Unconscious Want to Need
"Unconsicous Want To Need" (chords)
Tyler McLaughlin
Plenty years ago many people died
They were search’n for gold
Some died filthy rich but many more died with the itch
That never once got scratched and left them cold
But to think for just a minute that them rich ones had it good
That they were more better off or that they were more understood
Would be an error on our part because them fools didn’t have no heart
And in the end they'd deal with robin hood
Oh there is a thing and it makes some people sing
And it makes some people scream but it turns people mean
It loves to feed and it's not afraid to bleed
No it doesn't have no shame but it does have a name
And it's called greed
It's an unconscious want to need
To take more than you get
And then throw a hissy fit
Awe greed
Just the other day twenty-nine men died
they were digg'n for coal
In a west Virginia mine they left their families far behind
But them executives they're not out in the cold
But to think just for a minute that them big wigs got it made
Because they got their bonus checks and their Mercedes in the shade
Fade out ten more years and see them living in their fears
Because they too will get paid
Oh there is a thing and it makes some people sing
And it makes some people scream but it turns people mean
It loves to feed and it's not afraid to bleed
No it doesn't have no shame but it does have a name
And it's called greed
It's an unconscious want to need
To take more than you get
And then throw a hissy fit
Awe greed
Greed will make you blind, it'll make itself hard to find
It'll rust your heart and it will burn up your mind
It don't care about life no it will kill it don't give a damn
It feeds on fear and on foreign land
It'll stop at nothing it loves to push and shove
But there's one thing that will defeat it it's called pure love
Oh there is a thing and it makes some people sing
And it makes some people scream but it turns people mean
It loves to feed and it's not afraid to bleed
No it doesn't have no shame but it does have a name
Toward You
"Toward You" (chords)
Tyler McLaughlin
You've been telling me
For a while now it seems
I should do much better with my dreams
Yes it's true & sometimes I don't hear you
But when I do & I see through
Even when it's scary too
Well then I grow a little slow
But it's definitely toward you
Toward you I see my life
Toward you I run and I find
I find me I find us
I find peace and I find trust
Toward you I find love
You take one I'll take one
She said no you take two
And I'll take none and then we laughed
And I strummed & I wrote these words while she hummed
And then we kissed little kiss
Even though at first we missed
Well I grow a little slow
But it's definitely toward you
Toward you I see my life
Toward you I run and I find
I find me I find us
I find peace and I find trust
Toward you I find love
Evolution Revolution
"Evolution Revolution" (chords)
Tyler McLaughlin
Travel'n east lookn' for
Another place, another time, another war
Gonna unload all our stuff
Get it out, configure it and blow things up
And we'll leave behind a trail of tears
Full of dust & blood that’ll last a thousand years
But there's a time bomb tick'n in our ears
Tick-tock'n towards our deepest fears
So many folks get their daily news
Fed to them from a certain point of view
But mr greedy media empire you'd better check in
Cause no matter the size of your lies the truth will always win
Oh it's time for a revolution
An evolution it is time for change
A revolution let's revolt and let's rearrange
For an evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
Here we are again four more years have gone by
2012 is here and we'll elect another guy
But not before we spend millions of bucks
On political propaganda deluxe
And they'll fight and call each other all names
And they'll talk about peace
While build’n pawns
To play in their war games
Oh it's time for a revolution
An evolution it is time for change
A revolution let's revolt and let's rearrange
For an evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
Oh,oh,oh here we come eyes wide open
One by one without a gun
Plum full of youth powered by truth
You think the worlds small now
Well we ain't got a clue
It's time we move into
An evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
An evolution revolution
An evolution revolutio
Everything Has Meaning
"Everything Has Meaning" (chords)
Yesterday a little brown guy flew his red kite up in the dark sky
A bluebird crashed into a red thing up on a string right where he flew
And at that very moment when the bluebird hit the ground
well the boy went running to it and the Earth made a sound
It went boom crash bang, oh lightning struck the spot
In the exact location where the boy was now not
Everything oh everything
Has meaning inside
That red thing up on the string
That bluebird that did his thing
So that little boy did not get fried oh oh oh
Years ago in a dark cold time in a damp cool space miles down a black coal mine
An old man and his group of ten steady pulled that carbon from the Earth within
And one day the fault-line shifted and those walls came crumbling down
But the old man stopped and lifted a beam so those ten could get around
It went tumble crumble crunch the Earth it fell apart
But those ten were topside and alive because of that old man’s good heart
Everything oh everything
Has meaning inside
That red thing up on the string
That bluebird that did his thing
So that little boy did not get fried oh oh oh
Over time that man turned to soil and years later the earth began to boil
And then one day she did explode and she spit him with her load
His ashes fell onto the land and the rain soon mixed him up into the sand
Then from him and a seed grew a tree and together they lived & bound gracefully
One fed the other like a child from its mother
They grew tall, they lived long, and they nurtured one another
They realized that they'd become a mulberry tree
And that they were the living home of a bluebird family
And those bluebirds lived off that mulberry tree
That that old man helped make when he died so courageously
And his son had a son who had a son of his own
who had a son that had a son, who built a happy home
And in that home there was a little guy
and he loved to fly his kite all up through the sky
And everything oh everything
Has meaning inside
That red thing up on the string
That bluebird that did his thing
So that little boy did not get fried oh oh oh
Human Kind
"Human Kind" (chords)
Tyler McLaughlin
Well there used to be time when it was accepted
A different place for all different folk
White folk, black folk, yellow folk, different folk
Everywhere you'd go it'd seem like there's a different door
Well not no more
Don't you even start to think I'm that naive
Cause I'm an optimist and I do believe
That this dream we all conceive
Well in time we can achieve...
One race one kind
We've all got Gods Face we've got Gods Mind
We're Humankind
We're Humankind
Well as we sit here today
The problem ain't gone away
You still got kids and they've got friends who've got kin
who don't like another man just cause the color of his skin.
So why don't we just reveal
What too many try to conceal
Show true kindness to appeal
to those who don't know for real that we're all
One race one kind
We've all got Gods Face we've got Gods Mind
We're Humankind
We're Humankind
Know (hidden track)
"Human Kind" (chords)
Tyler McLaughlin
Do you believe
In what you see
In what your told
In diamonds and gold
Do you believe
In what you read
In what you hear
In all that you fear
Is there a way
Do you think that someday
All that we know
Will change and we'll grow
Well I don't know
But I do believe so
No I don't know
But I do believe so
Oh I believe
Yes I do I believe
And someday I'll know
Do you know
When you're body dies where your soul will go
Oh have you seen
That world, that heaven, that dream
And do you know
That the earth formed four billion years ago
That belief can blind
That the soul is most definitely not the mind
But is there a way
Do you think that someday
All that we know
Will change and we'll grow
Well I don't know
But I do believe so
No I don't know
But I do believe so
Oh I believe
Yes I do I believe
And someday I'll know
To know is to believe
To fear is to freeze
To love is to learn
To give is to earn
To let go is to return oh oh
But is there a way
Do you think that someday
All that we know
Will change and we'll grow
"Evolution Revolution" artwork Jay Braden
"Everything Has Meaning" animation: Tyler McLaughlin
EP Release artwork: Tyler McLaughlin