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Don't You Preach To Me

by Songs Of Dave

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1.
All An Illusion (revisited) 02:34
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Chorus It's all an illusion Born of delusion But the feelings I'm feeling are real I maybe dreaming Makin' believin' But the life that is streaming serves me Verse And everytime I taste love And everytime I feel pain And everytime I grieve loss And everytime I grasp gain ... I know Repeat Chorus
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Contradiction 02:55
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Intro Verse 1 Sometimes you feel like fighting And sometimes you let it go Sometimes you feel forgiveness And sometimes you show compassion Verse 2 Sometimes you keep your mouth shut And sometimes you have a go Sometimes you give acceptance And sometimes take exception Chorus Do you dare to ask the question? Do you need to hear an answer? Prepared to know the reason? Can you live with contradiction? Verse 3 Sometimes the sky is cloudy And sometimes the sky is blue Sometimes your life is easy And sometimes it seems so crazy Repeat Chorus Outro to fade
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Divine 03:29
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Verse 1 But if you walk away If that's the choice you make Then you may have to face this truth You know you could be more You know you were before And you don't like what you've become Don't like what you've become Verse 2 But it seems a long way back Your bridges smolder black Still you can return by your will You know it's up to you To walk the path you choose To regain your self respect Reclaim your self respect Chorus Oh, open your mind You, you are divine Verse 3 But if you turn away Then there's a price to pay When you find you lose your sight But you can always change Turn-a-round rearrange Until you walk towards the light You walk towards the light Repeat Chorus to fade
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Don't You Preach To Me 04:14
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Verse 1 Don't you preach to me - I must take your faith It's the only way for my soul to save I respect you the right to choose your beliefs - your prerogative But insist you return the same to me Verse 2 Don't you preach to me - I must walk your path Don't presume you know what is in my heart I ain't saying that you are wrong just that I - I do not agree Why not take a hint? Hear what people think? Chorus I feel that preaching at me so I believe Is more about your doubts And pushing your point so I concede Is more about your needs Verse 3 Don't you preach to me - I must share your view You may codepend, but I won't pretend I respectfully stand by what I believe to be right for me I've my point of view - I'm entitled to Repeat Chorus Verse 4 Don't you preach to me - I must live your life Why do you insist like some screw is missed? Some might say if conviction was half as real as you say it is Then you may calm down, walk upon the ground Repeat Chorus to fade
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Dying To Live 05:18
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Verse 1 The time will come When all these plans are done This life is lived River's course is run Verse 2 The sun is set Twilight closes in You may forget What you know within Bridge Ev'ry one is somebody Searching for a reason to be Ev'ry one is winging things Can you see the fantasy? This life ... Chorus Soul surviving beyond Do you deny it? Only dying to live Verse 3 It's like a book Written in chaptered verse Dramas of life From the last to first Verse 4 The clock doeth chime The hour to turn the page Where chapter ends But the song remains Repear Bridge & Chorus Verse 5 The night grows dark But your mind stays clear New chapter start as you Face your fear Instrumental Repear Chorus x3
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God In Illusion 09:07
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We are god-in-illusion We are god-in-confusion We are god-in-delusion We are
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I'm With You 03:28
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Verse 1 I've been wondering where's this gonna end I've been pondering what does it all mean Where I will go when I am gone? Verse 2 I've been questioning what religions say I've been challenging that there's just one way Within my soul I know they're wrong Chorus Sometimes I see you in my dreams So I believe you're with me Sometimes I feel you in my heart So I'm assured I'm with you Verse 3 I been forgetting who I really am I been bewildered time and time again But now I say that that's okay Repeat Chorus Verse 4 I've been wandering round the universe I've been making plans where to take my birth Expressing my divinity Repeat Chorus
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Is Open 05:09
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Verse 1 We make our choice It's up to us to decide The path we walk Has not been prescribed But some insist Life's goal is set from above And so they preach Good and bad they judge Chorus I waste my human form of life they presume But I think the reason we are here is open Verse 2 It's our's to choose Experience to create And when we're done Simply wipe the slate But some believe Life's rules are chiseled in stone So they impose As if truth they own Repeat Chorus Verse 3 If we're of god Maybe it's time we confess It's up to us What we manifest But some demand We all conform to their ways And in god's name Proclaim lost or saved Repeat Chorus Breakdown/Instrumental Repeat Chorus to fade
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Prejudice 05:21
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Verse 1 Media - they say they don't belong Unwelcome - go back where you are from Find myself - as I pass you on the street Smile on face - resentment in my feet Verse 2 Religions - they preach they possess truth Other faiths - just misguide you and confuse Only theirs - does God bless upon the meek All the rest - are wolves disguised as sheep Chorus I wanna stop now I wanna confess So all my prejudice Will slip away I wanna face up I wanna bow down I wanna own my stuff And start again Verse 3 Animals - how they depend on us We are cruel - when we abuse the trust I believe - beyond the social norms Might is right - does not mean we must conform Repeat Chorus Instrumental Repeat Chorus
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So Called Democracy 03:06
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Verse 1 We did not agree It ain't legally done Taking liberty Where's the democracy How's the government serving society when they make us pay for The greed of a banking business elite? Verse 2 We did not consent We did not cast our vote For a government To take us into war W.M.D - there's no reality - Doctor Kelly R.I.P Conspiracy theories 'bound to this day Chorus So called democracy Who's spin we can't believe Do they think that we won't see There's no legality? Verse 3 We did not approve Laws they now legislate Live your life to work Your retirement can wait Where's the government think they get their mandate? Who's will they represent? Did they forget to remember this fact? Chorus So called democracy B.liar we don't believe Do they think that we can't see There's no legality?
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Tears for Mary Jane 04:22
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Verse 1 Tears for Mary Jane are drying on your pillow Why she cannot stay, they would not say the reason Just she has to go, but she'll be back tomorrow Then to play again with Mary Verse 2 Where is Mary Jane? You sitting by the window Why will no one say when Mary Jane will be here Why are you so sad? You should be glad you know her Before Mary Jane - 'twas lonely Chorus Smiles of Mary Jane are dancing in your heart beats For Mary Jane will always be your sweetheart Verse 3 Through your sleepy eyes your questions find an answer Still as you arise you making plans to find her She feels far away. Can she be found in realtime Or on another plane - Mary Jane? Verse 4 Prayers for Mary Jane, that she might hear your yearning Why did she appear, were you not safely sleeping? Search for Mary Jane within your mind she's turning Round and round again forever Repeat Chorus Verse 5 (half verse) Now you understand why no one speaks of Mary But you don't forget the way you felt when you met Tears for Mary Jane Tears for Mary Jane
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Barbara Allen 04:09
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In Scarlet town where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin' Made every youth cry Well-a-way, Her name was Barbara Allen All in the merry month of May, When green buds are a swellin' Young William Grove on his death-bed lay, For love of Barbara Allen He sent his squire unto the town The place where she was dwellin' Haste ye come to my master's call The lass who's Barbara Allen At last appear she at the door At last to where he's lying, But all she says to sweet William's tears Young man, I fear you dying He turned his eyes unto the wall As death to him was calling Goodbye, Goodbye to my dear friends all Adieu to Barbara Allen And so he died and lay to grave, Soft sounded death bell knelling But every toll, it did seem to say Oh cruel Barbara Allen Oh father dear please dig a grave And make it deep and narrow Sweet William died for the love of me And now my heart must follow The month of June they bury her Sweet William's grave beside her And from one heart grew a red red rose The other grows a briar Say somewhere hides an old church yard With graves unkempt belying Where still they twine as in loves embrace A red rose and a briar

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released April 11, 2010

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David's songs are generally confessional or observational in nature, sometimes comedic or ironic, mostly of philosophical or theosophical subject-matter ... often in the form of imagined dialogue with God.

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