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Method Acting / Cortez The Killer Lyrics by Dave Rawlings Machine

A Friend of A Friend

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There's no beginning to the story
A bookshelf sinks into the sand
A language learned and forgot in turn
Is studied once again
It's a shocking bit of footage
Viewed on a shitty TV screen
You can squint at it through snowy static
To make out what it means
And keep stretching that antenna
Hoping that it will come clear
I need some reception, a higher message
Please tell me what to feel
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings
It's alive with such possibility
But I know that I feel better when I sing
Burdens are lifted from me
That's my voice rising
So T-Bone, please keep the tape rolling
Gil, keep strumming that guitar
We need a record of our failures
We must document our loves
I sat too long in my silence
Grown too old in my pain
To shed this skin, be born again
It starts with an ending
And I don't know what tomorrow brings
It's full of such possibility
But I know that I feel better when I sing
Burdens are lifted from me
That's my voice rising
It's not a movie, no private screening
This method acting, I call it living
It's like a fountain, the door is open
We have a problem with no solution
But to love and to be loved
So thank you, friends, for the time we've shared
Your love stays with me like sunlight and air
And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here
My joy is covering me, soon I will disappear
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He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world in the palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma with his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls, he often wondered the secrets of the world
His subjects gathered round him like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors for the angry gods to see
And the women all looked beautiful and the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice so that others could go on
Hate was just a legend, war was never known
People worked together and they lifted many stones
Then they carried them to the flatlands, but they died along the way
And they built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today
And I know she's living there and she loves me to this day
I just can't remember when or how I lost my way
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Dave Rawlings Machine

Dave Rawlings Machine

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