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You're Too Young
01:39
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Ooo what foolishness is this
You want to keep the child
What will the neighbors say
Our daughter's grown up wild
You're too young to spend the best years of your life
Tied down with a child
So young, you've got so many plans
You'll forget in a while
We must send you away
We have got to save face
You must give up this child
There cannot be a trace
You're too young to spend the best years of your life
Tied down with a child
So young, you've got so many plans
You'll forget in a while
You're too young to spend the rest of your life
Tied down with a child
So young, you've got so many plans
You'll forget in a while
Ooo what foolishness is this
You want to keep the child
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2. |
Chains
03:22
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Soaring in the sky
Waiting to be free
Stopping just to cry
Hoping to be me
Caught in isolation
Trying to break out
Stop in desperation
I don't have the clout
Freedom seems so strange
To someone caught like me
I don't want to change
For reasons you can't see
Someday you might know
These chains that are on me
And then you'll let me go
So I can find the key
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They let me see him
They let me see him
His eyes, they could see
And he smiled at me
They would not let me touch him
They said I could not touch him
They said I'll forget what I've done
They said I won't regret what I've done
But how do they know how I feel
Know how I feel
Know how I feel today
Whisked away like some store bought good
You know I'd keep you if I could
And if by chance we ever meet again
I'd want to take you in my arms
I'd want to keep you safe from harm
And tell you that I'll be here til the end
Just believe me when I say
Yes, I had to give you away
I hope you're happy in the home you find
Just remember I love you so
I really don't want to let you go
And please don't ever think of me unkind
And how do they know how I feel
Know how I feel
Know how I feel today
They said I'll forget what I've done
They said I won't regret what I've done
But how do they know how I feel
Know how I feel
Know how I feel today
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4. |
Oh My Beautiful Child
03:17
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Oh my beautiful child
Will you ever forgive me
I spend each day alone
With thoughts of you
Which I can never share
Never share
Now I don't know where you are
And I don't know how you are
Oh my beautiful child
How I long to hold you near
But the day will never come
Never come
No I don't know where you are
And I don't know how you are
The tears I've cried
Since you've been taken from my side
Will never wash away
The loneliness I feel inside
For you my beautiful child
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5. |
Yesterday's Life
04:44
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Wash away these broken pieces of yesterday's life
For you have your future to look forward to
And in all these future days to come
You'll have some good times
I know it's true
Look ahead, no not behind
Know where you're going
Not just where you've been
Look toward tomorrow
And what you'll see
Not what you've seen
Try to forget about these past memories (Try to forget)
That seem to cut you like a knife
Just go on living and trying (Just go on)
To wash away these broken pieces
Of yesterday's life
Look ahead, no not behind
Know where you're going
Not just where you've been
Look toward tomorrow
And what you'll see
Not what you've seen
Try to forget about these past memories (Try to forget)
That seem to cut you like a knife
Just go on living and trying (Just go on)
And wash away these broken pieces
Of yesterday's life
Look ahead
Good times
Try to forget
Wash away
Broken pieces of yesterday's life
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6. |
Revelation
02:38
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Everything was going fine
And then it all fell in
They told me I was not of them
That I was born of sin
(I was born of sin)
Do I want to know you (know you)
If what, if what they say is true
(Is that they say true?)
How will I know this answer
Unless, unless it comes from you
From you I came
From you I am
I will find you
When I can
They tell me you don't want me
I wonder if it's so
They all are trying to stop me
I wonder how they know
(Wonder how they know)
Do I want to know you (know you)
If what, if what they say is true
(Is that they say true?)
How will I know this answer
Unless, unless it comes from you
From you I came
From you I am
I will find you
When I can
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7. |
Who Am I
02:06
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Who am I
Does anybody know
Who can I see
Where can I go
I'm a nobody
What is my name
What can I do
Who can I blame
I don't hate you for what you did
I just don't understand
Was it better for of us
Please come hold my hand
Who are you
What is your name
Will you please tell me
From where I came
Relieve this pain
Come take me away
They don't understand
Anything I say
I don't hate you for what you did
Was it just a mistake
You know it hurt both of us
It's this pain I can't take
Someday I'll find you
And we can talk it out
To relieve this pain
We can do without
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8. |
What I Am
05:22
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Soft glistening black enshrouds me
And my thoughts roam a million miles away
I am floating ever endlessly
On this endless sea of green
The reason I can't see
It's what's good for me
You've taken away from me what I am and ever will be
Now you tell me that I'm crazy to even want to know
But because of what I don't know I can never be free
To be what I am - mistaken identity
Will I ever be me
Or am I doomed to be
Something else
I am not a whole being
And you can't understand
No you can't
Only when I know can I really be free
To be what I am - to really be me
I want to be me (what I am)
I need to be free (what I am)
Can I ever be free (what I am)
Will I ever be me
Only when I know
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An Echo Of Silence
03:36
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In the form of jumbled letters
Through the cabinents of time
Lies a name silently waiting
Never seen with eyes of mine
Through the locked doors of the county
In a room bare and devoid
Lifeless papers filed neatly
An identity destroyed
Now with the thoughts of one so hopeless
Crying for the one I've lost
Wishing not to have relinquished
Never knowing the cost
Sitting, staring in the darkness
On the days that bring the pain
In an echo of the silence
Comes to me my child's name
And with the thoughts of one so hopeless
Crying for the one I've lost
Wishing not to have relinquished
Never knowing the cost
Sitting, staring in the darkness
On the days that bring the pain
In an echo of the silence
Comes to me my child's name
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10. |
Someday Again
03:28
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This search is mine to bear
And I'll do it all alone
People don't seem to care
I'm so scared to be alone
Hope, maybe that's what I feel
It helps relieve the pain
Knowing I might find you
Is my only aim
To many it does not matter
Many do not care
But to keep from me what's mine
Is not, is not fair
(To many it does not matter - many do not care)
You are my only link
It keeps me hanging on
A birthright that is mine
Til this battle is won
Someday it will be over
And we will meet again
The time I cannot tell
A year or maybe ten
To many it does not matter
Many do not care
But to keep from me what's mine
Is not, is not fair
(To many it does not matter - many do not care)
This search is mine to bear
And I'll do it all alone
People don't seem to care
I'm so scared to be alone
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11. |
Tomorrow Will Come
05:06
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I do not know my name
I don't know who I am
I'll be forever searching
Til I know just what I am
You can say I am this
You can say I am that
It will never change
This place I am at
I hope someday to find
The thing to rest my mind
I know I have the right
To know what is my name
To know from where I came
Leave darkness of this night
There is only one thing (one thing)
To ever fill this void (this void)
I know that I must know you
(I will know you)
To ever fill this void
And though it will be hard (so hard)
I know I can endure (endure)
Someday I will know you
(I will know you)
Of this I am so sure
I hope someday to find
The thing to rest my mind
I know I have the right
To know what is my name
To know from where I came
Leave darkness of this night
Tomorrow will come and then I'll be
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12. |
(Un)happy Birthday
02:35
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Happy birthday wherever you may be
There's a pain growing inside of me
Life wrenched from my life
Never to return
Happy birthday wherever you are now
Will there be a time I will know how
Life wrenched from my life
Never to return
Happy birthday wherever you may go
Will there be a time I will ever know
Life wrenched from my life
Never to return
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13. |
Dots
02:00
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I light another cigarette
As I struggle with my thoughts
Drink the dredges in this cup
Try connecting all the dots
My headache does not bother me
I'm a million miles away
Those things that used to bother me
Are from another day
So I'm searching for an answer
When I don't know the questions
The facts I can't apprehend
Not even by suggestion
So I light another cigarette
As I struggle with my thoughts
Drink the dredges in this cup
Try connecting all the dots
Somewhere in the dots
That take up this whole page
Lies the answer to my question
It never takes the stage
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14. |
On The Other Side
04:46
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On the other side of silence
Are so many things unknown
On the other side of this wall
Are the things I want to be shown
On the other side of this barrier
Is the place where I am going
But I don't know if I will get to
The other side
But if I do I will start my growing
Why am I kept away
This and everyday
From the place I want to be
I feel stuck
Can't you see
On the other side of silence
Is where I want to be
On the other side of this wall
Are the things I want to see
On the other side of this barrier
Is the place where I am going
And I know I will get to
The other side
And when I do I will start my growing
Why am I kept away
This and everyday
From the place I want to be
I need help
Can't you see
And when I do I will start my growing
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15. |
The Challenge
02:24
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After years of fiercely struggling
I have finally got the key
And I finally know the question
Should I open this door and see
It has taken years of crying
Thinking it's no use
I never gave up trying
When my head felt in a noose
But this battle has been finally won
The answer's in this key
The work has all been finally done
Now the problem is with me
Should I open this door
Possibly cause problems you don't want
You've probably tried to forget of it all
My presence could only daunt
Now this question seems so unfair
I don't know what to do
But how can I know if you really do care
Unless I talk to you
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Discovery
02:44
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At last it's done
After years of searching
Years of crying and dying
I found you
Sometimes I felt like giving up
Sometimes I almost did
But the spark never died
And these tears never dried
So here at last
We can meet face to face
And no longer must we cry
I found you
I found you
I found you
I found you
I found you
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Jon R. Garey Ohio
Jon has an appreciation for music that acts as a vehicle for stories, emotion, and movement in voice, melodies, and harmony.
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