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1. |
What You Feel
03:27
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Privilege is a dysfunction and pretension
Aims to win the human race
Cream of the meme are having children that are feral
Locked and loaded, looking down out of a person-less face
Cobain ran the course of generation X ennui
Blew that like a whistle…sheep won’t stampede
Word within the herd is it cannot locate its being
In the city’s sad bacchanal, the madness of kings
And I ask my heart to help me remember what the deal is
Your name and your notions are imaginary
What you feel is real…sweet emptiness
What you feel is real…testify
What you feel is real
We would not have a word
If we did not have each other
Dad never could
Take the bad with the good
Scream it from my dreams
Up and out across the island
Coming loose inside me
We are all tomorrow’s food and
Sweet like the rain
Holy in am-ness
Just dying to live a little
Your stake in the game
And your name
And your notions are imaginary
What you feel is real…in your gaze and your voice (Feel the love, y’all)
Every choice, your wealth (Feel the love, y’all)
Your stake in the game, and the game itself (Feel the love, y’all)
Heaven and hell…imaginary (Feel the love, love, love)
Feel the love (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, y’all (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, y’all (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, love, love (Feel the love, love, love)
Feel the love in your gaze and your voice (Feel the love, y’all)
Every choice, your wealth (Feel the love, y’all)
Your stake in the game, and the game itself (Feel the love, y’all)
Heaven and hell…imaginary (Feel the love, love, love)
Feel the love (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, y’all (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, y’all (Feel the love, y’all)
Feel the love, love, love (Feel the love, love, love)
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2. |
Tell Me
03:42
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Beg the question. Each disaster
Ringing. Put 'em through
Even get to Cellis
On the road
Live a lie or live alone
The beauty that you've never known you're owed
All that time riding high
Shining on and climbing and it showed
Veering left and jagging back
The first door on the right
Clear the line to hear your voice
Ringing like a bell
Uphill in a world of hurt
To defervesce tonight
Family gathered 'round the wagon
Tender their farewell
Up 'side the evidence
You reach at every chance to rise above
Hey now, to reel it in you let it out
You tend to feel the love
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
Life is short and life is long
But it ain't in that order
Up inside the moment
We all know that it's forever
Everything you gain in life
Will rot and fall apart
And all that will be left of you
Is what was in your heart
Everything is echoes as if
Anything could matter more than caring
'Cause if you really go the whole way
We all vanish after all the revelry
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
The honest fear is
It hurts to care
Born in love and scared to be here but
Open hearts and love, now that is power
And I say
You are not forgotten. I say
You are not alone
I say I stand with you here now
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
Beg the question. Each disaster, Ringing. Put 'em through…Even get to Cellis On the road. Live a lie or live alone…the beauty that you've never known you're owed. All that time riding high, Shining on and climbing and it showed
Veering left and jagging back
The first door on the right
Clear the line to hear your voice
Ringing like a bell
Uphill in a world of hurt
To defervesce tonight
Family gathered 'round the wagon
Tender their farewell
Up 'side the evidence
You reach at every chance to rise above
Hey now, to reel it in you let it out
You tend to feel the love
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
Life is short and life is long
But it ain't in that order
Up inside the moment
We all know that it's forever
Everything you gain in life
Will rot and fall apart
And all that will be left of you
Is what was in your heart
Everything is echoes as if
Anything could matter more than caring
'Cause if you really go the whole way
We all vanish after all the revelry
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
The honest fear is
It hurts to care
Born in love and scared to be here but
Open hearts and love, now that is power
And I say
You are not forgotten. I say
You are not alone
I say I stand with you here now
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
Hey now, can you feel it? Tell me
When you feel it, try and bring it on and shine
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3. |
Through the Fire
03:48
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Yeah, New York invented me trenchant
Come across more than one
Stood in my way with nothing to say
So give over to my calling, it’s done
I have come open
And gone out of line
Scorned the reasons
And borne the time
And we are even
And I am leaving you all
Not far behind
Let me know what you find
Clamoring into the mountains
Incensed and unsound
Fortune give way…what more can I say?
In the cold, in the dark, upside down
I have been a given
I have been torn
Come to find that I
Ignored the warnings
And it cost me
It put one across on me
Hungry, alone
In the deep end of the ocean
‘Til I begin again to bloody breathe
Two for you and three for me
As it was in the beginning
Death hath no dominion
And calling out, “¿A qué sabe la luna?”
Full-on and full grown
Well underway. Much more to say
Your luminous eyes to have shone
I have known Love
I have known Death
You learn to rise above
You don’t hold your breath
Unless you mean to
And she has seen you
Through the fire
And she has seen you through the fire
And she has seen you clean through the fire
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4. |
Wayside
04:18
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It all got away from you
The claim it had occurred
Could even shame the word
“Sacred”...or “True”
Who got off?
They got good aim
And I got soft, y’all
Or so it seems, but
All the same
You get a name for what you do
It leaves no blood at all
In the vein, the better to
Feed the line in. Pony up the violence
Yet to pay it’s due
And I came to hang by the wayside
And fear no abandoning
The maddening gaze
Of the jejune notwithstanding
Inured in part
The rite of spring
Conceding my heart
I bought a ring
And I am the fool now
If I am anything
My psalm of mourning
The bloodstain had borne
The early warning. A legerdemain for
Any so prone may never know again
Now me and all the other twigs
Aforesaid time decrying
We will dig out of the hell we’ve fallen in again
And then arising. Testifying
You could read into it but not deny
The rules of engagement had not applied
As soon as you waded in
To mollify the danger
And here I hang by the wayside
Gladly the man ordained
The dark red reign
Long weathered was not in vain, and
I’m fine to hang by the wayside
And I am fine to hang here
And I am fine I will hang by the wayside
And I am quite fine and I will just hang right here
So fine here, hey?
It’s so fine here, hey?
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5. |
Upholding
04:23
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Is the vow worth upholding?
And holding out?
Must be cold in Seoul now
Nearly Christmas
The days alone delayed no
Swarming toward adharma
O’er the isthmus
You didn’t miss much
In the brawl ensuing
You’re doing your all
Will you be calling bottom?
Standing tall?
I invoke Santa Barbara
Three times to calm down
And then come home
To cataclysm
In a way, you might say I been right there all along
For the railing, flailing, and carrying on
I’ve been gathering my lessons skin to skin
How I wish it would storm now
Non serviam
Non serviam
And don’t be fooled into
Eschewing your chores
Your safe in port…yeah, sure
But that’s not what you’re built for
Unswear the waking memories long gone
Transcend the has-been, hand-wringing whims
And just get on
With being someone
Make no mistake, your attempt escape…it became a syndrome
The longest way round is the shortest way home
Love loves to love love
As we walk through ourselves
Will I let my country die for me?
As you are now, so once were we
Laughing back down at my broken shackles
Throwing my weight into the block and tackle
Water in my hand, world without end
Non serviam
Non serviam
I give myself leave to stay on the qui vive
Non serviam
Non serviam
In spite of all that you ordain, despite all that you believe
Non serviam
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6. |
A Sign of Love
03:29
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The perfect work of art
Passed with no shape or things
Year one Australia
We’re in the ring
So you resume
To plead your case
To whom it may concern
As if your savin' face
I do not mind
A kind of shove at times
But I can find nary a sign of love
Behind this one
I bite my tongue one last time
Check my six and pick up sticks
Time to find
Signs of love
Walk up to the edge
In storied sport a villian
Look off in the distance
Worried my than willing
Scan the city choked in
An expanse of smoke and
Come to think on it
The grandeur of a yoke
Beyond the ken
Beyond the pale
Draw the curtain then
Abide the Beaufort scale
I find I can get outside
Of the lines at times
But I will mind a sign of love
If there is one
Whither I can come
To face the charge
To dig and delve at large
Time to find a sign of love
All along
On all fours, no soy un santo
I tried to tell you I'm a bad pirate
Look the thing in the eye
To wind up gazin' back
At a moonlit graveyard
In Carbondale
Someplace safe and dry and quiet
She always said I'd be better off dead
I think she's got snakes in her head
Y'all are too kind
It's a sign of love
One, two - buckle my shoe
It's a sign of love
And it’s a fine howdy doo
A sign of love
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7. |
Breakwater
03:37
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I bathed within the breakwater
Breaking in, evading alarm
Saying it ended, bought the farm then
Praying and grinning, throw up your arms
And all you stained in dereliction
Is in the foam upon the tide
And the breakwater takes on my pain now
And I slake all the shame from my brow
For to spin in a sad fog no longer
It’s been a sin to have maundered about so long
It’s quintessential to inch along now
In quick dissension and quit the song
Get to Frenchmen. Get to New Orleans somehow
Forget to mention you brought me harm, did me wrong
Should I have fawned on like a good dog on your front lawn?
To cringe upon the promise of a home beyond the dawn
Breakwater take on my pain now
And I slake all the shame from my brow
For to spin in a sad fog no longer
Been a sin to have maundered about so long
Waves on the breakwater try
To recall all you gave the lie
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there. I did not die
And the breakwater takes on my pain now
And I slake all the shame from my brow
For to spin in a sad fog no longer
Been a sin to have maundered about so long
So long
So long
So long
Too long
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8. |
Calling Out
04:24
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A ring and an answer older than time
A belle and boxer proposing to fight
Zip up your pocketbook and don't lose your phone
I wanna call you tonight
Wear the right stones and cast the right spells
You never can tell on a high holy day
He had a different word for the light
And so the child was then sent away
Calling out
I wake my father
Calling out
I am innocent
Calling out
To protect you
Calling out
I see what I spent
So put to good use your limited voice
What you can't say, don't imply
Everything you are, nothing superimposed
In case the moon or the blackbirds fall out of the sky, and
Floating and ready, I reach my hand
Into my head and throw that thought away
Right now in Daphne as sure I breath
Every swimming thing crawls out of the bay, and
Calling out
I tell you I love you
Calling out
Aglow in the night, and
Hold on tight with open arms to what belongs to you
You need to learn to count past one and I do too
With the shrillness of a playground the dewed blades at night
For crime's sake were trodden in flight to the sea
Now bow to the canvas and take your leave
Hold the space and give the receiver to me
Calling out
I hear an answer
Calling out
What have I done?
Calling out
I see my mother
Calling out
Nearly home
Calling out
I wake my father
Calling out
I am innocent
Calling out
To protect you
Calling out
Now I see what I spent
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9. |
The Fire and the Rose
02:56
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You damn the time you’re doubting
You will think it is forever long
And it is only now
Upon the hour I call to right the wrong
Push uphill against the day
Hold your breath now clinch your hands
And no sooner than you say
“No more and thank you”, the lesson lands
In the dark time of the year
It began to fall asunder
The ease and wonder
And I’ve seen the changes
Waylaid by all the gainsaying
Muy bueno, stranger
The fire and the rose are one
Some take a swig or ten
Some taking pills. Some take it on the chin
Taking heart and then
Start taking heed within. Take to giving in
Darling, you offer all the love
A man could need to be at one
With all that moves and all that shines
And the well it all comes from
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of the which tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error
And no abomination
For all their cage of shame has done
They have not contained us
And the fire and the rose are one
Dance along the remaining salient (The fire and the rose are one)
To playfully unveil the pennant (The fire and the rose are one)
Be it plainly stated
The fire and the rose are one
For my love of an unchained Australian
The fire and the rose are one
The fire and the rose are one
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Yeah, New York invented me trenchant
Come across more than one
Stood in my way with nothing to say
So give over to my calling, it’s done
I have come open
And gone out of line
Scorned the reasons
Borne the time
And we are even
And I am leaving you all
Not far behind
Let me know what you find
Clamoring into the mountains
Incensed and unsound
Fortune give way…what more can I say?
In the cold, in the dark, upside down
I have been a given
I have been torn
Come to find that I
Ignored the warnings
And it cost me
Put one across on me
Hungry alone
In the deep end of the ocean
‘Til I begin again to bloody breathe
Two for you and three for me
As it was in the beginning
Death hath no dominion
Calling out, “¿A qué sabe la luna?”
Full-on and full grown
Well underway
Much more to say
Your luminous eyes to have shone
I have known Love
I have known Death
You learn to rise above
You don’t hold your breath
Unless you mean to
And she has seen you
Through the fire
And she has seen you through the fire
And she has seen you clean through the fire
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11. |
What Comes Next
03:01
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Well, if you think the Civil War’s over my friend
Well, you ain’t really payin’ attention now
Four score and seven years ago October
They come a run on the banks, y’all
So you pull each other up, pull together
All for one. One for all
What comes next? What came before?
They grow the grapes of wrath and go to war
Stay on board…such a long way to shore
What comes next? What came before?
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation
Corporate reavers taking after Ayn Rand
Hold the sway…aim it at the politicians
The bank isn’t like a man
There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize
Even if it overflowed the ocean
And mark well the pith and moment of the enterprise
Mark that last full measure of devotion
What comes next? What came before?
They grow the grapes of wrath…go to war
Stay on board…such a long way to shore
What comes next? What came before?
You know the final score of World War IV
Is we all tie at zero
Have you ever tasted money señor?
No quiero comer el dinero
What comes next? What came before?
Grow the grapes of wrath and go to war
Stay on board…such a long way to shore
What comes next? What came before?
Will what comes next be what came before?
Grow the grapes of wrath and then they go to war
Hard to stay on board, but it’s a long way to shore
If what comes next be what came before
Yeah, what comes next?
Will it be what came before?
Hey, what comes next?
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Bret Mosley Melbourne, Australia
Veteran road warrior Bret Mosley crafts a potent blend of Americana, blues, and soulful folk. His introspective and emotional sound features stirring vocals, intricate lap slide work, and a stomping groove. His new album "Through the Fire" chronicles his transformative journey to Australia, showcasing resilience and triumph, with a mix of tender ballads and rocking Americana. ... more
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