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Under the Leaves
At morning I’m waiting
At evening I sing
At midnight I need you
And moments between
In movements I'm making
In thoughts I don’t speak
In ways you've been breaking
My statues to me
Show me what you wanna show me
‘Cause I wanna see
Tell me what you wanna tell me
I’ll be listening
Somewhere under the leaves
Somewhere under my breathing
In the greyness of the raining
In the falling of the leaves
In the sadness we are planting
Trees that we will not live to see
In the golden days of summer
In the joy that we may reap
In the wind there is a whisper
Something I can catch but never keep
Show me what you wanna show me
‘Cause I wanna see
Tell me what you wanna tell me
I’ll be listening
Somewhere under the leaves
Somewhere under my breathing
Do you want to be found?
Do you want to be found?
Blind, I am blinded
By feelings and sound
If you’re hiding in silence
My life is too loud
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
The Fight
The world is changing
You feel it spinning faster
I heard you saying
We’re heading for disaster in the end
Feels like we’re caving in
The world is changing
There might not be enough, and
We’re all afraid things
Are blowing up and
Someone is to blame
Bet you could name some names
Lock them all away
And drive away the hate by hating
Try to smash that thing down
Try to stamp that thing out
Try to grab it all and
Pound it down to a thousand pieces
But don’t be afraid
Though the earth should give way
Just show me all your faith
In all the ways you love
The faces of the ones who disagree
The world is changing
It’s not that different really
We do the same things
We did for centuries
When we get scared
We point over there
I think it’s strange how
We’re never good at knowing
The moment we change
To be the same as
What we fight against
Just feels like self-defense
And so we try again
To drive away the hate by hating
Take right, take left
Take blue, take red
Take heart, take head
Take Sharks, take Jets
Take the comments section
From the last election
Take the things we write
Take our misdirection
Take the fear that makes us
Wanna drive them out
And act the same as what we’re mad about
Take the Inquisition, think of prohibition
“Shock and Awe” against Sharia Law
Take Crusades and hate
And mobs and frenzies
Crews and cliques
The crucifixion
Ethnic cleansing
And it isn’t only all about the pain and hurt
But also that it never really seems to work
Because the heavier the hand
That holds and squeezes
The more you break the thing
Into a million pieces
And every little spore is gonna grow again
You could call that “hell”
Or you could call that “sin”
But the only revolution is the one within
’Til we throw ourselves into the light
We will never win the fight
Take me, Take me
Never smash that thing down
Never stamp that thing out
Never grab it all and
Pound it down to a thousand pieces
So don’t be afraid
Though the earth should give way
Just show me all your faith
In all the ways you love
Try to smash that thing down
Try to stamp that thing out
Try to grab it all and
Pound it down to a thousand pieces
So don’t be afraid
No, don’t be afraid
Just show me all your faith
In all the ways you love
The faces of the ones who disagree
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
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Seeing In The Dark
Did you ever feel like
Like you made a mistake
Like maybe you stayed
Instead of walking away?
Did you ever feel like
Like you missed out on fate?
Like you fell out of place
Does it work that way?
Have you ever tried it
Tried to write it all down
When there’s something inside of you
And you can’t get it out?
It’s like living and dying
At the very same time
You don’t want to come out
But you know you can’t hide
I see the daylight fading
I lie awake at night
Chasing shadows
Hiding from the light
Moonlight waking
Something in my heart
Moving through the darkness
’Til I learn the hardest part
Seeing in the dark
So you try to start over
But you just can’t erase
All the lines on your pages
Or the lines in your face
There’s no way to go back now
But you just can’t stand still
With all the things that you’ve felt
And everything that you feel
I see the daylight fading
I lie awake at night
Chasing shadows
Hiding from the light
Moonlight waking
Something in my heart
Moving through the darkness
’Til I learn the hardest part
Seeing in the dark
Seeing in the dark
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
I Didn’t Have The Chance
I wonder did I know
What I would be losing
When I let the thing that we had break?
What if I had called out
Like they do in movies?
“Wait!” What would I say?
Maybe if I hadn’t let you go
Let you walk away
You would still be here
I used to wanna say
You were the one
Who helped me believe
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
Open up my arms
And hope you come around again
But it’s still not clear
If there’ll be another day
To tell you all you mean to me
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
I didn’t have the chance
I felt my heart beating
Burning in the moment
If I could say the first word I'd be in
But I stood beside you
In the safety of the silence
And couldn't push the word beyond my lips
Maybe if I hadn’t let you go
Let you walk away
You would still be here
I used to wanna say
You were the one
Who helped me believe
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
Open up my arms
And hope you come around again
But it’s still not clear
If there’ll be another day
To tell you all you mean to me
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
I didn’t have the chance
I wonder do I know now
How I'd do it different
If I had the chance again to take?
Maybe if I hadn’t let you go
Let you walk away
You would still be here
I used to wanna say
You were the one
Who helped me believe
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
Open up my arms
And hope you come around again
But it’s still not clear
If there’ll be another day
To tell you all you mean to me
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you
‘Cause I didn’t take the chance
‘Cause I didn’t take the chance
Maybe, maybe, it’s too many “maybe”s
Maybe, maybe, it’s too many “maybe”s
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
Appy Returns
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . ."
—Andrew J. Kuehn, Tagline for Jaws 2
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
Gone Before I Go
Waiting and watching stars go by
We’re laying, not talking
On the night before goodbye
Oh, tomorrow I go
Oh, I just wanna stay
Oh, oh, I'm already far away
Toss and turning around
Turning around
The clock hands hold me down
Turning around and round and round
And I’m reaching for water
And to wake you up to talk
Could you teach me, girl?
I'm caught here
In the service of the clock
Oh, tomorrow I go
Oh, I just wanna stay
Oh, oh, I'm already far away
Toss and turning around
Turning around
The clock hands hold me down
Turning around and round and round
The heart has its ways
Of keeping us safe
Safe, but so alone
So, I’m gone before I go
I’m gone, gone, gone before I even
Gone, gone, gone before I even go
Oh, I’m already miles away
Toss and turning around
Turning around
The clock hands hold me down
Turning around
Toss and turning around
Turning around
The clock hands hold me down
Turning around and round and round
Lying awake
Kicking covers away
I don't want to open my eyes
And be awake but not alive
I’m gone, I’m gone
I am gone before, long before
Gone before I go
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Not Alone
When I was three she said to me
“You’re not a chance, a circumstance
You have been made, you have a place
“And you will grow
Roots beyond your bones
Deeper than the stones
And you are not alone
And you will reach
Branches to the east
As far as you can see
To the lights of home
And you are not alone”
We grew up near anger and fear
And lived in rooms he painted blue
When I was ten, he told me then
“You’re just like me, just wait and see
“Unless you grow
Roots beyond your bones
Deeper than the stones
And you are not alone
Unless you reach
Branches to the east
As far as you can see
To the lights of home
And you are not alone”
The bough will break under the sound
So many things are upside down
Reach out and feel the sun and rain
Our leaves will change
I see them play so unafraid
I want to stay, to keep us safe
But nothing’s safe
And so we grow
Roots beyond our bones
Deeper than the stones
And you are not alone
And so we reach
Branches to the east
As far as you can see
To the lights of home
And you will grow
Roots beyond your bones
Deeper than the stones
And you are not alone
And there will be
A garden full of trees
As far as you can see
To the lights of home
And you are not alone
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
Wide Awake In A Dream
Lately I’ve been falling for you
But I can’t fall asleep
Wide awake at night
As I set the scene
You and me
You and me
Wide awake in a dream
We wouldn’t have to wake up
On our own
As I'm staring at the ceiling
I see shapes and stars
Like I’m painting
You a work of art
On the ocean, you are smiling
When you realize
That I made this world
Just to light your eyes
You and me
You and me
Wide awake in a dream
We’d never have to wake up
On our own
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI
Ruins
Beyond the field
Behind the branches
Across the broken glass and bones
And past the last of growing things I see
A history I never wanted to know
The light upon the hill
Was left to dust
No rain to calm the blame
Or damage done
Between the rusted out reminders
Of people broke beneath the dream
Through streets, we make our way
Into the heart, the darkest part
We never wanted to see
We found the houses
Filled with brilliant things
And haunted by
The emptiness they bring
Windows
Covered up with mirrors
And daylight
Covered up with screens
Where space was
Never made to stop and rest
We lost our breath
Beneath the leaves
Where fear was
Hid away in basements
And fear was
In the dirt below
Where fear was never faced
And never followed back
Foundations cracked
Beneath the stones
The writing in the ruins
Of the earth
Read, “All who have been last
Will be the first”
So now
Repair the thing that’s broke down
And somehow become who we could be
We need to go down
Deeper than we know how
Below ground, the river underneath
So now
Repair the thing that’s broke down
And somehow become who we could be
We need to go down
Turn around and give it back
In dust and ash
Become the spring
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Morning Breaking
Wide awake the morning breaking
Night I’m shaking off
My eyes are wider
Than they’ve been in months
I dreamed the weight of my mistakes
Had fallen from my hands
Like scattered seeds
Behind me as I ran
And all the tears I thought were wasted
Watered down below
'Til a garden from the grave
Began to grow
Now, through the fields
And through the forest
On to unknown lands
I learn to love the traveler as I am
So I’ll be ready to love
So I’ll be ready to love
So I’ll be ready to love
So I’ll be ready to love
When I have the chance
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI