Adrian Orange & Her Band (500 Revolutions Per Minute), 2007
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Window (Mirror) Shadow
Interdependence Dance
Fire Dream
Then We Play
You’re My Home
Give to Love What’s Love’s
A Flower’s Is Mine
Unconvincing Serenade
Question Love Answer
Keep Your Money
Window (Mirror) Shadow
Believing only what I would
And seeing only with two eyes
The lights which illuminated days
I had stolen and disguised
And sure it was unknowingly
That I tried to make you mine only
I made you into things you weren’t
Disregarding who you were
What is in the window?
Oh my faintest memories!
What is in the shadows?
Where is the home to return?
What is in the window?
Oh my new and fleeting dreams!
What is in the shadows?
Stopped car on the dark road
What’s in through the window?
Interdependence Dance
I walked away
Yeah, my heart followed my feet
With each step a new mind making
I heard the knock at my door
But I‘s sure too sir certain that it’s just the wind
You know I know you know right where I live
And that I’m home you know me and I’m always home
I got your phone number but I don’t call it
I don’t know what I’d say, I don’t know why I would
I don’t know anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
But I don’t owe anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
Once upon a time, you hurt my feelings
And I hurt yours too but we don’t talk about it
No, we talk about everyday shit, everyday lived-in thoughts
Every day we chat about nothing much
But we were so in love I know if we’re reunited
I would know what you’d say even before you said it
And you’d know what I’d say
But I don’t owe anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
I don’t know anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
Fire Dream
I dreamed that a fire from our bed spread all through town
But in the morning the house still was cold
A magnificent dream, nonetheless revelatory
So suddenly met by tomorrow’s sunny window
No breakfast, no time, off to town, no delay
We need the fire there to warm up our sad bones
If we greet them with warmth, they may grant us welcome
Though each of us must walk all next to our lonesome
Trees by the roadside gravely loom and feign to hide
New buildings, eye-catching like bad food packaging
In their parking lots, cans and bottles echo soft
And shiny paint jobs rest on the mid-priced cars
So much depends on each separate perception
Each soul’s made the god of a separate creation
All the modern masters don’t know the power they hold
Even they must be tricked, and think they walk alone
Giving all their best and being uncompensated,
Lamenting that they only wished to belong but get enslaved
My god, what has become of the world we could share?
This world of ours that’s now yours and mine
Once again in the west we watch the sun setting
My heart went with it then and night fell on what’s left of me
Then We Play
When love calls us, let’s go, so where we follow love goes
When we’re married, let’s make our bed on clouds at sunset
Thunder and lightning are our salt and sugar, then we drink rain
Nightmares and daydreams are our only real duties, then we play
You’re My Home
My parents were poor but this country is rich
So I’m going around and taking all I can get
I only do what I want, no matter the cost and for better or worse
I know I know nothing and no god but I belong to Her
Whose wonders are many, though my visions are few
I have come through many miles of night to meet you
Opposite strings of headlights and the sky, that dark blue
I haven’t saved you nothing and I bring no excuse
But whoo ooh hoo ooh
When I come to you, you’re my home
Let my heart jump through your eyes
And our cheeks stay rosy until dawn
Shows us a blush in the window
Hold me and I’ll feel my blood rush
Give to Love What’s Love’s
If your eyes see no lesson and your ears hear no lecture
And you can’t find a teacher, don’t doubt the existence of her
Just clear off your senses and open your mind
So curiosity comes like a fast fragile light
Then let yourself learn
Let yourself see, do not deny them
Let yourself feel, do not deny them
Let yourself hear, do not deny them
All the lessons are clear as night
I’m lonely myself and he’s lonely as well,
And she’s lonely as well
Well, give away your love
Until you give away your love
You know you’ll be beloved if you give away your love
Don’t ask for it back, no don’t you ask for nothing
Give away your love and then give away your love some more
A Flower’s Is Mine
Envious of the luxurious inside
I am hungry and in the cold sky’s street
Wondering what I can offer you now,
Now that I’ve unlearned the ways of your world
I would dream you a real magic dream
If only I could just fall asleep
Will you make up my bed for me, lord, and tuck me in?
Will you plant me like a little seed?
The whole point of my life comes to the point of a flower
And the meaning of my life is what a flower means
Your love, like rain and sun, would make me grow
When you drop me like a button in the snow
I can shine, my mind so strong and bright
To reassuringly mystify, and you can use me as a star
All my thoughts and dreams are blanketed by a soft darkness
Like a candle in the basement, burning slow into the void
If you make up my bed for me, my lord
If you plant me like a seed in your backyard
Your love, like rain and sun, would make me grow
And I’ll grow towards the source of your unending love
Unconvincing Serenade
Let go of the comfortable familiar
And rest easy mystery’s family
Let go of those unquestioned beliefs
And we’ll learn a great number of new things
We will learn how to learn how to learn how to learn how
To learn how to learn how to learn to learn new things
And I will love you (all of you)
I don’t give a fuck about the local laws and customs,
Or if they banish us--from what? And for what? What the fuck? We are all
I don’t give a fuck about those impulsive judgments
Or that compulsive destruction of all our most adventurous ideas
It’s up to them to understand now,
To ask hard questions and doubt
The whole world’s in their minds
That they can turn over, or around
It’s up to all of you now (all of you)
And I am you (all of you)
So it’s up to me, too (all of you)
Since it’s up to me, here’s what I’m gonna do
Question Love Answer
Depending on the borders around your soul, where it’s been torn
You may have been hidden inside, kept outside or unborn
But regardless of the reason and regardless of the rhyme
The great Spirit of love could sew your soul back to mine
The great Spirit of love would make a flag of souls
The great Spirit of love saying we could call love home
Revolution or rebellion could lose or save the day
But the great Spirit of love will stay
Keep Your Money
I wonder what you would do if you were in my shoes
How would you act? What would you say?
Do you think you could do better than me?
You see, I’ve come a long, long way
Many paths have crossed mine
I could have chosen to live your way
And sacrificed my own life
Instead of that, each day I pray
To keep your fear and greed away
I’ll keep my soul, you can keep my clothes
You can keep my house, you can keep my pay
You can keep your money
I don’t need you to tell me “yes”
I don’t need you to help me out
I don’t need you to grant permission
The grant I need can not be given
I’ll keep my heart, you can keep my body
I’ll keep my soul, you can keep your money
Interdependence Dance
Fire Dream
Then We Play
You’re My Home
Give to Love What’s Love’s
A Flower’s Is Mine
Unconvincing Serenade
Question Love Answer
Keep Your Money
Window (Mirror) Shadow
Believing only what I would
And seeing only with two eyes
The lights which illuminated days
I had stolen and disguised
And sure it was unknowingly
That I tried to make you mine only
I made you into things you weren’t
Disregarding who you were
What is in the window?
Oh my faintest memories!
What is in the shadows?
Where is the home to return?
What is in the window?
Oh my new and fleeting dreams!
What is in the shadows?
Stopped car on the dark road
What’s in through the window?
Interdependence Dance
I walked away
Yeah, my heart followed my feet
With each step a new mind making
I heard the knock at my door
But I‘s sure too sir certain that it’s just the wind
You know I know you know right where I live
And that I’m home you know me and I’m always home
I got your phone number but I don’t call it
I don’t know what I’d say, I don’t know why I would
I don’t know anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
But I don’t owe anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
Once upon a time, you hurt my feelings
And I hurt yours too but we don’t talk about it
No, we talk about everyday shit, everyday lived-in thoughts
Every day we chat about nothing much
But we were so in love I know if we’re reunited
I would know what you’d say even before you said it
And you’d know what I’d say
But I don’t owe anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
I don’t know anyone anymore
I don’t owe you anymore
Fire Dream
I dreamed that a fire from our bed spread all through town
But in the morning the house still was cold
A magnificent dream, nonetheless revelatory
So suddenly met by tomorrow’s sunny window
No breakfast, no time, off to town, no delay
We need the fire there to warm up our sad bones
If we greet them with warmth, they may grant us welcome
Though each of us must walk all next to our lonesome
Trees by the roadside gravely loom and feign to hide
New buildings, eye-catching like bad food packaging
In their parking lots, cans and bottles echo soft
And shiny paint jobs rest on the mid-priced cars
So much depends on each separate perception
Each soul’s made the god of a separate creation
All the modern masters don’t know the power they hold
Even they must be tricked, and think they walk alone
Giving all their best and being uncompensated,
Lamenting that they only wished to belong but get enslaved
My god, what has become of the world we could share?
This world of ours that’s now yours and mine
Once again in the west we watch the sun setting
My heart went with it then and night fell on what’s left of me
Then We Play
When love calls us, let’s go, so where we follow love goes
When we’re married, let’s make our bed on clouds at sunset
Thunder and lightning are our salt and sugar, then we drink rain
Nightmares and daydreams are our only real duties, then we play
You’re My Home
My parents were poor but this country is rich
So I’m going around and taking all I can get
I only do what I want, no matter the cost and for better or worse
I know I know nothing and no god but I belong to Her
Whose wonders are many, though my visions are few
I have come through many miles of night to meet you
Opposite strings of headlights and the sky, that dark blue
I haven’t saved you nothing and I bring no excuse
But whoo ooh hoo ooh
When I come to you, you’re my home
Let my heart jump through your eyes
And our cheeks stay rosy until dawn
Shows us a blush in the window
Hold me and I’ll feel my blood rush
Give to Love What’s Love’s
If your eyes see no lesson and your ears hear no lecture
And you can’t find a teacher, don’t doubt the existence of her
Just clear off your senses and open your mind
So curiosity comes like a fast fragile light
Then let yourself learn
Let yourself see, do not deny them
Let yourself feel, do not deny them
Let yourself hear, do not deny them
All the lessons are clear as night
I’m lonely myself and he’s lonely as well,
And she’s lonely as well
Well, give away your love
Until you give away your love
You know you’ll be beloved if you give away your love
Don’t ask for it back, no don’t you ask for nothing
Give away your love and then give away your love some more
A Flower’s Is Mine
Envious of the luxurious inside
I am hungry and in the cold sky’s street
Wondering what I can offer you now,
Now that I’ve unlearned the ways of your world
I would dream you a real magic dream
If only I could just fall asleep
Will you make up my bed for me, lord, and tuck me in?
Will you plant me like a little seed?
The whole point of my life comes to the point of a flower
And the meaning of my life is what a flower means
Your love, like rain and sun, would make me grow
When you drop me like a button in the snow
I can shine, my mind so strong and bright
To reassuringly mystify, and you can use me as a star
All my thoughts and dreams are blanketed by a soft darkness
Like a candle in the basement, burning slow into the void
If you make up my bed for me, my lord
If you plant me like a seed in your backyard
Your love, like rain and sun, would make me grow
And I’ll grow towards the source of your unending love
Unconvincing Serenade
Let go of the comfortable familiar
And rest easy mystery’s family
Let go of those unquestioned beliefs
And we’ll learn a great number of new things
We will learn how to learn how to learn how to learn how
To learn how to learn how to learn to learn new things
And I will love you (all of you)
I don’t give a fuck about the local laws and customs,
Or if they banish us--from what? And for what? What the fuck? We are all
I don’t give a fuck about those impulsive judgments
Or that compulsive destruction of all our most adventurous ideas
It’s up to them to understand now,
To ask hard questions and doubt
The whole world’s in their minds
That they can turn over, or around
It’s up to all of you now (all of you)
And I am you (all of you)
So it’s up to me, too (all of you)
Since it’s up to me, here’s what I’m gonna do
Question Love Answer
Depending on the borders around your soul, where it’s been torn
You may have been hidden inside, kept outside or unborn
But regardless of the reason and regardless of the rhyme
The great Spirit of love could sew your soul back to mine
The great Spirit of love would make a flag of souls
The great Spirit of love saying we could call love home
Revolution or rebellion could lose or save the day
But the great Spirit of love will stay
Keep Your Money
I wonder what you would do if you were in my shoes
How would you act? What would you say?
Do you think you could do better than me?
You see, I’ve come a long, long way
Many paths have crossed mine
I could have chosen to live your way
And sacrificed my own life
Instead of that, each day I pray
To keep your fear and greed away
I’ll keep my soul, you can keep my clothes
You can keep my house, you can keep my pay
You can keep your money
I don’t need you to tell me “yes”
I don’t need you to help me out
I don’t need you to grant permission
The grant I need can not be given
I’ll keep my heart, you can keep my body
I’ll keep my soul, you can keep your money