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Independent Spirit
02:36
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Why would you climb Mount Everest
Why would you row the sea
Why would I climb Mount Everest
‘Cause it’s in front of me
Ask me oh ask me, Dear Inquisitor
What is it you don’t see
Why would I climb Mount Everest
Because it’s there for me
Ask me oh ask me, Dear Inquisitor
Why put myself through all the pain
My answer, my answer oh, inquisitor
Will always be the same
It’s not about going from Point A to Point B
Through solitude and all the uncertainty
I’ll confront my demons before they get to me
Why would a caterpillar lock itself in a cocoon
Just so it can fly free
I’ll slip into my row boat now, and soon
See what becomes of me
I watch the seagulls and terns all head back to the coast
The one who’s flying the highest can see the most
I wanna know what he knows
It’s not about going from Point A to Point B
Through solitude and all the uncertainty
I’ll confront my dreams and come out clean
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(Strong as a) Sister
02:58
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Row
03:24
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Ode to Eric Fee
02:31
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First Storm, Moby Dick
03:43
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7. |
Second Time Around
02:18
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Who owns the sea?
Who owns the sky?
Out here underneath the stars
We set our course and fly
Of course we fly
Oh Amelia
I’m about as old as you
When you took your solo flight in 1932
Oh Amelia
Maybe our paths crossed
When you came down from the clouds to avoid the frost
How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it still worth while?
How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it worth your time?
Who owns the sea?
Who owns the sky?
Out here underneath the stars
We’ll be at home awhile
You and I
Oh Amelia
Did you feel any doubt
Falling from 3000 feet that time that you spun out?
Oh Amelia
You caught yourself, alright
And showed the world a woman’s place is sometimes first in flight
How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Even though you lost the adventure
Was it still worth while?
How did you want to be remembered?
How did you want to be remembered?
Spread your silver sings of adventure
And go out in style
The best things of mankind are as useless as Amelia Earhart’s adventure.
They are the things that are undertaken not for some measurable result,
but because someone, not counting the costs or calculating the consequences, is moved by curiosity, the love of excellence, a point of honor, the compulsion to make or to understand. They have in them the free and useless energy with which alone they surpass themselves. It is wild and it is free!
But all the heroes, the saints and the seers, the explorers and the creators partake of it. They do not know what they discover. They do not know where their impulse is taking them. They can give no account in advance of where they are going or explain completely where they have been. They do the useless, brave, noble, the divinely foolish and the very wisest things done by man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that we are no mere creatures of habit. No mere automatons in our routine. No mere cogs in the collective machine. But that in the dust of which we're made there is also fire lighted now and then by great winds from the sky. *
How do you want to be remembered?
How do you want to be remembered?
Even if you lose the adventure
Is it worth your while?
How do you want to be remembered?
* text set from Walter Lippmann’s column NY Herald Tribune July 8, 1937
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Second Storm, Hamlet
03:16
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12. |
Dear Heart
03:09
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Home of the Brave
01:42
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What Would Odysseus Do
03:16
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Third Storm, King Lear
03:34
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Dear Heart reprise
02:58
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Calm Seas
01:27
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Dawn Landes Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dawn Landes is a singer-songwriter with roots in Kentucky and NYC, now living in North Carolina. She has released multiple albums and her songs have been featured in commercials, popular films, and TV shows. Landes tours internationally and has performed with The Boston Pops, NYC Ballet, and at TED. ... more
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