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Rocks

by Angela Soffe

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David E Schipper This is my Monday Morning Song on Dave's Basement Tracks #197. Yes for a day, please leave your rocks at home.
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This song was written while sitting on a mattress on the floor one evening, in the aftermath of leaving an orthodox religion. The song is about feeling judged on a personal level, and the judgement we each carry around for humanity as a whole. It calls for social change and greater acceptance for the people who share our planet.

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Rocks
by Angela Soffe

I don’t know much about anything
But I know something is tearing me down
I wake up thinking about all the ways I don’t measure up
And it hurts to let them down
So judge me, cast me your stones
I will lay them back at your feet
Take my hand, let’s walk a mile

We like to throw rocks
At the people who don’t see the world in the way we do
I don’t know why
We all stand in a circle and point a finger or two
Tell me how can you see
what is buried beneath a mountain of smiles?
We’re all thrown in the same blue water of the unknown
So leave your rocks at home

The truth is not what is seems
We are told to just be believing
The story has never been told
And we all need someone to listen
To hold our hearts as they’re beating
We’re so much more than we seem

But we like to throw rocks
At the people who don’t see the world in the way we do
I don’t know why
We all stand in a circle and point a finger or two
Tell me how can you see
what is buried beneath a mountain of smiles?
We’re all thrown in the same blue water of the unknown
So leave your rocks at home

Moving parts
We’re all the same you and me
The only defeat is when we don’t ask to see

We like to throw rocks
At the people who don’t see the world in the way we do
I don’t know why
We all stand in a circle and point a finger or two
Tell me how can you see
what is buried beneath a mountain of smiles?
We’re all thrown in the same blue water of the unknown
So leave your rocks at home
So leave your rocks at home

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released February 16, 2018
Written and performed by Angela Soffe. Producer is Andy Park. Recorded at Hall of Justice Studio, in Seattle, WA in October 2017.

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Angela Soffe Yakima, Washington

Angela Soffe's latest work marks a brave return to music after 8 years of silence. Her new album (coming April 2018) is the result of a darkness-into-light narrative, and marks a heroic return to art. The weighty topics here are exquisitely offset by soothing musicality, an amalgam of folk, pop, and bluegrass with touches of new age and classical music. "Second Wind Tour" begins Summer 2018. ... more

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