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It's A Good Start
02:29
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what’s a thousand ambulance chasing attorneys at the bottom of the sea
it’s a good start, it’s a good start power hungry cops going rogue in the community serving time for their deeds it’s a good start, throw away the key
right wing politicians thrown out of office had better believe that’s
it’s a good start, you gotta start somewhere it’s a good start, it’s a time to impeach
let’s a make a better world by weeding out the ones that stand in the way of a peaceful world they’re not our friends let’s get them on the run
mindless opinionated asshole neighbors stuck in court for weeks it seems
it’s a good start midnight actions, sexting, seething ratings falling wake up to the tweeting and fall to your knees it’s a good start the end is near it’s a real good start
better move far from here it’s a good start disgraced and humiliated it’s a good start, it’s a good start let’s a make a better world by weeding out the ones that stand in the way of a peaceful world they’re not our friends let’s get them on the run
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Crisis
04:46
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one guy has a certain opinion and the next guy is completely offended who wins this? who’s the one who decides? is it anyone’s business? Or does someone have to die?
is it just a sign of the times, heaven help us is this the way it must go, come sit beside us empathize with is there a path we can choose.? its a crisis, its a crisis
did we not evolve are we just stuck in alpha like a pack of wolves who’s going to challenge the strongest can we come around maybe act like adults do we have to burn and just destroy each other is there a breakthrough due it seems the time is ripe it takes me and you to ride a tandem bike , i’ll get my wallet out and make a high odds bet that nothing's going to change no not here, not yet don't be so righteous and please don't fight us come sit beside us we can fix this crisis, fix this crisis
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Power Of Two
04:49
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well, what is not and who is able the talk’s just talk until the payments adjusted you should prepare the table lift it up, set it down sort through all the necessary papers is it better in a shade of brown or in a hue of human skin grey scale stop your messing around, stick to the point and choose your poison is there space in this town for someone so loud it disturbs the neighbors and who’s the one who supports this weak structure been in place for so long well it can barely function a word’s just a word until the payment’s adjusted it all seems absurd like some wasted judgment just come and sit now i saved a chair just for you come and see me it’s the power of two if you ever have a question or just begin to feel doubt don't forget that I just mentioned what those signs are all about come and see me, its the power of two
just come and sit now i saved a chair just for you come and see me it’s the power of two
come and see me it’s the power of two just me and you
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Times Up
04:20
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well i hope you got the message let me know if it isn’t clear its an interoffice memo
but please don’t say that you didn’t hear it anywhere it’s in the paper and on the news almost every night unbecoming conduced is never as simple as black and white times up, you’ve heard it told times up, an unspoken way to get control times up, your weak actions are not heaven sent times up, there better be consent when she refused your options and said that she’d rather not you couldn't take rejection so you fired her on the spot well the other shoe has dropped now and to replace it is a heavy cost and to reinforce the message ha, she is now the boss times up, it’s not a rumor times up, it’s the way it should have always been times up, equal pay for equal work times up, and hands off you jerk times up, no more getting used times up, no more beating or getting abused times up, everyone’s a person and not a thing for you to possess there’s no reason to be offensive and i’m not referring to just a harmless joke there’s no need to treat others people like toys and throw them undergo it’s over, it’s all over, times up he said, she said, see you in the court man eeny meany miny mo & mort times up, the clock is ticking quit being a dick, man
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Confine Them
03:51
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in your garden the damn stars open up were born under your horns and die there
in this cold hour you drop a tone roof on these lyrical butterflies and make sure they have flown propped up in your sky, you cut off their wings some frogs amidst the flowers and you confine them the hour struck in the forest, the silence filled up with bubbles a gold pendulum carried my face through the air the hour struck in the forest pocket watches, squadrons of flies came and went from my heart came the sound of my grandmothers gold plated watch lopped off from behind you cut out their souls propped up in your sky you cut off their wings and you confine them propped up in your sky you cut off their wings
lopped off from behind you cut out their souls and you confine them
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well david had a theory, it was actually his philosophy it made him pretty bitter, and his days on earth angry he saw wrong and couldn't swallow it, and he couldn't look away and he said, there’s no forgiving and i can't forget and i asked him, how can you move forward and try to get over it he hated his dad his entire life and maybe that was the real start he didn't like the lying or the bs from those that he knew but he loved life and he valued art ,he was funny, he was generous to the few he called his friends
and he said, there’s no forgiving and i can't forget and i asked him, how can you move forward and try to get over it but don't cross him once that’s all that it took and that’s where it ends there’s no forgiving and i can't forget how can you move forward and try to get over it the last time that i saw him he looked pretty weak
his eyes were kind of tired and his voice was rather weak well i’m glad that i knew you friend and thanks for being you i’m just sorry that you had to hurt so bad so i raise my glass to you and say thanks thanks david
obrigado
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In Any Language
02:33
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je te veux, j’ai besoin toi le fait est je ne suis rien sans toi je te veux, je vais t’avoir tu es a moi le monde est si inconstant il n’y a rien a arrivér les perspectives signent si peu il n’y a pas gain en mentant j’avais besoin de te dire je ne savais pas comment les mots ne sont pas faciles je les tiendrai dans ma bouche no matter how i try to say it it means nothing in any language no matter how i try to blurt it out i’d rather have a sandwich tu tambien veux, te necessity el hecho es, no say nada sin ti tu tambien veux ères moi el mundo es fan voluble no matter how i try to say it it means nothing in any language no matter how i try to blurt it out i’d rather have a sandwich je prefere avoir un sandwich au jambon
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The List To Do
04:58
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there’s too many things for the size of mind , the tip of my tongue holds the bulk of my day and on other days and in other times my mind is a mess and all over the place , its an avalanche and a mountain of doubt, its my list to do i can’t make it, its the gas bill and insurance, its my doctors appointment, i gotta do my music and my art work, its my faulty transmission, there’s not enough minutes that make up a day i gotta get my act into gear, there’s too many things that need to be done but really who’s going to do them? although i strive to make it work, i always drive myself crazy with my failings but i’m alive that should be good enough
i shouldn’t worry to much about the things that just don't matter, worry too much about the things i can’t control, so some things got left undone, so the lawn just gets higher, so the bills are a little a late again , so we’re out of purified water, i thought i could exceed and pass my goals expected more that’s just my nature, i hoped i though i hoped i would be more than just a humble creature, so the weeds got higher and higher, so some things got left undone, so the bills are a little late again, so we’re out of clarified butter
although i strive to make it work, i always drive myself crazy with my failings but i’m alive that should be good enough i shouldn’t worry to much about the things that just don't matter, worry too much about the things i can’t control
its the gas bill and insurance, its my doctors appointment, i gotta do my music and my art work, its my faulty transmission
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Dreams Of The Spiral
05:50
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look down, look at this, look down look down, look at this, look down look down look down, look at this look down and you’ll see the stars look back when you look at this all around in a state of wonder around every corner there’s nothing but worry each moment brings questions that grow like some cells each moment that passes is meaningless motion around every corner is madness that dwells but i, i will go through the sea of scorpions and you, you will come with tongue burnt by salt and i, i will go and see to the codes and you, you will come through sewers of darkness each second that ticks by
suggests a condition a pure state of being exists outside of this time transition and meaning are judgmental opinions subjected to light they fall like dust drifts down to the floor my time moves on in a spiral the spiral limits my landscape and leaves what is past in the shadows and me full of doubts oh perfect straight line, pure spear without spearman how your light turns my solomonic path into dreams into dreams of the spiral
look down, look at this look down and you’ll see the stars look back when you look at thi all around in a state of wonder look up, when look at this look up and the clouds drift past look up when you look at this look up can you see the ground? can you see the ground?
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Don Campau
Don Campau is a home recording musician, radio producer and visual artist living in Northern California. Don has been active in home recorded music since 1969 and runs the Lonely Whistle label. For full bio go to doncampau.com
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