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Words and music by Ben Harper
I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
Oh- with my
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
And I can clean up the earth
Oh- with my own two hands
And I can reach out to you
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
Oh- with my own
Oh- with my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I'm gonna make it a safer place
(with my own)
I'm gonna help the human race
(with my own)
(with my own two hands)
Now I can hold you
With my own two hands
And I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands
Use your own two hands
And with our own
With our own two hands
With our
With our
With our own two hands
Oh- with my own
With my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I'm gonna make it a safer place
(with my own)
I'm gonna help the human race
(with my own)
Oh- make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I can hold you
(with my own)
And I can comfort you
(with my own)
But you got
You got
You got
You got
You got
You got
You got to use
Oh- use your own
Oh- use your own
Lord
But you got
You got
You got
You got
You got to use - use
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
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Words and music by Ben Harper
You're a prison I can't escape
You're a decision I never make
Heard me laughing
You heard me weep and moan
Oh- when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
They say time will kill the pain
I say pain is gonna kill my time
Lord won't you save me
Or leave me alone
Cause when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
Oh- gone
I hang your picture right above my mind
Don't do anything you can't deny
I could never be your pawn
Oh- cause when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
Some drink to remember
Some to forget
Some for satisfaction
Some to regret
I hope a brighter day to you I've shown
Oh- cause when it's good, it's so, so good
And when it's gone, it's gone
When it's gone, it's gone
When it's gone, it's gone
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Words and music by Ben Harper
I knew a girl
Her name was truth
She was a horrible liar
She couldn't spend one day alone
But she couldn't be satisfied
When you have everything
You have everything to lose
She made herself a bed of nails
And she's planning on putting it to use
She had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
Diamonds
A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world so shines a good deed
Make sure the fortune that you seek
Is the fortune that you need
Tell me why the first to ask
Is the last to give every time
What you say and do not mean
Follows you close behind
She had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds on the inside
Diamonds
Diamonds
Like the soldier long standing under fire
Any change comes as a relief
Let the giver's name remain unspoken
She is just a generous thief
She had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds
Oh- diamonds
She had diamonds
She wore diamonds
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Words and music by Ben Harper
I need to sleep but I'm too tired
I need to come down but I'm too wired
When the sun comes up I miss the moon
Cause I know tomorrow is gonna come too soon
Is gonna come too soon
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your lust
Scars on your back tell where you've been
But I'll roll like the ocean if you'll blow like the wind
Sweet Texas angel what have your blue eyes seen
I'll be your country gentleman
If you will be my Mason-Dixon Queen
Queen
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your lust
So much sweeter than all the rest
You're what lies between pain and death
Sinners and saints call you by name
If you're gonna take the praise
You're gonna have to learn to take the blame
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your
She only wants to be wanted
Time crumbles blue roses to dust
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Words and music by Ben Harper
Well - The good Lord is such a good Lord
With such a good mother too
They have blessed me
They have blessed me
In the good graces of you
Now I
I have heard a hundred violins crying
And I
I have seen a hundred white doves flying
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me
Oh- in me
Mmhh
How good it must feel
To be so young, young and free
And a song that pleases a queen
Will always please me
Now I
I have heard the wisest of wisdom
And I
I have dined in palaces and kingdoms
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me
Oh- in me
Mmhh - Oh - no no no no
Now, all of life
Is just passing the time
Until once again
Your eyes look into mine
Now I
I have been adored by a stranger
And I
I have heard the whispering angel
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me
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Ben Harper / Juan D. Nelson
I say if I knew being here with you today
Would mean being alone tomorrow
I would gladly trade all of my tomorrows away
For a moment with you
Brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool
I say yeah, yeah, yeah
Can you look
Can you look into my eyes
Or has your heart
Said, has your heart gone blind
Oh- Can you look
Can you look into your own
A nd find the safe place to hide
Brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool
I say yeah, yeah, yeah
Why - why be with a stranger
When you could be with your friend
If you're ever lonely
You know I'm lonely too
And I'll stay lonely until I'm again with you
With you
I say brown eyed blues
Got to find yourself another fool
I say yeah, yeah, yeah
I say brown eyed blues
Oh- no...
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Ben Harper / Juan D. Nelson / Oliver Francis Charles - Leon Lewis Mobley / Greg
Kurstin
When it's on the one
You know the funk's begun
When you are down and out
There is no doubt
You need the funk
Just bring the funk
Bring the funk
Bring the funk
Now what's the problem
Everybody's got them
Just get the hole
Out of your soul
And bring the funk
Bring me the funk
Bring the funk
If you got a glass closet
Don't you throw no bones
There's only getting
Until the getting's gone
So pass me the funk
(pass the funk)
Got to have my funk
(got to have my funk)
Oh- I need my funk
(need my funk)
Got to have my funk
(got to have my funk)
Some are jiving
Some are shuck
Some are just
Down on their luck
They just need the funk
(need the funk)
They got to have the funk
(got to have the funk)
Just bring 'em some funk
(bring the funk)
Just bring the funk
(just bring the funk)
Well, well
Bring it (repeat...)
Well stay black
(stay black)
Stay white
Stay brown get on down
Just bring the funk
Got to bring the funk
Bring the funk
Need it - I need it (repeat...)
Yeah
Well it's got to be solid
That's what you call it
Funk me up
Funk me down
Funk me sideways
Funk me all ways
Bring the funk
Got to bring the funk
Bring the funk
Oh- some things money can't fix
(like what?)
Some things only money will do the trick
It's not the end of the world
But I can see it from here
So bring - bring - bring - bring
Bring me the funk
(bring the funk)
Just bring the funk
(just bring me the funk)
Oh- bring the funk
(bring the funk)
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Words and music by Ben Harper
Behind all of your tears
There's a smile
There's a smile
Behind all of the rain
There's a sunshine
For miles and miles
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
The colors of your garden
They're yellow, blue and green
And the sound of your sweet voice
It's better than all my dreams
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Your my first thought in the morning
When I rise
Oh- when I rise
You're my last thought in the evening
When I rest my head at night
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Everything to me
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Words and music by Ben Harper
What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from
And I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn
Amen Omen
Will I see your face again
Amen Omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you
I still hear you saying
All of life is a chance
And is sweetest
Is sweetest
When at a glance
But I live
I live a hundred
Hundred lifetimes in a day
But I die a little
In every breath that I take
Amen Omen
Will I see your face again
Amen Omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you
I listen to a whisper
Slowly drift away
Silence is the loudest
Parting word you never say
I put - I put your world
Into my veins
Now a voiceless sympathy
Is all that remains
Amen Omen
Will I see your face again
Amen Omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you
Amen Omen
Will I see your face again
Amen Omen
Will I see your face again
Amen Omen
Can I find the place
To live my life
Omen
Amen
Omen
Omen
Amen
Oh- Oh- Oh...
Omen
Amen
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Words and music by Ben Harper
I killed a snake with a bible
I was living a Johnny Cash song
I'm afraid for this I may be liable
So its best I be moving
Moving along
Just a temporary remedy
Running through my
Running through my veins
Summer lasted through November
Funny when its gone you miss cold
Words can be spoken for a lifetime
We can never hear until we're told
Just a temporary remedy - yeah
And is running through
Running through my veins
They tell me nothing is perfect
Then tell me why is it a word
Oh- Yesterday's news is tomorrow's blues
And now they're perfectly blurred
Temporary remedy
Running through
Running through my veins
Just a temporary remedy - yeah
Running through
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Words and music by Ben Harper
Oh- Once you know you can never
You can never turn back
Oh- But I understand
'Cause we all fear what we lack
Being with you
Makes me tired as hell
Tired as hell
And it's so high, so low
Oh- So high, so low
Now if I was strong
And you were male
You'd be dead
And I would be in jail
Being with you
Oh- makes me tired as hell
Tired as hell
Now it's so high, so low
Oh- it's so high, so low
Don't go making promises
You know you won't keep
Weddings turn to funerals
Both with songs that make you weep
Being with you
Makes me tired as hell
And it's so high, so low
Oh- Now it's so high, so low
Now it's so high, so low
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Words and music by Ben Harper
Corcovado parted the sky
And through the darkness
On us he shined
Crucified in stone
Still his blood is my own
Glory behold all my eyes have seen
Have seen
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
Some have flown away
And can't be with us here today
Like the hills of my home
Some have crumbled and now are gone
Gather around for today won't come again
Won't come again
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
So much sorrow and pain
Still I will not live in vain
Like good questions never asked
Is wisdom wasted on the past
Only by the grace of God go I
Go I
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
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Words and music by Ben Harper
It hangs above my altar
Like they hung him from a cross
I keep one in my wallet
For the times I feel lost
I feel lost
In a wooden frame with splinters
Where my family kneels to pray
And if you listen close
You'll hear the words he used to say
I've got a picture of Jesus
In his arms so many prayers rest
We've got a picture of Jesus
And with him we shall be forever blessed
Forever blessed
Forever blessed
Now it has been spoken
He would come again
But would we recognize
This king among men
There was a man in our time
His words shine bright like the sun
He tried to lift the masses
And was crucified by gun
He was a picture of Jesus
With him so many prayers rest
He is a picture of Jesus
In his arms so many prayers
So many prayers
So many prayers rest
With him we shall be forever blessed
Forever blessed
Forever blessed
Some days have no beginning
And some days have no end
Some roads are straight and narrow
And some roads only bend
So let us say a prayer
For every living thing
Walking towards a light
From the cross of a king
We long to be a picture of Jesus
Of Jesus
In his arms
In his arms so many prayers rest
I long to be a picture of Jesus
With him we shall be forever blessed
With him we shall
With him we shall be forever blessed
Oh- Oh- I long
I've got a picture of Jesus
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Ben Harper / Dean Butterworth
I know you may not want to see me
On your way down from the clouds
Would you hear me if I told you
That my heart is with you now
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
Did you find what you were after
The pain and the laughter brought you to your knees
But if the sun sets you free
Sets you free
You'll be free indeed
Indeed
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
Every time I hear you laughing
Hear you laughing
It makes me cry
Like the story of life
Of life
Is hello goodbye
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
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