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Just Like You
03:37
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This song is for everyone who chose a side
When you heard the news that made it so easy to decide
You figured out the way that it has to be
Chose your own destiny
Made me your enemy
While preaching harmony
Well I guess I’m just like you
Misunderstood too
Now you walk the town and tell us all about what you think
Say you got a new teacher and he’ll show you everything
The grass is always greener in the back of your mind
Now you’re running ‘round in circles blowing smoke at the fire.
Well I guess I’m just like you
Misunderstood too
Pick a side cause it’s the only way to survive
Say goodbye to those you love make peace with the sky
You split the world in two-those like them and those like you
You tightened up your collar and you can’t see nothin’ new
Well I guess I’m just like you
This song is for everyone, now chose a side
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Path
03:10
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Well I searched my soul for the answer, I flew around the world to ask a sage I prayed to every god that man-made lord but I still have no key to my cage
Raised by the church to feel spirit, a tie around my neck as I prayed
I cried lord oh lord if this is what’s in store you’re no lord, you’re no lord, you’re no lord
So I ran like the wind to the mountains, listened to the raven on the breeze
I Holler’d at the stars and stared at the moon, with hope I’d find my key
Now a young man’s got his convictions-- explore every realm you can find
But you won’t find nothin’ you can lean on, with those thoughts piled high in your mind
I’ll break down the damn that contains me, take a wreckin’ ball to the wall in my head, Cause that key’s inside I can feel it glowin’ bright and the myth that was me is now dead
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3. |
Come Back Home to Me
03:21
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In my dream I used three simple chords and sang about your name
A lush field for some loving words a melody to hear on the wind
So every time we went apart you would have something to sing
A tune to draw out of thick air defining your next reason to breath
Well I hope you know I’m out here love and I wish you a night of peace
I’ll sing this song while you’re gone come back home to me
Wooh hoo hoooo hoo hoooo hoooo
Now I’m calling out into the night like the dove mourning in the row
Wisdom of true love in his song as he lets his lover know
Harmonized by just three chords: the vi, the IV, the I
I took his feathered song and gave it words so we could sing along
Well I hope you know I’m out here love and I wish you a night of peace
I’ll sing this song while you’re gone come back home to me
Wooh hoo hoooo hoo hoooo hoooo
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4. |
Young Man
04:12
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I’m a young man
That’s what I am
I’m a young man
Doing what I can
I can see it in your eyes that you want me
Don’t you know that’s all I’ll ever need
With the moon and you above me and the earth underneath
Young Man
I’m a young man
Working with my hands
I’m a young man
I ain’t got no plan
But I know where a song can take me
And I feel love in the strings
My only wish is to walk on with you and sing
Hey! Young, young man
You don’t know how it goes
or where you belong
oh no no!
The road you chose doesn’t get there
And I know it won’t matter in the end
Cause all you see with every mile is you my friend
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5. |
Monochrome Blue
03:30
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On an autumns day
Heard you call my name
So I pedaled your way
Leaves crinkle underneath my wheels as I ride
Are you needing me?
Are you all alone?
Did you fall down?
Tears stain the sidewalks blue in this town
And this monochrome feelin’ I can’t shake off
We are like the sky
The blue, blue empty sky without each other
Beautiful, but just one color
A monochrome blue
What can I do,
But be the sky
And pray the forming clouds will shade your squinting eyes?
What do you see?
Shapes that look like me?
Are they changing now?
Will it bring the rain we need with a thunderous sound?
Never bet your happiness upon a drifting cloud
We are like the sky
The blue, blue empty sky without each other
Beautiful, but just one color
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6. |
Love and Song
04:14
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All I have is my love and my song
You can have my body when I move on
Thank you for your prayers, my brothers and sisters are so strong
All I have is my love and my song
Welcoming the spirit, opening the door
Welcoming you’re light, watching all you shine
All I have is my love and my song
You can have my body when I move on
Thank you for your prayers, my brothers and sisters are so strong
All I have is my love and my song
Bend me into who I’m meant to be, I’m yours
Welcoming the spirit, opening the door
All I have is my love and my song
You can have my body when I move on
Thank you for your prayers
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Wildwood
03:37
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In the wind, in the stars, in my Colorado dreams from afar
I can feel it creepin’ up again my wanderlust is settin’ in I’m rollin’ down the road tomorrow
Makin’ way, makin’ way! I can feel it getting closer every day
I hear your voice at every turn, we are all just one I’ve learned I love this time together
In the wild, wildwood! Sure feels good, to see my friends again in the woods.
Just a boy, with a guitar, pickin’ dreams out of the streams in my back yard - This is how I want to live my song is all I’ve got to give—I’ll sing this one for you
In the wild, wildwood! Sure feels good to see my friends again in the woods.
I call your name, beckon you to sing
and you walk with me through the wind and the rain!
You lifted up my song and it echoed through The Holler!
It filled up my lungs with the sound of my brothers
It’s your love, sweet girl, can’t think of anything better in this world
Then an open heart that draws me near all my dreams come true up here - Take me home
To the wild wildwood! Sure feels good to see my friends again in the woods
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Karakoram
05:58
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I walk through mountain sage and tamarack pine
Home on my back, you followin’ close behind
A dreams seed is planted deep in my mind
Would you ever dare to climb that high?
Eight thousand meters in the sky
Karakoram
From the raining forests of Ohanapecosh
To the high and dry peaks of Rawah
You learned in Alaska the pain of frostbite
But would you ever dare to climb that high?
Eight thousand meters in the sky
Karakoram
To tread here was forbidden, this is not my native land
Ascending fixed lines with an ice axe in my hand
You thought about him, you thought about her
And how she lost her man
Eight thousand meters in the sky
Karakoram
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I’ll come running when you call my name
To make your bed warm any time of day
Wanna be the one to keep you satisfied
When it’s cold at night on the mountainside
The road is closed so I’m hiking up
I’ll make the climb just to fill your cup
You open the door a fire’s burning bright
Cause it’s cold tonight on the mountainside
My heart is heavy while we sing
Cause I know you’re leavin’ this mountain in the spring
You say it’s a shame to make my love hide
When it’s cold at night on the mountainside
Down surrounds, pine explodes
We’re burnin’ up this little cabin in the snow
You hold me close and I hold you tight
Cause its cold tonight on the mountainside
Now the seasons over and you’re movin’ on
I’ll miss my mountain momma when she’s gone
Cause I sleep alone when she takes that ride
And it’s cold tonight on the mountainside
So cold tonight on the mountainside
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If you knew what would you do?
Would you hide your head in the sand?
Would it make you a better man?
What you don’t feel?
What you don’t know?
What you don’t see my love?
You will be shown.
If you knew what would you do?
Cry out to the ones you love?
Maybe talk to your God above?
What you don’t feel ?
What you don’t know?
What you don’t see my love?
You will be shown.
If you knew what would you do?
Would you curl up into a ball?
Would it save you from the fall?
What don’t you feel?
What don’t you know?
What don’t you see my love?
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11. |
The Medicine Only Knows
04:35
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Our Path is scenic and dangerous my friend
Memories of this journey - all you have at the end
We cave into laughter when we see our own graves
Cause we’re livin’ as were dyin’ this might be our last day
Hold me close, let it go, the medicine only knows what you don’t right now
Help me to find the nature of mind
Push me closer and closer every time
I’m not stuck here in this body, it’s a choice of mine
The day will come when I leave it behind
Hold me close, let it go, the medicine only knows what you don’t right now
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Michael Kirkpatrick Fort Collins, Colorado
“Michael Kirkpatrick has the voice of an anthropomorphic brontosaurus that has popped out of a children's book to teach kids
about the dangers of playing with matches” - The Scene Magazine
Michael tours with several acts and is ringleader of Holler!ween --a Northern Colorado music festival in its 17th year.
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