Musical Worldview: Rainer, "Sometimes It's Hard"

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“Sometimes it’s hard to remember

Sometimes it’s hard to recall

The reasons why we’re here

The reasons why we’re even here at all

Then it hits me, hits me like a big jolt

Coming straight into my brain

That the only reasons why we’re here

Is just to love away the pain

Yeah we’re here just to love away the pain

Cause it’s a painful world we live in

Painful yes it’s true

And the only thing we’ve been given

Is just enough love to pull us through

Take a good look around you

Tell me what do you see?

Half the world is paying for love

Paying for love that should be free

Yes, so now it’s back to the trenches

Finding love in a rude world”

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Musical Worldview: Hiss Golden Messenger, "Katy (You Don’t Have to Be Good Yet)"

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“If you turn from the world
There are colors you'll never see”



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Musical Worldview: Howe Gelb, "Love Knows (No Borders)"

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“Well, welcome to the season
of suspicion and what not
where the only reason
is based on why not
maybe your bank account
is not a high enough amount
just jingling your pockets
full of quarters, well
Love knows no borders.”

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Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Love Is Everywhere (Beware)"

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“So many things I do

I can't explain to you

Right now, right now

Love is everywhere

Right now, I'm frightened how

Love is here, beware”

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Musical Worldview: Wilco, "One and a Half Stars"

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“There is no mother like pain”




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Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Everyone Hides"

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“If you're telling yourself a story
Where the secrets twist like vines
And you know where the bodies are buried
But you can't remember where you buried the mines”


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Musical Worldview: Wilco, "White Wooden Cross"

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“Tell me no lies
Tell me no lies
Is it stranger to live?
Is it stranger to die?

What would I do?
What would I do?
If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you”

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Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Before Us"

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“I remember when wars would end
Remember when wars would end?
Now when something's dead
Now when something's dead
We try to kill it again.”


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Musical Worldview: Sammy Brue, "I See, I Hear"

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“You can take your mask off, I’m not a crowd”



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Musical Worldview: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Bhindi Bhagee"

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“Welcome stranger to the humble neighborhoods”



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Musical Worldview: Patty Griffin, "When It Don't Come Easy"

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“I don't know nothing except change will come
Year after year what we do is undone
Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home

You're out there walking down a highway
And all of the signs got blown away
Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction

But if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy

So many things that I had before
That don't matter to me now
Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost
And the love I've never found
When the last bird falls
And the last siren sounds
Someone will say what's been said before
Its only love we were looking for”

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Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Dirty Three, "Hope"

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Wisdom found in lyrics, instrumental edition with Dirty Three. “Hope.”



Musical Worldview: One Eleven Heavy, "Geneva"

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“There’s a time and place
For every kind of face
But times and places change”



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Musical Worldview: Joe Pug, "Hymn 101"

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“The more I buy
The more I'm bought
And the more I'm bought
The less I cost”




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Musical Worldview: Glen Phillips, "Thank You"

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“You gave me life
Thank you, thank you

Your love is everywhere
Your love is everywhere
Open me, open me”



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Musical Worldview: Sammy Brue, "Lay Me Down"

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“I did what I could
Until I couldn’t anymore
When I fell flat
I fell flat on the floor
You gave what you had
Until you couldn’t anymore
I think that’s the reason most people are poor

So lay me down
Don’t let me free
Because when all went to Hell
You depended on me
And I failed”

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Musical Worldview: Ben Howard, "Keep Your Head Up"

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“keep your head up, keep your heart strong
No, no, no, no, keep your mind set, keep your hair long
Oh my, my darlin', keep your head up, keep your heart strong
Na, oh, no, no, keep your mind set in your ways
Keep your heart strong”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "New Speedway Boogie"

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“One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.”

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Musical Worldview: Matthew E. White, "Brazos"

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“Stand beside me, baby, won't you hear the angels sing?
Child, won't you hear the angels sing?
Baby, won't you hear the angels sing?
Jesus Christ is our Lord
Jesus Christ, he is your friend”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Truckin'"

“Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me,
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.”

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