in search of a song volume 272

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Brandon

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Richard Spiegel

Barbara Fisher

codirectors

Thomas Perry

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" AWaterways Project

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Toby Greenzang

teacher

Concord High School

Michael Mirakian

principal

Stephen E. Phillips

superintendent

Alternative High Schools &Programs

©I997 Ten Penny Players

with funding suppOrt from

the NY State Council on the Arts

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Contents

A Look at My Death

'The crowd cheers, screaming ..."

"The wind blows outside"

Believe Me

"When I look in your eyes ..."

IfY ou Could Be "WhereI Ant

About You

A Look at His Death

"The walls are closing in"

"A hero used to be someone ..."

"I search the stars for the answers of life"

What I Would Do For A Vial OfYou

"The day was old, the night was young"

Does Your Marna Know

"I sit and fantasize ..."

"Sometimes I wonder why life isn't longer"

Rain

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A Look at My Death

They watched me roll around in the grass

That let people make fun of me as they passThen left me there laughing like a raving lunatic

Pale yellow, tinted skin, coughing and sick

I tried to rise on my feet

Fell back down into my seat

Passed out for an hour or two

When J awoke I drifted from my body

And my skin was now pale blue

I saw and said

How is it? Why me? Why am I dead?

I ran nowhere

After myself clawing, grabbing at nothing but the air

I looked at myself with that shocking stare

It scared me enough to pull at my hairI cried and screamed, I'm sorry my Lord

Then I realized life isn't all that there is

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The crowd cheers, screaming

applauding, awaiting the music

that will soon be starting.

It begins, there's a frightening

exciting hush that falls over the crowd.

No sound, just music. A sweet trance

state tune playing on the speakers

not a breath or a blink of

an eye has occurred.

Everything still.N a tiling moving.

Just millions of people standing

absolutely still

listening to music.

Letting the music guide their thoughts.

Enjoying the feeling till it ends.

Of course, it always has to end.

I t can never keep on going.

Till next time

it will start all over again

The same beginning, middle and end.

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The wind blows outside,

The cool breeze hits your face.

It's a refreshment to feel the coolness

All over your body.

All the heat is vanishing from your body.

All problems, confusion, and happiness is taken away.

You're left with no feeling but a cool one.

You lay your body down and take all the bad away.

No one will bother you.You're by yourself, just you and your thoughts.

No one is there to judge you or to make comments

About you.

There is no embarrassment or degrading things

Happening to you.

Just you there to understand yourselfAnd your thoughts.

Nothing to explain or feel ashamed.

You are there to comfort

Yourself,

Like no one else can.

By yourself, where you are safe,

By yourself where you want to be,

Alone and

Carefree.

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Believe Me

How's my girl

She's the greatest thing in the whole wide world

does she really know how much I care?

She has to, Itold her and showed her a million timesLoud and clear

Does she know if I lost her I'd go crazy?

That's my fear

Ilove her, Ineed herIfall asleep to the smell of her hair

As it lingers there, on my pillow

But then in the morning it's gone

As is she

So I call her

Even then I bask

In the radiance of her beat

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When I look in your eyes

I feel how you feel

I could see the sadness, the happiness

the confusion and the care that you have for me

I sit and wonder why me

Why you'd want to be with me

I never felt this way about someone before

I don't know how to explain it

Sometimes I try to figure it out

At times I chink you're lying about [he way

you feel about me

Then I think how it would be if we

weren't together anymore

I think the only word to describe it

would be misery

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If You Could Be Where I Am

Hey there baby

Give a yes or maybe even a maybe

That's all I want to hear from your soulAll you need is love to pay the toll

We're going to this place called Nicole

I'm there every time I'm with you

I mean I love you so much

And shatter at your touch

And there is nothing I can say or doWhen you whisper

I love you, I love you, I love you ..

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About You

There she was

With that slow sexy strutThat I almost forgot

Nothing to do with temperature

But I was hot

From the second I saw YOL l it was that way

So I cooled myself off and went astray

Then I was kissing you, as you were me

I wanted to go further, you felt the same way see

You told me in your passion

In the way we rubbed our bodies

Clothes were ragged

I was not inside you

But instead,

I was sexually inside your head

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A Look at His Death

I stepped into that smoky filled room

And looked at what was in bloom

That day in space

\'Vithout a trace Iwalked on down and away

Just to see if my sense of reality went astray

In a glum gloomy gray my sight was the insight of manTo portray

He begged and pleaded for his soul

But his mind was too far into the afterlife,So he missed his goal

Then sadly ran down that never ending hall

And that was how his eternity

Ended after all

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The walls are closing in.

Stop time to confess your deepest secrets.

No embarrassment herer will understandTo understand is hard but I

Will relate to you.

Iwill

Learn to feel the way you

Do at times, so Ican help

You through it.To help is

Going to take patience

But I am ready

To try and

I'll do anything to make it

Easier on you. You can trust meTo trust is the hardest

You can depend on me forever and

Never doubt that I'll be byyour side now

And forever after.

I am you and you are me joined as one.

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A hero used to be someone

Who tried and tried again

He who died for another

Was a fool

He who lived forever

Was a god

Years ago time on and over our heads

\Ve were nothlng more than fools

Wanting to be fools

And fools wanting to be GodNow we live in the eyes of one

And die for the life of another

Yesterday fools

Today's foolish followings

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I search the stars for the answers of life

A pondered thought cutting into me like a knife

Where the answer lies Ido not know

Will I ever?

Far winds blow

Iseek high

Iseek low

For the answer

I'll never know

But still under each stone I find HimUnder each leaf, OUt on a limb

He is God

Incomprehensible and great

For he has created

And will stop this thing called fate

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What IWould Do For A Vial Of You

Drunk with love

Stoned on lust

Trippin' on sex

Love is my drug

A metaphor for desire

I'm high every time I think of you

A desperate addict who would see his soul

To see your face

To spend your life with meI r's like a needle in my vein

Every time my lips touch yours

I'm flyin' high, oh so high



The day was old, the night was young

Back to the day of songs we sung

Visions and memories, in my head they hungWe drank till we were half dead

Pass out and miss our own parade

As time went on

Memory of that night quickly began to fade

Let's make this a glorious one

I got apocket full of drugs

A skull full of bugs

And we'll ride through the city

On red velvet rugs.

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Does Your Mama Know··

Hey there little girl

Glowing skin, eyes of pearl

I like the way you make my skin curl

Hair of gold, beauty untold

Listen to my sorrow

As you sit and smoke a Marlboro

Love me wicked

Rub over bones, frail rigid

Feel the dampened sheets of sweatSliding over skin, flat and wet

Like a sea of love, passion the size of an ocean

Body's together, body's in motion

Could you feel me loving you? My sweet devotion

Could you feel it grow, do you know?

I know, your screams told me so

Could you feel me loving you in sweet desire?

And my love shoots out at you

in a pit of white fire

DOES YOUR MA1'v1AKNO\V??

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I sit and fantasize

About what Iwish Icould do

Watching through a window is notEnough for my mind to experience

Just to be free and express what Ifeel

Nothing left to do but sulk or something

Icould only imagine.

To be alone and feel lonely are not

The same. I'm so alone without

A hope but life has to end

So soon

To be extinguished into the heavens

Above and maybe feel love

Again



Sometimes I wonder why life isn't longer

Experience is what makes us stronger

By the time we get on our feet

It seems like death is what we meet

Money also plays a good part

Ifyou possess it, you get an early start

I hope you get the gist and don't pay

Attention to the rhyming

In my opinion life is all about timing

Short and sweet, very frightening.

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Rain

My life is a rainstorm

Filled with gloom and despairThe thunder is my heart beating over and over

And the lightning is the shooting pain inside

But aU I can say is it

Won't rain all the time

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