LYRICS
Pilgrim, When?
Keep Going On
Pilgrim, When?
Spring, and the sun early arising,
Light will return to every tree,
Calling who must to restless skies
And the curl of the yin and yang at sea.
Babies aborne, children to grow,
Soldier to fight, feet to roam.
Hunter to find, wiser to know,
Pilgrim when are you coming home?
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Moon of the harvest brightly will shine,
There’s a field full of anything to choose.
Kind the night, dawn chill and fine,
Short the time you have to use.
Feel of the wheel, nothing is still,
Here where we give what we have to give.
Winter is soon, snow on the hill,
Pilgrim when do you plan to live?
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Running High
Keep Going On
Running High
Rocks and sand, all around.
Change you planned, gone aground.
Same old band, same old sound.
Could be someone lied. Does no good to cry,
Howl for the next guide, screaming at the sky.
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Ch-
Looks like that river running,
Like that river running dry.
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Brand new day, just begun.
Who’s to say, when it’s done,
What you play, or how you won?
After all the tears, it’s hard to trust your eye,
Too close to those careers, and too confused to try.
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But there’s another river running,
Another river running high.
II:Don’t you see your river running
See your river running high?:II
Running high-
II:You’re gonna see your river running high
Running high.:II
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Here’s Our King (On Christmas Day)
Keep Going On
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Last one in line, the doors are closing,
Here’s our king on Christmas day.
Sure cold this year, the river is frozen.
I hope he finds some place to stay.
Garbage bags and a grocery cart,
Shoes falling all apart.
It’s hard to find any sense in what he has to say.
Funny how he sees us in his own upside down way.
First in heaven, here’s our king on Christmas day.
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Walking through the winter night to nowhere,
And no one, even God seems gone.
Snow squeaking, there’s no escaping all the air,
Likely a long time before dawn.
Circling around his face,
Dreams and planets find a place.
Angels unaware wander worlds and stars at play.
A manger strangely taking form, now homage all will pay.
How things change, here’s our king on Christmas day.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Rising Soon
Keep Going On
Never a start or ending,
Wheel in a wheel with eyes,
Round and around unbending, it flies.
Sooner or later it comes down
To every point of view.
Sooner or later it comes down, to you.
Hours ever weaving, each time of day a different tune.
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Ch-
Morning is when the early light
Is beginning again, the skies turn bright,
The sun is rising soon.
Morning is when the good and right
Gets to winning again everywhere in sight
Because the sun is rising soon.
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Isn’t it then the bird song sends the babies to be fed?
Isn’t it then the darkness ends and the open book is read?
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Every unwary notion
Looks for a frame its size.
Rainfall the wandering ocean, supplies.
In every season, one voice at night, one at noon.
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Ch-
Morning is when, etc…
Ready to live, break and mend, let the dead bury the dead.
Leave the promises unbroken, the best is still unsaid.
Isn’t it then the birdsong sends the babies to be fed?
Isn’t it then the darkness ends and the open book is read.
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Ch-
Morning is when the early light
Is beginning again, the skies turn bright ,
The sun is rising soon
The sun is rising soon.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Your Eyes Honor Me
Keep Going On
Your eyes honor me more,
Just by holding mine.
Than the speeches made for
Toasting men in wine.
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Far may you roam
Much may you see,
Heaven or home,
Long may you be
Loving me.
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While fire may wander
Wherever it burns,
Wind will blow yonder,
Pathways will turn
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Ch-
Worlds in disguise,
Are always in view.
Simple or wise,
Somehow still true
Loving you
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Far may you roam
Much may you see,
Heaven or home,
Long may you be
Loving me.
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Worlds in disguise,
Are always in view.
Simple or wise,
Somehow still true
Loving you
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© 2018
Dan Randall
It's Only Love
Keep Going On
Small flags in a circle on the roadside,
A black hole you can feel like day or night died.
Candles aflame,
Cameras came,
People cried.
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It’s Only Love hurts too bad to go,
Here long after time or sorrow.
It’s only love left alone to know.
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Years and the river, on they ride.
Seasons they do turn, and the tide.
Anger the same,
I didn’t see much shame,
I hardly tried.
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It’s only love, etc…
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It’s only love hurts too bad to go.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Gifts
Keep Going On
Gifts there are come free from Heaven,
Sun and rain.
Others come with six or seven
Miles of chain.
Some people are like most living,
Some there are do differently.
Some steal everything they’re given,
Some come by it honestly.
Some come by it honestly.
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Gifts there are for all to share in,
Sweet as Spring.
Others more for one or pairing,
Their own thing.
Some show off he style they’re wearing,
Some show love to all they see.
So much heart, and all your caring,
You must be a gift to me.
You must be a gift to me.
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Gifts they come, day out and day in.
Some come once no more to be.
From now ’til how long you’re staying,
You must be a gift to me.
You must be a gift to me.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Go Where You Want
Keep Going On
While they talk about a lion in the street,
Another day dying at our feet.
Seems to me much too soon to sleep,
Any dream denying half it’s keep.
Don’t let go so easy.
Live a story of your own.
What are you afraid of?
Maybe if you wait some more,
I’ll leave you alone
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Ch-
Here stands the mountain,
There sounds the sea.
Long lies the plain,
And the wind blows free.
Go where you want to be.
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While leaves wait in the cold, not knowing when,
Nothing in the sky looks like a friend.
Sounds like the wind is starting up again,
Turns to weary sighing in the end.
But it might not be November,
Might not be your time to die.
Could be passing over.
Might be stars to guide you high,
Once you start to fly.
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Ch-
Here stands the mountain, etc…
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Go where you want to be.
Go where you want to be.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Dragons To Slay
Keep Going On
There never is time, so much to know
Before we go.
Hills ever to climb, water will flow,
Wind it will blow.
Valleys crossing your skin
Fill with what you have been.
Hard to say when you win, better speak slow,
Keep your voice low.
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Casting call in your mind, writing your play,
Staging your day.
Words wandering blind, so much to say,
No place to stay.
Lines, not all of them true,
Shy of wondrous or new,
Done, something else needs you. Up and away,
Dragons to slay.
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It’s done, what you were to do. Up and away,
Dragons to slay.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Gonna Find It
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It’s just a road, you never see conclusion.
Can’t buy a map, no way around confusion.
The signs go by, after the time for choosing.
It’s just a road, neither winning or losing.
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Ch-
By now I repeat my lines, the coin of philosophy,
Dark as night in the deepest mines, but there’s still something here to see.
I’m gonna find it.
I’m gonna find it.
There’s something here to see.
I’m gonna find it.
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I’ve been a mile, maybe I’ve been two or three.
Summer won’t last, can’t get through every journey.
A bridge is down, it isn’t often easy.
I’ve been a mile, more than year to carry.
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Ch-
I hardly know what to bring, anymore than where I’ll be.
But I have a new song to sing, and there’s something ahead for me.
I’m gonna find it.
I’m gonna find it.
There’s something ahead for me.
I’m gonna find it.
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II:I’m gonna find it.:II(3x)
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Flying Alone
Keep Going On
My side of the story won’t be reaching anyone,
No conversation end, or trail begun.
My own dial tone,
My own time zone,
Where I’m from, or where I was going ,now unknown.
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Ch-
Taking a solo, flying alone.
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My side of the table won’t be facing anyone,
Eyes around the room already done.
Fairly high tone,
Flooring and stone,
Fingers tracing silver and the phone.
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Ch-
Taking a solo, flying alone.
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I could be getting used to being one of us,
Sharing bits and pieces of the days,
But lives combining sometimes, no special fuss,
Find themselves going different ways,
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Ch-
Taking a solo, flying alone.
Taking a solo, flying alone.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Last Dance
Keep Going On
Sure have loved the music,/ And much so rare and fine,
Partners for the choosing,/ Romancing and wine.
The moon shone bright enough to burn,/ Ran off every cloud.
Each emotion took it’s turn, The kitchen did us proud.
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Heaven knows, it has to have an end.
Soon we go, and someone pays the band.
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II:Last dance, last dance is coming.:II (3x)
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Some upon cloud nine are rich,/ Some on earth are poor.
Never too hard guessing which,/ Are going to get more.
I’m not either, or the other,/ I make out OK,
Put up with the noise and bother,/ While these people play.
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Heaven knows, it has to have an end.
Soon they go, and someone pays the band.
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Ch-
II:Last dance, last dance is coming.:II (3x)
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Last dance is coming.
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Last dance, last dance is coming, etc.
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Easy We Can Fly
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Even you, even I,/ Will leave the world someday,
Maybe one last passing by,/ Having some word to say,
Before starting away.
Whenever we’re all going,/ Each goes alone,
Adrift to all that’s blowing,
Same road we’ve been on.
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But when we see the river,/ While we sail the mountain sky,
Living more than ever,/ A loving wind to take us high
Light and easy we can fly.
Easy we can fly.
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You and I, and all between,/ Memories and days ’til now,
Shadows in changing scenes,/ Oceans play, trumpets growl,
Wild hounds bay and howl.
All sing along,/ Sure they know the song.
Sometimes it sounds wrong.
Same road we’ve be on.
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Ch-
But when we see etc.
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When we see etc.
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II:Easy we can fly.:II
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© 2018
Dan Randall
Keep Going On
Keep Going On
Follow this trail far as it goes to,
Bold sailor long from any sea.
Edge of the sky one reach beyond you,
Borderline comes to boundary.
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Ch-
Keep going on, don’t wait by the door.
Keep going all the way.
Keep going on, don’t wait anymore.
Or for anyone to say.
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Did you once cross over ground much higher,
Clearer sky, fairer sights in view,
Companions of the light around the fire?
Even then, your own name seemed untrue.
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Ch-
Keep going on, don’t wait by the door.
Keep going all the way.
Keep going on, don’t wait any more,
For someone else’s day.
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Keep going on, don’t wait anymore.
Keep going all the way.
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© 2018
Dan Randall