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Who Would've Thought
04:06
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Smooth ride, nothing has broken down
I'm going with the tide, it's been easy up 'til now
But here comes a spinner
Out of the blue
I don't know if I'll ever
Make it through
Yes I'm scared
Yes I'm angry
What do I do
Who would've thought?
Who would've guessed It?
Who could predict that it would happen to me?
Who would've thought?
Who would've guessed it?
Something like that it never happens to me, yeah
I got up, just like any other day
Nothing weird, yeah they all start out that way
If I'd stayed in bed
I'd never know
I wouldn't have to
Take the blow
Yes I'm scared
Yes I'm angry
Where do I go
Smooth ride, cruising with the windows down
It was a damn good life, but it's over now
Take my hand
Take my hand
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2. |
Utter Sadness
04:34
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Instrumental
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Sun and Rain
04:41
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See the bird flapping its wings
Its going hard at it but just keeps copping the wind
It is impossible to do on such a day
But the other birds are gonna try it
They're lining up woa wow
One by one they're joining the flock
They wanna reach where they're going to feed by the rocks
But it's impossible to see through wind and slate
But they're flapping all together getting through it all
One by one
Sun and rain sun and rain
We'll get lost in it
God and pain God and pain
We'll keep holding it
Loss and faith loss and faith
We'll go back to it
Hope and shame hope and shame
Left my heart in it
When the birds land on the lake
Where the krill has come since its climate has changed
All the birds break their formation
They're fighting over what is their share
But there's enough for everyone
Woa wow
North, south, on land and on see
We're like the birds, we are flapping coz we wanna be free
But it's impossible to fly for miles and miles
Without doing it together in unison, woa wow
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Fragmented
03:30
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Instrumental
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Forbidden Fruit
03:34
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I took a bite from the forbidden fruit
Now I can never go back I can never go back
I turned to the end of the story I was reading
I can never go back go back
Signed it all away to the company
I’ll never get it all back never get it all back
It felt like magic but I fell for the tricks
I can never go back go back
Once the truth was spoken
The past I knew was frozen
The future was an ocean to drown in
It goes as far as the eye can see
But I’ll never know how deep
Is there nothing else for me but forgiving you
I believe everything the weathermen say
They don’t know what’s coming they don’t know what’s coming
I’ll read everything my horoscopes say
They don’t know what’s coming
On the day you left without your compass in hand
Did you know what’s coming did you know what’s coming
I believed everything you said back then
You don’t know what’s coming
When God says you don’t eat from the tree in the middle of the garden
Or you’ll be a carcass swinging in the wind with no faith
It’s not my fate that is not my fate
Trust me if you can you don’t eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden
Then it comes to me this garden is no sanctuary
It’s an island in the middle of an ocean
Dark waves tide in motion
Gotta go free my soul you are not my home, not my home
The truth has been hidden and talking bout you it has been forbidden
But it’s all come out and I’m drowning now
Gotta swim up and I’m gonna scream out
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Lion
04:37
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The lion, the lion, the lion’s in the gazelle
The gazelle is in the lion
The lion watching over her pride
Oh she better get it get it get it fast
The bear, the bear, the bear is in the cave
The cave is in the bear
The bear looking up at the moon
Oh she better get out get out get out fast
We’re like the salmon when we swim against
The way the water’s flowing day to day
If you’re a lion you’re a bear as well
If you go deeper you will find the gazelle
The clouds, the clouds, the clouds are in your head
But your head, your head is in the clouds
The clouds covering up the stars
Oh you gotta look up, look up, look up and see the way
Oh the way
The way is when you're lost
When you're lost that's when you'll find the way
It's a path lit up bright by the moon
Oh you gotta get out get out get out fast
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Spiralling
05:16
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Instrumental
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Grey
03:36
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Can it be a protest song if I wrote it sitting on my freedom couch,
Can I march for climate change if I duck into that cafe and get a latte first?
Am I with the left or with the right
Can I be an ally if I’m white
Could I disagree with a feminist?
It can’t be this or that
‘Cause it’s all grey
Can I call Australia my home if I was born here but on stolen land,
Am I an activist if I get home at night and put cats on social media?
Am I in the wrong or in the right
Am I part of conversations or just fights
Could I agree with an idiot?
Nothing’s set in stone
Yeah it’s all grey
Can I say I’m anti-capitalist even though I’m in the market for a new TV,
Can I say that history is written on the streets and not in books even though I’ve got a masters degree?
Am I part of this or part of that
Am I ‘bout the feeling or the facts
Could I disagree with an atheist?
It’s written in the wind
Yeah it’s all grey
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Book of Whitney
03:23
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What if Matthew, Mark and Luke and John
Moses and Judas, and Jesus were wrong
And all the other men, too.
Say my name and thou will be saved
I said it over, I said it over
I said it over and over again
You didn't stop, you didn't stop
You just took all that you'd need
But take comfort in knowing
That the weak shall be freed.
I go up your stairs and through your door
To your kingdom, and in your kingdom
You say who stays and who can go
Where is Billie, where is Amy, where is Janis
Where is Whitney?
I don't like your kingdom
I don't like your kingdom
I don't like your kingdom
Please don't take me
Coz you don't know anything at all about me.
Billie, Amy, Janis and Whitney.
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Trick of Light
05:02
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11. |
Injured Animal
05:52
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Instrumental
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Hymn for an Atheist
02:35
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Let's agree that we all want peace
Yeah we do
But we don't, we don't need God
Coz I believe in us humankind.
Let's unite coz we all want love
And we'll get it
When we don't love God more
Than we love our own humankind.
Let's forget all the things that God has said
And done
All we need, all we need is to believe
In us, humankind.
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Hymn for the Earth
05:07
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Nobody wants to change
There’s no incentive at all
Women die on streets
Neglected by the laws
Nobody wants to change
We’ve all got our own truths
Everyone else’s truths are lies
Regardless of the proof
But I believe in earth (I believe in earth)
She’s gonna throw us off (She’s gonna throw
us off)
We’ll fall in to the dark (Fall in to the dark)
And then the change will come
Will come
And everyone will change
Warm people they will freeze
Cold people they’ll burn up
Small people will stretch in time
Believers they'll find out
The doubters will believe
The killers make new life
And the livers crumbled seed
But I believe in earth (I believe in earth)
She will start again (She will start again)
And we’ll all be new moons (We’ll all be new
moons)
Making tides go out and in and out and in and
out and in
When all of us are changed
Earth will let us back in
We’ll be trees and we’ll be wind
Blowing ‘round the seeds
That blossom into trust
Flower in to light
Into tolerance and faith
That this time we’ll get it right
Oh I believe in earth (I believe in earth)
She’ll throw us off in rage (Throw us off in
rage)
The moment she pretended like (the moment
she pretended)
We could really change
Oh I believe in earth
She’s gonna throw us off
We’’l fall in to the dark
And then the change will come
And then the change will come
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Xani Melbourne, Australia
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