1. Paper Inventions
2. Los Angeles to Saigon
3. 8am Lecture
4. Sustain Me
5. A Human Network
6. This Equation
7. <3
8. The Engineer
9. Continuity
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1. Paper Inventions
2. Los Angeles to Saigon
3. 8am Lecture
4. Sustain Me
5. A Human Network
6. This Equation
7. <3
8. The Engineer
9. Continuity
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1. Paper Inventions
Welcome and here you'll find are the blueprints
For a brand new invention we're building
It will come together so easily
Efficient and even exhausts nothing
So why don't you apply these words and lines
We will begin to synthesize something
Make us the ones who can get it all done
Process it and we can make it happen
Give us the chance to create this
And we swear we won't hit and miss
So we are ready...
Our dream is to make your dreams come true
To get rid of your sorrow and strife and
Make happiness your only virtue
By having the poetry come to life
Oh yes we'll take you for a ride
Hovering on these words that rhyme
Fixing the variables that make fit
Our new invention is almost ready
I'll let you in on a little secret
You're in the beginning stages of feeling it
But the one thing missing is a field test
We'll have you use it or it's all a mess
Don't leave us waiting on and on for it
Read the lines and see if it's a success
Give us the chance to create this
And we swear we won't hit and miss
So we are ready...
Our dream is to make an invention
That runs real love through all your living veins
You'll feel a pulse that's not mistaken
So strong you'll find it in the afterlife
Oh yes we'll take you for a ride
As the poetry comes to life
This is the paper invention.
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2. Los Angeles to Saigon
I received a letter in the mail one day
The envelope stamped and with a purple seal
Signed in the upper left with Hometown Hero
Inside was a necklace with a silver key
The message said it could open anything
So I wore it waiting for the right moment
Because the engineers are fine without me
But I will join them when I think I'm ready
To unlock the changes the world wants to see
I don't know what will happen but I have dreams
Bridges span from Los Angeles to Saigon
On the way making sure nothing will go wrong
Oh I want to change the world
In the best way possible.
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3. 8am Lecture
This scene so usual to me
The girl sitting in the same seat
During the 8am lecture
I could not escape this sleep
But don't wake me up, I won't wake up
Just let me stay, I won't wake up
Because then I started to dream
Just a mix of unfinished thoughts
That still made so much sense to me
It seemed like reality
And even though my eyes were closed
I imagined I still took notes
All of my writing was unclear
But I understood ideas
She appeared sitting next to me
It felt more and more like a dream
This morning with this lecturing
We were both falling asleep
Her heavy eyelids were too much
Resting her head on my shoulder
My cheek was pressed against her hair
In that moment then and there
I woke up
But with no notes on my paper
She didn't come any closer.
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4. Sustain Me
I once met
An environmental engineer with sights so clear
She always made better resolutions for New Year's
Like multi-colored papers saved in her room's corner
Only to be recycled later
In high school she used to have visions of the future
The journey had mixed blue and gold to green together
But it was clouded by the black backdrop of machines
I asked her how she saw the picture
She told me
"Say anything, but do what you dream
It's not imagination"
Because imagination is only in the mind
But it's the beginning and a strong showing of signs
She wanted to plan the seeds for years and years to come
Before roots went reverse and undone
Hometowns, my part, one life, some start
Bad habits carried through summer solstice
Getting so caught up cause I didn't know
How to water this sustainable growth
This time, not late, rewrite, our fate
I didn't take notes on how to begin
But she smiles and whispers in my ear
A message she wants everyone to hear
Telling me
"Say anything, but do what you dream
When you say the world's like this
Your life is the change"
It's not imagination
It's simply someone doing something so amazing.
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5. A Human Network
Impulse to reaction
I think I can make it happen
My chains here I'll make them broken
I look up and see the sun filled sky
The air is clean and clear and all the birds pass me by
I see outside the coming of night
And all the light bulbs glow with green energy all right
I take a deep breath and deep inside
All the pollution is gone from the earth and my mind
Impulse to reaction
There are things I would like to do
To save this world for me and you
While we enjoy our time playing
Men and women sometimes struggle to make their living
Over and across all continents
They come home and what I will try to provide for them
Sources of power stabilizing
And water so clear thirsty souls can finally mend
As I open my eyes one more time
The only thing I have yet to have done
Is connect everyone under this undying sun
We're here forever don't forget it
Our different lives left our results unexpected
I attempt to build these bridges here
To keep our communication from having to fear
Fear from ever losing human touch
On them cars run on electricity and I see
From a distance a while away
Hearts traveling on the highway on this sunny day.
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6. This Equation
Any given night you might be out
With your friends you're painting the town
But most nights I'm sitting here at home
Studying problems all alone
Sometimes I wonder how we ever became friends
Because behind your closet
Is that dress you're so stunning when you wear it
And look inside your cell phone
Yeah these outgoing calls have my first name shown
Oh on your computer screen
There are conversations between you and me
You think I'm a gentleman
Someone you've found to become a rarity
For some reason you like being close to me
And I really do enjoy your company.
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7. <3
This situation showed symptoms of the heartbreak blues
The best Berkeley students backed it up with solid proofs
Misunderstandings he never knew
So he set up his own investigative review
Evidence unmistaken brought to realization
Misunderstandings he never knew
And there was a girl
Who was the intended criminal
But the mathematicians said she committed no crime
When she wrote to the boy the given line:
"I <3 you"
It was found out that
<3 isn't "heart" but really "less than three"
Arguing the equation was valid and it might look
Like a heart but they found on thing missing:
A live beat
Technically true she was less than three of the boy
So a confession of love could not be admitted
Both were free to do as they wanted
She was released on all charges of the heartbreak blues
And all this complication caused the boy confusion
Caused a means for a love of nothing.
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8. The Engineer
Oh how sometimes
There's something perplexing
Kills me inside
And leaves my head aching
Inside and out
I'll prove all laws hold true
But this one thing
I can't understand you
I'm checking the math on every line
But there's no formula here for this
These solutions take far too much time
If I get it right please tell me when
Because I can't understand you and
I'll try over and over again.
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9. Continuity
Turn one last page
Did you learn something about us?
Maybe you were too quick to judge
We tried to make the greatest invention
Leave us here
We are trying to figure out more equations
About how
Our numbers light up the sky
And this is something we can't explain why
When we translate them to read
They transform themselves and we are amazed
As they put smiles on each face
We marvel at the result with tears in our eyes
Cause we are content knowing
That the numbers turn to words turn to
Poetry right before they come to life
Cause we are content learning
That everything we do we are satisfied
At the result as we are living our lives
We hope you enjoyed your time here
Our dream is to make your dreams come true
This is the end of the paper invention.
