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tentative jamaica memories playlist... with lyrics.
1. people look around -- catie curtis
Mississippi River divides this land in two,
Like the way we tend to think of things;
Black and white, red and blue.
If they can keep us fighting about marriage and God,
There’ll be no one left to notice if the leaders do their jobs.
And the truth is bigger than these drops of rain, falling.
The truth is bigger than these drops of rain,
Falling in the ocean, falling…
When the water is rising and there is no higher ground,
You can wave your hands up on the roof,
But you might be left to drown.
In the streets of New Orleans; a makeshift funeral pall,
Here lies Vera, God help us all.
And the truth is bigger than these drops of rain, falling.
The truth is bigger than these drops of rain,
Falling in the ocean, falling…
Jesus said, “Feed the hungry,” Jesus said “Help the poor,”
“ Take care of each other love one another,”
People look around.
We let them down.
Mississippi River flooded New Orleans,
And we stared in disbelief at our TV screens,
If they can keep us fighting another endless war,
How many tears before the truth cannot be ignored?
And the truth is bigger than these drops of rain, falling.
The truth is bigger than these drops of rain,
Falling in Lake Pontchartrain.
Falling in the ocean, falling…
2. Let It Be Me -- Indigo Girls
Sticks and stones
Battle zones
A single light bulb
On a single thread for the black
Sirens wail
History fails
Rose-colored glass
Begins to age and crack
While the politicians shadowbox
The power ring
In an endless split decision
Never solve anything
From a neighbor's distant land
I heard the strain of the common man
Let it be me
(This is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(Not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
Shine my life like a light
Well the world seems spent
And the president
Has no good idea
Of who the masses are
Well I'm one of them
And I'm among friends
We're trying to see beyond
The fences in our own backyards
I've seen the kingdoms blow
Like ashes in the winds of change
But the power of truth
Is the fuel for the flame
So the darker the ages get
There's a stronger beacon yet
Let it be me
(This is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(Not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
Shine my life like a light
In the kind word you speak
In the turn of the cheek
When your vision stays clear
In the face of your fear
Then you see turning out a light switch
Is their only power
When we stand like spotlights
In a mighty tower
All for one and one for all
Then we sing the common call
Let it be me
(This is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(Not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
Shine my life like a light
3. Hey Girl -- Garrison Starr
What makes you think
You gotta hold
The world on your shoulders
And handle that load
Who gave you
The fine tooth comb
To judge your every move
Before you’ve even started to make one
Hey, girl
It’s a beautiful day for flying
Don’t you want to open your eyes
You’re dying
Subtle was the way
The clouds rolled in on you
To fog up your windows
And darken your view
An unforgiving face
Who dared you to escape
Living for the chance
To scare you back in place
Hey, girl
It’s a beautiful day for flying
Don’t you want to open your eyes
Hey, girl
It’s a beautiful day for flying
Don’t you want to open your eyes
You’re dying
It’s no way to live safe
All wrapped up in my fears ti’l I just suffocate
I will get through if it’s the last thing I do
4. Take It In -- The Waifs
Now she's thinkin' of the red soil and the mango trees
But in her mind she is splashing 'round down on Cable Beach
And her eyes, they are as rich and faraway as the sunset there
She's not taking in one word I say
I might as well be talking to myself
Take it in, take it all in
Now is the time that will not come again
Take it in, take it all in
This is the day and it's here for the living
And we stepped outside into the Melbourne weather
With a shock it brings her back to where she is
Well, we've made this place our home
Surrounded by the unknown
We'll try to stick it out until it comes together
We're only living for a day to come or some days gone by
You're never taking in each moment
Never knowing what you had until it passed you by
It'll pass you by
5. In the Sun -- Joseph Arthur
I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in
May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you
I know i would apologize if i could see your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself i became someone else
But i was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake
May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you
'Cause if i find
If i find my own way
How much will i find
If i find
If i find my own way
How much will i find
You
I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
'Cause i been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me
May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you
6. Ooh Child -- Beth Orton (for the newborn baby girl at blossom garden)
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will be brighter
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will be brighter
Someday yeah, we'll put it together and we'll get it all done
Someday when your head is much lighter
Someday yeah, we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much brighter
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will be brighter
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will be brighter
Someday yeah, we'll put it together and we'll get it all done
Someday, when your head is much lighter
Someday yeah, we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday, when the world is much brighter
Right now, right now
You just wait and see
How things are gonna be
You just wait and see
How things are gonna be
You just wait and see
How things are gona be
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will be brighter
7. Love Takes the Best of You -- Catie Curtis (part of my dream for the blossom garden kids)
I didn't know your mother
But this is what I have been told
That she cried and she cried
When she gave you up at three days old
She was from the countryside in Cambodia,
A farmer's wife with too many mouths to feed
She wanted you to see a better life
Love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
Love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
Now you don't look like me
And baby we don't look like you
But our love is so complete
It don't matter eyes are brown or blue
There are people in this world
Who won't understand this family
We'll protect you where we can
Sometimes you'll have to stand and help them see
'Cause love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
Love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
Every night when I watch you sleep
I want to watch over you forever
Keep you safe with me
And I wish I could promise you a beautiful world
That would never break your heart
Maybe that's what we are here for
We try and fix what comes apart
Love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
Love takes the best of you, Love takes the best of you
8. One Love -- Sister Hazel (how i feel about the west haven kids)
We are just children understand
We're two in a million the precious grains of sand
We slip through the fingers dancing on the wind
We find each other
One you - one me
One chance for us to live
One heart - one soul
One life for us to give
One dream - one mind
One sky up above
One you - one me
One love
One love
A star made a wish on us tonight
Hangin' out in heaven inspired by our light
She knows how it feels to shine on all the world
And last forever
Surrender all your battles
It's only love that makes us matter
We are all the possibilities
As endless as our imagination
9. Slowing Down for the Silence -- Katie Reider
10. Don't Lay Down -- Catie Curtis (for marlon)
Don't lay down if you're gonna fall alseep
Don't lay down if you're gonna lose me
'Cause I'm with you pulling for a miracle
I'm with you pulling for a cure
I know that you isn't what they're giving you
But I'm with you taking some more so
Don't lay down
Don't give up gently
Don't give in to what they say will be
I'm not ready to lose you
I'm not ready to see
Your light shining on the ocean
Your love swimming in the sea so
Don't lay down
Let's go down and watch another night fall
Someday darkness is gonna find us all
So don't lay down
Don't lay down
Don't lay down, hey hey
Don't lay down
Don't lay down
Down
Don't lay down
11. Anything Anywhere -- Melissa Ferrick (for trish, for tony, for nokee, for marlon, for christopher, for dijory...)
I want you
To know me
To need me
Smile when I call your name
I want you
To never
Look at
Anyone else this way
So strange
This something
We have between us
And it's not fair
If you've never
Loved this way
Anything, anywhere
I would give everything I own away
Always I will sing
Picturing you singing right back to me
I want you
To know that
I will always have you
No matter if never
Physically in my arms again
This love
Is like
Mercury
Splitting off
Endlessly
Every time I try
To nail it down
Anything, anywhere
I would give everything I own away
Always I will sing
Picturing you singing right back to me
Too bad
The best love hurts so much
But it's so good yes
The best love hurts so much
Anything, anywhere
I would give everything I own away
Always I will sing
Picturing you singing right back to me
Anything, anywhere
I would give everything I own away
Always I will sing
Picturing you singing right back to me
Sing it right back
Sing it right back
Sing it right back
Back to me
Anything ... Anywhere
Anything ... Anywhere
Anything ... Anywhere
Anything ... Anywhere
12. Hard Time With Goodbyes -- Catie Curtis (for the last afternoon at west haven)
The world is turning so slowly, it is turning nonetheless
Every day another ending through the pine trees to the west
So we say goodbye together when it's time for movin' on
Make the world a little better pass some love along
But I have a hard time hard time hard time movin' on
The world is turning so slowly turns the future to the past
Turns the ocean like a carousel flowing waves and waves of glass
But I can't feel it move beneath me so every ending's a surprise
I can't feel these changes coming, I have a hard time with goodbyes
I have a hard time hard time hard time with goodbyes
We are turning so slowly, I hope we're turning for the best
May we move toward love in our quest for happiness
And may we lift up each other, as on a moonlit summer night
cause we are all in this together turning underneath the sky
and I have a hard time, hard time hard time
hard time hard time hard time
hard time hard time hard time with goodbyes
13. Best I'll Ever Be -- Sister Hazel
I miss you
I miss being overwhelmed by you
And I need rescue
I think I'm fading away
But I keep thinking that you'll wake me up with a whisper in my ear
I keep hoping that you'll sneak in my room
So I wait and I wait
And I run old scenes through my tired head
Of the days we laid by the school and said forever
Was that the best I'll ever be
I miss you
I miss talking all night long with you
And I need this to find a way to your home
My love can you hear me
Have I been hoping loud enough, wishing hard enough
Can you see me when I'm asleep all alone - alone
So I wait and I wait
And I run myself in the same old circles
I sit and I stare
And I run old scenes through my tired head
Of the days that we laid by the school and said forever
Was that the best I'll ever be
Can't keep my hands from shaking
Stumbling through the wreckage again
But you're gone
So I wait and I wait
And I run myself in the same old circles
And I sit and I stare
And I run old scenes through my tired head
Of the days that we laid on our backs and said forever
Was that the best I'll ever be
Was that the best I'll ever be
Was that the best I'll ever be
14. You Know Where to Find Me -- Matthew West
I saw your sky fall down today
Suddenly turn from blue to gray
'Til one by one the raindrops
Turned to tears upon your face
Wish there was something I could do
Wish I could ease the pain from you
But I've never felt so helpless
It's like you're drowning right in front of me
And I'm reaching out but you can't see
There's something holding on to you so tight
So I guess this is all I'll say to you tonight
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I will be waiting
Where I've always been
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I have never left you
I'm where I've always been
Right by your side
Right by your side
If the whole wide world is on your back
If the strength you need is the strength you lack
If you're in a crowd but all alone
If you can't stay here but you can't go home
If you can't answer all the whys
'Cause you're too tired to reach that high
I want you to remember
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I will be waiting
Where I've always been
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I have never left you
I'm where I've always been
Right by your side
Right by your side
If the whole wide world is on your back
If the strength you need is the strength you lack
If you're in a crowd but all alone
If you can't stay here but you can't go home
If you can't answer all the why's
'Cause you're too tired to reach that high
I want you to
I need you to remember
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I will be waiting
Where I've always been
If you ever need me
You know where to find me
I have never left you
I'm where I've always been
Right by your side
Right by your side
15. World Spins Madly On -- The Weepies
Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on
Everything that I said I'd do
Like make the world brand new
And take the time for you
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn
And the world spins madly on
I let the day go by
I always say goodbye
I watch the stars from my window sill
The whole world is moving and I'm standing still
Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
The night is here and the day is gone
And the world spins madly on
I thought of you and where you'd gone
And the world spins madly on.
16. Strange Cup of Tea -- Sister Hazel
Sometimes I wake with a weary head and
I wonder how I'll ever get through
Then I think of the things you said
how you told me to my self be true
My faith in things unseen,
My belief that it'll all work out
May seem like a strange cup of tea,
but if its all right with you than it all
Right with me
Oh my feet I walk, with my legs I run
In my arms I'll hold another day
With my head I think, from my heart I sing
And with my hand to my face I pray
There's times I feel with the stains of life
I could just turn around, turn around walk away
Then a strength like a beam from above
lifts me up by the hand and it leads me to say
Good things for good people you see
good things they seem to all work out
May seem like a strange cup of tea but
if its all right with you well then its all right with me
Oh my feet I walk, with my legs I run
In my arms I'll hold another day
With my head I think, from my heart I sing
And with my hand to my face I pray
Getting by ain't enough for me
I know what I like I like what I see
I'm not only flesh and blood but
I'm heart and soul I know
Sometimes I feel at the end of the day
was it worth while or have I settled for less
I sit back and your there by my side sincerely you say,
we're both so blessed
Count your blessing count them one, two, three
don't give up cause it'll all work out
It may seem like a strange cup of tea but
if it's all right with you, it's just fine with me
Oh my feet I walk, with my legs I run
In my arms I'll hoild another day
With my head I think, from my heart I sing
And with my hand to my face I pray