Tonart: G major•
Verse 1
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I have this thing I call my
committee.
It's a group of voices
that are my inner critics,
no question about it.
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you probably might have noticed
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that I entered the room single file tonight.
This is what's called a talking blues.
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Talking blues is an ancient form
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of rap.
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Invented by Cisco Houston,
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made famous by Arlo Guthrie
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and his father too, by the way.
Oh yeah.
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Made huge quantities of dollars off of,
by Bob Dylan.
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The way the song got started is,
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I had this voice in me one day saying,
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as I was in conversation with somebody,
suggesting the things
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that I might say to them,
and then planning my
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reply to their response.
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It was not going well.
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I did this benefit to save the bandshell
and a woman came up
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and she said, I see from the program
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She said, I wondered,
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I said, well, I do a thing I call tantrum yoga.
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She said that I said
that's where you hold your breath
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until God gives you your way.
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Well that kind of got us started talking
and she turns out she was a Zen master
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gave me some what they call
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sitting lessons.
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Helped a lot until I started
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I realized that was the key
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what about anything got
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me into trouble.
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Those guys came out in force.
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My committee of voices.
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So I got this song to kind of remind me
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to keep it simple and funny.
Well I woke up this other morning
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to this meeting in my head.
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My ego had formed a Harris group
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and I knew what I had let
be death threats on my confidence
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be extortions of my heart
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and I'd have to remain in control
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so as not to fall apart
I called my new age girlfriend up
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she'd self -helped herself for years
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asked her how to overcome all
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my unrest and interfere.
She said that force would drive it deeper.
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I needed to love my fear away.
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And she sounded so together,
though.
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It's kind of a shame to be afraid.
So I called my local talk show
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radio therapist of the air.
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She told me to write myself
little love notes
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and paste them up everywhere.
said it was not good to be ashamed
should get therapy
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or maybe meditate not then I realized that I felt
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guilty that I was ashamed of being afraid
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she said thank you for sharing
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put me on hold but not before
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I could tell her to quit calling me Sharon
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I got right off the line because of course
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I knew she was tracing the call
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I said I know I'm in there
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and I walked over to the mirror
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to see if it don't come
out with my hands up
I said I'm coming in after me
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I know my inner child's enraged
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but all my outer man could say is that I'm angry that I
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feel guilty that I'm ashamed of being afraid
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Well, and right about then
my committee kicked in
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and there I was in the streets of Boulder, Colorado,
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the cosmic center of the known self -help universe
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not being totally present.
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I could get busted here
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for that, you know.
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I ran home, turned off the phone,
and changed the machine.
Hi, this is Chuck,
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and your call means a lot to me.
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And if I should return while I'm gone,
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please detain me until I get back.
So I called this 12 -step
cowboy friend of mine
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And thought I might maybe know
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Why I was so crazy these days
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Like this psycho desperado
Well, he took me to his support group
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And I shared about my rage
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They said that everyone's
addicted to anger
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It's the rage that's stayin' in
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I said, mean I'm addicted to being angry for
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feeling guilty that I'm ashamed of being afraid?
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and he started to walk away.
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As he left, I think he said, God be with you.
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But I'm kind of hard of hearing,
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he might have said, God,
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you're pitiful.
what about keep it simple,
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he said, easy does it. I said, hey, what about let go and let God,
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and he said, one day at a time.
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So God grant me the serenity
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that just might take a while to change.
We're gonna take a short
pause.
We'll be right back.
There's coffee and donuts
in the vestibule.
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