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Lyrics & Links to the original episodes for the songs in this ribbon.

by Maggie Wheeler

Let it blow through, let it blow through.

Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.

Hard times come, and hard times go, let it blow through.

Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.

Hard times come and hard times go, let it blow.

Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.

63. Awaken Me

by Abigail Spinner McBride

1. Open my eyes to the miracles around me,

wake me up, wake me up.
(2x)

3. Shake me from my sleep and stir me from my dreaming.

Chorus: Awaken me. (4x)

113. Borrow Trouble

by Patricia Norton

Let me not borrow this trouble

ahead of time.

Let me not carry this sorrow

before it's mine.

It will come when it comes, and go when it goes.

I will know; I will know.

It will come when it comes and go when it goes,

I will know.

My trust and love are banks on the river

where grief and praise can find a flow.

My tender heart, it floats on the ocean.

The waves come. The waves go.

161. Good Friend

by Jan Harmon

Oh the wind, it is a song

that harbours through the winter,

Oh the sail, it is a door

that bids the song to enter,

And let us sail the sea, good friend,

And let us sing together,

The singer lasts a season long,

While the song, it lasts forever.

204. May the Way Open Before You

by Ana Hernández

May the way open before you.

May you see beyond darkness and light

to the love you are;

to the love you bring into the world.

6. Be Open

by Debbie Nargi-Brown

Be open for something wonderful to happen

Be open to the possibility

(x2)

Aiye Aiye Aiye, Aiye Aiye Aiye (x2)

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