When I get older I won’t lose my mind
I won’t be shattered when a girl defies
Oh baby sometimes the things you say
Could be delivered in a different way
Other than..
Chorus:
Lies, only lies
Ya don’t get your story straight
When you fantasize
And tell lies, it’s no surprise
Oh, yea the story’s good
But it’s my trust you compromise
When I get older I won’t lose my faith
In both the sinners and the saints escape
Oh baby sometimes you just can’t be wrong
And still you’re keeping it up so long
By telling…
Hi, how are you today?
Did you come to change my mind
If you change your’s, that’s ok
But I feel I have to warn you here
If I disappear
Tell my wife that I’ll miss her
If you can, please don’t sound insincere
Chorus:
Hey, ya got any souls that are made of wood?
I would swap mine if I could
Then hide my face
Hey, fake wooden feelings in a little wood man
Manufactured in Japan
Installed just south of Birmingham
Hi let’s, get you prepped for surgery
Can’t take the time to get to know ya
But I’m sure your mouth is clean
And I’m still compelled to warn you Tom
This could take long
Picture your pain as some armor
What’s in the vile - is not very strong
What do I say to my friends
When I can’t recognize them
Do I have to pretend
or say…”I must have forgotten”
Hi - how does it feel?
Do you recognize my face?
Do you recognize the chill
Of the memories - now you’re head to toe
With that wooden glow
Can you access all your bitter feelings
Tom Landray shrugs and just says “no”
we’re waiting
waiting for the morning to come
waiting
for the light to break the dawn
amos asks for a flame
He’s bathed in his ashesand the rain
chorus:
ah, the rain it soaks me good
like a child, under the peasant moon
into the wild, into unsettled woods
we’re willing
willing for the moment to come
willing
to hear your debts are in the wrong
ellen, won’t ya pass me another name
It’s folded in a paper made of grain
I want to see you in your sunday best
I long to weave myself in your dress
Then you will know the man I’ve become
We laugh until we’re done
And when you’ve phoned your sister twice
Saying we’ve finally found a life
She will pick all those flowers, babe
And I will make you my wife
Chorus:
I want this cloudy day
To guarantee
That the sun will shine
It will shine on me
When all the tough details
Are hard to speak
I want your light of love
To shine on me
I want to drink of your fire and lace
And lose myself in this embrace
While all these pictures here in my mind
Are of you, and me, and our summer time
And this chance of rain
Is upon us again
But the clouds will shake
With the wind
I want to sing out for what you wear
And find some comfort in your care
And you will see the man I’ve become
We will laugh until we’re done
Who shines the light behind the stars
On abandoned boulevards
In our Minnesota winters
Carl made his peace with medicine
Though he’d say he’d never win
‘Cause he’ll always be a sinner
Yea, when life takes you to task
You run away
Chorus:
How do you fall in love when you’re sleeping?
How do you just breath out, without breathing in?
This is how it begins
He’ll chase the rain before it starts
He’s got it broken down in parts
So there’s never any guessing
But storms hit the days Carl asks for sun
And it gets him, just for fun
He’s gotta change the plans he’s making
When life throws you a curve
You pack it in
Yet he never sent up any messages of panic, then
To let me in
Let me in
Who shines the light besides the stars
On these colored boulevards
In our cold and endless winter
Carl made his peace, it came undone
He’s right, he never won
‘Cause he’ll always be a sinner
When life takes you to task
You just run
The song, “I Will Contribute” was recorded and performed by Dr. Lodge and four North Carolina middle school students (Elena, Hannah R., Caroline, and Hannah J.).
The music video was created and performed by two North Carolina 8th graders (Keturah and Megan).
The lyrics are meant to explain that we, as students, have an obligation to work hard in school so that we can contribute to America when we get older. It also explains that school gives us a place where we can learn HOW to learn. If we know how to learn, then we can essentially learn anything later in life. So, we need to be experts at learning how to learn - so we can have every opportunity possible. Finally, the song explains that we will not be afraid of failing. School provides us a safe environment where we can experiment with new ideas without terrible consequences if we don’t get it right the first time. Teachers are there to guide us and offer support to think creatively, a necessary skill for success in the future, without punishing us if we don’t get it right away…or if we have to find OUR best way of learning.
Contribute Lyrics:
I will, I will, I will, I will
I will, I will, I will, I will
Yea, I can be anything
It’s in the classroom every day
Where I learn how to learn
If I’m an expert at learning things
Then I can change the world
And if I work real hard
I can have everything
I am what I learn
My success will be earned
And I will pay back, pay back what I owe
To my country and fans
By learning all that I can, in school
The future’s in my hands, I know
It’s up to me to achieve
And keep the American Dream
It’s not a punch line
I’m the future of this country
So, I’ll try harder in school
To find the things that I’ll do
When I get older
So my work, it can contribute
– I will contribute –
I will not be afraid
Of ever failing
’cause when I fail, I find another way
We learned that in school today
When the teacher smiled
And said “it’s ok — just work on it for a while”
In biologicals we built a great big rocket
Called Jumpstart to help the plants
With our Innoculant
The phosphates are released
The plants like it
Better soil for better farming
Then the Novo BioScrub CP
Leaving good bacteria to fight bacteria
And Aquaculture-ing
‘Cause the shrimp don’t like their water green
Chorus:
We’re building rockets
Some made of fungus and yeast
A bunch of small ones
Pay for the big ones, Chief
That’s biobusiness
We’re thinking 2018
When we’ve reduced tons of CO2
And grown our rocket machine
We want our people thinking happy and clean
Ya, Biopharma
Make the recombinant albumin
Engineer the yeast
To stabilize and bulk the union
Increasing shelf life
And the time inside your body
Increase stability of the drug
Hyaluronic Acid – HA
Engineer bacteria to produce a friendly alternative
Or Fusion, Albumin
Increasing half life by design
So they can dream up new ideas
And take the dare to develop them
Finally testing their applications
Doing this over and over again
A future rocket
Anti microbial peptides
NZ21 – 14
A great big rocket
Funded by previous projects
We do because we dare to dream
A genetically engineered supreme
That works against resistant strains of bad bad bacteria
Yea, you know that it seems to me
That we’re the future of fighting disease
In this desert I’ll find you
A starving end to your life
Another orphan with clean shoes
Smiling for now will suffice
I saw your picture on TV
It made me think of this place
Full of weeds and palm trees
Where loneliness, we can celebrate
Chorus:
You can leave LA
And come back with me
All the stars are made inside
And manufactured in green
Eleven states i’ve been
To fall in love again, with you
I promise I won’t let you sink down
Won’t let you sink down in
This is not the end
In your apartment off Sunset
Among the dirty clothes
I found a letter not sent yet
That said “I’m lost and it shows”
You can’t remember the last time
You felt good in your skin
‘Cause this air is just choking
Baby here, here’s how it begins
I see you still have my CDs
I brought your blue leather coat
It’s cold at night in this desert
That’s why I’m holding you close
We leave at dawn through the mountains
Your reflection so sad
With black eyes and bruised shins
What was this life, that you had?
Jilian, came crashing quickly to life
next to the interstate in 1985
born to a mother
with impulsive appetites
oh, she said “this baby is mine”
but unfit and reckless
was the charge sent out by the state
now mother’s screaming
while her child is sent away
chorus:
oh, Jilian you’re so small
To be carrying the weight of the world
on those narrow shoulders
while you’re tossed all about by everyone who knows ya
and you can’t break free from the shift that holds ya down
a different day full of the same sounds
Jilian has plastic stars on her bed
she lies awake
a pool of tears leak from her eyes
a sad halo as they form around her head
oh, she springs quickly to life
as foster parents start to scream
in drunken fights
she locks her door and whispers
“everything is alright”
Jilian, came crashing quickly to love
she finds a man
a worthless wrath-filled trash’ed punk
who shows his love to her
when hits begin with shoves
Oh, she’ll hide his baby inside
and take the money that she saved
for her new life
so that her son can have
the chances she’d never find
wake up
is it time to fix your makeup?
you’re on TV fella
so don’t disappoint the crowd
just talk in your circles
and finish
what the dude before you replenished
it’s the age-old tale
of “I am the better one”
so hallelujah
old man
with the fake sprayed on tan
saying “yes I understand”
the many stresses
and problems of all you little people
hey, now vote is in your hand
lemme shake it, i’m a fan
gonna fix it all
with my newest program
fakin’ it
like a politician
and naked
as a jaybird singin’
oh, decisions
they’re just the politics of winnin’
i’ll be everywhere fella
to care and lend a friendly hand
without opinions
I did it
better believe i’ll take the credit
but turn your back and i’ve moved on
to the richer man
so hallelujah
a saint
with a legislative name
playing the “i can fix it” game
who won’t forget your problems
but wait
i can’t remember all I’m sayin
so i’ll promise it again
and do the same ole same
to get the win…
hey, mr. secretary i’ve lied
when i started out i tried
to make this world a better place
but we aint forward
we’re side to side
while we argue where to hide
and watch the world get older
wake up
is it time to fix your makeup?
you’re on TV fella
so don’t disappoint the crowd
just talk in your circles
and finish
what the dude before you replenished
it’s the age-old tale
of i was the bitter loser
who wrote the book on…
disgrace
of the public official race
after all, I was the one
who played it safe
and got shut down
hey…hear a rally cheering sounds
the next election comes to town
if ya’ll think I should run…
well I’ll be around
We connect our schools with high speed Internet
Design new tech approaches never seen yet
Innovate and deploy – cost effective
Technology infrastructure
Scaling these ideas forward
Design new tools to teach that help our students learn
For this interactive world, we must adjust soon
To create real solutions that appeal to
A global child
Connected to this web of light
It’s a 21st century life
And we’re getting it right
We’ll save the world through better education, yea
The change begins with FI
We collaborate as we try
To inspire education through innovation, alright
(This is our 21st century life)
We’re training education leaders with the skills
they need to awe inspire
They’ll spread the innovation like a wild fire
Online or face-to-face, we’ll show them where we are
With professional development
They’re so empowered
We test effectiveness of our new methods, informing policy
They want to know the impact on learning, please
To make informed decisions about scaling new technologies
Our evaluation expertise
Improve effectiveness of schools
Through innovative policies and views
Analyze preexisting rules
Advocating for students and what they choose
I am Linux in a box
Yea, I’m super-stable, peer-reviewed, Gnu enabled
You can put me in your box
To get your home computer to be
Faster and so secure
Yea, well Redhat is sure
That their support is the cure
The community is ready
If I’m bugged or unsteady
This is who we are
I’m an open source heavy
Operating system everywhere
that’s going far
I am Linux in your box
I’m your custom system
Express your needs, the community listens
I am linux in your phone, your Tivo and playstation
The right solution, and now it’s time
For my OS to shine
future is mine all mine
This song was written by my dad this weekend. We recorded it together on Saturday morning. He is playing the piano and doing all the lead vocals. My mom and I did some supporting background vocals.
This is a song and music video (one created by Nicole Cebula and then I copied her) explaining the process of creating ethanol from corn using enzymes.
