my name is Matt Hagen and I’m gonna play
for you some original songs I was told
that the theme of today was the letter e
and so I picked this word expression
it’s the way I deal with the things in
my life and I’ve had a interesting one
so far and I’m gonna start off with a
song that I wrote that helped me express
my feelings of distrust I had very
strong feelings of distrust in my
homeland and this song is called the
in another town
daddy taught us a phony but that was
and if it’s not a crime I do whether
grew to comfortable thinking that it
always be right there to take him away
gods has breached the gates
why don’t you think to bring this thing
large
robbing our little bars half dreaming
someone else’s tries from another time
it’s not this sugar pill you know that
when you pick your poison you were
it’s the dollar bill that the dangle out
of reach but right in front of your eyes
[Music]
all the while they know the only value
in the world is everything measured in
time guards
we reached the gates
I know why they didn’t raise the alarms
still rather not little eyes half
dreaming someone else lies from another
ha
[Music]
this morning it’s so content to pull up
the blankets and to cover my eyes
[Music]
this evil it’s so both tempted to pull
up the blankets and to cover my eyes
[Music]
call in the reserve order to find out
they’ve always been the evils right
hands know the enemy has breached
but in this race these lumps
still robbing our little eyes half
dreaming someone else lies from another
time
[Applause]
[Music]
someone else tries from a daughter
[Music]
[Applause]
it wasn’t completely out of distress
that I left my home land I really love
New Zealand and wanted to be here with
all my heart and this song is about the
difficulty it wasn’t easy became
pregnant with with a little baby in the
womb and had no community or family here
and this is how I expressed that it’s
called stronger than fiction
are we
surrounded by strangers so strange how
the truth turned out to be stronger than
we rode stronger than 10,000 horsepower
trains stronger than the gravity that’s
pulling us down
so I turned
to face
and tide
I guess I thought
[Music]
but with this baby in my arms
I guess that
will to be
stronger than fiction we’re old strong
10,000 horsepower dreams strong with
healthy gravity that’s pulling us down
come
[Music]
we called from my lid
they won’t be
[Music]
[Applause]
friends they’ll become
[Applause]
I plan to grow my family
we rode it stronger than 10,000
horsepower dreams
stronger than the gravity that holding
[Applause]
a beautiful sound
[Music]
[Applause]
then we had a dream of having a home and
that hasn’t turned out to be odd easy
either this is called sovereign
expressing my desire for a home of my
own
[Music]
when I’m standing at last on sovereign
land freedom to build with the tools and
my hands
will I see it through
but and from stone
like the pictures I drew will there come
a heart
like I promised you a promise to
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
I stare through the glass boxes they’ve
made
square patch of grass with
things are displayed
[Music]
Kalai 12
[Music]
will I see it through wood and from
stone
like the pictures I do there come the
heart
like I promised you I promised you
before there were deeds and after
they’ve gone
once and again
[Music]
from stone
the pictures
[Music]
like a promise to a promise to
[Applause]
like I
we got there in the end I have a home in
Brooklyn’s it’s amazing never give up
but sometimes you should this next song
sorry is about the difficulty expressing
the difficulty of achieving anything of
any achieving anything of any importance
it’s called Icarus you may be familiar
with this story about Daedalus his dad
who was usually not named in a lot of
Icarus type things in the maze of his
design
I learned to fine
and his son by his side doesn’t sound
all that bad but they’d rather have died
as it was they weren’t free doomed by
royal decree and their sorrows to burn
in the heat of Cretan Sun they’d only
leave in an urn
[Applause]
adela this as he was called was that
loss finding ways they could escape when
overhead fluent albatross a single
to risk my boy now gather these and
we’ll beat this prison land
so for days he is fired though his hands
cracked and tired wings of feathers so
light held together with wax on their
backs what a sight when his work was all
done he said a Karass my son don’t fly
up too high I pray all the Sun will melt
all of that wax
but it caress could not possess the open
sky haha hi it’s a lesson left for all
of those who follow lest we should fall
die build your dreams if your
but if your dreams are made of wax then
I suggest you stay on the ground
[Music]
is it fun to have dreams of the earth
far below if it is let me know if I must
I will rest in the dust download
but for now I will try to do my best
until I die I’ll build some wings and
fly so high till the rain is a mere
and because I can’t leave you on a note
like that cuz it’s a bit sad I’m gonna
play one last song it’s called this
thing I do it’s how I get this out of my
system
this is efer expression to the max and
at the end if you feel like singing the
little loop that says let it all out
with me you’ll hear the pitches let it
all out let it all out that’s how we got
to do we all have to let it out in my
life there are pleasantness creeps show
me a sign if it happens to you and my
lucky thing I know just what to do you
gotta slip away quietly take a seat grab
a guitar
close your eyes tune the strings take a
breath on 4g wings unfold your wings and
just strum they like this thing I do to
let it all out let it out loud
such a relief to hear you feelin the
same breaking my heart to watch them
being so cruel
but everyone’s scared to stand up and
call it uncool you got us the point
close your eyes tune the strings take a
breath on full Joey
now we’ll start you had some
let it all out let it all out
into their lives when a melody comes too
busy harassing texting gossip round and
round and round em you might even think
the autumn make music instead of
bringing people down bringing people
down they gotta slip away quietly take a
seat grab a guitar or a harp close your
eyes
tune the strings take a breath unfold
your wings on thought your ways and just
wrong
ha ha
and I wish that you
some do like this thing
[Applause]
thank you very much for having me you guys enjoy the rest of your TEDx
for you some original songs I was told
that the theme of today was the letter e
and so I picked this word expression
it’s the way I deal with the things in
my life and I’ve had a interesting one
so far and I’m gonna start off with a
song that I wrote that helped me express
my feelings of distrust I had very
strong feelings of distrust in my
homeland and this song is called the
in another town
daddy taught us a phony but that was
and if it’s not a crime I do whether
grew to comfortable thinking that it
always be right there to take him away
gods has breached the gates
why don’t you think to bring this thing
large
robbing our little bars half dreaming
someone else’s tries from another time
it’s not this sugar pill you know that
when you pick your poison you were
it’s the dollar bill that the dangle out
of reach but right in front of your eyes
[Music]
all the while they know the only value
in the world is everything measured in
time guards
we reached the gates
I know why they didn’t raise the alarms
still rather not little eyes half
dreaming someone else lies from another
ha
[Music]
this morning it’s so content to pull up
the blankets and to cover my eyes
[Music]
this evil it’s so both tempted to pull
up the blankets and to cover my eyes
[Music]
call in the reserve order to find out
they’ve always been the evils right
hands know the enemy has breached
but in this race these lumps
still robbing our little eyes half
dreaming someone else lies from another
time
[Applause]
[Music]
someone else tries from a daughter
[Music]
[Applause]
it wasn’t completely out of distress
that I left my home land I really love
New Zealand and wanted to be here with
all my heart and this song is about the
difficulty it wasn’t easy became
pregnant with with a little baby in the
womb and had no community or family here
and this is how I expressed that it’s
called stronger than fiction
are we
surrounded by strangers so strange how
the truth turned out to be stronger than
we rode stronger than 10,000 horsepower
trains stronger than the gravity that’s
pulling us down
so I turned
to face
and tide
I guess I thought
[Music]
but with this baby in my arms
I guess that
will to be
stronger than fiction we’re old strong
10,000 horsepower dreams strong with
healthy gravity that’s pulling us down
come
[Music]
we called from my lid
they won’t be
[Music]
[Applause]
friends they’ll become
[Applause]
I plan to grow my family
we rode it stronger than 10,000
horsepower dreams
stronger than the gravity that holding
[Applause]
a beautiful sound
[Music]
[Applause]
then we had a dream of having a home and
that hasn’t turned out to be odd easy
either this is called sovereign
expressing my desire for a home of my
own
[Music]
when I’m standing at last on sovereign
land freedom to build with the tools and
my hands
will I see it through
but and from stone
like the pictures I drew will there come
a heart
like I promised you a promise to
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
I stare through the glass boxes they’ve
made
square patch of grass with
things are displayed
[Music]
Kalai 12
[Music]
will I see it through wood and from
stone
like the pictures I do there come the
heart
like I promised you I promised you
before there were deeds and after
they’ve gone
once and again
[Music]
from stone
the pictures
[Music]
like a promise to a promise to
[Applause]
like I
we got there in the end I have a home in
Brooklyn’s it’s amazing never give up
but sometimes you should this next song
sorry is about the difficulty expressing
the difficulty of achieving anything of
any achieving anything of any importance
it’s called Icarus you may be familiar
with this story about Daedalus his dad
who was usually not named in a lot of
Icarus type things in the maze of his
design
I learned to fine
and his son by his side doesn’t sound
all that bad but they’d rather have died
as it was they weren’t free doomed by
royal decree and their sorrows to burn
in the heat of Cretan Sun they’d only
leave in an urn
[Applause]
adela this as he was called was that
loss finding ways they could escape when
overhead fluent albatross a single
to risk my boy now gather these and
we’ll beat this prison land
so for days he is fired though his hands
cracked and tired wings of feathers so
light held together with wax on their
backs what a sight when his work was all
done he said a Karass my son don’t fly
up too high I pray all the Sun will melt
all of that wax
but it caress could not possess the open
sky haha hi it’s a lesson left for all
of those who follow lest we should fall
die build your dreams if your
but if your dreams are made of wax then
I suggest you stay on the ground
[Music]
is it fun to have dreams of the earth
far below if it is let me know if I must
I will rest in the dust download
but for now I will try to do my best
until I die I’ll build some wings and
fly so high till the rain is a mere
and because I can’t leave you on a note
like that cuz it’s a bit sad I’m gonna
play one last song it’s called this
thing I do it’s how I get this out of my
system
this is efer expression to the max and
at the end if you feel like singing the
little loop that says let it all out
with me you’ll hear the pitches let it
all out let it all out that’s how we got
to do we all have to let it out in my
life there are pleasantness creeps show
me a sign if it happens to you and my
lucky thing I know just what to do you
gotta slip away quietly take a seat grab
a guitar
close your eyes tune the strings take a
breath on 4g wings unfold your wings and
just strum they like this thing I do to
let it all out let it out loud
such a relief to hear you feelin the
same breaking my heart to watch them
being so cruel
but everyone’s scared to stand up and
call it uncool you got us the point
close your eyes tune the strings take a
breath on full Joey
now we’ll start you had some
let it all out let it all out
into their lives when a melody comes too
busy harassing texting gossip round and
round and round em you might even think
the autumn make music instead of
bringing people down bringing people
down they gotta slip away quietly take a
seat grab a guitar or a harp close your
eyes
tune the strings take a breath unfold
your wings on thought your ways and just
wrong
ha ha
and I wish that you
some do like this thing
[Applause]
thank you very much for having me you guys enjoy the rest of your TEDx
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