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Prelude
00:53
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Ain't it all for naught if it ain't all for love?
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Iconoclast
01:48
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The statues I built, they’re all falling down
My ghosts have been roaming all over town
The future that I was so sure would last
I tore it all up, iconoclast
Changed my address and I changed my name
Made my escape in the pouring rain
All my old haunts in the rearview glass
I don’t haunt them no more, iconoclast
I watched from the outside, the spreading fire
Thought my feet free from the miles of mire
But I’m just as flawed and my sins as vast
So hand me a match, iconoclast
So hand me a match, iconoclast
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Let Love
03:54
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Have you ever felt the wall
Of a city that won’t let you in
Drowning out your deepest call
With reminders of your darkest sin
Am I out, am I inside
Am I blind, am I blind to see
That the face of the empire
Can look a lot like me
Let love move upon my heart, no quarter
Let love get around my walls, no border
Move all my statues away, I need to see my idols break
Let love move upon my heart
Have you ever tried to talk
But the powers went and got your tongue
The ladder that they put you on
It only has a bottom rung
Do I stop, do I listen
When the voices are not my own
Are we in three dimensions
People, can we bring this home
Ashes under feet as we walk around
Scars ain’t healed from the last time we burned down
Who then are we gonna be now
Could we give up what we know
If it begins to make us whole
For heaven’s sake let love advance
Unless you’ve got better plans
I know what the future holds
Let me give it to you plain
You and I are gonna stroll
Where the streets don’t even have a name
Let me give it up now
Go on and bring all my statues down
Let love move upon my heart
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Other People
04:28
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Often I forget other people are people too
Have mercy on me, have it mercy on me
Sing it again, sing it again
‘Til your heart’s on muscle memory
It’s second nature to love
Oh, the arms I love, let me lay them down
‘Til the arms of love hold a neighbor now
Lord have mercy
If this is my way, reverse me
‘Til a lost soul is found
Often I forget other people are people
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Don’t know what to tell you
Heart like a propeller
Did you get the message, send you little texts
Hearts now in my eyes for you
Look around this city
Home if you are with me
Never knew the street well, never heard the beat well
Til I met the one that I need
Ooh ooh (and the light is on again)
Don’t know what to tell you but love
Ooh ooh (and the light is on again)
Cat done got my tongue, could you be the one
Don’t know what to tell you but love
Yeah we knew the fire, Then we knew the tired
Coffee in the holder, babies on board
Gas light is on again
They tell me what I’m missing
But baby, this is living
Yeah we got worries, Yeah we got cares
But now just let me stare at you
Oh I think we made it
And girl I wouldn’t trade it
This funny little life we know
It’s only getting harder
But we’ll laugh until fall down
Cause riches ain’t made of gold
No
And God I didn’t know
God I didn’t know you would be so beautiful
And I'll sing it once more...
I don't know what to tell you but love
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6. |
No Filter
03:40
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I could've had you
I could’ve had you, no filter
Been looking through kaleidoscopes when you gave me the world
We could've had you
We could’ve had you, no filter
Been looking through kaleidoscopes when you gave us the world
Ain’t it all for naught
If it ain’t all for love
And you know it ain’t easy
And we’ve got so far to go
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7. |
Sorry Not Sorry
04:06
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I can see a new road
This one ain’t got a name
Don’t belong to any land
There’s a lyric, how’s it go
Get on out the new way
If you can’t lend a hand
You told us to leave things better than we found
Here’s a match, we need to burn this down
Sorry I can't stay, my heart is breaking
Not gonna win the day
Can’t believe I’d say, “I feel like losing”
But I ain’t gonna lose my way
Everybody, where you at?
Put someone on your back
Lord knows we can’t stay here
You told us to leave things better than before
So show me love my showing me the door
Sorry not sorry, I can’t stay any longer
Join me, anyone can come
I’m still hearing the words of my father
“Child, we’re no better than anyone”
Sorry not sorry, I can’t stay any longer
Join me, anyone can come
I’ll be singing the words of my father
“Child, we’re no better than anyone”
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Horizons
03:37
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All my might, give it for another’s day
Heart just try, make it til I see your face
Lord, sometimes, I never felt a better ache
Pray me Godspeed, I’m coming your way
Oh, Oh
Whenever I see my city over horizons
My heart go oh, oh
Honey, I see my city, I’m home
Forgive me if I’m silent
You can close your eyelids
I’ll be staying up on the cloud I’m on
I will enjoy this til I’m gone
Whenever I see my city over horizons
My heart go oh, oh
Honey, I see my city, I’m home
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9. |
The Love Chapter
03:37
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Ain’t it all for naught if it ain’t all for love?
(How’s it go?
Love is patient, love is kind
Love leaves all records behind
But if you’re keeping tabs hope the records will find
That love poured out of these records of mine, let’s get it)
I heard it once at a wedding
Things I could keep on forgetting
I look a little bit closer
Some of it’s kinda upsetting
How can I give love if it’s not love I’m getting
Ain’t it a gamble, never been one for betting
Man it feels like I’m wasting time, Otis Redding
Gotta get off the dock, I don’t think I’m ready
Then I heard in a song “ain’t it all for naught
If… it... ain’t all for love?”
If you love me back, it’s easy enough
But can i keep going when the going gets (tough?)
If we don’t agree, brother, can I give my deference
If we’re enemies then can you be my preference
Remember that thing ‘bout the good Samaritan?
The one who just kept on walkin, he was a reverend
So do I love people more than rules
Ideals v. humans, think i gotta choose
Could I trample a soul just to sample control
This ain’t a game, so I think I gotta lose
And the concept of giving up
Doesn’t make sense when you just can’t get enough
Cup runneth over but my neighbor can’t get a cup
Venti in my hand and it just ain’t big enough
Marvin sang it, “what’s going on?”
After so many years, such a knowing song
We listen but we don’t hear, we just go along
And we can’t make it right, when no one’s wrong
So let the fires of love
Let the fires of love, let the fires of love
Consume, burn up what we thought love was
Cause this is what we’re learning now
Idols over vitals, God, this is how we’re turning out
If we wanna be salt, we gotta turn around
So let... love… burn it down
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10. |
Lost
04:26
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I don’t know the language anymore
It’s like I can't speak without running into walls
Has it ever been this bad before
Still I can’t shake the feeling of hope when it calls
I found God where I never thought
Where I never thought he was
Magic in the margins, dancing in the storm
I found God was what I never thought
What I never thought and more
(Closer now than I was before)
Welcome to the night of the soul
Are you so lost, where you’ve never been before
Refugee, take my hand, are you so lost
That makes two of us
Remember when we owned the halls
All of the sudden you don’t recognize them anymore
Have you ever been outside looking in
Oh it’s crazy making when your hearts low
You might feel misplaced now but your on the road
You found God where you never thought
Where you never thought she was
Magic in the margins, dancing in the storm
You found God was what you never thought
What you never thought and more
(closer now than I was before)
I’m finding streams in the wasteland
I’m hearing music from a heart of cold
I’m seeing flowers from the concrete
I want to be one of those
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11. |
City Water
03:21
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City water flowing underneath my feet
Running ‘round inside of me, it's in my blood
What I want now, what in the world you offering
All your silver and gold can’t buy me enough
What I want is to be healed
A broken heart is all I got
And I’ll wear it on my sleeve
To belong on these streets we walk on
City water flowing underneath our feet
Broken threads of history, broken hearts
Only love, only love can make us whole
Rend our fences and let us know who we are
What we want is to be healed
Broken hearts are all we got
And we’ll wear them on our sleeves
To belong on these streets we walk on
Wash my feet with city water
Until my heart is clean
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When will I learn that right and wrong
Can’t save a soul
Do I believe that a human heart
Is worth more than gold
We traded the sky for the mirror
The nations left us in the cold
We looked to laws and opinions
To capture what can’t be controlled
Did we ever find what we were looking for
Did we ever feel that we should be more
This could be the age
This could be the age of love
Can we unlearn what we think that we know
Can we let it step all over our toes
This could be the age
This could be the age of love
What about the chains we shackle
Can we take off
What about the planes we travel
Can we take off
What about the vain disguise
Can we take off
What about the pain in your eyes, ain’t it also mine
What are we doing here (Somebody say)
This could be the age
This could be the age
This could be the age
This could be the age
Somebody’s waiting for a kind word from you
If it isn’t wrapped in love then it don’t contain the truth
I’m tired of the violence and the hiding, I’ve had enough
Maybe it’s all for naught if it ain’t all for love
And I'm tired
And I'm sorry
Did we ever find what we were looking for
Did we ever feel that we should be more
This could be the age of love
Can we unlearn what we think that we know
Can we let it step all over our toes
This could be the age
This could be the age of love
If we're tired and we're sorry
This could be the age
This could be the age of love
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Ross Wright Richmond, Virginia
Ross lives in Richmond VA, where he writes pop songs about the human condition and the mysteries of love.
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