Program
Set 1
Broken Wings1
Blue Rock2
You Are the Only One3
Human Right Now4
The Way I Am5
Sleep Baby, Slumber6
Copper John7
Nobody’s Fault But Mine8
Set 2
Save the Country9
Wrecking Ball10
Our Short Walk Through This Life11
Her Song12
Together13
A Change is Gonna Come14
Sinnerman15
Firefly16
Not Dead Yet17
Broken Wings
put your head in the mouth of your failure
and let’s see how you survive
put your head in the mouth of your fear and doubt
and let’s watch you try to stay alive
i’ll put my face in the mirror
i’ll reflect what I see
cause so much of what you are
is what i want to be
put your head in the mouth of my witness, of my love
and let’s see if we can finally watch our sunrise
i have walked on this journey for a long time now
but i can still taste the burden of this exile
so if i break, if i shatter, if i leak out on the ground
you just drink from the waters of the wild
if you make me a promise
and you walk at my pace sometimes
we won’t beg any pardon
for who we’re gonna be
i put my head in the mouth of this kindness, of this rest
so we can see if we will finally watch our sunrise
We can sing
With broken wings
We will sing
With our broken wings
Blue Rock
Blue rock, blue rock twisting
Trying to make trouble, trying to make freedom.
Blue rock, blue rock shifting
Stirring up trouble, stirring up freedom.
We are living in a world today
Where we take our own peace of mind
And give it away.
Take my hand at the highest price,
And with just enough stardust
I’ll paint my own paradise.
Blue rock, blue rock twisting
Trying to make trouble, trying to make freedom.
Blue rock, blue rock shifting
Stirring up trouble, stirring up freedom.
All around me I see soul folk on the floor
Selling flesh and blood til it ain’t no joke no more.
Sweatshop economics in the name of evolution
And green back flavored apathy done bought out the revolution.
Blue rock, blue rock twisting
Trying to make trouble, trying to make freedom.
Blue rock, blue rock shifting
Stirring up trouble, stirring up freedom.
My Lord what a morning
When the blue rock shakes the mighty to the Earth
My Lord what a morning
When the mountain lays down pleading for rebirth
My Lord what a morning
When the tide crawls back to rest upon the shore
My Lord what a morning
When the martyred sons and daughters cry no more.
Blue rock, blue rock twisting
Trying to make trouble, trying to make freedom.
Blue rock, blue rock shifting
Stirring up trouble, stirring up freedom.
You Are the Only One
Words and music by Toshi Reagon
Human Right Now
What’s it like to be a human in your world right now?
Do you feel like you’re performing somehow?
Are you wise beyond your years?
Are you troubled by the queers?
Is your cadence sometimes holier than thou?
What’s it like to be a human right now?
What’s it like to be a human in your core?
Is your bank account more bankrupt than before?
Do you feel like this is it
But not satisfied one bit
Are you happy with your life, but still yearning for more?
What’s it like to be a human in your core?
When did it get so hard to show what’s underneath?
The existential threats, the existence of belief?
Why do we look to our distractions for relief?
And what exactly is it we don’t want to see?
In what it’s like to be you, what it’s like to be me?
What’s it like to be human for your neighbor?
If she were lost and confused would you try to save her?
Would your boundaries permit?
If you dove in, could you commit?
Or in the undertow of fear would you forsake her?
What’s it like to be human for your neighbor?
Why, when we struggle with the troubles of this world,
We try to shout it down without extracting the pearl?
And why, when we’re scared, must we sacrifice our power?
No matter what, we only get so many hours
To be human together while the world is ours
What’s it like to be a human in your world right now?
Do you feel you’re adulting in the haze of a cloud?
Are you tired of the fight?
Are you sure that you’re alright with
What it’s like to be a human right now?
What’s it like to be a human right now?
The Way I Am
Words and music by Martin Sexton
there’s a quiet space inside you that is tender
and its solitude will sink you like a stone
everybody likes to tell you it gets better
‘cause they all have tender spaces of their own
and they’d rather do anything but remember
when they knew that space was eating them alive
so they sometimes have to empty out their corners
but that somehow leaves you no place left to hide
so you think maybe with your life
you can buy back your illusions
maybe in your time
you will turn towards what’s to come
and maybe in a dream
you will stumble upon something
that is more than what it seems
more than what it seems
so sleep baby, sweet baby
sleep baby, slumber
i once heard a song that rocked me like a cradle
but its whispers make me shiver in my bones
they remind me of a place i’ll never get to
to a time before i knew i had no home
and i never thought the day would finally find me
when i’d lay before my feet my soldier’s shield
when i’d say before the buzzards all around me
take my flesh, for i have nothing left to wield
so you think maybe with my life
i could buy back my illusions
and maybe in my time
i could turn towards what’s to come
and maybe in a dream
we would stumble upon something
that is more than what it seems
more than what it seems
so sleep baby, sweet baby
sleep baby, slumber
In the city of unseen prophets
Just over the hill
There’s an army of vagabond watchmen
At the citadel
In secret they walk among us
Hidden in plain view
But if they happen see something in us
They might reveal a thing or two
She told me I was trying to live easy
But I was living a lie
He told me I was lost in a forest
Where all the trees were dying
And the yellow-eyed peaceful warrior
They call Copper John
Made an offering patient armor
To help me carry on
In the city of unseen prophets
No one’s ever alone
On the wind is a whispered wisdom
That rattles in your bones
If you’re waiting for sunrise
And you meet at the dawn
Take your fill of the loving and
Pass it on
You know life is a suicide mission
With a question of why
Do it quick, do it slow, do it dirty
or don’t even try
He’s determined to figure out something
Touch the point of the fall
So He asks all the mystic masters
Why come back at all
He said you’re gonna need a peaceful lady
While you wait out the end
You got too much poison in your body
But she can build you again
You’re a sea creature in stale waters
With the power in your blood
To make the angels sing about heaven
Here on earth as above
But let me tell you something honey
We all need to know
You can sing all you want of a brighter tomorrow
But now is all you’ve got so
If you’re waiting for sunrise
And you meet at the dawn
Take your fill of the loving and
Pass it on
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Words and music by Blind Willie Johnson
Save the Country
Words and music by Laura Nyro
Wrecking Ball
I don’t want to fight for freedom
Freedom is a right from birth
I don’t need to fight for money
See, a dollar don’t define my worth
I just want peace for my body
Peace of mind
Peace for my soul
Peace for humankind
I don’t wanna to fight for justice
It’s better from an open hand
I don’t wanna to fight for my power
Some people sit to take a stand
And I want peace for the seers
Peace for the blind
Peace for the seekers
Peace for humankind
But we go at
Everything with a wrecking ball
Let’s all go down, tear the walls down, tear ‘em on down
I don’t want to fight for water
‘Cause abundance flows right from the sky
And why they make you fight for shelter
When the ground is soft and trees grow high
I don’t need to fight for knowledge
When wisdom seeds have long been sown
I’m not afraid to walk this journey
See I come into this world alone
But what I want is peace for my brother
Peace for his mind
Peace for my sister
Peace for humankind
Our Short Walk Through This Life
We need love on our short walk through this life
Please be kind on your short walk through this life
Offer gentleness and grace on your short walk through this life
Because anyone could be in pain on their short walk through this life
But there’s a fire we all carry
And it lifts us when we break
We must offer up our fire
On our short walk through this life
It’s an offering of love on our short walk through this life
We need love on our short walk through this life
Her Song
oh.....
she lives her years in the underneath where all is warm and tender
underneath the scary things
where all is pure surrender
she don’t need no bible
to tell her to be kind
there’s nothing in the holy book
to bring her peace of mind
she don’t no need no righteous
to tell her when she’s wrong
for some the earth and heaven’s just
a melody and a song
oh.....
she spends her days in an undergrowth
a verdant paradise
spinning wonder for tender hearts
with little feet and starry eyes
she don’t need possessions
to hold what comes for free
but i still need her gentle way
to reach in and heal me
she don’t need too much
to feel whole or grow strong
for some the earth and heaven’s just
a melody and a song....
ohhh.....
Together
whatever i’ve done
i’ve done it all wrong
whatever i’ve made
well it doesn’t last long
so it’s a good thing
we’re making this song together
well i think you’re funny
clever and kind
and honey when you sass me
i don’t pay you no mind
and you know i’m no saint
let’s let love be blind together
they try to be good
i put up a fight
i’m cursing the lord
while they try to make nice
but it’s a good thing
we’re making this life together
when you hold my hand
i don’t have to be hard
and life’s so sweet
in our little backyard
and who would’ve thunk
we’d have made it this far together
i’m a lopsided fool
when you’re not in the room
honey you’re the handle
on this old dirty broom
without you i wither
but with you we’re blooming together
they try to be good
i put up a fight
i’m cursing the lord
while they try to make nice
but it’s a good thing
we’re making this life together
i’m a silly old goat
when you’re not around
a bumbling wannabe
a bitter old clown
i might be a hot mess
but we better our best together
whatever i’ve done
i’ve done it all wrong
whatever i’ve made
well it doesn’t last long
so it’s a good thing
we’re making this song together
it’s a good thing
we’re making this song together
it’s a good thing
we’re making this song together
A Change Is Gonna Come
Words and music by Sam Cooke
Sinnerman
Traditional
Firefly
Words and music by Liz Hogan
Life brings me back
Back to nowhere
Life takes me where
Where there’s a place
So when we find life again
Do this for me my friend
When we find life again
Do this for for me
Teach me to love
Teach me to sing
Teach me to dance with these golden strings
And teach me to burn like
The firefly
Teach me to light the dark
Quiet sky
She breaks the heart
A heart of no kind
She asks of me
A kind true heart
So when we find life again
Do this for me my friend
When we find life again
Do this for me
Teach me to walk
Teach me to run
Teach me to thank the golden sun
And teach me to burn like
The firefly
Teach me to light the dark
Quiet sky
Not Dead Yet
nobody cared when i was perfect
nobody noticed when i got it just right
and now there’s cracks in the window
i kinda like the way it fractures the light
i look around and i see angels
i love em so hard it almost hurts
i take that back, that’s not the problem
it’s competition when the love should come first
every night, every day we go on this way
and we’re not dead yet no we’re not dead yet
All we do, all we say, just dissolve and decay
‘cause we’re not dead yet, i guess we’re not dead yet
ohhhhh…..
I was always scared of being normal
hold on, i feared mediocrity more
to me it meant there was a danger
of somehow losing what we’re doing this for
i wanted something more from this life
i think i thought i had to save the world
i never feared grandiosity
i guess you could say i was just that girl
but now i live in a cathedral
it’s humble but it’s an incredible life
might’ve been me that needed saving
I’m still too broken to put up a fight
every night, every day we go on this way
and we’re not dead yet no we’re not dead yet
All we do, all we say, just dissolve and decay
‘cause we’re not dead yet, i guess we’re not dead yet
there’s something glistening in the water
it’s too mysterious to tell me its name
i’m older now so i can listen
i hope somebody else is doing the same
every night, every day we go on this way
and we’re not dead yet no we’re not dead yet
All we do, all we say, just dissolve and decay
‘cause we’re not dead yet, i guess we’re not dead yet
ohhhhh…..