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Lyrics to Rejuvenate :
I feel the pressure pinching
I feel it strangulate
Although I'm on a path
I get enticed to deviate
Sometimes life is peircing
Just want to intoxicate
And run away from all the pain
And no longer participate, enough
Contemplation, meditation, restoration
No more frustration
We work until we break, I say break away
How much more can I take ?
Rejuvenate
I know this world can get me back up against the wall
Sometimes I feel as if there's gonna be a brawl
Sometimes I throw my hands up
Sometimes I sit and cry
And wonder if there's one that cares
If I live or die, enough
We give ourselves
But we major in many minor things
There's no one else
To change the way we're living
We must be the one

Lyrics to Alone On My Birthday :
No decoration on, no cake
Nobody remembered this important date
Guitar, pen, brain start to contemplate
They're the only 3 here
For this joyous celebration
Because I'm self-absorbed, I get upset
Mad at the world, how could they forget ?
I was alone at birth, I'll be alone at death
Hope I won't be alone at my final destination
Never really thought it would've happened to me
But that night I say by the telephone
Never really thought it would've happened to me
I spent my birthday all alone
Birth's a costume with a genetic script
We play some role that we'd like to fit
And never admit that we're full of it
And live life in some sort of dazed hallucination
I'll never lament because life is brief
Our bodies are changing like the autumn leaf
It's said that time is the greatest thief
And beats and cheats this entire population
But it's alright, home tonight, just suits me fine
I don't mind spending time with my mind all alone

Lyrics to Rejuvinate :
I feel the pressure pinching
I feel it strangulate
Although I'm on a path
I get enticed to deviate
Sometimes life is peircing
Just want to intoxicate
And run away from all the pain
And no longer participate, enough
Contemplation, meditation, restoration
No more frustration
We work until we break, I say break away
How much more can I take ?
Rejuvenate
I know this world can get me back up against the wall
Sometimes I feel as if there's gonna be a brawl
Sometimes I throw my hands up
Sometimes I sit and cry
And wonder if there's one that cares
If I live or die, enough
We give ourselves
But we major in many minor things
There's no one else
To change the way we're living
We must be the one

Lyrics to I Know So Little (So Well) :
I was concerned and I knew I stood firm
So much that I learned, you were green
Needed self esteem but I was too firm
Then ego crept right up on me
And misdirected me
From the real wealth I wanted to possess
Now I'm walking 2 steps back
A little less attack
Please let me confess
All I know is I know so little
And that I know I know so well
But I think if I could walk that middle
I'd wipe the slate
And try to start all over again
Infatuation, renunciation, just intoxication
Austerity without humility, one source of ruination
And yes, there grew sincerity but what I didn't see
Was something growing right by it's side
Standing with a righteous twist
Getting people pissed
I was riddled with pride
Maybe I was wrong
Maybe I came on too strong
And I know how I treated you
But I couldn't see, so forgive me
For thinking I was better than you
I need a mirror to see what you can see
We better get mirrors or we'll never know our real identity
And it hurts so much to look right at yourself
Yeah, it hurts the most, please let me confess

Lyrics to Revealed In Reflection :
Fly on the window attracted to the light
His senses are imperfect
So they lead him to his plight
His life is now a struggle
But his freedom can begin
If he flies into the dark
And finds the door that he flew in
Things we knew for sure
Sometimes they're not the cure
We've got to rearrange our thinking
Or we're just like flies on glass
Rearrange our thinking
Or we're never gonna last
Up is down, wrong is right
When everything is backwards surely
Everything will always turn out right
Revealed in reflection
Night is day, day is night
When everything is backwards
Everything will turn out right
She's had a lot of lovers
'Cuz her dream is to be wed
Tries to lead them to the alter
But they won't go past her bed
And he's a party goer
Reputation is well known
He's really quite a scenester
But admits he feels alone
Sometimes I feel as if I'm bound
And life just gives me the run-around
So why waste your time ?
Put your feet on the ground
This world works in opposites that I've found
Things we knew for sure
Sometimes we need to correct them
Things we knew for sure
Sometimes we need to reject them

Lyrics to I Can't Change History :
Ego's been my hurdle, I ca see.
I put the microscope on me.
And focus I, I would never win.
Thought pride was good, it makes us small.
Like tiny mice against the wall.
I was never wrong song after song.
And it hurts to say I might've done things differently.
And it hurts because you know I can't change history.
I never heard, I never cared.
Threw all advice into the air.
Ad walked right on by, not telling lies.
Oblivious, I plowed on through as the mud pulled off my shoes.
It was deep, the hill was steep.
I was bold, I thought I knew.
Sitting high without a clue but empires fall that once stood tall.
I keep my feet down on the ground.
I use my ears, I shut my mouth.
Head out of the clouds,
I don't talk so loud

Lyrics to Killer Of My Dreams :
I have dream but it seems I try to get ahead,
you try to get in between.
You deride but my cry inside.
You've got o do what you love.
Or you're not satisfied.
Killer of my dreams.
You know exactly what I mean.
Killer of my dreams,
I won't let you get inside of me.
Get off my back, I know you lack.
I know inside you're rotting.
And that's why you attack.
Rise above, give some love.
The more we give, the more we get.
The less we need back

Lyrics to Look Away :
I see a trail, a grudging light.
It's burning bright, it takes me home again.
And I can't understand the plan.
I try to fight but I cannot contend.
A magnetic force, it's a true north.
What is its source, it is a friend?
But more than once I have begun to feel that I will easily transcend.
Look away. No hope is lost I never fear.
That I'll be desperate, left out on my own.
I feel it yeah, but soon realized the whole time I never was alone.
Busy city, crowded clubs,
or touring in a van away from home.
If we can listen we will hear.
A voice that will teach and help us grow.
I don't know what you've been through but my guess too is life is always rough.
It leaves us bruised and bloodied,
it makes us hard.
It makes our skin real tough.
When my world crumbles on me as it does each week.
It is not the ed. I look inside, I listen too.
'cuz I'm sure there's an ally within

Lyrics to Crushing Someone You Love :
Have nerve,
you don't deserve to take what I dish out or stick with me.
I'm not too bright I just lose my sight of what I strive for and want to be.
So I want you to know that I'm willing to go.
So I want you to know although I know to run,
will never be the answer.
There's nothing to say,
I just want to bury my head I shame.
No card I can play,
I fold my hand in this game.
Now it's clear your worst fear.
You're in a web and desperate to be free.
Well beyond cruel,
I'm not that jewel you thought you had discovered when you found me

Lyrics to Spirits Blinded :
Born ignorant of our higher needs.
Lost and trying to proceed.
No direction, just helplessly.
Trying to break free attracted to all that fades.
The temporary world betrays.
And sucks us in, we stand amazed.
And lose our sense as if we're crazed.
We are spirits blinded by this world that shines
and steals our common sense away.
We are spirits blinded but I want to see the light of day.
Looking for a different high.
More tied up than before we tried.
And if we knew we always lied.
Hurts too much to let it by.
We are spirits but we forget.
And love becomes full of regrets.
To embrace this world's our biggest threat when in reality we haven't met

Lyrics to Loss Disguised As Gain :
So we're flying down the freeway,
but we don't know where we're headed.
Don't ask for directions, no one knows.
Flying to our destination when we're there, will we regret it?
Don't ask all these questions, let's just go.
Something you just can't explain.
Get it all but we're insane.
I see loss disguised as gain.
Yes I want the reason why we're running 'round this earth in fear of a connection with ourselves.
My greatest fear in life is all I've worked for has no worth.
And not to recognize what's my real wealth.
Still our wheels are going round.
My feet never touch the ground.
Am I lost or am I found?
Yes I know I reach things.
That will perish in my hands.
Nothing here's forever that I know.
But life is moving quickly ad I cannot comprehend.
Yes I stumble but hope that I grow

Lyrics to If There's Only Today :
Here I am, a different man. filled with distractions.
Became the world that moves right outside my door.
Make a plan if I can or live with the hand.
That was dealt after a fair reaction.
You've no idea just what's in store.
If there's only today, tomorrow's a throw away.
You've got something to say, never just throw away.
Walk along, don't be alone, a rolling stone.
It's not, not just today.
Wasting time, I lost my mind.
Each day is passing.
Each moment just makes up the total in the end.
You sew, you reap, you laugh, you weep.
Hope's it forever lasting.
Hope it's not futile in the end

Lyrics to Public Eye :
In the public eye they've fabricated you.
Chose your selling points to sell.
Became an object they can hate or pursue.
But no one asked just how you felt.
But don't you think I feel?
Don't you think I'm real?
Are you so dull that you don't have a clue?
And I don't think it's right, this invasion in my life.
No, one day you'll feel what I'm going through.
In the public eye you're always on stage.
They've magnified your every move.
Free to roam around in your golden cage.
But you better watch just what you do.
And you're bound by their chains,
you're not allowed to change.
In the public eye.
And you're living a life you must defend in the public eye.
In this world you exchange the right to know who's your real friend
and why it's a loser's game that I can't win,
I can only try

Lyrics to Don't Walk Away :
Zoom the lens right in, dissect your best friend.
You know that you were born for me and I was born for you.
Your soul is old.
Mine is so cold and I know what I right but sometimes it's so hard to do.
How many chances I get?
How many crimes you forget?
How many times before you just walk away?
Salty knife in my heart, nothing tears us apart.
How many time before you just walk away?
What can I say?
You feel betrayed.
How may time before you just walk?
You were born to give,
and I pray I'll live up to what I want to become and what you need from me.
Layers of mistakes, give the heart a break again.
All you ask me for is some security

Lyrics to Song Of Brahma :
A show in Buffalo and you would never know the effect it had right on me.
And everything was fine, so many kids in line.
I was feeling good within myself.
Then six guys ad a gun and I saw people run.
Baseball bats were swinging and little kids went down as they beat them to the ground.
And I stood stunned just singing… “Take me today”
Closed my eyes and prayed.
As the Song of Brahma was running through my mind.
It never seems that this world's a dream and K.C. looked at me and said,
“Life and death, it's just a matter of time.”
Ran to the van but we were blocked in.
We were helpless and prayed for connection.
So we all gathered 'round chanting transcendental sound for shelter and protection.
But my number was up next and they beat me with a stick.
My own blood made me blind.
They beat me from behind but running through my mind The Holy Name's reflection.
Kneeling on the floor and bleeding more and more.
But now the drama's ending.
We're all players on a stage filled with joy and rage.
But he curtain's soon descending.
'cuz in this world there's death and danger at every step.
So what's our meditation?
I had a precious gift.
I knew my mind was fixed,
a chance to view perfection

Lyrics to In The Van Again :
Another year I'm here, unload the gear.
There's a health food restaurant over there.
The sound's check's now but no one cares.
Hey what time are we on stage?
The trailer's like a puzzle packed.
With T-shirts, drums, and all our crap.
We take it back.
It's a science the third day.
Now we pack the gear, we're out of here.
It's a 14 hour drive but no one's sleeping.
Say your good-byes and then we're in the van again.
Relationships we're on the phone.
The autobahn's our second home.
I know those roads, from Berlin to Rome.
Like 80 in the states.
And I love this city ad I'd love to stay but at 12 o'clock we're o our way.
I'll be back again in early May cuz we just got added dates.
I've traded in the university for this back seat and poverty.
But this whole time I felt so free and learned more in the end.
And winter has passed but we made it through.
Don't tell me about paying dues.
And if you paid, then you'll know too.
you'll end up doing it again and again and again

Lyrics to When 20 Summers Pass :
I've got to concentrate on priorities.
Can't negate what means the most to me.
What's our fate?
What's our destiny?
Start with each moment's activity.
I try, I try, I try, I try
But what's important slips right by.
When 20 summers pass and they'll go fast.
Will I look back and be satisfied within my heart
And at peace within my mind?
When 20 summers fly, fly on by
Will I like what I am and who I am or will I even give a damn?
We focus time on what matters least and our reward, a catastrophe.
Looking back, what feels good to me?
Oh, the value of integrity

Lyrics to If It Ever Heals At All :
Here I am, a different man. filled with distractions.
Became the world that moves right outside my door.
Make a plan if I can or live with the hand.
That was dealt after a fair reaction.
You've no idea just what's in store.
If there's only today, tomorrow's a throw away.
You've got something to say, never just throw away.
Walk along, don't be alone, a rolling stone.
It's not, not just today.
Wasting time, I lost my mind.
Each day is passing.
Each moment just makes up the total in the end.
You sew, you reap, you laugh, you weep.
Hope's it forever lasting.
Hope it's not futile in the end

Lyrics to Room To Breathe :
My own mind, can't go on noddin', something's wrong, I must stand up, if there's a problem excavate it before infection and we're out of luck, no, I don't mind making enemies, they become who they wanna be, I won't be scared to disagree, my heart and mind direct me, room to breathe and to see anomalies in front of me, opinions come like some disease, it's my life for me to live
Room to breath and to see we're different people totally and I'm not scared to disagree but it's my life for me to live
I don't boast many good qualities, my faults are many, it's easy to see, I smile inside cause I walked my own path despite the insults heaped upon me, no, I don't mind making enemies, they become who they wanna be, I won't be scared to disagree, my heart and mind direct me, room to breathe and to see anomalies in front of me, opinions come like some disease, it's my life for me to live
Room to breath and to see we're different people totally and I'm not scared to disagree but it's my life for me to live

We march in line
Step in time, room to breathe, use your mind
Or you're left behind, room to breathe

And I know that they will find peace of mind if I go on, won't be tired, please, so you ask but me, my own mind, can't go on noddin', something's wrong, I must stand up, if there's a problem excavate it before infection and we're out of luck, no, I don't mind making enemies, they become who they wanna be, I won't be scared to disagree, my heart and mind direct me, room to breathe and to see anomalies in front of me, opinions come like some disease, it's my life for me to live
Room to breath and to see we're different people totally and I'm not scared to disagree but it's my life for me to live

Lyrics to Simplified :
We've built our home, our fort, our nest and cluttered it up with a worthless mess, our real worth is not our wealth, have we lost touch with our true self, simplify
(Ohohohoh ohohohoh)
If I can simplify this life and simplify my ways today
Clean up this clutter in my way
Just simplify, decide what's truly important in this life
What can I really call mine?

Slave to a car, a card, desire, squeeze some joy from what we acquire, our hearts are dry and we soon tire, I have to throw it all away someday, simplify

(Ohohohoh ohohohoh)
If I can simplify this life and simplify my ways today
Clean up this clutter in my way
Just simplify, decide what's truly important in this life
What can I really call mine and we keep breaking on down, break it down, just think of where we might be, instead of bein' drained we crazy fight, the land full of technology, aren't you fed of bein' stranded, just foolin' alone in the sea, you boost to clarify, get benefice and get back, you're off to me

Losing touch, attacked by greed, overlooking what we truly need, all we collect, has it value, have we lived a life so shallow, simplify

(Ohohohoh ohohohoh)
If I can simplify this life and simplify my ways today
Clean up this clutter in my way
Just simplify, decide what's truly important in this life
What can I really call mine?

Lyrics to Inner Garden :
What's the point of dreamin' for anybody else?
Numbin' all my feelings and driftin' from myself
No dealin' means no healin' and you know that's your wealth
Inner garden
Ahahah, yeah, harvest, harvest seed
(Ahahah)
But don't forget to weed
(Ahahahahah)
Cause it'll kill me

One spoiled fruit contaminates the rest
One unwatered root leads many leaves to death
And all that I caress will become much less
Unless inner garden

Ahahah, yeah, water, water seed
(Ahahah)
And don't forget to weed
(Ahahahahahah)
Cause that'll kill me

Yeah, what's the point of dreamin', you concentrate on self
Insects start their breedin' unless there's show and tell
Reinspect the seedin' and make it sure as well
Inner garden

Lyrics to Gift Of Pain :
Here's a gift of pain, I see it now, at first I thought it was all unfound, yes, a gift of pain, a reminder to keep my feet back on the ground
(Unfound)
I stumble, I trip, I get defensive, why the fuck always me but I know, yes, I know, God, I know in my heart, I know it was meant to be, gift of pain, I see it now, who ever thought I could?
Gift of pain, I's almost out, the mystery understood, understood
When all is fine I build a fantasy of stone within my mind, an ego fortress, protected walls, infallible design
(My mind)
But reality marches through, pillaging everything in its way, kicks off my crown right to the ground and leaves me in a daze, a gift of pain, I see it now, who ever thought I could?
Gift of pain, I's almost out, the mystery understood, understood

Who ever thought I could?
Well, I see it now
Why the fuck always me, I see it now
Who ever thought I could, I see it now

A gift of pain, I see it now, at first I thought it was all unfound, yes, a gift of pain, a reminder to keep my feet back on the ground
I stumble, I trip, I get defensive, why the fuck always me but I know, yes, I know, God, I know in my heart, I know it was meant to be

Gift of pain, I see it now, who ever thought I could?
Gift of pain, I's almost out, the mystery understood, understood

Lyrics to The Purpose, The Passion :
Inventory, desires and dreams
My dreams, my story, my fire, my theme
My theme gettin' focused on what I really call my own self, fine tunin' me and no one else, no one else
The purpose, the passion, the reason to go on, the explanation why our drive can be so strong
The purpose, the passion, the why I sing this song gives me the strength that kept me goin' for so long

Necessity, a chance to touch my soul
My soul, what's good for me, firmin' up these goals
These goals and if I fall short I'll know I was reachin' high, high, high, if I fall short I'll die knowin' that I tried, I tried

The purpose, the passion, the reason to go on, the explanation why our drive can be so strong
The purpose, the passion, the why I sing this song gives me the strength that kept me goin' for so long

If it's always feel that, face it
Just accept it that I had to try
Yes, I know that I won't make it
But the passion is what's keepin' me alive

The purpose, the passion, the reason to go on, the explanation why our drive can be so strong
The purpose, the passion, the why I sing this song gives me the strength that kept me goin' for so long

Lyrics to What's Keeping Them Alive? :
Spent so many hours worried what people say
Approvals and rejections and opinions of the day
Of the day and I won't take it serious or let those feelings stay
Let it stay, keep on movin' forward and let's do it anyway
Ohohoh, stale lives (x2)
Time spent, live went, no action and no drive
And I can't tell what's keeping them all alive, what's keeping them alive

You were sittin' in an arm chair, now we're calling out commands
Intimidating everybody but we must take a stand
Take a stand and I won't let it break me and I'm not gonna stay
We'll stay, gotta keep on moving, gonna do it anyway

Ohohoh, stale lives (x2)
Time spent, live went, no action and no drive
And I can't tell what's keeping them all alive, what's keeping them alive

We keep on talkin', makes you feel like you got something to do, no one cares no more what is lies and what is truth
What is lies and what is truth
Truth

Ohohoh, stale lives (x2)
Time spent, live went, no action and no drive
And I can't tell what's keeping them all alive, what's keeping them alive

Lyrics to Working Miracles :
Revelation's come over me, how precious we're meant to be, life and all its mystery, I just took so cheaply
I just look around, I see working miracles
Eyes wide open, overwhelmed
Simple but profound I see working miracles
Hope that all this stays, never goes away, from the seed right to the tree, from the sand right to the sea, from the sun shining down on me the miracle's upon me

I just look around, I see working miracles
Eyes wide open, overwhelmed
Simple but profound I see working miracles
Hope that all this stays, never goes away

Never want to lose this clarity and slip back into the catastrophe of losing sight and harmony with the miracles right in front of me

I just look around, I see working miracles
Eyes wide open, overwhelmed
Simple but profound I see working miracles
Hope that all this stays, never goes away

Lyrics to Wish List :
I dreamt the other day that on this earth there was no such thing as race, respect was shown on all that grows on this great globe floatin' in space and money wasn't stored, it was a crime to hoard if brothers and sisters remained unfed and the taxes for the guns went to rebuild all the slums with clean streets and homes instead
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
It seems so right, it seems so real, why must it be a dream?
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
And we invite cause it's how we feel, why must it be a dream, wish list

Dreamt of a place somewhere in space where man treats a woman just like a friend, they see just souls, no prethought roles, all differences they would transcend, where parents' love was unconditional, if there was need they would assist and the family tree is healthy because love and trust have nourished it

(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
It seems so right, it seems so real, why must it be a dream?
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
And we invite cause it's how we feel, why must it be a dream, wish list

Can you tell me why's this a dream?
When it seems so right
Why's this a dream?
(Dream)
My wish

(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
It seems so right, it seems so real, why must it be a dream?
(Ohoh ohoh ohoh oh)
And we invite cause it's how we feel, why must it be a dream, wish list