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Trust
03:15
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Today we stand — today we’re matter of fact
Dreams upon our sleeves, with our open hearts intact
Today we swear — up, down, and all around
To watch for perspective, to listen for the sound
What does the morning mean with tomorrow yet unseen?
All I can do is trust in you
All I can do is believe
All I can say is that’s the way I feel the sun
That’s because you are the only one
Tomorrow stands still for us to see
All we can imagine — everything to be
Yesterday falls helpless into the sea
Burned only to learn a piece of history
But what does the morning mean
With tomorrow yet unseen?
Ever to be gentle
Ever to be so kind
Ever not to never mind
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My Romance
02:54
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There is a blind communication from the heart
There is a time for two to make a brand new start
On a work of art
Empathic lines, drawn on the canvas of our lives
Now entwine
Here today I give you my romance
All my love, all of the time
I don’t want for nothin’ else but this slow dance
Or need a full moon in the sky
I give you dedication without hooks or strings
Just like a declaration of life’s finer things, in a golden ring
Day after day, like soul mates we shall light the way
Let us play...
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Justice
04:30
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What would you do for justice?
What would you do for love?
What would you do for money?
Oh, how much is enough?
Do you think you could strive for survival?
Do you think you could lie for a friend?
Why should I pay for denial?
Or someone’s impossible ends?
Do you want justice now?
I’m standing in line at the scene of the crime
For some justice now
I’ll wait in the hall till you give me justice for all
So you think I should find some forgiveness
You think we can all make amends
Well I’m tired of playing the witness
In a system that only pretends
To strike down those rabid proclaimers
And cast them all under the wheel
I’ve had enough of those crooked campaigners
And enough of this “Let’s make a deal.”
I’ve seen the smoke in the distance
And I’ve seen the script on the wall
Money breaks down all resistance
And the truth don’t mean nothing at all
It don’t mean nothing at all
Do you want justice now?
Bring it on justice now
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Jack’s a man who hasn’t much to say
He wonders how his life became
Such a complicated game of self-defense
Things were different in the old days
When every last detail made perfect sense
So he’ll switch on the TV — something has to change
To find the reason why he’s feeling so strange
Living in the house that Jack built
I’m not hitching my wagon to a star
I’m not gonna push it too far
I’m just happy living in the house that Jack built
Jack had been a child who sailed by the stars.
He could see into tomorrow
He could be the man upon the moon
He built the castle walls around us all
But Camelot was far too much too soon
So he pointed the ship directly out to sea
To win the race — to climb to the top of the tree
Can we see the small connections?
Between Jack, yourself, and me?
Problems sent in opposite directions
Answers much more complicated
Than they really need to be
I was just your average little boy
Acting out my imagination
Now I am the king of my back yard
Use my mind to judge my feelings now
And try to do the thinking with my heart
I found the secret locked in space and time
A grand illusion, simple as the rhythm and the rhyme
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Sophia's Eyes
04:52
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I saw her standing alone
A mystery unknown
Quiet in the evening air
Walking through the old town square
And past the fountain of youth
I hope she speaks the truth
All across the palace grounds
Her timeless beauty still resounds
And I would move a mountain
Across the great divide
Dig a well clear down to hell
For a chance to look into Sophia’s eyes
I followed her blue smile
Through Istanbul for a while
All around Sultanahmet
Oh, what I see I can’t forget
There behind the palace gate
I thought I sealed my fate
Her eyes caught mine for a moment’s time
On the bank of the Golden Horn
It must have been near dawn
Her face looked on then she was gone
Oh, I would build a temple
A monument in my mind
Now I have seen the eastern dream
On the night I looked into Sophia’s eyes
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Green
03:33
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Every day I see the prophets and pretenders
Every day I get a little bit more confused
Times are hard when the truth is the exception
And times are hard when I’m standing in my shoes
They say it’s all for the better
It’s time to stop the rain
But I know it ain’t gonna stop until everything’s green
We’re gonna keep the planet green
White picket fence around the green
It’s all we’ve got in common
It’s all we’ve got to say
What can you do for the man who has everything?
And what do you say to the man who would be king?
Living in his ivory tower
I watch him fall to the ground
But I know I can’t stop climbing till I got enough green
The life of luxury is green
God trust in my green
It’s all we’ve got in common
It’s all we’ve got to say
What do we know about the true price of victory?
And what’ll we do if it’s too high a price to pay?
But now it’s two for the money
Don’t let your feelings show!
Just come on, get your cameras ready
While we all turn green
My eyes are turning green
While the bank is burning green
It’s all we’ve got in common
It’s all we’ve got to say
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Declaration
03:33
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When the words come out easy, when it’s easy to say
When the feeling is natural, then I mention away
I lay down my heart and soul for you
There has never been a flower ever open so wide
Nor electrical storms run down the telephone line
I cannot hold back with you — all I say is true
This is my declaration
When I think about the future I get carried away
I am blinded by the sunshine of the thunder and rain
No one else compares with you
What else can I do?
But give you my declaration of my inspiration
There’s a fire that burns without a flame
I carry a candle in your name
Be all that you want to be
I want you to see that
This is my declaration
In my fascination
There’s a hand that fits inside a glove
I could spend my life —
And I want to spend my life —
In love with you
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Wall to Wall
03:42
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A billion names I’ll never know
I watch the population grow
Falling from the sky into the depth of despair
Standing on the shore I see
A flowing sea of humanity
Adrift into tomorrow with their hands in the air
One more child from the call of the wild until it’s gone
One more day — we can wish it away
But we can’t go on
Living wall to wall
A billion faces have you seen them?
Build a thousand walls between them
Fortified by hatred and the fear of change
And all the places near and far
Wish upon an eastern star
Burning with the fever of a holy crusade
See how they run — like rats in a maze
Everybody says, those were the days
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Blues and the Blue Sky
03:54
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Heaven knows what I’ve been told
Hell’s not far behind
Promises we’ve all been sold for a long time
Cries of pain from a frightened child
Fall upon deafened ears
Numb from playing god through all these cold years
Step into her shoes then try to decide
If there ain’t no right to choose
It must be alright to die
And we’re caught between the blues and the blue sky
Images of a broken world
Of some forgotten sand
I asked the man upstairs to help me understand (I said)
Where have all the flowers gone?
What of hopes and dreams?
He said, “It don’t matter if you just believe”
Visions of tomorrow fall on blinded eyes
Fended off with yellow words and black lies
Wake the sleeping elders now — stand them all in a row
Please take your seats as we begin the show
Here we go!
And we’re caught between the blues
Fighting for the right to choose
We’re caught between the blues and the blue sky
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Great Big World
03:09
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Move in close and you will see
Pieces of the essential me
There is a place inside me I’ve been hiding
There behind my smile
All I ask is please just listen a while
I come from a mysterious land
And I’ve watched fantasy dance on the sand
Believing the sun would rise on some horizon
I’ve known all along
Now I fear it’s gone
Remembering all of the days gone by
And all of the times you’ve waited for me to arrive
And enter the great big world
You say my expectations cannot be reality
I say that’s okay ‘cause I know you want to stay with me
Making history
Oh — enter the great big world
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Lay Me Down
04:28
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Sometimes I cry, then I feel nothing at all
I was afraid to die, to tumble off of the wall
My life was free and clear, didn’t want for nothing
But now I live in fear — my time has turned to suffering
Lay me down
Let me go my own way
Let me lie in silence
Set me free with dignity
Please won’t you lay me down
Missiles are flying, high on the winds of war
Millions are dying, god only knows what for
And then there’s science keeping the sick and tormented alive
Let’s slay the lions and give the humans freewill to decide
Wipe the water from your eye
You have to let me die, and
Lay me down
Hope I see you someday
Give me peace and quiet
Lay me down
Let me go my own way
Let me lie in silence
Set me free with dignity
Please won’t you lay me down
I’d like to believe
I’d love to be sure you’re there for me
But I won’t grieve
If there’s no afterlife after all
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Sultan's Pyjamas
03:44
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This is the place you wake up
This is where your mother, she will stand
The empire breaks up and everything must go as planned
This life of luxury
And all that stands before you now has no flexibility
With best laid plans to bore you
And if you live a thousand years
You can walk these halls alone
Find the childhood they stole
Take a look and see — the sultan’s pyjamas
Within these harem walls
You’ll find the scores to serve all night
Wives, odalisques, and whores
But you must learn to ‘make it’ right
And if you live a thousand years
You can scale these walls of gold
Find the childhood they stole
Take a look and see — the sultan’s pyjamas
Someday you’ll turn to sand
Right here inside the golden cage
And never understand
What becomes of the golden age
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Time to Say Goodbye
03:41
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With all the things I know
It’s still so hard to grow
And here we both are standing on the eggshells
The truth might set you free
But that don’t mean a thing
If east and west can never come together
Now it’s time to say goodbye
It’s too late for you and I
Intention’s not enough
To break a skin so tough
Or change a grain of sand inside an oyster
But I’ll be safe and sound
Inside my brave surround
Holding up my ego with my pride
Now it’s time to say goodbye
We’ve got to face the final ride
And it’s much too late for you and I to change our lives
It’s time to say goodbye
Goodbye...
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Pawlie Santa Barbara, California
Pawlie’s original brand of acoustic/electric music draws upon rock, jazz, folk, and progressive
influences.
Album releases include Pawlie (1994), The Small Time (1998), Little Green Man (2011), and An Ape’s Progress (2021).
Pawlie lives in Santa Barbara with his wife Libby, and their pampered feline, Penny.
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