Mason Jennings - Birds Flying Away (2007) by Mason Jennings (보컬) on maniadb.com

And with the world comes misery
Comes jealousy and pain
And with new friends come enemies
The fortune brings the fame
And oh my dear confidant
(tell me how to feel)
Tell me how to feel
(tell me how you've been)
I've been overwhelmed
(overwhelmed by what)
By what lies up ahead
Only when your heart is true
Only when your heart is true
Till you learn to trust yourself
Put your trust in someone else
And with new love comes mystery
Comes fear you can't define
And with new love comes history
Old stars that won't align
Oh my dear confidant
(tell me how to feel)
Tell me how to feel
(tell me how you've been)
I've been overwhelmed
(overwhelmed by what)
By what lies up ahead
Only when your heart is true
Only when your heart is true
Till you learn to trust yourself
Put your trust in someone else

Our united states of america
Has quickly become a global empire
Come on
See it now for what it really is
Power hungry with nothing much to give
And violent, all in the name of freedom
Freedom is not domination
I believe freedom has got to come from within
Yes it does
And without the gun
Freedom's the ability to feel love for everyone
The empire controls the media
And media controls the world
Come on
Media is the empire's mouth
Capitalist propaganda coming out
And violence, all in the name of freedom
Freedom is not competition
I believe that freedom's got to come from within
Yes it does
Not with the gun
Freedom's the ability to feel love for everyone

Sleeping in a cherry tree
High above a monastery
Where the bells are ringing slow
To say farewell when hours go
And all the while I'm dreaming of
The ballad for my one true love
Searching for the perfect way to say
I love you
Sweetheart, this is my dream come true
And god bless the babies
That sleep in you
God bless the babies
That sleep in you
Sleeping in a motel room
Underneath a silver moon
With the windows open wide
I can hear the stars go by
And all the while I 'm dreaming of
The ballad for my one true love
Searching for the perfect way to say
I love you
Sweetheart, this is my dream come true
And god bless the babies
That sleep in you
God bless the babies
That sleep in you

Black panther defy the power
Fight the violence with nonviolence
What good is justice if the scales are bent
By a criminal government
Think of the dead in vietnam
Think of the dead in birmingham
Think of the freedom we don't understand
Asleep in bed in a stolen land
Responsibility to understand
Responsibility to take a stand
Responsibility to know your place
In the struggle of the human race

Dr. king
I think often of you
And the love that you learned
From jesus
Dr. king
I think often of you
And the love that you learned
From jesus
Alabama
Alabama
Bethlehem
Up ahead us we've a mighty task
To love the face behind hatred's mask
'cause on the day we understand our past
God almighty we'll be free at last

Mason Jennings
Birds Flying Away
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I left my country when I was nineteen, 1925.
And drifted to a town on the cuban coast,
met a woman who became my life.

And ohhh, when I saw her,
darkness fled from me,
it flew like a black bird into the sun,
on the day she married me.

Dear God, Dear God,
I remember climbing up your shoulders,
and coming up under you like a lion
and coming down like we were dieing,
Dear God.

But now the drum birds come for me,
Oh now the drum birds come for me,
And Lord give me forgiveness for all that I have done,
forgive me now, of the way that I beg, keep me on the run,

Dear God, Dear God,
I remember climbing up your shoulders,
and coming up under you like a lion
and coming down, like we were dieing,
Dear God.

Nobody says the things he says
Nobody moves like he moves
Nobody makes me feel this way
I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord
I'm going to marry that boy

Oh my mother said to me
Girl you better watch yourself
Cuz a railroad man is an absent man
I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord
I'm going to marry that boy

We'll live in a little town
North of Duluth
Where my grandmother lived
In her youth

When he comes home at night
He'll call to me
My sweet darling girl
Come lay with me

And oh mother nothing compares
Nothing even comes close
To the way he comes up under me
I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord
I'm going to marry that boy

Marry him in his Easter clothes
Marry me in white
Beneath the canopy
Of unearthly light

And our friends and family
Will all come to say
God bless this union
God bless this day

Soon his burdens will be mine
Soon this love will set us free
All my hope lies with him now
I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord
I'm going to marry that boy

I'm going to marry that boy, oh lord
I'm going to marry that boy

Hoping that I see you on the street
It's your kind of day
Nothing has the color of your eyes
Train leaving gray
And i'll never love no one
The way i loved you
I never thought that love
Could come true
Driving round the city in your car
Down low in the seat
Coming home and getting into bed
Smiling in your sleep
I'll never love no one
The way i loved you
You've never loved no one
Have you?
Hoping that I see you on the street
It's your kind of day
Nothing has the color of your eyes
Train leaving gray

So glad I found you
God is around you
And all that's about you
Shines with the light
Love won't deny you
Love won't confine you
Free what's inside you
Shine with the light