eJewel Lyricse

 

Spirit

Deep Water
What's Simple is True
Hands
Kiss The Flame
Down So Long
Innocence Maintained
Jupiter
Fat Boy
Enter From the East
Barcelona
Life Uncommon
Do You
Absence of Fear
This Little Bird


1.  Deep Water
When you find yourself falling down / Your hopes in the sky but your heart like grape
gum on the ground / And you try to find yourself / In the abstractions of religion
and the cruelty of everyone else / And you wake up to realize / Your standard of
living somehow got stuck on survive // And when you're standing in deep water /
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw / When you're drowning in deep water
/ And you wake up making love to a wall / Well it's these little times that help to
remind / It's nothing without love // When you realize your only friend / has never
been yourself or anyone who cared in the end / That's when suddenly everything
fades or falls away / Cause the chains which once held us are only the chains
which we've made // When you're standing in deep water / And you're bailing
yourself out with a straw / When you're drowning in deep water / And you wake
up making love to a wall / Well it's these little times that help to remind / It's
nothing without love , love, love / It's nothing without love // We've compromised
our pride / And sacrificed our health / We have to demand more / not of each
other / but more from ourselves // When you're standing in deep water / And
you're bailing yourself out with a straw / When you're drowning in deep water /
And you wake up making love to a wall / Well it's these little times that help to
remind / It's nothing without love, love, love / It's nothing without love / It's nothing
without love /


2.  What's Simple Is True
Turn to me with frozen lips / Your hands are icy cold / Your eyes burn bright against
the frost-bit sky / You never seemed more lovely than you do tonight / Pale on the
horizon / Like leaves frozen in the snow / Our two shadows merge inseparably / Will
time stand still if it's pierced with cold / The more I live / The more I know / What's
simple is true / I love you // There's a warmth in my heart / It haunts me when
you're gone / Mend me to your side and never let go / Say "Time knows nothing,
we'll never grow cold" / The more I live / The more I know / What's simple is true
/ I love you // Twilight descends on our silhouette / How soon spring comes / How
soon spring forgets / I wanna hold time, say it'll never begin / Old man winter be
our friend / Old man winter be our friend / 'Cause the more I live / The more I know
/ What's simple is true / What's simple is true / I love, I love you /


3.  Hands
If I could tell the world just one thing / It would be that we’re all OK / And not to
worry ‘cause worry is wasteful / And useless in times like these / I won’t be made
useless / I won’t be idle with despair / I will gather myself around my faith / For
light does the darkness most fear / My hands are small, I know / But they’re not
yours, they are my own / But they’re not yours, they are my own / And I am never
broken / Poverty stole your golden shoes / But it didn’t steal your laughter / And
heartache came to visit me  / But I knew it wasn’t ever after // We’ll fight, not out
of spite / For someone must stand up for what’s right / 'Cause where there’s a man
who has no voice / There ours shall go singing  // My hands are small I know / But
they’re not yours, they are my own / But they’re not yours, they are my own /
And I am never broken // In the end only kindness matters / In the end only
kindness matters // I will get down on my knees, and I will pray / I will get down
on my knees, and I will pray / I will get down on my knees, and I will pray // My
hands are small I know / But they’re not yours, they are my own / But they’re not
yours, they are my own / And I am never broken // My hands are small I know /
But they’re not yours, they are my own / But they’re not yours, they are my own
/ And I am never broken / We are never broken / We are God’s eyes / God’s hands
/ God’s mind / We are God’s eyes / God’s hands / God’s heart / We are God’s eyes
/ God’s hands / God’s eyes / We are God’s hands / We are God’s hands /


4.  Kiss The Flame
Please love let's make no impartial vow / Let all fall away / That's not crucial now
/ I want a brave love, one that makes me weak in the knees / I want a crazy, crazy
love / One that makes me come undone at the seams // 'Cause I'm tired of all these
pilgrims, these puritans, these thieves / Of all these unbelievers who whittle love
down at the knees / Let these swift roads destroy themselves / Let the world fall
into its sleep / For we shall be spared // We shall be left standing / To face what's
left of concrete and honey // Kiss the flame / Let's run with the hunted, the
untamed / Kiss the flame / Embrace the faceless, the unnamed / Kiss the flame
// There are nightmares on the sidewalks / There are jokes on TV / There are people
selling thoughtlessness / With such casualty / But wherefore art thou Romeo /
Where have all the brave men gone / Show me one man who knows his own heart
/ To him I shall belong // Kiss the flame / Let's run with the hunted, the untamed
// Kiss the flame / Embrace the faceless, the unnamed / Kiss the flame / Kiss the
flame / Kiss the flame // Please love let's make no impartial vow /


5.  Down So Long
Sun sets 'cross the ocean / I'm a thousand miles from anywhere / My pocketbook
and my heart both just got stolen / And the sun acts like she don't even care / The
wind blows cold when you reach the top / It feels like someone's face is stuck to
the bottom of my shoe / I got a plastic Jesus, a cordless telephone for every corner
of my room / Got everybody but you telling me what to do / But I've been down so
long / Ooh, it can't be longer still / I've been down so long / That the end must be
drawing near / I look to everybody but me to answer my prayers / 'Til I saw an
angel in a bathroom who said she saw no one worth saving / anywhere / And the
blind man on the corner said it's simple, like flipping a coin / Don't matter what side
it lands on if it's someone else's dime / But I've been down so long / Ooh it can't be
longer still / I've been down so long / That the end must be drawing near // I take
a trip, I catch a train, I catch a plane /  I got a ticket in my hand / And then a fat
man takes my money / And like cattle we all stand / But we've been down so long
/ Ooh it can't be longer still / We've been down so long / The end must be ... / I
know the end must be ... / Oh, I know the end must be drawing near // Bridge
Repeat / Scat Section /


6.  Innocence Maintained
Ophelia drowned in the water / Crushed by her own weight / Hitler loved little blue
eyed boys / and it drove him to hate / Birds always grow silent before the night
descends / Cause nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend / A
heroes torso built of steel and novocaine / His heart a bitter beat inside a bloodless
frame / There was hole inside his soul a manicure could not fill / So he found himself
a whore to love / While daisies choked in the window sill // We've made houses for
hatred / It's time we made a place where / People's souls may be seen and made
safe / We must be careful with each other these fragile flames / Innocence can't
be lost it just needs to be maintained // A small town in Ohio, two boys are filled
with violence / And night spreads its legs for hate and ignorance / We are given to
a God to put our faith there in / But to be forgiven we must first believe in sin /
We've made houses for hatred / It's time we made a place where / People's souls
may be seen and made safe / We must be careful with each other these fragile
flames / Innocence can't be lost it just needs to be maintained // I want to live
bravely, and love without fear / I want always to feel the wings of grace near / We
all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say / we are that to which we pray //
We've built houses for hatred / It's time we made a place where / People's souls
may be seen and made safe / We must be careful with each other these fragile
flames / Innocence can't be lost it just needs to be maintained /


7.  Jupiter
Venus de Milo in her half-baked shell / Understood the nature of love very well /
She said "A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon, It makes you so
crazy you want to swallow the moon." / Oh, oh Jupiter / Oh, oh be still my little
heart / Oh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tame // Take these stars from my
crown / Let the years fall down / Lay me out in firelight / Let my skin feel the night
/ Fasten me to your side / Say it will be soon / You make me so crazy, baby / Could
swallow the moon // My hands are two travelers they've crossed oceans and lands
/ Yet they are too small on the continent of your skin / Wandering, wandering I
could spend my life / Traveling the length of your body each night // Oh, oh Jupiter
/ Oh, oh be still my little heart / Oh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tame //
Take these stars from my crown / Let the years fall down / Lay me out in firelight
/ Let my skin feel the night / Fasten me to your side / Say it will be soon / You
make me so crazy, baby / Could swallow the moon / Swallow the moon // Oh, oh
Jupiter / Oh, oh be still my little heart / Oh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tame
// Take these stars from my crown / Let the years fall down / Lay me out in firelight
/ Let my skin feel the night / Fasten me to your side / Say it will be soon / You
make me so crazy, baby / Could swallow the moon / Swallow the moon / Swallow
the moon / Swallow the moon /


8.  Fat Boy
Fat boy goes to the pool / Sees his reflection, doesn't know what to do / He feels
little inside and filled with pride / Oh, fragile flame / No one sees the same // Fat
boy goes about his day / Trying to think of funny things to say / Like, "This is just
a game I play" / And, "I like me this way" / Oh, fragile flame / No one feels the
same // Hush, sleep, don't think, just eat / You're daddy's little boy / You're mama's
pride and joy / You know they love ya / But not because they hold ya // Fat boy
says, "Wouldn't it be nice /  If I could mealt myself like ice / Or outrun my skin and
just be pure wind" / Oh, fragile flame / Sometimes I feel the same /


9.  Enter From The East
I went out a'wandering / Beneath an unknown dky / The heavens all shook violently
/ He caught my eyes / Strange fruit fell / It struck me to the core / My heart
became a single flame / It wanted nothing more / Stranger, enter from the east /
Stranger, step inside this place / Oh, and own me, own me // The clock became
a bullet hole / Cruel and unkind / It hurt me with it's second hand / Alone another
night / Stranger, enter from the east / Stranger, step inside this place / Oh, and
own me, own me // Blue, is that you? / Well, don't bother knocking on my door this
time / Blue, go be true for someone else / There's no room inside this heart of mine
/ My heart has four empty rooms / Three wait for lightning / And one waits for you
// I must have you all to myself / Feel the full weight of your skin / I'll hollow out
my insides  / To place you in / Stranger, enter from the east / Stranger, step inside
this place / Oh, and own me, own me /


10.  Barcelona
Barcelona where the winds all blew / And the churches don't have windows / But
the graveyards do / Me and my shadow are wrestling again / Look out stranger,
there's a dark cloud moving in / But if you could hear the voice in my heart it would
tell you / I'm afraid I am alone / Won't somebody please hold me, release me / Show
me the meaning of mercy / Let me loose / Fly, let me fly, let me fly // Super
paranoid, I'm blending, I'm blurring, I'm bleeding into the scenery / Loving someone
else is always so much easier / But I hold myself hostage in the mirror / But if you
could hear the voice in my heart it would tell you / I'm tired of feeling this way /
God, won't you please hold me, release me / Show me the meaning of mercy / Let
me loose / Let me fly, let me fly, let me fly // I won't be held down, I won't be
held back / I will lead with my fath // The red light has been following me / But
don't worry mother / It's no longer my gravity / Hold me, release me / Show me
the meaning of mercy / Let me fly, let me fly, let me fly /


11.  Life Uncommon
Don't worry mother, it'll be alright / And don't worry sister, say your prayers and
sleep tight / It'll be fine lover of mine / It'll be just fine // Lend your voices only to
sounds of freedom / No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free
from / Fill your lives with love and bravery / And you shall lead a life uncommon //
I've heard your anguish, I've heard your hearts cry out / We are tired, we are weary,
but we aren't worn out / Set down your chains, until only faith remains / Set down
your chains // And lend your voices only to sounds of freedom / No longer lend your
strength to that / which you wish to be free from / Fill your lives with love and
bravery / And you shall lead a life uncommon // There are plenty of people who pray
for peace / But if praying were enough it would have come to be / Let your words
enslave no one and the heavens will hush themselves / To hear our voices ring out
clear / With sounds of freedom / Sounds of freedom // Come on you unbelievers,
move out of the way / There is a new army coming and we are armed with faith /
To live, we must give / To live // And lend our voices only to sounds of freedom /
No longer lend our strength to that which you wish to be free from / Fill your lives
with love and bravery / And we shall lead ... / Lend our voices only to sounds of
freedom / No longer lend our strength to that which we wish to be free from / Fill
your lives with love and bravery / And we shall lead a life uncommon /


12.  Do You?
Hey, you say you like the way the cowboys tip their hats and say, / "How's it goin'
ma'am?" / But you're never quite clear if their glares are sincere / Or really only just
second hand / To you it's all roses, it's a lavender haze / The man is a marvel, but
it's a shame about his brains / But that's OK / You say "He's got straight teeth and
it's good sex" / You look to the sky / You look to the man / You claim innocence
and not to understand / Or do you, do you? // There's a big man wearing a white
suit and patent leather shoes / He wants to take his monkeys to see the kids at
the zoo / 'Cause the gypsy on the corner said, / "Hey, Mister you can't lose," /
Add it's your first day at the track / You feel that heat on your back // We all want
to fnd a way to beat the system / Find some rhythm in the madness // Get down
on your knees and pray / Say, "I'll do whatever you want, God / Just let me have
my way" / Well will you, will you? // Come on all you merry men / Rally your cry /
Dance with the devil for tomorrow we'll surely / Hey, hey blow the men down //
You with all your cigarettes and cool stares / Filled with blank stares and loaded
regrets / Just like the girls today with nothing to say / No more pigtails and pony
rides / They're sophisticated / They sip on lattes / And have their eyes on a bigger
prize / We shake our fists and say, "Well good golly we're mad / That God kills
children with our very own hands" / We claim innocence and not to understand /
Or do we, do we? // Come on all you merry men / Rally your cry / Dance with the
devil for tomorrow we'll surely / Hey, hey blow the men down / Blow the men down
/ Hey /


13.  Absence of Fear
Inside my skin there is this space / It twists and turns / It bleeds and aches / Inside
my heart there's an empty room / It's waiting for lightning / It's waiting for you /
And I am wanting / And I am needing you here / Inside the absence of fear //
Muscles and sinew / Velvet and stone / This vessel is haunted / It creaks and
moans / My bones call to you / In their separate skin / I make myself translucent
/ To let you in, for / I am wanting / And I am needing you here / Inside the absence
of fear // There is this hunger / This restlessness inside of me / And it knows that
you're no stranger / You're my gravity // My hands will adore you through all
darkness aim / They will lay you out in moonlight / And reinvent your name / For
I am wanting / And I am needing you here / I need you near / Inside the absence
of fear /


This Little Bird
(John D. Loudermilk)
There's a little bird somebody sent / Down to the earth to live along the wind /
Blowing on the wind / And she sleeps on the wind / This little bird, somebody sent
// Light and fragile / And feathered sky blue / Thin and graceful / The sun shining
through / She flies so high up in the sky / Way out of reach of human eyes // Light
and fragile / And feathered sky blue / Thin and graceful / The sun shining through
/ She flies so high up in the sky / Way out of reach of human eyes / Light and
fragile / She's feathered sky blue / Thin and graceful / The sun shining through /
And the only time that she touches ground / Is when that little bird, little bird /
Is when that little bird, little bird / Is when that little bird, little bird dies



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