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spanish lessons
03:22
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O España
How many times have you erred?
Tilted at windmills, ran head-long at phantoms
It all comes tumbling down
O España
What did you learn from El Papa?
Blood for appeasement, burning and torture
Autosdafés all around
It all comes tumbling down
Have you sinned, have you stumbled
Have you learned what it means
To be beyond your means
O España,
Cristobal sailed for la rena
Brought empire and riches, spices and sickness
A women, a storm and it's done
O España,
What did you learn from Franco?
Bullets and bombers, paintings and peasants
We failed you, we failed you, we did
Have you sinned, have you stumbled
Have you learned what it means
To be beyond your means
O España
What can I learn from your sins?
Hubris is fatal; look ever outward
Forgiveness is heavy, but still
O España
How many times have I erred?
Tilted at windmills, ran head-long at phantoms
It all comes tumbling down
I have sinned, I have stumbled
I have never learned what it means
To be...
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elegy for industry
03:40
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I am a wounded stone split down to the core
I know my mother green can't handle any more
I feel the ocean move as the moon it fades to day
I sing a crystal tune your flames will burn away
Rest in peace your destiny I dream
On the hill of Calvary I build a wooden tower
And from that height I can see the folly of your power
All this weight I cannot bear, the ardor of your fumes
From poplar boughs with blossoms white I forge my sword – a plume
Rest in peace your destiny I dream
One day I will see your fate a-gleam
Hippocratic oaths forsworn: first, you do no harm
The blood of innocents to spill keeps the Devil warm
And on your passing to the black we dance and drink and sing
And on your tombstone rolled away we fashion flowered strings
Rest in peace your destiny I dream
One day I will see your fate a-gleam
One day I will set your fate on fire
Rest in peace your destiny: a pyre
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possuo
03:33
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peace is rest
04:07
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there is a saying
but don't say it 'round here
it's just in the way we were raised
there is a silence
in the people 'round here
it's just in the way we were raised
but go to the west & ask the setting sun
she will put you on her knee
& ask her the words that we all say mum
those words will set your spirit free
peace is rest, she will say
this song will end
peace is rest, she will say
this song must end some day
there was a wise man
but don't say his name
he lived on top of that hill
he loved virtue
so we hated him
he lived & died on that hill
but go to his tomb & roll away the stone
the angels will sing you this tune
& ask them his name - you already know
this wisdom they will croon
peace is rest, they will say
this song will end
peace is rest, they will say
this song must end some day
there is a saying
but don't say it 'round here
it's just the way we were raised
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I asked my lover, "What do you need?"
Love me just a little bit more
I told my children, "You can have what you please."
Love us just a little bit more
I asked my neighbor, "What do you seek?"
Love me just a little bit more,
& I will find what I need
Do you hear that keening? Our dreams to us call.
Love them just a little bit more
A grand celebration is all that we need
To share our love just a little bit more
We are the ones that we've been waiting for
We will love just a little bit more,
& we will find what we are looking for
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6. |
little amsterdam
04:24
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ampersand Atlanta, Georgia
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