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How far have you come,
How long can you stay,
Did you judge your brother,
Did you judge your sister,
Did you judge yourself along the way?
How high have you flown,
How deep have you cried,
Did you tell the truth,
Did you tell a lie,
Did you ask yourself why?
Chorus:
Don't really care where you've been,
There’s a great big sign says – come on in,
To this Peaceful Place
How big can you get,
How small can you be,
Can you change your mind,
Can you set yourself free,
Can you close your eyes and really see?
How clean is your head,
How pure is your Heart,
Can you look at life and experience Art,
Can you get to Heaven without a chart?
Chorus:
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(none)
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3. |
No One to Kill
04:10
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From out of the darkness
Behind my head
I feel something happening
Underneath my bed
The eyes in my face
look from side to side
Why tell me the truth
If there's something to hide
Scream through the galaxy
You need some relief
I'm not one of those
Who pays for belief
The colors are dripping
Off of your face
A choir as big
as the whole human race
Chorus:
Fires burning up in the hills,
All is forgiven, it’s time to heal
All is forgiven, Time to heal
Bridge:
We rang all the bells all over the Earth
We did what we could for whatever that's worth
We burned all the uniforms
Fire for heat
Ain't no other side
Ain't no one to beat
We took all the churches
and gave people homes
We took all the laws
and turned them to poems
Chorus … All is Forgiven
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4. |
It Took a Lifetime
05:28
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It Took a Lifetime
The scrappers picked the schools clean,
stole the seats and stole the windows,
This city is like a war zone,
You just don't go down there all alone
Came to town, got a room by the airport,
went looking for a beer store
A guy was shot,
stuck a lit cigar into the bullet hole
Chorus:
Ain't no doctor lives inside my body
Ain't no preacher lives inside my soul
It took a lifetime to know the things I know
It took a lifetime
The crooks and the cops are sitting side by side
someone is getting paid to look the other way
a lot of sad people at the happy hour
I didn't eat but I could smell the food
Chorus:
Every day I look to the west
to see what happened yesterday
every morning I look to the east
and breathe the morning sun
Chorus:
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5. |
Goddess of Love
05:21
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All through the night, one magical night,
I had the dream of my life
Could this be real, this glorious sight,
I kissed an angel goodnight
Oh my body feels so good
I could fly, I know I could
Take my heart and take my mind
and take my very soul
Chorus
Mona Lisa in blue jeans
She’s the Woman Aphrodite,
She’s the Venus,
She’s the Goddess of Love
Struck by the light, always the light
This time I know that I'm right
I had a feeling,deep in my soul
Made love to an angel tonight
All my blues look good today
It's all worth the price I pay
All my fears and all my sorrows
Fade into the mist
Chorus
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6. |
Call Off the Dogs
03:29
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Better think fast. Better beware
Keep your eyes open. Better take care
Strong concentration. Deep meditation
True dedication. You get a bad reputation
Chorus:
Call off the dogs. Leave me alone
Sign it in blood and carve it in stone
Lonely and hungry. Desperate and mad
Tired and wounded. Angry and sad
Looking for beauty. Blind to what’s good
Always the guilty, misunderstood
Chorus
Passive persuasion, sexual lust
Constant frustration, constant disgust
Lightness of being. Free from the stress
Sometimes you know and sometimes you guess
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Someone came cut down the trees
killed all the alligators,
what’re we going to do if God gets mad?
Johnny Tiger, Billy Wildcat
ran into the swamp
took with them everything they had
Someone died last February
only found the shoes
ain't no wonder, everything is hungry
oh the smell of mother nature
hanging in my nose
oh the smell of no one else has been there
Chorus:
What you gonna do if you don't have fire
What you gonna do if you don't have food
Evening in the Everglades
Oh how we love
Evening in the Everglades
Spanish Pirates, Spanish Moss
hope we find the treasure
found some comfort from the storm
also found some pleasure
Nights so humid winds so still,
Hurricane is coming
Cypress trees house the Spirit
Seminole are running
Chorus:
Someone gives some great tatoo
then she'll read your fortune
Cast your waters to the wind
Cast your eyes to Neptune
Snakes that walk and bugs that slide
outside the seminary
Dolphins talk Spirit Talk
Ain't no dictionary
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Santa Ana
06:18
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I've got a fine fascination for that uptown life,
For those uptown people and those uptown nights,
But my heart was singing and my blue fade away
All the cats in the neighborhood
meet in my yard
Cry in the night time,
make my sleep come hard
But my heart was singing,
and my blues fade away
Chorus:
Oh, oh, oh, those Santa Ana’s
Blow my troubles away
I’ve got a sweet memory
of the place that was my home
L.A., L.A.,
I used to call you my home
My heart was singing, and those winds blowing my blues away
Chorus:
Bridge:
Cousin of thunder
Sister of God,
Blow through my body
Blow through my body
I’m in the city of sunshine,
waiting for the rain
So many people. Nothing to explain
But my heart keeps singing. And my dreams keep fading away
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MichaelOnFire.com
From his beginnings as a songwriter working out of Detroit’s famed United Sound Studios, to his recordings with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, to the progressive jazz of Prismatic, to the years in L.A. and Nashville, making records with Stephen Stills, and Joe Vitale, to the nonstop touring, Michael On Fire has been relentless in his commitment to creative expression and musical performance. ... more
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