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Time
Time is the indefinite continued progress
Of existence and events
That occur in apparently irreversible succession
From the past through the present to the future
Space
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent
In which objects and events
Have relative position and direction
Love
Love the irreversible fifth dimension
That accentuates both
Spirit and body
Fluctuating logic and reason
That prolongs seasons of joy
And summer
Music
Music the sound of love
Reason and peace
The inexplicable vibration
The human soul feeds on
The axis which the universe jams to
Space and time
Love and music
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2. |
You Heal Me
04:11
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I enter the room
See the faces
More familiar than family - it's you
Hear the voices
Laughter oozing from your lips – yeah you
Hear my every word and the ones I don’t say
You share my joy and you ease my pain
Here I feel safe, here I can breathe
I can't explain and there’s no need ‘cause
Chorus:
You heal me
Yeah you heal me
You heal me
Yeah you
One tone
The melody
Base drum in tune with my heartbeat
Definition of true belief
Your prophets put in words what I feel
Jill, Lauryn, Erykah and India.arie
Tarrus and Cole - they are so many
Impatiently I wait for their wisdom to enlighten me
Cause
(Chorus)
My heart - sore and fragile
You picked it up with a smile
The words right out of your mouth
Pure ointment for every bruise you found
The mothers above have been kind to me
Cause they sent you and I can’t believe
How beautiful, your soul
Magical the moments we have - so precious
I wonder if you know
I wish you knew how much you
(Chorus)
You, yeah you
(repeat till end)
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3. |
Shavu, Wu - City Lights
04:15
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Wu:
I opened my eyes
When I woke up
I rise
Put my jacket on, see the showdown outside
My dream
It was cloudy but nice
It makes me remember those sunny times
Now it's colder than ice
I feel like I could cry
Then the sun and the blue sky
I wish I could find them
Concrete jungle makes the robots look iron
But anyway I will never stop criticize them
Take a rest
Let me spend a little time
I draw you a picture
Keep it in mind
It feels right when I start to realize
That I see your pretty smile
In the dust of city lights
No it's glowing, it's snowing
I should better stop slowing
Down my steps – uptown aspects
Never get me down I won't allow it yet
So I walk down my way
Cause I will never stop goin'
Chorus:
And I’m walking home under the city lights
Cold and empty streets
Freezing is the air I breathe
Put on my jacket as I turn right
I miss those summer nights, oh how I miss those summer nights
And I’m walking home under the city lights
Cold and empty streets
Freezing is the air I breathe
Put on my jacket as I turn right
How I miss those warm summer nights
Shavu:
It's been
Rough weeks, tough season
Don't know how I made it but I’m here for a reason
Cause my daddy told me
Better is yet to come
U will only see sunshine if you dance through the storm
Sometimes I'm tired
Oh somebody light my fire
Yes sing again oh sometimes I'm tired
But I keep walking, walking, walking on
walking, walking, walking on
(Chorus)
But there can u see
A little blossom on the tree
First sign of life that will set us free
From the freezing, the breezing the f***ing cold feeling
The meaning of struggle that it used to be
I can see it
I can smell it
Feel it on my fingertips
The sunshine on my cheek
The sound of honey bees
And never think ‘bout the winter trips
There's a pretty little flower
Growing from the cold
Like a summer bringing soldier
Hoping to be followed
So now I'm walking home under the city lights
Cold and empty streets
Freezing is the air I breathe
Put on my headphones as I see the morning rise
Play the summer's first track
(Play the first track now)
And play it loud
(Fade out)
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4. |
Today Pt. I
02:10
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Today, today
Today I woke up from a dream
A voice said my name – a scream
My heart poured out, was bleeding
Today was not a good day
Today I had a clouded mind
Clouded by pictures hard to fight
Leaving broken pieces behind
Today was not a good day
(Today, today, today, today, today was not a good day)
Today it came back
All the emptiness, in ugly details
All the mess
I waded in heaviness
With every step
Today was not a good day
(Today, today, today, today was not a good day)
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5. |
Diaspora Blues
06:18
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Deep in the ground
Cherished and nourished by the elders
Relentlessly our roots found
Their way crossing the arbitrary borders
Mother, oh mother
You've been our all and you'll always be
But in tears and with hope in our hearts we leave
They said the land is wide
Streets paved with gold
A future shining bright
At least so we were told
Burst of the bubble of illusionary impression
Regression despite the hard work
Depression
And some of us lose their mind
Others pugnaciously stand to defy
The years go by and we are here
In the daily battle we found our seat
Created a home, created brilliance
Created beautiful families
So we create this world
To put our minds at peace
Inherited pain, love and dreams
Diaspora stories, yeah Diaspora Stories, Diaspora
We made it
But still my heart is aching
Thinking about the loss, the sacrifice
We lost the connection, lost track of what's real
Stranger in our home
Some are banned so their wounds can't heal
So many birthdays, so many funerals we missed
Wonder where we'd be today
But that's how it is
So many childhoods so many loved ones we missed
I wonder where we'd be today
The dream, the dream
Returning as kings and queens
We shall come to you, mother
The promised land, the holy ground
Present our gift as we kneel
And we might grow old
Blind to see what we've got
Open doors, name in the red hardcovered book
And new generations born
Blessed with multiple homes
Beauty in community
Pain into pride
We take back our crowns
The dream, the dream, the one never buried (3x)
(Is it mine?)
So I create this world
To put my mind at peace
Inherited pain, love and dreams
Diaspora Stories
Iwacu, Iwacu
Nakubona nkishyima kandi nkababara
Bantu banjye, bantu banjye
Dutandukanye igihe kirekire
Umuzi umwe ariko ubutwabaye abanyamahanga
Ariko m'umutima wanjye nzi ko
M'uruziga rw'ubuzima
Ubucyeye n'ejo
(Our country, our country
Seeing you is joy and pain
My people, my people
We have been separated for long
Same root but now we are strangers
But in my heart I know
In the circle of life
The past is tomorrow)
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6. |
Never Give Up
03:25
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(Angela Davis – speech at women's march 2017)
From what our elders told us
We have come far
So much knowledge and wisdom
Bout the earth and the stars
From a line of black sovereignty
Black brilliance and black royalty
Black beauty and black diversity
Each one of us carries a burden today
Cause we've been tortured, been killed,
our treasures thrown away
twisted our minds, our Gods and Goddesses left behind
Incredible what humans can take
And yet we feel so drained
We got so much more
And we know what we're in this for
Chorus:
So we never give up
We done this for generations
Some had lost their faith but we never give up
No we're not done here
We won't stop here, no
We never give up
We done this for generations
Some had lost their faith
But we never give up, we never give up
And through the valleys of our worlds
The scent of strange fruits lingers on
Collectively dehumanized
Gear wheels in his collection
And it's been written in the core
Columns built on blood and bones
Trapped and too comfortable for
Deconstructing the mind by turning each and every stone
Tell me what would they find
Fruitful soil or dried up ground
I plant the seeds of our legends' legacies
We are bound to
(Chorus)
We will never give up
Never, never, never, never
(repeat till end)
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7. |
Today Pt. II
03:14
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A melody
Shade of a song
Stuck in my head
Today
I can't catch the lyrics
I can't recall
But they keep drawing smiles on my face
And I go like ooh today (4x)
Today, today (3x)
Today I sat and watched the world pass
Inhaled the fresh breeze trying to make this moment last
I look at my life
At what was
And what is today
And the people that shaped it
and I realize
I’m at peace with who I've grown to be
I'm at peace with who I've grown to be
Yeah today, today, today
Today, today, today, today
Mmmh, mhm (4x)
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8. |
No
03:25
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Chorus:
A no is a no just N – O simply no
Oh why? Because I said so
Boy you're not the first
Sadly won't be the last – just pass
Leave my sisters alone
(2x)
So please tell me what's so hard about this
Let me spell it to you
N – O, that's it
So NO to you starring
NO to your hands around my wrist
NO taps on my ass cause I’m already pissed
NO to you being like “come on, cheer up"
I know it's how we were raised but
Let's start by the little things and change
See the world through my eyes and say
(Chorus)
Don't you have mothers?
Don't you have sisters?
Won't you have daughters?
How would you want them to be treated?
Seems like we live in a world
Where a NO said by a woman has no meaning
It has no power
It's just a word
A word said to tease him
But in a world where her will is submitted under his
It shouldn't irritate
That in the same world
for him
rape and abuse
Become legitimate
That's not a world I wanna live in (But I do)
It's not a world I want our kids to live in
(3x)
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9. |
Let's Stay In
04:52
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There's a storm outside
I can hear the thunder from afar
It's coming
I see the lightning strike
I hear people shout
Children running
So let's go home, let's go missing
Switch off our phones
I don’t wanna be out there
Just wanna be here
Just you and me
Chorus:
I know we can't escape
And I promise tomorrow we'll face it again
Let's stay in today
Let's stay in today
I know we gotta keep up the fight
But for now let's just miss one turn and hide
Let's stay in tonight
Let's stay in tonight
Let's have a day
good and lazy
I'll make you some coffee
Shut the rest of the world
Come on cheri
Be wild be free
Come we dance in the kitchen
Or play me some Emeli Sande
Let’s lay down and listen
No need to go to the sea
If it's just you and me
This is where I wanna be for today
I know what’s been going on
Your exhaustment and my own
Let's stay in for a while
(Chorus)
Let's take a time out
Let's take a time out
Good and lazy, good
Good and lazy, good
No need to go to the sea if it's just you and me
…
(Chorus)
(repeat till end)
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There can be no love
without music
because
Music is the vein in which love flows
Music transcends the idealistic impossibility of love
Creating the basis
Of the supernatural implication
That births a smile
The butterflies in your stomach
The bubble-headed phenomenon
The unexplainable feelings
The emotional overdrive
The chemical secretion
We call
Love
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