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When it’s all getting too much
And things getting you down
It’s seems no matter which way you turn
See trouble reign all around
When it feels there’s no break ahead
Grind’s weighing you slow
Finding the good, the kindness and the fair
Through the struggle feels a lost hope
Find your joy
Find a joy
Find your joy
Find a joy
Find your joy
Find a joy
Find your joy
Holding me
Raise me up
Grounding me
Feeling love
Keeping me
Moving on
Firm in my direction
Filling my soul with fire
Making me feel inspired
Making me feel alive
Making me feel alive
Making me want to sing
Making me do my thing
Letting me feel inspired
Making me feel alive
Grateful to be alive
Making me feel alive
Feel alive
Feel alive
Feel alive
Feel alive
Holding me, raise me up
Grounding me, feeling love
Keeping me moving on
Firm in my direction
Filling my soul with fire
Making me feel inspired
Making me want to sing
Lettin’ me do my thing
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
Making me feel alive
Need the joy
Need the joy
Need, need the joy
Need, need the joy
Need, need the joy
Need, I need the joy
Search for Joy
Find the joy
Find a joy
Find a joy
Need the joy
Need the joy
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2. |
Keep You Close
06:21
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This is my song for you
For you
For you
In my head, in my heart
My heart
My heart
I pray God protect you
Protect you
Protect you
Keep you close to me
Keep me close to you always
Always
Keep you close, Lord
Keep you close, Lord
Keep you close, Lord
This is my song for you
For you
For you
In my head, in my heart
My heart
My heart
I pray God protect you
Protect you
Protect you
Keep you close to me
Keep me close to you always
Always
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Keep you close, Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Keep you close, Lord
Gon’ to protect you
I want protect you
Got to protect you
I want protect you
Got to protect you
I wanna protect you
Gonna protect you
This is my song for you
Gon’ to protect ya
I praise god for protecting you
Thank God
Thank God protected you
Wanna protect ya
Want to protect you
This is my song for you, yeah
I pray, I pray, God protect you
Keep you close, Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Keep you close, Lord
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3. |
Hebron
02:53
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What we are facing is an all-out assault on the future of humanity
And the only brightness to be claimed
Is when the enemy’s tanks burn
We have to walk through that fire
To gather our loved ones’ remains
It’s beyond exhausting
Beyond hope
But the Tao that says ‘hope is as hollow as fear’ is my mantra
We don’t need hope when we face the inevitability of a dying star
Whose final throws aim to exterminate everyone in it’s path
There’s no retreat or surrender
Just fight
Struggle
Pain
Grief
Until finally the star burns out
And we who know and do not fear the darkness
Bring new light to old ruins
Tailored pin-striped puppets
Terrorise with lies
Their pockets lined in fine, silky green
Stained red unseen
People pawned
These empires of kings
Empires of queens
Their castles will fall
As we watch the axis tilt before our eyes
Soul of My Soul
Soul of My Soul
Tailored pin-striped puppets
Terrorise with lies
People pawned
Soul of Soul
Soul of Soul
Soul of My Soul
Soul of My Soul
Soul of My Soul
Soul of My Soul
As we watch the axis tilt before our eyes
Watch the axis tilt before our eyes
Watch the axis tilt before our eyes
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5. |
Day's Gon' Come
01:47
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Day’s Gon’
Day’s Gon’
Day’s Gon’ Come Soon
Day’s Gon’
Day’s Gon’
Day’s Gon’
Day’s Gon’ Come soon
Dreamers open you eyes
Day’s gon’ come soon
Deniers quiet your lies
Day’s gon’ come soon, yeah
Too late to shift now your line
Day’s gon’ come soon
Call it what it is
Call it what it is
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6. |
Listen
03:30
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Gather, people
Righteous people
Come
Come together
Gather, people
Righteous people
come
come together
Raise a Symphony
Gather, people
Righteous People
Come
Come together
If you listen
Hear the cry and come
Band together
Come together
Listen
Listen
Listen
Listen
Raise a Symphony
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7. |
The Honourable
04:54
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Deep inside
You know it
You know it
Can’t be denied, no
Can you see them?
Your Aspirations in sight?
Still insight?
Are your best self
And what you strive for
aligned?
Aligned?
Have you reached it
Without compromise
Or sidelining your values
for the desire to rise?
Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
Is worth it?
Is this worth it?
Before you sell your soul to the devil
Know the price
Who’s paying: he or you?
Can you see you?
Is this who you want to be?
Will you sleep well at night
Knowing the role you play,
Enabling their gain
Did you stay true?
Speak truth?
Be who you used to be?
Challenge the greed with integrity
Did you stay true?
Speak truth?
Be who you used to be?
Challenge the greed with integrity?
Did you stay true?
Speak truth?
Be who you used to be?
Challenge the greed with integrity?
Did you stay true?
Speak truth?
Be who you used to be?
Challenge the greed with integrity?
Stay true
Speak truth
Be who you used to be
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8. |
Hollows & Grooves
02:06
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What are we,
If not people pieces?
Hollows and grooves
Keloid scars that protrude
Rotate me,
Let me soothe you
Fill me, fit me
Can we try?
What are we,
If not people pieces?
Hollows and grooves
Keloid scars that protrude
Rotate me,
Let me soothe you
Fill me, fit me
Can we try?
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Wishful thinking
Careful what you
What you
Wish for
wish for
Wishful thinking
Careful what you
What you
Wish for
Wishful thinking
Careful what you
What you
Wish for
Wish for
Wishful thinking
Careful what you
What you
Wish for
Looking wide
Losing sight
Bird in hand
Watch as she flies
Wishful thinking
Careful what you wish for
Wishful thinking
Careful what you
What you
Wish for
What’s good for you?
What’s good for you?
What’s good for me?
What’s good for me?
What’s good for you?
What’s good for you?
What’s good for me?
What’s good for me?
Looking wide
Losing sight
Bird in hand
Watch as she flies
Bird in hand
Watch as she flies
Watch as she flies
Gotcha dreaming
Looking wide
Losing sight
Now what you crave
Is what is gone
Can’t be replaced
Hold on
Hold on
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Giving Thanks
05:11
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Giving thanks for you
For the love you bring
How you show you care
Knowing that you’re there
Holding hope flame high
Giving thanks for you
Spirit, heart in truth
Bear a weight, the blow
Selflessly you show
Sacrifice
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
Healing with your love
Healing with your love
Giving thanks for you
Guided by a truth
Faithful to what’s right
In your heart I find
Unified
Find my own
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
You are love
To the Earth
To the pure air that we breathe
To those silenced
For the voice to them you give
To the peoples who’ve been wronged by history
To victims of heavy hand supremacy
To the homeless
To the man made refugees
To the forgotten, feeling, yearning to be seen
To the vulnerable for protecting the weak
To those yearning for their freedom
Your resistance
Your resilience
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Peace. Love. Life.
01:56
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I want peace
I want love
I want life
I want peace
I want love
Yeah
Yeah
Peace and Love and Life
We need
We need
We need
Yeah
WE NEED PEACE AND LOVE
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Worlds turned in just a moment
No time there for sorrow
Instinct grasping only traces
To exist
To survive tomorrow
But where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Portraits colour-faded
Chained, a golden legacy
Carried school-book pages
Torch
The faith
Identity
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
A comb to weave the grains of home through
Throws for distant nights
Or shrouds
The key to home
Oil from the roots
Where the ancestors did stand
But where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
Where will they go?
I want to go home
But home is the mouth of a shark
Home is the barrel of a gun
No-one would leave
Unless home chased you
To the shore
No-one would leave
Until home is a voice in your ear saying
Leave
Run
Now
I don’t know what I’ve become
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
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13. |
Sea Song
04:01
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She would welcome us
Arms open
Calling us to cool the heat
Through scorching sands
Remember how we’d run to greet her?
Placing generations at her feet
Wires cast
Driftwood aflame
Her sighs the tempo
The wind whistling the song
Here and only here I’d see my mother rest
In the company of sisters and stories
Sparked by salty mist on skin
Remember how we’d laugh
As she’s throw us through her folds
Catching us lovingly
Familiar like a father
Remember how we’d laugh
as she’d throw us through her folds?
In this wilderness we hide
And are hidden
We strive in this
The unforgiving
To find a place
Where breaths can pass uncounted
I search above for stars of home
Shrouded
Distorted
By the lens of the same salt mist
The same salty mist
On skin
The darkness deep around us is broken
The crashing of torn edges like pages crudely turned
Outcome favours the brave, she told me
As she placed the penny on her tongue
Save yourself
As she placed the penny on her tongue
Save yourself
Charon took her and cast us out to sea
Charon took her and cast us out to se
Outcome favours the brave she said
Save yourself she said
Charon took her
In the sun we yearn for darkness
When it comes we cry for warmth
I’ve come to know these faces well
How they’ve changed
Eyes widen
As she throws us through her folds
And we pray
For the unfamiliar
We pray
We pray
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With Care
04:54
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Somehow we underestimate
The power we hold
To make a day
Make it right
Make a moment worthwhile
With care and hope
Kindness spring
flows wide
Breathing life
Into aching hearts
I’ll take care
While you heal your heart
Trust in me
I’ll take care
If you can trust in me
Believe me
I am genuine
Could you be?
Are you genuine?
Believe me
I am genuine
Could you be?
Are you genuine?
I’ll take care
I’ll take care
I’ll take care
I’ll take care
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Too long
Reminiscing the past
Missing seeing sunrise
Colour your life
Letting what is done go
Can’t control
No hold over it
What’s for you will find you
If it won’t
Serve your soul
Let it go
Open for what follows
Wasting time
Watching behind
Letting it drag
Turn, face your direction
Having faith in tomorrow
Having faith in what follows yeah
Having faith in tomorrow
Having faith means turning in your direction
Move ever forward
Faith, have faith
What’s for me will find me
Faith, have faith
What’s for me will find me
Faith, have faith
What’s for me will find me
Knowing good things gonna find me
Faith, have faith
What’s for me will find me
That’s faith
That’s faith
Faith, have faith
What’s for me will find me
That’s faith
Knowing
Knowing good things gon’ come my way
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MidnightRoba London, UK
MidnightRoba is UK-based vocalist/producer Roba El-Essawy, the voice of electronic trio Attica Blues.
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