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Updated 02-17-19

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Lyrics Melissa Etheridge I Run For Life It's been years since they told her about it The darkness her body possessed And the scars are still there in the mirror Everyday that she gets herself dressed Though the pain is miles and miles behind her And the fear is now a docile beast If you ask her why she is still running She'll tell you it makes her complete I run for hope I run to feel I run for the truth For all that is real I run for your mother your sister your wife I run for you and me my friend I run for life It's a blur since they told me about it How the darkness had taken its toll And they cut into my skin and they cut into my body But they will never get a piece of my soul And now I'm still learning the lesson To waken when I hear the call And if you ask me why I am still running I'll tell you I run for us all And someday if they tell you about it If the darkness knocks on your door Remember her remember me We will be running as we have before Running for answers Running for more Melissa Etheridge Truth Of The Heart I hear your questions I see your face Your life before you Is full of grace What can I tell you To let you know Your angel's eyes Will watch you grow Come listen close And I'll try to let you know It's all I know There is no magic There are no secrets We all begin this race at the start But I have come this far With a truth of the heart Deep down inside I think we're all the same Try not to judge someone And never shame I do believe that people are good They just want hope and respect And to be understood Sometimes it hard sometimes it's strange But the truth of the heart is people can change Yes there is danger and there are shadows And there is fear inside the dark It has powered countries and borne religion Fear can never rule the heart My father's burden My mother's rain My own desire My sister's pain All souls have traveled along this road Each one has carried their own heavy load Led Zeppelin All My Love Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light To chase a feather in the wind Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight There moves a thread that has no end For many hours and days that pass ever soon The tides have caused the flame to dim At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom Is this to end or just begin? All of my love, all of my love All of my love to you now All of my love, all of my love All of my love to you now The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again One voice is clear above the din Proud Arianne one word, my will to sustain For me, the cloth once more to spin All of my love, all of my love All of my love for you now All of my love, all of my love All of my love to you child Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time His is the force that lies within Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find He is a feather in the wind All of my love, all of my love All of my love to you now All of my love, oh, yes All of my love to you now All of my love, all of my love All of my love love Sometimes, sometimes Sometimes, sometimes All of my love, all of my love All of my love to you now All of my love, all of my love All of my love to to you, you, you I get a little bit lonely Just a little, just a little Just a little bit lonely Just a little bit lonely Led Zeppelin In The Light And if you feel that you can't go on. And your will's sinkin' low Just believe and you can't go wrong. In the light you will find the road. You will find the road Oh, did you ever believe that I could leave you, standing out in the cold I know how it feels 'cause I have slipped through to the very depths of my soul. Baby, I just want to show you what a clear view it is from every bend in the road. Now listen to me Oh, whoa-whoa, as I was and really would be for you, too, honey As you would for me, oh, I would share your load. Let me share your load. Ooh, let me share, share your load And if you feel that you can't go on In the light you will find the road Though the winds of change may blow around you, but that will always be so When love is pain it can devour you, if you are never alone I would share your load. I would share your load Baby, let me, oh, let me In the light Everybody needs the light. In the light, in the light, in the light Light, light, light, in the light Light, light, light, in the light, ooh, yeah Light, light, light, in the light Led Zeppelin  "The Rover" I've been to London Seen seven wonders I know to trip is just to fall I used to rock it Sometimes I'd roll it I always knew what it was for There can be no denyin' That the wind'll shake 'em down And the flat world's flying And there's a new plague on the land Just join hands We could just join hands If we could just join hands Traversed the planet When heaven sent me I saw the kings who rule them all Still by the firelight And purple moonlight I hear the rested rivers call And the wind is crying From a love that won't grow cold My lover she is lying On the dark side of the globe Just join hands We could just join hands If we could just join hands You got me rockin' when I ought to be a-rollin' darlin' Tell me, darlin', which way to go You keep me rockin' baby, then you keep me stolen Won't you tell me darlin', which way to go That's right Oh how I wonder Oh how I worry And I would dearly like to know I've all this wonder Of earthly plunder Will it leave us anything to show And our time is flyin' See the candle burning low Is the new world rising From the shambles of the old? If we could just join hands If we could just join hands If we could just, if we could just, if we could just If we could just, if we could just join hands That's all it takes, that's all it takes That's all it takes, that's all it takes Led Zeppelin "Friends" Bright light almost blinding, black night still there shining, I can't stop, keep on climbing, looking for what I knew. Had a friend, she once told me, "You got love, you ain't lonely, " Now she's gone and left me only looking for what I knew. Mmm, I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now, Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy just... Met a man on the roadside crying, without a friend, there's no denying, You're incomplete, they'll be no finding looking for what you knew. So anytime somebody needs you, don't let them down, although it grieves you, Some day you'll need someone like they do, looking for what you knew. Mmm, I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now, Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy just... I'm telling you now, the greatest thing you ever can do now, Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy. What You Give Tesla Who's the one that makes you happy? Or maybe, who's the one always on your mind? And who is the reason you're livin' for? Who's the reason for your smile? I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one To ever feel this way. I love ya so much that I think I'm goin' insane. I'm goin' crazy, outta my head. Goin' crazy, outta my head. Can't think about nothin' but your good, good love, And what you give. Now, ev'ry one needs somebody. And you know, ev'rybody needs someone. Well, and a-yes it's true! Ev'rybody needs a special kind of love, And you're the only one I'm thinkin' of. You mean the world to me. You are my only! I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one To carry on this way. I love ya so much I lose track-a time, Lose track of the days. I'm goin' outta my head, Goin' crazy, outta my head. Can't think about a-nothin' but your good, good love, And what you give. It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live. It's only what you give, only what you give, only what you give, It's not whatcha got, a-but the life you live. It's the life you live. [Spoken:] Play it pretty for the world. You're the one that makes me happy. Oh yeah baby. And you're the one always on my mind. And a-yes it's true. You are my reason, my one and only that I've been livin' for Why can't forever be forever and nothin' more. (To Chorus) It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live. No, no, no, no, no! It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. And it ain't what it's not, but a-what it is! Only what you give, only what you give. It's only what you give. It's not whatcha got, a-but a-what you give. It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. A-what you give woman. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live. It's only what you give, only what you give, only what you give, It's not whatcha got, but a-what you give. It's only what you give. Only what you give. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only what you give. Only what you give. Only what you give, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that good enough for the girls we run around with? I do believe so. Ooh, ooh, uh-huh. Only what you give, what you give. Only what you give. Only what you give.

TO THE DESERT BY BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code of mysteries And the wink-and-elbow language of delight. Half-past eight and there is not a spot Upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown That might turn out a man or woman, not A footfall tapping secrecies of stone. I have what every poet hates in spite Of all the solemn talk of contemplation. Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight Of being king and government and nation. A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king Of banks and stones and every blooming thing. Let Me Be to Thee As The Circling Bird by Gerard Manley Hopkins Let me be to Thee as the circling bird, Or bat with tender and air-crisping wings That shapes in half-light his departing rings, From both of whom a changeless note is heard. I have found my music in a common word, Trying each pleasurable throat that sings And every praised sequence of sweet strings, And know infallibly which I preferred. The authentic cadence was discovered late Which ends those only strains that I approve, And other science all gone out of date And minor sweetness scarce made mention of: I have found the dominant of my range and state — Love, O my God, to call thee Love and Love. Buffalo Country by A B Banjo Paterson Out where the grey streams glide, Sullen and deep and slow, And the alligators slide From the mud to the depths below Or drift on the stream like a floating death, Where the fever comes on the south wind's breath, There is the buffalo. Out of the big lagoons, Where the Regia lilies float, And the Nankin heron croons With a deep ill-omened note, In the ooze and the mud of the swamps below Lazily wallows the buffalo, Buried to nose and throat. From the hunter's gun he hides In the jungle's dark and damp, Where the slinking dingo glides And the flying foxes camp; Hanging like myriad fiends in line Where the trailing creepers twist and twine And the sun is a sluggish lamp. On the edge of the rolling plains Where the coarse cane grasses swell, Lush with the tropic rains In the noontide's drowsy spell, Slowly the buffalo grazes through Where the brolgas dance, and the jabiru Stands like a sentinel. All that the world can know Of the wild and the weird is here, Where the black men come and go With their boomerang and spear, And the wild duck darken the evening sky As they fly to their nests in the reed beds high When the tropic night is near. But Listen, I Am Warning You by Anna Akhmatova But listen, I am warning you I'm living for the very last time. Not as a swallow, nor a maple, Not as a reed, nor as a star, Not as spring water, Nor as the toll of bells… Will I return to trouble men Nor will I vex their dreams again With my insatiable moans. Rachel by Anna Akhmatova When Jacob and Rachel met for the first time, He bowed to her like a humble wayfarer. The herds were raising hot dust to the skies, The little well's mouth was covered by a boulder. He rolled the old boulder away from the well And watered the flock with clean water himself. Yet sweet little sadness crept into his heart With each passing day growing stronger. To wed her he bargained to toil seven years As shepherd for her artful father. Oh, Rachel! To the captive of love in his eyes The seven years seemed as a few dazzling days. Yet Laban was thirsty for silver, and wise, And mercy he didn’t espouse, Assuming forgiveness for all kind of lies… As long as they serve his own house. He took homely Leah with his sure hand And led her to Jacob in his wedding tent. A sultry night reigns over high desert sky And spreads misty dews in the morning, While pulling her braids in despair all that night The younger of sisters is moaning, Sends curses to Leah and God for her doom Imploring the angel of death to come soon. As Jacob is dreaming the sweetest of dreams: The clear well spring in the valley And Rachel's eyes happily looking at him Her beautiful voice singing softly: O, weren't you kissing me, Jacob, with love And calling me always your black turtledove?     Linda Marshall In Search Of Wisdom   As the cold air blows across the hill not only the leaves  and branches of the trees are moved by it. The stones, the earth beneath my feet, the wind that tousles my hair and buffets my body seeking to force me back as if I were an intruder in this place, all are alive.   The copper that glows in the mountain and will one  day be mined out of the rock face is as alive as me.  The scent of flowers, the song of birds, the distant barking of foxes all speak  of the life we share.   When I am as old as the oak trees perhaps I may learn wisdom

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