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Strength
02:22
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It’s been so hard, so hard,
alone and the bombs
are just blowing up all around,
hard, so hard, on the ground
and it feels like the world
has its knee on your neck,
it’s hard, it’s been so hard,
living paycheck to paycheck
I know, it’s hard,
the planet is burning,
it hurts to go breathing outside,
you cried when you read the news,
when you read the news, HEY!
It’s hard, sometimes impossible
to even lace up your shoes.
But I see you.
I see you and I see that you’re tired.
You’re so tired
but you’re stronger than you ever have been.
You are stronger than you ever have been (yes you are)
You are stronger than you ever have been.
Hold your breath,
Hold your ground,
Hold my hand.
Know that you were my line in the sand.
I couldn’t have gotten through this without you
and nor would I want to.
But this world
can be a crushing weight
of sick and cruel greed,
I feel responsible for the litany
of every evil deed,
grief’s in my body,
I feel it when I wake up, when I sleep,
I cannot take it
but somehow we have endured!
Oh, for sure, for sure, for sure,
I’ve got a little dancing left in my feet...
Because I’m stronger than I ever have been.
I found my friends
and we are stronger than we ever have been.
All of us grieving, this weeping is healing!
It’s a secret, it’s a secret,
we are stronger than we ever have been.
You are stronger than you ever have been.
You will be stronger than you ever have been.
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2. |
Medicine
03:30
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Well it’s a late night
I’m feeling restless
and it’s been so hot
so I’m wandering round
The moon’s full
and my heart’s broke
and I can’t sleep
so I’m headed downtown
I've got this desperation inside
a loneliness that’s driving me
that I cannot hide
I’m looking for my people
looking for piece of mind
but damn this party has been so hard to find.
(Where are you?
Where are you?)
It's a small club
with a packed house
and the sweat smell
of a shadowy crowd
I’m so lost
in this dark place
in these strange shapes
and the music’s so loud
This loneliness won’t leave me alone
A hollowness, a hunger
that lives inside my bones
My body’s not connected
and my mind is apart
so sad that somehow I’ve forgotten my heart.
So I need
All of the people I love
All of the places I’ve known
to come calling through this song
as clear as on the telephone.
And all the grief will fall away
like leaves of grass and grains of sand
and I will dance, yes I will dance
like the goddamned madman that I am
Yes, I will dance, yes I will dance, Hey!
My legs move
and my hips shift
my arms lift
my body spinning around
My mind’s blank
and my eyes closed
and my wrists shake
coming alive in the sound
I wish I could be somebody new,
a man who could find solace
like some other folks do
I’ve never really fit
I’ve never really belonged
I’ve never felt this isolation so strong
So I need all of the people I love,
all of the places I’ve known
to come calling through this song
as clear as on the telephone
and all the grief will fall away
like leaves of grass and grains of sand
and I will dance, yes I will dance
like the goddamned madman that I am.
Yes, I will dance, yes I will dance, HEY!
It’s medicine, it’s medicine, HEY!
Come inside, My Soul,
you’re welcome home,
Come inside, My Soul,
you’re welcome home.
Yes, we will dance, yes we will dance, HEY!
Yes, we will dance, yes we will dance, HEY!
It’s medicine, it’s medicine, WOO!
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3. |
Want
03:28
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In and out and in and out
catch your breath
I want to hear you shout
the song of little death
Push and pull and push and pull
through my eyes
Let your mouth open with a language of sighs
We better sweat
We better stretch
We better stretch
Be in your body
Be here in your body
Up and down and up and down
ask for more
I need you to lay your body down on the floor
And the counters and the walls
and the couches and the halls
and the tables and the chairs
the front door, on the stairs
the rooftop, in the pillows
our skin against windows,
pushed up against the windows.
Flex release and flex release,
you are safe here,
you can let go of your tensions and your fear.
In and out
and push and pull
and up and down
and flex release
I want your laughter
I want to fall back
into the glow that comes after.
It’s real, it’s real,
it’s not a dream,
I’ll be right here when you get back
but now
I need to hear you scream!
Be in your body.
Be here in your body.
Remember your body.
I’ll be in your body.
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4. |
Spring
02:42
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Spring comes busting into my windows
all the colors of the rainbows
the blossoms all confetti
but I will not fall in love!
Birds arpeggiating so sweetly
the spring does to my body
what it does to the cherry trees
but I will not fall in love!
No I will not fall in love!
Oh it aches and aches and aches
the most exquisite of aches
too big a breath to take
too wild a beauty to shake
and everything I know about me now
that I’ve figured out
I will not prostrate myself before Love
with my pockets out!
Sun shine draped over my pillow
the breeze through bottle hollows
I am not so lonely
and I will not fall in love!
A hummingbird lands
on the lip of my coffee cup
and I tell my heart
shut up, shut up, shut up!
This cannot be happening!
It cannot be happening!
It’s Maybe Happening!
No I will not fall in love!
No I will not fall in love!
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5. |
Friend
03:46
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You are my friend
we met the very bottom
and it’s so easy
to share everything then
In a literal basement
we both wanted to kill ourselves a bit
We didn’t do it, no
we didn’t do it
And look at as now!
Both of us dancing!
Neither one of us is all that good at dancing...
You know that I love you
You know that I miss you
You know that your happiness
makes me pretty damn happy
and I don’t know about past lives
or future lives
but I bet you’d recognize me.
And when my head is on the floor
and when I cannot take
the excruciations of this world anymore
I’ll call you up weeping,
scared and weeping,
and you will open up your heart
like countless times before
And I will owe my life to you
I already owe my life to you, it’s true,
So this song is a thank you
This song is 13 thank-you’s and now
let’s see what I can do... for you.
So call me up homie
Call on me pal
Ask me to do you a favor
and I shall
I’ll come running and running and running
because for whatever it’s worth
there aren’t too many friendships like this on this earth.
And all the pain that we’ve been through
and the bright times
and we’re still friends
And all the laughter
all the tears
all the meals
all the parties
all the years
and it never ends.
And it never ends...
Because you are my friend
You are my friend
Cause you are my friend
You are my friend.
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6. |
Refuge
03:21
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Five years old
I see the blue
the ocean through the trees
The music’s up
the windows down
my hand like a bird
out in the Pacific breeze
I’ve got a secret to show you
outside of time
it’s the safest of places
inside my mind
There is nothing to hurt you
when you are here
I promise nothing can touch you,
no pain, no fear.
Feel the sun,
Feel the sand,
Smell the salt,
It’s not your fault, not your fault, not your fault,
You don’t have to clutch that horror anymore
just listen as the waves keep saying yes into the shore.
I’ve been every age here
I’ve been young and so old
the layers of time here
all my life, it unfolds,
and the passage of time
like a blur all around,
we’ll put up a kite
that will never come down.
Amazing Grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a fuckup like me!
We once were lost
but now we’re found
and now we’ll go swimming
in the sun-setting sea
You can stay here for as long as you need
or three minutes or whatever
I will give thanks to Whatever
that we’re safe on this timeless shore together.
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