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War No More

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thank you to the mountainside
thank you to the distant shore
thank you for the miles to ride
i don’t study war no more

thank you to the starry skies
thank you to the times before
tahnk you for the tears i’ve cried
i dn’t study war no more

thank you to the aspen grove
thank you to the silver snow
thank you to the life i chose
i don’t study war no more

thank you for the broken heart
thank you for the open door
thank you for music and art
i don’t study war no more

i’m not afriad to sacrifice
the petty comforts of m life
for the sake of peace

i’m only one of millions more
i gonna open up the door
to what’s inside me
and i believe

thank you to the mountainside
thank you for the distant shore
thank you to the ending of lies
i don’t study war no more.

Warm Like the Waters

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basically dancing
basically still
basically what i cannot
i basically will

basically sassy
basically good
basically running like i
basically should

basically tired
basically chill
basically wired
basically real

basically twisted
basically sound
basically simple
basically profound

and i am warm like the waters
and i am deep as the sea
and i am warm like the waters
come to me

only for a little while
will we rest within this quiet place
will we exist in this marvelous space
will we assume this magnificent shape

it’s only a matter of time
before the waves come in
with just enough roar of the tide
to take this ship out again

basically hungry
basically fed
basically empty
basically dead

basically harmless
basically tame
basically different
basically the same

basically lovely
basically divine
basically midnight
basically starshine

Water I (The Water)

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my father used to say
“my darling, what’s your strategy?
cause your people won’t survive alone
on all your theory
use your mind and use your heart
to be the change you want to see”
so this is how i walk the path
creator made for me

when i eat the rice, then i clean the bowl
if i scorch the sky then i mend the hole
if i slay the herd, everyone pays the toll
because we all have to drink the water

i left home for education,
to replete an eager mind
with my wisdom to recover,
and my young will to refine
what my people knew of fishing
they’d forgotten over time
so i returned home to my people
with a fishing line

and when we eat the rice, we clean the bowl.
if we scorch the sky then we mend the hole
and we’ll catch the wind
because we can’t clean the coal
and we all have to drink the water

100 years after
i was killed by calvary
i journeyed to the great white land
to seek apology
Tom Daschel said he’d only grant
the state’s regrets to me
Cause apologizing one time
might just set the floodgates free

but you ate the rice now you clean the bowl.
you scorched the sky
so you must mend the hole
you took my voice
right with the land you stole
but we all have to drink the water

yes you ate the rice so you clean the bowl
you scorched the sky
so you must mend the hole
you slayed the herd and still won’t pay the toll
but we all have to drink the water

Water II (Walk Upon Water)

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tell me have you heard the people say
to meet the dawn you must survive the day
everybody has a part to play

tired, broken and your mind is numb
lost the battle but you’re holding on
that’s the time you gotta sing this song

we walk upon the water
the only way we ever survive
we walk upon the water
it’s how we change to stay alive
now the temperature is rising
but we’re not in it baby just to get by
we walk upon the water
anything, anything is possible

even when you think you stand alone
something in you knows the time has come
to live the truth of times long gone

we walk upon the water
the only way we ever survive
we walk upon the water
the way we change to stay alive
now the temperature is rising
but we’re not in it baby just to get by
we walk upon the water
anything can happen if you
don’t let it bring you down
keep it steady and you stand your ground
we determine what tomorrow holds
but we gotta let the best in us grow

Welfare Queen

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if i look you in the eye
tell you i don’t wanna die you try to eat me
you’d say it was a good kill
you’d say it was a very good kill

if i try to raise my hand
whisper i don’t understand you’d just delete me
you’d do it with a good bill
a necessary bill

oh-why-oh-why-o-why-y?

(she’s the welfare queen)
oh i’m just a welfare, welfare queen
you know what i mean, you know what i mean

oh-why-oh-why-o-why-y?

when i try to walk away
tell you i don’t wanna stay you get to shoot me
you’d say it was a good kill
you’d really think it was a very good kill

when i try to raise a fist
you put shackles on my wrist and try to *$#%@! me
you’d tell them it was all for the best
for the good of the rest

oh-why-oh-why-o-why-y?

when i try to stand my ground
show you everything i’ve found you don’t believe me
if i offer any grace
you get all up in my face just to defeat me

if i say i can’t survive
on the wages you provide you denigrate me
you just swallow any lie
that protects you from your pride, who’s the obscenity?