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01 Dumb Luck 3:320:00/3:32
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02 Being Young 2:580:00/2:58
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04 Appy Forever 2:360:00/2:36
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05 This Is For You 3:340:00/3:34
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0:00/3:45
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08 Over Again 3:360:00/3:36
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09 The Time It Takes 2:580:00/2:58
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10 Yes & No 4:570:00/4:57
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Dumb Luck
Is it who you know
Or who you meet
How hard you work
How short you sleep?
Your part of the world?
The religion that you’re in?
Is it who shows up
Who won’t give up?
Who won’t surrender
When the door is shut?
The look of your face?
The complexion of your skin?
Is it just that some are blessed?
While the rest of us are left
Behind to find our way
Is it still anybody’s game?
Or is it just…
Dumb luck?
If it is, so what?
If it is sometimes
And it is sometimes
One roll of a big dumb die
With a billion sides
'Cause it is sometimes
And it takes a lot of trust
To keep the faith and not give up
In the face of dumb luck
Is it faith that prays
And makes a way?
Or fate that things
Should be this way?
Destiny, or equity, or class?
If you make it big, or make it bad
Is it what you did or didn’t add
To your vision plan
That makes it come to pass?
Is it all the dreams you dream?
Or the genes that you receive?
Is it nature? Is it nurture?
Does it make it worse to think?
That it’s just…
Dumb luck
If it is, so what?
If it is sometimes
And it is sometimes
One roll of a big dumb die
With a billion sides
'Cause it is sometimes
And it takes a lot of trust
To keep the faith and not give up
In the face of dumb luck
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Being Young
I’m not as young as I was
When I was young
I’m not as fun as I thought I was
When I was young and getting drunk
I’m not as fast on my feet
With my defense
I’m not as quick to use my wit
At someone else’s expense
I’m not as strong as I was
When I was young
I’m not as tough, I’m not as hard
I’m not as scared to show my heart
I’m not as good at being good
To try to please
I’m not as bad about feeling bad
All the time underneath
Oh, let’s be bad at being young
If young means fast and bad at love
Let’s be bad at going fast
At racing to outrun being young
I don’t run like I ran
When I was young
When I was first and I was fast
And I had sunlight in my lungs
But I don’t run like I ran
Away from pain
When it gets hard, I don’t go far
My steady heart has learned to stay
Oh, let’s be bad at being young
If young means fast and bad at love
Let’s be bad at going fast
At racing to outrun being young
You wanna know
What I hope as I get old?
I’ll be open, I’ll be hopeful
Never scold what I don’t know
Oh, let’s be bad at being old
If old means “No” and scared to grow
Let’s be bad at holding on
To well-worn tales
Of how it’s all gone wrong
Let’s be good at being young
Find what’s fun, whatever comes
Let’s be good at growing up
And you and I will love being young
You and I will love being young
You and I will love being young
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Cool, Calm & Collected
I haven't been to town to see you
Ten years to the day
Or felt the curve behind
Your driver’s seat
That my left hand had made
I haven't even thought about you
Every day since then
Or marked the days off calendars
Waiting to forget
Like, maybe in the new year
In the school year
After Christmas break
Maybe I just needed
To believe you
When you used to say
“I am cool, cool, calm, collected
Setting my sights on getting elected
President of 4H camp
I got a dream to be a TV man
I’ve got the steps down cold
I got this all under control
I am cool, cool, calm, collected”
Through the town
I’m driving around now
Chasing after ghosts
Thinking about that talent show
And all the songs you wrote
And how it all just comes to nothing
If you can’t stay clean
How powerless I felt to fix it
Even though it seemed
Like, maybe in the new year
In the school year
After Christmas break
Maybe I just needed
To believe you
When you used to say
“I am cool, cool, calm, collected
Setting my sights on getting elected
President of 4H camp
I got a dream to be a TV man
I’ve got the steps down cold
I got this all under control
I am cool, cool, calm, collected”
I’ve heard it said
That your problem
Is not the problem
It’s a failed solution
That almost works
If it doesn’t kill you first
I am cool, cool, calm, collected
Doing my best now to try to forget this
What the lesson is, I don’t know
Probably, “Forgive, forget, let go”
Ashes to the wind
I’ll just move on without my friend
Well, I am cool, cool, calm, collected
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Appy Forever
“I think I'm gonna love you for a long, long time.”
—Linda Ronstadt
R. Green / C. Hood
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
This Is For You
This is for you
I don’t want to keep it anyway
What would I do?
Singing to myself
Has never felt the same
I’ll say it to you just one time
You can do what you will
And if the ending doesn’t go my way
I’ll know that I did
Time, make the most of me
Here goes everything
Ooh, and my heart is beating
Like an animal
Ooh, I feel the oxygen, breathe it in
Out of my lungs, out of my hands
Leave it to you
To choose where it lands
Oooh
Where do I go now?
I don’t know how to get there anyway
All that I know now
Is it was something that I had to say
If I sing it to you just one time
Will you hear what I say?
‘Cause there ain’t no going back again
On the chances we take
Time, make the most of me
Here goes everything
Ooh, when the words
Aren’t working like I want them to
Ooh, find the shape of it, staple it
Draw it all out, fold it up sharp
A paper plane in the shape of my heart
Oooh
Oooh
I don’t know where it landed
I don’t know where it landed
But I’m breathing again
This is for you
Ooh, and my heart is beating
Like an animal
Ooh, I feel the oxygen, breathe it in
Out of my lungs, out of my hands
Leave it to you
To choose where it lands
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
R. Green / C. Hood
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
We Are Not Who We Think We Are
Did you ever feel like
A million different people inside?
Like your face is a collection
Of every age that you have survived
This one is a good one
Doing what he should one
Another’s got a lot of thoughts
He knows he ought not to say
We are not who we think we are
Not stars, constellations
We are not who we think we are
My heart is a conversation
And every little part of me
Believes in every story it tells
But it’s not my Self
Did you ever feel like
A million different people inside?
Gonna name my contradictions
Meet every little one in the light
Somewhere underneath
Is Someone who can reach
Every part of my heart
Till I start to love them all the same
We are not who we think we are
Not stars, constellations
We are not who we think we are
My heart is a conversation
And every little part of me
Believes in every story it tells
But it’s not my Self
We are not who we think we are
Not stars, constellations
We are not who we think we are
My heart is a conversation
We are not who we thought
We would be
Our own best friends and enemies
Maybe I’ll go easier on me
And on everyone else
When I’m not myself
When I’m not myself
When I’m not my
R. Green / C. Hood
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Did I Ever Let You Love Me?
How do I be the one
Who never comes undone?
Who never gets afraid of
Nothing but a great love
“Tell me what you need from me”
You said it so sweetly
You made it sound easy
But for me, it isn’t easy
Oh, did I even once let go?
I don't know
How I could’ve been so cold
Oh, I thought one of us
Should keep control
And hold tight
So that we could be alright
But did I ever let you love me?
Did I ever let you love me?
How do I unbecome
Trying to be the strong one?
Trying to be fearless
Somehow let you near this?
“Show me where it hurts,” you say
And I wanna in the worst way
But even just to speak this
Feels like a weakness
Oh, did I even once let go?
I don't know
How I could’ve been so cold
Oh, I thought one of us
Should keep control
And hold tight
So that we could be alright
But did I ever let you love me?
Did I ever let you love me?
I was cold a lot when I was small
Frozen going down the halls
And when it’s cold, like people say
That’s when we all put on layers
Oh, did I even once let go?
I don't know
How I could’ve been so cold
Oh, would you even want to know
My whole soul
If I could ever be so bold?
If I ever let you love me
Could I ever let you love me?
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Over Again
I remember that night we met
Some things you can’t afford to forget
What I wouldn’t do just to get
To do it over
You get a forty-five-minute set to play
Before the next act comes onstage
“Watch the time,” they always say
“Don’t go over”
Well, I tried out a brand new song
That night
The crowd was loud
But the tune was right
Felt a little like love at first sight
At first sight
Is there a way that I could stay here
In between these bars?
Is there a way that I could play you
Back into my arms?
I’d play it over and over
I’d play it over again
I remember when I caught your eye
In the second verse, I was suddenly shy
Lost my place, did the same line
Twice over
Lost my place, did the same line twice
But it made you laugh, so I didn’t mind
And I would do it again
If it would make you mine
All over
They say sometimes
With love you just know
Other kinds of love take time to grow
Well, you and me, we had both
We had both
Is there a way that I could stay here
In between these bars?
Is there a way that I could play you
Back into my arms?
I’d play it over and over
I’d play it over and over
I’d play it over again
Lately, I've been fighting to remember
Before I’m out of time
Before December
Carries you away
I remember that night we met
Some things you can’t afford to forget
What I wouldn’t do just to get
To do it over
Is there a way that I could stay here
In between these bars?
‘Cause every day you slip away
I play my old guitar
I play us over and over
I play us over and over
I play us over and over
I play us over again
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
The Time It Takes
Loved you for the longest time
Been terrified a long, long time
Stayed behind a curtain
Wanting to be certain
One foot in and out the door
And praying for a sign
Well, it takes the time it takes
A decade or a day
But everything changed
When I decided to stay
I want you to know
I want you
And all of this time
Was worth it to find
I do
You loved me for the longest time
You kept the light on a long, long time
But somewhere underneath
Was your tender heart asleep?
Afraid to dream someone
Would want to come
And open up the blinds
Well, it takes the time it takes
A decade or a day
But both of us are waking up now
Let’s go out and play
‘Cause I want you to know
I want you
And all of this time
Was worth it to find
I do
I want you to know
I want you
And all of this time
Was worth it to find
I do
And all of this time
Was worth it to find
That I do
Oh, it takes the time it takes
Till love becomes real
Then suddenly, you run to me
At sunset in a field
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Yes & No
In the evening hours
When the living room lights
Have all gone dark
Looking to the sky at night
Chasing you
I’m praying to the stars
And I don’t know, so I’m asking if
Somewhere in the center
Of the blackness is a throne
Is there anything in between it all
Everybody says that heaven
Is your home
Is it so?
Yes and no
Yes and no
Yes and no
In the busy hours
When I slip beneath
The stained glass to rest
Now I guess I bow my head
And fold my hands
And try to slow my breath
And I don’t know, so I’m asking if
Faith is just a place
Where we act as if we know?
Are you in a book or a hymnal?
Waiting on a prayer rug, in a temple
Made of stone?
Is anybody home?
Yes and no
Yes and no
Yes and no
Yes and no
Yes and no
Yes and no
In the early hours
When the street is still asleep
I wash my face
Reflected in the mirror
Is an enemy
A friend in need of grace
And I don’t know, so I’m asking if
Everything unknowable
And infinite could rest
In my imperfection and brokenness?
Is it true you could make your home
In this mess?
In my chest?
Yes
C. Hood / R. Green
©2025 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI