de me, the happiest I could be. ...So I took out my calendar, the second I got home. ...And I wrote your name on ...I can see you Monday,...'Cause now that I know together works for you, ...Forever works for me. ...As long as I'm with you, it does...I can see you Monday,...'Cause now that I know together works for you, ...Forever works for me. ...'Cause now that I know together works for you, ...Forever works for me. ...week and every day, I'll give you anythin...'Cause now that I know together works for you, ...Oh, 'cause now that I know together works for you, ...Forever works for me.

Yeah bartender, can I get a henasey on th...(yo rick didn't I tell you this club ...I'm playing for most ...I brought me a bottle so I wouldn't look broke...I used to go out to p...Cause I was too nervous, to...I went off on the flo...Now I got myself together baby, and I'm having a ball. ...Well I peeled off one more...Rick, hon with that butt like ka-pow, ...Tell shorty not now. ... more comment since I know my time is out. ...Love that song where you say that line about,

This is how it works ...This is how it works ...This is how it works ...This is how it works ...ome guys think they know the answers ...You don't have to know ...take forever, learn together any flow ...Here we go, now you know 4th down ...Is the way it works (yeah, yeah) ...Is the way it works ...Is the way it works (yeah, yeah) ...Is the way it works (yeah, yeah) ...Is the way it works ...Is the way it works (yeah, yeah)

I. OVERTURE ..."I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon. City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. The Twin Moons, just two pale orbs as they trace their way across the steely sky. I used to think I had a pretty good l...planets were banded together under the Red Star ...I believed what I was told. I thought it was a good life, I thought I was happy. Then I found something that changed it all..." ...ry Federation city. I have always been awed by them, to think that every single facet ...The pictures that give pleasure to yo...We work together common sons ... in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in my hands. I had no idea what it...... "I learned to lay my fingers across the wires, and to turn the keys to make them sound differently. As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds, and soon my own music! How different it could be from the music of the Temples! I can't wait to tell ...When I touch it, it gives ...It's got wires that vibrate and give mu...t can this thing be that I found? ...Chords that build high like a m...Or notes that fall gently like ra...I can't wait to share...e sudden silence as I finished playing, I looked up to a circ...of the grateful joy that I expected, they were words of quiet rejection! Instead of praise, sullen dismissal. I watched in shock an...I know it's most unusual ...But I've found an ancient...I thought that you should know ...I know that it will reach you. ...Yes, we know it's nothing new ...I can't believe you'r...I know that it will reach you. ...... "I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see the beckoning h...... "I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless lif...I wandered home thoug...I stand atop a spiral...I see the works of gifted hands ...That grace this strange ...I see the hand of man...... "I have not left this cave for days now, it has become my last refuge in my total despair. I have only the music of the waterfall to comfort me now. I can no longer live under the control of the Federation, but there is no other place to go. My last hope is that with my death I may pass into the world of my dream, and know peace at last." ...I heave a sigh and sa...I wish that it might come to pa...In a world like I have seen ...I don't think I can carry on

"You know nowadays it.. seem...ings going on and.. I guess a lot of it.....from the way I see it.. seems to s..."Let's get together.. and raise" ..."Let's get together.. and raise" ...he seed of Abraham, I came to jam ...I'm the alchemist wit...You gotta realize now what we're facing ...The floors I'm pacing from the a..."Let's get together.. and raise" ..."Let's get together.. and raise" ...and I'm aware of segregat..."Let's get together.. and raise" ..."Let's get together.. and raise" ...I want to drop the bo...One of the things that's not making you a ...Cause I made up my mind, I never scrape or bow...Together we can rise and now's the opportunity ...But can only be the works of the devil ...And I'm telling you now the frustration ..."Let's get together.. and raise" ..."Let's get together.. and raise" ...ck flips "Let's get together" to the end *

At a early age that develop...Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all...tead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon...nderstand the point that you at...shback to images of that night, out in Patte...or the champ, we on that again?...You tell me that you know the pain...You built for that weather?...Yo, know what'm saying?...Know what'm saying?...A freedom that would only be retri...The cops, y'all know what they be on...ife is like a field that they play upon, awa...You know the cards Blacks ge...You tell me that you know the pain...Yo, yo I can't even explain ...Yes, I am the inescapable,...I am time...I scroll in measureme...I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say...I am time...I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments...alth or settlement, I move forward [who y...I am time... have wasted me but now they are facing me,...me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully...Plaintively, I wait to see what hi...I can't even explain ...he pain with words, know'm saying?...All I see is more proof, ...Or works by remote control ...I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?...Don't be telling me that you know the pain

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This is the day that I...Who do I want to be?...Will I ever get to be some...Funny how it always works out...I'll always say I want you and...But I doubt it...make any difference now...For us to stay together...Funny how it never works out...It's hard to know if this is for the ...But I guess we'll find ou

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I just keep thinking ...I mean I wanna move on, but I can't move on (oh) ... of hold on me, and I don't know (oh, oh, oh, oh) ...But I'm a go ahead and ta...I'm sitting, looking ... fix this situation that's at hand ...hrough my mind when I'm knowing that you shouldn't be ...ll on yo' mind, and I'm knowing that it couldn't be ...you ain't call, and I ain't even appalled...I still got a lot of pain, I ain't dealt wit' it...I been running round ...I'm single, and they ...I'm liking it, but I just want the one that I was in love with ...That's not the end of it, I'm tryin' a let you know I can't ... grip of it is what I'm tryin' a let you know ...I don't know what it is, but I gotta get you gone ...I'm working at it, an...Damn, I gotta pull myself together ...When I'm with somebody, all I think 'bout is you ...When I'm all alone, that's all I wanna do ...I miss the smiling fa...l the time we spent together makes it hard to ge...You know what you do to me (...You know what you do to me (...I'm too attached, my ...I got it bad, that's what you can call that (ah) ...When I see you in the streets, that's the worst for me ...tle things you did, that's what works for me ...Know what you doing, where you at, or can I see you later? (Can I see you later?) ...Believe me, I'm trying, man ...I just don't know how ...(Just don't know how) ...I be in all the top s...just want me 'cause I'm in the top spot ...That's not poppin', and ...I never had this kind...I been tryin' a get you off my mind, but I can't after all thi...That's what kills me ...I been tryin' a get you off my mind, but I can't after all thi...I remember everything that me and you talked a...e lives planned out together (oh, oh, oh, oh) ...And if I could, I would turn back the...ect all my mistakes that I ever did ...But now I guess I gotta move on, righ...t's still hard, and I still love you till

I just keep thinking ...I mean I wanna move on, but I can't move on (oh)... of hold on me, and I don't know (oh, oh, oh, oh)...But I'm a go ahead and ta...I'm sitting, looking ... fix this situation that's at hand...hrough my mind when I'm knowing that you shouldn't be...ll on yo' mind, and I'm knowing that it couldn't be...you ain't call, and I ain't even appalled...I still got a lot of pain, I ain't dealt wit' it...I been running round ...I'm single, and they ...I'm liking it, but I just want the one that I was in love with...That's not the end of it, I'm tryin' a let you know I can't... grip of it is what I'm tryin' a let you know...I don't know what it is, but I gotta get you gone ...I'm working at it, an...Damn, I gotta pull myself together...When I'm with somebody, all I think 'bout is you...When I'm all alone, that's all I wanna do...I miss the smiling fa...l the time we spent together makes it hard to ge...You know what you do to me (...You know what you do to me (...I'm too attached, my ...I got it bad, that's what you can call that (ah)...When I see you in the streets, that's the worst for me...tle things you did, that's what works for me...Know what you doing, where you at, or can I see you later? (Can I see you later?)...Believe me, I'm trying, man...I just don't know how...(Just don't know how)...I be in all the top s...just want me 'cause I'm in the top spot...That's not poppin', and ...I never had this kind...I been tryin' a get you off my mind, but I can't after all thi...That's what kills me...I been tryin' a get you off my mind, but I can't after all thi...I remember everything that me and you talked a...e lives planned out together (oh, oh, oh, oh)...And if I could, I would turn back the...ect all my mistakes that I ever did...But now I guess I gotta move on, righ...t's still hard, and I still love you till

Well that's when we took up s...And I know his eyes grew misty...The night I sang up on the Opry...Now his ranch is so muc...The grass grows now where none used to ...Well it's funny that the first big roping that he won some thirty ...Was the same day that I sang on the stage o...Now he's feeding cattle...y built their ranch together...roped real good and now they got their ranc...cause when a family works together

Well that's when we took up s...And I know his eyes grew misty...The night I sang up on the Opry...Now his ranch is so muc...The grass grows now where none used to ...Well it's funny that the first big roping that he won some thirty ...Was the same day that I sang on the stage o...Now he's feeding cattle...y built their ranch together ...roped real good and now they got their ...cause when a family works together