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Any Little Thing
02:38
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Though it’s nighttime here
There’s a traffic jam somewhere.
Though it’s cold out there
It’s warm in Abu Dhabi.
Billions of people living out their daily lives
Doing any little thing
Doing any little thing.
I’m lost anyway.
It doesn’t matter where we are,
The bodega or
A park in New York City,
Every word you speak comes out of you and here we are
Doing any little thing
Doing any little thing.
You could show me anything.
You could show me anywhere.
I wanna be Ours.
Carried by the air,
The pretty strains of what you say.
Captured by the light,
A moment frozen in me.
Love is in your laughter while my dreams are in your voice.
Doing any little thing
Doing any little thing
Doing any thing
will
do.
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Wissahickon
05:17
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A hermit thrush told me 'bout the hooting owls’ tricks!
They want to take you back to their Pennsylvania cricks.
Although they’re so far from your new life that you now know,
Your important meeting, it was canceled, so you go.
The dandelion daylight dies.
You catch a dozen fireflies.
A red delicious tastes like fall.
Well, it’s all growing dark,
Close your eyes.
Sleep beside the Wissahickon
If you’re not chicken;
Good enough for any Wiccan
To dip their toes in.
From your lips escapes a prayer;
Do you believe in God?
As you are, she sees you there.
She’s nodding as you nod.
Streams of consciousness
Show what you suppress.
Lost are all the others;
You have found yourself at last,
Baptized by the Brothers
As you wade into the past.
Psalms and prophecies
Set your heart at ease.
Hold a stone. Then throw it.
When it plunks, it scares a fish
Who darts away below it;
Still the ripple grants your wish.
God breathes in and puffs out the light;
The feeling of Night.
Sounds around astound you as you stumble to your feet;
"Bird song" and "Goose honk" and "Bird song" and tweet.
Sunlight warms the breeze,
Touching through the trees.
Jarred awake, you crawl aboard
Your gasping SEPTA bus.
Thinking back on where you snored,
You look back and smile at us.
Sleep beside the Wissahickon
If you’re not chicken;
Good enough for any Wiccan
To dip their toes in.
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Now that the moon is hanging low,
Gazing upon the snow-white snow,
He wants to steal the show,
He doesn’t know
I already
bathe
In
Glow.
Breathing.
Falling.
Laughing.
Now that the moon has had to go,
Pushed by the blowing wind below,
Lonely, I look, although,
Nothing but snow.
Nothing,
No one,
There
But
Snow.
Breathing.
Falling.
Watching.
Dawn without morning.
Wound without mend.
Love without warning.
World without end.
Hallelujah,
Om!
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Funny how the thoughts
Just disappear
Like the dark at sunrise
When you say you’re near.
“Knock Knock” you’re here!
Everything is better
Now that you’re around.
Everything is better
Now that you’re around.
Tell you what,
This little place
Needs your touch of wonder
And your special grace,
Our little place.
Everything is better
Now that you’re around
Everything is better
Now that you’re around.
I’ve felt so down, you see.
I know I haven’t been
The best friend.
My attitude.
I get so tired just by myself.
You don’t know how I’ve been missing you.
How I’ve been missing you.
Everything is better
Now that you’re around.
Everything is better
Now that you’re around.
I’ve felt so down, you see.
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5. |
Easter
04:58
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You,
I feel such gratitude,
One: For the day that I was born.
Two: For the day that you were born.
Three: For the day that we met.
God bless you.
God keep you,
Keep you exactly the way you are.
Grow older
and wiser,
But stay exactly the way that you are.
I feel the feeling of a million tiny cells
Whirring in unison
Waiting
To receive
your Kiss.
When?
God bless you.
God keep you,
Keep you exactly the way you are.
Grow older
and wiser
But stay exactly the way you are.
I’m gracious to you,
You’re glorious to me,
And I feel more feelings
Than my little heart can hold.
God bless you
God keep you
God bless you
God keep you
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6. |
Existential Crisis
02:39
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When you’re angry, though you’re special,
Your words are inconsequential
Because we both butterfly each passerby.
Self reflection is essential.
Is your crisis existential?
When you swear, I see love
I see love in your eyes.
I don’t care
I don’t care if you’re with other guys
So seductive
Not vindictive
Hurling superlatives at some puppies.
I tell tall tales
You're my tattletale.
I don’t know what I am.
I don’t know what you are.
I don’t know who I’ve gotten myself into,
But I like it!
When you stare
I see love
I see love in your eyes
I don’t care
I don’t care if you're with other guys.
When you swear
I see love
I see love in your eyes
I don’t care
I don’t care if you're with other guy.s
Darling I could swear
I see love
I see love in your eyes
I don’t care
I don’t care if you're with other guys.
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7. |
I Never Feel Alone
05:12
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The terror of our times
Is being lonely.
I never feel alone
For thou art with me.
I love religion,
Though it’s going out of style,
And it’s corrupted by people who are not loving.
I know that there is someone watching
I never feel alone.
And even when you’re gone, God’s with me
When I am on my own.
I am on my own.
Last night I couldn’t sleep.
I went to work, though.
And like the day before,
I went right back home.
I felt uncertain
So I walked a quarter mile.
Although I feel myself aging
I’m keeping healthy.
I know that there is someone watching
I never feel alone.
And even when you’re gone, God’s with me
When I am on my own.
I am on my own.
There’s a night light on my wall
Sending shadows down the hall.
I’m afraid of what I’ve seen.
I’m afraid of what I’ll dream.
Oh, I will text you at 2 a.m.
And you will know I miss you.
Ah, I will text you at 2 a.m.
And you will know I miss you.
And you will know I miss you.
Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah
Oh, Eva.
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8. |
All the Love You Want
01:36
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You’ll have all the love you want
Baby
Baby
You’ll have all the love you want
And with all the love you want
Baby
You’ll be so well off.
If you are industrious
You will one day be illustrious.
You’ll have all the love you want
Baby
You’ll be so well off.
If you are industrious
You will one day be illustrious.
You’ll have all the love you want
Baby
You’ll be so well off.
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9. |
Our Autumn
02:39
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You,
I feel so affectionate
As I enter the arms of the autumn
Truly fortunate.
Lying here with you,
Rhythmically,
As I enter the arms of the autumn,
Summer’s through with me.
To be here,
Here with you,
Doing all the things you’ll have me do to you.
Fragrant autumn leaves and whirlygigs,
By the swirling laps of the river,
Stepping over twigs.
Thinking of a warm memory:
When we lay in the grass of the commons
'Neath our favorite tree.
Cold in here, cold out there,
You protect me from the frigid air,
So you.
You,
I feel so affectionate,
As I enter the arms of a woman,
Truly fortunate.
As I went the arms of the autumn, so familiarly.
As a coda, the cold of the winter, under covers
We.
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10. |
There Was a Light
05:39
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When I sleepily asked where thoughts and ideas come from
Waves electric danced up my tummy and gave me some.
There was a light.
There was lovely light
But I’ll never know if it was all in my mind
Or was it a light.
I get sad when I think of arrogant things I said.
I get scared that I was awakened in my ward bed.
There was a light.
There was lovely light
But I’ll never know if it was all in my mind
Or was it a light.
Warm vibrations fell on my chest from the soft white light.
I sensed someone was telling me I would be all right.
There was a light.
There was lovely light
But I’ll never know if it was all in my mind
Or was it a light.
I am fortunate for my friends and my family.
They were there for me; they’re still there for me, faithfully.
There was a light.
There was lovely light
But I’ll never know if it was all in my mind
Or was it a light.
I get scared when I think of what I am capable of.
Is she cruelty, or indifference, or is she Love?
Thank you my God.
Thank you my Holy God.
But I’ll never know if it was all in my mind
Or was it a light.
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Stephen Bluhm Hudson, New York
New orchestral pop album coming April 19!
A synth and orchestra chameleon. Instantly lovable songs
combining a myriad of styles.
"Seemingly born to command a stage"
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