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A barren land, dirt and tumbleweed
A dusty sky, no shades of green
Just working every day
But by the wall, next to a wooden fence
You’ll hear a song, you might see a dance
Because they’re trying to find a better way
A new ability to see what no one seems to see
There’s a sunshine that you need to find In everyone you’re looking at
The light that’s in you - it’s in them too Just don’t forget about that
Self-assured, strong, and cynical
The safest life, but oh so dull
We stay a million miles apart
The Other Path, the logic of the wise
That all those teardrops in your eyes
Can make a rainbow in your heart
And a new ability to break “us and them” down to “you and me”
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Flowers
02:33
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Your plants are not pretty! In fact they are ugly!
And they don’t even give any food!
We all think you are crazy (and a little bit lazy),
But of course, we don’t mean to be rude.
But you can’t eat flowers, dude!
It’s reckless, right? Irresponsible!
Waste of space, and time, and air
Oh come, let her have that worthless spot -
We mostly just throw our garbage there
I mean I don’t really even like care
Flowers! We don’t need any flowers!
We gotta fight to survive, and that’s the main issue.
Flowers! We don’t need any flowers!
Flowers just won’t do! And your garden too!
We’d all starve to death if we thought like you!
If you take a risk it can go very wrong!
Do what works, don’t make a fuss
But this isn’t working! There could be something more!
“There could be something more” - that’s enough!
This is as good as it can get for us!
It’s not that we want to spoil your fun
But you need to face reality
We’d all love to live in some wonderful place
But that’s just not how it is Chickadee
(How it is or how it ever will be!)
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Come Run Away
02:53
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See what I see, look where I’m going
The road ahead, not easy knowing
Just where the road is headed, to a place that we cannot see
But if you want to, come run away with me
We tried to change it, tried to affect it
But now we know, we’ve got to reject it!
We want it different now, like fugitive hippies
We’ll go our own way, come run away with me
We’ll find a way to live our freedom
Because we’re not ready to stop the dreaming
Of faith, hope, love, and possibility
We’ll go together, come run away with me
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Remember when our dreams all crumbled into dust
There was barely moisture for tears back then
When planted seeds wouldn’t grow up from the ground
Well, I think those days are at an end
You’ve just got to believe with me now
We were looking for hope, it’s found
Because tonight there’s a river bubbling up from the ground
You made something beautiful, you helped it to grow
When all they could see here was weeds
And I can’t exactly see where all this will go
But I know this:
There’s a whole lot of power in these seeds
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Alright, Ok
03:25
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I gave it all for a treasure where there’s only dirt
I believed it all, but what I found just wasn’t worth the search at all
It’s gonna be alright, gonna be alright you say
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay
I know it’s immense, but there’s got to be some way past this wall
No, it makes no sense to keep hanging on with no reason to at all
It’s gonna be alright, gonna be alright you say
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay
It seems to be you get to rest in love, rest in love for free
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Power
02:50
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I’ve understood it perfectly
Since I was just a little tyke
If you can find a way to get to the top
No one can make you do the things that you don’t like!
And having power means you’re always right!
Of course if you’re wrong or different or weak
You might just end up in a cage
Perhaps you’ll think that’s a little unfair?
But that’s price that I’m willing to pay
You’ll be fine if you do it my way
Power, what you need is power
We gotta fight to survive, and to get more stuff
Power, what we need is power
Because you gotta be tough, for some life is rough
We can’t all be kings when there’s not enough
There’s nothing more reliable
Than the power found in my sword
That’s not to say that I’ve been looking very hard
Because power is its own reward
And it’s wonderful to be adored
I’ll admit sometimes it seems their love
Comes only from their fear of me
But that’s the way it has always been
I can’t imagine how else it could be!
I mean, we need to face reality
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Blink's Garden Winnipeg, Manitoba
The music for Blink's Garden was a collaborative effort involving Winnipeg musicians The Janzen Boys, Murray Pulver, Erin Propp, Alexa Dirks, William Prince, Paul Yee, Ryan Voth, Marc Arnould, Julian Bradford, Paul James, and Addison Sandy.
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