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A Quantum Event

by nicholas gurney

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1.
On And On 03:22
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On And On The storm clouds may gather the rain it may fall The wind may start blowing it into a squall High, on the mountains it's, falling as snow Down in the valleys, the rivers below The levels are rising with nowhere to go Look, to the skies and the dist-ant horizon My love for you will go on The money may come and the money may go Good times and bad times it's all in the flow Hard, times enduring, and down, on our luck The spirit stays strong and the life force intact Don't be downhearted when facing the facts Look, to the skies and the dist-ant horizon My love for you will go on The storm clouds may gather the rain it may fall The wind may start blowing it into a squall High, on the mountains it's, falling as snow Down in the valleys, the rivers below The levels are rising with nowhere to go Look, to the skies and the dist-ant horizon Look, to the skies and the dist-ant horizon My love for you will go on My love for you it will go on and on My love for you it will go on and on My love for you it will go on and on My love for you it will go on and on
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High Noon 03:15
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High Noon It's high noon at the ok coral The gloves are off and they're on the prowl It's high noon and the main contenders Are facing off, they'll be no surrender You might think we're too sophisticated To need our egos vindicated You might think that we're over zealous When you find we're feeling jealous But this one goes down till the last man stood How quick can you draw, hope your aim is good This one goes down till there's blood on the street Only one clear winner left in the heat It's a Mexican stand-off where none will agree No negotiation a fait accomplis Irresistible force meets unmovable object The winner takes all, the loser a reject You might think we're too sophisticated To need our egos vindicated You might think that we're over zealous When you find we're feeling jealous But this one goes down till the last man stood How quick can you draw, hope your aim is good This one goes down till there's blood on the street Only one clear winner left in the heat
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Empathy 04:25
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Empathy You got the snake attitude, you got the tight-cut jeans You got the killer instinct, you got the look down mean An unholy kind of mash-up, you got that nailed With all of this back-up, you just can't fail There's only one thing and it stands out a mile With all of your bling and all of your style With all of this shock and all of this awe There's one thing you ignore Empathy You need a little empathy You gotta have empathy You need a little empathy You got the stick-on smile, you got the rhinestone suit You got the two-tone style, you got the snakeskin boots You got the belt and buckles, you got the white-teeth smile You got the moves a-plenty, you got the foxes guile There's only one thing and it stands out a mile With all of your bling and all of your style With all of this shock and all of this awe There's one thing you ignore Empathy You need a little empathy You gotta have empathy You need a little empathy
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The Easiest Way 03:03
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The Easiest Way Maybe this is you, shy and retiring For sure that says me, something wrong with the wiring I can't get the words right out of my mouth I can't speak the truth for fear the truth will out The easiest way is to come right out and say it The easiest way is the hardest too The easiest way is to grab it by the handle The easiest way it's what I need to do Even Stonewall Jackson said more than me I don't wanna be a stoic, who I'd rather be Is a free-speaking poet a magician with words With a voice so clear it just has to be heard The easiest way is to come right out and say it The easiest way is the hardest too The easiest way is to grab it by the handle The easiest way it's what I need to do
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The Dark Subconscious 04:38
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The Dark Subconscious Sometimes I wake up smiling, in the middle of the night When I went to bed I was grumpy, that don't seem right I'll take a happy disposition any way it's dealt But I wonder what went through my mind to change the way I felt The dark subconscious – are the oceans half as deep? My subconscious – that's where I go when I'm asleep The dark subconscious – where Sigmund used to play My subconscious – will we understand its ways? We wrestle with a problem but the answer just won't yield Got to sleep on a problem and the answer is revealed What goes on in the small dark hours when I'm so deep asleep If you could bottle it you'd soon sell out, just like counting sheep The dark subconscious – are the oceans half as deep? My subconscious – that's where I go when I'm asleep The dark subconscious – where Sigmund used to play My subconscious – will we understand its ways? So surreal this world of dreams Where dragons live and nothings seems so Out of place or split asunder It all makes sense in this place of wonder The dark subconscious – are the oceans half as deep? My subconscious – that's where I go when I'm asleep The dark subconscious – where Sigmund used to play My subconscious – will we understand its ways?
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Rising Up 03:45
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Rising Up The life I'd been living, I took it all for granted I took it all as nothing more than I deserved to have The very least that I should have But lately, the cracks have been appearing The evidence that nothing is for nothing and everything you get is a gift Can you believe that shift Hold me down, apply a damp sponge to my brow Apply a dose of reality an opportunity to change and grow It came as quite a blow What the flip, pretty quick I had to get a grip Stop behaving like a lunatic and consider other people too That was hard to do Rising up, my spirits have been rising up Enough to overflow my cup, with all humility Welling up, these feelings have been welling up When everything is added up, I'm as happy as I can be And that's a first for me Hold me down, apply a damp sponge to my brow Apply a dose of reality an opportunity to change and grow It came as quite a blow What the flip, pretty quick I had to get a grip Stop behaving like a lunatic and consider other people too That was hard to do Rising up, my spirits have been rising up Enough to overflow my cup, with all humility Welling up, these feelings have been welling up When everything is added up, I'm as happy as I can be And that's a first for me
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A Quantum Event 03:40
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A Quantum Event It might take a moment, it might take a day It might take a week or two, who's gonna say It might be the work of a genius Or it might be the spirits at play One thing's for sure, it's here to stay It's not gonna sparkle and then fade away Like a ghost of the night or a quantum event This singular entity is heaven sent Love is a total state of being Wraps up my world in a blaze of feeling A state of grace with perfect sight A weightless place of pure delight Writers will write, the poets will rhyme The violin will play its plaintiff line The spirits will rise the world will glow Slowly like dawn the light will grow One thing's for sure, it's here to stay It's not gonna sparkle and then fade away Like a ghost of the night or a quantum event This singular entity is heaven sent Love is a total state of being Wraps up my world in a blaze of feeling A state of grace with perfect sight A weightless place of pure delight
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So Falls The Rain 03:45
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And So Falls The Rain The starting was sweet it was innocent pure It was everything hoped for so full of allure Finding our feet as we try not to fall It was mischief and magic and as I recall Every bird sang as if bursting with life Every flower it blossomed and colour was rife We'd made our own world to live in, so falls the rain When love is alive it is so beyond hate Turns a dark rainy night to a magical state Makes a fool of the gloomy thoughts of the poet and song Turns everything into a shower of light A powerful force that can thrill and delight Transforming the dull into bright, so falls the rain I don't know how it came and I don't know why it's gone Just what I did right and what I did wrong But it won't heed our call and It won't always be working both ways It a mystery then it's a mystery now, I still can recall the beauty and how Like a ghost of the feelings now gone, so falls the rain And so falls the rain, and so falls the rain And so falls the rain, and so falls the rain
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Life's Too Short 03:32
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Life's Too Short Think about your future, forget about the past Learn from the mistakes we made then move it on real fast Tomorrow is the future, today is in our hands To make the very best of it, it's time to make some plans Pour on the pity pour on the woe Pour on the guilt, until it overflows Pour on the story, that's all it ever was Pour on the misery then walk away because Life's too short for wasting it away Whatever made you suffer is behind you anyway Don't hang on to any of that time Reach out into the future now and leave the past behind We're all creatures of habit so be careful what creeps in To keep repeating patterns makes a habit of a sin Try to keep your focus on the things you need Keep an upbeat attitude and that will plant the seed Pour on the pity pour on the woe Pour on the guilt, until it overflows Pour on the story, that's all it ever was Pour on the misery then walk away because Life's too short for wasting it away Whatever made you suffer is behind you anyway Don't hang on to any of that time Reach out into the future now and leave the past behind
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How High 04:04
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How High A river of feeling A flood of disbelief A sea of expectation An ocean of relief Just some of the emotions Come visiting my shore Those waves crash against me In a storm I can't ignore My heart is so full that it buffers at the strain How am I supposed to ride the feelings it contains Is this living, is this learning Is this crucial is this yearning How high can I fly How hot the sun There's some kind of spell Some kind of magic going on Some kind of potion means My freedom has gone But I quite like the sensation It's really so intense I don't know where it's going But I'm loving the suspense My heart is so full that it buffers at the strain How am I supposed to ride the feelings it contains Is this living, is this learning Is this crucial is this yearning How high can I fly How hot the sun How high is too high Where all things become one
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Follow Me 03:34
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Follow Me Broken streetlights and thrown-away clothes These streets need a clean-up, now heaven knows Things are not what they were, the times have changed Since the days of plenty were so rudely rearranged Let me take you down to the river Where the water runs clear and free Somewhere your dreams can still deliver Follow me, follow me Far away places and far away friends Sometimes it's hard to see where this loneliness will end With millions of people but so few that I know Can you point the right direction tell me which way to go Let me take you down to the river Where the water runs clear and free Somewhere your dreams can still deliver Follow me, follow me I don't know what it is, but something has changed Nothing's like it was, it's all been re-arranged I can't pin it down, but something has gone Something at the heart of it has simply moved on Maybe it's a change in the air Or something in the way that I care Maybe it's just something in me Let it be, let it be Let me take you down to the river Where the water runs clear and free Somewhere your dreams can still deliver Follow me, follow me I'll take you down to the river Where the water runs clear and free Somewhere your dreams can still deliver Follow me, follow me

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released October 9, 2014

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