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The Best of Operation 365

by The Jefferson Jay Band

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1.
The Next Great Escape 02:55
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The Next Great Escape Am7 D7 Bikini ladies walking through the bathroom Am7 D7 Taking several pills to stay in shape Am7 D7 I saw the restless owls on their telephone calls Am7 D7 Counting old mistakes Gm7 Am7 Escaping out the window Gm7 Am7 Escaping to the street Gm7 Am7 Escaping almost everywhere B7 What’s the next great escape? Am7 D7 Still smoking cigarettes is really silly Am7 D7 Some would tell you silly’s the new safe Am7 D7 Suddenly everything seems so temporary Am7 D7 How did those bikini babes escape? Gm7 Am7 Escaping out the window Gm7 Am7 Escaping to the street Gm7 Am7 Escaping almost everywhere B7 What’s the next great escape?
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Beg 03:20
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Try Not to Beg B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 When I try to open my eyes, I know I feel something B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 When I try, and run for surprise or try to escape B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 When I feel like I’ve realized, I know I’m on to something B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 As I feel that moment arise, right now I feel great A7 B7 Looking back, Jack, take a tactic back A7 E7 You’ll feel this forever A7 B7 Stay awake, Jayce, end the place race G7 Before it’s too late A7 B7 Spend your time, rhyme harmonize A7 E7 with the thoughts that are out there for you A7 B7 Take this step, yep, it’s a chase, race G7 we’ve all got to taste B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 When I feel this feeling arrive, I know that I’m on to something B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 When I reach the moment of right, I’m glad that I waited for you B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 The reason that this feeling exists, to be in the moment’s inspiring B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 B7 E7 The awe-inspired feeling it lifts my soul up up and away A7 B7 Know this time, rhyme, ring the chime, crime A7 E7 It’s coming all after us now A7 B7 Read your rights, left, take a turn, G7 we’ve all got to make A7 B7 Re-arrive live, share, there’s something that A7 E7 we’re all sorry for, now A7 B7 Take this step, yep, it’s a chase, race G7 we’ve all got to taste B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to beg B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to give me the time B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to beg B7 E7 G7 The last move is mine B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to beg time B7 E7 G7 To keep you awake B7 E7 G7 You just have to make time B7 E7 G7 Your willing slave B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to beg B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to give me the time B7 E7 G7 You don’t have to beg B7 E7 G7 The last move is mine B7 E7 G7 The last move is mine B7 E7 G7 The last move is mine B7 E7 G7 The last move is mine B7 E7 G7 End on E7add2
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I'll Take You 03:54
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I’ll Take You C Am I can’t wait to begin to grow up C Am I feel like climbing high C Am I can’t wait to go and fill my cup C Am It’s these infernal thoughts that rack my mind Em Am Oh, I’m tied to the whisper Em Am I’m hanging on the touch Em Am I’ve been raised to blister Em Am And now I’m dazed and needing clutch Am G Hold my hand and heal forever Am G Hold my hand or I’ll fade away too soon Am G Hold my hand as I discard the treasure Am G Hold my hand and I’ll take you, I’ll take you C Am Na na na na na na na na na na na na C Am Na na na na na na na na na na na na C Am Na na na na na na na na na na na na C Am Na na na na na na na na na na na na Em Am I’m feelin’ as this moment grows me higher Em Am I look back at demons in the night Em Am Will I softly collapse? Will I aspire? Em Am To take these torn-up wings and head for flight Am G Hold my hand and heal forever Am G Hold my hand or I’ll fade away too soon Am G Hold my hand as I feel scarred by pleasure Am G Hold my hand and I’ll take you, I’ll take you Am G Hold my hand and heal forever Am G Hold my hand or I’ll fade away too soon Am G Hold my hand as I feel scarred by pleasure Am G Hold my hand and I’ll take you, I’ll take you End on G Em A
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Lauren and Jeremiah 02:14
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Lauren and Jeremiah D A Lauren Tulimero grew up playin’ in the streets of Santee Who knew what a great woman she would be? Love can come along, sometimes, so naturally From the beaches right here in San Diego to the hills of Tennessee G Love comes when it’s time D A Jeremiah grew up in a radio station, cranking classic hits His mama taught him to love great art and got him workin’ on his wits. When he met Lauren he knew, she’d only have the greatest things Asked her to marry him, his nephew give her an engagement ring G Love comes when it’s right D A When it’s right When it’s right Yeah, baby, it’s right
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Time to Find an Answer 02:29
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Time to Find an Answer Em C Am Em Lately I’ve had time to see my life Looking back into my lover’s eyes It is hard for me to be surprised Watching as realities revise C G Em Em It’s time to find an answer Now we’ll let the universe provide It’s time we find an answer I’ll swear it’s there right before our eyes Em C Am Em Looking back what did I hope to find There is no panacea in your mind You put your love out there don’t look behind The simple truth is always to be kind C G Em Em It’s time to find an answer Now we’ll let the universe provide It’s time we find an answer I’ll swear it’s there right before our eyes Am G x 4 C G Em Em It’s time to find an answer Now we’ll let the universe provide It’s time we find an answer I’ll swear it’s there right before our eyes
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Amethyst 02:26
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Amethyst F Bb G C You can have what you want in this life F Bb G C If you can muster the strength to believe F Bb G C Some will try to shove you down in this life F Bb G C But it’s those who fail to see Bb C F Money can’t bring happiness Bb C F And there is no substitute for love Bb C F There is no stone or amethyst Bb C F It’s from inside and up above F Bb G C You can drown yourself in cruelty and sorrow F Bb G C You can try to live a life collecting things F Bb G C You can misjudge the power found in kindness F Bb G C It’s up to you, the fruits your actions bring Bb C F Money can’t bring happiness Bb C F And there is no substitute for love Bb C F There is no stone or amethyst Bb C F It’s from inside and up above C D G F C D G G C D G F C D G G Bb C F Money can’t bring happiness Bb C F And there is no substitute for love Bb C F There is no stone or amethyst Bb C F It’s from inside and up above Bb C F Money can’t bring happiness Bb C F And there is no substitute for love Bb C F There is no stone or amethyst Bb C F It’s from inside and up above C Bb F
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July 05:01
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July Capo 1 Intro: B7 Em x3 D#7 D7 B7 Em I don’t think that I’m that kind of guy B7 Em To work a job I hate, just getting by B7 Em To fuel the madness, never asking why B7 B7 Em To burn up in the fiery heat of July D7 It’s 101 A7 In the noon day sun D7 A7 How you feeling everyone? D7 A7 June is gone July’s begun D7 Here in the summer A7 We’ll have some fun D#7 D7 B7 Em It’s 107 an hour after noon B7 Em You can feel there is a showdown coming soon B7 Em The buzzards hover over Lake Dragoon B7 B7 Em The hyenas, they are laughing, at the moon D7 It’s 103 A7 Near 6, you see D7 A7 This heat has been affecting me D7 A7 I can hardly remember my ABC’s D7 A7 My 3-4-5’s or 1-2-3’s D7 If you can’t stand the kitchen, A7 If you hate the heat D7 A7 You can fry an egg on the side of the street D7 A7 You better just love the sun, so sweet D7 A7 My sunburn’s almost melting me D#7 D7 B7 Em I sit in the oppression of the sun B7 Em My head in my hands, undressing what I’ve done B7 Em Insult that light and then you cock the gun B7 Em Everything’s affecting everyone A7 July D7 Don’t deny B7 You are the sky E7 The reason why G7 Your life A7 July D7 Don’t deny B7 You are the sky E7 The reason why G7 Your life A7 July D7 Don’t deny B7 You are the sky E7 The reason why G7 Your life A7 July D7 Don’t deny B7 You are the sky E7 The reason why G7 Your life
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The Road to Freedom 03:07
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Take Time On Your Road to Freedom G C I’m snuggling with the dogs from the other side of the railroad tracks G D G7 Gonna take a different look and let me be free G C I’m looking at you from the other side of the railroad tracks G D G Takin’ a step back, settin’ myself free C G Take time to find freedom C G Take time to find your way on the long road home C G Take time and find on your road to freedom D G That when you say, your dreams are covered in gold G C Lookin back it seems a whole lot clearer G C G F C How could you know your way on the other side the… G C Path I know I’m taking, gonna get me now where I’m going G D G It’s high time I found my way on this side of the road C G Take time on your road to freedom C G Take time to find your way on this side of the road C G Look back while you’re blazing tracks, you know just where you’re at G D G Take time to find your way on this side of the road Solo - G C G D G7 G C G D G C G Yeah, take time on your road to freedom C G Take time to find your way on this side of the road C G Look back, blaze a path, blaze a track, you know where you’re needed G D G7 Take time to find your way on this side of the road
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Your Way Back Home 02:51
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Take Time To Find Your Way Back Home Am x 4 Am G I ain’t seen a woman for month and twenty days Am How’s she gonna look when I get home G And I have missed my woman now in oh so many ways Am How much longer will it take til I get home? G Am Take time to remember G Am Take time to find your way back home G Am Take time to gather love together G Am Take time and find your way back home G I ain’t seen my family now for a month and thirty days Am How much longer will it be til I get home? G And I can’t take this longing it’s left me in such a way Am In a way where I don’t feel like I belong G Am Take time to remember G Am Take time and find your way back home G Am Take time to gather love together G Am Take time and find your way back home Solo over verse G Am Take time to remember G Am Take time and find your way back home G Am Take time to gather love together G Am Take time and find your way back home Am And find your way back home Am And find your way back home Am And find your way back home End on Am
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Spinning 02:57
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Spinning F Dm7 F Dm7 I like bikes, been thinkin’of moving on to trikes F Dm7 Eb But I’ve been likin’ the bikin’ feel for days F Dm7 F Dm7 I take time with every moment in my mind F Dm7 Cm7 Choose disarray or find the silver lining A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again F Dm7 F Dm7 Meeting where I breathe, in every moment I conceive F Dm7 Eb A simpler way to find what I aspire to F Dm7 F Dm7 Living in the dreams, it’s not a a riddle or a scheme F Dm7 Cm7 It’s simply tryin’ to find some piece of mind A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again F Dm7 F Dm7 Living takes breaks, for every moment there’s mistakes F Dm7 Eb We can live around them on the sides F Dm7 F Dm7 The world’s moving real fast. I’ll say, so far I’ve had a blast F Dm7 Cm7 And golden days are coming I’m inclined (to believe) A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again A B C#m E The world keeps spinning around and then around again F Dm7 F Dm7 F Dm7 Cm7 C#m7 F
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There Comes a Time 03:18
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There Comes A Time Capo 5 Verse: G D | G D | G D | C Ch: D G | A | There comes a time when the universe reminds us That we’re all one together in our lives The here and now shows us everything and how Tells us what we’re all about, what’s on our minds Do we care? Do we share in what’s between us? You aware? Of who they’re killing in your name Is it fair That the billionaires are dealing out our share In bailouts, bonuses and bribes? You know it’s true that what’s real depends on you Depends on everything you do here in your life? Are you one of them or equity your friend? Is every body equal in your mind? If they’re not Then someday you’re gonna answer As you squat Trying to keep what you thought was yours But its not It’s that illusion that you cling to, you forgot You were never one of them There comes a time when the living folks align Stand up versus what’s over the line This is our time Yes it’s yours and mine No more living with the crime that comes when greed is unchecked blind With love to find
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Why Decide/Release 05:09
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Why Decide?/Release C Bm G Em Why anything matters What really is At your heart What you’re made of Always changes But there is a core we’re building on Some ground On which to grow Am Em x4 There is a generation coming What they need to know I apply love in my life Like it’s a mission Each second is an opportuni- Ty. We’ve been given C Bm G Em If living is a canvass, What intentions will you paint If everyone’s a sinner If everyone’s a saint If you feel you’re trying Doing what you believe If you feel you’re answering Important mysteries Am Em x4 I Live my life Right Cause it’s my time treating other people like their world is mine how much we can be giving is as far as we will go if you’re usually taking you feel wrong, you know CGD x3 Em give and live try and fly you decide in this life CGD x3 Em Am B7 what you do til you’re through matters forever love’s true CGD x3 Em C D make what you want in your mind you will find what you need to C G D Gifts to give And love shared Hug the answer’s Always there You try You’ll see The welcomed world Of harmony Let go Be free Fill yourself With ecstacy Feel God Be free And live life the way It’s meant to be Am Em Am Em Take solace in this thought And venture on Be free and know momentum here Is strong CGD x3 Em Am B7 It won’t be long It truly won’t be long Remember this. Be strong C Peace D Be free G Release

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The Best of Operation 365 features 12 tracks penned by Jefferson Jay for his 2011 daily video project. The Operation 365, matched in its breadth only by Jay's Operation 365 2 (2016), featured 3 videos (an original, a cover and a cut from Jay's extensive local music archive) and a blog daily for a year. These 12 represent a cross-section of the entire project and 12 of Jay's favorite musical moments of the journey.


Dedicated to

Angel, Michael J. Warrington,
Kirsten Dahlgren, Shannon Corbin
& Dick Van Ransom-Magaña

Love lives forever. All Hail Love

LOVE

Thanks to my family, Leanne Pearl, Angel, Nigel, and Mobley.

Thanks to Wes Davis, Blowski, Eagle Tiger, Dylan Avery. Mama Blow, Portugalia and everyone who ever went there, Winston’s Beach Club, The Hunsbergers, Skylar Holewinski, Jason Nascimento, Jack Davidson, Robin Lee, Justin Mills, Adrianna Martin-Morningstar, Lauren Tulimero, Jeremiah Bryant, The Occupy Movement, Patrick Henry High School, Operation 365, James Deans, Justin Werner, Brett Walling, Jeff Shaefer, Andy Davis, Jeff Davis, and Chimney Fish, Adelaide Marcus, Ted Washington, Ted Wigler, Dennis Moore, Jeff and Jillian Dewine, Jeff Miller, Ed Fletcher, Kevin Mankins, Alan Goodman, Shawn Power, Tom Pearl, and all the great musicians who lent their talents to this cause,

Cover art by Adelaide Marcus
Graphic design by Dylan Avery

Produced by Jefferson Jay
All songs written by Jefferson Jay

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released April 20, 2018

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Jefferson Jay works to improve the world through art and love. A community-oriented original, Jay's "24 Hours of Free Music" and his two Operation 365 video projects - three videos and blog each day for a year! - are testaments to art, individuality, inclusion, and experience. ... more

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