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Voices Rising
03:46
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Erase the words you wrote
They'll erase the tongue you spoke
If it's a sound loud enough to hear through centuries of fear
Whose voice is rising?
The culture has its king
Oh it's been boiling just beneith
He sang to the pain it's bring those good days back again
Call it tax not tithing
But it is all of us
who will sit on the back of the bus
We're all on here for the ride it's everybody pick a side
distract us from who's driving
With all the facts and proof
let's head up to the roof
wondering if they don't believe or they have just that much greed
The water's rising
They're going to play those cards again
You were born into your sin
While money rules the war machine send the soldiers back again
to keep this country thriving
But we can not fall into despair
watching moths to the flame of all they burn
We will not abandon truth and love
We will call their names while we still have the words
It feels too big to overcome
when you're standing there as one
What is the freedom song they told us we had so wrong
to stop our organizing
So they can't erase the words we wrote
can't erase the tongue we spoke
Make a sound loud enough to hear through centuries of fear
It's our voices rising!
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2. |
Heart to Transcend
04:29
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Here each day he sat
growing old and cold with his cats
looking out at a country spiraling to hell
from his porch on the hour with his cigarette
He thinks of his first wife
tells himself he does not miss that life
To go back to those hallways back to those hills
rolling out from the highways rumbling waves of goodbyes
Cause when you come from a place from the first day
You can never outrun, can not erase
You will always pretend that you choose the end
while you search for the heart to transcend
In the summer heat
playing war with the kids on the street
Lucianno broke his arm and stopped the game
so they all made a brace with the surrender sheet
They had both made it home
so he took the news like a stone
packed up his car took a pill for the pain
drove away from the faces and closets of bones
Cause when you come from a place from the first day
You can never outrun, can not erase
You will always pretend that you choose the end
while you search for the heart to transcend
He went in his sleep
heart gave out to the long slow beep
Then all of the pain fell from his face
as he dreamt he dove into the deep
They all filed by
shook their heads and they closed their eyes
Purple heart pinned as his final grace
It's been holding all of the lost goodbyes
And laid to rest down by his feet
the broken cats no one could keep
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3. |
Battle Songs
04:07
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Autumn twilight chilled through standing your guard
till the moon in the sky takes the tears from your eyes
and turns them to oceans of stars
Little captive safe in grass by the stream
In the warmth of the day you can wish it away
in the arms of an angel that sings
I'll stay with you through the night
I will be here through the winter
Never give up the fight
I'm with you always
Scarlet letter study the word for your soul
But the school yard jeers are all you can hear
and the whispers are all you can hold
Like wind running if for a moment you flew
you'd just crash to the ground how they all take you down
lose the angel's been singing to you
I'll stay with you through the night
I will be here through the winter
We must never give up the fight
I'm with you always
It's your sad heart's been singing
while you've been walking it off for years
Angel keep on bringing
all of the words that you need to hear
battle songs to calm the fear
Wounded soldier always the next drop to numb
from the burning remains it was never explained
why you never thought to run
It's every day now tales worn like a record through
There's no city named peace no day of release
just the songs that you sing to yourself in a room
But we sad hearts need your singing
cause we've been walking it off for years
Angel keep on bringing
all of the words that we need to hear
Battle songs to calm the fear
Battle songs to conquer fear
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4. |
Destroyer
03:01
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Have you heard of the destroyer
Instinct for survival knows that
they are all coming to get you
God is watching every move
Soldiers know of the destroyer
Echo in the sounds, that pack of hounds
stalking the days and nights
of those strong and brave and true
How you witness the destroyer
venom in the bloodstream.
it’s a memory that has latched on
and then the poison flows and flows
Rid me of the destroyer
Deafening cacophony
Oh peace be with me now
please show me how to make the demons go
You must shake its hand shake its hand shake its hand
When you first walk in on the destroyer
How the stench will burn your nose,
in your morning honeysuckle
how I smell death in your blooming rose.
Acknowledge the destroyer
These ghosts will take your site
and leave you blindly walking out there
through the minefield of your life
You must shake its hand shake its hand shake its hand
Take on what you can and then one day go shake it’s hand
See the vast destruction out there
on the city corners
See the pain passed down you thought you saw it
No ones ever going to call it
All on you you’re the destroyer
All the ways you choose to kill the memories
that have latched on
and then the poison flows and flows and flows.
The destroyer. The destroyer
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5. |
There is a Right
04:34
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I must not know what love is
still I can't get over it
I've only got myself to blame
I held my tongue and built my cage
saw it as he walked away
I sold myself too cheap again
If I wrote down everything that I hear
If I've always held the reasons why
I could bring the meaning to the lost years
If I am the wrong there is a right
When every word still bleed with loss
could I cut the roots and walk
on strangers playing at family
I learned I was a thing to take
I learned my ways to escape
I learned what I needed to be
If I wrote down everything that I hear
If I've always held the reasons why
I could bring the meaning to the lost years
If I am the wrong there is a right
With all the fables painted black and white
If I learn to sing my pain
take the fear I'll fall again
and wear it like a medal on my chest
I can walk the edge of all I know
hold the darkness and the glow
and carry on the truth for all the rest
If I wrote down everything that I hear
If I've always held the reasons why
I could bring the meaning to the lost years
If I am the wrong there is a right
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6. |
Finally Free
04:20
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You were saved again
when he walked in like it was a sign
you fell together like a rhyme
and you could sing the harmony
Carried it down
from the moment you began to bend
always thought that you had to pretend
he was singing in key
When he called you out
you were always one to go along
Played it safer as the one who's wrong
on his side of the line in the sand
Cause every wrong turn made
it was you who walked into the trap
and now you can never take it back
or keep it from happening again
You've been standing just in the doorway
It's always been open but you could not see
you're going to learn of all the beauty you've been holding
cracked open and shining you are finally free
Well you climbed so high
and you can see the valley floor
but you can't live there anymore
no more lonesome in the pine
But every night you dream
of when you washed up from the war
Take another of the pain you poor
if we'll never leave it behind
You've been standing just in the doorway
It's always been open but you could not see
you're going to learn of all the strength you have been holding
cracked open and shining you are finally free
You have been a stranger all of your life
carrying the pieces toward the promise you'd arrive
lay down the heavy sorrow of the past
You are free at last!
Close your eyes and lift your face up to the sun
Forgive all of the things you've done
to survive this road
Do you recognize
the soul you thought you lost at sea
now polished by the storm debris
It is a seed of hope
You've been standing just in the doorway
It's always been open but you could not see
you're going to learn of all the joy you have been holding
cracked open and shining you are finally free
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Tara Shupe Salt Lake City, Utah
A lifetime immersed in bluegrass, old-time, and American roots music influences the multi-instrumental Tara Shupe in her
thoughtful arrangements of old-standards and originals.
Starting first on mandolin at age 4 then taking up fiddle, guitar, and recently banjo throughout her extensive career,
Tara's first solo album features her strong instrumentation on achingly personal, yet timely songs.
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