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The Summer You Were Born
03:30
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The summer I stayed home
I did not tend my nest
dust stayed on the shelves
projects all unfinished
The summer I stayed home
letters were unwritten
the kitchen was abandoned
and weeds grew in the garden
'Cause the summer I stayed home
there's only one thing that I did
I made a human being
I made a human being
and learned how to love him
The summer I stayed home
no one saw me on the street
I missed every festival,
parade and party
The summer I stayed home
I stepped out of the game
out of the workforce
made no money to my name
'Cause the summer I stayed home
there's only one thing that I did
I made a human being
I made a human being
and learned how to love him
The longest I ever pushed
the most I ever gave
the hardest I ever worked, ever
was the summer I stayed home!
It was the most I ever did
I made a human being
I made a human being
and learned how to love him
The summer I stayed home
felt I'd never leave again
but September always comes
and summer always ends
The summer I stayed home
the summer I stayed home
The summer you were born
The summer you were born!
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So Does Love
03:28
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Oh dear heart of mine
off you go making your own way again -
ignoring all the plans we made
the lists we wrote, our conversations
But life never fits well into boxes and oh well
so much for all that!
Can I follow you?
'Cause the place you're going is not on the map
But I so long to
and it feels so good, feels so good when I do
I went to the ocean
to offer up the questions to the Great Spirit of it all
I saw the waves come rolling in
how nothing can stop them, from breaking and forming
How each wave comes from the Everything,
returns to the same thing
and so does love!
And I will follow you,
though the place we're going is not on the map
but I so long to,
and it feels so good, feels so good when I do!
What else can I do?
And this is how it goes, this is how it goes:
forming and breaking, over and over again
This is how it goes, this is how it goes
forming and breaking, breaking and forming
Each wave comes from the Everything,
returns to the same thing
and so does love
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3. |
Habit
04:13
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LYRICS - "HABIT"
c. 2011 Amanda West Music
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i have a bad habit
of worrying, stressing, fretting,
brow-knitting over every little thing
and i have a bad habit
of thinking i'll never no matter what
never be enough
but the birds and the bees
and the redwood trees
they've got it figured out
and they are all about today
you have a bad habit
of worrying, stressing, fretting,
brow-knitting over every little thing
and you have a bad habit
of thinking you'll never no matter what
never be enough
but the birds and the bees
and the redwood trees
they've got it figured out
'cause they are all about today
so let's start a new habit
of waking, walking, breathing
singing thank you for everything
and let's start a new habit
of knowing we are already
already enough
'cause the problem is not
those little things
and the problem is not
who we are
it's just that to break a habit
is hard
but the birds and the bees
and the redwood trees
they've got it figured out
'cause they are all about today
yes the birds and the bees
and the redwood trees
oh they will teach us well
they've got so much to tell us today
just let them teach you well
they've got so much to tell us
today
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Someone, anyone, could do it better
Everyone, everyone's got something to say
Why should I, why should I try to be different,
when it all sounds the same?
Oh you scratch and you pull
and you beg and you plead,
"Please, please pick me!"
"This one will be it, this one's the best!
She's gonna stand out apart from the rest.
She'll be better at it all, than anyone else."
But why? Why? Why?
When someone, anyone could do it better
Everyone, everyone's got something to say
Why should I, why should I try to be different
when it's all just a game
It's just a game!
And I hate to push and I don't like to pull
I can't stand all this capitalist bull
I'm an inch away from turning away
and going home to sing alone
I don't write songs to be better than you ~
it's just what I love to do
Someone, anyone, could do it better
Everyone, everyone's got something to say
Why should I, why should I try to be different,
'cause we are all so much the same
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5. |
Before Electricity
03:50
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Once long ago all was done by hand
before electricity
now today everything's plugged in
and life moves too quickly
Oh I dream of the days before electricity
Once there were paths we would walk by foot
there were lanterns and dark starry skies
Now there's a haze and a skyscraper maze
and screens to hypnotize
Oh I dream of the days before electricity
Yes I dream of the days before electricity
Oh I dream of the days before electricity
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Amanda West California
For the seekers and the artists, the mothers, children and elders, for the ones who wonder, choosing the path less travelled, and the ones who listen with their whole heart cracked open, these songs are for you. Amanda’s music breathes mindfulness, medicine and magic. Distilled over a 25 year-long career of songwriting, touring, recording & teaching, this is the truth you have been seeking. ... more
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