Daniel Benjamin

RIVER MOTION SWITCH

Love
Let me sing of love
Like a glider from above
Like a river to the sea
Let your love move to me

Love
Can you cry for love
With all emotions switched off
With a gaze back to those childhood days
It is a fact that can’t be wiped away

That’s why i love you
That’s why my heart belongs to you
That’s why i sing songs to you
Cause you first loved me

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Glad you’re here

What a nice guy you are
Reliable like a brother
Although i never met you myself
I saw you hang around with others

Spending some time with them
Before you make them disappear
To the home they chose
Some of them unconscious i suppose
(and it reminds me of what i heard my grandpa say: )

I’m glad you’re here now
You can’t hurt me anymore
I’m glad you remember this place
You riding your pale horse

It will be long until you arrive here
And i’ve got nothing to fear
You’re just a free ride taking me home
You’ve been conquered long ago
(and i hope i’ll say)

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KOBRA KAI FOTO

If you go do i have to stay here
You said there are some things to change here
A postcard from the sun
I tried to get what it said
But burned my fingers instead

If you want i can feed you flowers
You said it takes probably an hour
A letter from the moon
I couldn’t wait to read
But the cold ate my heat

Don’t you think that we should talk about it

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BABY SPIDER

Baby spider let me be a wisdom fighter
Let me show the world those letters in the dirt
That you wrote to free the blizzard in me
Just by walking by under an ancient sky

You were born inside a jewish horn
Lying on the shelf it was a cradle as well

The diamond you wear can’t be seen but it is there
Beating under your breast a place where i can rest

Baby spider be my brain a lighter
It’s a natural law something i never saw
It reminds me of you discussing wrong and true
Back in the days when someone put it in place
You were born and immediately torn
From something you since try to find your whole life

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IF YOU’RE PREGNANT

If you’re pregnant don’t smoke
And if you don’t love yourself enough to quit
Then i hope your love is big enough for your kid
So if you’re pregnant don’t smoke

Maybe you’re driving your kids around town
Or tying the laces of a little shoe
Wondering what this stupid song is about now
Well my head is pregnant and smoking too

And i’m wondering
Yeah i’m wondering
Where’s the sense

Why does it smoke?

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GOLD ‘N’ ROSES

My head hurts my skin burns
The way out of this is hard to find
This looks like cancer
But i know the answer
It’s been present the whole time

Gold rush in our hearts
Gold rush in our minds
Gold rush in our lifestyle magazines
Gold rush in our eyes
Gold rush in our legs
There’s a monster under your deathbed

Somehow we like to swim in this ocean
Somehow we all belong to this ocean

Is it ok that i don’t accept
Drowning with you
Is it ok that i don’t believe everything i read

Somehow we like to swim in this ocean
Somehow we all belong to this ocean
Somehow we like to swim with the flow
Keep our heads down
Somehow we like to be part of this show
Keep the wheel going

We’ve started a small revival club
Come in and find out
A few people more and an island arises
When our feet touch the ground

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PEACE FIGHTING WAR

It’s your turn and you know why
If you don’t keep going we all must die
The weight of the world on your back pushes you to fall
When you held it in your hands did it seem painful at all?

Nothing is greater than this love
This love that killed my friend
He wrapped around me all the warmth
He needed for himself
He fed me blood that tasted like his tears
And all of a sudden my fashion disappeared

Nothing is sweeter than peace
Peace fighting a war
A year of falling leaves
Covering two giants in brown and red
Revealing a human face instead of a skinny bones fist

A human face that smiled and caused a fight
It meant to bring peace but started a great disease

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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

Sometimes life returns to corners that you’ve seen before
Sometimes life demands answers that you’ve heard before

Do you remember the wooden bridge across Greenwood Lake
After we ran away our home for seven days
Do you remember the park bench on Orange Blossom Hill
Where we talked all night in April `88

I can’t forget the smile on your face
Where are you now what do you look like now
I can’t forget the smell of those days
Where are you now what would it smell like now

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ESCAPE!

You’d like to run away
But you better stay
Here with me
Let it all come down
Bittersweet in sound
And laugh in advance
Forgive it, forget it, escape!

I know the rain
It slapped me on the face
I felt the pain
Being part of the human race

I know the way
I’ve had blisters on my feet
But if i look back today
There’s nothing i regret
And i forgot why i escaped

The second chapter of
Your life is tough
But i’m sure
It’s the best place to be

And while i talk to you
I got a burden too
I’ll leave it on the floor
admitting i am weak
forgive it, forget it, escape!

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MY CLOUD HAS LOST ITS SILVER LINING

Now you have heard the news about the mess i’m in
My bad luck got even worse and my ship’s about to sink

It’s been weeks since i last saw light
My cloud’s lost its silver lining and my fame
Oh what a shame

What’s the matter with me
Am i lost or am i free like a bird in the wind
Fired at by both sides
I can fly but i can’t hide
Cause i can’t go home anymore
Oh what a shame

Now you have heard me being mocked by the swells
And they still laugh when they pass the place where i fell

It’s been years since i last felt pride
There’s a bad sun rising and i’m still a child

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OH OH REPUTATION

Oh oh reputation i need a new i.d.
Oh oh education i need to set myself free

Cause what i learned makes me stumble
What i heard makes me fall
And when i’m thinking of the rumble
When i’m thinking of it all
Of the ground i put my feet upon
The ground this womb once spilled me on
Then i see it was made of words
But it should’ve been made of life
Oh oh reputation i don’t need no satisafaction
Oh oh education what i need is resurrection

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I NEED YOU

There’s nothing i can say
There’s nothing i can do
Like a flower needs the sun
I need you

There’s nowhere i can stay
There’s nowhere i can go
Like a bird needs a nest
I need to get some rest

I need you more than anything else
I need you more than life
I need to find a friend in this place
I need to make my way home safe
Get rid of these chains
That look nice but break my neck

There’s no one i can trust
And no one i can touch
Flesh and blood among shadows
I cry to you much
When i thought you are strong
You showed me your wounds
When i realized i’m weak
There was a rattle from your tomb

I decided to break free
From the freedom in me
I stabbed a knife into my heart
And gave you the missing part
I found a friend somewhere else
Looked in outer space
To find a heart-shaped planet
Project its light on myself

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YELLING AT FRIENDS

I didn’t mean to horrify you
Yelling at you in the dark
I didn’t mean to turn you over
By turning the key around
I hope you can forgive
Take me by the hand
Push your fingerprints on my skin
Whisper you’re my friend

I didn’t mean to embrace you
Was gonna turn the volume up
I never wanted to kiss you
Just whistled to my favourite track
I hope you can erase this
Spread some soap across your brain
Tell me you still love me
Inspite of my selfish ways

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WHEN I GET THERE

When I get there
I’ll run
Into your arms

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THE FINISH LINE

I’d like to take a look behind
Not to see once more
The things I shouldn’t have seen
But to take a look at what I had not realized
Had I only walked this close

I’d like to rest the seventh mile
Let you carry me
The whole way down the road
And when the cycle invites me to return
I can say no
Cause I smelled the finish line
When you carried me