If you want it
You can have it
All you gotta do
Is reach out and grab it
If you want it
You can have it
All you gotta do
Is reach right out and grab it
Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child
Now, listen to me
All you need
You already own
it was given to you
On the day that you were born
Anything that your heart can dream
You can make it reality
Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child
Now listen
Don't be afraid
Don't be afraid to fall
It's the getting back up
Thats gonna make you strong
God only made one like you
So c’mon baby,
and just do what you were born to do
Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child Step on up
Step into your power
Step on up
Step into your power child
When I look back on my life so far
Been a lotta’ Ups and downs
A lotta’ times I've been hit so hard
It knocked me on the ground
But If I had the chance to turn back time
I can tell you this, my friend
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d get right back in the ring
But I wouldn't change a thing
She came on hard and she came on heavy
You ain’t never been the same
Just when you thought the search was over
She turned and walked away
But If I had the chance to turn back time
I can tell you this, my friend
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d get right back in the ring
And I wouldn't change a thing
No, I wouldn't change a minute
Of the time that I've been given
I wouldn’t change a single hardship for a pearl
Oh, you're dealt a hand you gotta play it
I'll come right out and say it, lay it down, and let it burn
Now If I had the chance to turn back time
I can tell you this, my friend
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d do it all over again
I’d get right back in the ring
Take another swing
And I wouldn't change a thing
I’d get right back in the ring
Take another swing
And I wouldn't change a thing
Oh I’d get right back in the ring
Take another swing
And I wouldn't change a thing
Watching that evening sun go down
Within that darkness, I will be found
Gazing up at that starlight
Got my baby in my arms, you know I'm feeling alright
Watching that evening sun go down
Watching that evening sun go so slowly down
I can feel the earth beneath me turning
Deep inside of me a soul filled with yearning
Cast myself upon the ground
Let it wash over me just like a wall of sound
I can feel the earth beneath me turning around
I can feel the earth beneath my body just turning around
Lying there in the soft moonlight
All my fears have given up without a fight
Weapons fall without a sound
Hit from behind and it gave me a fright
But I got my baby in my arms, so you know I'm feeling alright
I can feel the earth beneath me spinning around
I can feel the earth beneath my body just spinning around
I can read the writing on the wall
I will face my fate with head held high and standing tall
Though I must admit that my heart is heavy
My will is strong, my hands are steady
I can read the writing on the wall
I will face my fate standing tall
Lying there in the soft moonlight
All my fear have given up without a fight
Weapons fall to the ground
Hit from behind and it gave me a fright
Got my baby in my arms, you know I'm feeling alright
I can feel the earth beneath me just spinning around
I can feel the earth beneath my body just spinning around
I can feel the earth beneath my body just spinning around
I've been searching my mind
I need a place to hide
It gets so hard to find
I've been searching my dreams
Faces look so strange
All the rooms have changed
California
You run,
so far away
California
This time,
you’re gonna stay
I've been searching my life
Somewhere in the past
Nothing ever lasts
I've been searching your eyes
It's so hard to breath
In your eternity
California
You run,
so far away
California
This time,
You’re gonna stay,
with me, for a little while
I wanna see that smile again
California
You run so far away
California
This time, I'm gonna stay
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Singing mellow
Melody
Sunlight yellow
Lay it right onto me
Walk along in silence
I will sidestep all of that violence
I make my spaces now just for you and me
Set aside all that sleight of hand
Lay down all your, all your self-defenses
Walk along in silence
Sidestepping all violence
I make my spaces now just for you and me
I sing it loud, I sing it clear
Just how much I love my lady fair
Just how very, very much I love my lady fair
Standing on a mountaintop
Gonna shout it out loud
Standing on a mountaintop
Never gonna come down
Walk along in silence
I will sidestep all of the violence
Making my spaces just for you and me
I sing it loud, I sing it clear
Just how very, very much I love my lady fair
Just how very, very much I love my lady fair
I will pick for her the Wildflower rare
And I will place them on that windowsill just there
And then I'll sing & sing & sing for all the world to hear
How I love my lady fair
Just how very, very much I do love my lady fair
Sing it loud & sing it clear
Just how very much I love my lady fair
Just how very, very much I love my lady fair
Just how very, very much I do love my lady fair
Spending all your days just chasing money
Fame is just a game, it’s empty honey
That’s the way things are,
That’s the way things are
Wasting all your days facing the mirror
If we close our eyes we might see clearer
The way things are,
See things as they really are
You can go your own way if you want to
If you don’t mind I might go there with you
Stand or fall we’ll always have each other
Give my heart to you and no one other
That’s the way things are,
That’s the way things are
You can go your own way if you want to
If you don't mind, I might go there with you
Don’t go looking for the answers in somebody else
Take it from someone who knows it’s all within yourself
You can be free
You can be free
Lay me down beside that stream a flowing
Lay me down under that moon a glowing
That’s the way things are
That’s the way they really are
You can go your own way if you want to
If you don’t mind, I might go there with you
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Lying in the meadow green
Dangling legs in a mountain stream
From the limb we could jump right in
Again and again and again and again
Up in the orchard on the hill
Sat right down and had our fill
And though the clouds are touched with grey
We know no rain will fall today
So let’s take the long way home
And circle round the standing stone
through the fields and the old barway
We fill our pockets up with pecan along the way
All along the railroad track
Slip off that rail, break your back
Hear the sound of the croaking toad
The sun so round, and red, and low
Summertime, summertime
Summertime must yield to fall
And that’s what hurts me most of all
Summertime, summertime
said goodbye at the garden wall
From the house I can hear my momma callin'
Winter come to us all my friend
Just as every childhood has an end
