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That's the End

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP

That’s the End There’s a clear distinction between What you say and the Things that motivate you when I Go away There’s a natural attraction and I Gotta say that I Think I’ll never be the same There’s a subtle separation lying In my head And it seems to contradict you and the Things you said I’m compounded by the problem I can’t Comprehend Why you can’t admit that that’s the end So we tip the delicate balance Of our fragile new relationship And guarantee a failure not a friend Why not skip the strained politeness Why not just get on to face it You go your way, I’ll go my way That’s the end You go your way, I’ll go my way That’s the end There’s a better application of our Energy than to Run around in circles when it’s Clear to me That you’re more concerned with fixing What you think is wrong And to make me someone I can’t be It seems to indicate that you want Someone else But no compromise can change that we must Be ourselves It’s an honest realization there’s a World out there Let’s go out and see what we can see And let’s not go there with blaming Baby let’s call it even There’s not much substance here to pull apart What’s the point of naming every difference between us When between us there’s just one more Broken heart When between us there’s just one more Broken heart It’s a philosophical question there’s no Right or wrong That the endings are beginnings before Very long So let’s collect the remnants and just Move along Let the cycle start itself again If it’s somehow all connected Than we must go on believing Some things are just too big to comprehend Let's skip the weird pretension Why not do what I just mentioned You go your way, I’ll go my way That’s the end And let’s not go there with blaming Baby let’s just call it even There’s not much substance here to pull apart What’s the point of naming every difference between us When between us there’s just one more Broken heart When between us there’s just one more Broken heart

Rock-a-bye Planet Earth

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Rock-a-bye Planet Earth

Rock-a-bye planet Earth
It’s time to go to sleep
Don’t you worry about anything
Your old soul will keep

Don’t you cry Mother Nature
Your children all are here
We all love you and thank you for
Two thousand million years

Hush now, shush now
Don’t you shed a tear
Close your eyes, rest now
We’ll stay there’s nothing to fear

Row your boat old Planet Blue
Gently down the stream
Say your prayers and give a kiss
We’ll be in your dreams

Bless your rivers, bless your trees
Bless your land and sky
Nice of you to let us take all we need
Now it’s time to say goodnight

In Graffiti

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP

In Graffiti His name was L.J. Don’t know what it stood for His dad disappeared And his mom was a whore On the day that he asked If he could have a guitar She flipped off Oprah And went down to the bar In graffiti As L.J. leaves he Sprays the driveway long The runaway In black on grey “I just wanted to sing my song” They called her Kelly ‘Cause her color was green She lived to draw with her hand Not use the machine So it kept her in school But when the budgets were slashed The first thing to go Was her favorite class In graffiti Thirty feet she Painted through the night Green and glory All three stories “You can’t cut me out tonight” Maria loved the movies She would watch them all day So she took a drama class When she came to the States But they said, “You talk funny” With their angry slang So she dropped out of school Now she runs with a gang In graffiti ‘Cross the city Maria makes her mark She traded her name For a tag and fame Just like a movie star Todd was a dancer With the beat in his shoes Any kind of music He had all the right moves With the girls all over him One day he confessed ‘Though he liked them enough He had a crush on Jeff In graffiti With bare feet he Smeared it high and wide On the street side wall Of city hall “I guess I’ll dance on the other side”

Lost

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Lost

I can’t see-my shadow
No map-no GPS
Don’t know this-strange direction
Couldn’t guess
I don’t walk-I stumble
Can’t hear what I just heard
I don’t talk-just mumble
Any word
The less I say the better
The less I think is real
If I don’t form the letters
I won’t feel

Just sketches-just whispers
The world-just wear it loose
As for the big decisions
Never choose
If I don’t stop to notice
Maybe you’ll pass me by
If I refuse to say it
I won’t lie
I can’t hold-it’s breaking
Just like a light at dawn
I reach out-to take it
It’s gone

Inner Life Rising

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Inner Life Rising

No candle under a bushel
No buried head in the sand
The earth is waking her children
Consequence ruling the land

No need to read revelations
No need for prophets of doom
Earthquakes remaking creation
Tenderness conquering soon
Conquering soon

Doomsayers say it’s the end
But this time they’re wrong
Hearts and shadows are darkest
Just before the dawn

No ancient mysteries unfolding
No fortunes left to be read
A new kind of high wind is blowing
Ignorance finally dead

No magic tricks in the making
No angels down from above
The powerful oceans awaking
And everywhere kindness and love
Kindness and love

The warlords are ready to fight
And nations are torn
Pangs for the earth and for mothers
Moments before they’re born

No tired ears that are hearing
No blood shot eyes that can see
But minds and the hurricanes clearing
And rulers all fall to their knees

Schools and the churches are tumbling
Hypocrisy passes away
All of the outer world crumbling
And inner life rising to stay
Rising to stay

Broken

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Broken

Hearts and feelings don’t make sense
Love and tenderness didn’t notice
Caring, aching, break all bets
Trump the aces, leave a mess

Tears and telephones can’t take back
Words and sentiments unspoken
All that human nature lacks
Given, taken, broken

Kisses, flowers, eyes on fire
Turn to toxic hurt when it’s over
Giving, living, all desire
Turns the tables, doesn’t care

Hearts and feelings don’t make sense
Leave their questions as a token
Then exact their recompense
Given, taken, broken

Green Years

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Green Years

When life was a story waiting to be told
When the future was a mystery starting to unfold
I chose my own path, broke out in a run
For I knew my adventure had barely just begun
It had barely just begun

I woke from the dreaming, left fantasy behind
When the world broke my heart for the very first time
‘Cause love was the answer and the truth was so clear
And the songs of where and how and why
Were all that I could hear
They were all that I could hear

Life was so green then and everything was new
I was not afraid to try again when I didn’t know what to do
The days were so long and simple things were tough
When I looked around I knew I knew
It would never be enough
It would never be enough

Now decades are passing, the calendar is changed
Ah but there is still a me in me that will always be the same
And when I imagine what eternity will mean
Then I can’t help but know, I know
The years are still green
The years are still green

Let it Be a Mystery

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Let It Be a Mystery

Just beneath the surface
Just beyond the light
There’s an all-connectedness
Almost out of sight

Slow the mind, let go of care
Open inner eyes
Enter peace that’s always there
Inside

Just a second further
Just a breath away
There’s a bridge to everything
Just across the way

Joining hearts and joining minds
Difference disappears
Knowing places long desired
Are here

Let it be a mystery
Dazzling, unknown
All that is ineffable

Just a second further
Just a breath away
There’s a bridge to everything
Just across the way

Joining hearts and joining minds
Difference disappears
Knowing places long desired
Are here

Let it be a mystery
Dazzling, unknown
All that is ineffable

Let it be a mystery

So You See

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
So You See

You start out blind and you crawl through the
childhood of time / believing it all
You run feet bare up the stairs that you never
come down / you don’t care if you fall

Your eyes open wide you have dreams you can fly
but you already know as you go / that
something’s not right
Your head hits the bed and you know that
because you believed in it all / you
believed then that night

When they said you had sinned back before
the beginning of time it started the guilt /
it opened the shame
It darkened your eyes and your dreams you
could fly / it darkened your name

So you started to act and you learned to pretend
up end, inside out / falling in
And you listened and strained and you traveled
and changed / only fell further in

So you see
So you see

With the pieces all scattered around and the
new ones you’ve found / like your dreams
are so far
And you stand and you stare at the things
that you thought that you knew
and you wish that you cared but you
don’t even know who you are

And the time passes on and you follow along
you can’t think anymore, you don’t look
you don’t see what’s ahead
You just do what you do and your act becomes you,
one’s as good as the other / you’re
as good as dead

So you see
So you see

You end up blind and you crawl through the
bottom of time, feet bare, you don’t care
you don’t try to pretend
And the thought hits your head then when
everything’s said and everything’s
gone, they were wrong, those were lies,
you open your eyes, you have you
back again

So you see
So you see

Hate in Your Heart

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Hate in Your Heart

Is there hate, in your heart
For someone who hurt you
Is there hate, in your heart
For some distant land
Is there hate, in your heart
For one who betrayed you
The hate, in your heart
Is in you
Let it go
Let it go

Is there fear, in your soul
For some unknown reason
Is there fear, in your soul
Of some future pain
Is there fear, in your soul
Of some old mistake
The fear in your soul
Is in you
Let it go
Let it go

Is there pain in your mind
For some past injustice
Is there pain in your mind
From some childhood lie
Is there pain in your mind
From someone’s decision
The hate, is the fear
Of the pain
Let it go
Let it go

We Are One

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
We Are One

She’d been gone a month or two
We’d spoken several times since then
And then one day she said that she’d
Not speak to me again

She said that she’d be moving on
That her life with us was done
And I asked if there’s something she learned
She could share before she’d gone
And she said:
“We are one”
And though I’d heard that phrase a thousand times
It was like I never had
And she said:
“We are one”
And I realized the truth of that and
I could not be said

I saw him on the news one day
He was just a kid
And when they talked about the things he’s done
And others like him did

I could feel the hate come up inside
For the color of his skin
Then I turned around and saw myself
And heard the words again
I heard it:
“We are one”
And I thought back to the kid in me
Just looking for himself
I heard it:
“We are one”
And I realized I couldn’t pass that hurt
Off on someone else

Maybe it’s true, but I don’t know whether
We’re part of some big plan
But if we can’t learn to live together
We could try to understand

They said we had to fight this war
To end the terror in their hearts
That there was something in what they believed
That rips our god apart

So we sent our young and poor to die
To try to ease our fear
But when we turn around and see ourselves
We see the terror we have here
And I thought:
“We are one”
And though I’d thought that phrase a thousand times
It finally struck home
And I thought:
“We are one”
In death, in skin, in our beliefs
We never are alone
In death, in skin, in our beliefs
We never are alone

Now

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Now

When will sounds come up from the ether?
When will I know which words to write?
When’s the chance for us all to find peace somehow?

When will music rise from the silence?
When will my ears open at last?
When can voices blend in a perfect sound?

Now
Now

When will gifts come, one, then another?
When will I be free to let go?
When’s the day there’s enough of it to go ‘round?

When will beauty swell from the darkness?
When will my eyes see what is there?
When can lovers share any truth they’ve found?

Now
Now

Never Before

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Never Before

Never before have I felt at such a loss for words
Not to mention my mind
Never before was I so totally insane
Sometimes its serious pleasure
Sometimes its serious pain
But none of it’s coming together
Let me start this again

Never before have I felt like breaking out of my life
And shaking with you
Never have I been crazed like this before
Sometimes I break out in laughter
Sometimes I drop to the floor
Sometimes I’ve felt this way after
But never before

Once upon a time I heard a fairytale
That I might be a prince for you
Maybe that one’s just a little scary, well,
Maybe it’s true

Never before has a sunrise been so beautiful
And me so awake
Never before has the moonlight seemed so pure
Everything in me is whirling
Hey, can I take anymore?
I’d expect to feel this during
But never before

Back in the day there was a silver horse
Mounted by a handsome white knight
There is no way that could be me, of course,
This time it might

Never before have I walked on the beach at sunset
And wanted to hold hands
Never have I sung a song like this before
I’ll guess I’ll have to surrender
I don’t want to fight anymore
I’ve known how love stories ended
But never before

I guess I’ve been this much in love
But never before

Now Again

(Darien Martus)
Music and Lyrics by Darien Martus, ASCAP
Now Again

When’s the moment of truth?
When’s the day of decision?
When’s the end of our youth,
And the point of creation?

When does life pour out in a torrent?
When do I have news I must shout?
When’s the time for us all to pull back the shroud?

Now
Now