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(Instrumental)
Love you forever, Bradley Bailey
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You know not everyone of us was born with a million dollar silver spoon in our mouth?
You know that some of us have had to find out what this world is really all about?
And you know, it ain't easy sometimes, oh but you get around
And just when you think you're out of your mind, you realize you're just following the sound
Just following the sound, just following the sound
And it goes around, yeah
You know not everyone of us is the winner of the birth lottery, babe
Some of us have had to figure out what that even means
But I see all around and I say you just gotta follow that
Just gotta follow that sound, yeah
Just follow the sound of the underground I say
Just following the sound
You know we get around
That's how we get around
Just following the sound
Just following that sound
Just following that sound
Just following the sound
Just following the sound
That's how we get around
How we get around
How we get around
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I thought I'd think up a little line
You know the way we do it all the time
Thought I would sing whatever mind to my mind
For you
Oh you know the way we like to imagine?
Every little thing that we can fathom?
Tip of the tongue comes
All around you
Whatever surrounds you
Do you feel it?
Do you feel all the words
Fluttering through the air
Coming through the channel
Turn on your mind
You know, you're lucky if it rhymes
Just the way, just the way we imagined
Dreaming, dreaming all the time
With you
And people want to feel the magic
And when they have it, they know they have it
And everybody wants to feel the magic
All the time
All the time
That's how I feel knowing that you're mine
All the time
Footsteps in the mind
Oh yeah
That's just the way that it goes, you know
That's just the way that it goes, you know
We're just watching that river flow
We're just following the road
Just finding ourselves downstream
Living in a dream
Living in a dream
Living in this dream
Oh yeah
Like a Pisces
Just like a Pisces
It's the season of the Pisces, yeah
And everybody wants to feel the magic
Step inside, you'll know when you have it
And everybody wants to feel the magic
It's true
And I'll be there for you
It's true
Oh yeah
And when we come around
Following the sound
Knowing the right place
And when it flows out all like a dream
So effortlessly
It's just the world that
It just the world that we're living
The world that we're living
The world that we're living
And everybody wants to feel the magic
And everybody wants to feel the magic
And everybody wants to feel the magic
Step inside, you know when you have it
And everybody wants to feel the magic
It's true
I'll give it to you
I'll give it to you
I'll give it all to you
Yeah!
I wanna give it all to you, yeah
I wanna give it all to you, yeah
I wanna give it all to you, yeah
I wanna share it with you, yeah
Oh share it with you
Yeah!
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The most ironic moment of my life
Has got to be
When I was standing on the street
In Highland Park, Los Angeles
And Elon fucking Musk walks out
I yelled his name just to make sure
Must have been 2017
Then he turned over, shook my hand,
And I couldn't believe it
Because at the time I was homeless
And he was a billionaire
One of the richest people in the world
And if you were to average our collective wealth
You'd have a prolific artist who lives in his car
And a billionaire car-maker
And of course every existential thought
Swirled through my mind in this moment
As it would for anyone with a sense of awareness
Some people blurt out their elevator pitches at the opportunity
Or ask for shit jokingly or serious
Or maybe like half jokingly, but if you're into it, you know
But even though I was homeless
I still had my dignity
And I wasn't interested in being a beggar
Instead all I could say back
Was “have a good night”
And I shit you not
He then walked to the end of the block
With his two buddies
Got in his fancy Tesla
And drove back to Mars
And another thing
When you have that much money
It's like, who can you trust?
I just don't see how the system
Is really working out for anyone
And hey, do you remember
That time you tried to overthrow a foreign government?
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Oh things are not quite the way they used to be now
They're nowhere near where they used to be
Perhaps there was a time when society had compassion
But you know that time was long ago in history
And we must beg for mercy
Have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh Jesus Christ or whoever have mercy on me
Have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh Lord if you're up there, have mercy on me
Dreaming of some kind of time
Long ago, maybe I
Was thinking of some kind of future that we could have
If only, if only, you know what's going on
Do I even have to describe?
Everybody already knows what it is
Have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh dear President or whoever have mercy on me
Oh have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
If there's a government that can do anything, have mercy on me
That's right
You can insert some kind of solo in this part of the song
If you feel like as you're playing along
Or perhaps you prefer my voice,
Well I guess that's your choice
As I sing these sweet songs in some kind of refrain or something
Oh have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh dear God can't you see we're crying have mercy on me
Yeah, have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh Lord if you're out there, please have mercy on me
Yeah, oh have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
If there's one thing that I can sing have mercy on me
Yeah, have mercy, have mercy
Have mercy on me and my people
Oh dear God, please, you know, have mercy on me
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
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This is one of those freedom songs
Everybody likes a good freedom song
It's a freedom song
Just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Just trying, just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Yeah
Say, don't you know?
Don't you know it's a crime?
That we, that we
Have to struggle to survive?
Oh, but I'm
I, I, I'm
Just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Yeah
Oh, I'm just trying to get by
I'm just trying to get by
You know some people live
They live their whole entire lives
And they never
They never even
They never even see the light
Meanwhile I'm
I'm just trying to get by, yeah
I'm just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Oh but it's just another
Another day in the life
Just another day in the life
Just trying to get by, yeah
Just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Just trying to get by
Oh why must we struggle to survive?
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May the time stand still if it be God's will
If it be God's will, may the time stand still
If the time stands still, it must be God's will
May the time stand still if it be God's will
I've been searching all my life just to find
Some kind of place for me to rest my mind
Far away from all the scenes of the crimes
That society placed at the feet of our eyes
May the time stand still if it be God's will
If it be God's will, may the time stand still
If it be God's will, may the time still
And it must be God's will if the time stands still, yeah
Searching all my life one day to the next
It's quite a thing to perplex
You know that I have found myself in so many situations
That I can't even remember them all
Oh but surely there must be some kind of fascination with these things
In the minds of people who have curiosities
And I have wandered and wondered endlessly
Just to find that I have become Bee Appleseed
And if it be God's will, let the time stand still
Let the time stand still if it be God's will
And if it be God's will, let the time stand still
Let the time stand still if it be God's will, yeah
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Nora (Improv 7/12/2019)
02:02
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Oh I'm just hanging around waiting for my baby to come home
Oh I'm just hanging around waiting for my baby to come home
Oh Nora, I adore ya, it's true
I wrote this little number just because I was thinking of you
And even though you are not here
In my heart, you're always near
For wherever you are, my love is with you
Oh I'm just hanging around waiting for my baby to come home
Oh I'm just hanging around waiting for my baby to come home
But when it's me that's away
Oh it's so hard to stay
For I long only to be there with you
For I wish always to be there for you
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Bee Appleseed Los Angeles, California
Bee Appleseed is a prolific songwriter, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, singer, comedian, and seasoned vagabond from Canby, Oregon, living in Los Angeles, California.
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