Musical Worldview: Model Engine "Scarred But Smarter"

“If it's all true,
the only time you fail
is the last time you try
If I concede defeat,
will I be complete in my failure?
Am I incomplete
and a complete failure?”

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Musical Worldview: Graham and Nash, "They Want It All"

“They want it all, they want it now
They want to get it and they don't care how
They want it all, they want it now
They want to get it and they don't care how
Want that Mercedez, that gulf stream too
They want to get, get it from you
They want your life savings and your mothers ring
They'd like to have everything
They want it all, they want it now
They want to get it and they don't care how
They want it all, they want it now
They want to get it and they don't care how
They want that mansion and they want it full
Of wine and women and political pull
They always have a President or two
That's how they get away with what they do
That's how they do it
They want it all, they want it now
They want to get it and they don't care how
They want it all, they want it now…”

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Musical Worldview: the Staple Singers, "Respect Yourself"

“If you disrespect anybody that you run in to
How in the world do you think anybody's s'posed to respect you
If you don't give a heck 'bout the man with the bible in his hand, y'all
Just get out the way, and let the gentleman do his thing
You the kind of gentleman that want everything your way, yeah
Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day

Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na
Respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself, respect yourself

If you're walking 'round think'n that the world owes you something 'cause you're here
You goin' out the world backwards like you did when you first come here yeah
Keep talkin' bout…”

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Musical Worldview: Gang Starr, "Family And Loyalty"

“Hurt brings wisdom
Wisdom brings a whole 'nother sort of understandin'“

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Musical Worldview: Songs: Ohia, "Just Be Simple" (With Special Cover Versions by Amanda Shires, Scott Avett, and Water Liars)

“You never hear me talk about one day getting out
Why put a new address on the same old loneliness”

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Musical Worldview: Jeff Tweedy, "Even I Can See"

“If I may have your attention please
I’ll tell you about my wife
and what she means to me

How fiercely she believes what she believes
I laugh and I cry
I live and I die
By her side

From time to time she puts her hand in mine
Holds me like a sharp shiny key
I was never one who needed to believe 
In a god hard to find
But I found by her side
There’s a god 
Even I can see

They say no work of art is ever done
Carved in bark or yet to come
Rivers run low and flow with only sky
Even gods have to die
But once in a while
There’s a god
Even I can see”

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Musical Worldview: Cat Stevens, "Don't Be Shy"

“Love is where all of us belong”

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Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu, "Bag Lady"

“Bet ya love could make it better”

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Musical Worldview: Songs: Ohia, "Farewell Transmission"

“The real truth about it is no one gets it right
The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try”

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Musical Worldview: Jeff Tweedy, "Love is the King"

“Love is the King”

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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Althea"

“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”

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Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu, "On And On"

“The man that knows something
Knows that he knows nothing at all”

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Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Jesus Christ For President"

“Let's have Christ our president
Let us have him for our king
Cast your vote for the carpenter
That they call the Nazarene

The only way
We could ever beat
These crooked politician men
Is to cast the moneychangers
Out of the temple
Put the carpenter in

Oh it's Jesus Christ our president
God above our king
With a job and pension for young and old
We will make hallelujah ring

Every year we waste enough
To feed the ones who starve
We build our civilization up
And we shoot it down with wars

But with the carpenter
On the seat
Way up in the capitol town

The USA
Be on the way
Prosperity bound”

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Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Blood Of The Lamb"

“I am washed, yes I'm washed
I am washed in the blood
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb

I'm all clean I'm all spotless
I'm all pure like the snow
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb”

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Musical Worldview: Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Guiltiness"

“Guiltiness (talking about guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience, oh yeah, oh yeah
These are the big fish (these are the big fish)
Who always try to eat down the small fish
A just the small fish

And I tell you what (they would do anything)
To materialize their every wish
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

But woe, woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sorrow
Woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow
Woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah”

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Musical Worldview: Sufjan Stevens, "Video Game"

“I don’t wanna love you if won’t receive it
I don’t wanna save the world that way
I don’t wanna be your personal Jesus
I don’t wanna play your video game

I don’t wanna put the devil on a pedestal
I don’t wanna put the saints in chains
I just wanna make my life a little easier
I don’t wanna play your video game”

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Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu: "Appletree"

“I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
And Granny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got”

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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Still Got Love"

“Everybody get hurt, everybody cries
Everybody get hurt, everybody cries
Everybody falls down, and not everybody rise
Not everybody talks, but everybody lies
Not everybody lives, but everybody dies”

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Musical Worldview: Sault, "Pray Up Stay Up"

“Pray up, stay up, pray up
(Can't keep me down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They tryin' to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(How you gonna keep me down?)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They tryin' to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(How you gonna keep me down?)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(Just wanna keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(It's just to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They wanna keep us down)”

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Musical Worldview: Common Market, "Every Last One"

“We ‘bout to change the mentality
Of old world savagery into a new reality
One where teachers and lawyers will trade salaries
And liquor stores are razed to make way for art galleries
With one common thread we weave a global tapestry
Peace will be your motto when you follow the analogy
Down from the mountains to echo throughout the valley
It's the shouts of the soldiers in my cavalry”

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