Take What You Need

Pulling at my heartstrings like a marionette.

Now I remember what it is that I forget.

It’s how to live and use my own head she said

To learn what it means to be alive from the dead

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Conformity is rewarded

I don’t need a disclaimer to tell you how I feel

That’s how the old story goes

When we live to feed our own egos

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

We light candles and sit in the dark.

Stare into the fire and watch the embers spark

Talk about peaks, valleys and such great heights

Talk about the Great Depression, the war and the civil rights.

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Hold On, Hold On

Keep holding on. Don’t let go

All is not lost. Don’t let go

Throw it back and the seed will grow

She’s says my favourite colour is yellow but I’m brave

little girl.

Stronger than a thousand men. I stay alive when nobody says I can

There is no home where the buffalo used to roam

It’s been excavated by oil drum syndrome

Hand me down my silver trumpet

We should have left the land the way we found it

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

One giant step forward never seems to lasts.

So accustomed to blaming others for the past.

Our signals crash, police and thieves clash

One more person beat down for their gender or their class.

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind

Take What You Need And Leave The Rest Behind