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School (for Rio)
02:54
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Seems to me that you could figure it all out,
But what do I know?
Achieve your dreams: be an inventor who has no doubts.
But science does!
Takes you to a place you love… On and on and on and on
Teacher teacher, how does learning sound?
Sounds like the feeling that we get when you’re around.
Then we take a walk…
Geography lessons.
When you get there you are always on time.
Everyone is on time when clock time is just a guideline!
There are just so many things to do...
The real secret to develop a contented self:
It is helpful for the young ones to get to play.
First we will build then we destroy
Turn toys into maps and trees into toys
Put it together, take it apart
Imagine with science, experiment with art.
Because there’s always somewhere to begin,
On this campus of friends.
In the place you love, on and on and on…
Seems to me that you could figure it all out,
But what do I know?
On and on and on…
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Rio (toque batería)
03:26
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Rio toque batería …
Keep riding on the ride and the cymbals, hanging on
To the beat
The beat of the kick, the click of your stick keep banging on
To the streets
The streets are alive but everyone’s inside, drumming on
Still makes sense
The sense of this place is in outer space
a bubble planet
Here we come
Here we drum
Here we come
It’s easy enough, bubble planet may be far but we have a ship
Full of friends
Some friends we invent, recurring characters spend a lifetime making up the way
The way to your heart: invented stories to start,
But also food and water and love
Essential past times, essentially passing the time
On a changing planet
Here we come…
Rio toque batería …
This beat’s another reason to drum on
This fun’s another reason to keep on the story-o
Rio
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3. |
Get into it (now)
03:23
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In keeping to myself, staying up late sedated,
I feel the need the need the need to be sublated.
Am I sleeping like a stone or sleeping like I’m stoned?
Am I needing comfort or am I happily alone?
Forgotten dreams of dubious design
Annoying reminder of the fears that I hide
Avoid the void or jump into my mind?
Who cares to think to want to try to decide?
So
Get into it now
Cuz you know this may be the last time (you try)
Get into it now
Lest you crash, or trip on your lifeline
It’s a medicine keeping me alive
It’s a blessing that really really suits the vibe
It’s confusing to have to choose a side
But I do, again and again.
…still I’m learning a lot.
Each time is the time that you got.
Get into it now
Cuz you know this may be the last time (or not)
Get into it now
or never, whichever is kind of a lot
Get into it now
or later, whatever, just
Get into it now
you are precious, precious
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Everything in your mind is safe
when you release the brakes
Stand back as the plates shake
An earthquake arrives when you notice it’s nice outside
Feel around
In the mush
Great synaptic shocks
on the way to your heart
Your blood cells fall apart
To your doom very soon
But close enough away
To this day there’s no break
Cerberus R us
Stepping in and out of the shade
Homeostasis is great
Enjoying these momentary breaks
When the passage of time is a crime for which you
For which you are so guilty
But an alibi is forthcoming
Won’t you tell me a story? But don’t make it don’t make it don’t make it boring
A new experience, experienced often
A test of your resolve
A force repeating, on an object
you’ve scrutinized enough
So when you gonna find a way to give it up?
Repeat repeating stimulus
Attention fills you up
Your heart of palms beating
Only the lucky can kind of turn it off
So when you gonna find a way to turn it off?
But it’s enough to turn it up
And it’s enough to fill it up
And it’s enough to treat it with love
To fill it with love
To fill it with love
Everything in your mind is safe
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5. |
The lands we...
03:08
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Irrepressible kindness plots
To reverse the blow and hit the spot
A long way to go to heal the breach
With big waves to ride and hills to reach
I know
That’s how it goes
“Everybody knows”
Said Leonard Cohen
A weird old man
Maybe he’s joking
Irresistible ego trip
One can’t help oneself, no point to it
A relationship to what’s outside:
That begins with breath and can end with pride
Unless…
You open up your chest
Consider what is best
For me and all the rest of
You, love, are the strangest thing, a living being, a making sense machine
Don’t forget the very best of what we left behind
The songs the stars the fire, a well rehearsed design
At the moment I only see what’s in front of me
But behind me crests a wave made up of hills we have made
Their healing sounds once mine
The lands we change with time
Into what we want to make of it
And what it makes of you and your shit
A reciprocal relation shit
Metabolic rift, let’s end with it, right now
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We’ve known each other a while, our chapters fulfilled long ago
Our family lives filled up with friendship and love enough -
But now I have a crush on you.
Yeah, that’s right, I have a crush on you.
I had a crazy dream last night,
And you were in it…
Should I tell you or not? Shit or get off the pot?
Should we try to tie up these knots, and see how strong they are?
We’ve known each other a while, seems a pretty matched lifestyle.
Would like to see you more than once in a while,
And maybe get to kiss like in my dreams, which woke me up
Because
I have a crush I have a crush I have a crush on you…
Yeah, that’s right.
Yeah, I don’t know why
I have a crush I have a crush I have a crush on you…
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7. |
Will we survive?
03:03
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Thunderbolts and sounds of lightning
Static on the tips of your hair
Imagining the ends of this despair
Failures and the crops are writhing on vines
Try to appreciate what remains there
But will it be enough to get us through winter
Will it be enough to ride it out?
I can’t do this I can’t do that what can I do?
Try to make a difference today.
Tomorrow I’ll wonder if I still care.
Supposed to put my mask on before I put on yours, but what if we are all out of masks?
Will we have enough to get through summer?
Will we have enough to ride it out?
Will we survive this harrowing heat alive? And what of the outside?
Some day summertime will end
On that day who will be your friend?
Bring some rain not some gasoline
Go outside during quarantine
But will it be enough to get us through summer?
Will it be enough to ride it out?
We will survive this scarcity alive!
But what of the outside?
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AMMRA San Francisco, California
AMMRA = Antonio Miguel Martín Roman-Alcalá
Once musician, future musician, now dad, fan of the red and black
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