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Liner notes
Good golly, we miss you, Dolly. š«¶
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This is an independent tribute from TEKNOLUST.
EVERYTHING SHE GAVE AWAY TEKNOLUST
[Intro]
Porch boards breathing in the mountain rain A radio is glowing low A butterfly taps the windowpane To reach a world it doesn't know
[Verse 1]
Too many shoes beside one narrow door Her father worked until his hands were sore The printed page stayed always out of reach But music gave him words the heart could speak
Her mother stitched the scraps into a coat And turned what little they had into hope At night she heard the far-off radio And chased each signal where she longed to go
[Pre-Chorus]
She learned a song could open any door Then brought the keys back home for countless more
[Chorus]
She left us everything she gave away A book beside a bed, whole worlds on every page Her voice may leave the room, her kindness always stays She left us everything she gave away
(Everything she gave) (Everything she gave)
[Verse 2]
She made the midnight sparkle like the noon High heels and bright stones lit the room She laughed before the world could make the joke And made us feel at home each time she spoke
She sang for women racing round the clock For red-haired fire no mirror could contain She sang of love released with open hands Of lonely shores made whole against the rain
[Pre-Chorus]
Each spotlight opened one more shining door She held it wide for those shut out before
[Chorus]
She left us everything she gave away A book beside a bed, whole worlds on every page Her voice may leave the room, her kindness always stays She left us everything she gave away
(Everything she gave) (Everything she gave)
[Verse 3]
A letter opened roads a student chose A home came back where only ashes rose A midnight lamp stayed on where healers served A valley woke; the silent engines stirred
But brighter than the lights above the stage Was one small book, a doorway on each page A child with few books they could call their own Found one new world addressed to them alone
No test to pass, no price they had to pay Just proof their mind was worth the world that day
[Bridge]
Her father built a life but could not read She turned that missing page into a seed What he had been denied, she gave away So other children could choose their own way
What will remain of what we kept? What will remain of what we gave?
[Final Chorus]
We leave them everything we give away Their name upon the package, tomorrow on the page Give every child a world that poverty can't take We leave them everything we give away Let every empty thing we give away Let every empty shelf become a gate Let every borrowed pencil find a page To write a life no circumstance can cage We leave them everything we give away
(Everything we give)
[Outro]
A small hand tears the paper at the seam Their name is thereāthis book belongs to them A first word rises softly into light A butterfly lifts slowly into flight
She left us everything she gave away