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One Heart
03:20
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When will all the hatred stop?
When can we just break that clock
and turn it to a time where we can love?
Walk together hand in hand,
black and white and gay and trans,
build the kind of world we're dreaming of.
We can live with just one heart bound by love and spirit.
Breathe and give and play our part, embrace our love don't fear it.
All the ones who hate are lost,
feel like they've been double-crossed,
fed by lies made to divide.
I wish they could turn off that feed
and see the blood that we all bleed
is a river rolling to the ties that bind.
We can live with just one heart bound by love and spirit.
Breathe and give and play our part, embrace our love don't fear it.
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2. |
Welcome Home
03:40
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So when does the laughter turn into ever after?
What’s next for us darlin’ as we carry on?
I can’t hold you any tighter, make your burdens any lighter,
but my arms open wider to welcome you home.
Oh to welcome you home.
I’ll take this trip with you, we’ll do what we intend to
as we carve out our living right into the stone.
I feel you are with me, god you make it so easy
as you love me completely and welcome me home.
Oh you welcome me home.
We’ve heard them all crying, sometimes they were whining,
one day they’ll be surviving out on their own.
But no matter the timing or what ladders they’re climbing,
love will be waiting to welcome them home.
Oh to welcome them home.
So when does the laughter turn into ever after?
What’s next for us darlin’ as we carry on?
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3. |
World of Tears
03:56
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This worn and beaten path leads me back to you again.
This cold and bitter wrath, it must release my heart.
I feel in shades of grey, in drops of ink inside my skin.
And time just floats away ‘til I’m right back where I start.
I feel I’ve got to let myself be free from all the fear.
Break away from bonds that have held me back and kept me here.
Shame and guilt, humiliation have taken all these years.
The pain of my repudiation released in a world of tears,
but there are no more tears.
The scorn is rooted deep, but light will torch that vicious beast.
The pain that I do keep can finally turn to go.
In morning I’ll awake, its dissipation I’ll perceive.
I forgive all my mistakes and finally start to grow.
I feel I’ve got to let myself be free from all the fear.
Break away from bonds that have held me back and kept me here.
Shame and guilt, humiliation have taken all these years.
The pain of my repudiation released in a world of tears,
but there are no more tears.
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4. |
Love and Kindness
04:21
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Be free, be kind, and love the way you are.
Without love and kindness we won't make it very far.
Diving lines are all around,
hateful crowds with their fake red crowns,
broken hearts in the lost and found,
human spirit left in pieces on the ground.
Be free, be kind, and love the way you are.
Without love and kindness we won't make it very far.
Inspiring minds are all around,
we outnumber those hateful clowns.
With loving hearts full of light and sound,
we will bring those fascists down.
Be free, be kind, and love the way you are.
Without love and kindness we won't make it very far.
The firing lines are all around,
white "militias" feeling "strong and proud."
These viscous bigots given credence now,
we will bring these fascists down.
We will pull their walls to the ground,
we will tear their institutions down.
We will plant new seeds in the ground,
we will bring these fascists down.
Be free, be kind, and love the way you are.
Without love and kindness we won't make it very far.
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Grassroots Rebels Albany, New York
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Jim Bonville - banjo, guitar, vocals
Jeff Tehan - mandolin, vocals
(band photo credit: Michelle Arthur)
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