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Marty's songs

Remembering

Remember to slow down
Remember to give
And to live simply
That others may live

Remember to love friends
Remember to smile
Remember to cry at
Least once in a while

Remember the present
Is always right here
Remember to let it go
If it's based in fear

Remember to listen
Remember to breathe
Remember to trust in
All that you believe

The Song I Sing

Who am I today?
What will become of me?
Who am I to say
Where things will go?
What's this game I play?
What is my mastery?
Where am I to stand?
When should I let go?

Well, I live in each moment
The sensations I feel
Play into all my knowledge
Memory and sensory
Blend to make reality

Everything I am
Is just from being
Everything I do
A tangent of the same
Who are you to me?
What's this I'm seeing?
A mirror of my past?
Or are you just the frame?

Well, I know when I'm with you
The connections we make
Create magical forces
Mirror, mirror in your eyes
Won't you help me realize

All are one with everything
My being is the gift I bring
When we share the songs we sing
It keeps the whole world changing

What about this world?
Why is there so much pain?
How can I stop hate,
Destruction in its wake?
What about my kids?
Can I even explain?
How can I feel good about
The chances that they take?

Well, I have limitations
And I know that's alright
I can make my best choices
When I'm in my truest self
It's better than anything else

All are one with everything
My being is the gift I bring
When we share the songs we sing
It keeps the whole world changing

Who am I today....   I am one with everything
Who are you to me...   Your being is the gift you bring
What about this world...   When we share the songs we sing
  We keep the whole world changing

I Could Cry

Sometimes I feel propelled by forces
of responsibilities
Windswept and tossed across the courses
of other peoples' needs
I let them put me to the test
And I'm giving it my best
Yet I find an emptiness underneath

If I could only face my fear
If I could find that place inside
I know the clouds would start to clear
And I could cry

The more I'm pushed the less I'm open
to try to let it go
Then you react to my withdrawal
The accusations flow
Then your distress is piled on top
The pressure feels like I will pop
And I just want to make it stop, don't you know

If I could only face my fear
If I could find that place inside
I know the clouds would start to clear
And I could cry

I don't know I find it hard
To just surrender to my pain
If I could only drop my guard
I'd gain my strength back again

I do my best to try to meet you
But we stay in our stuff
You cry to me and say you're trying
But it's just not enough
And then that brings up all my doubts
I could scream and I could shout
It's just the tears I can't let out, it's too tough

If I could only face my fear
If I could find that place inside
I know the clouds would start to clear
And I could cry

I don't know I find it hard
To just surrender to my pain
If I could only drop my guard
I'd gain my strength back again

So now I choose to face my fear
I'm gonna find that place inside
And watch the clouds all disappear
And I can cry

Moving On

I never could have guessed the day I met you
What you would mean to me
A crazy love affair where I would get to
Come keep you company
I told you way back then that I'd be leaving
You knew it all along
But then I didn't know that I'd be greiving
My love for you would still be burning strong

I'm moving on
And we'll be far apart
I'm changing places
Yet I can't change your place inside my heart
I'm moving on
I'm going far away
Believe I love you
Believe that there's just got to be a way
Our love can move on

Our years together faced all kinds of changes
And still we persevere
When everything around us rearranges
We've had each other near
You always loved the ways that I kept dreaming
You helped my dreams come true
Supporting me through all my plans and scheming
But up to now, they all included you

I feeling the excitement of being in a new place
You face the devastation of a gaping empty space
Our feeling in the present must be honored and released
While the tempests rage above our love is steady underneath

How can I love you and still want to leave you
You couldn't understand
I can't deny the pull when my heart needs to
Move to another land
You say you'll miss our day to day together
It'll never be the same
That's true, and then again it's true whatever
We're never gonna stop the winds of change

I'm moving on
And we'll be far apart
I'm changing places
Yet I can't change your place inside my heart
I'm moving on
I'm going far away
Believe I love you
Believe that there's just got to be a way
Our love can move on

Patterns

You wake up drowsy, drag your feet out of bed
The movement dissipates the noises in your head
I reach out to touch you, you turn to me
Our gazes meet, your smile completes the ecstacy

Each time, each day, each moment
Open up and feel the love I offer you
And when the moment's broken
Hold your feelings in your arms and love them, too

Our lives get cluttered and we lose our track
Compassion for yourself can help to bring you back
You have your doubts, but then I know they'll pass
Like crystalline connections in the shattered glass

Each time, each day, each moment
The choices that you make become the cloth you wear
And warped, distorted notions
Are mended by the friend whose laugh stitches the tear

The pattern's creating
The pattern's creating
Magic, transformation and the self-realization
Well, the pattern's creating
The pattern's creating
Trickles stream to mouth of river
Ocean steams up rising over

Each time, each day, each moment
Our lives are linked together by the voids we fill
You factor in the quotient
Rumbling down the railings of your iron will

Roll the dice and take a chance on me
Tiny talons clinging to a windy tree
Wings half open and breast out-bared
Toss me, blow me, or just hold me, I'm prepared

Each time, each day, each moment
Tip your chariot and clear us round the bend
Each adding our component
Writing songs in lyrics we can't comprehend

The pattern's creating
The pattern's creating
Our lives are linked together by the voids we fill
The pattern's creating
The pattern's creating
Rumbling down the railings of your iron will

Each time, each day, each moment
The choices that you make become the cloth you wear
And warped, distorted notions
Are mended by the friend whose laugh stitches the tear

Each time, each day, each moment
Open up and feel the love I offer you
And when the moment's broken
Hold your feelings in your arms and love them, too

The pattern's creating
The pattern's creating
Each moment, this moment, your moment, the moment

Still Here With You

I took you in like a kid drinking a Slurpee on a hot summer day
So quickly that it hurt
And we delved into the unchartered secrets of our sexual play
Oh girl you were the first
To do that hot, wild witching and the power role switching
The nights without sleep, reaching into you deep
I hoped that that would never end

But we can't stop time from turning frenzied pages of our passion and fun
Moving on to the next place
We tripped over all our triggers and we figured we'd unearth the whole gun
It blew right back in our face
When we both reached the point where we'd been hurt before
I took off before I'd hear the slam of that door
I couldn't stand to watch it end

But all the loving, all the pain
Could never have told me
Everything I stood to gain
Once fear no longer controlled me

And you'd be here with me now
That time and change would allow
You to be here with me now
And that means everything to me

You used to tell me how excited you'd be when I found a new lover
Oh, life's laughing irony
Well, she's good to me, I love her, and my time with her has helped me discover
Just how much you mean to me
I want you both in my life, I can't leave it alone
You hold a place in my heart, and you feel like my home
And it's not time for it to end

All the loving, all the pain
Could not have prepared me
Even now I can't explain
How the things that we've shared lead to this

That you're still here with me now
We're working through things somehow
You're still right here with now
Oh girl, and that means everything to me

From the wild woods to desert and into the streets
You've seen my character changes, the cast is complete
The adventure continues, that was just the first act
We're headed to the moon and back

Well, all the loving, all the pain
Could never impede me
Like the green follows the rain
I go where my heart leads me

To be right here with you now
In every way I know how
I'll be right here with you now
Oh girl, cuz that means everything to me
And that's where I'm supposed to be

Make Your Move

I walk in, she's sitting in her chair
No motion save her breath
But her brown eyes notice everything
They've seen all of life, and death
I move quiet through her chaos
Contradiction to the screams
Never certain, never catching those obliterated dreams

Make your move
Forget the flying, take a step
All you'll lose is what you've never had
And all you need you've kept
Make your move
Release the singing from within
That voice belonged to you before the lies were twisted in

I accept her resignation cuz she never signed her name
Yet they've laid the traps around her
And there's no one left to blame
Still I hope for transformation
For a turning of the tide
Not by searching somewhere out there
But looking lovingly inside

Make your move
Forget the flying, take a step
All you'll lose is what you've never had
And all you need you've kept
Make your move
Release the singing from within
That voice belonged to you before the lies were twisted in

Oh, girl you've got to recognize
How precious is your soul
Beneath the binding terror
You are healthy, you are whole
I know the obstacles surround you
Still look how far you've come
The day you found the yellow light
The woman you've become

Make your move
Forget the flying, take a step
All you'll lose is what you've never had
And all you need you've kept
Make your move
Release the singing from within
That voice belonged to you before the lies were twisted in
Make your move
I know the risk is great
But I'm waiting here to hold you
It'll never be too late
To make your move

Flight Into the Wilderness

It's 4 a.m. and I'm on the road
The engine rumbles beneath my feet
No one here in the black of night
But the black asphalt on the street
On her I'm making a runaway
I'm going back to my primal place
Far away from the city lights
From sleepless nights and dogged days

I'm not chasing fantasies
I'm replacing fallacies
From this darkness did I come
Kicking from my mother's womb

Flight into the wilderness
I'm running breathlessly
To find a place and find a way
To alter this reality
Flight into the wilderness
I long to free my soul
Take me back, take me home
Take off this leash and let me go

The sky is clearing, I see the stars
My mind is sharp in the icy breeze
I hear the voice that made the choice
To turn and go back to the east
I'm headed backwards and forwards both
This spiral dance on the road to change
All I need is a life that bleeds
Like purple on the mountain range
Red and orange hues appear
Another day, another year
As the new sun paints the earth
She's decorating my rebirth

Flight into the wilderness
I'm running breathlessly
To find a place and find a way
To alter my reality
Flight into the wilderness
I long to free my soul
Take me back, take me home
Take off this leash and let me go

For several days I've been wandering
The constant motion can hypnotize
My dreams feel lost like the car's exhaust
My only grounding's to the skies
All that was solid is vapor now
Protective shells start to fade away
Breath and thought are the forms I've got
To shape my vision day by day
Dear sweet Mother, take me in
In haling every place I've been
Give me what I need to free
The wildest place inside of me

I'm singing I'm not chasing fantasies
No, I'm replacing fallacies
From this darkness did I come
Kicking from my mother's womb

Flight into the wilderness
I long to free my soul
Take me back, take me home
Take off this leash and let me go, go, go

Window in The Sky

Window in the sky
Will you tell me why?
Window in the sky
Will you tell me why?
Window in the sky
Will you tell me why you're following us?

Way up in the midnight sky
A big bright moonbeam caught my eye
She pulled me up and told me things
I'd never heard before

I got a sister in the sky and she helps me to see
Everything that's happening in the world around me
I can feel her tugging on my heart and my soul
I get a little bit crazy everytime she gets full
She ripens like the virgin in her sweet mystery
The wisdom of the dark moon wraps her shadow 'round me
When she starts to wane, I feel her draining and then,
That waxing magic mama starts over again

Oh, way up in the midnight sky
A big bright moonbeam caught my eye
She pulled me up and told me things
I'd never heard before