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Mercy for Discipline
02:58
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Trembling with fear as the date was drawing near,
I gauged all potential outcomes
Well, I didn't want this fight
But it arrived ‘neath the bright n’ sunny
August dog day summer sun, placing me under the gun
To avoid a sour fate, I wandered all throughout the state
And almost missed what’s clear and bright
In a classic case of irony, I capsized that misery and...
Reversed the culprit's crooked plight
To gain leverage in the fight
Dance with a plume to a retribution tune
Sometimes the good guys win
Oh, how swift their pollution met a sweet retribution,
Instant mercy for discipline, wholly expunged sin
Well, go on now and do your worst for I refuse to reimburse
Or relinquish what is rightly mine
A magpie stored some paper gold
Which brought this dog in from the cold
And restored prestige back to fine, reset life to nine
Dance with all joy at this barricaded ploy
Occasionally the right folks win
Infringement revised, remunerated, rectified,
Gentle mercy for discipline
Wholly expunged sin, elate revival within
Sure feels good to get a win, oh, thank God for my kin
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Robin the Oriole
03:21
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I've got to chill,
Haven’t got anywhere to go but I just cannot sit still
You.... possess my brain,
I want you out of my head but I’m unwilling to face that pain
Breakfast will be served in my favorite dive diner
Just a few miles north of North Carolina
I can hear the distant calls of virgins by the sea,
The rousing, rising sky signals it’s spring…..
Springtime has come
The land rejuvenates life with with a subtle, lime-green hum
Hazily we’ll proceed, towards that tangent,
Mid-song bridge in another key
Time to throw shade at arguments that were never made
To gain hand, to pack that bigger bite,
With the sharpened words, crass and blight
A field full of straw men to knock down,
A field filled with straw men all around
Ole’ grumpled head, the monster underneath the bed
Echoing all those words I never said, until that stone is bled
Music will be played on a well-tread wooden porch
Just slightly north of central Georgia
The soaring notes are each harmonized so fine,
Keep us oblivious to the signs…..
Signs of the times
Cracked open my Benjamins’ box
But its now filled with dimes
You..... destroyed the dream
And I’m still reeling from your deft, elaborate scheme
But I just cannot stay angry with you
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Tangytown
03:29
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So I walked away from it all,
To investigate what’s beyond the curvature of this ball
I made a rash decision to break,
And direct my tunnel vision
Towards a new path that I will take
Embarked on my mission to Tangytown
Where the eminent pay homage to gaudy clowns
Without a sound, I just walked away from it all
Oh, I couldn’t leave that rail alone, although I knew deep down
It couldn’t transport me to a place where I’d cease to be scorned
I must forsake the decision or just own it
I must ice all provisions or prove that I actually condone it
But I found no asylum in Tangytown,
Only miscreants held up high while the saints are brought down
To the bitter sounds of me grabbing hold of that third rail today
Often distorted, never directly ever observed
Oh, and so rarely acknowledged
And, God knows, never really heard
This is the vapor trail of a lost and wandering soul
Who tried, so intensely, to escape out of his self-dug hole
Oh, why did I did that hole? I had to dig the hole
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Sweet Emily
04:47
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It’s a love that never dies
Even through the most intense, traumatic cries
The more our hearts are aching,
The clearer how unshakable this case
A truly special little girl, perhaps too good for this ole’ world
Although its so heartbreaking,
We'll never be forsaking the moment we face
Forever and unreservedly,
That is the way one will love their own child
So if you get to Heaven and you see sweet Emily,
Please give her a smile
There should a natural sequence to life
The first to leave would be the earliest who’d arrived
Sometimes things don't land that way,
"Why?" we say, God only knows
And there’s your favorite teddy bear,
Locked in its kind, forever stare
Can you look at it right now from where you are?
Oh, please let it be so
No getting over it, there's just no moving on after a while
So if you get to Heaven and you see sweet Emily,
Please give her a smile
Late this morning I had a vivid dream
Your tiny hand was reaching out for me
Tried so hard to rescue you,
Until I realized that I'm the one who is really lost
So I struggle to take a single step
On the long and winding trek of many miles
Determined to get to Heaven where I’ll see sweet Emily
And finally smile, we will share a smile
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Tune up all the turbines of your will now,
The upcoming journey is hard
Who will speak up for you as you're maligned?
Who will assume that vanguard?
The surprise situations changed that game that you regard
Well, now's the time to prove what you are made of,
Will you persist through these scars?
Refine the engines of your courage,
This upcoming year may be rough
Competently seeing things through a real lens,
While stripping the core of all fluff
And less and less will have your back
Once it endangers their own stuff
Now's the time to prove what you are made of,
Is the crux of your nature enough?
The truth is out there somewhere, not to be subjectively read
Clandestine as it might be, there is wisdom in its stead
The poison of deception, can not persist through time
‘Cause the truth is out there somewhere,
Credible, pure, refined
Growing tired of demoralization
As the axioms shift almost by the day
And those distorted tales of the imagination
Can’t forever hold such sway so I will not -
Give to the diffusion of lies, nor exist perpetually petrified
I’ll break out of that sad groove,
Plan my return back to the truth
To lift an authentic weight and carry it as far as its fate
There is a way past this mire,
An escape from a fate that is dire
Stoke the blue flames of the fire beyond basic desire
The warring parties methods
Always use means towards an end
But the truth is out there somewhere,
No matter foe or friend
Growing weary of the situation,
A newspeak edition coming every day
With no sympathy for an imagination,
The tyranny won’t forever hold this sway
And with just some truth to break these spurious creations,
And really show the world that there is a better way
We can spread it through rapid conflagration,
Into a better way, into a truly better day
Build a brand new shield for your will now,
Keep those detractors at bay
Now's the time to prove what you are made of,
This journey will happen come what may
The inclinations of some game will not dictate who’s brave
Now's the time to show some real courage,
The truth is out there to be saved
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Redemption
03:35
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I tried to cast you from my heart
But that wasn’t so easy to achieve
Oh, that bitter poison that you fling,
It permeates through everything
Corrupting all which I’d believe
So many years go by as I slowly
Find and build some meaning in my life
Then the haunting echoes of the past
Returned in shards of shattered glass
To rekindle the ugly days of strife
If I write a thousand songs, will anybody listen?
If I right a thousand wrongs, will I be forgiven?
Where is the redemption for me?
I tried to scrub you from my life,
But all alone I just couldn’t get this done
Reverberating deep despair,
It tossed and turned me everywhere
And now I’m again on the run, oh no…
If I write a thousand songs, will anybody listen?
If I write a thousand wrongs, can I finally be forgiven?
Where is the redemption?
Will there be some redemption for me?
Oh Lord, for me?
People need a good faith path towards renovation
Without the peril of this yore annihilation
Where is the redemption?
Can there be some redemption for me?
Will there be hope for me?
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Country Blues #72
04:43
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As I walk down to the highway
I begin to sing this song
The locomotive passing my way
Sets the rhythm as I move along
Without a doubt I shout the words,
In a voice that’s clear and strong, oh so strong
This tune made for a simple guy who lives from day to day,
Drinks in a sunshine ray to melt the blues away
I daydream of the afternoon
When I walked a country mile with you
And all you had to offer me
Was the promise of a love so true
I'm overjoyed to be living,
I'm going to tell the whole world I am, yes I am
For I've got such a fine woman who claims me as her man
Sure gonna give her love like nobody can
So I'm rolling on down to Rosedale
I've got my rider by my side
Although an unplanned detour
This is still a satisfying ride
I'm so grateful for this life,
I wanna tell everyone that I am, oh yes I am
The love of a sweet woman has made me a better man
And now I give her love like nobody can
No one can love her like this man
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Tranquil sky box
Where I really do enjoy our lucid talks
As we levitate above the fray
Daylight melts to dusk
As we regulate the corps on their final thrust
To conclude the edict of the day
This world needs more marvel, more beauty to view
Ascending from the desert subterfuge
A ghosted tower leaves its shadow in the sand,
Of a previous failed attempt by man
The terrace rocks
As the artisans install the building blocks
And the vision rises from the haze
This city needs its splendor so we've got work to do
To cultivate the gardens' bloom
Desire of sweet Amytis for mountain air to breathe
Is this bound by remedy or is it discrete?
Is the legend just poetic or is it concrete?
Can we really raise the tree roots up high?
Can we really make the earth touch the sky?
An ancient sky box, lost to time’s perpetual clocks
Can it be discovered another day?
Another day, some other day
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Wasted
03:49
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In re-examining this life up to this point I do conclude
That it’s much easier to put it all together in review
But there are moments
When those doubts and vast uncertainties exist
It’s hard to realize the gravity of actions that will persist
Was green and I’d seen the whole world as kind
But only now do I realize all of the time that was wasted
Was blue when life threw me a curved knuckle ball
But I never truly grasped the real thrill of it all until I faced it
Somewhere south of sanity
In a sweltering shelter dwells a king
Always slowly building plans of
Someday presenting some a new thing
This sovereign used to have a voice
But now there’s no one to be led
So the days go slow, the years go fast
And there is less road up ahead
Been bounced between the edges of regret and sublime
Especially in moments
When considering the time that’s been wasted
Well, I have lived in the desert and I’ve drunk waterfalls
And I’ve sampled the nectar
That was sweetest of all ever tasted
We can blaze a trail through the woods
And find that spirit of yesterday
On the deep, dark forest floor,
The fervor we will dance away (dance, dance)
But Friday night was oh so long
And I lost my favorite song
But you can sing any song you want
If you would just make up your mind
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Oceans
03:35
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Incredible beauty absorbed into my mind
Replenished vitality for this old soul of mine
A shimmering vision, majestic to behold
The color of Heaven may be crimson, blue and gold
Punctured a deep wellspring, cascade emotional
Revealing the presence of a force most magical
Just then I traversed to a the ultimate phase of essence
Disturbing, but yet so beautiful, with a total lack of pretense
The love in my heart could fill oceans
And there is much love to fulfill
I’m overcome with emotion
While the ocean stares back at me and challenges my will
Incredible beauty, autonomous design
Forged within the furnaces of an omniscient mind
This noble new mission may be difficult to conclude
But I pray to find the vision to see this all come true
The love in my heart could fill oceans
And there is so much love alive
I can’t deny the simple notion,
The emotion reflects the purpose why we strive
The commotion is worthwhile for the place where we’ll arrive
While the ocean shouts back at me and tells me I’m alive
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Donovan's Dread
03:13
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You say that the means fortify the ends
But I refuse to crucify any more friends
You claim the crow’s tolerable with white wine,
I’ll choose instead to draw my own imaginary lines
When will we ever feel the sun?
When will we ever have some fun?
When will we ever be all but
Done with our accomplishments,
Fulfilled by mass acknowledgment,
Relieved of our embarrassment
When? When?
You say that the Dream solidifies the means,
But I reject my assignment to the underground machine
You wave the goal approaching the divine
As I choose to subsist within my own imaginary lines
Why must we congenially drink the rain?
Why must we eventually taste the pain?
Why must we ever be all but hung for our proficiency,
Stung by our own technology,
Loathed for our non-apology,
Why? Why?
Where is the road map to the promised land?
Where is that soft and sympathetic hand?
Where is the hunger for the justice of our righteousness,
Promotion of our exultance.
Adoption of our endorsement,
Where? Where? Where? Where?
Where? Where? Where?
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Big Orange Cat
03:38
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If I were to go out on a limb for you darling,
Would you grab your hacksaw
And make it clear just where I stand?
You know I've got some choices of consequence upcoming
So, please state your position before this gets out of hand
I split the baby, for the baby was just too fat
I ain't talkin' bout flesh n’ blood here so...
Don't come after me with your big orange cat
If I gave you a glimpse of my true nature, sweet darling
Would you carve me from the inside out
Once I let down my guard?
For, just like the next man
I have my fair share of shortcomings
And by exposing my defects
You can bring me down hard
I split the baby, oh, it was a baby that just got too fat
I ain't coppin' to no infanticide here
So don't come at me with your big orange cat
The weight of the world keeps on pressin’ and pushin’
And bendin’ and breakin’ my nerve
To gain the whole world but lose the precious soul,
It’s a fate I never intended nor do I deserve
If I build a tinder box for you in the morning
Would you hand me a match
Or tell me I’ve gone too far?
Well, it's not all that crazy
When you think about where we are at
Oh, just a day or two away from being locked within
The jaws of a big orange cat, oh drat!
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13. |
If It All Fell Down
01:59
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If it all fell down, babe, would you still stick around
And remember that I've always been true?
If it falls apart, babe, may I count on a new start
Will we face the strife together, me and you?
Platitudes and mantras
Are just fine when times are good
But it's much harder when it's darker
To do what we should
Will you have my back if the fairy tale cracks,
Fight the fire that’s fiercely burning through?
Will we bleed as one, me and you?
On our feathery soft cloud
It is so easy to be proud
But when that lightning charges,
Will the pride shine through?
If it all fell down, babe,
Would you bail out of town
Or arrange for my heroic rescue?
Face the heat while it boils, burns and brews?
Will we rise as one, me and you?
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Sinclair Soul Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Sinclair Soul is an original rock and roll project by producer and composer Ric Albano.with guitarist Bret Alexander and drummer Ron Simasek. The music is a diverse breath of rock influenced from the classic era with a modern twist. In late 2023, the group will release it's fifth original album entitled "Frequencies".. ... more
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