Name: Restless Trees - A new song for the rainforests by Mark G Sharman
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: This is a song for tropical rainforest as if the trees could talk. This is what they re saying. It is a plea to humans to stop the deforestation.

Tying Ourselves in Knots.wma

What Do You Choose?

© Andrew Dolphin Jan 2024

V1
You can’t run and you can’t hide
Can’t hitch a freebie on this ride
There’ll always be a battle for you to fight
Torn between the wrong and the right

V2
Looking for that easy choice 
Too much fro-ing too much noise
Kicking your heals at each divisive turn
Grounded by those lessons never learnt

Chorus
Apathy will hurt you
Laziness will haunt you
If you don’t make a breakthrough
Passion will desert you 
Time to make a choice now 
Do you win or lose 
What do you choose

V3
Your couch is worn like comfort clothes
TV binging your favourite shows
Snacking on the crumbs of discipline
Bound up by those chains you’ve put you in

Chorus

Bridge
You know what’s right it’s clear to see
Don’t trade away your dignity
Or lose yourself in possibilities 
A numbing down of sensibilities

Chorus

What Do You Choose?

A Day In Your Shrinking World

© Copyright Andrew Dolphin 

V1
I watch as your star is fading
The sun setting in your sky 
Passing days that take your memories
And all those conflicts in your head
Maybe I would comprehend 
If only I could spend 
A day in your shrinking world

V2
What’s it like in your world
As it shrinks day by day
Cos’ I see distance growing in your eyes
Is it as painful as it seems  
Maybe I would comprehend
If only I could spend 
A day in your shrinking world

Bridge
Where is hope, when time is calling 
Only borrowed time to cling on to
Praying for another morning 
Another fractured day to get on through
Knowing someday you won’t know you 

V3
I can’t pretend much longer
The pain is for me to bear
Recalling the person that you used to be
The bond that cannot be repaired
Is what I cannot understand 
Surely I’d have to live
A day in your shrinking world
Ooh ooh ooh ooh 
A day in your shrinking world
Ooh ooh ooh ooh 
A day in your shrinking world

A Day In Your Shrinking World

What Do You Know

© Andrew Dolphin 

V1
You cannot put the blame on this mortal coil
It seems you haven’t learned from all your toil
As still we find, your narrow mind
Whad’ya know 

V2
Did you stay locked out intentionally 
Couldn’t face living with humanity 
So much you’ve lost, ignore that cost
Whad’ya know 

PC
Lessons that you never learnt
Bridges that you crossed and burnt 
Unaware your GPS ain’t wired

Chorus
No-one should question you
With their lame views
Whad’ya know 
Whad’ya know 

V3
There’s ignorance behind the words you spout
The colour of your skin is a shade of doubt
Say the world is wrong, it can jog along
Whad’ya know 

PC
Lessons that you never learnt
Bridges that you crossed and burnt 
Unaware your GPS ain’t wired

Chorus
No-one should question you
With their lame views
Whad’ya know 
Whad’ya know 




Bridge
How can you be so insincere
It doesn’t get a tune out of life
You’ve logged yourself off your hard drive
Your purpose in life is to offend
You’re gonna be a loser to the end


Chorus
No-one should question you
With their lame views
No-one should question you
With their lame views

Whad’ya know 
Whad’ya know 
Whad’ya know 
Whad’ya know

Whad’ya Know?

It Ain’t Easy

© Andrew Dolphin

V1
Life, coming off its tracks
That is how it feels 
When we’re running blind
We’re, fighting our own fires
Dampening down the soil
Only if we’re one step ahead

Chorus
Life don’t go where we want it to go
Veers off course and before we know
We’ve grown aware then we take a look
That we’ve lost some chapters from our book 
It ain’t easy
It ain’t easy 

V2
We’re, rolling with the blows
Even on the highs
It’s a slippy slope
We’re, striving to get by
Avoiding obstacles
Only if we’re one step ahead

Chorus

M8
Living our lives inside the grey
Longing for blue skies
Then when it’s our time to step away
Never see blue skies

Chorus

It Ain’t Easy

This is a song for tropical rainforest as if the trees could talk. This is what they re saying. It is a plea to humans to stop the deforestation.

Restless Trees - A new song for the rainforests

THEY CALL HER YONA

they say 
that there’s a woman
who turns thistles 
into summer flowers

they say 
that there’s a woman
who makes weathered trees
bloom again

they say 
that there’s a woman
who turns winter night
into a morning light

—

they call her yona
yona
yona

—

they say 
that there’s a woman
who takes all our fears
and dries the tears

they say 
that there’s a woman
who makes peace
where ever theres a need

they say 
that there’s a woman
who battles every war
when soldiers are no more

—

her name is yona
yona
yona
																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																 
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her name is yona
yona
yona

They Call Her Yona (ft. kypizont)

Road to ruin

© Andrew Dolphin

If I had another lifetime
Surely I would get it right
Avoid bad situations 
With hindsight
I’d make good choices when I’m able 
Seize that opportunity 
Instead of heading down this dark road
And losing me

I’d get off this road to ruin
It’s a dirt track full of holes
And the only way it’s heading is south 
I’d get off this road to ruin 
I would turn this fool around
When those signs would warn of dangers 
Up ahead 

I’ve done my tour of penitentiaries 
A vicious circle there’s no escape 
One crime leads to another 
That’s my mistake
These regrets will always haunt me
I know my time has come
There’s only words of wisdom
To pass on

When you’re on that road to ruin
It’s a dirt track full of holes
The only way it’s heading is south 
When you’re on that road to ruin 
You gotta turn yourself around
When you see those signs of danger
Up ahead 

Now I know my days are numbered 
Can’t take another man’s life 
If only I had turned back
Thrown down my knife 
It ain’t worth losing freedom
For the sake of saving face 
The move to make is to turn your cheek
With grace

So avoid that road to ruin
It’s a dirt track full of holes
‘Cos the only way it’s heading is south 
Avoid that road to ruin 
Just turn yourself around
When those signs warn you of dangers 
Up ahead


Road To Ruin

Hoping

Copyright Andrew Dolphin 2024

V1
Hey girl, where you at
You catch my eye
Did you throw it back
So far away 
Are you looking right through me
What can I do girl
To be the one you see 

Chorus
Where do you go to
When you’re drifting 
Am I in your view 
I’m waiting here at my opened door
Hoping you’ll walk through  

V2
I watch, as you scroll
I see a smile
And it jars my soul 
Is that a guy 
Who is living in your head
Or is it me girl
Or are my thoughts misread 

Repeat Chorus

M8
Hope, as I’m frozen here in fear
Planning my approach 
Do you know that I exist
Hope, that I’m the one you see 
When you’re drifting off into
That world where you always seem to be

Break

Chorus

Hoping

Two misfits


Verse 1
In the corner of a crowded place
Where conformity holds it’s embrace
She’s a wildfire burning bright
I’m a lone wolf lost in the night
But when our eyes met
I found my place
In her smile I see her grace
Just two souls no longer marooned
Dancing in the streets by the light of the moon.

Chorus
Cuz we’re  just two misfits
We’re gonna take this town together
A bond too strong to resist
Sailing through the stormy weather
And we’ll navigate with no fear
And together we fight
With every scar and every tear
We’re just two misfits here

Verse 2
She don’t’ wear flowers in her hair
We’re out of place but she doesn’t care
Together we paint this town red
In a world we’re often misread
To the rhythm of our own beat
Once dejected and incomplete
But in her laughter, I found my light
But now together
Now together we take on the night


Chorus
Cuz we’re  just two misfits
We’re gonna take this town together
A bond too strong to resist
Sailing through the stormy weather
And we’ll navigate with no fear
And together we fight
With every scar and every tear
We’re just two misfits here


Bridge
You can call us outcasts
 but we’re just two renegades
This concrete jungle is our crusade
As we  write our story
We’ll write our story in a neon haze.. cuz

Chorus out.

Two Misfits

WHO I AM

i used to be so sure
never in doubt
just go about
no hesitation

i used to be so confident
i knew it all
i knew everything
never dropped the ball

no no

you came into my life
all of a sudden
unexpected
without a warning

——

i no longer know
who i am
who i was
who i will be

i no longer know
who i am
who the fuck i’m supposed to be

——

it used to be so easy
nothing to worry
just be myself
be by myself

and suddenly you appeared
and gave me smile
re-rolled the dice
got lost in your eyes

yeah

——

i no longer know
who i am
who i was
who i will be

i no longer know
who i am
who the fuck i’m supposed to be
who the fuck i’m supposed to

——

i no longer know
who i am
who i was
who i will be

i no longer know
who i am
who the fuck i’m supposed to be

i no longer know
who i am
who the fuck i’m supposed to be

i no longer know
who i am
who the fuck i’m supposed to be

Who I Am (ft. Vika)

auckland based singer song writer. Music, lyrics, vocals, instrumentation, arrangements and recording by Mark. All music can be found at Reverbnation.com/MarkSharman
Videos at YpuTube http://youtu.be/IzP5ykyR4sE

Restless Trees - A new song for the rainforests

Mark G Sharman

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