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With the power of my voice, I will tell you how I feel.
I will tell you all the stories in my heart.
With the power of my voice, I will show you what is real,
I will show you that I won’t be torn apart.
In my song I sing the truth,
My music holds the promise that I made to me.
In my song I sing for you,
My tune is the thread that will bind us,
And the light that sets us free
With the power of my voice.
With the power of my voice, I will speak to all the world,
I’m a spark that lights a fire, I’m a balm.
With the power of my voice, I will call into the night,
I’ll illuminate the darkness, I’ll bring calm.
In my song I sing the truth,
My music holds the promise that I made to me.
In my song I sing for you,
My tune is the thread that will bind us,
And the light that sets us free
With the power of my voice
With the power of my voice
With the power of my voice
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2. |
I Sing With The Earth
04:26
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I Sing With the Earth
I Sing With the Earth
I Sing With the Earth
I Sing With the Earth
with my feet on the ground, with the trumpets sound
with my heart and my skin, as we breathe with the strings
Oh…. with minds combined
Oh…. and souls aligned,
we will pour our voices forth…
a river, a stream of gleaming voices
sailing through the reeds to the beat of the drum
the air we give a shimmer of a gift
leading us home from where we've come
Oh…..
Oh…..
with words in rhyme, and precious language
to the sky sublime, our message rises
Oh…. with minds combined
Oh…. and souls aligned,
we will pour our voices forth…
a river, a stream of gleaming voices
sailing through the reeds to the beat of the drum
the air we give a shimmer of a gift
leading us home from where we've come
Oh…..
Oh…..
Oh…..
Oh…..
Oh…. with minds combined
Oh…. and souls aligned
with my feet on the ground, with the trumpets sound
with my heart and my skin, as we breathe with the strings
we will pour our voices forth
we will pour our voices forth
we will pour our voices forth
we will pour our voices forth
a river, a stream of gleaming voices
sailing through the reeds to the beat of the drum
the air we give a shimmer of a gift
leading us home from where we've come…
with you! with me, with us, with the earth!
with you, with me, with us, with the earth!
with you, with me, with us, with the earth!
Oh…..
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PLEASE
02:50
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PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
Please! I want you to enjoy yourself, so please,
listen well, listen well, listen listen well
Please! I want you to enjoy yourself, so please,
listen well, listen well, listen listen well so
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
I will not lose my voice to this crowd
I will not waste my precious breath in shouts,
I have nothing left but a plea,
to take a pause from your hard lives,
and give that time to me,
give that time to me,
give that time,
give that time to me,
give that time to me,
Please! I want you to enjoy yourself, so please,
listen well, listen well, listen listen well
Please! I want you to enjoy yourself, so please,
listen well, listen well, listen listen well so
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
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4. |
If Only You Knew
04:30
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If only you knew,
how wonderful you are,
then the light from your eyes
would shine for you.
If only you knew,
how powerful you are,
then the beating of your tired heart
would wake you.
If only you knew,
that the world will not wait,
that you just need to step out,
and take your place.
Everything you need,
to walk the path that's lying at your feet,
is in you.
Everything you seek,
to change the life you feel is incomplete,
is in you.
If only you knew,
that at your fingertips,
is the power to make this world,
better than it is.
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It's A Love Song
03:02
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It’s a love song for Soff…
It’s a love song for Soff…
It’s a love song for Soff…
It's a love song
I love you, happy birthday,
to you to you to you!
It’s a love song for Soff…
It’s a love song for Soff…
It’s a love song for Soff…
It's a love song
I love you, happy birthday,
to you to you to you!
This birthday is another year,
Another ring in the tree
That we are growing you and me,
That we are tending, steadily.
This birthday is another day
With open hearts interlaced,
You take my hand, I see your face,
Together we will find our place.
The calendar is not enough,
To count the ways that I can love,
To chart the moments on this map of us.
The shifting sands and restless tide,
The ancient markers of the time,
Sing quietly “I’m yours and you are mine”
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6. |
Sophie
06:15
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Within she sings
a song beyond her sight
a wordless air
that dances through the night
almost intangible a melody so bright
that rises up, a noble harmony thats shared
with those she loves, an offering
From magic strings
that hum and spark with light
she works a bed
a place to rest your sighs
and yet there’s passion, in adversity there’s fight
a symphony of spoken action, things unsaid
and so she sings, and now we sing
and so she sings, and now we sing
and so she sings, and now we sing
and so she sings, and now we sing.
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Ada Lovelace
03:32
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Born in 1815, she was a woman with a big dream,
Her way of thinking, turned over a brand new page
That’s why they call her the prophet of the computer age…
An engine designed for complicated calculation
She knew that it could have the greatest application,
She started to think that she could change the conversation
Was she the beginning of modern computation?
She had a vision! the very first algorithm!
She saw the future, what was in store
She knew the counting machine could do so much more!
Numbers numbers, flying everywhere...
and Ada Lovelace, heard music in the air!
Charles Babbage had plans for a machine to add the sums up,
He never got it built, but Ada gave the thumbs up,
No reason to stop at just simply crunching numbers
This machine will open up a multitude of wonders!
She had a vision! the very first algorithm!
She saw the future, what was in store
She knew the counting machine could do so much more!
Numbers numbers, flying everywhere...
and Ada Lovelace, heard music in the air!
Numbers / flying everywhere
Ada/heard music in the air,
Numbers/everywhere
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8. |
Message To A Machine
02:41
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There is a job to be done,
I speak in a series of zeroes and ones
I find a new language,
I'm turned upside down,
There is a a solution, and it has been found...
This is a message to a machine,
This is a simple way to tell you what I mean...
I write a letter I write a map,
You follow my instructions it's as simple as that!
This is our message to a machine,
Now it's as easy as A B and C,
A set of directions a sweet recipe...
Cos when you get the input right, it's like a dream!
I find myself in outer space the peeling of bells,
I'm hidden in flowers in pebbles and shells
show me a love song, a poem an ode,
that understands creation just like a code...
This is our message to a machine
This is our message to a machine……
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9. |
Itself And One
03:04
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Two, three, five, seven
what comes next oh look! it's eleven
thirteen seventeen nineteen DONE
divisible only by itself and ONE!
A prime number only has two simple divisors,
(Itself and one, itself and one)
This rule applies to every prime no matter what the size is,
(Itself and one, itself and one)
It will not break in half, it will not be divided,
(Itself and one, itself and one)
We are ourselves, we are one, and here we stand united!
(Itself and one, itself and one)
Two, three, five, seven
what comes next oh look! it's eleven
thirteen seventeen nineteen DONE
divisible only by itself and ONE!
There is mystery in it, there's wonder in a prime
(Itself and one, itself and one)
We're all searching for patterns, of a written golden line,
(Itself and one, itself and one)
Equations and spirals, working to its rhythm,
(Itself and one, itself and one)
Not everything can be understood, there's a magic in what's hidden.
(Itself and one, itself and one)
Two, three, five, seven
what comes next oh look! it's eleven
thirteen seventeen nineteen DONE
divisible only by itself and ONE!
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible
A Prime Number is Divisible only by itself AND ONE!
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10. |
This Is How We Grow
03:53
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We all make mistakes sometimes,
we all fall down as we walk along the road
getting back on our feet again, is how we grow...
I will have a go, give it a try
if you give me some wings I will get up and fly,
if I find I'm too close to the sun,
I'll take off again, I have only begun...
I will know this time, as my feathers unfurl
how to rise up again, how to see the world...
When I fall, and I am down on the floor,
I have a different view, everything looks new,
I start to notice things I've never seen before.
I was born with grit, and scrap and spice,
It's not always easy and it's not always nice,
I'm not here to get everything right,
but I'll always try, always put up a fight.
I am not perfect, I’m not supposed to be,
but the one thing I perfectly am is me!
When I fall, and I am down on the floor,
I have a different view, everything looks new,
I start to notice things I've never seen before.
We all make mistakes sometimes,
we all fall down as we walk along the road
getting back on our feet again, is how we grow….
this is how we grow.
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Raph Clarkson Bristol, UK
trombonist, composer, improviser, arranger
current projects:
-Songs for
Childhood
-Raph Clarkson's Dissolute Society 'This is How we Grow' - album out summer 2022
-Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon (Ghana/UK)
-Goldsteppers (UK ska& reggae)
-Equal Spirits (SA-UK collab)
-London Rhymes
-workshops & commissions for OAE, Sinfonia Viva, Spitalfields Music, Mindful Music, Engines Orchestra
... more
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