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Heaven Below
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| 1. | All the World is One | All the World is One
You can say that you stand apart Put a fence around your yard You can build a tall rampart and guard it with a gun You can dig yourself a moat Burn the bridge and burn the boat It won't matter that much, you know Because all the world is one, all the world is one You can march in a big parade Every Independence Day You can raise up your own flag and sing your own anthem It will ring out in the air With all the other anthems there Till the winds of the earth declare All the world is one, all the world is one Go and ask the Buddha when he's sitting under the tree Go ask Walt Whitman when he's looking out at the sea Ask Alan Shepard when he's standing up on the moon Staring at that pearl of blue Ask an atom in the breath you take Ask the water by the river bank Ask a strand of DNA--it's written in your blood One life running in your veins One light from one big bang You can try and separate it But all the world is one, all the world is one Go and ask the Buddha when he's sitting under the tree Ask Annie Dillard when she's up on Tinker Creek Ask Alan Shepard when he's standing up on the moon Staring at that pearl of blue You can take an outbound train Try and make a get-a-way You can ride off like John Wayne into the setting sun But earthlings don't leave town They just go round and round Until they figure out All the world is one, all the world is one All the world is one |
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| 2. | Ordinary Day | Ordinary Day
I’m standing on a planet, breathing in the atmosphere Waves vibrating in the air are beating on my ears Invisible forces are holding me down I am spinning faster than the speed of sound I’m being bombarded by electromagnetic beams Flying through my body, shining red and blue and green A hundred million signals are racing through my brain I guess it must be just another ordinary day I live in eleven dimensions, seven more than I can see Where matter equals light and I am made of energy It’s all expanding from one microscopic grain I guess it must be just another ordinary day CHORUS: An ordinary day for me and Captain Kirk Every fact is so absurd In this science fiction world An ordinary day in the merry Land of Oz The psychedelic Mind of God The phantasmic Universe There’s a giant black hole in the center of the galaxy There’s a blueprint of my bones in every single cell of me And everything with weight is warping time and space I guess it must be just another ordinary day CHORUS: An ordinary day for Mad Hatters having tea Oompa Loompas making sweets In this Williewonkeality And ordinary day for alarm clocks that beep And shake me from my sleep So I can wake up in this dream Just another ordinary day |
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| 3. | Brand New | Brand New
She traveled here not long ago Straight from the great unknown And being from that land of dreams She seems to glow She has a lovely two-tooth smile She’s just barely two feet high And words are still beyond her reach She can't speak, but every day CHORUS: She'll say to you The world, the world is new And you'll look and you'll see it's true The world is all brand new She points at birdies in the sky Waves at people passing by And nearly everything she sees She tries to eat She makes you want to sing a silly tune And dance a jig around the room And when she giggles in your ear You hear your heart laugh too CHORUS: So proclaim the news that the world The world is new Every day, every day it’s true The world is all brand new |
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| 4. | Do You Really Want to Know | Do You Really Want to Know
The sun once went around the earth According to the holy church Which helped to reassure People that they were The center of the universe One day his holiness, the Pope Met a man with a telescope And said “hey Mr. Galilei What does your spyglass say? And the scientist spoke….he said CHORUS: It’s really quite amazing Entirely life-changing So let me ask before I show you— Do you really want to know? Emma read the bible for direction She said she was a child of heaven And that the human race Came from a higher place From the angels descended She wound up marrying her cousin He was a thinker of a husband Lost in thought, she’d find him And say “Charlie, what you writing?” Darwin looked up and said CHORUS: Do you really want to Let knowledge like a breeze In through the door of your belief Blow through the rooms and the corridors Knock cherished heirlooms to the floor That wind can raise the roof sometimes And leave you blinking at the sky So if you stare into this glass Beware that there’s no going back You’ll say “Sun Rise!” but it will refuse Instead, the earth itself will move And spin you ‘round from dawn to dawn Amid the wonder of it all Do you really want to know? |
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| 5. | Nobody Asks | Nobody Asks
Nobody asks to be born They just show up one day at life’s door Saying here I am world I’m a boy, I’m a girl I am gay, I am straight, I am poor But nobody asks to be born No one is given a say They’re just thrown straight into the fray The bell rings at ringside And someone yells “fight!” And some just end up on the floor Nobody asks to be born And no one’s assured Of a grade on the curve Or a friend they can trust Or a house where they’re loved And no life includes A book of how to Because nobody has lived it before So to all the living, be kind Bless the saint and the sinner alike And when babies arrive With their unholy cries Don’t be surprised by their scorn Because nobody asks to be born |
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| 6. | Church of the Earth | Church of the Earth
The ceiling is high To let your soul rise Up to the angels who teach you to fly And when you're weary of clouds It helps you back down And welcomes you home To this hallowed ground CHORUS: It's gilded in gold, gilded in rust For heaven below and heaven above The heaven we know here in this world Here in our holy church of the earth The windows are wide So darkness and light Mystery and Beauty meet you inside And there's room enough To hold all of us Who gather in friendship Gather in love CHORUS: Church of life Ancient and bright Life that inside us shines Life that we share This is our prayer That we may always find The heaven we seek Here at our feet Here in this sunrise In this heartbeat CHORUS: |
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| 7. | The Hat Song | The Hat Song
Blame it all on JFK, that's what my dad would say He never wore a hat and so that fashion went away And now my dad's old felt brim doesn't see the light of day But there's a little hat shop that just opened down the road A friend of men's heads everywhere--a little ray of hope Championing what Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra know She will adore ya in a Fedora You'll be the right guy in a Pork Pie You'll make her heart stir in a Homburg So don't ever be a hatless man You'll stand up straighter, find your swagger So suave and debonair, you'll have savoir fare And catch admiring eyes when you're walking by So don't ever be a hatless man It's time again for gentlemen, for A clean and press, a cut and shave And a good shoe shine Dignified men Civilized men It's time to put that nice hat Back on the president So together Let's get measured At that shop downtown You go black and I'll go brown We'll snap that brim in place Tap the rim and say Don't ever be a hatless man No, never be a hatless man |
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| 8. | The Garden | The Garden
The Cherub and the Virgin Mary The Buddha and the Garden Gnome All the back yard statuary Talked in Spring of how things grow Buddha said "from compassion" Mary said "the Lord above" Gnome replied "it must be magic" Cherub sighed "it must be love" And it rained then, in the Garden And they all stood round And witnessed in stillness And listened to that lovely sound Then St. Francis in the corner Spoke up at the gathering "Peace", he said, "is most important Peace for all the living things" And the stars burned, and the earth turned And the sun shone down And they knew then, in the garden Life was stirring in the warming ground And St. Francis stood entranced as Cherub watched, beguiled Gnome's hands lay on his sharp spade Mary gave thanks And Buddha smiled |
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| 9. | Singing a Song | Singing a Song
We know this river always keeps flowing We will be rowing our whole lives long And we may never know where we're going But we can go there singing a song Just like a mother to a child she's holding Just like a soldier marching along Just like the faithful on Sunday morning Raising our voices, singing a song CHORUS: Eyes will shine but not as bright Arms will hold, but not as tight When a word is only spoken So give it feeling, give it rhyme Play it in four quarter time Sing it with a heart wide open Sing of the beauty right there beside you Bring it inside you, making you strong So that when trouble comes round to grieve you Still it will leave you singing a song CHORUS: And may the music of life overtake us Till angels mistake us for a heavenly throng And may that joyful sound be our shelter And find us together, singing a song We'll be together, singing a song |
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| 10. | Japanese Bowl | Japanese Bowl
I’m like one of those Japanese bowls That were made long ago I have some cracks in me They have been filled with gold That’s what they used back then When they had a bowl to mend It did not hide the cracks It made them shine instead So now every old scar shows From every time I broke And anyone’s eyes can see I’m not what I used to be But in a collector’s mind All of these jagged lines Make me more beautiful And worth a much higher price I’m like one of those Japanese bowls I was made long ago I have some cracks you can see See how they shine of gold |
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| 11. | Tandem Life | Tandem Life
We'll have coffee in the mornings And we'll always talk the time away As we're watching the day dawning on the lake We will wear skis through Januarys Raincoats beneath rainy April skies And we'll gaze at June upon a two-seated bike CHORUS: And when you move, I will too I'll lean left, I'll lean right with you Whatever road we ride And I will love you in our tandem life We'll have good friends and children Two beautiful baby boys We'll have laughter and sadness and joy And we will fly these streets When we find our feet Turning right together in time And I will be in your heart And you in mine CHORUS: |
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| 12. | The Rainbow | The Rainbow
Up and down the countryside Underneath a lucky sky Whistling a foolish song I've been walking madly on I bought into it long ago The story of the pot of gold But lately in my troubled sleep I'm haunted by another dream CHORUS: I dream I reach the end of the journey I've been on And all I finally find is a smiling leprechaun So I ask a wee impatiently, "tell me have you seen a pot of gold? And he says “have you seen the rainbow?” Have you seen the colors gleam And shimmer on a silent sea? Have you seen the colors shine Brightly in another's eyes? Have you seen a firefly, have you seen a lark? Have you seen the light burning in your beating heart? Have you seen the way the morning glows? Have you seen the red and green and gold? Tell me, have you seen the rainbow? Up and down the countryside You can see me hurry by Passing diamonds on the road Just to find a pot of gold CHORUS: |
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