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SET LIST NINE (9)
1 We Are the Ones………………………..93
2 Friend
3 Speak………………………..95
4 Applied Faith
5 Slip Stream………………..97
6 Sides
7 Invisible Prison……………..99
8 Better Than It Seems
9 First Glance……………….100
10 Complicated Subject……...101
11 Fate Is a Word………………..102
12 Believe Me (first three stanzas)……..103
WE ARE THE ONES
We are the hunched over old man
who makes your shoes shine
We are the policemen and women
who help reduce crime
We are the ones who cook and
serve your meals at lunch time
We are the bartenders you find
right before closing time
If you're overworked and underpaid
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Pick up your shovel, grab your spade
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Get back to work, carry on your trade
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Quit complaining about making minimum wage
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
If you're overworked and underpaid
Don't complain just get in line
We are the tracks on which society is laid
Don't complain just get in line
From our broken backs millionaires are made
Don't complain just get in line
It starts when you're a
little kid selling lemonade
Don't complain just get in line
Let us unite from here, there, from everywhere
For now is our time to shine
Scream out if your life's defined
by more than just your career
For now is our time to shine
If you're in your car join our motorcade
For now is our time to shine
Sing the refrain and join our parade
For now is our time to shine
You might drink the wine but we're the ones who
pulled the grapes from the vine
You may own the oil but we're the ones
that built the pipeline
They might worship you
but we're the ones who erected the shrine
You may sing the song…
Sing us a song… sing us a song…
But we're the ones who wrote the rhyme
We are the ones who wrote the rhyme
FRIEND
I spread my words so let them be heard
All across the land...
All across these lands...
My advice is right and nice
I'll have you understand
When it comes to giving
Give as much as you can...
When it comes to women
sure my heart's been broken
Each time I try to fix it
And carry on the best I can...
Suddenly I feel empowered
Get inspired to spend the next hour
Sitting here and making song
Hoping you will come and sing along
A friend told me a story
over coffee one morning
From one of the books she was reading
And, oh, how the pages were turning
Oh my friend is very lovely
If only you had a chance to meet her
You would understand it
How I feel when I see her
She was blessed with one of those faces
Possessed by only those truly lovely people
That when softly caressed it somehow erases
Time itself and everything - all that's evil
Someone once asked me
What the secret to my life is
I answered without thinking
"Learning love is priceless"
Share what you have with everyone:
And send flowers to yourself
Just a little "thank you" for being you
Now go and give them to someone else...
I spread my words so let them be heard
All across the land...
All across these lands...
My advice is right and nice
I'll have you understand
When it comes to giving
Give as much as you can...
SPEAK
Rinse, lather and repeat
When you got blood on your hands
This is no time to retreat…
That’s when you begin to dig in
Stay busy to keep from losing sleep
The war is yours to win
Facts…
Get lost in the mist
I don’t believe this
In betrayal by a kiss
Cracks…
A chink in the armor
Is great cause for alarm
For many things can harm
Both your soul and your will
And your desire to kill
For the sake of a name
When ideas aren’t the same
It’s the lion and the lamb
For things we don’t understand
What’s missing is common ground
Found beneath the line in the sand
One must win at any and all costs
Has become the prevailing thought
The divide between
the worker and the boss
Keeps growing wider
and is now hard to cross
This union is bound to break
And with so much at stake
People everywhere are speaking out
Before it is too late
So I ask what do you say?
Speak.
APPLIED FAITH
Close your eyes
Quiet your mind
And describe to me
What you hope to find
Don’t give it a name
Let it be free
For fear it may change
Or worse never be
Calm your breath
Yes inhale deep
Then pinch yourself
Make sure you’re not asleep
Is life a dream…
Then one day we wake?
To a world brand new
That’s ours to shape
Or is this it…
And at the end of the ride
There’s no more nothing
Just hello, goodbye
What if it’s a question of choice
And it’s up to you to decide
As what you believe in most
That fate will then be applied
Don’t dare waste thoughts
On hollow or empty things
For fear of finding out
What the consequences bring
Behold the power
Of free mind and will
Everything can be unmade
And anything can be built
Conceive, believe, achieve
Imagination is all you need
Yes, you can manifest your destiny
In this world, the next
or whatever world will be
SLIP STREAM
Enter this virtual world
Take an unguided tour
We'll find a cavern in your mind
That has yet to be explored
We'll cause a ripple in the water
Of intuition, space and time
Won't fear a tear in the fabric
Only scared of a flaw in the design
We can take a trip
Slip down stream
Feel free to follow me
Or I could follow you
Just take one of these
You know what to do
Become anyone you want
Let that become the truth
Free yourself from all distraction
For time ain't on anybody's side
I can see by your reaction
The sense of panic in your eyes
There's only shame in me asking
If you need your place to hide
Just take one of these
And you know what to do
Become anyone you want
Let that become the truth
I see a ripple in the water
Or it could be space and time
A small tear in the fabric
I see a flaw in the design
Just take one of these
And you know what to do...
Let everything you see
Become shiny and new
SIDES
There's no well-marked
and measured
Previously charted course
for you in this world
Just doors waiting
to be opened
And new frontiers
to be explored
Are there unknown
galaxies to be found
In what we call
this universe
I've been searching
for another new place
One that lies
between the bounds
of time and material
and sound and space
Where I can live
inside of my own
creative invention
Fueled by just
the energy inside all
of my good intentions
Becoming unencumbered
by this perpetual motion
Of having to ride through
the highs and lows
Like a barrel carried along
in the drift of the tide
Up and then down
and around again on this ride
A human roller coaster
of pre-text and manipulation
I wanna go
where there's no
black and no white
No wrong or right
No sleep
no war no more
no peace
And no reason to fight
No big problems
or great solutions
Only a future fate
which awaits
That your thoughts
and actions
will realize and dictate
An alternative reality
Avoiding impartialities
and ambiguities
That in time you find
Within your own
peace of mind
Then you'll get by
on just your own
ingenuity and intuity
and your innards
and their fluidity
Where a thinking
man's thoughts
Find their way
out of the box
And any other device
That tries to contain them
Where when one's logic is
Sound and strong
Nobody ever has to ask
Which side are you on
Since there's no sides to choose
No winners to lose
No losers to win
Or angels to sin
Nor devils to pray
For eternal life
in the oncoming day
Or even in the seconds
That later lie ahead...
No present
No past
No living
No dead
INVISIBLE PRISON
The dazzling darkness
caresses the silence
The perfect calm
at the edge of the violence
Meant to do us harm
or gently guide us?
Outward and upward
or deep down inside us?
There’s many with ears
that can’t hear through the fear
Those not standing in the light
Remain beyond my line of sight
In an invisible prison
When your spirit is trapped in form
It can’t soar
Listen…
In the kingdom of the blind
The one eyed man is king
But if you can change your mind
Then you can change everything
I believe that space and time are one
And I’ll finish exactly where I begun
What always is always was and always will be
Behold I use my free will to create fate
And mold, make and shape my destiny
Yeah energy, frequency and waves
Can move mountains like Jesus saves
Can part the sea or remove gravity
Can erase mistakes even rewrite history
The secret is that WE are the key:
The problem, the solution,
the question and the answer to the mystery
Hmmm…..What if the magician was the trick?
Then the illusion wouldn’t necessarily be
what we expect...
BETTER THAN IT SEEMS
I am trying to unlearn
What all the teachers have taught me
I am trying to unlock
An original thought but I have no key
I am trying to believe
That it's better than it seems
(Or at least what I can see)
I am trying to achieve
The American Dream
Of leaving a legacy behind me
Look out the man's got the pen again
Pulls it out every now and then
Smokes some pot as your thoughts
Become your friends
Keep on looking for answers
Until the questions end
So what pulls you through?
Is it something bigger than you?
Or is it lesser than you?
It could be that, too
For so many this is true
Oh, so what am I to do?
Lock myself in a vault
And point my finger at you
Screaming everything is your fault
Sure, you're soul searching
Yet you haven't found a clue
Finally my inner turmoil is at peace
I slayed the dragon
I conquered the beast
Fought so many things
That I could and couldn't see
That which I once believed
Would one day get the best of me
Has now been left behind
I always knew it was just a matter of time
Now that I'm finally where I want to be
I still can't really say that I'm doing fine
With all this free time plaguing my mind
I get to dig a little deeper inside
Still afraid of what I'll find
FIRST GLANCE
The ocean acts as the blood of the earth
She’s screaming out in a flood of hurt
Oh misguided one can’t you see what you’ve done?
Taken and forsaken see the red rivers run
With our mother provider in failing health
We could stop dividing and help ourselves
He who seeks paradise just to leave it in ruins…
Finds indeed all good things do end too soon
Visions of your future are found
in the memories of your past
You can trace each face
and place as you look back
A symphony of senses
as you travel
the threads of time
It’s like dreaming
but you’re not sleeping
still you feel so alive
You can feel the current
of energy running through us all
The frequency determines
whether we degenerate or evolve
As free will plays
as big a part as chance
So much more is happening here
than appears at first glance
COMPLICATED SUBJECT
It's such a complicated subject...
this matter of war
Traces back to the beginning of time...
if not before
Intertwined with our destiny
Throughout all our history
As the fate of humanity
Rests within this legacy
The true nature of man...
is not one of understanding
to say the least
The way it now stands...
This violence and bloodshed
shall never cease
There are four words
That'll never be
Our one sole belief
We come in peace
There are four words
That make me nervous
When I hear someone speak
We come in peace
For it seems to me
We'll all eventually
Suffer some kind of defeat
All genders and races
All colors of this crayon nation
All beliefs and creeds
Yet when we fight today
The battle cry is not Semper Fi
It's bleed green for corporate greed
Please take my eyes
Or take away these things
That I don't want to see
Still we try to perceive
all that's unperceivable
Still we strive to conceive
in what's inconceivable
Still we struggle to believe
in the unbelievable
Still we attempt to achieve
What is unachievable
It's such a complicated subject...
this matter of war
Traces back to the beginning of time...
if not before
Intertwined with our destiny
Throughout all our history
As the fate of humanity
Rests within this legacy
FATE IS A WORD by Tom Jensen
Passion's found in
many shapes and forms
Within a tight black dress,
within a uniform
In the eyes of a mother
In the sighs of a lover
At three in the morning
Oh yeah...
Virtue can't be found
in all eyes of men
Nor in their statues
or great monuments
Only through tough
times and trial
Will we find ourselves
without denial
Or false compliments
Oh yeah...
Naked truth often hides
where you least expect
Never in the lavish palace
but in the cellar of neglect
Those of us living in glass houses
should be careful of bricks
For some who are
'the chosen ones'
Aren't the ones we'd pick
Oh no...
Fate is a word made up
by the scared
As the reason
why they failed
Or the reason
they never dared
To summon the courage
to follow the voice
They didn't always
want to hear
Oh yeah...
I am a man who
loves dishing it out
Yet I always have problems
when it comes to myself
When it comes to stepping up
I'm the first one to speak
When it comes to the children
I try my best to teach
They say practice makes perfect
so it's time to practice what I preach
BELIEVE ME
I could tell you all about my life…
But you probably wouldn’t believe me
You find me always doing right…
And you think it comes easy
You, who finds something new…
And becomes afraid
With that view…
There’s not a lot I can say
You’ll find out the hard way
That’s the price that some pay
When you play it too safe
Sometimes you don’t get to play