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Good People, the Land and Sea

by Kevin Paris

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1.
Midwest Ease 02:50
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Ohh I am headed home Back where my roots lay, where I’d grown From an old soul into new bones For this time, this time around Our lakes like oceans Glacial gifts of ancient motion Heal yourself with their potion The Midwest holds my roots, it holds my devotion No matter where I roam No matter where I reside This Midwest ease won’t ever leave my side That’s just how it stands These roots grow deep in these loving lands Got good people with sturdy hands Which keep us moving on and moving strong Just as it seems We keep things moving but keep things serene Letting good fill the space between Oh yes we are moving on No matter where I roam No matter where I reside This Midwest ease won’t ever leave my side In the winter the log wood’s burning We’re keepin warm while the season’s spinning, turning Like the records of Justin Vernon Just inundate your senses with it all So grab a hold Let it all unfold It’s all been told, It’s all been told, it’s all been told, yea No matter where I roam No matter where I reside This Midwest ease won’t ever leave my side
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With the Tide 04:22
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I should know by now, it won’t be this way for long As I’m Impatiently waiting for this storm inside my mind To pass and be gone For the moment, thoughts and troubles are a-tumbling And rumbling through my mind While my calm is crumbling and stumbling around Lost in the grind Lost in time I’m hardly here, barely here at all This familiar space is a painful place to fall So I move away, slowly inside This time, this time, I’m moving with the tide Moving with the tide Up and down, I’m spun around, falling dizzy to the ground My pensive mind just won’t seem to slow Ohhh I know I need a shove, meditation, sleep or love, Just to turn it off and let it go My busy mind it seems to come, minding more business than one Should really try to hold Thoughts accumulate and dissipate as I contemplate and fold Disconnected from the whole From the whole I’m hardly here, barely here at all This familiar space is a painful place to fall So I move away, slowly inside This time, this time, I’m moving with the tide Moving with the tide It’s hard to realize I’d been wasting what I tried exactly not to waste at all I’m hardly here, barely here at all This familiar space is a painful place to fall So I move away, slowly inside This time, this time, I’m moving with the tide Moving with the tide
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Saudade 04:28
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Vem pra cá ou irei pra lá A lua já iluminou o mar E a maré vai mudar Com a dança da lua A gente vai, a gente vai ficar Com a alma desse mar E essa paz vai cantar Com as ondas, sem tentar Quando vejo as ondas lá Não posso parar de pensar Nos soa tão familiar Este ritmo, ritmo, ritmo de... Chegar, ficar, sair, voltar Vir, sair, ficar, voltar Vir, sair, sair, sair Sempre pra outro lugar Chorus: O sol sempre vai sair O céu sempre vai abrir O mundo sempre vai sentir saudade Vou estar com vontade de te ver... Vou ter Saudade de você Saudade deste lugar Saudade das pessoas Saudade do mar You said, if you leave, don’t leave for long The tide is high, the love is strong It all falls where it belongs But that doesn’t mean it’s easy Sometimes we just need something stable So I hold you when I’m able Distance always seems to label Esta saudade But it’s so much more than just you or me It’s good people, the land and sea It’s the love, hope and soul between Which make saudade sing As I’m coming, going, staying, leaving Staying, leaving, arriving, pleading Coming, leaving, leaving, leaving The same old song we're always breathing Chorus Bridge: Ohhh someday yea Ohhh someday I will return Ohhh someday But for now I’ll say Final Chorus
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Lion's Head 04:23
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Darling it came back to me slowly While I was working in the morning rain Thinking about how the full moon last night Danced between my window pane It was over two years ago now We made our way to the lion’s head By this moonlight we climbed that mountain With a couple blankets we would spread It was there we moved the pebbles Gathered up some bigger stones Stacked them one foot high to block the wind From entering in our new home To the east, the Mother City To the west, the brisk blue sea To the south, table mountain looked north At an island’s history From the lion’s eyes From the lion’s head… CHORUS We watched the sun dive down into the ocean We watched the city lights flicker and fade We watched the darkness make love to the mountains While discovering what the stars displayed And as I held you like the morning holds the sun The universe ran down our spines (pause guitar) We tasted freedom, we tasted the sea upon our tongues We tasted everything align We woke before the city, Before the sunlight came Had no rooftop, had no walls, Just horizons as our window panes You read, I played sweet music Looking down from above the clouds Through the clearings the sea was mighty Calling our names out loud From the lion’s eyes From the lion’s head… CHORUS
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To Stay 03:18
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Sister I know That you know what love can hold That you know the sun had told Us not to fade Sister I see That you are an ocean melody Your waves and my soul in harmony Yea. And so Our curtains fall This love is all That can remain And so we lay Two souls, one sway One love to stay To stay Yea sister we know This is our own garden to grow To bloom as the moonlight’s sinking low to blossom In the sky So sister we’ll rise Harmonizing with the Universe’s tide Love is the vibration, Most High For us to choose CHORUS Bridge: What will be, has always been, and will remain Though this and that will come and go just like the rain Just ask the stars who’s birth and death allowed our names It’s all the same, beyond our names, we’re all the same
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Simple Melodies 03:29
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Simple melodies run through my mind I put them on paper but they erase with time These words they just can’t describe What’s been captured by the eyes and mind But that’s okay anyway, I’m rising slow The curtains part closed only preview what the day will show Look above now, the ceiling stars, they still glow No need for jealousies I’ve got all I need to know A sea of blankets holds us down… While all our hard times drown And we don’t fight to let them go… No, no, no Let them go, let them go So we remain And begin to understand You look up and count the stars I look down and count the sand But we lose track all too fast As we lose track of the tide As we lose track of it all And sail away A sea of blankets holds us down… While all our hard times drown And we don’t fight to let them go… No, no, no Let them go, let them go Bridge: Let them go Let them go Go, gooooo Final Chorus
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Java Babe 03:40
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It was early on a Friday I was playing tunes at a small café The sun was pouring through the doorway On my toes I was covering a Marley tune Looking out the window across the room Past all the photos of the world in bloom Just outside She seemed to hear the music play Stopped, turned and took a look this way Came in with such a tranquil sway And hopped in line She was some kind of lovely Bought herself a tall dark coffee Sat and sipped it right in front of me While I played on Chorus: Ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy sweet... Java babe I played on and on She kicked off her shoes and hummed along While looking down laughing at the art she’d drawn On her hand She sat there all alone In front of the crowd with her coffee and scone Each time she looked up, locked her eyes to my own And gave a smile She had such a good, sweet vibe Summer dress flowed like the low tide Golden skin glowed like the sunrise On the land After the show I went her way Got to know my sweet, sweet java babe Hung around that old, small café, thinking Chorus Bridge & Final Chorus: My oh my oh My oh my oh My oh my oh My sweet java babe
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Your Love is Home 04:32
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Já saí dessa casa Dessa vez não vou voltar A porta já fechou A brisa boa ta no ar Com você eu vou sentar Na área e aprender a amar E a saudar o mar Saí da casa e cheguei ao lar Slow, slow, slow, let go Make yourself comfortable Your walls were caving in, I’m told At your old house But now we’re here Finally finding love beneath our fear The waves flow out, and pull you near It seems that we’ve arrived Arrived, arrived CHORUS: I grabbed the cornerstone Left the house on its own Crumbling to the bone Your love is home Your love is home Yea I grabbed the cornerstone Left the house all alone From the heart to the bone Your love is home Your love is home So, so, so, we know It wasn’t so long ago Our hearts were windows frozen closed Closed beneath the sun But through the cracks All the light would sneak it’s way on past And scatter down onto the floor Leaving us wanting more And more and more and more BRIDGE: Yes this new home Was built by our very own Sturdy, sturdy, sturdy, sturdy love
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The Sun 04:48
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I hold you like you’ve held me For so long now, so patiently While I ran free and fell upon the road You always left your door open Knowing someday, I’d return again Pleading, praying let me in Chorus: I see now you’re the sun that I’d been waiting on Yes I’d been waiting on but you were never gone Each morning you rose but from what I chose I fell Stuck inside the clouds while you remained the sun I now can see the sun I hold you like you’ve been holding me for so long now So trustingly, without deceit With just tenderness and time Ohhh and I know I’ve got a long, long way to go It’s not a stone’s throw, I’ve got no time for moving slow I’ve got to let go and move on towards your love CHORUS Bridge: I now can see the sun And it’s only just begun… begun, begun, begun Final Chorus
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Go 04:03
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You said, “go, before the dawn, before the roosters crow” You said, “leave, go and plant your life, you have the seeds” You said, “now, now’s your time to listen and allow” Then you said, “bye, you know the universe is on your side” “Be on your way now. Be on your way,” you said “Be on your way now, go… Be gone” You said “go, the sun will rise without you if you’re slow” You said, “leave, you’re not happy here, I’m not deceived” You said, “now, if you really want to love, then go learn how” Then you said, “bye, I’ll miss you more than missing can imply.” Chorus “Then at least we’ll know one thing when all is said and done We won’t have sat down still while we spun around the sun, we’ll say “I suppose we chose to finally make the darkness glow, and travel down these roads paved for our souls”
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Loneliness (Someone to Hold) 06:27
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Well I went out walking, but ended up talking to you While asking your name, I watched all your pain seeping through I asked, “why were you crying?... there’s no need for lying to me” She said that there’s nothing wrong, I said that something must be… She said, but you’re just a stranger, you don’t need my anger or blues I said, but we all need a hand, when we’re standing on glass with no shoes. So she said “I’m tired of this loneliness, hiding out deep in my bones. My mind is a mess and my heart is a handful of stepped on stones Chorus: It’s been too long Every evening, every dawn Loneliness comes upon me It has grown so old, all this emptiness, all this cold I’m not digging for sympathy or begging for gold I just want someone to hold But after a while, she managed to smile and she said Well look at me now, you would’ve thought all my happiness fled She said, “you’re also human, you’ve been through loneliness too” I said, “darling, the words that you speak, you know they are true” I said, “but the sun always rises, and the spring always comes when it’s time.” She said, “it takes light to see shadows, it takes pain to see love truly shine” “And you can wade through the waters and climb all the towers in town,” She said, “but love isn’t something you find when you’re looking around…” CHORUS So I wait, through this tiring, lonesome fate Hoping tomorrow it’s changed when I wake CHORUS
12.
Willow 04:29
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Well I’d been up all night Watching this willow tree sway in the gentle light Down by the lakeside Listening to that old willow’s words As she whispered things I’d never listened for Making them things I’d never heard So shamefully so No one to blame but my own Blame but my own My own Chorus: But slowly now, slowly I go Laying beside this old willow Fusing her roots with my own Learning slowly to grow She said, you’re just wandering Searching for truth, for honesty For something much deeper than what you’ve been clinging to For something that will not deceive Son just believe And follow the river flow Follow the old willow Follow it down, down, down So here now, now here now I go Laying beside this old willow Fusing her roots with my own Learning slowly to grow Bridge: And follow the river flow Follow the old willow Follow it down, down, down Final Chorus
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Lokah Samastah 07:47
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As we lay beneath the sun, The light it falls and pours its love upon Everything and everyone Restoring us, returning us to One. And so we lay beneath the moon All its light can never seem to come too soon Because on this boat we’re all the same Just trying to shake these shackles chained by pain And trying to find welfare which sustains CHORUS Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu You know the stillness never lies Only love and fear are here left to arise But only one cannot remain Before the sun, where only light can reign And so united with the sun We return to the very love we all came from And send it out beyond the seas Where the Universe returns what we’ve received Where shackles are undone and we are set free CHORUS

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Feel-good, folk/reggae/acoustic music inspired by Paris' time living & touring in Brazil, South Africa, the US and beyond. "World-wide, seaside music for the soul."

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released September 15, 2012

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Kevin Paris Los Angeles, California

Musician, singer-songwriter and pioneer yoga musician, Paris tours the world performing his infectious, feel-good music.

His current project is fusing acoustic, singer-songwriter roots with melodic house production with his bandmate, producer & DJ, Oscar Del Amor.

Playing 200+ shows per year, Kevin is simultaneously paving the way for singer-songwriters in the vibrant yoga & live music scene. ... more

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