HELLO THIRD GRADERS!
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it can be read as To-e
Now let's sing our songs!
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Ease On Down
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Believer
Happier
Count On Me
My Shot
Lyrics
Ease On Down
Come on and ease on down
Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down, ease on down down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Pick your left foot up
When your right foot's down
Come on legs keep movin'
Don't you lose no ground
You just keep on keepin'
On the road that you choose
Don't you give up walkin'
'Cause you gave up shoes,
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
'Cause there may be times
When you think you lost your mind
And the steps you're takin'
Leave you three, four steps behind
But the road you're walking
Might be long sometimes
You just keep on trukin'
And you'll be just fine
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Well there maybe times
When you wish you wasn't born
And you wake one morning
Just to find your courage's gone
But just know that feeling
Only last a little while
You stick with us
And we'll show you how to smile, yeah
Smile
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down, down the road
Come on, ease on down the road
Ease on down, down the road
Down the road
Believer
First things first
I'ma say all the words inside my head
I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh ooh
The way that things have been, oh ooh
Second thing second
Don't you tell me what you think that I can be
I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh ooh
The master of my sea, oh ooh
I was broken from a young age
Taking my sulking to the masses
Write down my poems for the few
That looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me
Singing from heartache from the pain
Taking my message from the veins
Speaking my lesson from the brain
Seeing the beauty through the
Pain, You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
(Pain, pain)
You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
(Pain)
Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from
(Pain)
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
Third things third
Send a prayer to the ones up above
All the hate that you've heard has turned your spirit to a dove, oh ooh
Your spirit up above, oh ooh
I was choking in the crowd
Building my rain up in the cloud
Falling like ashes to the ground
Hoping my feelings, they would drown
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing
Inhibited, limited
'Til it broke up and it rained down
It rained down, like
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
(Pain, pain)
You break me down, you built me up, believer, believer
(Pain)
I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from
(Pain)
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
Last things last
By the grace of the fire and the flames
You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh ooh
The blood in my veins, oh ooh
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing
Inhibited, limited
'Til it broke up and it rained down
It rained down, like
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
(Pain, pain)
You break me down, you built me up, believer, believer
(Pain)
I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from
(Pain)
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer, believer
Happier
Lately, I've been, I've been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
When the morning comes
When we see what we've become
In the cold light of day we're a flame in the wind
Not the fire that we've begun
Every argument, every word we can't take back
'Cause with the all that has happened
I think that we both know the way that the story ends
Then only for a minute
I want to change my mind
'Cause this just don't feel right to me
I want to raise your spirits
I want to see you smile but
Know that means I'll have to leave
Know that means I'll have to leave
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Lately, I've been, I've been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
When the evening falls
And I'm left there with my thoughts
And the image of you being with someone else
Well, that's eating me up inside
But we run our course, we pretend that we're okay
Now if we jump together at least we can swim
Far away from the wreck we made
Then only for a minute
I want to change my mind
'Cause this just don't feel right to me
I want to raise your spirits
I want to see you smile but
Know that means I'll have to leave
Know that means I'll have to leave
Lately, I've been, I've been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
So I'll go, I'll go
I will go, go, go
So I'll go, I'll go
I will go, go, go
Lately, I've been, I've been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
Even though I might not like this
I think that you'll be happier, I want you to be happier
Then only for a minute (only for a minute)
I want to change my mind
'Cause this just don't feel right to me
I want to raise your spirits
I want to see you smile but
Know that means I'll have to leave
Know that means I'll have to leave
Lately, I've been, I've been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
So I'll go, I'll go
I will go, go, go
My Shot
All, Chorus:
I am not throwing away my shot! I am not throwing away my shot! Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing away my shot!
Section 1:
Rapper 1:
I'm ‘a get a scholarship to King's College. I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish.
Rapper 2:The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish. I gotta holler just to be heard. With every word, I drop knowledge!
Rapper 3:
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal tryin' to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable.
Rapper 4:
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame. But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name
Section 2, All:
I am the— Al- Ex- An-D- Er—we are—meant to be, A colony that runs independently, so there will be a revolution in this century.
Chorus:
I am not throwing away my shot. My shot! I am not throwing away my shot. My shot! Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing away my shot.
I'm not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing away my shot.
Section 3, All:
Whoa, Whoa, whoa --- whoa---- Whoa ---- Yeah.
Whoa, Whoa, whoa --- whoa---- Whoa ---- Yeah
Section 4 All:
Rise up! When you're living on your knees you rise up. Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up. Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up When are these colonies gonna rise up? (rap: When are these colonies gonna)
Rise up! When you're living on your knees you rise up. Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up. Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up When are these colonies gonna rise up? (Rap: When are these colonies gonna)
Section 3: (repeat)
Spoken Part: (Rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? 2X’s)
Whoa, Whoa, whoa --- whoa---- Whoa ---- Yeah.
Spoken Part: (When are these colonies gonna rise up? Rise up)?
Whoa, Whoa, whoa --- whoa---- Whoa ---- Yeah.
All Sing:
Section 2, Chorus:
I am not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot.
Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing away my shot.
I'm not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing away my shot.
Coda:
(Rap: Rise up Time to take a shot, We’re gonna).
Not throwing away my shot.
(Rise up time to take a shot)
Not throwing away my shot.
All:
We’re gonna rise up rise up.
Rise up, rise up.
Time to take a shot, Time to take a shot.
And I am not throwing away my, not throwing away my shot!