Elephant Micah - Are You A Christian?

 Capo III

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Is it true that you came from California
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because the rush hour was long and the gold was long gone
Is it true that you left to write a new story
of the fields somehow you had seen in a vision

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Is it all just a fiction
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when you sing
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Are you really a Christian
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or is it only a feeling that you have in a dream about believing

Is it true that you know every meter and every note
still the words to an old fashion song are etched on your soul
Is it true that your faith lies outside of this room
and its not rock and roll that's a false kind of religion

Is it all just a fiction that makes you whole
Are you really a Christian or is it only a role that you play when you're up
upon the stage
Are you really a Christian

or is it only a feeling that you had in a dream
about believing

Elephant Micah - Still Life Blue

*Tune down one half step*

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well they say that your paintings

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are the work of an untrained mind

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unlike any image

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in the eyes of the unconfined

so I stare at your still life

as if it were wild

I look for your blues

in the natural light

well I see your collective

and you put up on display

with the people all around you

and the people who those other people pay

to stare at your still life

as if it were wild

to look for your blues

in the natural light

we stare at your still life

as if it were wild

we look for your blues

in the natural light

Elephant Micah - Free As the Freest

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well I never thought

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that a bird could have been so perfect

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no I never thought

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that a bird could have been so perfect

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in death

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like the cuckoo

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who lay

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in the dew

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was as free

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as the freest

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of the ones

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who still flew

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who still flew

and when every song bird

is singing his song for the sake of pleasure

and every song bird

is singing his song for the sake of pleasure

wasted breath

of the cuckoo

who lay

in the dew

was as free

as the freest

of the ones

who still flew

who still flew

who still flew

Elephant Micah - The Queen of Rocky Ripple

(Spinning on Air version)

(capo I for The Mayor or Rocky Ripple's First Three Demos version)

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the great blue heron knows her name

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the seasons change, she stays the same

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she does her whipple and she sings her mind

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on the rocky ripple side

the river shows up at her door

the way it did in years before

she marks how high those waters rise

on the rocky ripple side

the morning blows its whistle low

sounding once to pass her slow

she thinks back to another time

on the rocky ripple side

the great blue heron knows her name

the seasons change, she stays the same

she does her whipple and she sings her mind

on the rocky ripple side

Elephant Micah - More Exposures

Capo II

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Hungarian sunlight

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showing me to have pretended like

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I didn't even know

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that I would have to pay for it again

I a lighting on the outskirts

knowing nothing but a nonsense word

every stranger knows

that I'll have to say it in the end

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walking shocked by the ghost along the river

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did the moon reflect me for what I am

American drumming

sounds like going in the great relief

cascading into sleep

fading out of a dream

seeking some reception

before the hand of the holy man

later in the dark

when he departs from living

standing stumped by the stamps of the valley king

did the lions take me for someone strange

staring straight at the dog by the castle

my shadow cast me so untrue

Elephant Micah - Circular (a.k.a. Wild Goose Chase)

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well I do not love to ramble around

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no I don’t

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I don’t

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and if that makes me a home-loving man

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then I am

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I am

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for why enter in on a circular path?

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on a pilgrimage leading straight back

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to where I know that I’ll drop my guitar

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I’ll abandon my car on the highway

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don’t send me away

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don’t set me upon some wild goose chase

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for freedom for money for love

from Portland west to Portland east
yes indeed
oh indeed
Albuquerque and Montreal
that’s not all
that’s not all
San Francisco, Chicago
oh no
oh no
Cleveland, Tuscon, Buffalo
oh no
oh no
For why turn in on a circular path?
on a pilgrimage leading straight back
to where I know that I’ll drop my guitar
I’ll abandon my car on the highway
don’t send me away
don’t set me upon some wild goose chase
for freedom
for money
for love
‘cause I do not love to ramble around
no I don’t
I don’t

Elephant Micah - Naive Attraction

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When you're ready to go row your rowboat away from the action

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just leave foes in the throws of a naive attraction
to the side of your heart that they know is the hardest to locate
it's an art that is lost on the artist to who we all relate

if the grip of the city pollutes you don't try to slow down
salute them by turning around in the form of a showdown
take a bow to the river if it washes away something that's wrong
take a bow to the crowd to remember your finest song

Elephant Micah - Minor's Refrain

Capo I

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Young hearts wake up there's no time for you to waste being put down

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stay close until we'll old enough to pull ourselves out of this hole

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a minor's soul should celebrate


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break the bottles of champagne before we're poisoned

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by somebody else's bad taste


God bless you may your love be strong enough to carry a song
thank well let every age congregate across state line
a minor's sould should celebrate

break the bottles of champagne before we're poisned
by somebody else's bad taste