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My Head is Out
02:56
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Its Only the Wind
02:21
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Ill of the Dead
02:05
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So Deep
04:29
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Ask the Babies
02:04
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If I came back as I am now
To you as you were then
Would we part forever
Or fall in love again
Ask the babies
They still know
What we forget
As we grow
So before we let it go
Ask the babies
If the universe is moving,
What is it moving through?
Is it action and only action
That animates a point of view?
Ask the babies
They still know
What we forget
As we grow
So before we let it go
Ask the babies
Babies ask invisible friends
What we were before
will we be after the end?
Why the old folks ask why and how
I dont believe you loved me then
Because you dont love me now
Oh really?
Just ask the babies
They will know
We forget
As we grow
So before we let it go
Ask the babies
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Goodbye to Me
02:32
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That was a long time ago
Both of us know
You are stoppping by
Just to say hello
But whats the use?
Honey, cant you see?
I cant say hello to you
because you never said goodbye to me
I dont have time for coffee
I dont have time to chat
I dont have time to reminisce
About this or that
And Im sure you are busy too
With things I cannot see
And I cant say hello to you
When you never said goodbye to me
The night you left
Was one of kisses and champagne
But in the morning you were gone
Never to return again
I dont regret the time we spent
In each others company
But if I say hello again
It will bb the death of me
Why should I say hello to you?
You never said goodbye to me
Hello..goodbye..they have no place
In twiight memories
Hello
Goodbye
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I Wrote a Book
03:37
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I wrote a book about some folks I used to know
Some of them are gone now
The rest are going slow
I didnt write it to entertain you
Or to mess with your had
I wrote it to bring back the dead
My good friend Duffy
Saved my best friends life
The assailent busted up his head
As he pushed the gun aside
Somem say it was the beating
Some say it was the wine
But one way or another
He was dead at 59
Repeat chorus
The first time I saw Virgil
Was in a photograph
He and Maron Brando
Were having a laugh
We were in a movie together
And he couldnt remember his lines
He died of Alzheimers
On the streets of pantomime
Repeat Chorus
Old cowboy Morris
He hated my guts
Every time I started singing
He told me to shut up
But I always kind of liked him
Though we drove in different lanes
And he wasnt that bad an actor
On days when it didnt rain
Repeat Chorus
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Brother Blue
04:05
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A leaf on the tree
Floated up to the sky
It wasnt a leaf at all
It was a butterfly
That was the first thing I learned from Brother Blue
He told it to me. Im telling you,
Blue could shake a spear
Into King Lear
And pull it out without a stain
He put on Merlins hat
And that was that
Let Romero take the blame
Thats the way it was with Brother Blue
He was a friend of mine Hed love to make friends with you
Black people dont gt anywhere
Until they reach the top of their game
White folks who sing out of tune
Are big stars, household name
Thats the second thing I learned from Brother Blue
I asked him why he took the time
To teach the art of storytelling
To people who couldnt rhyme.
He said if you were on Mars
And some Martian was telling a story
I bet you would sit down and listen
You wouldnt give a hoot if he was shaking a spear
Or just licking his bone
Now that is the essence of Brother Blue
He dropped out of divinity school
He went down to Harvard Square
You and I, weve been there
We learned a lot form Brother Blue
For instance
Poetry cannot survive in the poetry slam
But the slam might be the only thing
Keeping poetry alive
Just another thing I earned from Brother Blue
He told it to me Im telling you
Ill always remember my friend Brother Blue
Bringing joy and wisdom to me and you
Brother Blue
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Sundays Only Witness
02:51
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The sea crashes over the wall
Fish escape the broken nets
She thought she heard the trumpets blow
But it was just one cornet
Was it suicide or murder?
12 Angry Men unreconciled
Sundays only witness
Was the portrait of a child
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