1st song of FAWM 

Lyrics:
Sounds in the Ocean
Same as in my body
Do you hear love songs, Comin from my mouth?

Medicinal waters
Soak through my skin
Sunbeam penetrates
to you, to you

Oh the ocean waves they carry me, sweet melody

Mmm, mmm
A Melody so old it knows
Limbic imprint tattooed on our soul
It circles round our life to let us know

I will be ok

A layer of protection
No worries we're bound for connection
Oh the ocean waves they carry me, sweet melody

Mmm, mmm
A melody so old it knows
Limbic Imprint tattooed on our soul

Far from home
Lovers mourn
I will be ok
Painful birth
At the end of the end
I will be ok, I will be ok

Oh the ocean waves they carry me

Limbic Imprint

In the sunlit whiskers I hear your breath, a gentle orchestra
ah yea
a rainbow is arching over your head
I lay me down to sleep and pray my soul you keep
in all of its colors
with the magic of your breath.

Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay ay ay ay
...this worlds so small here
so small, nothing means anything at all
Ah, an orchestra
and rainbows arch 'or your head
I lay me down to sleep
and pray that I remember everything you said.

whistle a bird song
oooooh
oooooh

A Gentle Orchestra

I Don’t Believe In Violence
Words & Music by Larry Long
Produced by Melvin James

Larry Long - Lead Vocal & Guitar
Melvin James - Harmony Vocal & Guitar

If someone strikes I won’t strike back
If the strike again I will not attack
I’d rather talk then hear bones crack
I don’t believe in violence
 
Streets are filled with gang warfare
Some people don’t mind, they just don’t care
When children get killed, it’s never fair
I don’t believe in violence
 
Talk of war in the news
Iraq, Syria, Palestine, too
It all comes back to me and you
I don’t believe in violence
 
Nuclear missiles and Tomcats
Stealth bombers and poison gas
Oil spills and M-1 tanks
I don’t believe in violence
 
Jumping off buildings just like flies
Killing machines, don’t believe my eyes
Late at night I can hear them cry
I don’t believe in violence
 
Women are scared at night
There’s abduction, rape, filled with fright
Keep on running until you find the light
I don’t believe in violence
 
People living in landlord shacks
Keeping warm by burning trash
In need of food, they steal for cash
I don’t believe in violence
 
Martin said, “Do not kill.”
I don’t want dead bodies in landfills
Committing violence is not God’s will
I don’t believe in violence

Words & Music by Larry Long
 
© Larry Long Publishing 1991, Renewed 2017 / BMI

Larry Long - Lead Vocal & Guitar
Melvin James - Harmony Vocal & Guitar

Email: larryl@larrylong.org      
Web: www.larrylong.org · www.communitycelebration.org

I Don't Believe In Violence by Larry Long

An original composition brought to life with my friends in Bonzo Squad. Recorded live in Chicago at AliveOne

Don't Wanna Make A Scene

lovers rock easter weekend medicine

Sadness, anger and reflection on the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others inspired this song about two sides of pain: Despair & Rage. 

credits:
Bass - Josh Griffin
Mixed by - Noam Wallenberg of Rax Trax Recording Studio
Vocals, Production - Rico Sisney

lyrics:
h e a r t s  t o o  f u l l

——————————————————————————————————————————
d e s p a i r

haven’t we heard this before?

how could the news be so old?

how could they all be so cold?

will we ever take control?


when my hands have strength, i fight

when my heart get full, i write

i have no room to cry

but sometimes, sometimes,

sometimes...


i try with all my might

to not feel, not be surprised,

but my hearts too full

my hearts too full

2 day shipping
on thoughts and prayers
to the Twin Cities
if every officer’s clip
was like mayoral office apologies
then it’d be empty
it aint an incident
and you aint do it incidently
always did resent me
i know i aint supposed to feel it
picnics for lynching
show picture, call it kneeling
insert the word another before senseless killings
and get us riled up
when we fight it justifies they violence might try
when we comply and just stay silent
we would still be guilty
whats the choice then?
pick your poison and get to sipping
every public space a killing field
"Don't Move or I'll Shoot" i know you really will
like the waters i stay really really still
problem is they think they invincible
and we are they achilles heel
i know i aint supposed to feel it
tragedy grows more familiar
each day i get closer to it
black lives to throw away
it was a bad idea to scroll today 

haven’t we heard this before?
how could the news be so old?
how can they all be so cold?
will we ever take control?
 
when my hands have strength, I fight
when my heart get full, I write
i have no room to cry,
but sometimes, sometimes,
sometimes...

I try with all my might
to not feel not be surprised
but my heart's too full
my heart's too full 
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RAGE

Common sense ain’t common
Cops should fear the Karma
Act like Y’all aint see this Coming
When they constantly assault us
And since Politicians talking didn’t solve it
Now they mobbing in the Target
Right now all these cities falling
You’re no match for Bouazizi
We go flame cuz you go easy
On these murderers that murder us
We burning up they precinct
Tired of worrying about the media
And how the world receive me
Like Ferguson the T.V news gone turn this shit completely
You miss the auto parts?
We miss Philando, George Floyd, and Jamar Clark
This aint the hard part
We stopped protecting your feelings ignoring our scars
Appealing to hard hearts 

The artists
put hieroglyphics on the wall that read 'ACAB'
You say there's good ones

Where are they at?
You put a target on my back

but see a target burning down and wanna save that
We see a target we should aim at
History repeats
watch the playback
Every thing you gaze at
Stolen from indigenous people or built on slaves backs
What’s the difference between reparations and pay back?
This is Haymarket. This is Stonewall
This Tunisia. This the Berlin Wall
What side of history will you sit on?
Go find a quote by Dr. king

to codify your views
and show us how the other side is culpable
and you are woke
And that we doing it wrong
we know, we know.
we know, we know...

hearts too full

h e a r t s  t o o  f u l l

Rhythm Changes recorded live by Jake Bronson with Bonzo Squad at AliveOne in Chicago

A Gentle Orchestra

Carin Vagle

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