1. _ What Do You Love More Than Love
well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and pizza shack,
Yeah he built and ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back,
Hey what do you love more than love? yeah, what do you love more than love?
When you know that you won't get your heart in that stone, when you drop your
Tools and you stand alone, hey what do you love more than love? yeah what do
You love more than love? well when my love felt like another addiction, i held
My breath and packed my bags, and i went to the land of the monastery, and the
Sunshine children and the prayer flags, hey what do you love more than love?
Yeah what do you love more than love? when you feel your soul go beyond your
Skin, when you know that's the way that it's always been, hey what do you love
More than love? yeah what do you love more than love? well i climbed a
Mountain and i thought about attachment, i thought about the buddhist king, he
Said you can keep your superpower, it just short circuts my country, hey what
Do you lov
E more than love? yeah what do you love more than love? when you question
What your desire is for, when you don't just figure that you just want more,
Hey what do you love more than love? yeah what do you love more than love?
Well i love the way the world is your garden, you plant your seeds and you let
Them grow, and you dig things out of the ground just like you'll take what
Comes but you never know, and the mountain is so beautiful that we don't know
If we're any good at all, and we give your love when we think we still need it,
Yeah we give and give and fall and fall, hey what do you love more than love?
Yeah what do you love more than love? when the giving is all that you ever get
Back, oh how-ow do you love like that? can you tell me, oh how to love? hey
What do you love more than love? yeah what do you love more than love?
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2. _ Another Mystery
get off your catwalk, i want you to talk, to be the seer instead of the seen.
There is a flower, a leaning tower, and all the wonders stand in between. i
Don't want to be another mystery, oh no, i don't want to see who's looking at
Me, oh no, i wanna be the one to feel the sun, oh whoa, so if you want to see
The world with me, let's go. the alligator, the god that made her, and all the
Creatures that got left behind, and mycenae, ave maria, and everything you
Gotta dig harder to find. i don't want to be a vapor of heavenly light,
Everybody guess if i'm an angel or sprite. i don't want to be another mystery,
Oh no, i don't want to see who's looking at me, oh no, i wanna be the one to
Feel the sun, oh whoa, so if you want to see the world wit hme, let's go. you
Could pursue it, hell i could do it, i'll just be quiet when i get angry and
Hurt, i'm stopping traffic, cinemagraphic, with my long black coat hanging down
In the dirt, and my hair clinging to my face in the rain, like a goddess from
The cult of be
Autiful pain, i do'nt want to be another mystery, i don't want to be another
Mystery, i could cut you off with a shoulder of stone, smoke all night and
Leave the party alone, screw myself with and inscrutable pout, but i just want
You to come and figure me out. i don't want to be another mystery, oh no, i
Don't want to see who's looking at me, oh no, i wanna be the one to feel the
Sun, oh whoa, so if you want to see the world with me, let's go. i don't want
To be another mystery. i don't want to be another mystery. . .
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3. _ We Learned The Sea~
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4. _ Spring Street
i'm sorry that i left you with your questions all alone, but i was too happy
Driving, and too angry to drive home, i was thinking about the easy courage of
My distant friends, saying i could let this bridge was hout and never make
Amends, can i blow this small town, make a big sound, like the start of a film
Noir postcard, can i just forget the frames i shared with you? and i can't
Believe what they're saying, they're saying i can change my mind, start over on
Spring street, i am welcome anytime. there are spring street storefront
Daisies floating on their neon stems, there are new shirts on the clothes
Racks, should i feel like one of them? i can find a small apartment where a
Struggling artist died, and pretend because i pay the rent i know that pain
Inside. yeah, let's watch the tour bus stop and tell us, "here's the scent of
A spring green life dream, take the best part, write it in your caffeine
Diary." and i can't believe what they're saying, they're saying i caan leave
Tonight, start over on sprin
G street, i am welcome anytime. this year april had a blizzard, just to show
She did not care, and the new dead leaves they made the trees look like
Children with gray hair, but i'll push myself up through the dirt and shake my
Petals free, i'm resolved to being born and so resigned to bravery, yeah that
One wwho leaves this also grieves this, too much rain on a prairie flood plain,
Houses floating, love is like that, we built on the river, yeah, and that's to
Say, yeah i'm leaving, but i don't have to go there, i don't have to go to
Spring street, cause it's spring everywhere
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5. _ After All
go ahead, push you luck, find out how much love the world can hold, once upon a
Time i had control, and reigned my soul in tight. well the whole truth, it's
Like the story of a wave unfurled, but i held the evil of the world, so i
Stopped the tide, froze it up from inside, and it felt like a winter machine
That you go through and then, you catch your breath and winter starts again,
And everyone else is spring bound. and when i chose to live, there was no joy,
It's just a line i crossed, it wasn't worth the pain my death would cost, so i
Was not lost or found. and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth
To tell. and so i traveled down a whispering well, to know myself through
Them. growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there, her
Father raging down a spiral stair, till he found someone, most days his son,
And sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee, i know they tried to keep
Their pain form me, they could not see what it waas for. but now i'm sleeping
Fine, somet
Imes the truth is like a second chance, i am the daughter of a great romance,
And they are the children of the war. well the sun rose with so many colors,
It nearly broke my heart, it worked me over like a work of art, and i was a
Part off all that. so go ahead, push your luck, say what it is you gotta say
To me, we will push on into that mystery, and it'll push right back, and there
Are worse things than that, cause for every price, and every penance that i
Could think of, it's better to have fallen in love, than never to have fallen
At all, cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd
Be, and now i laugh at how the world changed me, i think life chose me after
All.
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6. _ I Had No Right
god of the poor man, this is how the day began, eight codefendants, i daniel
Berrigan, and only a layman's batch of napalm. we pulled the draft files out,
We burned them in the parking lod, better the files than the bodies of
Children. i had no right but, for the love of you. i had no right, but for
The love of you. many roads led here, walked with the suffering, tom in
Guatemala, philip in new orleans it's a long road from law to justice. i went
To vietnam, i went for peace, they dropped their bombs, right where my
Government knew i would be. i had no right, but for the love of you. i had no
Right, but for the love of you. and all my country saw were priests who broke
The law. first it was question, then it was a mission, how to be american, how
To be a christian, if the law is their cross, and the cross is burning.
Aaaaah--the love of you. aaaaah--the love of you. god of the just, i'll never
Win a peace prize, falling like jesus, now let the jury rise, it's all of us
Versus all that paper. they
Took the only way, they know who is on trial today, deliaver us unto each
Other this day-- i had no right, but for the love of you. i had no right but
For the love of you
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7. _ And A God Descended
step through his trampled wall, the unhinged door betrays it all, that far
Within our faith we were all waiting. the broken glass reflects the haze, it
Shines like endless holy days, struggling to remember what they're
Celebrating. well a god decscended, and the real time ended. his light was
Lifted just above the law, and now we have to live with what we did, with what
We saw. well you mend your clothes and patch your roof and slivers of god's
Shattered truth grow tender as the grass in clean swept yards. but a savior
Came and told us how the truth was all around us now, abandon house and field
And gather up the stards, well a god descended, and the real time ended. his
Light was lifted just above the law, and now we have to live with what we did
With what we saw. you build your faith with strength and duty, build your
Love, but there's a beauty, well you know the scriptures tell, there are a few
Shards left in hell, and if we wanted god we had to follow, follow him down,
Him down. there were picture
S torn out of their frames and orgies where we lost our names, ending all with
Time's real desire. well you ask how god can curse you thus, that's not a
Question asked by us, we burnt our books and beds, we fear we've lost the
Fire. and a god descended, and the real time ended. his light was lifted just
Above the law, and now i have to live with what i did with what i saw.
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8. _ I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono
i wonder if yoko ono ever thought of staying solo, if she thought of other men
And if she doubted john lennon, worring that he'd distract her art. sitting in
The apple sessions, giving john her music lessons, challenging the warring
Nations with her paper installations, did she guard her yoko human heart? well
They could talk about me, yeah they could talk about me, throw me to the velvet
Dogs of pop star history, but i won't be your yoko ono if you're not good
Enough for me. some will give their love for fasion, others trade their gold
For passion, i don't have the goods to start with, never had the reins to part
With, still i hope you'll take me seriously. cause i think i could go deep as
The sea of yoko, you don't know a person like me, i could sell your songs to
Nike, and for all you know, i could save your sould, as only true love can
Change your mine, make you leave your screaming fans behind. when john called
The wind and opera, making love with chakra, when he said her voice would
Carry, and when
He whispered old chuck berry, only then would yoko set him free. fame will
Come and vanish later, transcendental love is greater, i think if we had this
Somehow, we'd be feeling famous right now, we'd be saying love is all you
Need. and they could rag about me, yeah they could rag about me, throw me to
The velvet dogs of pop star history, but i won't be your yoko ono if you're not
Good enough for me, oh now i won't be your yoko ono if you're not good enough
For me.
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9. _ Calling The Moon
the moon wanted more of my night, i turned off the engine and the headlights,
The trees appeared as they'd never been gone, i promised the fields i'd return
Form now on, and the moon kept on rising. i had no more to say, i put my
Roadmaps away, and surendered the day. and i knokw you'll be calling me soon,
And if i don't answer, i'm calling the moon. calling the moon, i was calling
Her then, i'm wondering, will she take me again, oh, i'm calling the moon.
When i called the moon back to me, i thought she wanted my beauty. i shone in
The best that vanity buys, i covered the path where my life turned to lies, and
The moon kept on rising. but i felt nothing at all, she comes when the empire
Falls, and shines on crumbling walls. calling the coon, by the name that she
Hose, as tennessee wandered in moth-eaten robes. oh, i'm calling the moon,
Calling the moon-- "oh, make sense of me, night, i can see so much from this
Cold height." the moon said, "oh darkness, my work is done. i've poured this
Bottle of l
Ight from the sun, but their anger keeps on rising. and they don't understand,
I've shon them all that i can, that the world is at hand. and i know they'll
Be calling me soon, and if i don't answer i'm only the moon." i can see by her
Light, this one's going out to the moon tonight, oh, i'm calling the moon.
Calling the moon, cause i know what it's worth, to tug at the seas and illumine
The earth, oh i'm calling the moon, oh i'm calling the moon.
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10. _ It Happens Every Day
the first part of every day for me is good, i've got the bus stop in my
Neighborhood, everything's on purpose, everywhere theygo, hiding in my car and
Running in the snow, running with the friends they'll know for years, i've seen
It all from here, from here. it happens every day, before they go to school,
They play until the bus drives up beside my lan, and there's always been a
Mother who waits till they are gone, then she turns away, happens every day.
Noon comes and turns this campus upside down, i watch the students in this
College town. you would think they're earefree, i have seen their trials,
Frowning into shakespeare and practicing their smiles, even underlining
Nabokov, when i am not in love, in love. it happens every day, with their
Journals and cafes, looking up at their reflections on the other wall, with
Every new idea, wondering if they've changed at all, then they turn away, it
Happens every day. life is as hard and as easy as they say, walking the staps
We've chosen on this day. some w
Ill be outrageous, some have rarely shown, some will walk like couples, some
Quite alone. as i think about the world i see, they stare and smile at me, at
Me. it happens every day, at the crossing of the street looking out to see
What's new and what is still the same, and the only word for lovei s
Everybody's name, and that will always stay, happens everyday. and every day
Will happen without you.
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