Featuring Tom Morello.

It's best to know the worth of what you've got before its gone
But you cant let yourself get stuck because you're afraid you might be wrong...
Your nostalgic for 68, I'm nostalgic for 99
But sometimes thinking back too much can make you close your eyes

Cuz what we do today matters both today and tomorrow.

The point of learning history is to build something new
I don't care what you've read about unless it impacts what you do
You wanna recreate 68? You wanna recreate 99?
Try learning their hard lessons to reflect and then and refine.
Because the good old days just sucked sometimes, if you ask those were there
And the answers weren't just blown' in the wind, they were put there

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But history gets simplified with the passing on of time
And causes and effects sometimes take decades to define
I seen the long shadow of 68 by the ruins of the Berlin Wall
I seen the long shadow of 68 in Seattle
And looking back from here now all the pieces seem to fit
Sometimes its hard to notice the changing world when you're right inside of it
Ah, but without us the future is a boat without a sail
Without our best attempts we set the next ones up to fail


Ryan Harvey - "Today And Tomorrow"

A song from my new album "Today & Tomorrow." This is song took me many years to write, far longer than any song in recent memory for me. 

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INSPIRATION

And I gave it everything I had
To try to change for the better
And in those days I felt all the highs and lows
I had to push myself to feel it
I know you too seek wisdom
From the hard truths of life
And mold your heavy heart
To hold a lot inside

We get lost in attempts to find ourselves
Along these open roads
Searching for perspectives on our lives
To bring back home
Cuz there's something about the way we move
Through this world when we're alone
That we seek after,
That we follow

I found in you a comrade
A lover and a friend
A critic, a supporter
And an inspiration
For inside of you is that side of me
That can't be turned away
From the constant pressures of a world
In which we share responsibility

As we point ourselves like cameras
Towards all the things we see
To try to capture the desperation
And the hopes of society
But its not so much to justify
As to grasp the complexities
That we seek after
That we follow

And I made
A poetic piece of you
A concrete fleeting moment
To come back to
Cuz sometimes that's all we've got
Sometimes it's all we need
To face the world with open hearts 
And accept the things we've seen

And they ask us what we're looking for
They ask us what it means
Are we running from our demons,
Or are we running towards our dreams?
But it's something more fluid
And ever-changing in between
That we seek after
That we follow

Ryan Harvey - "Today And Tomorrow"

Firebrand Records

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