Dust (reprise)

Sorry I haven't posted for a long while.  I have more content that I hope to upload soon.  This is my attempt to turn my poem "Dust" into a song.

And she walks down to the shore

Up to the edge of the waves

The distance to the sunset

Is matched only by her gaze

And no strings bind her

That would keep her from going where she wants

And I hope peace finds her

But I fear there is nowhere she belongs

And her home is like the dust from God's fingers

Cast everywhere, but never stopping to linger

All empires crumble to the ground

But men still seek to build them tall

There all built on foundations unsound

She knows as she watches them fall

But they still laugh at her

Cause she has nothing in their eyes

But it doesn't matter

Because she sees through truth's disguise

And her home is like the dust from God's fingers

Cast everywhere, but never stopping to linger

It's hard to love this girl

Who's happy to pass me by

But I want to see her unfurl 

The love that she carries inside

And I want her to spread her wings

That she's so afraid to unfurl

I want her to laugh and sing

And spread her love throughout the whole wide world

And her love is like the dust from God's fingers

Cast everywhere but never stopping to linger

Ghost Song

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a long time.  Eastwind only has one place on the edge of the community where I can access the internet and I rarely get up here.  Here's a song I just wrote.  I don't have a recording yet, but we do have a recording studio which i should really become familiar with.
Ghost
The ghost of the past
The size of the life it encompasses
 Pulls you back
As you try to anticipate how it will haunt you next

But you must realize
That you are more than the flesh and blood that
Hold you back
Awaken to the dawn burning in your eyes

Let go of your ghost
Its just a memory that fades when you
Open your eyes
To the new day that surrounds you

Even the dark
Can’t banish this light
the present reveals
When you silence your mind

And realize that you are
All that fills your eyes


I spent a lifetime haunted by
A ghost I could never escape
Until I looked into God’s eyes
And from my slumber I did wake

And I realized that even when this body passes away
That I would never die because only my ghost dissipates

Until that day
Nothing meant anything to me
And darkness reigned
So long as I desired not to see

But when I opened my eyes
that moment I glimpsed the divine
I was changed
And my mind was clarified

And all I felt was love
For all I could see

All lives have these moments where
Everything falls into place
But then they disappear as they came:
Without a trace

But if you let go of your desire
Ghosts wont chase those moments away
And you’ll live forever in this love
That greets you like a brand new day

So let go of your ghost
Its just a memory that fades when you
Open your eyes
To the new day that surrounds you

Even the dark
Can’t banish this light
the present reveals
When you silence your mind

And realize that you are
All that fills your eyes

Unkown

I could only tell you what it's like to be there
And yet you will never know how it can be felt
I would only try to explain what cannot be said

Describe the unknown
The unknown

I could only try to show you how it might be
But still your heart would not be able to see
I might leave you to yourself to think about that

Think of the unknown
So unknown

I can feel this place that is somewhere out there
It is this place that asks for nothing in return
All it ever asks is for me to feel right at home
And without words

I will gladly stay
In the unknown

You might think that some words
Would not dare to fail me
And yet there are none that I can
Try to bring about
You could only try to make me talk about it,

But it stays unknown
It's unknown

All it ever asks is for me to feel right at home
And without words

I will gladly stay
In the unknown

I will never try to find words where there are none,
And yet some will try to follow where I have been
I will always try to keep this place inside me

Where it is unknown
It's unknown

Life Sized Ghost

Lyrics:

Place your dreams where they're meant to be 

Name your price to be at ease
To comply is to lose our innocence
Now I am not so innocent

Life size ghosts 
Have come rushing through the cracks
Life size ghosts
They have come to push you back

Cut your ties they have lived to die
Trace your hand round an untouched land
Or watch fortune's skill
As it becomes invisible
Now will you be invisible?

Journey

This is the story of how I found the communes…

http://www.thefec.org/communities

Journey
And they say that I live in my own world
And that I walk through this life in a dream
And my words seem to melt into the air
Cause when I talk they turn away

So I wondered aloud
About this world that I found

And I asked "am I the thoughts inside my head?"
And they said "yes, you are that and nothing more"
And when I said "no I am everything else"
They said "no you are not" and shut the door

So I wandered alone
From this place in which I thought I was home

So I wandered through fields
And valleys and mountains
Through cities and country
And continents and nations

But I went through all these lands
As a foreigner and stranger
And they looked at me through eyes
As if I walked out of their dreams

Their dreams…


It was then as I walked somberly
Through these lands that had forsaken me
That I found my people dreaming the dream
That I had always dreamed…

And I found in your eyes
the truth that we are all we see

And we'll show them that our love
is more than just a dream

And they'll say that we live in our own world
And that we walk through this life in a dream
But we'll show them that our love is real
And we'll show them a new way….

Dreamself

Sorry I have been MIA for a while.  Here are some more song lyrics I've written.



They say
That when you are awake
That you are you
And I am me

But they say
That when you are dreaming
That you everything
'Cause your mind creates all that it sees


But what if I told you
That it never changes
'Cause when you awaken
You're still dreaming
And the world that surrounds you
Is all that you are
Cause the mind that percieves it
Arises from everything

And your life is the world's dream


But sometimes
Your mind runs in circles
And the love that's between us
Seems so far away
And the future expanding
Along with your past
Takes you away from the present
And all that you are here and now

And I wrote this song for you

Cause your life is the dream of the world
And your life is the world's dream

Meeting A Stranger For The First Time

Another song for you... still no recording though.  In the meantime I'll give you another song:

Meeting  A Stranger For The First Time

Walk down these streets while their feet and their faces

pass me by

They move as if they’re in a trance or as if I’m not

Really here

And I look into their eyes

And they look away

Cars driving up to the stoplights

Honk in their rush to get away

The streetlamps block out the moonlight

And I’m left here waiting for a sign….

And you appear under streetlamp’s glare

And In your eyes

I see you there

Noise from the city surrounds us with movement

But for me everything is still

An unspoken feeling, surrounding, expanding

To you, and me, the city…

And I’ve always lived for these moments

Where everything falls into place

Nothing between us but silence

No words could pierce our gaze

[bridge]

And you walk towards me

And my eyes can feel the touch of your smile

A dream all around us

As you walk by

[bridge]

I feel your smile though you dissolve into the crowd

City’s rhythm pulls you away into the emptiness of the streets

And I turn around

As you walk away

And the birds calling out from the rooftops

Tell me what I felt wasn't there

And I’m left here standing in silence

As the city pulls me away...

And you turn around….

Concrete and Shadows

 I promise you I'll find some way to record myself.  Till then, I guess we'll both have to be satisfied with lyrics.

Concrete and Shadows

Reflecting its shades of grey

The moon lights the people’s cityscape

Waiting for them to open their eyes

From a dream so fantastic it touches the sky

Lets take all its shapes of squares and straight lines

And curve them and weave them like ivy vines

Lets touch all the pavement, the steel and the glass

And turn it to forest, to fields and to grass

And dance in the rain

Time will stop again

My friend

And you are the sunrise that is what it embraces

And you are the leaves’ green dancing in the grey

Concrete and shadows won’t keep you in memory’s chains

Echoing on the stone

Feet try to find their way home

Faces pass each other by

A friendly glance shares no reply

But I look into you and see in your eyes

The love that’s so wanting in the city at night.

Lets take the awareness we share in our gaze

And use it to build and to live a new way

And touch all the grey

And to green it will fade

Cause you are the sunrise that is what it embraces

And you are the leaves’ green dancing in the grey

Concrete and shadows won’t keep you in memory’s chains

Time slowly turns all into dust

Concrete crumbles and metal rusts

All things born will pass away

Isolation cannot remain

Glass towers enclose me while feet touch the stone

People surround me yet I feel alone

The love I remember fades in with the grey

And tonight I’m left longing for the warmth of new day

But I hope all the same

I’ll feel it again

With you my friend

Cause you are the sunrise that is what it embraces

And you are the leaves’ green dancing in the grey

Concrete and shadows won’t keep you in memory’s chains

My Feet Grow In the Ground

Sorry I have been MIA for a while.  I've been teaching myself guitar and have written my first song!  I can give you the lyrics but unfortunately I don't have the means (nor the skill) to provide you with a proper recording.

Lyrics:

I see my flesh break through the soil:

Green sprouts from the brown.

I taste my blood fall from the sky:

Onto the thirsty ground.

I smell my bones: richness of earth

Wet with the morning rain.

I feel my eye pierce through the clouds,

Lighting a brand new day.

Freedom comes when memories fade

And the future whispers its truth

This love unbridled cannot be tamed

Once you release it in you

Feet sink in soil walking the path

Away from a day in the fields

Friends by your side joke and they laugh

knowing how the others feel

Something’s real about the way

You forget what you thought you were

Sun shines dimly as day wanes

And all you can feel is love

Freedom comes when memories fade

And the future whispers its truth

This love unbridled cannot be tamed

Once you release it in you

[bridge]

Seasons come and seasons go

But I remain here still.

Even when I pass away

I will dissolve into it all

Freedom comes when memories fade

And the future whispers its truth

This love unbridled cannot be tamed

Once you release it in you