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Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be, no
Where did all the blue skies go
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east
Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be, no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas
Fish full of mercury
Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be, no
Radiation underground and in the sky
Animals and birds that live nearby are dying
Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand
Oh mercy me
Oh mercy me
Oh mercy, mercy, mercy me
Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be
No, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mercy, mercy me
Things ain’t what they used to be
Mercy
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Listen and hear each word
Stop or you’ll miss the birds
They sing in the top of the trees
Sometimes when you look you can’t see
But up there you will know that it’s round
You’re living too close to the ground
Come where the lights are grand
Leave now without a plan
You can get away if you choose
Confess it, you’ve nothing to lose
And I can show you where it’s found
You’re living too close to the ground
Rush so you’ll pass it by
Don’t let it catch your eye
Don’t stop, you might look a fool
Standing with love in your eyes
Trying hard to believe what you’ve found
You’re too close to the ground
I once held her close to me
Listened and heard her breathe
Just like I’ve done all my life
Her heart was the image of mine
But my wings just couldn’t be found I was living too close
Living too close to the
Living too close to the ground
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In Tall Buildings
03:23
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Sometime my baby when I am a man
And others have taught me the best that they can They’ll sell me a suit
Cut off my hair
And send me to work in tall buildings
And it’s goodbye to the sunshine Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
Going to work in tall buildings
When I’m retired and my life is my own
I made all my payments, it’s time to go home
And wonder what happened betwixt and between When I went to work in tall buildings
And it’s goodbye to the sunshine Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
Going to work in tall buildings
Goodbye to the sunshine Goodbye to the dew Goodbye to the flowers And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
Going to work in tall buildings
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The Logical Song
03:07
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When I was young it seemed life was so wonderful
A miracle, it was beautiful, magical
All the birds in the trees they were singing so happily
Joyfully, playfully, watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, responsible, practical
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Clinical, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world’s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am
I said watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical
A liberal, fanatical, a criminal
Won’t you sign up your name
We’d like to feel you’re acceptable
Respectable, presentable, a vegetable
Oh take it, take it, take it, yeah
There are times when all the world’s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am Who I am
Who I am
Who I am
Cause I was feeling so
Feeling so
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I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
I try and I try and I try and I try
But I can’t get no
When I’m driving in my car
And a man comes on the radio
Telling me more and more
About some useless information
Try to fire my imagination
But I can’t get no
Oh no, no, no, no, no
Hey hey
That’s what I say
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no true reaction
I try and I try and I try and I try
But I can’t get no
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no true reaction
I try and I try and I try and I try and I try
But I can’t
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Virtual Insanity
05:09
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It’s a wonder men can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells will be doing for us
I’m giving all my love to this world only to be told
I can’t see
I can’t breathe
No more will we be
Nothing’s gonna change the way we live
We can’t always take but never give
Now the things are changing for the worse, see
Oh it’s a crazy world we’re living in
And I just can’t see the half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give
These futures made of virtual insanity
Always seem to be governed by the love we have
For useless, twisting of their new technologies
Now there is no sound for we all live underground
And I’m thinking what a mess we’re in
It’s hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the earthly ties that earthly man has made
Now every mother can choose the color of her child
That’s not nature’s way
That’s what they said yesterday
There’s nothing left to do but pray
I think it’s time we find a new religion
Oh it’s so insane to synthesize another strain
Something in these futures that we have to be told
Futures made of virtual insanity
Always seem to be governed by the love we have
For useless twisting of their new technologies
Now there is no sound for we all live underground
There is no sound
For we all live underground
In virtual insanity
Forget your virtual insanity
Nothing so bad
Nothing so bad
Nothing so bad
Nothing so bad hmmm
Living in virtual insanity
We’re living in virtual insanity
Living in virtual insanity
We’re living in virtual insanity
Virtual insanity is what we’re living in
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Losing My Religion
04:24
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Oh life is bigger
It’s bigger than you and you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I said too much
I set it up
That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don’t know if I can do it
Oh no I said too much
I haven’t said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
Every whisper
Of every waking hour I’m choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no I said too much
I set it up
Consider this
Consider this the hint of the century
Consider this the slip
That brought me to my knees, failed
What if all these fantasies are
Flailing around and now I said way too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that i heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream Try, cry, why, try
That was just a dream
It was just a dream
Just a dream, dream
That was just a dream
Try, cry, why try
That was just a dream
It was just a dream
It was just a dream, dream
It was just a dream
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Can't Buy Me Love
03:02
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I’ll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
Get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
I don’t care too much for money
Money can’t buy me love
I’ll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
May not have a lot to give, but what I got I’ll give to you I don’t care too much for money
Money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can’t buy me love, no no no no no
Say you don’t need no diamond ring and I’ll be satisfied
Tell me you want those kinds of things that money just can’t buy
I don’t care too much for money
Money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can’t buy me love
No no no no
Say you don’t need no diamond ring
I’ll be satisfied
Tell me you want those kinds of things that money just can’t buy
I don’t care too much for money
Money can’t buy me love
Can’t buy me love
Love
Buy me love
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Don’t you know talking about a revolution sounds like a whisper Don’t you know talking about a revolution sounds like a whisper While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don’t you know talking about a revolution sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs
Poor people gonna rise up and get their share
You know you better run run run run run run run run run run run run
I said you better run run run run run run run run run run run run
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking bout a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking bout a revolution oh
While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don’t you know talking bout a revolution sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know talking bout a revolution sounds like a whisper
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin bout a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin bout a revolution, oh
Talkin bout a revolution
Talkin bout a revolution, oh
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A World Without Love
03:10
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Please lock me a way
And don’t allow the day here inside
Where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
Birds sing out of tune
And rain clouds hide the moon
But I’m okay, here I’ll stay with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
So I’ll wait and in a while
I will see my true love smile
It may come, I know not when
When it does I’ll know, but until then
Lock me away and don’t allow the day
Here inside where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
So I’ll wait and in a while
I will see my true love smile
It may come, I know not when
When it does I’ll know, but until then
Lock me away and don’t allow the day
Here inside where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay
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Society
03:45
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It’s a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
You think you have to want more than you need
’Til you have it all you won’t be free
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me
When you want more than you want, you think you need
And when you think more than you want
Your heart begins to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
‘Cause when you have more than you think
You need more space
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me
There’s those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how are you keeping score
Means for every point you make your levels drop
Kinda like you’re starting from the top
Can’t do that
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, have mercy on me
Hope you’re not angry if I disagree
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely
Without me
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Idé werewere ni'ta Oshún idé werewere
Idé werewere ni'ta Oshún idé werewere nita ya
Ocha kiniba ni’ta Oshún cheke cheke ni’ta Oshún Idé werewere ni’ta ya
Idé werewere ni'ta Oshún idé werewere
Idé werewere ni'ta Oshún idé werewere nita ya
Ocha kiniba ni’ta Oshún cheke cheke ni’ta Oshún Idé werewere ni’ta ya
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The Bare Necessities
03:01
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Look for the bare necessities
Simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Mother nature’s recipes
Simple bare necessities of life
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I couldn’t be fonder of my big home
Bees are buzzing in the trees to make some honey just for me
If you look under the rocks and plants
And take a glance at the fancy ants, then try a few
The bare necessities of life will come to you
Look for the bare necessities
Simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
It’s why a bear can rest at ease
With just the bare necessities of life
Look for the bare necessities
Simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Mother nature’s recipes
Simple bare necessities of life
The simple bare necessities of life
The simple bare necessities of life
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Under African Skies
03:53
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Joseph’s face was as black as night
And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked by the stars in the southern hemisphere
And he walked his days under African skies
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
Oh this is the roots of rhythm and roots of rhythm remain
In early memory mission music was ringing round my nursery door
I said take this child Lord from Tucson, Arizona
Give her the wings to fly up in harmony and she won’t bother you no more
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
Oh this is the roots of rhythm and roots of rhythm remain
Joseph’s face was as black as night
And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked by the stars in the southern hemisphere And he walked the length of his days under African skies
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Wildflowers
03:15
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You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
Sail away, kill off the hours
You belong somewhere you feel free
Run away, find you a lover
Go away, somewhere bright and new
I have seen no other
Who compares with you
You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free
Run away, go find a lover
Run away, let your heart be your guide
You deserve the deepest of cover
You belong in that home by and by
You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free
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Amber Rubarth Nashville, Tennessee
In her unassuming yet beguiling way, Amber Rubarth draws you into a world where wonder and insight weave a poetic tapestry
with “songs so strong they sound like classics” (Acoustic Guitar).
She has toured extensively through Europe, Africa, Asia and the US including Carnegie Hall, and has composed for numerous films. She makes her acting debut co-starring in 'American Folk,' out now on Amazon.
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