1. |
Circles
03:55
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Driving towards the end of the day
You watch your watch for the colors
You’re waiting for the moment when she takes your breathe away
You can wash your worries away
Your worries away
You’re strumming to an endless song you know
With a fire burning slowly for you
You see the shadows on your garden grow
Green with the setting sun
The setting sun
And now the stars circle above you
Creating patterns in your mind
What it is to be free and far between
Nestled in with the painting up above
And you draw circles
Circles you can find
Driving towards the end of the day
You watch your watch for the colors
You’re waiting for the moment when she takes your breathe away
You can wash your worries away
Your worries away
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2. |
Do
06:01
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No matter how you look at the day it is new when it starts once again
You ‘ve got your feet on the floor
Do what you love to do for it’s the best way
To find what your looking for
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You can have all these reasons why you want to do things another way
Forces pushing you in a different direction
Being attached to what you’re supposed to do
Led by what your good at doesn’t mean that it’s you
Don’t follow what others say Listen to your intuition
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Everything has it’s own glow when you look at it when your high
Everything that people do to help there’s a reason why
There’s no telling what your supposed to do
Be sacred with everything let life flow through you
And if you’re helping others this is good and that’s true
But if you have that desire in your heart
Well maybe there’s a reason you’re feeling that too
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Life is filled with all sorts of emotions
We get attached to what we like and what we don’t
The goal is they say not have any desire
But if you have them do them for it all natural how we get there
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No matter how you look at the day is new when it starts once again
You ‘ve got your feet on the floor
Do what you love to do for it’s the best way
To find what your looking for
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3. |
The Locket
08:28
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A girl sat in the grass in a long white skirt
Ringing a flower around her fingers
She traveled lands far and wide
Letting the images paint pictures on her skin
Of places
Of places
Of places she had been
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She told me of the story of an older man
Walking down the street in Pakistan
Flying a flag on a cinder night
Flames licking cold colored tides
Tears going where they shouldn’t go
People knowing what they shouldn’t know
She didn’t smile
She didn’t frown
Held the face of an experienced gal
As her hair flowed with the cold road
As they drove along the coal coast
He was a fireman she left it at the that
They made love under golden rats
Painted on the ceiling of a hotel room
Overlooking a draining moon
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And she smiled in the night
She smiled with her eyes
As she remembered her possible demise
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There she was in a field of grass
And as I saw her I had to laugh
How you could you be somewhere so different
Then the story that I just listened?
She said soon she forget pleasure and pain
And with that she found her place
Under rocks in a old pool
Where she planned to end her song soon
A swoon came flying high in the sky
So beautiful she cried with a thousand eyes
Contained in the folds that no one saw
She picked up a locket from Wichita
Wore it on her finger
Held it up high
Reflecting in the water in pool lit light
It shone like a diamond tide
Cast on the sea right before the dark
The dark
The dark
The dark
Right before the dark
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There she sat on the grass
And she told me about the blasts
Woke her in her bedroom
Looking over soldiers lead sticks
She grabbed the locket around her neck
Hoping for life in that sec
Took it downstairs before them
Showed it like a beacon of soul dust
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This is my life
Here it is
Oil isn’t blood
Only one’s a gift
So you make the choice right now
Before I throw this here on the ground
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They paused their eyes looked gold
Doing what they were told
She took the piece threw it to the ground
Fire rose like a millions suns
Lit the oil around them on fire
Everything burned all around her
The back liquid stretched to the sea
Hit the water sent up flames
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She said
She said
Why do you fight
Why do you cry
Follow orders with a blind eye
Repeat history in a matter of hours
Don’t take time to smell the flowers
We can’t keep at this war
All because of this liquid gold
You name your bullets religion
Yet you know the real reason
They lay their guns to the ground
Kneeled to her sound
In the black peace was found
And she smiled in the night
She smiled with her eyes
Oh she smiled in the night
She smiled with her eyes
As she remembered her possible demise
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4. |
Next To み
05:07
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Next To み
Verse 1
Every morning when I wake up
Watch the sunrise
It looks beautiful in your eyes
And I know where I was going
It doesn’t matter anymore
Cuz distance I’m finding is a petty thing
As I have my hand in yours
And I can feel your heartbeat
Even though you’re a thousand miles away
And I think I know your thoughts too
Nothing much to say
Chorus
And we made love last night with the air in space
And you were inside me your hair was in your face
But I could see your eyes, see your smile, here we wait awhile
And I could feel your breathe coming in slow where do we go
Trace the lines, find the signs, you’re right there next to me
Verse 2
But the way things happen
Always I don’t know
Standing on a beach holding onto you girl
Nothing like the feeling of it slowly getting dark
Waiting for the waves to wash as we walk
And I held you and I kissed you
Like I did before’
I knew those lips and I missed you
But I didn’t know what for
So we looked into each others eyes
Searched for the sights that were hidden in our other lives
And we knew for sure, knew for sure
Bridge
And I boarded a plane not wanting to go away
And I searched the timelines making sure I couldn’t stay
But we met under the sea spray
And the ocean I do feel shows me the way
Show s me the way, to you
Chorus
And we made love last night with the air in space
And you were inside me your hair was in your face
But I could see your eyes, see your smile, here we wait awhile
And I could feel your breathe coming in slow where do we go
Trace the lines, find the signs, you’re right there next to me
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5. |
Foreground
02:46
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Well I was sitting out on a mountainside
Taking a moment on what to decide
Feeling moments as they pass by
On their way
Taking their sweet time to happen with the day
If there is a pretty girl on the street
Could take a while for you to meet
But the longer it is the sweeter it will be
Some say
Slip pictures in her window to her playfully by the day
For you'll never see till you enjoy the ride
So don't take the trail to which all abide today
Kicking a rock down the street
Keep it going till to see where you'll be
That's one way you can live your life
You see
Following stones in the dirt to see where you go
Travel the world think you're walking on gold
Chasing something by what you're told
Maybe sometimes it'll be better
To be
Be comfortable in a place you can see
Cuz whether you're chasing your tail or standing still
You're still willing what you will foresee
And if you're sitting cross legged on the floor or kneeling
You're still seeing what you will see
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6. |
Back Room
06:26
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You were always there inside yourself
Woke up sitting on time in a way
Holding up above your finding world
And you'll find what you find when you will
And the will is important that is no doubt
It's easy to get stuck with something when it comes out
But you feel what you feel and you do what you do
And you keep on keep on working through and through
Take a moment.. Stop
Hear the drop
Of the the silence coming clear
Clearing into you
The way you like to move with the distance
For it's all coming right out to you
And it's 9 minutes till something changes
Till the whirlwind picks up speed and drops you somewhere
So pick up the beat of your step with the places
The places you can hear the parts somewhere
Shadows cast themselves softly on the cabin walls
And I'm thinking how can I stand so tall, yet know so little
Compared to the riddle that I come back to again and again
And the thoughts that circle and then deepen in to the rhythm
That I follow
And the words that I create, was it I that created
That can't be for look a t me in this place
No it's not for then no thinking would then come
For these ideas are not created, yet shared from someplace
In the back room, that's dimly lit
In the back room, waiting dimly underneath
And I am sitting in another place and another time
Waiting for what should come to pass
And feeling with the cry of my soul to come back to what it was before
And what it will be forever more
And once I see and come to that realization there is the open door
It's in the back room
In the back room
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7. |
Here We Go
06:18
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Here we go
Once again
Said the girl
As she stared
At the sky
Asked me why
Things were going by
Watched the stars
Saw what was ours
Inside our hearts
Knew where we should start
What we should do
We saw our eyes
Go both like fireflies
Then we went on our ways
Across the world in new ways
Saw what we should
Saw what we might
Saw what we could
Saw what was right
What was wrong
It was all in the song
And we traveled the seas
Saw what we could be
And knew what we could do
what we couldn't
In the blink of time
Everything passed us
Went away and made us
Strong and weak
And though it we knew who we are
Everyday
When we watched what we saw
And we knew where we were going
And we wore what we are
And I knew what I knew
And I found what I found
And I went to the sound of the voice in the ground
And I knew I was here today
And I was happy you were okay
And I knew I was here today
And I was happy you were okay
Here we go
Once again
Said the girl
As she stared
At the sky
Asked me why
Things were going by
Watched the stars
Saw what was ours
Inside our hearts
Knew where we should start
What we should do
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8. |
Swim
06:23
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Swim
You were waiting for the time where you could speak your direction clearly
You were seeing where you were going before you went there
Traveled roads are the same if you look at them differently
Words come like the whisper of smoke from a flint
Watch the rocks, burn the sage, feel with time, where you wanna go
You can hold your dimension clearly now with the intent of a sure fellow
Take your time, watch your soul, step slowly, with what you wanna know
You can watch your way before you actually make your decision now
There’s nothing wrong
Nothing right
Only the feeling that you had tonight
So take that feeling and see where it goes
There’s no final way you have to go
Draw your picture
I was taking one side running before I got to the runway
I was seeing where I went before I arrived
Illusions net is just calling you before you solve yourself is what some say
Fear is the simple call of your soul
Seeing signs, hold the line, filled to rise, right where you wanna go
Just staring where your cards are in play right where you never wanna go
You can play them right, play them wrong, it’s only your mind that makes
You see what scale you’re on
It’s all in how you see through
Based on a million projections of how you see the song
What will it take for your need to belong?
Swim with the river
Swim with the river
いつも 体験 が 全然 わからない ね
たくさん が 見える でも どんどん 知らない
世界 が 起き でも 本当に 小さい
毎日 起きたら もうかい 頑張る
頭 の 中 で たくさん が 考える
どうして 一杯 来て
どこ から 来た から かな
地球 が 多い できたら でも 自分 の 中 で もと
多い に なる
Swim with the river
Swim with the river
You were always seeing where the salt is in the river
You were always feeling where the salt is in the sea
Riding with the waves seems the way you have to be
And yet sometimes you fight it to see
You will see what you will see
You can do it for the formula in your eyes
You can do it for the one that you rise for
Seeing where you want to plant your seed to grow
Light the candle inside your heart
Ignite the flame and see what starts
Burn down a whole room, take everything down to the level of The forest
In your eyes
Down to the forest in your eye
What you will realize
What will be your
Fruition
Intuition
Realization
Attainment
You will see what your face meant
You will sew what you'll sew
And you'll know what you know
Swim with the river
Swim with the river
Swim with the river
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9. |
Naraha
04:51
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I created two different things at the same time
On the left was a perfect representation of the character I had created
And on the right was an open window, which I myself had devised
It took exactly three minutes to create the two
From my point of view I realized it was actually more
It took exactly three months for me to stand at the place where I am now
And I mean three months to the day
I boarded a plane not longer before it the train of thought in my brain
The place it took me I can only hint at the fact that it turned out that way
Touched down at 11 at night in a rainstorm
Caught I wild view of a mountain hidden behind a purple hew
That all but shut off the world that I knew
And I let the darkness take me
Until I was to realize what has seemingly forsaken me
It was a dark night
And I was far away
Yet the bright light
Let me know I was not far away
Upon opening my eyes it was green as it can be
With a pale blue ocean that stretched into the sky before me
And everything was warm
Even the crisp feeling that let me know I was alive
I was alive I was alive
And I made love with her so many times with her
With the rain pouring off the roof
And afterwards we'd listen to our hearts beat with the thunder
We'd wonder how we'd met and how we were one another
And there's been so many times
With my face pressed against the cold glass of a train
Watching telephone poles paint the way
Staring out at round hills
Staring out at those round numbers standing in front of me
It was a dark night
And I was far away
And yet the bright light
In my mind let me know I was not far away
Not far away
Not far away
In Naraha
愛してるよ
In Naraha
愛してるよ
In Naraha
愛してるよ
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SoundandtheMessenger Aspen, Colorado
John Hatanaka has been a songwriter and performer for 15 years. Being born in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado and seeking
songs in the flames of campfires he has written many songs and has shared them with diverse audiences. He has traveled and played his music in Australia and Japan as well.
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