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Responsibility
05:32
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She’s poor but she’s honest, she begs but she don’t steal
She offers me a blessing in exchange for her next meal
She must know what I’m thinking, the words that I don’t say
If I don’t acknowledge you, perhaps you’ll go away
Go away
I wish she’d go away
I see him on my corner, cardboard for his bed
He holds a conversation with the voices in his head
I like to think he has a home, a family somewhere
I pass him everyday and pretend that he’s not there
He’s not there
I wish he wasn’t there
And where do I go with this responsibility?
Who do I turn to to set my conscience free?
How can your eyes touch a perfect stranger?
The burden of your life, it can’t really
It can’t really rest on me
This responsibility
Can it really rest on me?
This responsibility?
She holds a baby to her breast. Her hand reaches to me
She asks not for herself, but for her hungry family
I lose her voice so easily within the city sounds
But the cooing of a baby makes me stop and turn around
I turn around
Thank God I turn around
But now where do I go with this responsibility?
Who do I turn to to set my conscience free?
How can your eyes touch a perfect stranger?
The burden of your life, can it really
Does it really rest on me?
This responsibility
Does it really rest on me?
This responsibility
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
This responsibility
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
I believe, I believe, I believe it rests on me
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2. |
Wind Song
04:41
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The weather man says the wind's out of the southeast today
Travelling at zero miles per hour (that's pretty damn slow)
What I need to know is where's the air that's going to lift these beads of sweat from my brow?
Where are you wind now?
The wind through the trees tends to ease my mind
blowing the clouds around reveals a silver lining
What I need to know is where's the breeze that's going to ease these furrowed linese from my brow?
Where are you wind now?
You told me that you'd come back like the wind into my life
To remind me of all the things I've learned through the sorrow and the strife.
I'm listening for the wind now as it brushes through the trees
I'm praying that you'll answer me with the rustle of the leaves
Answer somehow
Where are you wind now?
I wish the wind would carry me though my everyday
It's absence leaves me wondering why I came this way
What I'm praying for is a gale to blow my mind and leave behind these thoughts of you
Come on wind blow through
And you told me that you'd come back like the wind into my life
To remind me of all the things I've learned through the sorrow and the strife.
Now I'm listening for the wind now as it brushes through the trees
I'm praying that you'll answer me with the rustle of the leaves
Answer somehow
Where are you wind now?
Where are you wind now?
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3. |
Sing Louder
04:15
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I feel feet tapping through the floor
The sound of hammers on strings floating under the door
She is whiling the hours away
She plays her music most every day
She’s seen life that I’ll never know
Over 100 years and she is still on the go
When I ask how she’s lived all those years
She laughs till she cries then she speaks through her tears
She says…
Live what you love
Love what you do
Laugh with your friends
Cry with them too
Sing every day
Sing out loud sing out clear
If you don’t know the words
Sing louder
Sing stronger
Sing louder, sing stronger
For all the world to hear
She’s walking out when I’m walking in
On her arm is a cane on her face is a grin
When I ask how she’s feeling today
Her smile tells it all and here’s what she says:
Live what you love
Love what you do
Laugh with your friends
Cry with them too
Sing every day
Sing out loud sing out clear
If you don’t know the words
Sing louder
Sing stronger
Sing louder, sing stronger
For all the world to hear
When she left us the silence was deafening
So I climbed up the stairs to her room
I sat at her keys with my hands on my knees
Till the song filled my heart it was loud it was clear
I wasn’t quite sure of all of the words
So I sang louder
I sang Stronger
I sang louder and stronger
For all the world to hear
Live what you love
Love what you do
Laugh with your friends
Cry with them too
Sing every day
Sing out loud sing out clear
If you don’t know the words
Sing louder
Sing stronger
Sing louder, sing stronger
For all the world to hear
Sing louder
Sing stronger
Sing louder, sing stronger
For all the world to hear
Sing louder, sing stronger
For all the world to hear
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4. |
Fly and Be Free
03:50
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Fly and Be Free he said, let me go
You need no anchors tying you to the shore
You’ve got oceans to sail
Blue skies calling you
Fly and Be Free, let me go
I have no more needs for you to fulfill
Its time now you take care of your own
It’s time to live what you’ve learned
And take what you’ve earned
Through the years
Time to Fly and Be Free
Fly and Be Free
That’s the greatest gift that you could give to me
Remember well
That there’s a heaven here on earth and there’s a hell
So shine your light
The love that drew me in and held me tight
Fly and Be Free
So the world can learn from all you learned me
Now that I’m free from all the pain I knew
I’m living on the wind and in your song
So don’t fret over me
For I’ll always be
The angel watching over you
Fly and Be Free
That’s the greatest gift that you could give to me
Remember well
That there’s a heaven here on earth and there’s a hell
So shine your light
The love that drew me in and held me tight
Fly and Be Free
So the world can learn from all you learned me
Fly and Be Free
That’s the greatest gift that you could give to me
Remember well
That there’s a heaven here on earth and there’s a hell
So shine your light
The love that drew me in and held me tight
Fly and Be Free
So the world can learn from all you learned me
Fly and Be Free
That’s the greatest gift that you could give to me
Fly and Be Free
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5. |
Building This House
05:13
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I am building this house Brick by Brick board by board
I am Building this house for my love
I am building this house for the family
The family we have not yet begun
I am plowing this field seed by seed, row by row
I am plowing this field for my love
I am sowing these seeds to feed a family
The family we’ll raise beneath the sun
I will raise these boards one by one
I will tend this field in the heat of the summer sun
I have just begun building this house
I am raising you up day by day, year by year
I am raising you up on my love
I am raising you up you are my family
A family sent down by God above
I will take each day one by one
I will teach you to climb each mountain as it comes
I have just begun building this house
I’m not afraid of a day’s hard work
I’m not afraid to dig down deep in the cold dark earth
I’ll dig deep to find what’s worth my time in this life
And build you this house
I will raise these boards one by one
I will teach you to climb each mountain as it comes
I have just begun building this house
Building this house
Brick by brick, board by board
Building this house
Day by day, year by year
Building this house
Building this house
Building this house
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