in search of a song volume 272
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Brandon
Nieves
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Richard Spiegel
Barbara Fisher
codirectors
Thomas Perry
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" AWaterways Project
I' Publication
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
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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
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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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