May 22, 2012
I work in a beautiful place: outside my office is the Garden Cafe on the Cowley Road

May 15, 2012
Cheerful music

Don’t worry about a thing,
Might as well share, might as well smile

I know where I want to go

Every little things gonna be alright ~Bob Marley~
Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, “This is my message to you”
Singin’: Don’t worry ‘bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: Don’t worry (don’t worry) ‘bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, “This is my message to you”
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don’t worry!
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing” - I won’t worry!
“‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.

Little Bitty ~Alan Jackson~
Have a little love on a little honeymoon
You got a little dish and you got a little spoon
A little bitty house and a little bitty yard
Little bitty dog and a little bitty car

Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while
A little bitty baby in a little bitty gown
It’ll grow up in a little bitty town
Big yellow bus and little bitty books
It all started with a little bitty look

Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while
You know you got a job and a little bitty check
Six pack of beer and television set
Little bitty world goes around and around
Little bit of silence and a little bit of sound

A good ole boy and a pretty little girl
Start all over in a little bitty world
A little bitty plan and a little bitty dream
It’s all part of a little bitty scheme
Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while

First Day Of My Life ~Bright Eyes~
This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am 
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you 
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you’d just woke up 
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you 
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”
So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right - I won’t worry!
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, oh no!
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

May 15, 2012
Cheerful music

Don’t worry about a thing,
Might as well share, might as well smile

I know where I want to go

Every little things gonna be alright ~Bob Marley~
Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, “This is my message to you”
Singin’: Don’t worry ‘bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: Don’t worry (don’t worry) ‘bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, “This is my message to you”
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don’t worry!
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing” - I won’t worry!
“‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right - I won’t worry!
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, oh no!
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Little Bitty ~Alan Jackson~
Have a little love on a little honeymoon
You got a little dish and you got a little spoon
A little bitty house and a little bitty yard
Little bitty dog and a little bitty car

Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while
A little bitty baby in a little bitty gown
It’ll grow up in a little bitty town
Big yellow bus and little bitty books
It all started with a little bitty look

Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while
You know you got a job and a little bitty check
Six pack of beer and television set
Little bitty world goes around and around
Little bit of silence and a little bit of sound

A good ole boy and a pretty little girl
Start all over in a little bitty world
A little bitty plan and a little bitty dream
It’s all part of a little bitty scheme
Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while

First Day Of My Life ~Bright Eyes~
This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don’t know where I am 
I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you 
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you’d just woke up 
And you said “this is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you 
But now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”
So if you want to be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

 

May 10, 2012
See you on a dark night

Oblivion ~Grimes~
Another walk about, after dark
It’s my point of view
If someone could break your neck
Coming up behind you always coming and you’d never have a clue

And now I’m left behind, all the time
I will wait forever, always looking straight
Thinking, counting, all the hours you waitSee you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)
See you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)
See you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)
See you on a dark night

And now another clue, I would ask
If you could help me out
It’s hard to understand
Cause when you’re really by yourself
It’s hard to find someone to hold your handAnd now it’s gonna be, tough on me
But I will wait forever
I need someone now to look into my eyes and tell me
Girl you know you gotta watch your health

To look into my eyes and tell me
La la la la la
To look into my eyes and tell me
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la laI see you on a dark night
I see you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)
I see you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)
I see you on a dark night
(oooooooo aaaaaaaaa)

April 30, 2012
Four songs (again)

meet me on the corner at eight 
Don’t stop come a little closer

I don’t know anything about love
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day 

‘cos I’m made out of glue 

Allelujah ~Fairground Attraction~
The lights on the westway go on 
A million cars hurry home 
An ice cream van shuts off its tinsel bells 
Winter won’t be long 

I see you every day 
I watch as you walk down this way 
We pass on the stairs of this council block 
Too shy to find words to say But your smile is a prayer that prays for love 
And your heart is a kite that longs to fly 
Hallelujah here I am 
Let’s cut the strings tonight 

So meet me on the corner at eight 
Let’s get out of this place 
We’ll kiss the first of a million kisses 
And let the past fall away For your smile is a prayer that prays for love 
And your heart is a kite that longs to fly 
Hallelujah here I am 
Let’s cut the strings tonight 

Yes your smile is a prayer that prays for love 
And your heart is a kite that longs to fly 
Hallelujah here I am 
Let’s cut the strings tonight Yes your smile is a prayer that prays for love 
And your heart is a kite that longs to fly 
Hallelujah here I am 
We’ll cut the strings tonight 

And we’ll kiss the first of a million kisses 
La-la-la-la-la-la
Digital Love ~Daft Punk~
Last night I had a dream about you
In this dream I’m dancing right beside you
And it looked like everyone was having fun
the kind of feeling I’ve waited so long

Don’t stop come a little closer
As we jam the rythm gets stronger
There’s nothing wrong with just a little little fun
We were dancing all night longThe time is right to put my arms around you
You’re feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone

Ooh I don’t know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes trueOoh I don’t know what to do
About this dream and you
We’ll make this dream come true

Why don’t you play the game ?
Why don’t you play the game ?
The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure ~The Magnetic Fields~
 I met Ferdinand de Saussure on a night like this
On love, he said, I’m not so sure I even know what it is
No understanding, no closure, it is a nemesis
You can’t use a bulldozer to study orchids, he said so

We don’t know anything
You don’t know anything
I don’t know anything
About loveAnd we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love

I’m just a great composer and not a violent man
But I lost my composure and I shot Ferdinand
Crying, it’s well and kosher to say you don’t understand
But this is for Holland Dozier Holland, his last words wereWe don’t know anything
You don’t know anything
I don’t know anything
About love

But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without loveHis fading words were

We don’t know anything
You don’t know anything
I don’t know anything
About love But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) ~The Proclaimers~
When I wake up, well I know i’m gonna be, 
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next you
When I go out, yeah I know I’m gonna be 
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver up, Yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to youBut I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I’m working, yes I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I’ll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home(When I come home), well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow-old,(When I grow-old) well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s growing old with youBut I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day 
da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da dayWhen I’m lonely, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s lonely without you
And when I’m dreaming, well I know I’m gonna dream
I’m gonna dream about the time when I’m with you
When I go out, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home(When I come home), yes I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I’m gonna be the man who’s coming home with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your doorda da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day 
da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day
da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
dum diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day 
da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
diddle dum diddle dum diddle do da day

And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your doorI’m Sticking With You ~Velvet Underground~
I’m sticking with you 
‘cos I’m made out of glue 
Anything that you might do 
I’m gonna do too 

You held up a stage coach in the rain 
And I’m doing the same 
So you’re hanging from a tree 
And I made believe it was me I’m sticking with you 
‘cos I’m made out of glue 
Anything that you might do 
I’m gonna do too 
People going to the stratosphere 
Soldiers fighting with the cong? 

But with you by my side I can do anything 
When we swing 
We hang past right or wrong  I’ll do anything for you 
Anything you want me too 
I’ll do anything for you 
Oohoh I’m sticking with you 
Oohoh I’m sticking with you 
Oohoh I’m sticking with you 

April 25, 2012
Cheerful songs for a cheerful mood

Her hair falling all around me, I smile and shake my head
Must have been the rolling sea

You probably think this song is about you
It’s only life after all


Homecoming (Walter’s Song) ~Vienna Teng~
It’s desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears
Hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears
That I was born in North Carolina
Not an hour from her home town
And we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball And there’s a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is
We’ve been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives
Where my days are strips of highway
And she’s wiping tables down
Holding on and still waiting for that windfall

But I’ve come home
Even though I’ve never had so far to go
I’ve come home I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill
Head across the street where vacancy is burning in neon still
Well the night eats up my body heat
And there’s no sign of another
And I find myself slipping down into that black

But things are good, I’ve got a lot of followers of my faith
I’ve got a whole congregation living in my head these days
And I’m preaching from the pulpit
To cries of “Amen brother”
Closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back And I’ve come home
Even though I swear I’ve never been so alone
I’ve come home

I just want to be living as I’m dying
Just like everybody here
Just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile
And I don’t know where I’m driving to
But I know I’m getting old
And there’s a blessing in every moment every mile Thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups
Old Gideons Bible in the nightstand drawer saying “Go on open up”
Well I’ll kneel down on the carpet here
Though I never was sure of God
Think tonight I’ll give Him the benefit of the doubt

I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed
Her hair falling all around me
I smile and shake my head
Well we all write our own endings
And we all have our own scars
But tonight I think I see what it’s all about Because I’ve come home
I’ve come home


Some old salty ~Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight~
Some old salty, how he used to rock me.
Jelly Roll or Jerry Lee, how he used to rock me. Salt fare, North Sea,
Weird stare, further than the eye can see.
He had a head like a toy shop, bow legged stance off,
Must have been the rolling sea.

Some old salty, how he used to rock me.
Jelly Roll or Jerry Lee, how he used to rock me. Hull Fair waltzers, bopping to Brenda Lee.
River boat jazz cruise, jiving to the Two-Nineteen.

Some old salty, how he used to rock me.
Jelly Roll or Jerry Lee, how he used to rock me. Down there for dancing, come on Mr Chester please.
Play “Deliah’s gone” for one more round, some old salty’s on his feet.

Some old salty, how he used to rock me.
Jelly Roll or Jerry Lee, how he used to rock me. Salt fare, North Sea,
Weird stare, further than the eye can see.
He had a head like a toy shop, bow legged stance off,
Must have been the rolling sea.

Some old salty, how he used to rock me.
Jelly roll or Jerry Lee, how he used to rock me.
Down the Abercrombie
You’re so vain ~Carly Simon~
You walked into the party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not, you’re with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and

You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?
Closer to fine ~Indigo Girls~
I’m trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you’ve ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it’s only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I’m crawling on your shore. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine. I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine. I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
I went in seeking clarity. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine. We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There’s more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

April 20, 2012
Three songs

Everything is beautiful
the things that make us real, the things that break us open, and the things that make us feel

it’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry

In the hush before the heartbreak ~The Nields~
In the hush before the heartbreak
Everything is beautiful
In the hush before the heartbreak
Everything’s cool
In the hush before the heartbreak
I’ll be your fool
In the hush before the heartbreak
I’ll do anything for you
I don’t care about tomorrow
I don’t care about yesterday
I don’t care about your lover
I won’t make her go away
I don’t care about appearances
Or what my friends will say
(Let them talk all day)
In the hush before the heartbreak
I just want you to stay

You can know someone forever
And know what no one else knows
You get closer and closer
Till you are closed
You will stay this way forever
In your perfect dusky room
With the light shining from heaven
From a perfect waning moon
Like the message that you sent me
Saying “I will be home soon”
(I’ll be home soon)
In the hush before the heartbreak

Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture) ~Emmy the Great~
You’re not unlucky, you’re just not very smart.
These things will never leave you - they’re as close as you can get
To a blueprint for the future - but you can call it fate.
It’s like these days I have to write down almost every thought I’ve held,
So scared I am becoming of forgetting how it felt,
And these fears they will unravel me one day,
But still I am afraid.

But I’m blessed - 
Just to be, more or less - 
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
Oh blessed - 
Just to be, more or less - 
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
Now you’re blessed amongst all women,
Now a man who’s very good,
He tells you how you feel until your life is understood,
And he leads you through it arm in arm as though
There was a map to guide the way.
Now you write because you love him, now you write because he’s kind,
You write so much, you look up and you wrote yourself behind,
And you’re standing in a labyrinth of paper and the map has been erased.

But you’re blessed - 
Just to be, more or less - 
Standing in the afterglow of rapture with the words the rapture left.
Are you blessed?
Just to be, more or less?
Now you’re standing in the afterglow of rapture, but there is no rapture left.
Oh come, and we will celebrate the things that make us real, 
The things that break us open, and the things that make us feel
Like these accidental meetings up and partings of the way
Are not so much our choice but in the blood of how we’re made,
It’s like the way I have to write down almost everything I see,
So that the record does obscure the thing the record used to be,
And I know I’m not unlucky,
I was just born this way.

But I’m blessed.
Now a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles,
The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and it smiles,
And we all fall down
Like wind blows through the paper forest.
And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisles,
The baby born with teeth looks at its mother and smiles,
And we all fall down
As wind blows through the paper forest.s
And a paper forest grows up in the supermarket aisle
Alarm clock fingers turn they’re counting seconds like they’re miles
And you say, “wake up now, ‘cause I can see no paper forest.”

So Long Marianne ~Leonard Cohen~
Won’t you come over to the window, my little darling?
I’d like to try to read your palm
You know I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy
Before I let you take me home

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry
And laugh about it all again
Well, you know that I love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry
And laugh about it all again
Now we met when was it? We were almost young
We stand by the green lilac park
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry
And laugh about it all again
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry
And laugh about it all again

For now, I need your hidden love
I’m cold as a new razor blade
You left when I told you I was curious
Did I ever say that I was brave?
So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry, cry
And laugh about it all again

Oh, you are really such a pretty woman
I see you’ve gone and changed your names again
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
To wash my eyelids in the rain
So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry
And laugh about it all again

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry, cry
Laugh about it all again

April 14, 2012
Test

Benedict
Sent from 07838 159 904

April 11, 2012
Step into this fire I set

A beautiful song based on the Mann Gulch fire

Cold Missouri Waters ~James Keelaghan~
My name is Dodge, but then you know that
It’s written on the chart there at the foot end of the bed
They think I’m blind, I can’t read it
I’ve read it every word, and every word it says is death
So, Confession - is that the reason that you came
Get it off my chest before I check out of the game
Since you mention it, well there’s thirteen things I’ll name
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters

August ‘Forty-Nine, West Montana
The hottest day on record, the forest tinder dry
Lightning strikes in the mountains
I was crew chief at the jump base, I prepared the boys to fly
Pick the drop zone, C-47 comes in low
Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go
See the circle of the fire down below
Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters
Gauged the fire, I’d seen bigger
So I ordered them to sidehill and we’d fight it from below
We’d have our backs to the river
We’d have it licked by morning even if we took it slow
But the fire crowned, jumped the valley just ahead
There was no way down, headed for the ridge instead
Too big to fight it, we’d have to fight that slope instead
Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters

Sky had turned red, smoke was boiling
Two hundred yards to safety, death was fifty yards behind
I don’t know why I just thought it
I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time
Tried to tell them, Step into this fire I set
We can’t make it, this is the only chance you’ll get
But they cursed me, ran for the rocks above instead
I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters
And when I rose, like the phoenix
In that world reduced to ashes there were none but two survived
I stayed that night and one day after
Carried bodies to the river, wonder how I stayed alive
Thirteen stations of the cross to mark to their fall
I’ve had my say, I’ll confess to nothing more
I’ll join them now, because they left me long before
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri shore

April 8, 2012
Happy Easter

Songs of freedom

Redemption Song ~Bob Marley~ Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?

‘Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy ‘Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh
Some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fullfil the book
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?

‘Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind
Woh, have no fear for atomic energy ‘Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fullfill the book
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?

‘Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom
Benedict
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