Let Me Be
Lyrics and Music by Anand Dholakia

Lyrics:

My shoulders weigh down
From propping up mountains
My back curves round
From lifting so many loads I'm done countin

I just need a place to rest my head
But it's spinning round instead
Toil follows me
Why don't it let me be, just let me be

Now I'm blinded by fables
Saying where I need to turn
Such political fiction
Spreads like wildfire while homes burn

I just need a place to see what's right
To keep my living off the line     
Lies follow me
Why don't they let me be, just let me be

So I look to the heavens
Asking where I can rely
And the sky does answer
To throw down a hail shower in my eyes

I just need a place to keep me dry
When it's pouring from the sky
Storms follow me
Why don't they let me be, just let me be

Now I'm betting at the table
Laying all my few chips down
It's all that I'm able
To do and watch the wheel spin round

I just need a chance to win one time
But the win is never mine
Luck misses me
Why don't it come find me, just come find me

I just need a chance to win one time
But the win is never mine
Love misses me
Why don't it come find me, just come find me

Let Me Be

The River
Lyrics and Music by Anand Dholakia

Lyrics:

Cool water's running, down the long lazy river
Many souls have followed cause they trust she knows the way
We're treading on their well-worn trails, but livin' out our own new tales  
Carrying on this heavy load gets lighter by the day
As a lifetime's tired notions fade away

One day round the river's bend, a new voice starts where an old one ends
And the locals who greet us here, they ask we sing along
To the legend of all thoughts gone free, obeying only curiosity
And seeking their own truth of what is right or maybe wrong
As soft echoes of our old tune linger on

Our kind hosts share a melody to open up our way
So we say, what's left to say, but

We relish in your feast, and revel in your song
But the journey's end is far, and we can't stay long
To help us find our way we've come to rest here for tonight
But we'll rise and be off again at morning's light

Out here the willows teach us well, without their own goods to sell
Like them wise ones who tell what is and how it all should be
Them storytellers spin tall tales, and craft long myths with fine detail
But now we look beyond what they'd only have us see
And find a view with all-new clarity

Our kind hosts share a melody to open up our way
So we say, what's left to say, but

We relish in your feast, and revel in your song
But the journey's end is far, and we can't stay long
To help us find our way we've come to rest here for tonight
But we'll rise and be off again at morning's light

We relish in your feast, and revel in your song
But the journey's end is far, and we can't stay long
To help us find our way we've come to rest here for tonight
But we'll rise and be off again at morning's light

There's much we have been given, and some we'll give in turn
Though we have much to teach, we have far more to learn
There's many trails to wander, and many miles to ride
But tonight we'll trade stories by the fireside

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