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Small songs for bigger people

by Meinhardt Greeff

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One River (free) 09:51
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:: One River :: You're watching the world Through electric eyes In another land Far away from the cries Of the hunger you created And the land you decimated With your greed So you want to save the world While living a lie While raping by proxy Under the virgin skies Where the profits are made And the coffins are laid And the people bleed There's no telling when the river runs dry no telling what the people will do no telling what your eyes will see as you're watching the world on your TV screen The 1st world The 3rd world One river to cross
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Where the Buffaloes Roam (free) 06:50
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:: Where the Buffaloes Roam :: There is a space inside your head That is the home of the living dead It's made of sand, rocks and stone It is the place that you call home Where the buffaloes roam There are no flowers, sea or sky It is the place we go to die All of us here wish you well Alone inside your living hell In your wishing well (In your living hell) I want to be with you Inside your padded room I want to stay the night Inside your candlelight
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If (free) 04:17
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:: If :: If we all had a cent For what we didn't earn We'd be in paradise With money left to burn If everyone had a song That they themselves had wrote We'd be buying songs Where no-one sings a note If only, if only We could listen to the voice inside And leap across the great divide We'd never say if only again If all the schools stopped teaching Mediocrity The eyes of little children Would be filled with dreams If writers stopped writing About their own disease The money spent on pain Could save another tree If only, if only…. If soldiers had to drink With those they had to kill There'd be a lot of drunkards That never saw boot hill If insight was a wish Upon a falling star Knowledge would be less Than knowing what you are
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Little Fish (free) 02:06
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:: Little Fish :: I do believe There's nothing but love in the breeze And I can see The madness in their disease of hatred and fear You say the little fish get eaten by the big fish The devil takes the hindmost Is the meaning of the holy ghost But you lie We are one With all that is under the sun And we lose it all When we live with our backs to the wall Alone and afraid Scared of the sunshine outside You say the little fish get eaten by the big fish That hope is for the hopeless And bigger is better But you lie
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Sally (free) 04:08
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:: Sally :: Back up in the woods amongst the evergreens There sat a little boy eating pork and beans He told me of a time with long-legged sally He asked her for a kiss, well she ducked back in the alley Go sally go She was so fine. She was the preacher's daughter Johnny had a boat on the muddy water One day he asked her to come and play A love so strong it would not fade away Go sally go Johnny took a jump-jet He couldn't fly He's out of control He's eight mile high There's a little blue spark inside his brain Lighting up the dark and keeping out the rain Sally dropped an anchor, she couldn't swim She doesn't know about the shape she's in There's a little pink flower inside her head Keeping out the monsters underneath her bed
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Cold is the night (free) 04:18
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:: Cold is the night :: As the sunrise burns your eyes you must go Far beneath the earth to a gilded cage Cold is the night Pale is the light As night falls on my home town you arise As I lay my head to rest you arrive Cold is the night Pale is the light Oh don't you lie to me Oh won't you set me free Oh won't you let me be Oh won't you Your shadow on the wall is all I see A fantasy in black, watch over me Cold is the night Pale is the light
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Used to be an angel (free) 04:52
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:: Used to be an angel :: Welcome to my nightmare Welcome to my home I'm glad that you could be here I was feeling all alone Don't you stand on my dreams As you walk these barren plains Don't kick aside my wishes As you play inside my pain I used to be an angel Sitting close at hand I thought I was somebody So they turned me to a man Now I look around me At all the fallen ones That populate this planet Where nothing's ever done How do I leave here And break these mortal chains? How do I leave the cage That holds this world of pain? I used to be eternal I walked amongst the gods I never needed anyone To tell me right from wrong But when I wanted more than that When I wanted you I found the twist inside the tale Was leaving all that's good Now I'm destined for the ground Dust to dust along with you All the pleasures of the flesh Are dirt beneath my shoe
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Day in, day out (free) 05:28
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:: Day in, day out :: Falling from grace to be real Too afraid to be gods Living inside of a dream Is the closest we got We dream of becoming More than limiting flesh We find ourselves wandering Ever closer to death Day in, day out, we can be strong Day in, day out, we can be strong Alone in our dilemma It's too much to bear Avoiding decisions Turn this matter to air What do we gain, what do we lose? How are we asked, when did we choose? I, me, mine, is the lock on the door I, me, mine, is what we pay for

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The album cover is a photograph taken on Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.

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released February 10, 2012

Composed, arranged, engineered, and mixed by Meinhardt Greeff

Cover design and Photography by Meinhardt Greeff

"Small songs for bigger people" was performed by~
Meinhardt Greeff: Guitar, Bass, Drum Loops, Keyboards, Vox

With~
Alan Goodman: Harmonica track 5

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The sunset in the banner was photographed in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

All the recordings were done in Boulder, Colorado, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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