Paula Cole Lyrics: October 2024

Revolution (2019)

Intro: Revolution (Is A State Of Mind) lyrics - Paula Cole

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.

America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.

A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. When I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

Revolution, revolution

Revolution is a state of mind

Revolution, revolution

Revolution is a state of mind

Revolution, revolution

Revolution is a state of mind

Revolution, revolution

Revolution is a state of mind

Revolution, revolution

Shake The Sky lyrics - Paula Cole

Sister gonna wake up

And shake the sky with her cry

She gonna rise

Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes

She gonna rise

Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies

She gonna rise

Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes

She gonna rise

Changes!

Changes that need to pass

A lot more human kindness in this life

Changes!

Changes that we demand

For the content of our character, the vision of our minds

The labor of the grist-mill of society

Is the hands and sweat and backs of who have least

Invisibles and overlooked and disenfranchised

Are holding up the sky

Holding up our lives!

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Sister gonna wake up

And shake the sky with her cry

She gonna rise

Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes

She gonna rise

Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies

She gonna rise

Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes

She gonna rise

Changes!

Changes that need to pass

A lot more human kindness in this life

Changes!

Changes that we demand

For the content of our character, the vision of our minds

The labor of the grist-mill of society

Is the hands and sweat and backs of who have least

Invisibles and overlooked and disenfranchised

Are holding up the sky

Holding up our lives!

1 2 3 4

Sister gonna wake up

And shake the sky with her cry

She gonna rise

Sister gonna get up and wipe the tears from her eyes

She gonna rise

Sister gonna stand up to all the bullying lies

She gonna rise

Sister gonna look at the man with the blood in his eyes

She gonna rise

Blues In Gray lyrics - Paula Cole

Charlotte she lingered and lived in the shadows

Helping Mother in the kitchen for hours and hours

Avoiding the charmers, Svengalis and Lords

I sing for the shy girl over minor chords

Blues In Gray

In a dream she ascended outside of her body

She looked down below her to the white fields of cotton

And she realized, she realized

Her dream was long forgotten

She peers out a mouse

hole to an alternate world

To her great, great granddaughters behind her

And she whispers, she hollers "Know freedom!

From Blues In Gray..."

Blues In Gray

Silent lyrics - Paula Cole

When Karl and his sister, united me in their tribe

I felt a strength in numbers embolding my shyness

I laughed at other people

At their bodies, at their hair

I became the vicious girl inside parroting her despair

And one day cold as calculation, Karl went too far

Intentional in his hurting, physical in his war

To the shyest one of all of us

The tenderest lonely heart

I watched in horror, helpless, silent, as the moment passed me, gone

Flying to the world tour, 25 and free

With condescending attitudes, from British men in cliques

When I imbibed too much Schnapps one night, in a Swiss hotel

One tour manager, felt this was the green light, pressed me down

On the bed, by my surprise, dick and tongue pressed hard

What a sad excuse of a man, thinking this what one does

Showing him out with deep disdain I kept the truth concealed

Cutting myself off from my own feelings, I kept on in silent hurt

My introversion in the kitchen, 30 years past, amongst the Moms

I don't share with them my secrets, staying safe from all their gossip

Their husbands in the parlor, Huddled close together

Palpable discomfort when I join them in their circle

Looking for a conversation I listen to them speak

Jockeying one-upmanship, subconscious insecurity

I add my twenty cents to the room - how flatly it does land

Unaccustomed to a woman of mind, they wish to conquer me instead

"Hush, child!" - I hear my great grandmother whisper in my mind

It remains as relevant today here amongst this boring party

I don't know where I stand

I go rogue, go quiet quicksand

Folding into myself, losing voice, to a moment passed again

Absorbing painful lessons, standing on my ground

I advocate, I'm blue in the face, I'm the leader of the crowd

But inside I'm a coward, still the little girl

Bystanding in my silence next to Karl bullying her

For nothing is so simple, the bully is the weak

Afraid to be tormented, tormenting for pre-empting

For Karl yearned for Father, for love, for attention

He acted out the monster inside his lonely hurting

There is never enough love, there is never enough listening

There is never enough of our mothers, to give us all we're missing

I took on the silence, mandated by generations

But no more shall I be the mute and deaf and dumb submissive

Go On lyrics - Paula Cole

Freedom is another word for facing all my lonely fear

Freedom is your final word for getting off the ledge with me

Will you ever share your secret world?

Your dreams beyond the confines of our hurts?

Go on, go on, go on

Go without me

I'll be waiting

Go on, go on, go on

Cause next time, my darling

It'll be me

Something pulls you out of bed, and down the street and in the car

And off to war with demons wrestling your subconscious, I've no control

Let the love go free into the woods

Wild like a cold coyote pulled

Go on, go on, go on

Go without me

I can't wait then

Go on, go on, go on

Go without me

I'll go without you

There were promises made

With the best of our dreams

But we know you're the lover

And I am the leader

And in strength I accept you

As you sail down the river

To find the elusive

A hummingbird phantom

After some gold rush

A fool rushing forward

I'll wait on for you

And I will be tortured

But I know patience

And I know virtue

And you soon will tire

Of hummingbird muses

Of rivers and ruses

Of heartache and bruises

And you will return then

And I will be home

And I may not want you

But we will continue

To see what this is

Cause you need to go on

And I need to go on

Our story will go on

Cause it must and it will

Because it must and it will

Go on, go on, go on

Go without me

I'll go without you

Go on, go on, go on

Go without me

I'll go without you

All Or Nothing lyrics - Paula Cole

Get a grip, on myself, 'cause my unconscious is killing us

She's neglected, subdued, an angry child, holding court

What is it going to be? You gonna make up your mind now?

What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing

What is it going to be? You gonna show up and try now?

What is it going to be? It's all or nothing

We sail on, years in, half a lifetime, come and gone

If we want this, we must be brave, speak truth, listen

What is it going to be? I'm waiting on my own life now

What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing

What is it going to be? Are we getting inside the car now?

What is it going to be? It's all or nothing

Holding, hurting, surviving

Escaping, failing, humbling

Cause I'm trapped upon this cycle on repeat

What is it going to be? Every day is life or death now

What is going to be? Cause it's all or nothing

What is it going to be? I'm waiting on my own life now

What is it going to be? Cause it's all or nothing

It's all or nothing

It's All Nothing

7 Deadly Sins lyrics - Paula Cole

Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride

One: Lust. Dante defined lust as the disordered love of individuals, thus possessing at least the redeeming feature of mutuality.

Two: Gluttony. Overconsumption, overindulgence. To go down and swallow. Anything to the point of waste.

Three: Greed. Avarice, covetousness. It is a lot like lust. It is a sin of desire. Plunges a man deep into the mire of this world. It is an inordinate desire to acquire and possess more than one needs.

Your wicked ways

Your fall from grace

You never listened to your mother anyway

You never learned

Four: Sloth. A peculiar jumble of notions. It's often a failure to do things that we should. There's mental sloth, spiritual sloth, the physical state of sloth, the absence of interest.

Five: Wrath. Anger, rage, hatred. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Six: Envy. The most potent cause of unhappiness. To be sad or resentful towards the shapes or possessions of someone else.

Seven: Pride. The never-failing voice of fools. Love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor.

Your wicked ways

Your fall from grace

You never listened to your mother anyway

Your wicked ways

Your fall from grace

You never listened to your father anyway

You never learned

Step by step I'll get to heaven