VERSE 1
We’ve traveled far
And gathered near
To lay your heart
To slumber here
We watch your sun
As it goes down
May your light live on
Next time around

VERSE 2
From one to two
Our paths ahead
Your numbered days
Come to an end
So may you return
To where you are bound
May your fire in us burn
Next time around

BRIDGE
And all that we are
Is ashes of earth
And dust of the stars
Memories lost at rebirth
But holy breath to bring
Silence to holy sound
May your song we sing
Next time around

VERSE 3
And all our deeds
In your book inscribed
To us you leave
The great divide
And righteous wings
To climb the clouds
May we make them fly
Next time around

Next Time Around (Demo)

Inspirational rock to uplift your spirit and keep you going no matter what. Hear more at: www.zotobi.com

=========== LYRICS ===========
(Chords & complete chart at: http://goo.gl/nQVsar)

VERSE 1
When you wake and feel the day's already gone
the sun is rising but your faith is going down
and you’re losing hope a change gonna come
you gotta tune your station to a higher sound

PRE-CHORUS 1
When the way seems blockaded
and you just don't have the might
give some praise that you're frustrated
You ain't wrong you're on the edge of something right

CHORUS 1
Take a small sweet step, give it all you got
Just a small sweet step moving forward
You don't know what's next, and nevertheless
Take a small sweet step moving forward

VERSE 2
​And when you're riding and the fog has got you blind
remember you're the sky that holds the clouds
Born with a hero's heart and a monkey mind, on the
planet of commitment, there is no doubt

PRE-CHORUS 2 & CHORUS 2

BRIDGE
And you know you've got to be crazy, to look at the game and think you're OK
you're in the very last minute of the very last play, and the scoreboard’s not on your side
But inside your heart is a beat, it's the song on your tongue and the dance in your feet, and
You came here to bring to the game what you got, win or lose ain't never the prize!

CHORUS 3 (2x)

OUTRO
Just take a step… Keep moving forward!


=========== CREDITS ===========

MUSICIANS

Lead Vocals - ZO TOBI
Keys, Programming - JEFF BOVA
Percussion - RAFAEL PADILLA
Electric Bass - ABBY TRAVIS
Guitars - TIM PIERCE
Background Vocals - LINDA McCRARY, JAMES McCRARY, & MARKITA KNIGHT

Produced, arranged and mixed by JEFF BOVA

Background vocals arranged by - LINDA McCRARY, JAMES McCRARY

Engineering - JEFF BOVA, STEVEN VALENZUELA

Mastering - HOWIE WEINBERG

Vocal Coach - KELLY WOHLFORD

Recorded and mixed at
BOVALAND - Hollywood, CA, Fall 2015
www.bovaland.com

Background vocals recorded at
STUDIO CITY SOUND - Studio City, CA, Fall 2015
www.studiocitysound.com

HOWIE WEINBERG MASTERING - Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2015
www.howieweinbergmastering.com

A&R and General Management
BONNIE MILNER
LONG VIEW ENTERTAINMENT
longview.bonnie@gmail.com

Small Sweet Step

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Zo Tobi - “Show Me The Song”
Recorded on Blessed Unrest: a soundtrack for social change
Released on January 31, 2013

Show Me The Song

Date written: September 14, 2008

Lyrics

VERSE 1
Morning you woke with pounding heart
And body paralyzed
Silently screaming through lungs of stone
Remembering a world on fire…
There were rising seas, air too thick to breathe
Nations marching to their doom
There were thundering sounds, and mushroom clouds
And the battlefield filled every womb

CHORUS 1
But it was just a dream
Just a dream
Can you see the morning star arising?
What a blessing
What a blessing
To wake up with time still left
To turn the tide
To turn the tide

VERSE 2
Better to end it than suffer through
The sadness and the pain
So you swallowed the poison and mercy you prayed,
“Take me back from where I came”
As the potion took hold and the world grew cold
You screamed, “this is not my fate!”
But it filled your bones and your lungs of stone
And you knew it was too late

CHORUS 2
But it was just a dream
Just a dream
Can you see the morning star arising?
What a blessing
What a blessing
To wake up with time still left
To turn the tide
To turn the tide
Time still left
To turn the tide

VERSE 3
So why, birdsong?
And why, photons?
Why, sweet breeze?
And why, galaxies?
And why through the seas did your ancestors rise?
And why through the struggle, the will to survive?
And why did they pass on this sorrow and laughter,
And the power to dream the next great chapter?
And why do the walls seem to suddenly fall?
And why does the arc bend to justice at all?
And why through the concrete do flowers now bloom?
And why did we awaken not a moment too soon

CHORUS 3
From the dream
To see the morning star arising?
What a blessing
What a blessing
To wake up
And there’s still time

Why Did We Awaken

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Zo Tobi - “Chosen”
Recorded on Blessed Unrest: a soundtrack for social change
Released on January 31, 2013

Chosen

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Zo Tobi - “In Their Time”
Recorded on Blessed Unrest: a soundtrack for social change
Released on January 31, 2013

In Their Time

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Zo Tobi - “Only Thankfulness (Special Acoustic Bonus)”
Recorded on Blessed Unrest: a soundtrack for social change
Released on January 31, 2013

Only Thankfulness (Special Acoustic Bonus)

Zo Tobi is a “purpose-driven rock” musician in Oakland, CA with an uplifting social and spiritual message.

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