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Heard the news today
So unexpected
When that nice man came and told us
Everything was gonna change
Been working a long long time,
now I been selected
I been lifted and directed
To a new life on the way,  and….

I'm getting ready x4
I'm getting ready to go meet the lord

See this bright new world
In living colour,
Everyone with one another 
gonna dance the night away
So I kick my shoes off now
And I'm gonna shake it
Cause my heart must travel naked
On the road I'm gonna take, and...

I'm getting ready x4
I'm getting ready to go meet the lord

I'm ready now 
Cause if you want me Lord, I know that you can take me now
I'm ready now
Just put me where you want me to be and show me how

Half my life gone by
I never noticed
Kept my head down staying focused
On the busy-ness at hand
All the joy I missed
I didn't seek it
Say the prayer and come to meet it,
Follow willingly the plan, but…

I'm getting ready x4
I'm getting ready to go meet the lord

Getting Ready

Anythings_possible(2).wav

A little voice inside of me, it tells me I should hide
Tells me if I'm seen I'll just be hated
In recent years I've seen enough, To trust that it's a lie
To know that underneath we're all related

So come on let's not dance around it, 
Let's be brave and talk about it
Have the heart to walk towards, 
The crashes and the minor chords
If this is what we really want, 
Let's open up and be up front
Let's let the staring public see, 
Our beauty and integrity
So come on let's not dance around it, 
Let's be brave and talk about it
Speak the secret words aloud, 
And let's not dance around it any more.

If all manipulation springs, From fear that they'll say no
From fear to lose control and risk rejection
I know that we're all scared sometimes, But all the same I know
I wanna take a more direct direction

So come on let's not dance around it, 
Let's be brave and talk about it
Make the leap of faith it takes, 
To play a game for greater stakes
If this is who we really are, 
Well maybe it's a bridge too far
Or maybe it's the bridge that leads, 
Us to the very thing we need
So come on let's not dance around it, 
let's be brave and talk about it
have the heart to spit it out, 
And let's not dance around it any more.

That little voice inside of me, That tells me I should hide
Tells me I can't tell you what I came for
The love that flows in spite of me, that comes from deep inside
It tells me nothing natural is shameful

So come on let's not dance around it, 
Let's be brave and talk about it
Have the heart to walk towards, 
The crashes and the minor chords
If this is what we really want, 
Let's open up and be up front
Let's let the staring public see, 
Our beauty in integrity
So come on let's not dance around it, 
Let's be brave and talk about it
Speak the hidden words aloud, 
And let's not dance around it any more.

Let's not dance around it

I sit and remember back when we began 
Getting to know you, you taking my hand
Now you're keeping your distance whenever you can
And I'm scared and I don't understand 

Don't wanna hear what you don't wanna say
And each time I reach out, you say not today
Is there still time to fix it or is it too late?
Am I watching you drifting away?

I’ve felt there's been something not right for a while
I know you're not telling me what's on your mind
And I took it for granted that we'd have more time
But it feels like the end of the line

Don't wanna hear what you don't wanna say
And each time I reach out, you say not today
Is there still time to fix it or is it too late?
Am I watching you drifting away?

I'll always treasure the moments you gave me
Belonging together with you
Nothing's forever, they say, and it saves me,
Feeling this pain as I do

Don't wanna hear what you don't wanna say
And each time I reach out, you say not today
Is there still time to fix it or is it too late?
Am I watching you drifting away?

Drifting Away

She's still got the scars from
being the foreign one
From being the one that the others could prey on
it made her a traveller
And made her a hard one
It sent her in search of somewhere she'd be welcome

And through all her travels
This thread keeps on going
The fabric unravels
The threads come unwoven 
And all of the wanderings
they bring her on back to here….

I still got the scars
From being the other
From being the kid with the red hair and temper
It made me a fighter
It works for a while but
you dream of the freedom and travelling lighter

I long for the ocean
The wide open spaces
The sun on the water
I'm dreaming of places
Of warmth and of beauty
Where everyone's welcome
This world is a factory
It should be a garden

Doesn't matter where you're from you belong here - earthling

She's still got the scars from
From being the foreign one
She'll take herself off and she'll hide in the corner
It works for a while but
You find in the long run
You long for a life that's little bit warmer

Each land's been invaded
And people have settled
And made it their homeland
Where is the threshold?
We've all been outsiders
We've all been excluded
Everything here on this earth's been uprooted

Doesn't matter where you're from you belong here - earthling

Earthling

I don't think we're gonna make it
Think the billionaires will take us 
off the precipice
We're sliding off the edge of it
And though I'd love to change it
How's an ant derail a train
I'm insignificant
Or is that what I'm meant to think?
So

No need for conflict now 
cause no-one’s gonna make it
No safer spaces now that 
no-one’s getting out this alive
Stare in your loved ones’ eyes cause  
every moment’s sacred
Squeeze every hand so tight and 
wait while the aPOCalypse arrives
Cause no-one’s getting out of this alive

I don't think we're gonna make it
I’ve been trying not to face it for the longest time
Always at the back of my mind
Bitter is taste
It’s all so pointless, such a waste
It’s so avoidable - 
if human life was just affordable
But

No need for conflict now 
cause no-one’s gonna make it
No safer spaces now that 
no-one’s getting out this alive
Tears in your loved ones’ eyes and 
every moment’s sacred
Squeeze all their hands so tight and 
wait until the after-life arrives
Cause no-one’s getting out of this alive

How could I lead you to this place
Only to leave without a trace 
of hope, without a call to arms?
Baby, I just need you to be strong 
and carry on
Or come despair with me and feel the eerie calm

I don’t think we’re gonna make it,
I think the billionaires will break it
Fuck the future up
For a little more of way too much
So WRONG it's almost funny
Cause the little extra money's insignificant,
to them, 
Still they SNUFF out every chance again

No need for conflict now 
cause no-one’s gonna make it
No safer spaces now that 
no-one’s getting out this alive
Stare in your loved ones’ eyes cause  
every moment’s sacred
Squeeze every hand so tight and 
wait while the apocalypse arrives
Cause no-one’s getting out of here alive

Anythings_possible(2).wav

Rich Waring