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I Like You
03:13
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1. I LIKE YOU
I like the sun, I like the sky,
I like the dew, I like you
I like the jacarandas purpling the street,
I like it when you call, I like it when we meet
*Oh, I like you,I like you alot -
Oh, I like you, I like you alot
I like the twirping of the birds’ call,
I like the spring, I like the fall
Did I say how much I like you?
I like you alot,
you’re so cool, you’re so hot*
It seems the more I like you,
the more I like the rest of my life
It seems the more I like you,
It’s contagious like a beautiful dream *
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Right Handed World
02:22
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2. RIGHT-HANDED WORLD
Spiral bound notebooks, potato peelers too
guns and guitars, computer mice and cork screws
Scissors and tables saws, the written word
Did you even have a clue---- they’re all flawed--who knew?
Cameras, pencil sharpeners, and boomerangs
Fishing reels, refrigerator doors, all sorts of things
You might never notice If you weren’t the chosen few
Basically everything is built from a presumptuously north paw point of view
*This goofy footed molly docker is one cacky handed southpaw girl
Stumbling along in a right handed world, 3xs
They used to call it bad luck, sinister, evil too
The unorthodox path, immoral and taboo
But 1 out of 10½ people in the world might disagree--Especially me *
At least I’m in good company-Joan of Arc, Paul Mc Cartney
Leonardo da Vinci--maybe--it’s ok to be… *
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Sooner or Later
02:35
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3. SOONER OR LATER
Sooner or later the day comes down
sooner or later the world turns round
sooner or later, I’ll loose what I found,
And find it again
* sooner or later, sooner or later
sooner or later, you’ll be by my side
sooner or later, I wont want to ask why
sooner or later the world turns around,
I’ll loose what I found,
and I’ll find it again *
I find there’s a friend round every bend
I find if I let it, love can mend
I find there’s beginnings in every end
I find, when I’m able to bend
somehow the life comes ‘round again *
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4. I’M A FOOL WITHOUT YOU BABE
I got the rainbow blues, red, purple and black
You gone away and you aint never coming back
Digging for arrowheads and pennies in the mud
Tripping over troubles and tears just because
* I’m a fool without you babe, Just a crazy loon
I’m a fool without you babe
Sitting on the edge, quiet as a fox
Bullet in the temple, ashes in a box
Deep down dark you did yourself in
Life’s just a tiny flame, it flickers in the wind *
I want to implore you, I want to turn back time
I want forever more, I want to undo the crime
Why’d you have to go, I just don’t know
I’m kicking through the trash on the side of the road *
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5. I CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU
I can’t help but love the way the sun rose this morning
I can’t help but love the way your eyes meet mine
I can’t help but hold you in this choir of angle birds singing
Touch the sweetness of your lips to mine
*I can’t help but love you, I can’t help but love you
I can’t help but breathe with you breathing
I can’t help but respond to your touch
I can’t help but return all the love you pour on me
I love you so much, love you so much *
I have felt your wind, I have seen your sun
I have heard the whisper of your wings
I have knelt before queens and kings
But nothing compares
with the sweetness you bring to me *
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Today
02:41
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6. TODAY
Today, today, I give thanks today
For today I am alive, tomorrow I will die
Right now is all I got to share the love I feel inside
Today, today, today.
Today, today, I give thanks today
Tomorrow’s just dreams and you’re the one its seems
You stand before me;
can I let love see you and me, as you’re here with me
As we do the silly things we do
Today, today, today
I thank the trees, I thank the breeze I hold you near me
I open to the sky, I let it hear me
Slowly I’m learning to hold all I see
Will gentle tenderness -even all the crazy parts of me
cause all I got’s today*
Today, today, I give thanks today
Today is the dance, today I take the chance
I open to the vision, might I walk with inspiration
Today, today, today.
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Hold On
04:06
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7. HOLD ON
May you find strength in the darkness
May you find peace in the storm
Know that the heavens adore you
And angels walk beside you
every step of the way and implore you
* Hold on, hold on 2xs
I know the weight of your body pulls you down
and the nagging in your mind might drag you round
You can raise your fist, cursing all of this
But as the world is torn, something new is being born *
I can’t pretend to know what you’re going through
I send again and again a prayer for you
Way up in the sky a hawk is soaring free
May you have the strength to see what you need to see *
Hold on to your truth
Hold on to your love...hold on
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Searching for a Home
03:31
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8. SEARCHING FOR A HOME
You build a house
i don’t no why you build a house so far away
You build a home, I don’t know why I care so much
You carry on, you build a home
You build a home
I know you’ve been searching for a home
* Searching for a home, 3xs
I have a life, I carry on but when I hear you built a home
I just want to go there where you are
Anywhere you are, 3xs
Just this emptiness, this aching emptiness
That’s all that’s left of you in my life
You send a note, I don’t know why you send a note
with a picture and a quote
The lonely deserts it howls,
your coyote wind he follows me as I roam *
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Courage to Love
03:38
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9.COURAGE TO LOVE
Takes alot of courage to love,
takes a lot of guts to let that blossom break open ~
Smell the spell of spring, intoxicating
-Takes a lot of breath, and a lot of faith
To face into the madness, step out of the roaring pace
Just when u thought your those ducks were in a row--A great wind blows you off the cliff into the unknown--Free falling,
And you thot... only birds could fly
*Takes a lot of courage to love, 3xs-
Takes a lot of courage to just be
with love, a lifetime, a feeling, a memory-Takes a lot of guts to let go,
an opinion, a disappointment, a friend a foe ~
Takes a lot of faith and a lot of breath
to leave behind the old familiar nest-
Takes a lot of courage to just be and face into any kind of death
Takes a lot of courage to love,
breathe into the void just because ~ Takes a lot of guts to be free,
& let the silence and the stillness speak *
The next moments coming, different from the rest-
Can’t peek round the corner,
can’t see through the mess
Step off that cliff into thin air, Eventually you notice
the earth is always there to meet you- somewhere down at the bottom ~
You know that rivers gonna flow, you can fight against it or just let go
Takes a lot of guts to let be, and love yourself and every bit of yr insanity…*
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Drink it In
03:30
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10. DRINK IT IN
there’s a tiny voice, it can take you to your happiness,
can you hear it?
It’s whispering, beneath the breath that blows the leaves,
dancing
Can you taste how beauty rounds the bend?
Can you touch the texture of -what~ you~ love ~ ?
* Drink it in, drink it in
Listen, if you’re quiet enough,
maybe you can hear, can you hear it?
In the silence, gravity can take it all, can you let it?
There’s only freedom in this universe,
can you feel the lies crumbling?
See the bright colors of clarity,
flapping like prayer flags in~the~wind~*
A leaf falls, dancing in the breeze,
can you feel it?
Together, we’re calling in the world we want,
can you see it?
There are no secrets in this universe,
let the old fall away--
One breath at a time, a new~day~dawns~*
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Nicola Gordon Santa Barbara, California
Nicola is a singer/songwriter with 6 CDs of original music, plays solo and has had with the various bands through the years.
She has been teaching songwriting for the past 25 years and loves every bit of it. Got to www.nicolagordon.com for more information.
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