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By Any Other Name
04:08
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A Rose
By any other name
Is just as sweet
Coal
By any other name
Is just as black
But we’ll not carry roses
And we’ll not carry coal
We’ll pick words from thorny bushes
We’ll burn names to fight the cold
War
By any other name
Is just as grim
Rain
By any other name
Is just as wet
We’ll not cry for war
And we’ll not cry for rain
We’ll let euphemisms kill us
After we beat around the bush
God
By any other name
Is just as…
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2. |
A Long Way Gone
04:18
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Where once jasmin grew
Where once children played
Our church was painted black
And the children painted red
So we fled westward bound
Nine in a vessel for two
At first they gave us hope
Now we’re a number in a speech
And we’re a long way from home
But home is a long way gone
We said lord, we trust in you
Lord come to our aid
Please guide us to places
Where we can rest our weary bones
We could pray all we want
Ask all we want
Say all we want
It’s still a long way from home
And hope is a long way gone
Can you believe in a higher power
One that loves us one and all
When your house is in tatters
And everything that matters
Is Gone
Lost
Dead
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Across And A Cross
07:06
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A Rose
There’s an old piece of wood here
Once the heart of a tree
It’s seen winters in norway
Now it’s looking at me
In every crack is a story
A tale in every stain
I hear the voice of the ages
Whisper a weathered refrain
I’ve been around the world twice
I’ve seen centuries pass by
I’ve been across the Blue ocean
And here I lie
They felled me one morning
Spring of sixteen-o-four
They hauled me off to the shoreline
To Bragernes Drammen port
And then on to the North Sea
Past the Frisian Isles
We rolled in through the Pampus
To the old river Zaan
Where the windmills drove sawblades
Through every inch of my trunk
Up, and down and up again
Chunk by chunk
Then they left me to dry out
Until the ship-builders came
They took my heart to the shipyards
Put my scraps to the flame
To be part of the ship’s bow
When my body was bent
They poured a cup of wine on me
And away we went
We sailed ‘round the good hope
On a westerly breeze
We brought pepper and nutmeg
From the far, far east
Robert Holmes made a bonfire
Burning ten dozen ships
Vows of vengeance and cries for war
Were on everyone’s lips
Tubes of bronze were upon me
The smell of death in the air
Sailors clutching my edges
On a dying prayer
With the cannonballs raining
Down on splintering wood
We sprung a leak and were towed away
They stripped all that they could
For a woodworker found me
Carved a nice figurine
But his wife quoted Calvin
Saying I was obscene
So he chiseled my legs out
Gave me a thorny crown
He did a half-hearted paint job
And the church paid him down
I’ve been around the world twice
I’ve seen centuries of loss
I’ve been across the blue ocean
I’ve been nailed to a cross
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Frank Nicolas Amsterdam, Netherlands
With a versatile voice ranging from Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash and Cat Stevens and the style to match, Frank can be counted upon to hit the listener with upbeat love songs and powerful dirges. Solid guitar playing and catchy songwriting will leave you with a chorus stuck in your head for days. ... more
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