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Golden Sparrow
03:18
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GOLDEN SPARROW
On the back of a golden sparrow
High above Mt. Kilimanjaro
I learned how to fly
How to close my eyes
And breathe out loud
On the back of a golden sparrow
High above Mt. Kilimanjaro
I learned how to fly
How to close my eyes
And breathe out loud
You’re the dust in the sun
I’m the sun in your eyes
I’m your only light
Your cup of beans
And your bag of rice
Will never be
My real price
Way down here
For 7 long years
7 into 8
7 into 8
I turn next year
I know someday
Someday I’ll be
Someone everyone
Will look up to and see
I know someday
Someday I’ll be
Someone everyone
Will look up to and see
On the back of a golden sparrow
High above Mt. Kilimanjaro
I learned how to fly
How to close my eyes
And breathe out loud
On the back of a golden sparrow
High above Mt. Kilimanjaro
I learned how to fly
How to close my eyes
And breathe out loud
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What Are Stars? Rwanda
06:05
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WHAT ARE STARS (RWANDA)
Under the pounding sun
Under the pounding rain
Under a sheltering tree
Land of a thousand hills
Land of a thousand shades
Land of a thousand shades of green
Red earth a gentle soul
Generous and vulnerable
To all that live and move through here
Sweet jasmine in the air
Soft wind blowing clear
Smoke rise making banana beer
What a wave of grace so few
So far from here have ever seen
What a wave of beauty
Brings my heart to its knees
What are stars, what are stars?
No feeble minds
No idle bodies here
Not after 20 long years
These 20-year-old trees
Sowed by wounded seed
Bare fruits of possibility
Reach up into the sun
Some things can’t be undone
Forever in God’s biography
Sing your new songs
Spread your message
Upward to the sky
What a wave of grace and resilience
Filled with dignity
What a wave of possibility
Teach my eyes, teach my eyes to see
What are stars, what are stars?
Over a mass grave of genocide
Baby purple flowers shine
Turn on both my eyes
Forgiveness is the bride
Widowed and left alone to find
That fragile kind of light
Best not to shine too bright
If you wanna keep it on and keep it near
Red earth a gentle soul
Generous and vulnerable
To all who come and take from here
Still this wave of grace
All the world, all the world must feel
Still the children laugh, smile, and sing
(Laugh, smile, sing)
One of them looking up asking me
What are stars?
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Love and Understanding
05:12
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LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING
I see them standing in the sun at the borderline
Holding their heads up
Holding on to life
Following orders taken one by one
Both sides are waiting for the change to come
I hear their children learn to sing a prayerful song
They sing about the side their family’s always been standing on
Watching their perfect minds learn to fear and detach
Is like watching the Gulf of Mexico turn to black
Well, I dreamed the prophets of all religions through time
Looked into our world and on each other’s shoulders cried
They’re wondering why we keep changing their meaning
Yes, I’ve seen the prophets of all religions through time
Look into our world and on each other’s shoulders cry
Wondering why we keep fighting in the name of their teachings
I thought it always was
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Children know
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
We are so beautiful
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Still have so far to go
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
In the name of love
In the name of you and me
In the name of all those beautiful and happy families
I see them standing at the courthouse
Until their love is recognized
As it always has been in the eyes of the divine
I feel love in your love, do you feel love in my love?
I feel the joy in your joy
I see light in your eyes, do you see light in my eyes?
Teach me your dance
I teach you mine
We share some food together
We can share some time
The times is late, yes, it’s getting late
Better reach into your love light
Let your love light, let it shine
Let it shine, let it shine
Well, I dreamed the prophets of all religions through time
Looked into our world and on each other’s shoulders cried
They’re wondering why we keep changing their meaning
Yes, I’ve seen the prophets of all religions through time
Look into our world and on each other’s shoulders cry
Wondering why we keep fighting in the name of their teachings
I thought it always was
’Cause it always was
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Children know
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
We are so beautiful
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Still have so far to go
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
The day will come under the sun
When we will see another one
Walking towards us and we won’t ask
If that’s a Christian, Hindu, Muslim, or Jew
The day will come under the sun
When we will see another one
Walking towards us and we will ask
Is that my brother, sister, me, or you
Gay or straight
Either way, it’s great
Love and understanding
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Children know
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
We are so beautiful
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Still have so far to go
Love, love, love, love, love and understanding
Like Baba Olatunji said
“One day we’re gonna look into the distance
And see someone walking towards us
And we won’t ask if they’re black or if they’re white
We’ll just ask, is that my brother or my sister?
All my relations.”
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SWEEPING STARS
You and your chest of goodness
Working so hard through the years
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
Up before the dawn
Your eyes on everyone
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
Maybe someday you’ll show me your ladder
There’s a lot of broken hearts way down here
Sleepwalkers burning up the water
But you’re wide awake, you have no fear
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
You give your love, when you give your love
I know it must be lonely sometimes
’Cause not everybody wants to be as good or true
You’re made of flesh and blood
Sometimes I worry about you
But all you ever say is
“Child, did you check out that view?”
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
You give your love and you give your love
You give your love and you give your love
It’s a song, it’s a song, it’s a song
It’s a reason to carry on
It’s a song, it’s a song, it’s a song
It’s the reason to carry on
May you never walk alone
May you always find a home
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
Sweeping stars down to the Earth
You give your love and you give your love
You give your love when you give your love
Shimmer, sparkle so divine, no traces, no traces
Shimmer, sparkle so divine, no traces, no traces
Shimmer, sparkle so divine, no traces, no traces
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YOU ARE THE ONE THE WORLD BECOMES
A dream is a dream
Is it real or make-believe
The smiles and the sounds of love
Singing soft, singing clear
So that nature can hear
The tenderness that we’re made of
I go to the water
’Cause I know I am her daughter
And she whispered these sweet words to me
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Let the world back in
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Let the world begin
You are the one the world becomes
You are the one the world becomes
Softly let the music sing
Lean yourself into me
You are a part of me and everything
You are star seed
Now child . . .
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Let the world back in
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Throw your star seeds to the wind
Let the world begin
You are the one the world becomes
You are the one the world becomes
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FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE
Through the smoke
Through the tunnels
Under street lamps
Under rubble
Undertow
Under the under
Friendship and love
Hallelujah
Pull me from the madness
Back into the calm
Bring about the gladness
Been in me all along
I see into forever when I look in your eyes
I’m with you on this journey
I’m not just passing by
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Hallelujah
I see me in we, I do
Shining
Reach your goal shining
Love to hear your laugh, yeah
You always make me laugh, yeah
Believing
In what we’re achieving
Together in the grieving
For all that needs healing
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
(Talkin’ ’bout it)
Friendship and love
Hallelujah
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
I see me in we, I do
I gotta star in my soul
And it shines your name forever
(It shines your name forever)
I gotta star in my soul
And it shines your name through forever
(It shines your name forever)
Friendship and love
(Yeah)
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Hallelujah
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Alhamdulillah
I cross the deserts and the seven seas
I do it to bring you close to me
I fly through the night
Just to see about you
There is nothing that I would not do for you
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Hallelujah
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Alhamdulillah
(Sing it, sing it, sing it)
Friendship and love
(All day)
Friendship and love
(All night)
Friendship and love
I got you, I got you
I got you now
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Friendship and love
Jai! Jai Ma! Jai Ma!
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A LIFE FULLY REALIZED
That first light over the mountain
Was the light in your eyes
When you said you were well prepared
And ready to take that ride
There was a look of joy in your eyes
Must’ve been the look of a life fully realized
You were a gentle, humble warrior
For justice and peace
You left your mark of dignity
There was that look of joy in your eyes
So much joy
Must’ve been the sign of a life fully realized
All that I know
All that I know
All that I know
We’ll meet again
My eternal friend
The dreams will come
And they will show
How to meet you well
In the big tomorrow
I loved to hear you say
When we help another on their way
We’re really helping God
When we help another on their way
We’re really helping God
There was that look of joy in your eyes
So much joy
Must’ve been the sign of a life fully realized
All that I know
All that I know
All that I know
We’ll meet again
Inside the sun
Inside the rain
Inside of love
We meet again
Fully realized
Mala na mbembe
Nai topo
Akiwowo mulema
Mabola mongô me
Bondènè
Na Ndola ngo o mulema
Essele na issapo i ye kwalé
Papa Akiwowo mulema
Mabola mongô me bondènè
Na Ndola ngo mulema
We papa
The elders they’re moving on
Got to take my place for real now and sing my song
With your every blessing in stride
I wanna live a life fully realized
Yeah for you and for the love of all kind
I’m gonna live a life fully realized
All that I know
All that I know
All that I know
We’ll meet again
Inside the sun
Inside the rain
Inside of love
We meet again
My eternal friend
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8. |
Thousand Miles
04:51
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9. |
Power Justice and Love
04:28
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MORLEY New York, New York
Morley weaves the threads of jazz, soul and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor.
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