ETHIO BLUE Album Lyrics

ANTIDOTE

Everyday heartbreak

Everyday love

Everyday kindness

Remember your mother

Everyday pressure

Everyday pain

Everyone striving

To find home again

Antidote, antidote, antidote

Take the power from the poison

Remind them of what is inside them

Courageous ones, we have enough

For all of us at the table

Everyday dreaming

Everyday songs

Everyday pushing

We keep keeping on

Everyday passage

Everyday bread

You yourself are an offer

Turn the world on it’s head

Antidote, antidote, antidote

Take the power from the poison

Remind them of what is inside them

Courageous ones, we have enough

For all of us at the table

Everyday water

Everyday spin

Everyday sunrise

More oxygen

Everyday lifting

Everyday peace

You are my survival

You are my relief

Antidote, antidote, antidote

Take the power from the poison

Remind them of what is inside them

Courageous ones, we have enough

For all of us at the table

You are the antidote

DIGGING FOR LOVE

I don’t care about

I don’t care about perfection.

I don’t care about

I don’t care about who’s to blame.

All I want to see

Is that we’re trying to get free.

My heart is yours

A thousand open doors

And a million keys

We’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging for love

Yeah we’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging for love

I don’t care about

Who is right

I don’t care about

Winning flights

All I want to see

Is that we’re deep in this journey

We sway unrushed

On waves of trust

So big, they can fill the sea

We’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging for love

Yeah we’re digging, digging

Yeah we’re digging for love

ETHIO BLUE

Transatlantic rivers run

Current pushed us past the sun

Music pulsed and beat and flew

The music bleeds,

Ethio blue

Pentatonic DNA

Filled our veins

And made us this way

Music lived between us two

It’s power sweet

Ethio blue

And this kind of hallelujah humps out of me.

And I say thank you God for the music,

You know it came from so much life.

From calloused hands that played instruments when they were done with the soil for the day.

And the shepards playing flute for their animals.

The women with their banjoes,

Giving sustenance to each other

With their melodies.

We still hear you.

we still hear you.

We are listening.

Brown skin love, including scars

Cell by cell, distilled from stars

Music rose and bloomed and grew

Now it’s ours.

Ethio blue.

HERE TO IMAGINE

The future is a woman

With her head held high

And a afro on her shoulders

Reaching up for the sky

And the knowledge of her people

Is filling up her mind

She understand manipulation

Won’t fall for it this time

An era evolution

Are you part of it’s might?

You invited to the party.

But you better step right…

At the center is a love

It will be different this time

We are here to imagine

What the future looks like

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine

The future is a man who

Knows his feminine side

He doesn’t feel diminished

When he hurts or he cries

Binary is always trouble

Polarize us in our struggle

We are greater than our bubbles

Who you are, you define.

While we here we do the work

To alchemize our pain and hurt

Beyond the limits of our minds

To what the future looks like

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine

What you cannot dream, you can’t make into reality

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine

What that could look like

We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine

BIRDSONG

Look down you are a bird

Lift high above the earth

Stretch out on any perch

You and the sky

Wind has a heart and mind

It teach you how to glide

Wingspan is unconfined

You and the sky

Big picture, widest view

Earth curve is bending true

Solo inside the blue

You and the sky

When you need access to

The bigness that lives in you

Become the bird that flew

You and the sky

Updraft pushes you high

Sensory lullaby

Breath soft and mind alive

You and the sky

Nothing for granted now

Feel into all your power

Kin to the clouds and flowers

You and the sky

When you need access to

The bigness that lives in you

Become the bird that flew

You and the sky