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Circle of Destruction
03:19
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Standing at the border
With a white flag in your hand
Will the peace that we dreamed of ever come
There’s an inherent fault in all of us
The urge to destroy is born in some
What they can’t build up
They will tear down
And the circle of destruction has begun
Standing at the border
With a white flag in your hand
Will the peace that we dreamed of ever come
Standing at the border
Waiting for their turn
For a chance of the life they’ve come to find
Walking through the desert
Swimming through the sea
Always missing everyone that’s left behind
What we can’t build up
We will tear down
And the circle of destruction has begun
Standing at the border
Waiting for their turn
For a chance of the life they’ve come to find
If we can’t be first
If we cannot win
There’s a fear and there’s hate that grows within
Gotta find a way
To not give in
Together is the only way we’ll win
Standing by the roadside
Waiting for a sign
Will the truth that you’ve looked for ever come
The billboards tell you one thing
But you can’t make up your mind
There’s an urge to deceive that’s born in some
What we can’t build up
We will tear down
And the circle of destruction has begun
Standing by the roadside
Waiting for a sign
Will the truth that you’ve looked for ever come
If we can’t be first
If we cannot win
There’s a fear and there’s hate that grows within
Gotta find a way
To not give in
Together is the only way we’ll win.
Standing at the border
With a white flag in your hand
Will the peace that we dreamed of ever come
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Center of the Universe
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I watch those faces as I roll my groceries out
those smiling faces staring back at me
There are no traces this is all that we have left
the smiling faces at the Walmart where we shop
Where did they go
to the center of the universe
where the legends promised them a home
Were they chosen
by a higher power
to ascend to someplace better than right here
We can only hope
We can only hope
She was seven now she would be twenty-five
And I bet she wouldn’t wear those earrings now
Who would notice if they took her picture down
There’s still a void that no one else can fill
Where did she go
to the center of the universe
where the legends promised her a home
Was she chosen
by a higher power
to ascend to someplace better than right here
We can only hope
We can only hope
He was fifteen when he ran away from home
if you check it out that’s what the records say
His mom is certain that at least he would have called
She stops to watch his picture every day
Where did he go
to the center of the universe
where the legends promised him a home
Was he chosen
by a higher power
to ascend to someplace better than right here
We can only hope
We can only hope
We watch those faces as we roll our groceries out
but we don’t notice the hope that’s clinging there
Those are our children they are all that we have left
The love and longing the aching and despair
Where did they go
to the center of the universe
where the legends promised them a home
Were they chosen
by a higher power
to ascend to someplace better than right here
And if we look to the center of the universe
Will we find our sons and daughters there
We can only hope
cause the alternative is way too hard to bear
Let’s hope we find our sons and daughters there
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A World Away
04:33
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Always apart
Miles away from you my heart
The open road can take me anywhere
But never to where you are
I still hold on
Miles away from you
But I’m not gone
The hurricanes can throw me anywhere
But I’ll still hold on
They say the world has gotten smaller
But the walls are getting taller
Always apart
A world away from you my heart
I won’t forget
We might grow apart and yet
Though the turns of life may take us anywhere
My heart is set
They say the world has gotten smaller
But the walls are getting taller
Always apart
A world away from you my heart
And if the world is getting smaller
Why are you so far away
And if the walls are getting taller
I’d climb them for you any day
And if the ocean’s getting bigger
Then find a bigger boat to sail
And if the road is getting longer
Then leave it for the forest trail
Leave it for the forest trail
Always apart
A world away from you
My heart
The open road can take me anywhere
But never to where you are
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Two Thirds
04:01
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Boy Soldier
03:09
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Boy soldier
How long you gonna fight
Boy soldier for what they told you is right
Boy soldier what if they told you to do
What’s actually wrong for you
Actually wrong for you
Boy soldier
Can you keep your mama safe
Boy soldier from the demons in her head
Boy soldier what are you gonna do
Once they come for you
Once they come for you
She keeps a space behind the closet
If it gets bad she can hide you there
And if you’re sure she’s really lost it
You make sure it’s a family affair
Boy soldier your older brother is ten
Boy soldier seems like a lifetime until then
Boy soldier if he tells you to go
Then that’s what you’ve got to do
Then that’s what you’ve got to do
He keeps a space behind the closet
When it gets bad then he can hide you there
And when your stepdad really lost it
He’ll make sure it’s his burden to bear
One day you’ll both get out of there
Boy soldier trying to find a way
To be bolder
To make it better today
Boy soldier how long will you have to wait
Will it be too late
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Meanwhile in Winnsboro
04:46
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Will you starve
Keep from going very far
Will you brace
for the end of the world
Have you forgot
All the luxury that you’ve got
As you brace for
the end of the world
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
Apple blossoms bloom
Spring is coming soon
Spring is coming soon
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
It doesn’t seem so bad
I think of all I had
I think of all I had
If this really is the end
How will you spend it my friend
Holed up in your house
Till you’re alone in the world
All the food you could eat
Till this virus is beat
Holed up in your house
Till you’re alone in the world
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
Apple blossoms bloom
Spring is coming soon
Spring is coming soon
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
It doesn’t seem so bad
I think of all I had
I think of all I had
A million miles away
From the ones I’m keeping safe
I hope that he’s ok
At the end of the world
The world looks just like yesterday
And yet not in every way
Will the songs all be the same
At the end of the world
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
Apple blossoms bloom
Spring is coming soon
Spring is coming soon
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
It doesn’t seem so bad
I think of all I had
I think of all I had
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
You would never think
We are at the brink
We were at the brink
Meanwhile in Winnsboro
We could still pretend
This is not the end
Not the end of the world
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Too Many Churches
04:37
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You know Maria was just sixteen
Or maybe fifteen and a half
When someone broke into her bedroom
And tore her world apart
Maybe it was a total stranger
Or someone that she knew
Anyway he wasn’t there to hold her
When that baby was due
And you can talk about salvation
And what the Bible has to say
But there’s too many churches and too little love
In this world today
And do you remember Fritzl
He had a baby with his girl
She was locked into the basement
For years that was her only world
Maybe it’ll be the next messiah
Or he’ll invent the atom bomb
Anyway it’s not a call that you can make make
For someone else’s womb
And you can talk about salvation
And what the Bible has to say
But there’s too many churches and too little love
In this world today
Too many churches and too little love
In this world today
And as I’m driving through the country
I see houses falling down
People living under bridges
But there’s five churches in that town
And you can tell I don’t believe in
That there is a God above
But I believe there is compassion
We are capable of love
And if you talk about salvation
About a beating heart
But you’re acting out of power
you will tear us all apart
And you can talk about salvation
And what the Bible has to say
But there’s too many churches and too little love
In this world today
Too many churches and too little love
In this world today
Too many churches and too little love
In this world today
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Desert Nights
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The desert sun is going down
painting shadows on the ground
I sing a lonely song I’ve found
In case you’d come on by
and find me through the sound
The stars are falling from the sky
I make a wish for you and I
like a twinkle in my eye
I leave it on the ground
in case you’d come on by
I’m breathing in I’m breathing out
I guess that’s all that life’s about
You can whisper you can shout
You can ask the heavens why
but you never had a doubt
Oh little love where did you go
Those desert nights can be cold
Little love those desert nights
Those desert nights
I will rest here for a while
These boots have walked many a mile
And if time will be my trial
I hope you’ll bail me out
Now I’ll rest here for a while
Oh little love where did you go
Those desert nights can be cold
Little love where did you go
Oh little love where did you go
Those desert nights can be cold
Little love those desert nights
Those desert nights
Those desert nights
Those desert nights
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Broken
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I wish you’d broken all the rules
I wish you’d opened up that door
I wish you’d gotten in your car
And put the pedal to the floor
But rules are rules
And you obeyed
Just like me you were afraid
I wish you’d gone that day
And maybe then you could have stayed
There will be a hole in my heart forever
That will be the shape of you
And darling when your heart was breaking
You were breaking my heart too
You were breaking my heart too
You always cried when songs were sad
You made me smile when I was blue
I think you would have cried right now
But now the tears are all for you
Now someone else will play this song
And someone else will cry
You’re not here to play along
You didn’t even say goodbye
There will be a hole in my heart forever
That will be the shape of you
And darling when your heart was breaking
You were breaking my heart too
Now we’re broken me and you
I wish you’d broken all the rules
I wish you’d opened up that door
But something else was broke instead
Now I can’t see you anymore
I wish tomorrow I’d wake up
From this nightmare we are in
And then I will call you up
And ask you how you’ve been
There will be a hole in my heart forever
That will be the shape of you
And darling when your heart was breaking
You were breaking my heart too
There will be a hole in my heart forever
That will be the shape of you
I hope that they have steel guitars in heaven
I know you’d play them if they do
I know you’d play them if they do
But don’t you think that you can go
I’ll always have a piece of you
A hole in my heart forever
That will be the shape of you
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Oh California
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Last time I saw you you were sitting on the deck
of a surf shack on a Texas beach
With sun in your eyes and sand on your feet
You said I should get back to California
Oh California
I hear that they are closing down the flights
and I have people waiting for me there
I said I really don’t care
you should stay a while
Instead of going back to California
Oh California
I always knew that you were meant to go
I just did not expect it so soon
With so many shows left to play
before going back to California
Oh California
Oh California
Oh California
You know I told you it’s not my favorite state
Too much traffic and too much pace
You said you too had grown tired of the place
and wanted to move away from California
Oh California
But honey you were L.A. born and raised
you always knew that you would die there someday
so chances were you would always stay
and never leave California
Oh California
Oh California
Oh California
And if you go who knows when you’ll be back
Don’t you think this is a nice little shack
To hang out until things settle down
Instead of going back to that mean old town
in California
Oh California
Oh California
Oh California
Last time I saw you you were sitting on the deck
of a surf shack on a Texas beach
With sun in your eyes and sand on your feet
I wish you hadn’t gone back to California
Oh California
Oh California
Oh California
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Sofia Talvik Gothenburg, Sweden
Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren blending sparkle and melancholy, creating a special niche of folk music that has been described as neo-folk. She is a veteran performer with 8 original full length albums as well as numerous EPs, singles and tours behind her. ... more
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