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With power, people change the world every day
They tell the birds with their nest and babies to fly away
You’d think power would make an awesome great change
But when you realize you don’t get morale
You express your rage
Usually in the afternoon
People talk to their boss about what they make
But another way to express the anger
Is to go fishing at a peaceful lonely lake
Ah, but you have a chance to be hero, yes a mighty hero
Who revolts against power
Maybe the world should be split up with power equally
Instead of one humongous jerk commanding it all
Sometimes you just know what’s right
And to quit power might just be the Earth’s call
Ah, power
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Found an ancient scroll full of mirrors to the mind
It’s supposed to have 50, only got 49
Almost to the top, I simply have to know
Constantly wondering: where’d the missing koan go?
Been following leads fast as Samuel Spade
I think I’m going to make it; then I’ll have it made
Hire Dixon and Fenton – call in Frank and Joe
It slipped through my fingers; where’d the missing koan go?
I’ve done this enough to follow the arc
The pitcher fires one in, and you jump out of the park
But a man can’t let go of what’s never been his
I’ll zero the count once I find where #50 is
Been told to give up; I adamantly refuse
A lifetime of searching yielded nothing but clues
How can I answer one final mondo
When I don’t have the question; where’d the missing koan go?
Where’d it go?
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Flying Away
03:46
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Dreams are only real if you believe
Hearts can only heal after they grieve
Let your heart keep on trying
Let your dreams take you flying away, flying away, flying away
Love is all we need to conquer all
Peace is all we need, tear down the wall
Fight for peace, stop the crying
Let your love send you flying away, flying away, flying away
Flying away into the sun, flying away – we’ve just begun
Flying away into the sun, flying away – we’ve just begun
Dreams are only real if you believe
Hearts can only heal after they grieve
Let your heart keep on trying
Let your dreams take you flying away, flying away, flying away
Flying away, flying away, flying away
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Go on Through
02:46
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Standing tall before the arch which marks your door
You admire familiar bricks and search for more
Having beaten every challenge except what you need to do
The path is plain, the time is now
There is no gate so go on through
If a barrier should present itself right here
It can only be the comfortable kind of fear
You’ve accomplished every aim
Besides the one that’s meant for you
Quit wasting chances, buckle down
Look ahead and go on through
Oh, so hard to change your fate
So much simpler to stand and wait
The guard is always stuck outside the gate
Before you fall and cast your last breath upon the ground
Understand it does no good to go around
Refuse to play the game you’ve won
That’s what you’re here to do
The path is clear, the time is now
You are the gate so go on through
That which admits entry can never enter
There is no edge if you remain the center
Oh, so easy to grasp what’s true
So much harder to go on through
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Angela (And Your Love)
03:57
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You take away the darkness with your light
You take away the shadows in the night
I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have you
Angela and your love, Angela and your love
You hold back the clouds and the rain
You bring back the sunny skies again
I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have you
Angela and your love, Angela and your love
I’m on my own but I’m not alone; you’re always by my side
When I’m feeling down you come around
I know you’ll keep me satisfied
You give me everything I need and more
You make the sun shine brighter than before
I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have you
Angela and your love, Angela and your love
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Denial
02:32
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Staring out a broken window at fallen trees
Passing the time with real books, the mixer, and DVDs
Got a supercool blackout curtain in my room
Offline, away from distracted people
Chanting that change will be ending soon
And a Yankee fan flies over on his way to close some deal
A puffy white scar on a clear blue sky, and I’m watching
Tomorrow we’ll put out bird seed and check the mail
If the weather’s good and my knee holds up
We’re maybe going to hit the trail
Or break out the nerdiest board game and try to win
It’s been so long, I’m thinking ’bout
Firing up Ramza’s story again
Now the latest styles fly over on a trip to the next big thing
Treating my home like the open sea, and I say let ’em
Over here shoved aside, safely out of the way
Given where we look to be headed
My luck looks better than just okay
To pine for anything more than I have would be foolish greed
Pursuing my passion with the people I love is everything I need
And the red eye from Dallas flies over
My backyard deer dancing in the dawn
I know you can’t store peace, but I’m trying
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Far Away from Here
03:40
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Riding along in this old boxcar
Don’t care where as long as it’s far away, far away from here
Looking at all the countryside
Feeling so good and happy to ride away, far away from here
I hope this feeling will never disappear
Where I’m going I really don’t know
I don’t care as long as I go
Happy to stand nowhere to sit
But I don’t care as long as I get away, far away from here
Bouncing along it ain’t no fun
I could have walked, I could have run away, far away from here
Going to find a place where I’ll be free and clear
There’s a brand new world waiting around the bend
Every mile I go brings me nearer the end
I’ve waited so long that I can’t wait to go again
Where I’m going I really don’t know
I don’t care as long as I go
Riding along in this old boxcar
Don’t care where as long as it’s far away, far away from here
Looking at all the countryside
Feeling so good and happy to ride away, far away from here
Away, far away from here; far away, far away from here
Far away, far away from here
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Revenge
02:52
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If Poop Didn't Exist
03:49
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A long time ago, poop didn’t exist! WHAT?!
There were horrible times! No it wasn’t! No they weren’t!
I’m Jake! I’m Jack! I’m Poopville
When the poop did not exist, we all died! No we didn’t!
How are you still here? Why are you still here?
So don’t ask how I’ve been here because it’s complicated!
I went to hell first! I’m just gonna leave now Me too
You will go there too someday! Shut up!
You are a jerk! You’re the jerk, shut up!
When the poop didn’t exist, bad things happened!
No they didn’t! Shut up! I died along with the rest of my clan!
But then, something extraordinary happened!
We came back to life in hell! It was beautiful there in hell
I was being sarcastic you idiot! So shut up!
A long time ago, we did not have a butt!
We did not have a buttocks!
We did not have a .. ah AH AHH!!!
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Thirsty and Drowning
04:27
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Joshu says it in the very first case
Wherever you are, you’ve got to leave that place
Jump out of every box in which you’ve lain
Be it Nansen’s North Pole or Nansen’s poor cat
It’s nonsense pretending there is more than that
There’s only whack! and the void
But you wouldn’t guess it looking at pain
Yeah, people be thirsty and drowning; too many and counting
Hateful and they love it – shameful and proud of it
Carefree and frightened, divine and unenlightened
Childlike without mercy, drowning and thirsty
Sitting on top of the world is neat
But the mountain’s pretty far from Oglethorpe Street
It’s hard to become your best without the means
Even Indiana Jones couldn’t carry the day
When every single mook standing in his way
Votes Belloq for president with Donovan behind the scenes
Oh, you want to get paid?
Well you’d better be thirsty and drowning
Cared for and frowning
Got to work hard, but not too tough
Have plenty and buy new stuff
Educated without thinking; stare at evil without blinking
Believe in magic, don’t explain it
Learn the system, don’t change it
You possess the power to be who you are
Don’t expect any help if you try to go too far
Yeah, people be thirsty and drowning; eight billion and counting
Hateful and they love it – shameful and proud of it
Carefree and frightened, divine and unenlightened
Either luckless and needy or wealthy and greedy
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Oppression
01:36
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Pulls You Apart
03:05
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Fancy boulder in your way: a gilded toll booth – prepare to pay
Nothing is free except the treasures you cannot buy
Shiny mirror so devout, even my reflection said I’m-a head out
Something to see, those wrinkles around a young eye
Time, it pulls you apart; we’ve been fools from the start
Waiting and hoping for stories with perfect beginnings
About a hundred years have passed
Since simple problems breathed their last
Those whose solutions were inertia
Speeches, whiskey, and guns
Other than my easy chair, greed and madness everywhere
Saving the planet would be cake if not for pests with funds
And it pulls you apart leaking pools from your heart
Helplessly watching while the fortunate waste their winnings
Such a shame, plain to see, this crooked game – yet I’ll be
Kicking and screaming when tomorrow says
“You’ve had your innings”
Yes it pulls you apart that we can’t live a la carte
Success after laughter and then
Love while the whispering wind sings
Someone will go every day and I know we can’t stay
Happy or not, it’s hard
To keep yourself together through endings
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14. |
To Find the Key
03:25
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There’s a door within your heart that keeps us far apart
I don’t know where to start to find the key
There’s a lock inside your soul that makes you hard to know
I don’t know where to go to find the key
Is there any way I can think of
To find the key to unlock your love?
There’s a chain wrapped over you that hides you from my view
What more can I do to find the key
There’s a place so deep inside where you go to hide
I’m swallowing my pride to find the key
Is there any way I can think of
To find the key to unlock your love?
There’s a door within your heart that keeps us far apart
I don’t know where to start to find the key
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Fextonia Hawesville, Kentucky
Founded in 1996 amid the hills of southeastern Kentucky, Fextonia quickly evolved from a high school jam band into a songwriters' convention and continues to record original albums.
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