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BRAVERY
Awake my light
Sleep my night
Drive the fear from me
Fill me with a sea of bravery
Like a rising sun, I wanna shine
It looks into the bottom of your soul
For a touch of winter on this world
In it the knife that cuts our body
Shines so bright I cannot see
Beyond the ground around me
Silently surrounds me
Fear is like a lavish flame
Burning bravery away
It is there to light my way
Riff 3-3-2 Phrasing (1x)
Find I dwell where the sun does not shine
Bury the sun into the horizon
Under stars fast asleep, maybe dead
Shines so bright I cannot sleep
With all that could have had me
A silent song surrounds me
Fear is like a lavish flame
Burning bravery away
It is there to light my way
Awake my light
Sleep my night
Drive the fear from me
Fill me with a sea of bravery
Like a rising sun, I wanna shine
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BLISS
More than a voice
Or image
More than a sun to drench my eyes
Stranded lonely, out of focus
Without care to know surprise
I think I’m happy, just slap me;
You can’t be happy if you’re not free
There’s no forgiveness leading me to sea
All that matters, all I wish…
What other need have I than you?
It won’t be easy, to shake me from my dream
Expect resistance ‘cause this is better than reality seems
With what I witness
True notes of thoughtful harmony write
Tells how you rescued me
Seconds before days first light
In a world of endless treason I might never chose
One that matters for all I hope to redeem
Tonight tonight
Never will sleep
Tonight tonight tonight I’m in too deep
Tonight tonight
Tonight I’m in love
Maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow
One that matters for all my hope
All that matters for all I hope to redeem
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SO LOW DOWN
“This may be our final show”
Said the sad old man with the brand-new clothes
As the bass amp refused to cast its note
It might have broken us loose
It might have kept us in time
But nothing went right
We were stuck in a fight about harmony
About harmony
Walkin’ into the wind and feelin’ broken down
Every step we make deeper into the ground
Clap your hands for an invincible plan
Ghosts of the mornin’ by the ocean swept sand
As the waves crash we refuse to take the joke
What do you pick up when you get let down?
Can you shine like a star when you feel like a clown?
Strum it away into the night
Beating out waves of infinite light
Can a moment be found?
Far away from this town
It was over like that, a thunderclap
The bass was back but the tenor was flat
An old tape-deck lying in the sun
So I press on the gas as the cameras flash
The sound girl’s trippin to the monster mash
Are you into my sound?
Do you think that I’m down?
Maybe more than once feeling sunken
Where do you go when you cannot see the surface to know?
Where do you go with the last dance comin’?
Strum it away into the night
Bending the note and picking a fight
Are you up for a round?
You won’t keep me down
You might beat me down
You won’t keep me down
Beating out waves of infinite light
Can a moment be found?
Far away from this town
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EASY
Sometimes what we say or do is not so simply untied
So slip inside my well worn shoes let’s go for a ride
When all had gone I cared for you almost loved enough for two
But now it’s true I’m a ghost that simply haunts your life
Surprise from you is lacking
All along we wanted better than this
But it is never that
No it is never that easy
Easy to hit the road and go alone
Midnight cruise on the 202 with just your face in view
Even when I’m gone for good I seem to return
What’s expected then rejected pirouettes around this truth
I’ll end up back on you doorstep and I’ll never learn
And surprise from you is lacking
How I want so much better than this
But I am in a trap
No it’s never that…
Easy to hit the road and go alone
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Erosion
04:41
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EROSION
Where did it go?
I hope to understand
The better future I planned
Did it slip right through my hands?
Seems there can be no resolution, revolution has a debt to pay
Here my words stream through the fray
Before they flip flop or fade away into confusion
When a delusion calls the same old song does all your love remain?
Or will your love be gone?
Your free to feel elated as you watch me turn to dust
Ohhh, not unnatural but just
Over a better world we fight
Where the good and bad get mixed
We’re caught between a right to bleed suffering need to feel it fixed
Such confusion….
When delusion calls the same old song will all your love be gone?
When delusion calls the same old song will all your love linger on?
Maybe you can find an island of solid stone on the shifting sand
Where sand in the hourglass is not ticking by quicker than you planned
There was no revolution
Resolution had a debt to pay
Maybe part of us will linger here
So let the tension fall from you as you chase the setting sun
Soon you’ll have no words to say except for maybe one more goodbye
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The Lucky Ones
04:48
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THE LUCKY ONES
If I keep making these same mistakes
I should flutter into space and go
I’m calling can you help me to reconnect
From this artificial life that I’ve grown
Reaction, distraction, disregard for what fact is
Satisfaction beat down
Lost command of what we help to create
Debate with ourselves as we hope to relate cause
…we hope to control time
Web clung tight, warm and delightful
Past each post on this road
Try to break free to be so enlightened
But a Zephyr’s heart begs home
A teenage dream, a shill for affection
Willing to provide unafraid
Every routine scheme seeks a way to evade the mundane
Step into the bright sunlight
Let the children go play in the sand
Cheers to hoping they stand, lucky ones
The rhythm of the words need to match the beat
Survive upon the beach with a plan
Cheers to hoping you stand, a lucky one
Step into the bright sunlight
Let the children go play in the sand
Cheers to hoping they stand, lucky ones
The rhythm of the words need to match the beat
Survive upon the beach with a plan
Cheers to hoping you stand, a lucky one
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No One Expected This
03:23
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NO ONE EXPECTED THIS
Running the race
Cannot keep the pace
Love will drive me on
There’s nothing more for them to sacrifice
Is it love that drives me on?
They all say, I throw it all away
La di da di day
Where can I go
When I'm rendered here every day?
Can I escape to you?…into the night
They all think I can’t make it
But I dance into the light, resist out of spite
I’m not designed to fake it
What do you say? Let’s throw it all away
La di da di day
Cliche the only reason to save it
Confessing to the moon I told a tragedy today
A setting sight upon my heart that fired away
Am I just a shadow now or dream with which to play?
When I see my fate in your eyes will I spiral away?
So damn tired, a slack of wire
Tethers me to this place
Can love drive me on?
Can I sing this song?
Can you give me another moment to shake it?
An empty stretch of road roams on
I’m still five hundred twenty-five miles from home
Confessing to the moon I told a tragedy today
Of setting sight upon you my love
La di da - da di day is all that I can say
Expending all that I am never getting paid
Free? Nothing except me
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October Afternoon
03:20
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OCTOBER AFTERNOON
Innocent for a few years it seemed
Kept to the surface as we floated downstream
When our bitterness provoked in us to soon
A drowning weight reflected in the moon
All those bitter words were true
What more existed then to fall before you?
Who let’s forgiveness slip like a second lost in time?
Retribution planned before the crime
A stone takes me to the ground
But it’s not the stone it is the hand that keeps me down
Is this the reason to understand
It’s just a stone
Your stone takes me to the ground
But it’s not the stone it is the hand that keeps me down
Grant me forgiveness to withstand
Now that it’s thrown
It’s just a stone
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Shield
04:55
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SHIELD
Something always seems to take me away from you
Sometimes I feel a piece breaking away
There’s a chance regret propels me way too far
Always something now where there never would be
Struggle with it now will I ever be free?
Has my old head rolling and rocking in flux
Is there love for me?
I’m sure by now it has started to rain
I rise again and summon the strength
Tie myself to the mast hold fast in the fray
Love’s mine today
Make way
When the storm returns whatever hope is gone
I am your shield I’ll keep you safe from harm
An effervescent light through the depth of their schemes
‘Till you’re safe again and back to your dreams
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Once
03:46
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ONCE
Once lost in time
Once you were mine
Dreams still to come and promise had begun
Your eyes fell away
Retreated and betrayed
Life left its wake and darker paths did take
I have to find the strength to let you go
Let these days wash away the seeds we sow
And guide me to a moment when I am free
To want so much for you
For dreams to still come true
Never now to be
Just ashes in the sea
I have to find the strength to let you go
Let these days wash away the seeds we sow
And guide me to a moment when I am free
Like a fire through the mist
Nothing burns so strong as this
You left and as you go
Know that I still love you so
In the darkness in the light
Nothing pulls us in tonight
You were my dream
The very best part of me
I have to find the strength to let you go
Let these days wash away the seeds we sow
And guide me to a moment when I am free
And know what this time has meant to me
Admit it didn’t have to
You spent more than you ever borrowed
And know that this time it’s meant to be
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In The Stream
05:18
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IN THE STREAM
Day to day wheels turning in the grind
Through solid panes I look at the leaves
Once again they turn and fall away
I watch them to soften the ride
In the mass motion is the same
So when we slice the time in life
And feel we could have done things right
Can we walk away?
The calendar days just flip by
Moments unrealized and unused
Once again they turn and fall away
Watch them to soften the ride
In the mass motion is the same
So when we slice the time in life
And feel we could have done things right
Can we walk away to future dreams and forget we’re all part of the stream?
Over the rooftops, the view is quiet but waiting
Serenity spliced by silence and sound
Lights both close and wayward . . .
Twinkle and fly, bodies unseen and docile
Bodies unseen and daring, folding landscape into sky
So when we slice the time in life
And feel we could have done things right
Can we walk away?
Away from the screen, surrender that future dream
Can we walk away?
Forget we’re all bits that start this part of the stream
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WiRTH Delaware
WiRTH is the ongoing original music project of singer/ songwriter John Thomas. WiRTH is based in Hockessin, Delaware.
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