing

you can do. 

For all

...

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Baltimore To Somewhere

BALTIMORE TO SOMEWHERE

 

You wished upon a star

and got left out in the rain.

You gave it all your heart

and it just got broke again.

 

Oh… It just got broke again.

 

You dressed unto the nines,

and I guess he’ll never see.

You painted a whole world, clearly it

is not meant to be.

 

Not meant to be.

Oh... not meant to be

 

He let you down again

...

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A Little Time

A LITTLE TIME

 

Daddy, spend some time with me,

it’s all I really need.

 

It doesn’t have to be that much,

let’s go do simple things.

 

Help me remember times back when

I was a little girl,

 

when you called me your princess doll,

back when you used to twirl

 

me round and round. You’d tossed me high,

just simply having fun.

 

So, Daddy let’s ...

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