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Through the Wind
02:47
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From a child into a man
I have changed a thousand times
Like a river ‘round the bend
I can hear the music cry
Weep for this
Harmonize with me
Tell my story through the wind
Just a poet in my head
Not a paycheck to my name
Like a liar tells a lie
All the music sounds the same, lame
Sing with me
Tell your story now
Bring a vision through the wind
Every person holds a power
We can make a better plan
Reconciled and full of love
For every woman, child, and man
Can it be?
Will we make it out?
Will my story meet the wind?
So sing with me
Tell your story now
Bring a vision through the wind
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2. |
Finding Yourself
02:29
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Make up your mind
How many laps around the track?
You waste your time
Finding yourself among the scraps
But the crazier the world can make you feel
When the cracks appear the spokes fly off the wheel
Let out your love
See every moment marked in time
Then look above
All in the stars is in your mind
But the crazier the world can make you feel
When the cracks appear the spokes fly off the wheel
And it throws you over
Lost among the path
Let the voice heard through the trees
Lead the way back
Take you back
Make up your mind
How many laps around the track?
You waste your time
Finding yourself
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3. |
Secondary Steel
03:07
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Secondary Steel
So full of sound
Secondary Steel
Laid through the ground
Elementary feel
Step to the side
Secondary Steel
Rules the skies
We promise you an easy life!
Rudimentary Oil
So full of power
Rudimentary Oil
We get paid by the hour
Job security, you know you want it!
Continental Soil
Now, with more coal!
We made a promise you ya,
We would never lie to ya!
Rudimentary Oil
It turns the seas so sour
It’s just the price we pay
To pave our precious interstate
We promise you an easy life!
We made a promise to ya,
We promise you an easy life!
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4. |
Time Enough
03:55
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“You make the music
And we make the money
Streamline your content
And try to be funny
Don’t let us know we’re dumb and old
Or what we own and debts you owe
Just sing a song
A silly song”
We have so little time enough as it is
Yet spend our moments
Wanting more than exists
A cycle breaks away
You showed us movies
And we paid for warfare
But now through our own screens
We can see where the oil spills
Ocean on fire for no one’s gain
Looking at us you cast the blame
All in a song
A silly song
We have so little time enough as it is
Yet burn our planet
Hoping hell won’t exist
A cycle breaks away
Is there anybody there to tell me?
Is there anybody here who knows?
I’m sure you don’t
What about a time when you could tell me?
What about a lifting of the stone?
Maybe I’m wrong
I must be wrong
What about time when you could tell?
Maybe you’re just wrong
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5. |
Render
03:31
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Again, slow to the start
Lost in the part
Where I’m never done,
Never completed again
The kettle’s on high
I hear it cry
But I’m stuck inside
Patterns of my own design
Oh who can see
Beyond the trees
That’s been left for me
To render complete
Today the dryer won’t dry
The sun in my eyes
Paints the walls with a
Shadow of time passing by
Soon night will fall
The temperature crawls
Underneath all the concrete
And pipes in my walls
Oh who can see
Beyond the trees
That’s been left for me
To render complete
Again the water will rise
As clouds fill the skies
I am shuffling
Searching for nothing again
The song sounds so blue
To tell you the truth
I’m obsessed with
The patterns between all these lines
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6. |
Chuck
02:16
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Chuck’s on the couch
And I think he’s in pain
He’s scratching his brain
But cannot explain
Give him a bath
With a plug in the drain
To wash off the rain
The reasons that he does
The things he does
When he’s with you
I can’t explain
Chuck’s in his bed
With a blanket so tight
A friend to his right
To sleep through the night
Give him some food
When the sun starts to rise
He won’t go outside
The reasons that he does
The things he does
When he’s with me
I can’t surmise
No, no
Chuck’s getting old
But I think he’s okay
We’ll get through the day
We cannot complain
Give him my time
With no thing in the way
A reason to stay
A reason that he does
The things he does
When he’s alone
I can’t explain
No, no
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7. |
Upon a Hill
03:57
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I live inside a concrete box
With many plants and broken locks
Upon a hill, beneath the rails
I’m standing still, I will prevail
To live again, to have my friends
I don’t need riches in the end
My time will pass,
And maybe I’ll go nowhere
*Or turn to ash,
Maybe inside a pale*
Don’t make it so sad
This life that we’re living
Was never meant for more than working on love
I’ve seen the truth,
It’s built on slow moving sands
Our chains are forged
By that which slips through our hands
I don’t believe in just anyone
*verse 2*
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8. |
How Does It End?
03:36
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I’ve been wasting my time
Thought I was standing in line
But really, I’m just hiding from what I believe
Good things and bad things about the world
Everybody always said
You gotta work till you’re dead
You gotta swallow some pills
And get outside of your head
There are good things and band thing about the world
But I don’t know
Feels like some kind of cop-out
To existentially drop-out
To turn your back on the world
I admit there are times
When I can be out of line
But I’ve been working on ways
To better care for my mind
Trying to sleep all through the night
Just gotta shake this idea
That everyone needs to hear
Every word
Every song
Every thought
Every fear
I used to believe that things would work out alright
But I don’t know
And now that I’m older
With a chip on my shoulder
The world feels so much colder
How does it end this time again?
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Tony Aparo Atlanta, Georgia
Songwriter and producer based in Atlanta, Ga. Disciple of Improvement Movement.
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