Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain, we all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow��C / F /
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C / G C�
Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on
Please, swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show
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You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
4x: C / G C
If there is a load
You have to bear that you can't carry
I'm right up the road, I'll share your load
If you just call me
You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
We all need somebody to lean on
The sun is a guy who travels through the sky,
in a great big chariot of fire.
It’s getting pretty dark, looking like he might depart,
Leaving nothing but an everlasting night.
D G D A
D G A D
The sun is bright, but quite a spiteful
Jerk sometimes we’ve found,
But if we sacrifice some goats
Mayhap he’ll come back ‘round.
D / / A
D G A D
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We need his light, we need his heat
We need his energy,
Without the sun, without a doubt
There’d be no you and me.
The sun is a guy who travels through the sky,
in a great big chariot of fire.
It’s getting pretty dark, looking like he might depart,
Leaving nothing but an everlasting night.
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G D Em /
G D B /
Hands chip the flint, light the fire, skin the kill
Feet move the tribe track the herd with a will
Mankind struggles in the cellar of history
Time to settle down, time to grow, time to breed��3x: Em G D A� Em G D B
Plow tills the soil, plants the seed, pray for rain
Scythe reaps the wheat, to the mill, to grind the grain
Towns and cities spread to empire overnight
Hands keep building as we chant the ancient rite
Coal heats the steam, push the piston, turns the wheel
Cogs spin the wool, drives the horses made of steel
Lightning harnessed does our will and lights the dark
Keep rising higher, set our goal, hit the mark.
Crawl out of the mud,
Ongoing but slow,
For the path that is easy
Ain't the one that lets us grow!
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Light to push the sails, read the data, cities glow
Hands type the keys, click the mouse, out we go!
Our voices carry round the world and into space
Send us out to colonize another place�
Hands make the tools, build the fire, plant the grain.
Feet track the herd, build a world, begin again.
The circle of the world shines bright and holy
The seasons tread their spiral path with grace
It is not the world's designer but the world itself we honor
And the stars shine out across our Lady's face
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D A G / A / G /
But the world might end -- and the stars might fall
Yet Her light will be laughing at the heart of it all
She is in each force with strangeness and charm
And the holographic universe is enfolded in Her arms
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D / A / G / / A
Our Lady is non-local; sing we Her praise
She is the hidden variable that lights our days
With book and with candle
With Gödel and Bell
With wave and with particle we worship Her well
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CHORUS
Our Lady is uncertain; sing we in prayer
We don't know how fast She may be moving or where
With koan and theorem
With Pauli and Bohr
We open Her mysteries and inside we find more
CHORUS
Our Lady is acausal; work we Her math
Her field equations are a bitch and a half
With implicate order
And synchronous net
She weaves riddles so fine we can't unravel them yet
CHORUS
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D G D G D G A D
Chasing patterns in the sky
Trace the line from star to star
Look around and wonder why
Where we going? Who we are?
Vernal flower, summer breeze
Cricket wings and autumn leaves
Fractal patterns, golden mean
Whispers of a world unseen.�� Looking for a signal... hidden in the noise
Where we come from, where we going?
Where we come from, where we going?
Looking for an answer... to give the girls and boys, asking:
Where we come from, where we going?
Where we come from, where we going?
Oh,
Where we come from, where we going?
All just on an A chord
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Chasing patterns in the sky
Feeling lost, alone and small
Birds depart and crickets die
Frost encroaching, winter falls
Track the omens, year by year
Fit the pieces, best you can
Tell a story they can hear
Something we can understand
CHORUS
Chasing patterns in the sky
Seasons turn and stories change
Weather vane and satellite
Rising tide and hurricane
Spiral Arm and Golden Mean
Trace the line from star to star
Seeking worlds yet unseen
Where we going, who we are?
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
D G D A
D G A D
The sun is hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there’d be no life
Without the light it gives.
D / / A
D G A D
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We need its light, we need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There’d be no you and me
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Our new world is so close.
Mars has treasures we’re only just starting to find.
Frozen mountains and crimson dust waiting for
footprints that will not be mine.
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A D A D F#m A
A hundred years to run the first tests
Another to raise the first dome.
The moon, then Mars, then Titan next,
A lifetime to touch each new home.
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Bb C Bb C Dm / A /
And I want it so much.
Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air.
In the darkness the space stations shimmer in orbits
that I will not share.
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But I’ll teach the student Who’ll manage the fact’ry
That tempers the steel that makes colonies strong.
And I’ll write the program that runs the computer
That charts out the stars where our rockets belong.��D / / / D / F#m /
D / / / D / F#m A
It will never get easy to wake from my dream
When the future I dream of is so far away.
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Gm Dm Em A
But I am willing to sacrifice
something I don’t have For something I won’t have
but somebody will someday.
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D / F#m A
And it feels like a waste.
All this working and waiting and battling time,
And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts will never
make mine,
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A D A D F#m A
But brick by brick the Pyramids rose,
With most hidden under the sand,
So life by life the project grows
In ways I might not understand.
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Bb C Bb C Dm / A /
I am voyaging too,
We will need the foundation as much as the dome for
those worlds to come true
And I’ll clerk the office that handles the funding
That raises the tower that watches the sky.
And I’ll staff the bookstore that carries the journal
That sparks the idea that makes solar sails fly.��D / / / D / F#m /
D / / / D / F#m A
It takes so many sailors to conquer an ocean
And so many more when it’s light-years away,
Bb Dm C F
Gm Dm Em A
But I am willing to sacrifice
Something I don’t have for something I won’t have
But somebody will someday.
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D / F#m A
It’s so easy to run.
Hide away in my books, games and fantasy plans,
Let them call me a coward who can’t face reality’s
grownup demands,
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A D A D F#m A
But if I love my fantasy worlds
It’s not fantasy love that I feel.
And so much more I feel for this
The world that created them,
World we create with them,
One chance to make them all real.
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Bb C Bb C Dm / A /�Dm / A / Dm / A /
And I know we won’t stop.
We’ve planned too many wonders for one little star.
Though often the present may seem too complacent to take us that far.
But I’ll tell the story and I’ll draw the picture
And I’ll sing the anthem that banishes doubt,
And host the convention that summons the family
That carries the fire that never burns out�D / / / D / F#m /
D / / / D / F#m A
There are so many chances to give up the journey,
Especially when it’s so easy to stay,
Bb Dm C F
Gm Dm Em A
But I am willing to sacrifice
Something I don’t have for something I won’t have
And not only me,
But we are willing to sacrifice
Something we don’t have for s..thing we won’t have
So somebody will,
So somebody will someday.
2x: D / / / D / F#m A
The careful textbooks measure (Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure material can bear.
So, when the buckled girder lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder, is laid upon the man.
Not of the Stuff - the Man!
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2x: Bm / Em / G A Bm /
G A Bm /
But, in our daily dealing with stone and steel, we find
The Gods have no such feeling of justice toward mankind.
To no set guage they make us, for no laid course prepare
And presently o'ertake us with loads we cannot bear:
Too merciless to bear.
The prudent textbooks give it in tables at the end
The stress that shears a rivet or makes a tie-bar bend
What traffic wrecks macadam, what concrete should endure
But we, poor Sons of Adam, have no such literature,
To warn us or make sure!
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We hold all Earth to plunder, all Time and Space as well
Too wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle;
Till in the mid-illusion, of Godhead 'neath our hand,
Falls multiple confusion on all we did or planned
The mighty works we planned.
We only of Creation (Oh, luckier bridge and rail!)
Abide the twin-damnation, to fail and know we fail.
Yet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods
Take shame in being broken however great the odds
The Burden or the Odds.
Oh, veiled and secret Power whose paths we seek in vain,
Be with us in our hour of overthrow and pain;
That we - by which sure token we know Thy ways are true -
In spite of being broken, because of being broken,
May rise and build anew.
Stand up and build anew!
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2x: Em / G / A / C /
2x: Em / Am / C D Em /
C D Em /
3x: O sinner man, where you gonna run to?
All on that day
3x: Run to the Doctor, the Doctor is a-coughing
All on that day
CHORUS
3x: Run to the law, the law it is a-failing
All on that day
CHORUS
�3x: Run to the woods, the woods they are a-burning
All on that day
CHORUS
Countless winter nights ago,
A woman shivered in the cold,
Cursed the sky and wondered why,
The gods invented pain.
Aching angry flesh and bone,
Bitterly she struck the stones,
Until… she saw that spark of
Light and flame.
And though
The others cried out heresy,
She defied them, proud
And set afire history
Tomorrow can be brighter than today
Although the night is cold
The stars may seem so very far away
But courage, hope, and reason burn
In every mind, each lesson learned,
Shining light to guide our way.
Make tomorrow brighter than today!
Oh, oh,
Brighter than today.
Ages long forgotten now,
We built the wheel, and then the plow
Tilled the Earth and proved our worth
Against the drought and snow.
Soon, we had the time to fathom,
Mountain peaks and tiny atoms,
Beating hearts, electric sparks,
And so much more to know.
CHORUS
The universe may seem unfair
The laws of nature may not care
The storms and quakes, our own mistakes,
All nearly doused our flame.
But all these trials we’ve endured,
Moral progress, ailments cured,
Against our Herculean task,
We’ve risen to proclaim.
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The sun’s a miasma of incandescent plasma
The sun’s not simply made out of gas (no, no, no)
The sun can inspire, but it’s not made of fire
Forget what you’ve been told in the past
2x: Em / G /
A / B /
Plasma! (Electrons are free!)
Plasma! (A fourth way to be)
(Not gas, not liquid, not solid)
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C / B /
Plasma! (Forgot that song)
Plasma! (They got it wrong)
(That thesis has been rendered invalid)
The sun’s a miasma of incandescent plasma
The sun’s not simply made out of gas (oh, no, no)
The sun can inspire, but it’s not made of fire….
…let’s see just how long it can last piano
I see trees of green, red roses too.
I see them bloom, for me and you.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
D F#m G F#m
Em D F# Bm
Bb A D A
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white.
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces of people going by,
I see friends shaking hands, saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, "I love you".
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A / D /
Bm A Bm A
Bm F#m Em A piano
I hear babies cry, I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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Em D F# Bm
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Bb A D /
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Old devil time, I'm gonna fool you now
Old devil time, you'd like to bring me down
But when I’m feeling low, my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time
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C Am D /
C D G /
C D G /
Old devil pain, you've often pinned me down
You thought I'd cry and beg you for the end
At that very time my lovers gathered round
And helped me rise to fight you one more time
Old devil fear, you with your icy hands
Old devil fear, you'd like to freeze me cold
But when I'm sore afraid, my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time piano
Old devil hate, I knew you long ago
Before I learned the poison in your breath
Now when we hear your lies my lovers gather round
And help me rise to fight you one more time
No storm nor fire can ever beat us down
No wind that blows but carries us further on
And you who fear, oh lovers gather round
And we can rise to sing it more time
And we can rise to sing it one more time