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Alright Tonight

Here tonight I won’t pretend
Anything about where I’ve been
Like the family that I came from maybe
Or anything that I’m afraid of saying

‘Cause I believe that
We’re sick with secrets
That it keeps us torn in pieces
Better off to bathe our weaker sides
In the light

‘Cause it’s alright tonight
You don't have to hide
Take all you try to hold inside
And bathe it in the light

Here tonight I want to show
The other half that no one knows
Like the body that the mirror hated
And what I hid away into journal pages

‘Cause I believe that
We’re sick with secrets
That it keeps us torn in pieces
Better off to bathe our weaker sides
In the light

‘Cause it’s alright tonight
You don't have to hide
Take all you try to hold inside
And bathe it in the light

Here tonight we’ll sing it loud
If we got tears, we’ll let them out
And if you’ve been hiding
Come on out

‘Cause I believe that
We’re sick with secrets
That it keeps us torn in pieces
Better off to bathe our weaker sides
In the light

‘Cause it’s alright tonight
You don't have to hide
It’s alright tonight
It’s alright tonight

I’ll take all that I’m so tired of hiding
And bathe it in the light

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2017 Easycollective Music/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI

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Live Performance Video (National Folk Festival - AUS)
Tucson Studio Sessions Video

Embers

Just a little longer now
Wish that I could wrap my arms
Around this moment
If only I were stronger so
I didn’t ever have to let it get away
I’m by your side
Staring at the fire on a starry night
I know it isn’t always gonna burn this bright
Is time on our side?
Well, let’s pretend
‘Cause I don’t want this moment to end

I have to put your picture down
All the feelings they blow around
Like embers
I remember how it used to be
I can’t explain why I feel so differently these days
I don’t know why
We get a little taste of something perfect
But never seem to find a way to make it work
Is time on our side?
Well, let’s pretend
‘Cause I don’t want this moment to end

In the cold of the morning light
The fire’s out and I start to cry
I miss you
If I knew that it would end this way
I still wouldn’t give away a single day my love
Why? Tell me why
No matter how hard we try to make it last
It always pulls away until it’s out of grasp
Is time on our side?
Well, that depends
But let’s pretend
‘Cause I don’t want this moment to end

R. Green/ C. Hood
©2017 El Principito Publishing/
Easycollective Music/ BMI

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Official Lyric Video
Live Performance Video (National Folk Festival - AUS)
Live Performance Video (Fox Tucson Theatre)

Welcome You Into My Head

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 keys
Looks like you’ll be leading me

Home
Home
Maybe
Maybe
If you come to stay right here with me
Then maybe I won’t want to leave my head

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

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Official Lyric Video
Live Performance Video ( Fox Tucson Theatre)
Live Performance Video (Sofar Sounds)

Thirteen

Thirteen was the worst thing
Was the worst thing, being thirteen
Facedown in the bedroom, in a bad mood
Thirteen was the worst thing
Was the worst thing, being thirteen
The worst thing

When no one can find you
Where you need them to find you
No one believes you
And there’s no one to believe
Every conviction is full of contradictions
And all you can see
Is who you’d never want to be

Oh, I used to want to die
Used to want it over
Used to want it over
Now I’m so proud to be alive
But I wouldn’t want to do it over
I wouldn’t want to do it over

Thirteen was the worst thing
Was the worst thing, being thirteen
The worst thing

I tried to turn the sound up
I tried to drown it out, but
Somehow the shouting
Always found me down the halls
And I dreamed that love would save me
Or getting famous maybe
I dreamed of any way
That I could build the wall

Oh, I used to want to die
Used to want it over
Used to want it over
Now I’m so proud to be alive
But I wouldn’t want to do it over
I wouldn’t want to do it over

There’s so much inside
We were hoping to hide
So, I won’t be unkind
I won’t be unkind

I still go there sometimes

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2017 Easycollective Music/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI

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Is This The Time Of Our Lives?

Is this the time of our lives they told us
Hold it and don’t let it go?
When babies are growing up
Scrapbooks are blowing up
And everything’s out of control

Is this the time that they said was the best
When we’re blessed
More than we even know?
Have our health and our youth
And our bodies and beauty
And no, not a clue where to go

Tracing the past and the lines going back
You can see how it’s all meant to be
But stumbling blind to the future we find
Nobody knows where it leads
And nobody knows what it means

Is this the time of our lives?
Rushing and racing to find
We are waiting
It never feels right at the time
It’s never ’til later we find
What we’re making tonight

It’s been noted by some
Youth is lost on the young
And that wisdom is lost on the old
But the battle does not just
Belong to the strong
Or the race always go to the bold

‘Cause time and chance
Are a part of that dance
And heaven is breaking through slow
Though we stumble in darkness
And we only see part of it
Someday we’ll know like we’re known
I just wish I could bring it all home
Is this the time of our lives?
Rushing and racing to find
We are waiting
It never feels right at the time
It’s never ’til later we find
What we’re making tonight
Tonight

There’s a room with the lock
That holds the shelf that holds the clock
Beside the lamp that hides the light
Sealed away ’til the time
You wake up to find
Door’s open wide
Morning’s arrived

Is this the time of our lives?
Rushing and racing to find
We are waiting
When will it all be alright?
The morning awake in the light?
We are waiting
It never feels right at the time
’Til someday you wake up to find
What we’re making tonight

Is this the time of our lives they told us
Hold it and don’t let it go?
When babies are growing up
Scrapbooks are blowing up
But everything’s under control

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2017 Easycollective Music/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI

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Last Drops From The Rooftops

Is it still raining out?
Or do I just hear the last drops
From the rooftops?
You always told me how
You always thought the grey rain
Made the best days
Beauty in blackest clouds
Yeah, I know where I got that
But I don’t want that now

Oh, where can I go?
Where can I run?
When there is no one

I remember that tiny house
Feeling I could never find you
In those five rooms
You never quite came down
I guess I thought that I could save you
If I could feel the rain too

Oh, where can I go?
Where can I run?
When there is no one

Ooh, what could I do?
How could I run?
When you had no one

Is it still raining out?
Or just reflections of the street lights
As cars speed by
And though I’m older now
I wonder do we all know
How deep the holes go?

Paris For Now

“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy:
at home and in Paris”
— Ernest Hemingway

I Don’t Think I Know Anything Anymore

I don’t think I know anything anymore
Like I did before when I was little
I don’t think I know anything
I don’t think I know anything
Everything is grey in a way
I would have hated when I was little
Everything is grey in a way
But everything is great in a way

‘Cause I don’t have to hold the weight
Of being right
Of being oh so certain
I have got things right
And I don’t mind

So, I’ll be a little bit smarter
When I open my mouth
And I’ll be a little bit wiser
Before the words come out
And I’ll be a little bit kinder
In how I talk about it
‘Cause I look down
And there’s no ground
There’s just your hand to hold
Oh!

I don’t think I know anything anymore
I don’t think I know anything
I don’t think I know anything

I’m not so certain
I have got things right
And now I’m finding I don’t mind it
I’m not so certain
I always know who’s right
And now I’m finding I don’t mind it

I don’t think I know anything anymore
I don’t think I know anything
I don’t think I know anything
I don’t think I know anything anymore
I don’t think I know anything
I don’t think I know anything

The One Who Was On My Mind

You were the one who was on my mind
I was the one who was hoping
Off in a place that was far from home
Open to what life could show me
When I stepped into that room
I couldn’t help but fix my eyes on you
On you

Walking you home on those streets at night
Wanting to stay in your presence
And when I had you there by my side
It made me feel closer to heaven
So, I asked if you would stay
And hoped that you would say you do
You do

Time moved us on and around the world
Life gave us lives we’d be raising
Searching for truth we could recognize
Learning to live with our failings
When half our dreams fall through
I still believe in what we’re trying to do
To do

And when I’m old and grey
And I sit down to play
And no one’s listening to the words
I have to say
I have to say
I’ll still sing for you

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