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

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