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Dandelion Tea
02:17
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Sometimes summer rains
Sometimes deserts sinks in the fool
As I lay without a thought in my head
Without a worry I am glad
For the meager bit of mad
You become in your sleep
Like a dandelion tea
And you weep on your knees
For your answers
See in your eyes
Light defines you means
With no end
You've got it all along
The spiral from within
You never had to know
The truth just flows
You're beautiful
The purity you seek
Is within you
It celebrates you
It's the shine
See in your eyes
Light defines you means
With no end
You got it all along
The spiral from within
You never had to know
The truth just flows
You're beautiful
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2. |
Everything & Nothing
03:04
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My shirt's unbuttoned I've got a tattoo
It says everything and nothing and you are too
I feel the back of my sight where I can't see
I know there is light just waiting for me
And a photon goes where a photon goes
Everywhere else, well nobody knows
I've got plenty of bad to feel for free
So let’s not make math and add guilt to a heavy load
The evolution of guilty man trying to be clean
The better part of him is his foresight to be seen
There never was a problem
But the one he made in self-esteem
Oh golly miss molly can we just forgive the man?
I see sin in my eye, but the sin is a floater
It's not the tree that’s wavy, but the heat from the fire
I've got bills to pay, I've got mouths to feed
If you don't like the song
Well pay yourself some sympathy
I could waste the day, I could blame myself
I'll keep to honesty and thank you as well
We made it off with the pot of gold
And the leprechaun said
Take the whole damn rainbow
The evolution of a human isn't perfect
But it's worth the flaws
One foot before the other and
We'll make it to the kingdom come
A lovely life a middle way
with moderation in everything
The whole blessed mountain
Had an elevator the whole time
Sweet, sweet empathy
Bind the blind with sight to see
And give, give our heart a home
It’s a vagabond lately and could use a name
Sweet, sweet blessed free
Kindly guide us to The Living Tree
And saint, saint I’ll never meet
This world is a garden and
Could use a few good hands
This world is a garden
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Mother & Child
03:29
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She prayed to the sun
It burnt her tongue as she spouted out amen
She never took a man for what he didn’t have
She held the baby dead in her maternal hands
The tears she shed shook the earth to her bed
and she sang: Baby, baby go to sleep
You never have to fear a thing for me
The pastor said you’re born in sin
But I don't like the lies of him
Close your eyes and rest in peace
And I will see you on the other side
If you're alone keep me inside
If there's nothing after this
Then there's nothing to fear, my kid
Soon you'll know what the best of us have only dreamed of
God take my child!
She washed her hands of the gravel
And took a breath of the bounty
She had a life and she could cry no more
The love she felt left her mouth
Then in vowel and song that shook mountain
And she cried up and the world took her voice and she said
Mother earth don’t cry for me
My seed is well and lives in me
So take the breath of the bounty
And love the ones that’s around us
Cause we all die and we all see
We shall see
and she sang: Baby, baby go to sleep
You never have to fear a thing for me
The pastor said you’re born in sin
But I don't like the lies of him
Just close your eyes and rest in peace
Rest in peace
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Mirrors & Shine
03:03
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He grabs his coat and hits the road
He doesn't know where he will go
But he takes steps to make it so
He says the same twelve stories
Every person that he knows
Knows that he's down and out
He glows, he's got a fire in his belly
He's got wisdom of the century
He says that no one knows but got here
And though we know not what we are
We still try and hold us austere
All the empty implies fill me
Help me I'm about out of me
Poverty is wealth and wealth is poverty
There's nothing here in this body shell
Just mirrors and mirrors and shine
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Marigolds
03:27
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Patience is the stead of search
You'll get nowhere without
Hope can be as selfish as a fish
Searching for a cloud
So swim you little thing
You've got fins and gills and joy
Make good with what you got
It's more than you'll ever know
Rock your boat to shore and bind us like a torch
Did you finish your report?
The world won't wait no more
There's something at the door
For you, for me, for we
A field of marigolds is a hard thing to hold
A lover with a candle can burn away
Some of that cold
But love was never a tool
A fire to burn a veil
The depths of our passions will prevail
So set your doubts to north
And bind us like a torch
Did you finish your report?
The world won't wait no more
There's something at the door
For you, for me, for we
Presence is a gift that blossoms forth
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6. |
Inevitable Tangible Good
03:39
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I didn't break anything
It was like that when I got here
All that water on the floor
Flowers in your eyes
All that paranoia you held under your arm
Like a cradle to protect you
In a holster on your side
I wanted happiness, happiness
Happiness you can bet it on your life
I don't want anything, anything
I don't claim anything
I was created it's not mine
I believe it's gonna be alright
I believe it's gonna be just fine
My sister says it all works out in the end
And if it's not worked out yet it's not the end
All that paranoia, paranoia
Just building up and it’s boiling over
All that love persecuted
Love persecuted
It’s building up and it’s boiling over
You can't hold anymore, hold anymore
You've held it all up and you can't hold anymore
All that love persecuted, love persecuted
It’s just building up and it’s boiling over
I believe it's gonna be alright
I believe it's gonna be just fine
My sister says it all works out in the end
And if it's not worked out yet it's not the end
It's coming to you, It's coming to you
No matter what anyone else does
All that good you earned all that you deserve
I believe it's coming to you, it’s coming to you
I believe it's gonna be alright
I believe it's gonna be just fine
My sister says it all works out in the end
And if it's not worked out yet it's not the end
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The Living Tree Wichita, Kansas
The Living Tree is a collective of artists and musicians sharing modern folk with a message. This album recorded lovingly in
the Gordon's living room in Wichita, KS.
"There's nothing here, in this body shell, just mirrors and mirrors and shine."
part of The Broslyn Bards
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