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Little Sunflower
05:59
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2. |
Earth is Waiting
05:46
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Earth is Waiting
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Polar ice caps falling
How will we adapt?
Maybe Mars is calling
Maybe it’s a trap
Could this be the ending?
Hoping we can change
If hope's not enough
Won't it be strange?
So strange . . . won't' it be strange, so strange?
Mercury is rising
Habitats grow thin
Should be motivating
Prospects growing dim
Still we're hesitating
When will we begin?
If now's not the time
Then the time's when?
Oh when . . . when is the time, if not now?
Cause Earth is waiting to be seen
Blue and white and brown and green
Can we see her?
Can we finally see her full spectrum now?
She has given everything
When will we give back something?
Not deplete her
Isn't it time to nourish and quit taking?
I know how it feels to be
Used but never really seen
Might we be her
Maybe our fate is tied to hers now
Though she shines, she's sick, she needs
Just a little TLC
Can we feed her?
Isn't it time we nourish her now?
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3. |
Quantum Entanglements
05:30
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Quantum Entanglements
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
In the substance of the stars
Between Jupiter and Mars
In the particles of time
Between rhetoric and rhyme
We are tied and we are loose
A duality recluse
Still connected we expand
Slip away stay close at hand
Flexibility’s a force
Deviate, stay the course
Our orbit is the dance
The revolution, the romance
The spell that binds
Originating as one
We cannot be undone
Nothing can tear asunder
What is joined together quantum cosmically
Faceting the grain of sand
The minutia can be grand
Still connected we expand
Slip away stay close at hand
Like a thread to static drawn
Like the twilight and the dawn
Entangled we are set free
Quantum coupled cosmically
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5. |
Star Eyes
05:37
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6. |
Love's Crescendo
05:56
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Love’s Crescendo
(music by Fahir Atakoglu and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Love can exist for everyone
Love is a gift for everyone
One love
We share, we care, we give no matter where
Or how we live
When all is done
There is no greater legacy to give
And there is no
Alternative
No one can live outside of it
No one should be deprived of it
Denied,
Love still will seep into the place we hide
A little love
Is amplified
Like a light
In the darkness brightly shines
Flooding the space
It occupies
Where burdens are too much to bear
Just like a rising tide lifts vessels everywhere,
Overflowing with the force,
A love that's shared
Will stay the course
Even those nearly caught in the undertow
Are lifted in
Love's crescendo
It flows like water
Spreads like light
Seeps into even the darkest corners
With all its might
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7. |
Reaction Time
04:41
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Reaction Time
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Your stimuli
Waiting for my reply
Electrified
Not to be denied
Solving resolving
Sudden alchemy
Acting reacting
Taking all of me
It’s so sublime
When we combine
Reaction time
Reaction time
Outside the lines
Inside this rhyme
Reaction time
Reaction time
We catalyze
And our temperatures rise
Thought liquifies
Bodies atomize
Burning returning
Reaching brand new highs
Loading exploding
You are my supply
(Chorus)
On a new axis
You’re the x I’m the y
Formulas proven
Variables defined
Opposites attract
Acid alkaline
Angles intersect
You sine I cosine
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Mortally Immortal (Requiem)
(music by Mozart and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Burning like embers
Gone but remembered
Bitterly taken, too many,
By this thief ubiquitous
Still, we touch you, we feel you, we see you
Even though we couldn’t be with you
You are with us now
And forever
After a wildfire in embers
Frozen in time like angels in amber
Burned in our memories
Bright in light unseen
Mortally immortal in me
And you, forever you will be
Still, we touch you, we feel you, we see you
Even though we cannot be with you
You are with us now
And forever
After a wildfire in embers
Frozen in time like angels in amber
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9. |
The Comet's Tail
05:16
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The Comet’s Tail
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
The comet’s tail passes at the speed of light
So if you blink, you might miss it though it’s bright
It only comes every seventy years or so
So you will want to know
Be there to see it glow
Sure you can wait hoping for a miracle
But you don’t know all the things the heavens know
So when the clouds open themselves up to their light
Lift up your eyes to see
The possibilities
Comets come fast and then go
When comets come who can know
Comets can appear from out of nowhere
Leaving us lost in their glow
The tales we tell never tell us what we know
They always surprise us with the way they go / you with where it goes
The finest treasures always come in the unknown
So keep an open mind
Prepare to be surprised
Don’t ever lose sight of things that can astound
Don’t ever lose the desire to be spellbound
The brilliance that comes only once in a lifetime
In the blink of an eye
Will leave you far behind
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10. |
Man Ripples Through Time
05:29
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Man Ripples Through Time
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Your heart is a muscle
As strong as a fist
And it beats and it bleeds
And it always resists
Your breath is a windstorm
Across continents
And it ripples through time
As it takes us with it
Calling out, calling out
Staying strong, staying strong
George George George
You were just a man George
You were over 6 feet tall
They tried hard to make you small
But the breath they tried to take
Made the whole foundation shake
Now we understand George
What a poem is your life
Making sense of what is wrong and right
As the globe discovers might
Doesn't always win the fight
Now we take a stand George
And the voice they tried to drown
Multiplied the world around
And the cries they tried to stop
Simply wouldn’t be cut off
And the hearts they tried to break
Took in all that they could take
And the life they tried to end
Is a name we'll say again and again and again
Now we take your hand George
Let it break
Let it break
Let it take all it can take
Let it bleed
Let it beat
For the new world it will make
The heart is a muscle
Stronger than a fist
And it beats and it bleeds
And it always resists
And the voice they tried to drown
Multiplied the world around
And the cries they tried to stop
Simply wouldn’t be cut off
And the heart they tried to break
Took in all that it could take
And the lives they tried to end
Are the names we'll say again and again and again
Now you take our hands George
Your breath is a windstorm
Across continents
And it ripples through time
As it takes us with it
All across the land George
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11. |
Hidden Place
05:15
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Hidden Place
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Secrets and lies
That you can’t hide
Can’t keep inside
Cracked open wide
I’m your hidden place, you can’t
Look me in the face, you can’t
Say all that disgraces you
I’m your hidden place, you can’t
Pretend or erase, what you
Know I know you know you know you do
Won’t take no consolation prizes
Won’t make no hidden compromises
I’m here for you to recognize the truth
Expose your subterfuge disguises
Expose the lies and the surprises
Turn on the lights and kill the shadows too, too
I’m your hidden place, you can’t
Look me in the face, you can’t
Say all that disgraces you
I’m your hidden place, you can’t
Pretend or erase, what you
Know I know you know you know you do
Your spell no longer hypnotizes
And no one else romanticizes
The ignorance you once held as virtue
The thing for you to realize is
What everybody recognizes
It’s coming out and it’s all about you
The reckoning’s overdue
Secrets and lies
That you can’t hide
Can’t keep inside
Cracked open wide
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12. |
Worlds Collide
06:14
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Worlds Collide
(music and lyrics by Aimée Allen)
Without looking at the sun
Who would know that we are one
Bodies dancing round each other
Sharing energy
I pull you and you pull me
How much closer can we be
Can we defy gravity
Or is it stronger than we are
Orbits crossing
Satellites
Black holes fading into night
Asteroids falling
Burning bright
Atmospheric candlelight
And when I look into your eyes
I know the sun and moon still rise
And in this air we share
Our worlds collide
Cosmos making butterflies
Planets shaking crystallize
Reunite and realize
And worlds collide
Our worlds collide
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Aimée Allen New York, New York
New York City based jazz vocalist, composer, and lyricist, Aimée performs regularly in New York and tours nationally and internationally. An accomplished songwriter, her compositions have become fan favorites within with her repertoire of jazz standards. She has sung with many renowned jazz artists including Romero Lubambo, Ron McClure, François Moutin, Rozwell Rudd, Ari Hoenig, and Yomo Toro. ... more
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