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Twice In One Day
Lyrics by Michael Monroe 1992
LIfe Is A Mystery

I try to talk, but I know you're not listening.
Our experiences aren't the same. They say love is fickle, they say love is blind.
But we could love so easy, if we just clear our minds.
Chorus:
Can you really tell what I am thinking?
Can you really feel what's in my heart?
Can we really know what we are doing?
Oh, life is a mystery, it's a beautiful mystery.
Life is a mystery, it's a beautiful mystery.

You try to talk but you know I’m not hearing you
My experience it clouds up my mind sometimes
If we can remember our common existence
We will see were are all of one kind
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We hold so tight to all our expectations
And stuff ‘em in our ears like a ball of cotton
So how can we hear the ever changing music
Of this beautiful life this beautiful life
Oh so open up your ears now open up your eyes
Forget what yo u think you know ‘cause
We’ve been fed so many lies

I said life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery....

Simply Love
Yes, I said I love you but I won’t try to own you
where’d we ever get the notion we could control this emotion
Well it comes and it goes like the wind like a rose
like the dance we danced last night the music stops but it’s all right

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Oh this love is simple this love is free
This love isn’t some romantic dream
Sometimes we don’t get along
Sometimes we fit like a glove
But underneath it all it’s simply love

I’m tired of pretending forever romance happy ending
When the music brings up old emotion I try to remember
Love is a potion makes me laugh makes me weep
And my heart slowly falls asleep
And I forget our hearts are free
That this loves comes from you and me

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Sometimes I can go all night sometimes all I do is fight
But it’s all part of the dance I think it might just be a game of chance
But I go on anyway
And I won’t settle for marriage or hate
I won’t freeze at true love’s gate
I Love All Kinds of Music
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Well I love all kinds of music
But I don’t do rap
I hear many kinds of music
But I don’t play much jazz
I’ve had my share of sorrow
But I don’t sing the blues
I love all kinds of music
And I play what I choose

Now rap is just music without all those notes
Free ramblings from the brain
But I’m tired of talk I don’t want a word up
I just want to sing

Music is rhythm music is truth
Music is melody music is youth
Music is harmony music is listening


Sometimes people ask me they say what do you play
After I’ve been singin for an hour or so
And I say to myself, how can I possibly put it in a box
I love all kinds of music

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I play a little bit of reggae a few love songs
And a touch of rock and roll
Calypso and jazz but no Madonna
Original music fills my soul
I’ve got to sing my own songs...
We’ve got to sing our own songs
Follow Your Happiness

Chorus:
Follow your happiness
Follow your happiness
If there’s one thing in this life to remember
Follow your happiness

Now when you’re lost in confusion and you don’t know your no from yes
This advice I would give to you follow your happiness

Now it ain’t easy bein’ human and yet life can be so delicious
So much pleasure so much pain
Sometimes I can’t tell the difference

So once in awhile I stop
And let the rest of the world pass me by
In the quiet of my heart I find the reason why.

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I mean really if it’s a ll just a waste of time
Playin somebody else’s game
Singin somebody else’s lines
Well I’d rather die
But I know when I feel happy
And I know when something’s askew
When I’m happy I’m living in harmony
And I feel closer to the truth.
Here Now
I don’t think about insurance except to drive my car
I keep my money in a red bag
And it doesn’t go very far
I don’t have a plan for retirement
I can hardly think three weeks ahead
Every day is a brand new world
You can pass through it living or dead

Chorus
Are you hear now?
Here now?

I try not to think about tomorrow, I try to forget yesterday
All we really have is a day at a time
Tell me how many moments are in a day
Moment to moment it’s heaven or hell
Are you missing this moment to worry about the next
Are you living every day as if it were your last
Or are you waiting for a time when it all will be past

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Living in your head trying to make sense
Of a life that is more than paying the rent
Try to fill your life with a future and things
But you simply can’t ignore when your heart of heart sings
Kick back into the inside just forget about the outside for awhile
Use your freedom feel your love
Take theta time to do what you love

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Nowhere
I’m up I’m down
I’m wandering all around
Things change I change
Always one foot off the ground
One day I know where I’m going
And the next I’m lost at sea
But the fun is in the going
I may not reach what I see

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Going nowhere
Now here
Loving living laughter silence tears

I’m in love again and again
but things change I change
In the end we begin again
Like a River ever flowing
I will go where I will go
And the joy is in the knowing
That I go with the flow

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Kiwi Fruit
Ever Since We’ve been together
I can think about just one thing
It’s forbidden fruit from the garden
Its the thing that makes me sing
You know I’ve tasted every kind of sweet from the tree
But I just can’t seem to get enough of you and me

Now that I’ve found my kiwi fruit no other juicy fruit will do
I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet
But only kiwi fruit makes my meals complete
Only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do

In the morning when I wake up after twelve next to you
I’ve got to find my breakfast served complete
Bring me kiwi fruit and please hold the meat
When my icebox is bare nothing can compare
To my kiwi fruit, there’s no substitute
I’m gonna stay under the covers 'til you bring me my kiwi fruit
Only my kiwi fruit will do, only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do

Now that I’ve found my kiwi fruit no other juicy fruit will do
I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet
I sued to like Carmen Miranda’s peaches best
But the kiwi fruit tastes better than all the rest.
Only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do
Love Will Find Us Again
I did my yoga in your bedroom
And in the kitchen you were fryin up breakfast
And I could tell by my bones and your bagels
This kind of morning would not be our last
And by 9am I was all alone on that turnpike exit 69
And I could still feel your kisses on my face
I could still hear you singin our favorite line

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Love will find us again because time is our friend
And when loving should end, it will end
Love will tell us the time love will drop us a line
When our lives should entwine again

It would have been so easy to stay
Too easy to fall too hard
And every time I do when I pick myself up
I find another crack deep in my heart
And I know that you don’t need a husband
You know we both need romance
So I’m sending you this love song and
One day soon there’s a chance

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Can We Learn To Love
I’ve been looking for a mother
I’ve been looking for a child
I’ve been looking for somebody
To keep me from running wild
Right in the middle of the loving
I somehow become a little boy
Still looking for love still wanting his toys

What is this thing we do
Something pulls us together
And we act like fools
What shall I be free or woman hungry
It looks so much like romance
You know how I love to dance.


Chorus:
Can we learn to love
Can we ever be free
Will we ever rise above
All of the problems that we carry

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
With mother earth all around me
Still I cannot see
My friends all love me
So why can’t I
I’m not alone in this world
We breathe the same air you and I

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Twice In One Day
Twice in one day
I find myself in that twilight
Between sleeping an d waking coming and going
Just before my eyes open and before I fall at night
A moment of silence
Twice in one day

Chorus
And I’ve got to have some silence
Twice in one day twice in one day
And I’ve got to have some fun
Twice in one day twice in one day
And I’ve got to have some loving
Twice in one day twice in one day....

Twice in one day we made love
and she took me to that feeling
Of knowing who I am without caring without worrying
It was not her intention to enlighten me
To make me see but it happens sometimes
When the act goes so deep
And I’ve got to have some loving...
Chorus

Sometimes I get so busy
I forget what living this life is for
Uncentered and dizzy I start thinking
I’ve got to work for this life
Like I’ve got to scratch to get what I deserve
But I always seem to get just what I need
And I need to have some fun....
Chorus

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