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The Great Divide

by Don McIntyre

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1.
Gentle in the Storm 03:43
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People start to be hard, cause it's a hard world People start to be cold to stand up in the storm Wouldn't you like to be safe and warm protected by a powerful love? Now I see this man and woman stand together and know that all they touch becomes a little better and I can be softer in a hard world, gentle in the storm Everybody starts as a little child innocent eyes all wide and wild in a brand new world Needing each other We look for the other But mere romance doesn't make it anymore It takes a warrior's love to face the lion's roar A healing that can restore us Come and join the chorus It's standing here before us People start to be hard, cause it's a hard world People start to be cold to stand up in the storm Wouldn't you like to be safe and warm protected by a powerful love? Now I see this man and woman stand together and know that all they touch becomes a little better and I can be softer in a hard world, gentle in the storm
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Do the Math 02:44
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Whose finding any luck in the debtor’s den parading around wearing fools gold Who’s ready to rise in the courtroom when all debts consolidate>>> >>>In this old numbers game better leave a little room for doubt and weigh that grain again cause if you think it all balances out you better do the math It's a cozy feeling - folks just like us Supply one hug, demand one kiss Love beckons, I reckon But values must get calculated first>>> Each one keeps score, each gets one vote With two sets of records we don’t compare In a sea of numbers, which boats will float and who’ll never figure it out? Somewhere, the scales don’t lie Debt of thanks minus payment made Long before you die You’re not the only one passing out grades You better do the math
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Sing Me a Song 03:21
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D Sing me a song It's been too long Dmaj7 Em B+ (B augmented) since there was music alive in my ear Em7 C# dim triad The journey starts here D [But] soon it will see ways D7 to roam down my freeways G Em9 A7sus4 (A Dominant 7 sus 4) A7 in search of a home D Sing out a song Dmaj7 D7 any old song G Gm about any old thing Em9 Em A7sus4 (A Dominant 7 sus 4) I just want to remember A7 D what it felt like to sing Play us a tune here in this room Nothing plugged in to that terrible wall And we will imagine a place not so gray where grown-ups can play without playing the fool Sing out a song You can belong And that's a pretty good deal We just want to remember what it felt like to feel G v Em Em7 It's not about feeling alone F#m7 Bm7 v even though there's not one empty chair Em B+ (B augmented) Or fearing you're falling Em7 C# dim triad and so you keep calling Cmaj7 from the top of the stair A7sus4 (A Dominant 7 sus 4) A7 and nobody's there Sing me a song There's nothing wrong There's nothing else that is calling me now Then you'll take a bow and the show will be over and this green field of clover will turn back to gray Sing out a song any old song I can play when you play I just want to remember without turning away
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Hometown 03:16
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He's been just another neighborhood kid ever since his diaper days Hangin' round the shop though he couldn't even pick up a hammer So Jesus, just build us a shelf And don't be so full of yourself You're no better than anyone else Still, he knows we love him No prophet is welcome in his own hometown She is not part of the plan, a not too delightful surprise [Though her] mamma has the freedom to choose she still might make it [But no] matter what feelings or thoughts are stirred [She'll be] seldom seen and seldom heard Like a whisper on the wind from the tiniest bird But she knows we love her An inconvenience [in her] own hometown Most everybody learns that all that really matters are the people that you love who love you So look twice Listen Something's Missin' [Nothing] comforts a disquieted mind like the faithful status quo Songs and strange ideas can be entertaining But no hype, no riches, no star [Only the] special ones get that far I get the real thing in my car But he knows we love him So raise your hands in worship at the idol-fest Like throwing all our money at the wealthiest A round of applause for our special guest [It's] what we all do and we know best about what matters what really matters in our own hometown
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Fire 03:00
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love that fire pass down one last beer here it's rising higher seems to disappear but i'm told it's just changing into something brand new and something powerful old here together the circle is unbroken forever that's the word we've spoken but even good times leave their lines behind so may you find all life can hold cause i've been watching the fire and we'll fly away fly away that's what folks suppose that's how the story goes it seems like we're changing into something unknown didn't want to go there alone cause we'll fly away fly away that's what folks suppose that's how the story goes that's what folks suppose all friends no foes that's how the story goes but no one really knows
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Slick Moves 03:12
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No, you take it easy be safe be sorry raise a glass to the dead all sweet on fluff, handcuff the tough love someone shouts "crazy!" in the cemetery But its a false alarm its the same old stuff we've had enough of Slick moves through the ice and snow slippin' around like your average joe pickin it up, kickin' it high and low cause the best thing in life is, you just don't know Still learning to love you But I can't make you feel loved with the love that fights its way through your defenses So you turn the question back in my direction But you can love yourself and still be heaping up consequences Slick moves through the ice and snow slippin' around like your average joe pickin it up, kickin' it high and low cause the best thing in life is, you just don't know another noble mission dead of malnutrition if you care too much you won't care enough when it really matters no fuss no bother Just skinny dippin' in the universe, no Captain Kirk, just William Shatner Slick moves through the earth and sky slippin' around on humble pie pickin it up, kickin' it low and high cause the best things in life make you laugh and cry
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The Great Divide 04:56
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She was feeling insecure like her center was sinking He was looking for a girl with a poor self-image to do They called it a party - there was lots of dancing and drinking But she was just beginning when he was already through Who’d have predicted back there at the source that things could take such a curious course in the calm before the story line in the center of the middle before the Great Divide? While they were fighting over there, she had her own share of duties Full of protest freedom sex peace, and all of eighteen Make love, not war - it was long before the movies began to show us how they go together like a can of pork and beans Was it really meant to be that way When everything was one shade of gray Before the eye was surrounded by a hurricane in the center of the middle before the Great Divide? So there was rhythm in it all - like her heartbeat and the seasons What went up always came down to relax a while Wise and foolish traded places classifying the reasons for the smile on the face of her innocent helpless child When we were all the exact same stuff Why wasn’t good enough good enough Before the eye was surrounded by a hurricane in the calm before the story line in the big bang belly prime evil good in the center of the middle before the Great Divide?
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No Problem 02:44
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You take care of your body whatever your soul is, you care for your soul If sources ain't lying it's good that we're trying to do something wise Mother Theresa, John Gotti discussing the pope at the watering hole did not get heated cause all that they needed that moment in time was some exercise So no problems arise Choose one - the others come with it and they can't be killed - not with love or a gun We're all drinking hearty but its not a party till somebody tells. So come on, join with me, admit it, even though you're the compassionate one: We scheme and we guide cause we can not abide that they might see that side that we hide from ourselves And no problem compels Sure, it gets gritty when you're on the spot They applaud when you fall All for one, one for all The smart, the wealthy, the pretty - build a whole world round that good thing they've got Just visit the mall with the small and the tall you can answer the call – round and round you’ll revolve There’s no problem to solve You’re already involved No problem
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Presocratic 03:00
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he smelled the salt on some glorious shore when his daughter was born but as the years passed, she reached out for him less through the rain of each terrible storm he broke when he lost her, like waves on the ocean, though he only wanted to bend the beginning of woman is all about water, and it's the same at the end my father planted about ten-thousand acres on imaginary land and I'm right there with him in a conjured up memory. I can almost feel earth in my hands but now I am weary. My body grows older as back to the ground it descends the beginning of a man is all about the soil, and it's the same at the end every seed, every flame, every drop of rain dies for a while and then reappears likes hopes out of fears again and again and again I heard muskets and cannons exploding in anger till the redcoats went home then great minds and factories built a new kingdom the like of which had never been known but now in a blaze of self-righteous rage, we look in vain for our God and our friends the beginning of a nation is all about fire, and it's the same at the end
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Superman 04:33
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She left him on the chat room floor Still wired, now unwound It was virtual love, but the wounds were real As she walked through some other door He filled his room with sound Its a crazy thing at seventeen to finally feel It's going down according to the plan Nietzsche got his superman The classroom propaganda flies to replace with something new the stuff they taught that did not matter yesterday what good is such an enterprise when what's true for you is true and everyone is right in her own way It's going down according to the plan Nietzsche got his superman We've got our freedom where should we go when all roads lead nowhere? Downstairs in nobody's home with a black hole close behind and jungle rhymes and jungle rhythms they tore down his beloved Rome long before its time they can go to hell and take their religion with them The video controller's in your hands Time to be the superman We've got our freedom where should we go when all roads lead nowhere?
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Consolation Prizes 04:02
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seen on the big screen no talkin miss kissin if they wait too long feels good, seals good, must be love and what's there to talk about anyway this medicine show let's make a deal hope lasts one-half hour long we'll raise the stakes right after these messages lots of chances to play love's not available here but the consolation prizes take your mind off that so thanks for playing get off the stage does anybody know who won the game a bridge too narrow the only one to cross in the morning just to make a buck same thing, game thing in the evening nothing too important to mention You get ten miles in two hours both ways with sucker luck one reward: my vehicle gets me some kind of attention love's not available here but the consolation prizes take your mind off that so thanks for playing get off the stage does anybody know who won the game parting gifts are nice surprises Rome falls, their value rises ...all colors, shapes and sizes ...for those who pay the price to play up to the podium elect a rhetorical face with people skills up to the pulpit some culprit all the people shouted amen crawled all the way to nowhere. still hunger keeps alive what the truth kills did not become the american idol maybe i can stand in line again [here's the] line for the studio audience tomorrow brings another offertunity so thanks for playing get off the stage does anybody know who won the game trips to exotic places at least some nice suitcases hope on a thousand faces ...for those who pay the price to play parting gifts are nice surprises Rome falls, their value rises ...all colors, shapes and sizes ...for those who pay the price to play -2005
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The Longing that Remains 03:46
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beneath the bridge all safe and warm that keeps him sheltered from the storm he greets the sun far across the sea and when this town has no more to give he can hop another train and live ever after happily cause there's nothing like seeing what's next in line leaving the past behind moving on to something but like a hobo when there's no more trains what do you do with the longing that remains? when the mother's cradle song of peace can sit with justice at the feast like some folks say they're supposed to do will hype and hope be satisfied will we say that it was worth the ride that final thing we were traveling to cause there's nothing like reaching that final stage and finding you were right to cling to something but while you're singing those sweet refrains what do you do with the longing that remains? there's nothing like hope there's nothing like love there's nothing like putting your faith in something I've never tasted such fine champagne but what do I do with the longing that remains?

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released March 23, 2012

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