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Millennial
02:53
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We fill our notebooks up with hope
Plan out how our life will unfold
Only three more years of school to go
Dreaming that we’ll find a pot of gold
This is the dawning of our lives
But we’re in debt up to our eyes
Is this the cost to be alive?
A slave to bills until we die.
Now we fill our backpacks up with clothes
Buy a ticket to Mexico
Only two more months of work to go
Praying that we find our souls
Yeah we fill our backpacks up with clothes
Take a trip to a land unknown
Only one more week of work to go
Praying that we find our souls
Before we have to go back home
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2. |
Forest Green
03:39
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My mind was an unripened plum
Fertilized by violence, grown in the slums
My pulse was a muted drum
Absorbed by the pavement, heard by none
But my heart was a forest green
Sustained by the rivers that I chase in my dreams
I run through the fields dressed in white
Unstained by the poison that leaks from my mind
My legs were tethered and bound
Set free by the pieces of wisdom I found
My skin grew calloused and rough
Built up by the voices that said I wasn’t enough
But my heart is a forest green
Sustained by the rivers that I chase in my dreams
I run through the fields dressed in white
Unstained by the poison that leaks from my mind
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going
Keep going
My heart is a forest green
Sustained by the rivers that I chase in my dreams
I run through the fields dressed in white
Unstained by the poison that leaks from my mind
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Why are you holding on
to what you know is gone?
You know it wasn't meant to be
Both knees are on the floor
You reach out your hands for more
Like the shoreline trying its best to hold onto the sea
People are water they need to be free
They need to explore more where they want to be
We cannot be keepers of anyone's key
We have to love in a way that sets them free
And darling believe me there will come a time
When the earth will shake and the stars will align
And you won't have to beg for anyone's time
So trust and believe everything will be fine
People are water
Let 'em be
Let it breathe
Let it leave
What are you crying for?
You know the world is yours
And what is meant for you will be
So loosen up your grasp
Everything's not meant to last
Let the rising tide withdraw and go back to the sea
'Cause you see
People are water they need to be free
They need to explore more where they want to be
We cannot be keepers of anyone's key
We have to love in a way that sets them free
And darling believe me there will come a time
When the earth will shake and the stars will align
And you won't have to beg for anyone's time
So trust and believe everything will be fine
People are water
Let 'em be
Let it breathe
Let it leave
People are water
Let 'em be
Let it breathe
Let it leave
People are water they need to be free
They need to explore more where they want to be
We cannot be keepers of anyone's key
We have to love in a way that sets them free
And darling believe me there will come a time
When the earth will shake and the stars will align
And you won't have to beg for anyone's time
So trust and believe everything will be fine
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4. |
Love Doesn't Fade
02:58
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Travelled through the universe
I think I’ll take a shot at earth again
It’s a planet of so much hurt
But you said we’d meet back up again
When you first looked in my eyes
I was paralayzed
It’s like I met you at another time
You have a different name
But you are still the same
Love doesn’t fade
On my own for all these years
A couple falls, a couple tears again
A couple times I moved too fast
But none of them would ever last, amen
When you first looked in my eyes
I was mesmerized
It’s like I met you in another life
You have a different face
But you are still the same
Love doesn’t fade.
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Knelt down by the water
She told me I am the soil’s daughter
And although I look just like my father
My roots they extend much farther
But we don’t respect each other
Although we depend on one another
And if we don’t form a band of brothers
Our strength will remain uncovered
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
We are the echoes of those before us
And all our stories they form a chorus
Our stage is the earth below us
But we destroy it till she can’t hold us
So let us travel into the forest
To see without it then there is no us
Become protectors of the waters
‘Cause they will nourish our daughters
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
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