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Palm Passage Pan One
00:25
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Yeah-
If I could have a drone’s-eye-view I’d levitate and spy on you
From way up there the air is clear so I could see humanity
Living and breathing and falling in love and hate
With the fate they create, with a singular sigh, from high
I’d open my mind the to the spherical wisdom (cause I’m a wise guy)
Differences in politics and religion- it makes me sick
When we can’t talk about these realms from equal planes and show respect
Integrate a higher state, of parity- communicate
But since we’re here with a worm’s-eye-view
We do our best to muddle through yeah
You got to move with the grace under pressure like a panther under full-moon-blue
You got to move like a man on a mission with the answer
And its none too soon
I guess I ain’t got a drone’s-eye-view, I’m stuck down here with all ‘a you
So if you got a clue for me about how I can learn to see
We don’t need Singularity or A.I. Robot Frequencies
We need more humanity to search together for our destiny
You got to move with the grace under pressure like a panther under full-moon-blue
You got to move like a man on a mission with the answers
And its not too soon
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Capture My Imagination
02:52
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Oh Capture My Imagination
And then set it free
Set it out to wander
Among the fireflies
Through the trees
On my back in a meadow
Looking up at the starry sky
I’m up there looking back down
And everywhere in between
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Saltaritmo
03:02
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Morning Market
02:06
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Good morning.
I said good morning!
Wanna get some food at the market?
Banana, papaya, cassava and guava and fresh fish.
In the village outdoor market
Taste the fruits of the farmers and friends
Feel the craftwork, practical worth
Useful tools made from experience
Mamasita sit beside me
Tell me about your children and kin
All relations wove together
Mandala of humanity yeah!
At the morning market
Pick up groceries to fill our belly
Morning market, gonna rock it
Smell the spices and now we’re talkin’!
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Bomba J
03:15
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That Money Drop
01:09
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Oy that money take no time to drop
Oy that money take no time to drop
Chop chop that money drop like rock
Chop chop that money drop like rock
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Make It Happen
02:43
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The music’s sweet with expression
The message is in the sound
When a thing stands before you that’s wrong
Just make it your chance to turn it around
I understand there are problems
Its hard to see things get rough
Just when that thing is a blasted let down
Open your mind and turn it around
And make it go right
Make it go right yeah
Make it go right
Feel it that you know y’can make it go right yeah
Its up to you for direction
Its not out of your control
So many ways and solutions
If you listen to your true inner voice
We have a right to survival
We have our history too
We have a future to live for
Let go of the reasons that are stopping you
And make it go right
Make it go right yeah
Make it go right
Feel it and you know it can go right
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Palm Passage Pan Two
00:54
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Sketchy Situation
03:46
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Its a sketchy situation...
When your honeybaby’s comin’ home drunk
a sketchy situation...
When your life is ruled by a clock
Its a sketchy situation...
When you’re gamblin’ away your luck
So positively fill in your spaces
From the sketchy situation
Its catchy as sketchy can be
Seems so sketchy to me
Its a sketchy situation...
When they put the crack pipe to they lip
When its slippin’ through their fingertips
When you let money go to your head
So artistically fill in your spaces
From the sketchy situation
Its sketchy, sketchy
Catchy catchy catchy catchy catchy
Its a sketchy situation
When the population gets so dense
And sketchy education
When the facts lack a common sense
And sketchy information
When you destroy your natural defense
So nutritively fill in your spaces
From a sketchy situation
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While In Orbit
03:45
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Palm Passage Pan Three
00:41
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Oh when I was just a wee little child and I moved around moved around
So much to grasp as tried to hold on to what I found what I found
Put it in my pockets and I put it in a bag as I looked around looked around
So many times when I moved my whole world came tumbling down, its tender now
You can’t take it with you, You can’t take it with you
You can’t take it with you, You can’t take it with you
Then as young man growing up and going round all around
So much to lose and I really had to grab for what I found what I found
Put it in my car and I put it in apartments as I moved around, moved around
So many things that filled my thoughts and weighed me down, weighed me down
You can’t take them with you, You can’t take them with you
You can’t take it with you, You can’t take it with you
Now as I’m go through life its trading pound for pound, pound for pound
Try to take it easy keep a balanced life and the pull of love is powerful now
Oooh ooh ooh ooh look around look around, chase it down
Tracing back the time I’ve made mistakes that I can see now, so dig my sound
You can’t take em with you, You can’t take em with you
You can’t take it with you, You can’t take it with you
Now that I’ve gathered up a heap of stuff Its
Piling up, all around and
When it comes time I’ll give it all away
But you can have this song today
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Walking with the Truth
03:24
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Every single day
I’m hearing people say
Things that they just heard
Or saw on the TV
Its just some narrative
Focus-groups have tested
And played a trick on them
So do your own research
Expose the money trail
But soon they will regroup
To cover up their fail
They push another lie
But it still isn’t truth
Its the evil leading the blind
When you’re walking with the truth
You stand with certainty
Rest assured you’re safe
The truth will set you free
Certain that you’re right
And standing in the light
and walking with the truth
When you’re walking with the truth
You have the strength of youth
The power to control
Knowledge that you own
Listen to the clues
Seek and be a sleuth
Keep walking with the truth
Hear my meditation
Going out to the nation
Keep walking
If we keep walking and seeking
We’ll get our satisfaction
Walking with the truth
Yeah
You want to take a closer look
at ways that governments control
their populace with propaganda
see the corruption are that rots
the country
Cause we know the scene
Keep walking with the truth
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Palm Passage Pan Four
00:07
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Rainy Dubby
01:44
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Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
They go free
Jeffrey Epstein had a book with
97 pages and 2000 names
Then Jeffrey had a little accident
In that book were pedophiles
elite guests to his orgy isle
its no wonder he had an accident
Someone offed Epstein in jail for
teenage girls he kept as slaves
Tell me who were his top clients then?
Was it in fact Prince Andrew?
Clinton, Bill Gates to name a few?
Seems the public has no right
To learn the richest are scum
Is he really dead at all?
His gal Ghislaine went to trial
Guilty plea for the pedo-ring
But the truly guilty have not been revealed
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
They go free
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Moments of Incandescence
01:43
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Waking, Knowing
02:31
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Waking
Working
Walking
Liking
Thinking
Hoping
Smiling
and Knowing
Smiling
Waking
Working
Walking
and I’m Liking what I’m Seeing yeah
now I’m Thinking
Thinking and Hoping
and Smiling ‘cause I’m knowing
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Fyah Inna Montserrat
03:03
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One morning I looked out across the waterline
People in boats coming to shore
The look in their eyes
The fears in the cries
What they say?
They say, I say “Got to survive, got to survive!”
Fyah inna Montserrat
Burnin’ red hot, red hot I sayin’
Fyah inna Montserrat
Burnin’ red hot, red hot I warn ya
Fyah inna Montserrat
Black clouds burnin’, burnin’ red hot
(from a) Fyah inna Montserrat
Burnin’, burnin’ red hot
What can ya do?
The volcano blew
And the very life you live
just slips out from out under you
Fyah!
Fyah inna Montserrat
Black clouds burnin’, burnin’ red hot
(from a) Fyah inna Montserrat
Burnin’, burnin’ red hot
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Jan Dylan Hunter Santa Rosa, California
I play all the instruments on all my recordings unless otherwise noted, my main tools being guitar, keyboard and
percussion.
I grew up in the Virgin Islands where I learned steel pan, percussion and clarinet.
Since then living in other states like California exposed me to more culture. Recent trips throughout Europe and the US have also really widened my musicabulary.
-Still taking it all in.
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