Down to the Ground Again Lyrics

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HOW COULD ANYONE

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1988
BMI All Rights reserved.
From If You See a Dream
How could anyone ever tell you
You were anything less than beautiful?
How could anyone ever tell yous
You were less than whole?
How could anyone neglect to notice
That your loving is a miracle?
How securely you're connected to my soul?

CRADLE OF DAWN

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1989
BMI. All rights reserved.
From If You Come across a Dream
Go to sleep, welcome the night
I will be here in the morning light
Sideslip into dreams, you've done all that y'all can
I'll hold you hear in the dawn.
Dusk in your country, sunrise in mine
Lay downward your body, feel mine begin to rise
Sunset in my state, sunrise in yours
I feel you at that place in the dawn.
The forces facing us are terrible indeed
My hope may flicker in the night
Just in the morning I will institute another seed
And while you lot sleep it seeks the light.
Become to slumber…
In that location are no promises that we volition encounter the twenty-four hour period
The dreams we live for will succeed
But I tin promise you that one-half 'way circular the earth
I'll hold the light upwards while you sleep
Nosotros demand a tranquillity place to let our spirits be
Somewhere that nosotros are safe from damage
So my beloveds, every bit the moonbeams touch the bounding main
Rest in the cradle of the dawn
Go to sleep…
I'll concord you here in the dawn
Rest in the cradle of dawn.

Low TO THE Footing

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Like a Mount

We stand on the border of a cliff in the deepest dark I've ever seen
People looking for light, people who cherish a dream
Only the light's shining out from our eyes and the dream's resting deep in our souls
If it'due south magic we're needing to keep u.s. from falling, information technology'south magic we already know
It'due south music that keeps us alive, information technology'due south dancing that sets our hearts free
Information technology'south children remember the laughter in life, it's animals teach us to encounter
Stay low to the ground, live close to the globe, don't stray very far from your soul
It's unproblematic things show us the reason nosotros're hither and it's simple things keeping u.s. whole.
Tell me the place y'all were born, the lives your ancestors led
The ground that surrounded the people you love, the streams from which yous were fed
It's the wind that carries the seed, and the seed that carries the song
The food that we're eating is rooted in soil, and it's soil that is keeping united states strong
It'due south music….
The temples are falling around the states, nosotros stand strong and fierce where they've been
I never have seen a holier sight than a person who sings in the wind
Our blood is the river of life, our joy is the sun on the land
All of the dear that is inside this heart is more than one person can stand up
And it'southward music…

IF THE WORLD WERE MY LOVER

Words and music past Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved.
From If the Earth Were My Lover

If the earth were my lover I would ask her to dance
Under skies filled with thunder and with lightning and flame
If the earth were my lover I would wrap her in leaves
And build her a shelter at the close of the 24-hour interval
If the world were my lover I would lay downwards beside her
And caress her with laughter and with roses and rain
If the world were my lover I would never forsake her
I would always retrieve her proper noun.
If the world were my lover and I told her a lie
I would search through the danger for the source of the pain
If the world were my lover and I lashed out in fear
I would fight like a warrior to redeem her again
If the world were my lover, fifty-fifty deep in my anger
I would always forgive her, never leave her to blame
If the world were my lover I would never forsake her
I would ever recollect her proper noun.
And I would do the aforementioned for y'all, the same for you, for you are of my world
And I will do whatever I must do, any to be true, to a lover of such dazzler
If the world were my lover I would venture my life
To try and protect her against hunger and pain
If the world were my lover I would walk by her side
Every pace a reminder that her heart knows the way
If the earth were my lover I would concord her and so tender
As she wept at the horrors that I cannot explicate
If the world were my lover I would never forsake her
I would always remember her name.
And I would practise the same for yous, the same for you lot, for you are of my world
And I will practice whatsoever I must do, whatever to be true, to a lover of such beauty
Sing for me, sing, for we always volition be deep in the heart of mysterious love
If the world were my lover I would fight to be true
To the passion within her, to the source of the flame
If the globe were my lover I would know in my soul
That her eye is a fire only wildness can tame
If the world were my lover I would see myself shining
Knowing deep downwards within her, nosotros are ane and the aforementioned
If the world were my lover I would never forsake her
I would e'er call back her name.

BONES

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1997
BMI. All rights reserved.
From Lay it All Downward

I come from a long line of dead people
I come from a tall pile of bones
My people prevarication sleeping all under the globe
Their souls turn to roots, leaves and stones.
My granddad went by whiskey in an L.A. hotel
His dad died of Ohio coal
And before him, and earlier that, they slipped nether the ground
Fewer bones walk to a higher place than below.
My nifty grandmother'due south eyes stare out from my face
Her skinny bones trip the light fantastic around in my dress
You tin well-nigh hear the whisper of her sweet southern song
In this voice I've been calling my own.
A toast to the living, walk us walk downwardly the alley
Then these basic can exist married to the flesh for awhile.
A song, a song for the living, though the flesh worries when
These bones will be leaving to join family again.
I come from a long line of dead people….

THINKING Similar A Mountain

Words and music past Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Similar a Mountain

Thinking like a mountain and trusting similar the dawn
Raging like a wildfire and loving like the black-necked swan
Moving like the lightning and dreaming like a rock
Thinking like a mountain, honey, we volition make it home.
Thinking like a mountain and breathing similar a whale
Bending like the birch trees when the heavens blow we cannot fail
Roaming similar a turtle, growing like a seed that's sown
Thinking like a mount, honey, we will make it habitation
Make information technology home, like a mountain, make it home, like a stone
Find the mountain deep within your heart, nobody is lonely
The wilderness calls out our names from deep inside our bones
And thinking like a mount, dear, we volition make it home.
Picket the eagle circumvolve, olfactory property the acquit upon the land
Experience the ocean, hear the air current, our bodies empathize
With spirits open to the heaven and feet on living basis
Thinking like a mountain we volition plow this thing around
Thinking like a mountain we will turn this matter around
Thinking like a mountain and yielding similar a stream
Patient equally a porcupine and steady as an evergreen
Singing like the wild geese as they wend their way forth
Thinking similar a mountain, honey, we will make information technology habitation.
Make information technology home…
Detect the mountain deep within your heart, information technology's calling you back home!

DANCING IN Front end OF THE GUNS

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Like a Mountain

We're facing the guns again, we take faced them before
Humanity's longing after and then many deaths
For something more homo than war
Only part of me whispers "Have your body and run abroad.|
Leave the vision to somebody else," then I hear myself say,

I'd rather be dancing at the edge of my grave.
I'd rather be holding you lot close as nosotros march frontward loving and brave.
I'd rather be singing in the face of my fear.
I'd rather exist dancing in forepart of the guns as long as I'thousand here.
Life is then dangerous that there'due south little to fear
Life is so possible, every breath a frontier
They've brought out the guns once once again 'cuz they oasis't a clue
That we could be dancing, the whole human race, each one must choose
And I'd rather exist dancing at the edge of my grave…

To the pulsate of my heartbeat pounding up through my feet
With millions of lovers urging me on as nosotros accept to the streets
Every bit we face the terror, if I go out hither before my time
One thing's for certain, I'll go dancing and I'll get alive!
And I'd rather be dancing at the edge of my grave…

ROSA

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1988
BMI. All rights reserved.
From If You See a Dream
Rosa phone call to me, she say, "Don't you accept the back of no bus.
Every woman here deserves respect, ain't cypher too skilful for us, sweet women,
Nothing too proficient for us.
Nikki Giovanni she tell information technology like it is, she say, "Ooooh,
When yous're blackness like me you are queen of the world,
Ain't nothing too rich for you, sugariness women, own't nada too rich for you."
And Shirley, she pound her fist, she say, "No other voices will do.
Women of color got to speak for themselves. Ain't nobody smarter than you,
Sugariness women, own't nobody smarter than you."
Rosa…
And Fannie, Fannie Lou Hamer, say "People deserve enough food
And everybody got the right to vote. Ain't nobody ameliorate than you,
Sweet women, ain't nobody better than you."
Audre Lorde, surviving cancer, speaking so articulate and so true,
She say "With women's love and your ain assuming vision,
Ain't nothing too scary for y'all, sweet women, nothing besides scary for you."
Singing Rosa…
Winnie Mandela, her fist held high, she say, "My people are going to be free.
Racism trying to make me die, only ain't nil too big for me, sweet women,A
Ain't zero too big for me."
And Alice, Alice Walker, writing us all back home
She say, "Go in search of your mothers' gardens
And find yourself your own, sweet women, find yourself your own.

Singing Rosa…
Women, if nosotros're going to exist free, it'south got to be all of us or none
While racism lives we all stay in chains, own't none of us brand it alone,
Sweet women, ain't none of us make it lone.
Singing Rosa…

DIG DOWN DEEP

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved.
From If the Earth Were My Lover

I'm digging way down, down to the bottom of my soul
I'm digging fashion down, way downward deep
I'm digging fashion down, downward to the bottom of my soul
There's clear water running through me.
Ain't got no answers, got a whole lotta questions and
Nothing on the surface seems to satisfy me
Can't find information technology on the exterior, got to feel it on the inside and
Dig down deeper in the mystery.
Then I am, I'm digging manner down…
When terror strikes me in the centre of the nighttime
And even arms around my body can't comfort me
My heart is thirsting for that cool drink of h2o
Got to pull out my shovel, get busy
And then I am, I'm digging way down…
Cool, clear h2o flowing through me
Washing all my fears away
Cool, clear h2o flowing through me
Moving me up, moving me upward towards the light of day
When daybreak finds me in the morning light
And it'due south hard to hold onto what set me free
I go downwards to the river 'cuz it helps me retrieve
To dig downwards deeper in my fourth dimension of need.
Then I am, I'k digging manner down…

LAY IT ALL Down

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1997
BMI. All rights reserved.
From Lay it All Down

Lay it all down when you can't concur it
Let it all fall, set it all gratis
When the night falls and information technology grows cold in
The midst of the journeying and you fall to your knees
Sometimes 2 legs merely tin't concur united states of america
Sometimes two arms are but too weak
Lay information technology all down when you lot tin't agree it
Allow your life comport you similar a gunkhole on the sea.
Like a boat on the sea that has slipped all its moorings
Like a boat on the sea with no wind in its sails
Like a boat on the bounding main drifting far from the harbor
With not fifty-fifty a thimble for the out-of-stater to bail.
Oh…
Lay it all down when you can't hold information technology
Permit information technology all fall, set it all free
When you lot are lost, downwardly to the bone and
You're calling for mercy, calling out "please,"
Sometimes two legs simply can't hold united states
Sometimes two arms are only likewise weak
Lay it all down when you can't hold it
Let your life carry yous like a boat on the body of water.
Yous turn to the east, nada but ocean
Y'all plough to the w, no sign of the shore
You plow to the south, water to the horizon
You don't even need to turn to the north
Like a boat on the ocean…
Ohh….
LYRICS to THINKING Similar A Mount CD
THINKING Like A Mountain
Words and music past Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Like a Mountain
Thinking like a mountain and trusting like the dawn
Raging like a wildfire and loving similar the black-necked swan
Moving similar the lightning and dreaming like a stone
Thinking like a mountain, honey, we volition make information technology abode.
Thinking similar a mount and breathing similar a whale
Angle similar the birch trees when the heavens accident nosotros cannot neglect
Roaming like a turtle, growing like a seed that'south sown
Thinking like a mountain, honey, nosotros will make it home
Make it domicile, like a mount, get in home, like a stone
Find the mountain deep within your heart, nobody is solitary
The wilderness calls out our names from deep inside our bones
And thinking like a mountain, honey, we will go far dwelling house.
Picket the eagle circumvolve, smell the carry upon the land
Feel the bounding main, hear the wind, our bodies understand
With spirits open to the sky and feet on living footing
Thinking like a mountain we will turn this thing around
Thinking like a mountain we will turn this matter around
Thinking like a mountain and yielding similar a stream
Patient every bit a porcupine and steady as an evergreen
Singing like the wild geese equally they wend their way along
Thinking similar a mount, honey, we will arrive home.
Brand it dwelling…
Find the mountain deep within your middle, it'southward calling you back home!

DANCING IN FRONT OF THE GUNS

Words and music past Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Like a Mountain

We're facing the guns again, we take faced them before
Humanity's longing after and so many deaths
For something more than human than war
Just function of me whispers "Have your trunk and run away.|
Exit the vision to somebody else," and so I hear myself say,

I'd rather be dancing at the edge of my grave.
I'd rather exist property you close as we march forward loving and brave.
I'd rather exist singing in the face of my fearfulness.
I'd rather be dancing in front of the guns as long as I'm here.
Life is and then dangerous that at that place's niggling to fear
Life is and then possible, every jiff a frontier
They've brought out the guns in one case once again 'cuz they oasis't a clue
That nosotros could be dancing, the whole human race, each one must choose
And I'd rather be dancing at the edge of my grave…

To the pulsate of my heartbeat pounding upwardly through my anxiety
With millions of lovers urging me on as we take to the streets
As we confront the terror, if I leave here earlier my time
One affair'due south for certain, I'll go dancing and I'll go alive!
And I'd rather be dancing at the edge of my grave…

Bluish MOON

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1991
BMI. All rights reserved
From Thinking Like a Mountain

I am standing at a crossroads, my eye is in my hands
In all the 4 directions an endless catamenia of country
A full moon shines higher up me, the pelting pours down like fire
May the colors of the rainbow exist my guide.|
Once in a very blue moon, twice in a very ruby-red rage

Three times in a snowfall white passion I burst the walls of this muzzle
Once in a very bluish moon, twice in a very red sky
Iii times in a coal-blackness evening I spoke the words of goodbye
As I look into your very blue eyes, I stand hither wondering why
Once in a very bluish, once in a very blueish moon
Once in a very blue moon.
You are standing at the crossroads, deciding where to go
The fields are ripe with harvest, your anxiety are deep in snowfall
A bright dominicus higher up you, your eyes are raining tears
May the colors of the rainbow be your guide
One time in a very blue moon, twice in a very ruby rage
Three times in a snow white passion, I outburst the walls of this cage
Once in a very blue moon, twice in a very red sky
Three times in a coal-black evening I spoke the words of goodbye
As yous await into my very blueish eyes, y'all stand there wondering why
In one case in a very blue, once in a very blue moon

Once in a very blue moon

Reach out your paw, tell me you lot love me, requite me a sign, show me the way
Lend me your voice, heavens higher up me, earth is below, I've got nothing to say
Open my listen, open the floodgates, open up the door, open up the manner
Reach out your paw, tell me y'all beloved me, tell me bye
I am continuing at the crossroads, my heart is torn in two
I am thinking of my own life, I am thinking but of you
My legs grown into tree roots, my heart is now the moon
May the colors of the rainbow exist our guide
Once in a very blue moon, twice in a very reddish rage
Three times in a snow white passion, I burst the walls of this cage
Once in a very blue moon, twice in a very crimson sky
3 times in a coal-black evening I spoke the words of goodbye
Every bit you look into my very bluish optics, yous stand there wondering why
Once in a very blue, once in a very blue moon

Once in a very bluish moon

GO

Words and music by Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1990
BMI. All rights reserved

Child of 2 families, I've held her all her life
She asks, "Tin I become live with dad and his new wife?"
I watch her face asleep, I sit on the bed and weep
And when she awakens, I say, "Go."
Go where your center is leading, become, I tell you, go

Go, though my heart is pleading to pull you dorsum in, to never let go
Where the sun ascension beckons, get, where the dream awakens
Go where your center is leading, go.
Closer than all the world, this precious friend to me
Now she is longing a much wider world to see
I watch her speak her dreams and I come across the light they bring
And when she asks me, I say, "Go."
Become where your heart is leading….
Become with the wind, my love, fly with the wind my love, go with the wind, the wind, the wind, the air current, the wind, my love, go!
Lying in a hospital, a nurse takes his pulse
This man, my father, taught me run and build and trust
Now he must fight to breathe, I see that he wants to get out
And I take his hand and whisper, "Get."
Go, where your heart is leading….

Come ON IN

Words and music past Libby Roderick
c Libby Roderick Music 1990
BMI. All rights reserved

I know I'g only human, and I'chiliad glad that I am
We're not made to alive separate, that's not part of the plan
And I want you then close to me, but I understand
That your middle is agape, many times been betrayed, so I offer my hand
Come up on into my neighborhood, walk correct up to my door

Come on into my living room, I can't say whatever more
We can turn all the lights downwardly low, that's a place we can starting time
Here'southward a key, come up on in, allow's brainstorm to begin, come on into my heart.
Now I knew when I met yous nosotros were 2 of a kind
In that location's a wildness within of you that might even match mine
But I've noticed with wild things, that they're often quite shy
And they're wary of snares when they're caught unawares, simply alone they tin die
Come on into my neighborhood…
At present I never would hold you dorsum, though my heart it might break
'Cause I've tasted the wilderness and I alive by its grace
But I want you abreast me now, just to agree for a time
Oh, my door's open broad, beloved delight come inside, touch your wildness to mine
Come on into my neighborhood….
Here's a cardinal, come up on in, let's brainstorm to begin, come on into my heart. Honey I'll let you in, let' begin to begin, come on into my eye.

HOLY THING TO LOVE

It'southward a human thing, a holy thing, to dear what death tin can have
It's a human thing to love the thing whose loss will cause your heart to intermission
It'south a funny thing nosotros tin can't terminate ourselves fifty-fifty as we wait for the final hush
Information technology'due south a human affair, a funny matter, a holy matter to love
I one time loved a man beingness so watched him slip away

A fist smashed through my thou design, I would sit alone and I could not pray
Only sometimes on a sleepless night, silent and frozen inside my fears
The angels came and circled me and sang the song but spirit hears
Take you seen how the world moves on? Every manus we touch will become
Every face we cherish will disappear, taking everything that nosotros used to know
But somewhere deep inside our bones we must be tied to the morning star
For knowing that our hearts will interruption, nosotros honey each other all the more
It's a human being thing….

SONG FOR SUMMER SOLSTICE

Daylight comes and nighttime goes, night falls, day flies
Circular and round the cycle goes, nosotros live and and then we die and then nosotros live so we dice.
The seasons of my life go circular, the sunshine and the rain
The fallow and the fruitful days, the joy and so the hurting and and so the joy and and then the pain.
Every bit light below, so light above, so light in all we see

The light is in the act of honey, the light that sets us costless, aye, information technology's the light that sets free.
Daylight comes…

TELLING MYSELF LIES

I am telling myself lies, emotion in disguise
No welcome in my optics in the mirror
My heart has gone backside, daring me to find
The One who is still kind, can you hear Her?
I am telling myself lies.

Tell me, accept you seen her there, the ane with the distant stare?
Who just does not seem to care, a child all alone
Do you lot know where she sleeps at nighttime, when heartache consumes the light?
And her bird has escaped in flight, accept you lot seen her get home?
I am telling myself lies, no need to advertise the murder of suprise
I keep smiling
An evening filled with pain, nosotros talk about the rain
Politeness will sustain all our dying
I am telling myself lies.
Do yous know where she goes by day
When money has all the say
And she cannot detect a mode to talk similar others do?
Practise you lot know how she finds her food
Where the language is raw and crude
And the people take all withstood
Have you seen her get home?

I am telling myself lies, in that location is no compromise
I am not civilized, no such mercy
The tenderest entreatment, forgotten how to feel
Forgetting that we kneel as a breathing
I am telling myself lies.

IS THAT WHAT YOU Really WANT?

Is that what you lot really want or did nobody ask you lot?
Is that what y'all actually call back or did nobody intendance?
Is that who yous actually are or did nobody find?
Is that what you really want or did nobody dare?
Are these your nigh precious dreams or did you exit them behind yous?

When y'all were a young one, just to get through?
Is information technology money yous really need or someone to come up find you lot?
Hold on darling, I am coming for yous
Practise you demand some other beer or should I but hold you?
Do you need some other child or a dream for the earth?
Is it sexual practice that you lot really need or are your search for god herself?
Have you painted a picture of you equally a boy, equally a girl?
Remember the playground dreams that kept the states enraptured?
The boy who would dance his life, the daughter who could wing
The longing to touch and be touched, the burning for life
The passion to have it all deep down inside
Is that what you really desire or did nobody ask you?
Is that who you really are, only to run with the crowd?
Is that what y'all actually love, or did nobody inquire you?
Well, if nobody asked you lot, I am asking you now.
For once nosotros can see the dream nosotros volition get there somehow.

Low TO THE Basis

We stand on the edge of a cliff in the deepest night I've ever seen
People looking for light, people who cherish a dream
But the lite's shining out from our eyes and the dream's resting deep in our souls
If information technology's magic we're needing to keep united states from falling, information technology'southward magic we already know
It's music that keeps us alive, it's dancing that sets our hearts costless
It'southward children remember the laughter in life, it's animals teach us to see
Stay low to the basis, alive close to the world, don't stray very far from your soul
It'southward simple things show us the reason we're hither and it's simple things keeping us whole.
Tell me the place you were born, the lives your ancestors led
The ground that surrounded the people you love, the streams from which you were fed
Information technology's the current of air that carries the seed, and the seed that carries the song
The food that we're eating is rooted in soil, and it'southward soil that is keeping us potent
It's music….
The temples are falling around the states, we stand stiff and trigger-happy where they've been
I never accept seen a holier sight than a person who sings in the wind
Our blood is the river of life, our joy is the sun on the country
All of the love that is inside this heart is more 1 person can stand up
And it's music…

CAUGHT (Betwixt A ROCK AND A SOFT Place)

I am continuing on a stack of defenses acting two times my size
She is standing on the footing in front of me asking me "Why?"
Caught between a stone and a soft place
I am struggling to salvage my face from showing how much I care
Caught between a rock and a soft place
Sometimes joining this human race is nearly too much to bear
So I answer sincerely a very polite and absolute lie
And disregarding all forms of civilized manners she asks again "Why?"
Defenseless betwixt a rock and a soft place
I have to defend my space so I can yet take in air
Caught between a stone and a soft place
Suddenly there is not a trace of safety left anywhere
Defenseless between a rock and a soft identify
I tin tell by the expect on her face she'south got feelings to spare
Defenseless between a rock and a soft identify
No luck, I'll but have to face, what I did wasn't fair
Caught between a rock and a soft place
I slowly stop edifice my case and start feeling what's there
Caught betwixt a rock and a soft place
All of a sudden I come face to face with my ain individual scare
So I bravely admit my horrendous behavior and hope to die
Some other issue comes upwards and all of a sudden I'm asking her "Why?"
Caught between a rock and a soft place
She is certain she is a disgrace, and so she'due south putting on arrogance
Caught between a rock and a soft place
Who knows possibly one of these days, we'll accept a soft place to share
This is my promise and my prayer, say a prayer for me, ooh, heaven assistance us to dare.
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