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The Other Side
03:44
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Sitting high to criticize people passing by / They dont look like or believe like you / Before very long your throwing stones set a different tone / When they hit you and you feel the truth
When you finger point careful where it’s at / The mirror has a nasty way of pointing back
You sing a long with every song glorifying wrong / All the shady things to steal a lover / Til you find the One the only One your moon and sun / Now your nightmare is fighting off others / So be quick to think before you do / Or the vipers brood come creeping up on you
The other side of the world you know / Is a truth you find when you get there / Every head has tails and the new gets old / You may learn long before you know
Reach for your medal but try not to mettle / Less Hyde more Jekyll / Dont be a pot calling the kettle now / Sight from behind, 2-0-20 kind but Eye on the prize / advice has no price just listen and settle down / Present the time finding peace of mind / killing you no but making you find your strength now / you don’t wanna settle for little now
Seeking fame upon your name to light up in the dark / It can be a thrill / But the brighter you become reveals the darkness in some | They come to test your will / Hope your skin is thick as you work that town
The other side of the world you know / Is a truth you find when you get there / Every head has tails and the new gets old / That greener grass is hard to grow / Careful what's on the other side of the door / You dont wanna know / Pyrite fools can call it gold / You too smart to fall for that old trope / Oh be careful what's on the other side / You may learn long before you know
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Get Up Out This Funk
03:48
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Got to get up out this Funk Shake the blues up off me throw it in the trunk
Lock it up and toss the key / Been living with this junk / Clouding all my clarity
Got to get up out this funk I lean in closely to that funk and say
Get Out! Get Out! (Up off me) Get Out! Yahweh cast you out the door
Get Out! Get Out! (Get gone now) Get Out! You Ain’t Living Here No More
Got to get to get up out this funk Shake the weight up off me / Can’t think what I done thunk
Change the thoughts I thought of me / Been hearing from this punk tryin to purge my sanity
Got to get up out this funk I lean in closely to that funk and say
Get Out! Get Out! (Up off me) Get Out! Yahweh cast you out the door
Get Out! Get Out! (Get gone now) Get Out! You Ain’t Living Here No More
Bridge:
All I really need to do. let the light come shining through / Let the truth refute the lies they tell me / New days are calling out my name The past cant make me stay the same
Not gonna spend another minute in this, blocking of bliss
Got to get to get up out / Shake it flip it get it off me / No I wont let that death talk bury me
I wont spend another day starving my prosperity / Gonna put that dirt back in that grave
Screaming at that Cockatrice
Get Out! Get Out! (Up off me) Get Out! Yahweh cast you out the door
Get Out! Get Out! (Get gone now) Get Out! You Ain’t Living Here No More
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Starts With You
04:18
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Everything you do affects all those around you | Every lie that you tell affects all of the truth
Any word spoke in anger leaves a residue | Careful what you do
What’s going on in the world that we live | Seekers lookin what to get | Instead of how to give
What’s happening to the love that we know | People pointing fingers | Letting rage run the show
Chorus
So many crying / So many dying / So many trying to make it through
We need each other / Love one another / To Be the Change it starts with you
Everything you do affects all those around you / Every lie that you tell affects the truth
Any pride that you feed threatens gratitude / Be careful what you do
Whats going on in the world that we know / People looking what to pick
instead of what to grow.
Why can’t we stop the fighting on display /Children see and hear it, but they just want to play
Chorus
So many crying / So many dying / So many trying to make it through
We need each other / Love one another / To Be the Change it starts with you
Everything you do affects all those around you
Every lie that you tell affects all of the truth / Be careful what you do
Bridge
It can get hard sometimes / I need to know it’s O.K.
Faith Hope Love / That’s What we Need / Sounds so Simple / Faith Hope Love
Affect Those Around you with Love / Faith Hope Love
Chorus
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Change
04:08
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I'm a good man on the inside / On the outside i seem a little less
Though decisions have always been my nemesis / consequences take away my best
Filled with challenges and compromise / Accepting wisdom from the wise
A logical conclusion I can reach / Still i know I'm capable of more
Than the settlement I've bargained for / Now there’s only one thing that I seek
Chorus
I wanna change what you think of me / Convince your mind’s eye
That I'm not who I may seem / I wanna change what you see in me
Reveal the true intent / Through layers of complexity
If you give me the chance i will / give me the chance I will
You cite the fault from the outside / I admit the choices haven't been the best
Paid my dues with interest that accrued with time
And my good intentions complicate the mess
Seeing only what you want to see / An easy out for what you need
Not taking time to learn the man / Asking all the questions why
I only Wanna satisfy / The need to convince you just who i am
Chorus
I wanna change what you think of me / Convince your mind’s eye
That I'm not who I may seem / I wanna change what you see in me
Reveal the true intent / Through layers of complexity
If you give me the chance i will / give me the chance I will
Bridge
No excuse for any wrong that I’ve done / No pining any battles that i haven't won
I know I'm not the only one / Who believes to be much more than is seen
Chorus
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5. |
Right Track
04:12
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There’s little attention given to your intention / It’s more about the action you do
When you cloud your vision with a burden.. / You won’t know what to do
Stances circumvented me / Kept me planted in one spot
Circumstances prevented me / From going out on that limb, reaching for more
Chorus
On the Right Track now Im not looking back
I'm moving on Im Gone. I like where Im at
On the Right Track now Im not looking back / Im moving on going forward
For so long Ive tried to find the right / Mixed in among the Wrong
A statistical analyst of a typically unpredictable path / that God would want me on
Double glance each twist & turn / Question all other methods
One path leads the way / Confusion to the side. know where Im headed
Chorus
On the Right Track now Im not looking back
I'm moving on Im Gone. I like where Im at
On the Right Track now Im not looking back / Im moving on going forward
Bridge
Now I let go the past / Ignore the odds / Look at others’ success / Give it my applause
Block what haters say to me / just keep my mind on things above
Trust the track laid in front of me / Let my purpose show me the Light
Judge my fate by the soul mark put on me
When I came into this life / Im on the Right Track
Chorus
On the Right Track now Im not looking back
I'm moving on Im Gone. I like where Im at
On the Right Track now Im not looking back / Im moving on going forward
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6. |
New Old Man
05:03
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Father time is walking by / Trying to stare me in my eye / I tip my Hat and hustle past his way.
Contemplating what to do now / How to show ‘em who I be / People flood the spark inside with waters of their disbelief /
Use the gifts I got inside me / Fueled by the joy within
While I wrestle with the odds / I run against / They Inundate me on the cyber tryin to laugh away my fire / Not respecting where Ive been or why I came / All they say is the same things
Chorus:
They say / You’re such an Old Man / Too long in the tooth / You’re not in demand / Too wrong for the youth / (they say to me) / You’re such an Old Man / No market for you / You warrant old fans / Who wont spend the loot
Every time I turn around the corner / I see old familiar scenes , broken dreams
All the pieces on the ground from those convinced they couldn’t be
With a word or an expression or a comment left on line.
People have a nasty way to make you feel you’re Out of time
I refute their cold dismission / Charge no fee for the admission
Jump through shiny flaming hoops to play the game / Fortify a new position Redefine my definition / Sacrifice my pride to put light on my name / They repeat the same refrain
Chorus:
They say / You’re such an Old Man / Too long in the tooth / You’re not in demand / Too wrong for the youth / (they say to me) / You’re such an Old Man / No market for you / You warrant old fans / Who wont spend the loot
Rap:
Old ain’t about your age, body , gray hair Counting the wrinkles on your face or your deriere / It’s a state of mind not what’s defined by corporate Biz / They can be cool but here’s what it is / They can prep you, pamper, shrink wrap and get you hyped.
Pay a fraction on a coin, shelf your product and shut the door tight
Nowadays the power’s with the people / Mix it, bake it send it through the air / But without enough follows likes admires will they even see you there?
Put your hands in the air if somebody put you in a box, locked it with locks
So you couldnt breathe / Too Young, Too Old, Too Dark Too Light / Baffles you, you know you got what they need / How can they challenge what was given us?
Not by “Hova”, but Jevovah and the Grace from the cross.
We’re all trying just to hold on / Grab another swig to judge until we hear from Ponce De Leon / Made inimitable originally given the indescribable / Viably discernable from indomitable rivals / We are meant for more / More than prying at another slammed door
Flying on Faith until we get the encore / Then Soar to that other level we all strive for
One day our son will not be judged by the date of his birth but by the content of his character / And of course his qualifications / The manifestation of hard work passion
And Love
Yeah my hair is gettin gray and I crack around the eye / I will shoot my star high blazing ing the sky / I refuse to drink the kool aid / Ride the wagon for the band
The consensus of the senseless thoughts of man
If its true what they’re projecting / My life needs some reflecting
Then I guess I got one foot set in the grave / But I have found a youthful fountain
And I’m gonna climb that mountain / Looking for the solace that I crave
Embrace the change / but they say
Chorus:
They say / You’re such an Old Man / Too long in the tooth / You’re not in demand / Too wrong for the youth / (they say to me) / You’re such an Old Man / No market for you / You warrant old fans / Who wont spend the loot
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7. |
Watch Yourself
03:43
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Got this pretty, pretty thing
Recognize it, Committed
Gave her a ring
Ooohh and I smile when I see her wear it
She my coffee and cream
All the outer and in between
Brings me in her spotlight so I can share it
Some men pass on the street
Angry while they looking
and tissing their teeth
Standing in disbelief
They cant believe that she’s with me
Chorus
Watch yourself with what you say
Don't disrespect the love we made
Bite your tongue and walk away
Don't be trying to steal her away
She here to stay
Got this pretty, pretty thing
My life my love my one and everything
Reason that I write and then shout to share it
She tell me what to wear
She likes to do my hair
Nightingale’s my pain so that I can bear it.
Love is a thing to rejoice
Clap your hands and lift your voice
Don’t try to run any game
Cant you see she done took my name
Chorus:
Bridge
And when I rise and she smiles
And i think about the light in my life
When she shines
I feel alive, full of pride
When i think of how she shares
All her life, all of her nights,
all of it just for me.
(don't you ever touch my lady')
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Brad Sharp Los Angeles, California
Brad believes there is a common thread between rock, gospel, country, soul. and gospel. His voice is that thread and he
aspires for his music to unite different people in the same way.
He is a veteran of stage including acting on Broadway, touring with Frankie Valli& performing at the Oscars & Emmys. He is married to actress Keesha Sharp (Lethal Weapon, Marshall, Girlfriends) & they share a son.
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