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Brave & Beautiful (2020) – What a year that was…here’s to better ones ahead. I’m very proud of the lyrics on this but wasn’t sure the chorus worked…but by boy Tino likes it…which is always enough for me.
The next release will not be 25 years from now…

Lyrics

Brave and Beautiful
I wrote my first good song
on a pink guitar with just two strings
It didn’t take too long because back then I knew everything
But now my muse is old and broken down
She drinks too much and started sleeping around
But at nights sometimes I hear that sound and
There’s friend of mine whose made up his mind
to change the world
I don’t need to be convinced
I’ve known him ever since he was a little girl
Now he’s North Carolina bound
Proof in hand so he can wave it around
As they pick their jaws up off the ground
I still believe we can all be brave and beautiful
Hearts on our sleeve with fists tight in our hands
Unafraid to behave in a way that says
I can’t wait to make my stand
And say here I am, brave and beautiful
On a McDonald’s sign someone tagged a line for Daniel Prude
And on the other side a flag flies high says
“we back the blue”
Now with no middle ground in sight
A war between red and blue and black and white
Are we headed for the next great fight?

Get ready for the insurrection
Blindly moving out in all directions
Who are you running from
Before it’s said and done
There’s only us and there’s no perfection
The arc of history has no direction
We reap just we’ve sown
You are not what you own
Can’t we remember that we’re not alone?
There’s a melody that came to me at the break of dawn
Whispering just enough from off the cuff to lead me on
She’s woke me up just to let me down
a thousand notes left scattered there on the ground
And blew me once last kiss as she left town
I still believe, I still believe
Unafraid to behave in a way that says
I can’t wait to make my stand
And say here I am, brave and beautiful…