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a house is a home even when it's dark
even when the grass is overgrown in the yard
even when the dog is too old to bark
and when you're sitting at the table trying not to starve

a house is a home even when there's ghosts
even when you gotta run from the ones who love you most
screen door's broken paint's peeling from the wood

What started as a whisper,
Slowly turned in to a scream.
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen.
I don't know where you came from
And I dont know where you've gone.
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn

What started as a whisper,
Slowly turned in to a scream.
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen.
I don't know where you came from
And I dont know where you've gone.
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn

Yes indeed, I'm alone again.
And here comes emptiness crashing in.
It's either love or hate,
I can't find in between,
'cause I've been with witches and I've been with a queen.

It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So for now it's just another lonely day.

We have both been here before
Knockin upon loves door
Begging for someone to let us in
Knowing this we can agree to keep each other company
Never to go down that road again

My beloved one, my beloved one

You left them swimming for their lives
Down in New Orleans
Can't afford a gallon of gasoline
With your useless degrees and contrary statistics
This government business is straight up sadistic

Now you don't fight for us
But expect us to die for you

If I knew being here with you today,
Would mean being alone tomorrow.
I would gladly trade all of my tomorrows away
For a moment with you.

Brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool.
Say yeah,yeah,yeah

(Ben Harper)

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go

You sit there and call me a liar and a cheat
I just wish you'd pin a rose on me
Now you won't even come out and take a bow
Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

So now your poets have all put down their pens

I knew a girl
Her name was truth
She was a horrible liar.

She couldnt spend one day alone
But she couldnt be satisfied.

When you have everything,

Tattoo your name across my heart
Every letter, bold and dark
So that every time I breath
You can know you're bringing me relief

I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
I do it for you, I do it for us
The trinity of honor, love, and trust

I wish I was a thought
I'd run all through your mind
And come out being everything
You ever tried to find

Life's the longest picture
You're ever gonna take
Love's the longest promise

Excuse me Mr, do you have the time?
Or are you so important that it stands still for you?
Excuse me Mr, won't you lend me your ears?
Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?
Excuse me Mr but isn't that you're oil in the sea?
And the pollution in the air Mr, who's could that be?

So excuse me Mr, but I'm a Mr too

I wanna hold the hand inside you
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth

You live your life, you go in shadow
You'll come upon and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness

We stood in the dark
With our hands over each others hearts
And we didn't waste a word
The grace is love undeserved

When you feel love
You remind me I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love

Not talkin' 'bout a year
no not three or four
I don't want that kind of forever
in my life anymore
forever always seems
to be around when it begins
but forever never seems
to be around when it ends

Have you ever lost your way
Have you ever feared another day
Have you ever misplaced your mind
Watching this world leave you behind
Won't you
Won't you give
Won't you give a man
Give a man a home

You look like gold to me
And I'm not too blind to see
You look like gold

You make me wanna sing
With all the joy you bring
You look like gold

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see

I heard a street singer play a song I knew
It brought me closer to you
I heard a street singer play a song I call my own
It brought me to my childhood home

Did you go back from where you came?
If I get there, will they have my name?
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame

You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise
Does my happiness upset you
Why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
Pumpin' in my living room

Tell me do you really knowe
Your brother man
'Cause a heart speaks louder
Than a color can
And why would you even
Shake a man's hand
If you're not going
To help him stand

Life is much too short to sit and wonder
Who's gonna make the next move and will slowly pull you under when you've always got something
to prove?

I don't want to wait a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?

Morning Yearning

Written by: Ben Harper

a finger's touch upon my lips
it's a morning yearning
pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
but the sun is burning

Like an old man
Sitting alone at a lunch counter
Like a small town girl
A big city devours
Some of us laugh
Even in our darkest hour

Never leave lonely alone

MF : Reste près de moi
ton souffle est ma voix
qui sussure à peine
qui ose deviner qu’on s’aime
toi bulle d’amour
une faille au grand jour
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart haaa

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Its not warm when she away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And shes always gone to long
Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she gonna stay

There is not a river wide
Not a mountain high
And neither sin nor evil
Could change how I feel inside
Could change how I feel inside
Not all the strength of the ocean
Not all the heat from the sun
From the sun

There is not a river wide.
Not a mountain high.
And neither sin nor evil.
Could change how I feel inside.
Could change how I feel inside.

Not all the strength of the ocean.
Not all the heat from the sun, from the sun.

Oppression
you pray on us when we sleep
oppression
you chase after the tired the poor the weak
oppression
you know you mean only harm
oppression
you reach out with your long arm

You're the first one to get there
And always the last one to leave
You're the first one to chuckle
But the last one to grieve
I know all too well the world takes a daily beating

Please don't talk about murder while I'm eating

silence is the hammer of betrayal
upon love's coffin for the final nail
disguised as one another for so long now
i try to be myself but i forget how

pray that our love sees the dawn
pray that our love sees the dawn
my last line of defense is gone

I can't know the hell you love
But I know you've had enough
Some baptize in water
Some in flames

What has life done to you
All you ever wanted was someone to run to you
There's more to life than what makes you cry

Say goodbye to tomorrow
And hello to today
Take a look at your world
In a brand new way
The masters of convention
Count on you to never change
But the law of reinvention
Knows nothing stays the same

Oh baby now lets get down tonight
baby im hot just like your oven
oh i need your lovin
well, baby i can't hold it much longer
cuz it's getting stronger and stronger
and when i get that feelin, i got to have sexual healing
sexual healing
it makes me feel so fine

I know you may not want to see me
On your way down from the clouds
Would you hear me if I told you
That my heart is with you now

She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun

You
You've been looking at me just a little too long
Now I can never look the same
Blindness and kindness
There's no difference in the two
When I can no longer see the good in you

So won't you show me a little shame

Now that you've grown up
you can finally learn to be a child.
We made it to the end of the world
but we'll never make it out alive.

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
but the days seem so long.

I put into Nashville, Tennessee
But you wouldn't even come around to see me
And since your headin' up to Carolina
You know I gonna be right there behind you

And I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real, and there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

I' ve been waiting for you

I' ve been waiting for you

Never found enything else to do

But waiting for you

Waiting on an angel
One to carry me home
Hope you come see me soon
Cause I don't wanna go alone
I don't wanna go alone
Now angel, won't you come by me
Angel, hear my plea
Take my hand

Oh no
Here comes that sun again
That means another day
Without you my friend

And it hurts me
To look into the mirror at myself
And it hurts even more

Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
Now angel won't you come by me
angel hear my plea
take my hand lift me up

Well the good Lord
Is such a good Lord
With such a good mother too
They have blessed me
They have blessed me
In the good graces of you

Now I, I have heard

Well you can need me
Well I want you to
And you can feed me
How I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear

You can run away from home
but you can't run away from your pain.
Now I sit, here alone
as I place someone else to blame.

It's up to you now.
It's up to you now.
Don't want to be your broken dream