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Helpless Hopeless 

Today is a day for making vows 
No more doubt 
Even though I can’t see a way 
I can’t see how 
Still I will press forward like a warrior, yeah 
But I need some help 

I am helpless hopeless 
Grab hold and never let go of me 
I’m helpless hopeless 
So glad to know you know me 
‘Cause I need some help 

Today is a day for letting go 
Of promises I’ve broken 
And words that I have spoken 
When really I don’t know 

I remember the time I almost died 
I smoked myself up way too high 
I wrapped myself around mama’s feet 
My heart was beating, beating 

I was helpless hopeless 
Grab hold and never let go of me 
I’m helpless hopeless 
So glad to know you know me 

I wondered could this be the end? 
Is this where everything begins? 
Should I let go of my mind 
And leave this all behind? 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2004 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 

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Gardens and the Graves (Radio Mix)

You wanna go? 
Don’t even say you don’t 
Don’t even say you don’t 
You don’t have to have a heavy heart like me 
To see, to know, it’s time to go 

I gotta leave, I gotta go 
Where I don’t know 
Can I make it on my own? 
Oh but if I don’t 
It’s just another day spent at home 
Where even though my garden grows 
It’s empty without you 
And the weeds outnumber the roses 
Ten to two 

You wanna go? 
Come on don’t say you won’t 
Come on don’t say you won’t 
You spend your whole life chasing money 
Wasting time 
Don’t you want to come alive? 

We gotta leave, we gotta go 
Where I don’t know 
Can we make it on our own? 
Oh but if I don’t 
It’s just another day spent at home 
Where even though my garden grows 
It’s empty without you 
And the weeds outnumber the roses 
Ten to two 

I want to be a good man 
Oh I want to be strong 
I want to help out with my hands 
And grow my hair out long 
Lose myself with a girl 
Then come back and change the world 
I want to be a good man 
And help build heaven with my hands 

We gotta leave, we gotta go 
Where I don’t know 
Can we make it on our own? 
Oh but if we don’t 
It’s just another day spent at home 
A wide world we’ll never know 
We will look back on this tomb one day 
And say, my how our garden grew 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2004 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

Video - Live at Folklife Center
Video - Live at Kulak's Woodshed 
Video - How to Play Tutorial 
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Stopless  

Ooh me, choose me  
And don’t abuse me  
For showing the hope in this moment  
For showing the hope in this moment  

I’m strong and I’m stopless  
I’m weak and in love  

Ooh me, choose me  
And don’t abuse me  
For showing the hope in this moment  
For showing the hope in this moment  
This moment, moment  
Moment, moment  

I’m strong and I’m stopless  
I’m weak and in love  

How pointless is my point of view  
Until I reach the point of you?  
How pointless is my point of view  
Until I reach the point of you?  

I’m crawling out of my skin  
Falling in it again  
I’m breaking, I’m taking  
I’m leaving it in  
Claiming the promise  
I’m grinding the crush  
Strong and I’m stopless  
I’m weak and in love  
And I’m living by will  
Tapping the well  
Claiming the miracle  
Asking for help  
Storming the kingdom  
From down on my knees  
Claiming the promise  
You’re carrying me  
Doing the math  
Counting the cost  
Working the sums  
And coming up lost  
Claiming the promise  
I’m grinding the crush  
Strong and I’m stopless  
I’m weak and in love  

How pointless is my point of view  
Until I reach the point of you?  
How pointless is my point of view  
Until I reach the point of you?  

Remember in Boston  
When we were walking  
Home in the rain?  
We said that we figured  
We’d always be singers  
No matter the name  

R. Green/ C. Hood  
©2005 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/  
Easycollective Music/ BMI/  

Video - Live at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Video - Live at Kulak's Woodshed 
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Ivy 

She says she’s pressed reset 
Since last time that we met 
A gesture of regret 
But I don’t believe it 
Her colors they change 
But her brilliance remains 
From bronze into green 
It’s the prettiest thing 

And she’s wrapped around me like ivy 

It seems like each time 
That I’ve left her behind 
I take with me a picture 
A permanent kind 
It seems I can’t leave her 
My mirrors they see her 
Much closer to me 
Than she appeared to be 
I never did know why I never let go 
But the longer it goes 
Oh the stronger it grows 

‘Cause she’s growing on me like ivy 

She’s making me question 
Everything that I am 
In a world that’s without her 
Am I able to stand? 
She’s dusting me off 
She’s shaking me clean 
She shows me she knows 
All the things that I mean 
Oh, she holds me 

I sat in the sofa we gave in to love in 
The day after she left 
I chose a position allowing her 
To rest her head 
And though she wasn’t there 
I still saw her I swear 
In the candle’s light 
Dancing for me just like always 
For just me to see 

Try to take her away 
No I would not complain 
‘Cause full sun or full shade 
Yeah we still got it made 
‘Cause she’s planted in me like ivy 
She’s wrapped around me like ivy 
She’s growing on me like ivy 
She’s gonna be green like ivy 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2004 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Army 

I think I’m sinking 
I think I’m sinking 
I’m fighting the flow 
I keep on thinking 
I keep on thinking 
I’m forgetting the things I know 

Like that it comes and it goes 
Ebbs and it flows 
And nobody knows why 

You try 
But you cannot get your arms around it 
You cannot get your arms around it 

I’ve seen too much to forget 
Too little to accept 
And if I were wise 
I might just close my eyes 
Cause I don’t understand it 
But I can’t rubberband it 
And file it away for a rainy day 

Just ‘cause it comes and it goes 
Ebbs and it flows 
Still I want to know why 

You try 
But you cannot get your arms around it 
You cannot get your arms around it 

It’s so much to ask 
An impossible task 
Learning to love and to make it last 

I think I’ve proved it 
I cannot do it all alone 
So heaven don’t wait 
Won’t you open your gates? 
Send an army of hope 
For this old soul of stone 

Because it comes and it goes 
Ebbs and it flows 
And God only knows why 

I try, but I cannot get my arms around it 
Cannot get my arms around it 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2004 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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Appy Jam  

"So you wanna be my friend  
so you wanna be my lover  
With you I do confess  
I can’t be one without the other  
That was hard for me to say  
I hope I said it right"  
– Teitur  

R. Green/ C. Hood  
©2009 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/  
Easycollective Music/ BMI  

Video - Live at National Folk Festival (AUS)
Video - Live at Wildflower Folk Festival
Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2017)
Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2012)
Video - "Tini Orchestra"  
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Born to Run to You  

His pretty girl in pigtails  
And he in tennis shoes  
In a field with the sun going down  
Over a bible town, she in her bridal gown  
Kisses her man on the mouth, says, I do  

And says, I was born to run to you  

But it took a lot to get there  
She measured distance in days  
While she wondered from miles away  
Is there such a thing as a love meant to be?  
And if so, is one meant for me?  

‘Cause I’m lying awake  
And I’m aching to be with you  
Aching to sing to you soon  

That I was born to run to you  
And I was always born to run to you  

Well, I dreamed that she’d come to me  
Clothed in the sun  
And she’d fall in my lap as a sign  
So I made up my mind to believe  
That the love that I needed  
Would find me, and I found you  
And you’re mine  

Oh, I was born to run to you  
I was born to be one with you  
Put your hair in pigtails  
I’ll wear my tennis shoes  
And well, we will both go dancing  
In your father’s mansion  
We’ll laugh and be light  
And I’ll run to you  

C. Hood/ R. Green  
©2005 Easycollective Music/ BMI/  
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/  

Video - Live at Kulak's Woodshed  
Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2010)
Video - How to Play Tutorial
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Something That She Saw 

Lately I’ve been getting tired at ten 
But then I think of you and I’m awake again 
I guess I’d better take my vitamins 
‘cause I won’t be sleeping much tonight 

Lately everything I start to do 
Turns to sitting here thinking back at you 
I know it’s only been a day or two 
But I can still smell your hair 

She wears me like a cotton shield 
I begin to feel responsible 
Who knows how deep it goes 
How deep it goes 
Where did it come from? 

It’s something that she saw in me 

I know it’s only been a couple days 
Let me rephrase, a couple of single days 
And I don’t even want to leave my room 
Unless it’s to see your face 

And even if I only see you one more time 
And never touch your heart 
Baby, you touched mine 
My heart’s still beating funny ever since 

I begin to doubt myself again 
How did I ever smuggle in my dirty hands 
Against her contrabanded skin? 
I’ll walk her home 
Leave her alone 
And that’ll be the end 
But she invites me in 

She wears me like a cotton shield 
I begin to feel responsible 
Who knows how deep it goes 
How deep it goes 
Where did it come from? 

It’s something that she saw in me 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2003 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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You Used To 

Used to live alone 
Used to know how 
Then you fall in love 
And you can’t live without 
One day it’s over 
Alone with your heart 
Now why are you where you are? 
Get used to a feeling 
Used to a friend 
Start taking for granted 
The sight and the scent 
One day it’s over 
Alone in your skin 
How do you begin again? 

Do you still think bad things 
Do you still have bad dreams? 
Do you lie wide awake 
While the city’s asleep while you weep? 

If you long to be longed for 
If you ache to be craved 
If you’re hoping for heaven 
In a love that will never fall through 
Me too 
If you don’t you should know 
The you that I knew used to 
You used to 

Used to live alone 
Used to know how 
Then you fall in love 
And you can’t live without 
One day it’s over 
Alone with your heart 
Why are we who we are? 

It’s flooding your face 
It’s looking like rain 
There’s a look in your eyes 
Like you can’t even cry 
So you sigh, my my 

If you long to be longed for 
If you ache to be craved 
If you’re hoping for heaven 
In a love that will never fall through 
Me too 
If you don’t you should know 
The you that I knew used to 
You used to 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2004 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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Around The Sun  

Ready to go, honey, let’s begin  
We’ll try to see by the light of the sun  
And tell it like it is  
Want to sing so deep and laugh so long  
Even silence himself  
Wants to sing and laugh along  

Want to overcome pain without feeling pain  
Yeah, I guess I want what I want  
When I want it  
Well, I want it both ways, oh  

Move me around the sun  
Move me, make me feel  
Something I don’t  

Don’t you want to stop  
Taking personal offense?  
And stop talk-talk-talking about love  
In the future tense?  
Like it’s something I’ll feel  
In the perfect light  
When everything, everything  
Everywhere is just right  

Well, I’ll be waiting a long time  
I’ll be waiting a long, long time  

Move me around the sun  
Move me, make me feel  
Something I won’t  
On my own  

‘Cause I’ve been waiting a long time  
I’ve been waiting a long, long time  
On my own  

C. Hood/ R. Green/ O. Plant  
©2008 Easycollective Music/ BMI/  
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/  
Owen Plant Music/ BMI  

Video - Live from Studio 12 on D-town 
Video - Live w/ CatCall A Cappella  
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Mature 

Sometimes mature just means over my head 
And I don’t really know what I’m saying 
Aiming much higher than I understand 
I make up all the chords that I’m playing 

Sometimes the tour makes us argue instead of 
Enjoying the friends that surround us 
I wish we were home for a moment alone 
With someone who would keep us accounted 

I don’t want to turn me into 
Something that I’m not 
Keep me close in mind and body 
You are all I’ve got 

Whispering words 
With my lips on the microphone 
Nobody warned of the danger 
Sometimes I lie a consecutive time 
While I stare in the eyes of a stranger 
Everything’s fine 
Sometimes mature just means over my head 
And I don’t really know what I’m saying 
I’m in control 
Aiming much higher than I understand 
And it’s all just a game of persuading 

I don’t understand this, I’m letting go 
It slips out of hand, and it’s gone 

I forget who I am 
Would you lend me a hand? 
I’m not myself 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2009 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 

Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2009)
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The World Awaits 

The day you’re born is the first day you cry 
There’s no warm welcome for coming to life 
Some get a silver spoon, some get a name 
Some get hated on, thrown away 
Some people criticize, say you’re too far 
Too much of whatever you are 

They’ll pick you apart 
To show that they’re smart 
But show that you’ve got what it takes 

The world awaits you 
The world awaits you 

Some will sing of sunlit days 
Some get so sad that they step in the way 
Of a moving train 
You think that you’re losing 
You feel like you’re lost 
But you’re finding purpose 
In paths that you cross 
What you were made for, no one can say 
But you’re finding out everyday 

It picks you apart 
And it cuts to the heart 
Until you know that you’ve got what it takes 

The world awaits you 
The world awaits you 

Everyone falls, everyone breaks 

You think that you’re fading 
You feel like you’re gone 
But the bones that you’ve broken 
Are growing in stronger 
It’s a difficult world with a beautiful way 
Of turning your pain into strength 

Go, the world awaits you 
The world awaits you 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2009 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2009)
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Softly, Slowly 

And when you say 
Exactly what you do not mean 
Then you cover your eyes 
Turn away giggling 
I won’t run away 
I won’t say I have to go 
‘Cause I know 
I know 
I know 

And it might seem 
Like there’s something I’m saving 
A reason I’m waiting 
A sign left to see 
I’m not gonna say 
I will just let it show 
But you’ll know 
You’ll know 
You’ll know 

Softly, slowly 
I’m exploding, oh 
Once, twice 
Wouldn’t it be nice 
If we both fell in love at the same time? 

And you might say to me 
That you have to go home 
Daddy doesn’t want his middle girl 
Out on her own 
But you will be with me 
Oh yeah you will be safe 
If there’s a way 
Let me know 
Let’s go 

Softly, slowly 
I’m exploding, oh 
Once, twice 
Wouldn’t it be nice 
If we both fell in love at the same time 

You bring the flowers 
And I’ll bring the songs 
We’ll pack up a picnic 
And leave before dawn 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2003 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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Can I Kiss You? (Live)

From the first time that I saw you 
Standing there looking back at me too 
I knew that you’d be mine 
The two of us entwined 
The stars aligned for us 
The oceans parted 
As we started on our way 

Nothing can compare 
To the beauty that you wear 
You smile so beautifully 
With eyes of honesty 

No words can express 
My state of happiness 
Just being next to you 

We were sitting under the stars 
Realized that the world was ours 
And I knew that you’d be mine 
I knew that you’d be mine 

Can I kiss you? 
And so I do 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2003 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Sad and Happiness (Live)

Don’t you know? 
Everything’s gonna go 
Alright 

Don’t you hold 
Everything inside 
Don’t hide 

Don’t you see? 
Everything’s gonna be 
Alright 

Everything’s gonna change 
Sometimes summer, sometimes rain 
Everything’s gonna change 
Sad and happiness and back to pain 

God knows your name 

Everything you see 
Will pass away like leaves 
But you will always grow 
Feel the flow 

Sing a song for me 
Even if all you know 
Is Canon in D 

Celia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home

Making love in the afternoon
With Cecilia, up in my bedroom
I get up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone's taken my place

Celia, you're breaking my heart 
You're shaking my confidence daily 
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 
I'm begging you please to come home 
Come on home

Jubilation! She loves me again
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing
Jubilation! She loves me again 
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2003 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
with interpolations of "Canon in D" by Pachelbel/ Public domain/
and "Cecilia" by P. Simon/ ©1970 Paul Simon Music/ BMI

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Welcome You Into My Head (Live)

Welcome you into my head 
You’ll be spending your time here 
At least until I’m dead 
Which could grip on all your years 
Welcome you into my head 
And to all that comes with me 
I wonder what it is you'll see
See in me

Welcome you into my head 
Welcome you into the storm 
Just when the winter passes
Summer clouds begin to form 
Welcome you into my head 
Here’s a copy of my key 
Looks like you’ll be leading me 

Home 
Home 
Maybe 
Maybe 
If you come to stay 
Right here with me 
Maybe I won’t want to leave 
My head 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2004 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

Video - Live at Rialto Theatre (2009) 
Video - Sofar Dallas
Video - Official Music Video
Video - How to Play Tutorial 
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