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1. |
Nothing!
03:35
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This is a song about nothing!
Of nobody and no one in between
All the highs and the lows,
Of the yeses and the nos
That come perpetually.
Do you know what I mean?
Does it make sense when I sing?
The words to this song are simple so sing along!
Or don't, I really don't care what you do.
I don't care about nothing.
This is a song about everything
And all the bullshit that comes from beneath
All of the sorrow and the tears
of the happiness through the years.
And all those things that make us who we wish that we could be.
Do you know what I mean?
Does it make sense when I sing?
The words to this song are simple so sing along!
Or don't, I really don't care what you do.
I don't care about-
Oh, No, Yes, Maybe, Anyway.
Though it's not much; but it's better than:
Maybe I can understand!
No I can't.
Do you know what I mean?
Does it make sense when I sing?
The words to this song are simple so sing along!
Or don't, I really don't care what you do.
Do you know what I mean?
Does it make sense when I sing?
The words to this song are simple so sing along!
Or don't, I really don't care what you do.
I don't care about nothing.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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Only For You
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Here I am a gentle creature. A gentle creature from the sea.
My shiny fins cause a disturbance. A disturbance inside me.
My eyes bulge out. I have six tentacles. Yet I am gentle as can be.
So my darling you did beckon me. Called me from my spacious sea.
Here I am the sky above you. The stars above you. The air you breathe.
Here I am twinkling for you. Standing before you as a flea.
I know that you wish I was different. Something different that can't be.
For I am me myself before you, and I adore you only as me.
Into the night I shall return and as the oil lamps will burn I'll write what you mean to me.
A ditty or a dirge or a lullaby I search for the eyes I wish to see.
Just what you mean to me.
Why did you beckon me?
Here I am, I am the moment, I am the second, but I can't freeze.
Time moves on and time moves forward, and I'll move forward if you please.
Rushing on, rushing on, no one notices me.
As long as I am with you I am all that I'll ever be.
Into the night I shall return and as the oil lamps will burn I'll write what you mean to me.
A ditty or a dirge or a lullaby I search for the eyes I wish to see.
Just what you mean to me.
Why did you beckon me?
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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3. |
Find My Way
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Draw the line of circles in the sand on my hand.
Tell me how the morning skies aren't gray.
Teach me of the places in the world still left to find.
But can you help me find my way, love?
Can you help me find my way?
Today marks the moment when tomorrow's yesterday
Is just the same as yesterday's tomorrow.
So keep on hoping, yelling, wishing, even praying.
Any noise to drown out the sorrow can't keep us down.
You're the one I love.
Isn't that enough to help the gray skies turn to blue?
You're the reason I keep feeling alive when all the sadness gets me too..
Remember when you:
Drew the line of circles in the sand on my hand.
Told me how the morning skies weren't gray.
Taught me of the places in the world still left to find.
But can you help me find my way, love?
Can you help me find my way?
There was the moment when the kettle on the stove
Burned your hand and extinguished the flame.
Through love and care and then maybe just one swear.
We healed you up and by the fire we drank our tea.
You're the one I love.
Isn't that enough to help the gray skies turn to blue?
You're the reason I keep feeling alive when all the sadness gets me too..
Remember when you:
Drew the line of circles in the sand on my hand.
Told me how the morning skies weren't gray.
Taught me of the places in the world still left to find.
But can you help me find my way, love?
Can you help me find my:
One day all we'll be is lines left in the sand.
Photos in the morning skies so blue.
Gone to the places in the world still left to find.
Because you helped me find my way, love.
Because you helped me find my way.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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4. |
The Most Beautiful Thing
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I once wrote a song for a person I know.
They told me that it's time I go to
See the place that they always used to talk about.
So I went on my way but halfway there
I stopped and I looked and lying there
Was the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen.
So I bent to the ground to pick it up
But the weight of it was far too much.
I hoped that nobody else would ever see
The most beautiful thing right in front of me.
Then I said "Oh, the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen
Won't you get yourself on up and walk with me?"
Then I said "Oh, we're a hundred, hundred miles from the world we used to see. Won't you get yourself on up and walk with me?"
Just walk with me.
So on I walked through the rain and the snow.
On I walked and on we go just me and the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
But the snow got thicker, fog filled the air.
Rain storms flooded lands everywhere!
But on I walked, hoping to find the promised land!
I protected it through the night and the say.
Fought for it in the clouds and the gray.
Oh beautiful thing baby can't you see that you and I were made to be?
Then I said "Oh, most beauitful thing that I've ever seen don't fall behind, come back here and walk with me."
Then I said "Oh, well it seems like you've been quiet near, so why don't we stay here? Love talk to me."
Then it said: "I can't believe that you protected me after all that we've been through. It's hard for me to believe that you'd risk your life for me..."
Oh most beautiful thing I've ever seen; don't you know? You and I were made to be.
Oh, most beautiful thing I've ever seen come along, sing this song and walk with me!
Then I said "Oh, we're a hundred, hundred miles from the world that we once knew, so why don't we walk along just me and you?"
The most beautiful thing!
©TravisLoveBenson 2011-2015
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A Simple Ocean Song
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Birds caw, waves crash, music ignites the air!
Water rushing forward, chords without a care!
To sing a song about the ocean has already been sung.
To sing a song about my music has probably been done.
So here's a:
Song about what it's like to feel the sand between your toes.
It's a song about the beauty of one of Nature's highest mo-
ments are longer lasting, the sky is clear, and the air is all abound.
It's a song about love with no one else around.
Can you hear it rising? the captain's call to sea? (Ahoy!)
Or maybe, if you're lucky, the bells for the ice cream!
To bring a song to your castle walls would just erode away,
But to sing a song as the sun shines on our love-e-ly beach day is just to:
Show you that I think about you when I smell that ocean swell.
To remember all the sandcastles and patches we made well.
And better grab your lover, hold them close, or they might just fade away.
It's a song about love that only lasts a day.
It's a song about times when things weren't just okay.
It's a love for our lives that went and washed away.
It's a love for the ocean until the ocean's gone away.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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6. |
Love Will Find the Way
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I have been trying hard to tell you, my love.
Though the words won't come out just right.
If I could buy a fleet of ships for your love
They'd sail all day towards your light.
Just like a flow'r, bloomin' in the night,
You lift me up in moonbeams bright.
And I know, oh I know, the words that I can't say
Will swallow me whole if love can't find the way.
You're orange, red, blue, yellow, purple, even brown,
And all those colours that I can't see.
The only colour to me that you're not
Is the one that isn't close to me.
And when you smile, it fills me up; and your laughter makes me high.
Baby when you're frowning, I'll hold you close. Please now don't you cry.
You must think, you must say that I could never stay.
But you know, oh you know love will find the way.
So we'll go, oh we'll go where we can sing and dance and play,
And you know; we both know that love will find the way.
Love will find the way.
Love has found the way.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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7. |
Fool Me
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We met by chance.
Two navigators of lonely hearts we dances
And anchored with just one glance.
The chance for romance.
On date one you seemed like you'd be fun.
We took it for a run
Like someone who is on a marathon and
Fool me once, shame on you.
I did what you wanted to do,
And maybe even thought shame on me too.
On date two, it was clear to me that you
Did not want the same thing too
That friendship was the boat you captained.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Dinner, movies, a chance to see.
The birds of life flying free.
Better never fool me three.
Minus two isn't one plus you.
You'll never have the chance to fool me thrice.
Unless I take the chance and throw the dice.
On date three you wanted to get lost with me.
Not just that but to see
Where that road would lead
Until you never showed up!
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me too.
But fool me three times?
Fool me three times?
When somebody fools you thrice.
You don't need any advice.
You know you need to.
You know you need to say goodbye. One.
Goodbye. Two.
Goodbye. Three.
Better never fool me number four.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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(When You're) Mad
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Sometimes you feel so angry.
Sometimes you feel so blue.
Sometimes you just can't take it.
So what are you going to do?
When you're mad.
You probably feel bad.
When you can't tell your feelings to someone
Because you don't know them.
When you're mad.
Well do you feel sad?
Just like everything bad that will happen will happen to you?
When you're mad
Your emotions are scantily clad.
First you're up, then you're down, then you're left,
Then you're write like a sketch pad.
When you're mad
Well you just go mad
And had I had feelings well I might have had them for you.
I might have known
That you're too good to be true.
I might have known
I was mad about you
I'm mad about you!
When you're mad.
And trust me I'm mad!
Your heart races, you sweat
A lot of shaking, you tend to do that.
When you're mad
You're secretly glad!
And I hope that you're feeling
The same way I'm feeling for you.
Because life would be sad
And I would go mad without you.
Without you!
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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9. |
Feeling Was You
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I gather my thoughts gazing into the sun.
It feels like it's just started, now we're done.
It's hard to see with the tears in my eyes.
All that I've lived for is beginning to die.
And I look for a sign.
In another glass of wine.
Just like Apollo drove the chariot of fire.
You lit me up with a feeling no brighter
Than all those things that came before us.
We thought we knew them too.
The feeling was you.
I hand wrote the letters that I gave to the man.
He ripped them up, said he had a better plan.
I tried taping them together but the pieces wouldn't stick!
I felt like rubber chasing glue.
Chasing after you.
Just like Apollo drove the chariot of fire.
You lit me up with a feeling no brighter
Than all those things that came before us.
We thought we knew them too.
The feeling was you.
Though it's hard to see just
Everything you've done to me.
I hope that you remember all
Those things I did for you.
And from the spaces in between those words
Comes a deeper power.
A deeper power!
Just like Apollo drove the chariot of fire.
You lit me up with a feeling no brighter
Than all those things that came before us.
We thought we knew them too.
The feeling was you.
And though the night will come and I will grow tired.
I'll keep on going, hit the brink, and break the wire if:
All I know is that there's a happier place for you:
There's one for me too.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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10. |
Love Will Save the Day!
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Here I come to save the day!
Oh look, it's love!
I had somebody who I thought would last!
Flowers, chocolates, dates were a blast.
But then the Love moved on.
I had a Love who would exercise
Not only my body but even my mind.
But then the Love moved on.
I don't ever know where to turn to.
But I know I keep looking for you.
I know that Love will never die
Because the Love will move on by.
I don't ever know where to turn to,
But you know I keep looking for you.
So now we'll find that Love again!
Who knows where, and who knows when?
Well we'll find Love in time.
Don't know who, and don't know why!
One more time we'll keep on calling,
And once again we'll end up falling,
And this time we'll make it stay.
Love will save the day.
Love will save the day!
Someone once told me that Love would die,
But I didn't walk on by.
I said: Love might seem too good to be true
But it's in me and I know it's in you!
And I don't ever know where to turn to,
But you know I keep looking for you!
So now we'll find that Love again!
Who knows where, and who knows when?
Well we'll find Love in time.
Don't know who, and don't know why!
One more time we'll keep on calling,
And once again we'll end up falling,
And this time we'll make it stay.
Love will save the day.
Love will save the day!
Here I come to save the day!
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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11. |
Love One Another
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The artist can sing,
The singer will write,
The writer will paint,
And that's alright.
Your pronouns are she,
Mine are his,
Some are their name,
And that's the way it is!
It isn't wrong to feel some way.
It isn't wrong to be straight, bi, or gay,
Or transgender!
For difference make us who we are and:
Love one another! Every sister, every brother.
Do you even know what love is?
It's know they're there, will always care.
About you and the gifts you have to share with the world.
Love is there. Love cares. Love one another.
The old man will dance. The young will sleep.
The middle aged will sigh: There's no balance to keep.
Social stigmas will run you down.
Where is that fool, that youngster, that clown?
It isn't wrong to look some way.
It isn't wrong to be black, white, or beige,
Yellow, or brown.
For differences make us who we are and:
Love one another! Why do we fight with each other?
Do you even know what love is?
It's keeping the peace and understanding feelings
And helping those less privileged than you.
Love is there. Love cares. Love one another!
And I know that it's hard.
Situations made more dire by the lives we are living.
But just take a moment,
A single moment.
Take a moment and see:
We're one planet, in a million seas of galaxies like ours.
So if you really want to be a star then:
Love one another! Don't fight with each other!
In the grand scheme of the world.
It's better to understand feelings, sexualities,
And believing like there's more to life out there!
Love is there. Love cares. Love will always be there!
Love one another.
Love one another!
One love.
©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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12. |
Travelin' Home
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©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015
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TLB // TheyLoveThem Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hey! I changed my name and am releasing as TheyLoveThem now!
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Weird, Queer, Anti-Folk Folk-Punk Mother Folker.
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