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Under the Leaves 

At morning I’m waiting 
At evening I sing 
At midnight I need you 
And moments between 
In movements I'm making 
In thoughts I don’t speak  
In ways you've been breaking 
My statues to me  

Show me what you wanna show me 
‘Cause I wanna see 
Tell me what you wanna tell me 
I’ll be listening 

Somewhere under the leaves 
Somewhere under my breathing 

In the greyness of the raining 
In the falling of the leaves 
In the sadness we are planting 
Trees that we will not live to see 
In the golden days of summer 
In the joy that we may reap 
In the wind there is a whisper 
Something I can catch but never keep 

Show me what you wanna show me 
‘Cause I wanna see 
Tell me what you wanna tell me 
I’ll be listening 

Somewhere under the leaves 
Somewhere under my breathing 

Do you want to be found? 
Do you want to be found? 

Blind, I am blinded 
By feelings and sound 
If you’re hiding in silence 
My life is too loud 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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The Fight 

The world is changing 
You feel it spinning faster 
I heard you saying 
We’re heading for disaster in the end 
Feels like we’re caving in 

The world is changing 
There might not be enough, and 
We’re all afraid things 
Are blowing up and 
Someone is to blame 
Bet you could name some names 
Lock them all away 
And drive away the hate by hating 

Try to smash that thing down  
Try to stamp that thing out 
Try to grab it all and 
Pound it down to a thousand pieces 
But don’t be afraid 
Though the earth should give way 
Just show me all your faith 
In all the ways you love 
The faces of the ones who disagree 

The world is changing 
It’s not that different really 
We do the same things 
We did for centuries 
When we get scared 
We point over there 

I think it’s strange how 
We’re never good at knowing  
The moment we change 
To be the same as 
What we fight against  
Just feels like self-defense 
And so we try again 
To drive away the hate by hating 

Take right, take left 
Take blue, take red 
Take heart, take head  
Take Sharks, take Jets 
Take the comments section
From the last election 
Take the things we write
Take our misdirection 
Take the fear that makes us
Wanna drive them out 
And act the same as what we’re mad about 
Take the Inquisition, think of prohibition 
“Shock and Awe” against Sharia Law 
Take Crusades and hate
And mobs and frenzies 
Crews and cliques
The crucifixion
Ethnic cleansing 
And it isn’t only all about the pain and hurt 
But also that it never really seems to work 
Because the heavier the hand
That holds and squeezes 
The more you break the thing
Into a million pieces 
And every little spore is gonna grow again 
You could call that “hell”
Or you could call that “sin” 
But the only revolution is the one within 
’Til we throw ourselves into the light 
We will never win the fight 

Take me, Take me 

Never smash that thing down 
Never stamp that thing out 
Never grab it all and 
Pound it down to a thousand pieces 
So don’t be afraid 
Though the earth should give way 
Just show me all your faith 
In all the ways you love 

Try to smash that thing down  
Try to stamp that thing out 
Try to grab it all and 
Pound it down to a thousand pieces 
So don’t be afraid 
No, don’t be afraid 
Just show me all your faith 
In all the ways you love 
The faces of the ones who disagree 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Seeing In The Dark 

Did you ever feel like 
Like you made a mistake 
Like maybe you stayed 
Instead of walking away? 

Did you ever feel like 
Like you missed out on fate? 
Like you fell out of place 
Does it work that way? 

Have you ever tried it 
Tried to write it all down 
When there’s something inside of you 
And you can’t get it out? 

It’s like living and dying 
At the very same time 
You don’t want to come out 
But you know you can’t hide 

I see the daylight fading 
I lie awake at night 
Chasing shadows 
Hiding from the light 
Moonlight waking 
Something in my heart 
Moving through the darkness 
’Til I learn the hardest part 
Seeing in the dark 

So you try to start over 
But you just can’t erase 
All the lines on your pages 
Or the lines in your face 

There’s no way to go back now 
But you just can’t stand still 
With all the things that you’ve felt 
And everything that you feel 

I see the daylight fading 
I lie awake at night 
Chasing shadows 
Hiding from the light 
Moonlight waking 
Something in my heart 
Moving through the darkness 
’Til I learn the hardest part 
Seeing in the dark 
Seeing in the dark 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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I Didn’t Have The Chance 

I wonder did I know 
What I would be losing 
When I let the thing that we had break? 
What if I had called out 
Like they do in movies? 
“Wait!” What would I say? 

Maybe if I hadn’t let you go 
Let you walk away 
You would still be here 
I used to wanna say 
You were the one 
Who helped me believe 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
Open up my arms  
And hope you come around again 
But it’s still not clear 
If there’ll be another day 
To tell you all you mean to me 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
I didn’t have the chance 

I felt my heart beating 
Burning in the moment 
If I could say the first word I'd be in 
But I stood beside you 
In the safety of the silence 
And couldn't push the word beyond my lips 

Maybe if I hadn’t let you go 
Let you walk away 
You would still be here 
I used to wanna say 
You were the one 
Who helped me believe 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
Open up my arms  
And hope you come around again 
But it’s still not clear 
If there’ll be another day 
To tell you all you mean to me 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
I didn’t have the chance 

I wonder do I know now 
How I'd do it different 
If I had the chance again to take? 

Maybe if I hadn’t let you go 
Let you walk away 
You would still be here 
I used to wanna say 
You were the one 
Who helped me believe 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
Open up my arms  
And hope you come around again 
But it’s still not clear 
If there’ll be another day 
To tell you all you mean to me 
But I didn’t have the chance to tell you 
‘Cause I didn’t take the chance 
‘Cause I didn’t take the chance 

Maybe, maybe, it’s too many “maybe”s 
Maybe, maybe, it’s too many “maybe”s 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Appy Returns 

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . ."
—Andrew J. Kuehn, Tagline for Jaws 2

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Gone Before I Go 

Waiting and watching stars go by 
We’re laying, not talking 
On the night before goodbye 
Oh, tomorrow I go 
Oh, I just wanna stay 
Oh, oh, I'm already far away 

Toss and turning around 
Turning around 
The clock hands hold me down 
Turning around and round and round 

And I’m reaching for water 
And to wake you up to talk 
Could you teach me, girl?  
I'm caught here  
In the service of the clock 
Oh, tomorrow I go 
Oh, I just wanna stay 
Oh, oh, I'm already far away 

Toss and turning around 
Turning around 
The clock hands hold me down 
Turning around and round and round 

The heart has its ways 
Of keeping us safe 
Safe, but so alone 
So, I’m gone before I go 
I’m gone, gone, gone before I even 
Gone, gone, gone before I even go 

Oh, I’m already miles away 

Toss and turning around 
Turning around 
The clock hands hold me down 
Turning around 
Toss and turning around 
Turning around 
The clock hands hold me down 
Turning around and round and round 

Lying awake 
Kicking covers away 
I don't want to open my eyes 
And be awake but not alive 

I’m gone, I’m gone 
I am gone before, long before 
Gone before I go 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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Not Alone 

When I was three she said to me 
“You’re not a chance, a circumstance 
You have been made, you have a place 

“And you will grow 
Roots beyond your bones 
Deeper than the stones 
And you are not alone 
And you will reach 
Branches to the east 
As far as you can see 
To the lights of home 
And you are not alone” 

We grew up near anger and fear 
And lived in rooms he painted blue 
When I was ten, he told me then 
“You’re just like me, just wait and see 

“Unless you grow 
Roots beyond your bones 
Deeper than the stones 
And you are not alone 
Unless you reach 
Branches to the east 
As far as you can see 
To the lights of home 
And you are not alone” 

The bough will break under the sound 
So many things are upside down 
Reach out and feel the sun and rain 
Our leaves will change 

I see them play so unafraid  
I want to stay, to keep us safe 
But nothing’s safe 

And so we grow 
Roots beyond our bones 
Deeper than the stones 
And you are not alone 
And so we reach 
Branches to the east 
As far as you can see 
To the lights of home 

And you will grow 
Roots beyond your bones 
Deeper than the stones 
And you are not alone 
And there will be

A garden full of trees 
As far as you can see 
To the lights of home 
And you are not alone 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Wide Awake In A Dream 

Lately I’ve been falling for you 
But I can’t fall asleep 
Wide awake at night 
As I set the scene 

You and me 
You and me 
Wide awake in a dream 
We wouldn’t have to wake up 
On our own 

As I'm staring at the ceiling 
I see shapes and stars 
Like I’m painting  
You a work of art 

On the ocean, you are smiling 
When you realize 
That I made this world 
Just to light your eyes 

You and me 
You and me 
Wide awake in a dream 
We’d never have to wake up 
On our own 

R. Green/ C. Hood 
©2021 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ 
Easycollective Music/ BMI 

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Ruins 

Beyond the field 
Behind the branches 
Across the broken glass and bones 
And past the last of growing things I see 
A history I never wanted to know 

The light upon the hill  
Was left to dust 
No rain to calm the blame  
Or damage done 

Between the rusted out reminders 
Of people broke beneath the dream 
Through streets, we make our way 
Into the heart, the darkest part 
We never wanted to see 

We found the houses 
Filled with brilliant things 
And haunted by 
The emptiness they bring 

Windows 
Covered up with mirrors 
And daylight 
Covered up with screens 
Where space was 
Never made to stop and rest 
We lost our breath  
Beneath the leaves 

Where fear was 
Hid away in basements 
And fear was 
In the dirt below 
Where fear was never faced 
And never followed back 
Foundations cracked 
Beneath the stones 

The writing in the ruins 
Of the earth 
Read, “All who have been last  
Will be the first” 

So now 
Repair the thing that’s broke down 
And somehow become who we could be 
We need to go down 
Deeper than we know how 
Below ground, the river underneath 

So now 
Repair the thing that’s broke down 
And somehow become who we could be 
We need to go down 
Turn around and give it back 
In dust and ash 
Become the spring 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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Morning Breaking 

Wide awake the morning breaking 
Night I’m shaking off 
My eyes are wider 
Than they’ve been in months 

I dreamed the weight of my mistakes 
Had fallen from my hands 
Like scattered seeds 
Behind me as I ran 

And all the tears I thought were wasted 
Watered down below 
'Til a garden from the grave  
Began to grow 

Now, through the fields 
And through the forest 
On to unknown lands 
I learn to love the traveler as I am 

So I’ll be ready to love 
So I’ll be ready to love 
So I’ll be ready to love 
So I’ll be ready to love 
When I have the chance 

C. Hood/ R. Green 
©2021 Easycollective Music/ BMI/ 
El Principito Publishing/ BMI 

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