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Red Line Reel
“Well we’ve got a lot a lot a lot
Of hard work today
We gotta rock at the government center
Make the secretaries feel better
When they put those stamps on the letters”
– Jonathan Richman
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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How To Let It Go
I got a feeling inside of me
It’s a jealousy, and it gets me every time
I take a look around, check my back account
And then I start to doubt
That I’m getting what is mine
It’s a fear-view, all skewed
Upside downward
Spiral bounded set perspective
Let’s give up the game, give up the fame
Give up ourselves and say…
Hey Hey, teach me to sing
To paint my pain into prettier things
Hey Hey, would you let me know
How to let it go?
I got a feeling, inside of me
Anxiety, and it keeps me up at night
I try to wait it out, but it’s all around
Like a dust cloud
And it’s crowding up my mind
A lesson in social obsession
Always checking all directions
Please just let me be here, set me free
To be myself and say…
Hey Hey, teach me to sing
To paint my pain into prettier things
Hey Hey, would you let me know
How to let it go?
Hey Hey, help me walk away
‘Cause it hurts to leave but it’s worse to stay
Hey Hey, would you let me know
How to let it go?
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2013 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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Sickbed Symphony
Looking out over his life from his sickbed
He called his sons to come and hear, he said
Life is short and life is long
And I have loved you like a song
But now the end is in my ears
Don’t bother with complaint
‘Cause life ain’t the way it ain’t
Just come near and hear the words
I want to say to you
He said:
Make your lives a song
A simple symphony
May your melodies be
Soft and strong
Make your lives a song
Looking out over his life from his sickbed
Not long before the final stanza, he said
It’s lonely going solo, so try to find a band
And find a sweetheart
Who can hit the notes you can’t
And don’t be afraid
Now that you have come of age
To wonder at the world like little boys
Train your eyes to see
All the beauty that is in between
Train your lips to make a joyful noise
He said:
Make your lives a song
A simple symphony
May your melodies be
Soft and strong
Make your lives a song
Every broken arm
And broken heart and promise
Is a movement in a symphony
And you can choose to hear
The beauty or the blues
It’s up to you
It’s up to you
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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Summer Rain
I know that my God led me to you
And once I was there
I thought that I’d know what to do
Had a feeling that you’d be good for me
But I didn’t know what I’d be to you
I’m staring out at the summer rain
Don’t know whether to step outside
Or stay away
Just another decision that will wait
Or will it wash away
With the summer?
It’s never as easy as I hope
But then if it was well I don’t know
If we would grow
I got a feeling that you’d be game to see
Every bit of my heart that I would show
I’m staring out at the summer rain
Don’t know whether to step outside
Or stay away
Just another decision that will wait
Or will it wash away
With the summer?
Out on the east side of our town
Both of us see it’s dark
And starting to come down
I’m staring out at the summer rain
Don’t know whether to step outside
Or stay away
Just another decision that will wait
Or will it wash away
With the summer?
I’m stepping out in the summer rain
Don’t know whether it’s safe outside to stay
Just to live in the moment for a day
Then let it wash away
With the summer
With the summer
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2013 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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Say It So
I like the way hands play
And the shapes that we make
In the space in the small of your back
And I like the thought of getting caught
In a maze of missing you
And wishing I was home when I’m away
And I don’t know why
It takes me lying awake
Missing your face
To feel brave enough to say
I need you
I need you
Oh, I need you
I like the thought of getting lost
Along the way with you
Losing whole days with you
And I like to put to words
The way your curves
Are imperfectly perfect roads
That help me home
And I don’t know why
It takes me lying awake
Missing your face
To feel brave enough to say
I need you
I need you
Oh, I need you
And I don’t know why
It takes me lying awake
Here, so far away
Missing your face
To feel safe enough to say
I need you
I need you
Oh, I need you
Oh, I need you
Oh, I need you
Say you love me
Say it so
Say it loud and risk it all
Say you love me
Say it so I know
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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Lifetime
I know that lately I’ve been wasting time
Like I’ve been waiting for the perfect sign
Oh, don’t want to anymore
Well, I can tell you I’ve been working it out
I’ve been uncovering
What’s holding me down
Oh, what am I waiting for?
What can I do within a lifetime
If I quit waiting for the right time?
And finally try to make my life mine
Just like you’d want to see me do
If I don’t wanna be the same man
I think it’s time I had a game plan
To do the things that I’ve been dreaming
Just like you’d want me to
I keep on waiting for the way it could be
And missing everything in front of me
Oh, don’t want to anymore
So I’ll make a list of all the things I could do
And face everything inside of me
That’s scared to lose
Oh, what am I waiting for?
What can I do within a lifetime
If I quit waiting for the right time?
And finally try to make my life mine
Just like you’d want to see me do
If I don’t wanna be the same man
I think it’s time I had a game plan
To do the things that I’ve been dreaming
Just like you’d want me to
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2013 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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All About You
Is it because, it’s not enough
For me to spend my life alone?
You are the cause, I saw you once
And now you’re burned into my mind
And now I see you all the time
And every time I think about
The life that I would live without your love
It makes me weak
‘Cause on the darkest of days
You light my way
I’m always all about you
It’s just the way that you do
It gets me through
I’m always all about you
I lost my way the other day
It felt so strange to be alone
‘Cause you’re the one that feels like home
I don’t care what it says about me
I don’t want to go without
The love you give to me
‘Cause on the darkest of days
You light my way
I’m always all about you
It’s just the way that you do
It gets me through
I’m always all about you
I’m all about you
There will come a time
When we must find
Our own way through
But for today I have to say
I’m glad to know that I found you
On the darkest of days
You light my way
I’m always all about you
It’s just the way that you do
It gets me through
I’m always all about you
‘Cause you’re the one that I need
You’ll always be
I’m always all about you
And if you love me too
Then say you do
I’m always all about you
I’m all about you
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2013 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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Lover’s Lament
If I could have fixed it in time
I say like I have said many times
Like if I could have that moment again
I would do it right
Then I think I could’ve been happy tonight
Right
I’ve been living all in the past
Wishing I could have back what I had
But even when I landed
Where I wanted to land
I was restless
I was wringing my hands
This is a lament
For all the time that I spend
In the past
Not being here with you
Not being here
Where I am
Where I am
If I say I’ll be happy when
Do I keep myself unhappy til then?
And if I don’t like this moment
How will I like the next?
Probably gonna be
Probably gonna feel a lot like this
This is a lament
For all the time that I spend
In the past
Not being here with you
Not being here
Where I am
Where I am
This is a lament
For all the worry I spend
On tomorrow
Not being here with you
Not being here
Where we are
You see the sun go down
You feel the air around you
You taste the salt and you hear the sea
You let the rain fall through
When that’s what it wants to do
How do you make it look so easy
To be?
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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Dillinger Days
“Hotel in Arizona
Made us all
Wanna feel like stars”
– Wilco
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2013 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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The Moon
You were the sun
But you couldn’t see it
A light for everyone
Did not believe it
‘Cause you don’t see the light
You’re behind the Earth at night
And you’re dying for someone
To tell you you’re bright
Like the moon
The moon, the moon
You were the sun
But you couldn’t see it
You heard from everyone
Did not believe it
And the sky’s open wide
But you’re searching my eyes
For a sign that I like what I see in you
And you are on fire
But you are so far from believing
So you look to the moon
The moon, the moon
Well, the moon gets all its spark
Reflecting light of stars
But can never love you bright enough
To tell you who you are
That’s up to you
To you, to you
But you look to the moon
The moon, the moon
You look to the moon
The moon, the moon
We were the sun
But we couldn’t see it
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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Motels
“Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear”
– Sarah McLachlan
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing
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Start Somewhere
I left my cap and gown
And faces that all knew me
I shook familiar hands
And wished them well away
We trade our homes to roam
The streets of bigger cities
When we dream the kind of dreams
That will not go away
So lay your heart out
On your mark
Get ready, go
And if anybody told you
What you gotta go through
You have to start somewhere
You have to start somewhere
We were playing the subways
Where we laughed
And learned to harmonize
Under Downtown Crossing
Where you couldn’t hear the sound
And you have to face your fear
No one will ever hear you
But you learn to sing your song
When no one is around
Now the songs we sing
Run underneath
The life we know
If anybody told you
What you gotta go through
You have to start somewhere
You have to start somewhere
If anybody doubts you
What you will amount to
You have to start somewhere
You have to start somewhere
We would drive I-95
Through snow and ice at night time
Praying that we’d make it there
On-time and alive
‘Cause everything is harder
Than you think it’s gonna be
And just because you want it
Doesn’t mean it comes easy
There’s gonna be a moment
Where you come so close
To letting it go
C. Hood/ R. Green/ R. Alfred
©2013 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Super Professional Jams/ BMI
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