PLEASURE IN FUNCTION

 

Pleasure in function

Pleasure in you

Pleasure in beauty

Whatever you do

Pleasure in nature

Pleasure in all                        

Pleasure in humor                        

If it comes to you

Take care, take time 

Pleasure in action

Pleasure in you

Pleasure in kindness     

Whatever you do            

In variation

Pleasure in all

Pleasure in humor                    

If it comes to you

Take care, take time 

Live by design

Live by design

Joy in the process 

In navigating changes

Pleasure in function

Pleasure in you

Pleasure in beauty

In all you do    

Pleasure in nature

Pleasure in God                    

Pleasure in humor                        

If it comes to you

Take care, take time 

Live by design

Live by design

Live by design

Live by design

Joy in the process

In navigating changes

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YOU ARE LOVED ETERNALLY

 

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

Can't enjoy the scenery

You are loved eternally

Cannot feel the sunbeam

You are loved eternally

Cannot face the feeling

You are loved eternally

Can't get in the garden

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

Cannot find the flame?

You are loved eternally

Cannot speak their name?

You are loved eternally

If you cannot change

You are loved eternally

Dance with me in the garden

You can’t feel it but it’s growing                      

You are loved eternally!

If you’re not the same

You are loved eternally

Fell for it again

You are loved eternally

Cannot face the obvious?

You are loved eternally

If you think it’s strange

You are loved eternally

Dance with me in the garden

You are loved eternally

Dance with me in the garden

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

You are loved eternally

Any time you can’t remember

Any time you go too far

When you need a friend to show you

How loved you are!

 

 

PRISM

 

Baby I want it

Not that I need it    

But if you been wondering        

You should know                                

What my love can do

My love my love my love my love my love

My love for you

My love my love my love my love my love

My love is true

My love my love my love my love my love

My love for you

Freak, wild thing

Soft animal                                             

Baby where you going?                            

You should see

What my love can do

My love my love my love my love my love

My love for you

My love my love my love my love my love

My love is true

My love my love my love my love my love

My love for you

Is a prism for your electric art

Is a castle for your magical heart

Let me be your magnifier 

And meet you higher

A reciprocal spirit!

My love for you

My love my love my love my love my love

My love is true

My love my love my love my love my love

It’s what I do

My love my love my love my love my love

Completely

I love I love I love I love I love

And then again

I love I love I love I love I love

Superpower

I love I love I love I love I love

It’s what I’ll do for you.

 

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ADVICE AT A DINNER PARTY

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It’s a long story but I been waking up another way

I’m in love with the ritual and living another day 

Make a little connection

And give it attention  

What do I do?                        

I spend my days here working on my concept

Trying to have a good time, turning pages

And what I found is, nothing is forever

I’m getting better as I age  

It’s fool’s game but I can’t let it get in my head

And why should I when all my favorite painters are dead    

But I’m a romantic                

I dream gigantic                         

What can I say?

I spend my days here working on my concept

Looking for answers, turning pages

And what I found is, be a little kinder

I’m getting better as I age

I spend my days here working on my progress 

Trying to have a good time, turning pages

And what I found is, nothing is forever

I’m getting better as I age 

I spend my days here working on my concept

Looking for answers, turning pages

And what I found is, be a little kinder

I’m getting better as I age

I spend my days here working on my progress

Trying to have a good time, turning pages

And what I found is, nothing is forever

I’m getting better as I age.

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THE NATURAL WORLD

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Living soundly

I believe in love and curiosity    

Living lively

I am fascinated with the natural world

Living soundly

I believe in love and curiosity    

Living lively

I am fascinated with the natural world

I quit the tradition

It was an old superstition

And I made up a new one from experience

It’s a practice of wonder

To keep the mind from going under

I been granted permission 

To be marvelous

Living soundly

I believe in love and curiosity

Living lively

I am fascinated with the natural world

Living soundly

Trying hard to give and to know my bounds

Living lively

I am activated in the natural world

Living soundly

Staying elemental in the body   

Living lively

I’m infatuated with the natural world

So I quit the tradition

It was an old superstition

And I made up a new one from experience

It’s a practice of wonder

To keep the mind from going under

I been granted permission 

To be marvelous

Yeah I quit the tradition

It was an old superstition

It was bordering on being perilous

It’s a practice of wonder

To keep the mind from going under

I been granted permission

To be marvelous

Living soundly

I believe in love and curiosity    

Living lively

I am fascinated with the natural world

Living soundly

I believe in love and curiosity

Living lively

I am fascinated with the natural world

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THE BIG CHEESE

 

Dear thee, I’m quickly responding to your e-mail

I am unable to make it there today    

Sorry to say, you see, but I am frozen

By an unbridled idolatry

Wish I could go, keep my cool

Light up a room while I do it

Change the game            

Use my power for good 

Nothing to it!  

All the greats are of dying age    

We saw this coming from miles away

I could have been some Victorian outcast!

Really I’m lucky to be here at all

Wish I could go, keep my cool

Light up a room while I do it

Change the game    

Use my power for good 

Nothing to it!    

I wanna be that way some day

I wanna be that way

I wanna be that way some day

Oooh I wanna be that way!

Wish I could go, keep my cool

Light up a room while I do it

Change the game    

Use my power for good 

Nothing to it!    

 

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THERE IS A CLUB

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There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I’m not in it

I’m not in it

I’m not in it

I’m not in it

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I know for sure

I’m almost certain

Almost certain

Almost certain

Almost certain

Almost certain

I’m almost certain

Almost certain

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

There is a club

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

I am not in it

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SOLITARY GIRL

 

I’m alone in this world

I’m a solitary girl

Got no number to call

Got nobody if I fall

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

I am quiet in a group                                 

I am spacing out, I am good        

Got no reason to talk

I regret it when I squawk

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

Well, if I needed you                    

Could you meet me there today?    

And if I had a revelation on a subject I’d been on about

Would you go there too?    

I am soft and introspective                

I am outwardly protective    

I’m a fossil, I’m a star                    

In my electric car                            

I’m from the 21st century

I’m from the 21st century

Well, if I needed you    

Could you meet me there today?    

And if I had to see a giant in a redwood grove

Ten hours away, would you go there too?

I’m alone in this world

I’m a solitary girl

Got no number to call

Got nobody if I fall

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

I am alo-lo-lo-lo-lone

Well, if I needed you                    

Could you meet me there today?

And if we fell in love     

Would you keep me, would you stay?

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THE SAINT OF FUN & WEIRDOS

 

I miss you man

I wanted to dance and you would have been up for it

(The song to be decided by you)

Is hell, in the end, as bad as they said?

Are you having a grand old time

With all the fools that came before you?

I’ll talk of you my whole life through—

You were extraordinary                

A chosen one, the saint of fun and weirdos!

I built this chapel for the other side        

So we can meet up here and feel alright       

So how’s it been, my outsider friend,            

Are you listening to George Jones?

Oooh thank you for the course in country music.

The art that you made    

A life that you can’t believe until you seen yourself

(Possibly but in another time)   

All that you are                      

And all that you were   

Is around today, it’s wild-   

Here in this world!

I built this chapel for you, step inside

So we can  meet up here and feel alright    

And you can tell us all your stories again

And play your favorite records late at night.

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MAKE IT A PLAN

 

Saw you last summer, talking with so and so

I waited too long, didn’t want to interrupt ya

I was heartbroken, it was a weird time                 

People remember the way that you make them feel 

You can stay real quiet and come across mean    

What if I decided to say it real clean:    

I would like to know you, I mean it

I never really say what I want to say

I wanna be your company 

I wanna hear your thoughts on life and love         

When you said hello, I was on the moon

I was still reeling from a conversation previous 

I still remember these moments of lost connection

You can stay real quiet and come across mean

What if I decided to say it real clean:     

I would like to know you, I mean it

I didn’t have the words right then

I would like your company 

I wanna hear your thoughts on this moment 

I would like to know you, I mean it

I never really say what I want to say

I wanna be your company  

I want to hear your thoughts on life and love     

We’ll have to make it a plan 

We’ll have to make it a plan

We’ll set parameters, put me in your calendar!

We’ll have to make it a plan

We’ll have to give it a chance!

We’ll get together

Oh I can’t believe it all!

 

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GOLDEN

 

There’s no need to worry like you do

If you could only see what tender people see in you

Through it all

Everything that you are is apparent in the course you’re taking

Through it all

Everyone you should know has been all around here believing it for years   

Years, oh

You’re a vision, you’re the rising sun

While you wonder when the day will come

You burn, you burn, you burn, you burn

You burn, you burn, you burn, you burn, you burn

And you worry if you even should

But you’re good, you were always good

You’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold

You’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold

You’re golden

Centuries of men in power told us to be that way 

With a fear of affection, closed to nuance            

It takes courage and will to be open       

We can rely on medicine    

But there is nothing to fear and nothing wrong with you

You, oh!

You’re a vision, you’re the rising sun     

While you wonder when the day will come    

You burn, you burn, you burn, you burn

You burn, you burn, you burn, you burn, you burn

And you worry if you even should

But you’re good, you were always good

You’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold

You’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold, you’re gold

You’re golden.

Surrounded by the people who

Reverberate the best in you, to you.

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©2023 Jenny O./Eternalismo/Concord Music Publishing