I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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Listening

Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

BEN HARPER

Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
BEN HARPER

Mean
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

BEN HARPER

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.
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Being Free Guitar Regardless
There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.

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There’s only one proper way a song should go, but you’ve got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise.
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Together
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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Jesus Name Number
What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don’t know where you came from And I don’t know where you’ve gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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Dawn
Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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Sibling
I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

BEN HARPER

I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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Boys California
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.

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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.
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Magnificent Something Turns
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Sadness Taken Yesterday
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Liars Names
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

BEN HARPER

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER

Listening
My head works in music, so there’s always music there.

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My head works in music, so there’s always music there.
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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

BEN HARPER

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
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Two
We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.
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Changed
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

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When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.
BEN HARPER

Color Taken
I appreciate that something I’ve done has found a safe place to land.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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