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to build a home 3:500:00/3:50
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catch the moon 4:080:00/4:08
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journey 4:170:00/4:17
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uncertainty 3:570:00/3:57
to build a home
to build a home
Verse 1:
The soil swallows these seeds
Planted by these bleeding hands
For too long. For far too long.
But I feel it in my bones
A forest is rising up
From these stones. These forgotten stones
Chorus:
I pray that castles rise up
From the mounds of dirt
To shelter all the weary souls who
Come to find their longings met
I pray that gardens grow up
From the mounds of dirt
To feed all the starving souls who
Come to find their longings met
Who come to find their longings met
Verse 2:
My war cry is a song
Won't runaway, Takes more than day
to build a Rome. to build a home.
Bridge:
The pearl is buried in this land
the treasure buried in this sand
in this sand…
catch the moon
Verse 1:
Was blinded by the moon,
Ambitious to catch it
None could fathom the success
So I took on the challenge.
Chorus 1:
Your minute is my hour,
the strange abyss of time.
Blank spaces in between
Went straight into the dark
to grasp the orb of light.
I could only leave a mark…
Even after all the fighting
for you
Verse 2:
Enamored, overtaken
By your graceful gentle glow
Then fallin’ into the pits
Your holes became my home.
Chorus 2:
You can’t catch what’s meant to be
Free and independent
Though you can discover treasure.
The chase was worth it all
The chance to make it happen
By the mystery of the arc
Even if I don’t outlast
the ending…
journey
Verse 1:
I'm on a journey to the mountaintop
Down by the river to meet where the source starts
Wanna see with new heights and with new eyes
I know my limits, I've been falling out blind
Chorus:
Im finding my way home right through this fire
Ascending to Heaven, descending past my pride
The thinnest place where dirt meets the sky
Where, in peace, I’ll finally abide
Verse 2:
Made my home not by finding the top
But in the valley with my face to the ground
Walking circles to undo the fear
made a river with my own tears
Chorus 2:
No longer crippled by my doubts
Can I escape the internal drought?
I’ve made a river from these rocks
I've made peace with my dramatic thoughts
I’ve made a home right within myself
Where there’s life and an eternal well.
uncertainty
Verse 1:
How do I keep from giving up,
all the uncertainty that looms?
No one had said it would be this hard
While being tempted to front or to remain true
more choices come with more doubt
Of what I actually think I want or need
This friction that I feel inside
A Vital necessity to test what I believe
Chorus:
Accusers are so many
achievers are so few.
Accusers are so many
achievers are so few.
All this talk is making me run around in loops
What if I never silence my ruminations
Verse 2:
We are Critics and cynics
Who are afraid to admit that we might be wrong.
More impressive to debate, rather than
changing problems for the greater good.
The red tape is just an excuse—
Ways to keep us confused
and walking in our sleep
Bridge:
I can't just stand here and believe
the world’s fall beneath our feet
Won't be gettin’ any sleep
Until we're livin’ free
So I'll fly above the norms
And weather the crazy storms
Heal the torn
‘Stead of causing war
Where Were You?
This song was written in 2015 after Suri chatted with a trafficked Chinese woman in her room in a Hong Kong brothel. Such a human experience impacted her and she wrote this song with modern slavery in mind. It won 1st place Battle of the Bands competition for the 852 Freedom Campaign.
It is re-released on Juneteenth as a celebration of the emancipation of slaves in the US in the 19th century. However, the song beckons that there is a way to go on the road to recovery and reform.
Lyrics
1,2,3,4.
You count your trophies in your good deeds collection
Finding people you can tell, do you really think you’ve helped
Any other people but yourself?
While 1,2,3,4
They count us like we’re shackled savages
Empty, soulless bodies, stripped of dignity
Pitied.
Where were you when they took me from my loved ones?
Where were you when I was beaten to the ground?
I’m asking you, if you have keys to our chains, to free us from our shame?
Have our lives been paid for?
Oh, what glory can be found through the eyes of a stranger?
Bear the unease. Would you stay here, please?
For me.
Where were you when I was tired and hungry?
Where were you when I was sick in bed?
Have you come to see me in jail? Or listen to my wails?
On the road less taken.
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?
Was it you who birthed the morning star?
Have you entered springs of the sea?
See dark gates of deep?
If you have, then speak!
I love you, so go.
Be my face to those
Who still need me.
Til the End (feat. Abstrak Mind)
Verse 1:
You’re the puzzle I’d spend my life trying to crack.
The only hint I want you to give
Is whether you like me back.
I can now hear it, you're the rhythm to my melody.
In rooms together, you’re the silence to my speech
Pre-chorus:
I didn’t know how to make sense of us,
But I am learning to let go and trust
Chorus:
I’m ready to go down this road
With my hand in yours
No matter what this future holds
I’ll be there til the end
Abstrak Mind:
No time limit
My feelings that I’m feeling deep inside they are endless
If something there is broken let’s Amend it
I say let’s not place pride above Forgiveness Your presence to me it’s like a present
The joy I get from unwrapping yo gift is so Pleasant
As I speak I hope you get this message
I can be the match to spark your fire if you let it
Out of all the puzzle pieces
You are the peace to make this puzzle completed
Plans got canceled, X’s got deleted
They lacked the O’s to give love meaning
Verse 2:
When I’m spinning, hearing your voice makes
time stand still
And your kisses, send me illuminating chills
Pre-chorus
I never knew a love could be like this
My heart knows you are the piece that fits
Chorus:
I’m ready to go down this road
With my hand in yours
No matter what this future holds
I’ll be there til the end
In the Unknown
My soul tortured by your absence
Though in spirit knew you’re not far
More like closer than skin
It’s just that way. That’s how we are
That’s how we like it.
The world cannot know us like this
Just between me and you
They may never get this which exists
Uncover, this thing we do,
We know we do.
I could trade you in for another plot
and wait ‘til my mind blots you out
but it’s too much to bear
Yeah, we’re dying away
but that’s how we are
and that’s how we like it
Maybe someday we’ll freely
Come out from hiding under the Cold
Frosted snow where we stayed
To survive to keep alive in the unknown
I could trade you in for another plot
and wait ‘til my mind blots you out
but it’s too much to bear
Yeah, we’re dying away
but that’s how we are
and that’s how we like it
I’m scared that the Secret that we hold
Is more exciting than Truth laid bare Herself
I’m scared that the Secret that we hold
Is more exciting than Truth laid bare Herself
But she’s not for the weak.
No, she’s not for the weak.