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i have to know down

to ever know up

i have to be empty

to ever fill up

i have to be lost

to ever be found

i have to know the best place that i've

ever been is in my shoes right now

i am so far from home

with every step i take i feel more alone.

my friends i hope we meet again someday

laugh and crying

birth and dying

goods and bads

love and fighting

smile and tears

we are here

we are home.

i have to know hate

to ever know love

i have to know the person standing next to me and what their heart is made of

i got to know the inside of every out

i have to know the best place that i have ever been is where i am right now.

i am so far from home

with every step i take i feel more alone.

my friends i hope we meet again someday

laugh and crying

birth and dying

goods and bads

love and fighting

smile and tears

we are here

we are home

all-star

sometimes you need an all-star

sometimes you need a rubber sole.

make sure you tie them

and double knot them.

In life, everybody falls

when i was seven i got my shoes

from a local Big K

they had blue light specials

and my mom liked to save.

we pack into a 77 green rivearia

we be in the back yelling

"mom are we there yet"

the seats were vinyl, plastic, and green

and in the summer burn your ass to the 3rd degree

back seat like a trampoline

you know what i mean

while the front was in ohio, the back's in new orleans.

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mom would always threaten us

don't make me pull over

don't know how she got the job

of being my mom and a chafer

she got me shoes from the day she gave me birth

decided what to put between me and the planet earth

the choice was choosen, so i didn't have to chose

but in life you're only as tough

as the bottom of your shoes

i got to ask you what you got on your feet

do they the float like a feather

or sink like concrete.

sometimes the simplest questions

are still profound

like where are you going

and are your feet on the ground.

chuck taylors, reebok, my boys had nikes

puma, filas, adidas, british knights

roos, the ones with the zippers

flip flops or berks

which one was hipper

rockport, gbx, my boy had sketchers

in the winter time mom put bread bags in my sneakers

i got to ask you how you get around town

lace up you don't want to fall down.

chorus.

fingerprints

sometime somtimes last forever

other times forever becomes tonight

we can make love to the future

taste tomorrow if i tilt my head right.

i ask myself can i go further than far

a portrait of a riverbed thats veining the earth

the rain that floods

to understand myself, so much that it hurts.

none of this is replaceable

days like fingerprints

time is my evidence

sometimes sometimes

the sky is falling on me

other times its better when i try

when i get through their will be stories to tell

did it ever have a chance, could it be a fairytale.

chorus.

none of this is replaceable

days like fingerprints

time is our evidence

none of this we'll see again

today is gone

today is gone.

hey love

Come around my way

Hearts and minds of everybody here today

Singing

Hey love

Come around my way

Feeling good like you should

Each and everyday

Hopes are rising things are flying

I’ll be feeling high

I don’t want to feel no sadness

I don’t wanna cry

This cat said to me

He said

“Yo, Jake light it up and then you’ll see”

It gets much brighter indeed

With a little bit of love

Sing out

Hey love

Come around my way

Oh shining down like the sun

Each and every day

Hey love

Come around my way

We got our whole lives to do

Something that ain’t to long

Everybody come together

Oh it feels so right

Love your brother

Hug one another

Stand up for what is right

Help me up when I’ve been down

Pick me up put my feet back on the ground

Open your eyes and you might see

With one drop of love you might set me free

Hey Love

You’ve got to give love

You’ve got to spread love

REPEAT

I know the thirsty listen

Cause I see their eyes glisten

We speak of love

The love that we need

We’ve got to give to live

Love is a verb ya’ll

It requires some action

A chain reaction

What you put in

It will come out

Open up your eyes

Take a look around

See what life is all about

It’s not what you do

Not how you think

Cuz it all goes so fast

Don’t let your eyes ever blink

You can listen to my story

Chose to hear me or ignore me

But the one thing that you may not deny

Is if you live with love you might never die

You can leave here tonight

Tell them that you heard

Say you got the skinny

Preach on the word

Sing out

Hey love

You’ve got to give love

You’ve got to spread love

Hey love

Can’t be late

Spread love not hate

surrender

i hope this new time brings you dreams

i hope you're everything that you seem

its all about the time will come

and i anticipate

each second ticks and i am willing to wait.

the clock strikes twelve and everything will drop

life procedes even when you beg it to stop.

sometimes these ends are merely a start

but in life its hard to tell them apart

i know and i am

falling into you

i can't hang on

so i surrender to you.

what goes in will come out

the more i learn the more i have to figure out

what goes up it must come down

so live your life what goes around

might never come around

i know and i am

falling into you

i can't hang on

so i surrender to you.

embrace the future

let it teach you

that you may live

like every second was yours

i know and i am

falling into you

i can't hang on

so i surrender to you.

fly

i will be the breeze

blowing through your hair

i will be the breeze

live without a care

i will be the sunshine

shining on your face

i will shine shine shine

you and i will shine.

you will be the water

splashing in the sea

like the summer rain

you would come down cleanse me

you will be the flower

you will smell so sweet

you'd be sweet.

in a world full of people

we would walk alone

you and i together

in your stars we would roam

you and i together

just you and me

you and i forever

for eternity

we will be butterflies

flight in honey breeze

we will be butterflies

fly above the trees

we will be butterflies

just you and me

we will be free.

i will breeze

blowing through your hair

i will be the sunshine

shining everywhere

you will be the water

splashing in the sea

you will be the flower

cause you smell so sweet

we will butterflies

just you and me

we will be butterflies

we will fly.

fly.

fly. fly fly

ordinary

when the world is over.

and my days are through.

will the sun be shinning

in the bright sky of blue.

will the moon be fuller

will the birds all sing

will all the leaves change color,

even if its spring?

or just an ordinary day.

you will be holding my hand

when my eyes blink no more

or standing waiting on the other side of the door

thats all i need.

when your world is over

your numbers through.

will the stars shine brighter

brighter than they use to

will everyone be talking

about how they miss you insane

will everything be different

or is it always just the same

like an ordinary day.

i will be holding your hand

when yours eyes they blink no more

or standing on the other side of the door.

thats all i need.

no parties

parades

no time

no tears

no solar system shifts

no lines

no tears.

love wont let us be alone

we can not be alone

when this world is over.

you will be holding my hand

when my heart it beats no more

you will be standing there...my love

and thats all i need.

thinker's paradox

its the J R to the Martin Luther King

but may i say i

with the funky songs that i sing

i need to sing a song

that needs to be sung

like my man Sly Stone

or Louis Armstrong

if i was sitting pretty

like may man Jimi

one foot in the farm

and one foot in the city.

if i was cool, you know i do this

cause i am a ding dong daddy from a dumis

everything keeps movin

and i feel the same

aint a person in the house

that knows my name

you don't know my middle name.

gravity keeps pulling me down

and

i'm a thinker cause i like to think

(you can't hold me down)

i'm a stoner , i like being stoned

i live my life all alone

i'm a drinker cause i like to drink

i'm a thinker cause i like to think

i like to listen floyd

G13 makes my mind void

got thoughts in my head

that John Denver is dead

i wish i could see

what happen to Kennedy

cause my thoughts keep hinting

strange funk like George Clinton

to be or not be

pass the joint to me

Catcher in the Rye

we're all going to die

i like chicken stir fry and pumpkin pie

don't answer my phone

cause i am too damn stoned

and i want to be free

from society.

you don't know my middle name.

gravity keeps pulling me down

and

i'm a thinker cause i like to think

(you can't hold me down)

i'm a stoner , i like being stoned

i like to live my life being alone

i'm a drinker cause i like to drink

i'm a thinker cause i like to think

grass

the grass outside its way too high

i think i will cut it down

the tree outside i've watched it grow

but if i am bare and have no home

i will cut it down

in the water in which you'd swim

if i am thirsty

i will drink you down.

please forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

you should worry only if you've seen

the things that i do

cause i might cut you down.

in my boat across the sea

i believe its land i see

i can see it now

beautiful things upon that shore

but once i am there, there will be no more.

i will cut them down.

out a man comes to greet me

he sees things much different than me

so i cut him down.

will he forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

he should've worry for he had seen

the things that i did

and it made him differently

are you afraid of me

like i am afraid of you

i am afraid one of us must go

there is not enough room for both me and you.

please forgive me for i have sinned

so many times that the word is worn thin

you only worry if you've seen

too many things that make you differently

i will be better now that you are gone

i will be standing here i will be all alone

and once you are gone, time will pass

and on your shallow grave will grow more grass.

i will cut it down.

i can see it all

sweet little miss put on your party dress

we find ourselves in this beautiful mess

off to the church, our sins to confess

so glad that its over, cause its off my chest

love these days but i love you more

i love these days but they're getting short

my life is on fire

i am starting to choke

i never saw the spark

but i see the smoke

life is on fire

the boat is full of water

on top of a building thats about to fall

is where i can see it all.

what a perdicament that we find ourselves in

don't be afraid my love, cause its only our skin.

ashes to ashes

we all fall down

dust back to dust

bones back to ground.

we will drink until we are drunk

laugh, smile and sin.

cry when its over, but start over again

welcome to the party

say hello to all the folks

they never saw the spark

but i smell the smoke.

life is on fire

the boat is full of water

on top of a building thats about to fall

is where i can see it all.

props

hey girl, i'm standing at your front door

it's raining, and i am going to knock some more

if you're not home, i want to know for sure

cause you're my shelter, and my cure

hey girl, i am standing at your front door

giving you props

you make the sun shine in my sky

it never rains on my side of the street

the tide follows, the pulse of your heart beat

how sweet

my life it started right inside of you

with out your smarts i would have no clue

you are where i am from,

where i claim true

just to show our love, we could drink a few

and in a song give all the props to you

give in the props

you make the sun shine in my sky

it never rains on my side of the street

the tide follows, the pulse of your heart beat

how sweet

finally to the man up above

i will represent, and show my love

cause its from your hands

that's where i am from

going to preach the word

because you taught me some

and those that don''t

their day will come.

you make the sun shine in my sky

it never rains on my side of the street

the tide follows, the pulse of your heart beat

how sweet

honey breeze

warm outside and summer rains

just the two of us,

making love like the red and white on candy canes

chocolate coated, candy wine

sweet honey breezes, and a lack of time

my mother's hummed tune

shortly pass noon

honey breezes

all in this place

warm sunshine

all in this place

porch swings are dreaming in visions of new

my face shines so bright from stars inside of you

we would wrestle in the leaves, we'd make love

like fairytales, do you believe?

honey breezes

all in this place

warm sunshine

all in my face

warm sunshine

all in my face

stars

I need some rest, I am so tired

your weight is on my back

it's pulling me down

in a world that's so hard

love is so hard to find

you were my queen,

where is your crown gone now

under the night (just me and the stars)

give me a pillow and

I'll wrap myself in stars

away from you my world is bright

just give me a pillow

and I'll wrap myself in stars

each step I take leads me from you

I step to the horizon

night shades of blue

we walk under the stars

a lot on my mind between the bars

it swallows you up and up and up

it's all on my mind