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231123: The Bird

from Leap Songs, Part 1 by James Tristan Redding

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Give thanks with your heart wide open
Give thanks each and every moment
What if tomorrow lifts away
What we’re not grateful for today
Give thanks in the words you’ve spoken

I am right wing I am left
I am shoestring I am wealth
I am pilgrim native man
Blood and soil brave new land

Give me reason gimme’ rhyme
Couple scraps and I’ll survive
Tell the ones who haven’t heard
Don’t look now but in a word
I’m the bird

I am freedom I am bound
I am legal underground
I am eagle I am dove
I’m the people I’m one love

Shoot my bones down cook me up
It will never be enough
Tell the ones who haven’t heard
Don’t look now but in a word
I’m the bird

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from Leap Songs, Part 1, released December 1, 2023

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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