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1. |
Cedar Tree
06:10
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Get inside are you ready for the storm
What do you embrace?
What keeps you warm?
Do you hear your heart beating over the alarm?
Have you caught a glimpse of what is taking form?
You go from solid ground
To being lost at sea
Your candle can’t keep burning
When it’s adding to the breeze
How will you find your heart if you never find your knees
When you remember where you’re from
You’ll remember how to dream
Faster now, do you feel it in your bones?
They hold more wisdom than most will ever know
10,000 years and what do we have to show
The medicine you seek emerges very
Slow down
Try to relax now
You can always change your mind
Back to the races what is it your tasting?
Can you tell the difference as you stumble through your haste now?
If you forgive them you will have to find a way
To honor grief for what was lost that day
You go from solid ground to being lost at sea
Your candle can’t keep burning
When you’re adding to the breeze
How can you find your heart
If you never find your knees
When you remember where you’re from
You’ll remember how to dream
When will it stop this obsession with the top?
This religion of worshiping everything you’re not
This industry of manufactured false gods
Will only serves to emphasize all that has been lost
You go from solid ground to being lost at sea
Your candle can’t keep burning
When you’re adding to the breeze
How can you find your heart if you never find your knees
When you remember where you’re from
You’ll remember how to dream
I offer this simple prayer
Patience please
Patience please
Like a cedar tree
Let me be
Ever green
Ever loving
When the wild wind blows
I am always home
As my soul embodies this skin and bones
As my heart roots down
The higher my spirit grows
In life and death
We are held through this
Through the fall of pain and springs of bliss
Forever in service to the infinite
So keep my heart beating strong
As I make my way home
As we remember the most ancient of songs
When you hear my call
Won’t you respond
It goes heyayayaya
Heyayayaya
Heyayayaya
It goes heyayayaya
Heyayayaya
Heyayayaya
So just slow down
No need to rush to now
You can always change your mind
Just slow down
Try to relax now
You’ve arrived right on time
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2. |
Let It Go
05:09
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I love you from the rainforest as you’re burning down the trees
What do you imagine you will find when you have everything you think you need
What will there be space to hear once you’ve cut the forest down and clear
What will there be space to do when the only tree left standin there... Is you?
If you could hear the chords that play between my mind and heart…
Soon you’d come to realize that you and I are not so far apart
When your axe is at its sharpest, it’s time to lay it down
This is always the hardest part, so let’s practice right here, right now
And let the peace that radiates from somewhere deep within
Welcome the deepest healing right beneath the skin
If you’re losing track, then let it go, steady as she goes
For what is true always returns with something new to grow
Laying this down is sacred work of which there is no lack
If you’re wondering where to start, then start by giving back
And remember to give forward too, two parts for unborn hearts
So the sky they play under will dream of you for remembering your part
As the most sacred of geometry begins to constellate your heart
In the puddles of the ancient days
Where I kneeled to wash my face
I heart my grandfather say, “where there is wonder, there is a way
Where there is wonder there is a way, where there is wonder... there is a way”
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Free Your Mind
04:30
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There is a place where the road comes to an end
More or less two blocks from my Bellingham friends
If you are wondering, she’ll welcome you in
And offer a place to begin again
Where cedar meets the coast you will hear the hymn
Karate church singing revolution
In a world gone mad, we have grabbed that hatter’s brim
And tipped it back to people over profit
There are days when I wonder
If we’ll ever get it right
For what I’ve seen has left me reeling
On too many sleepless nights
And I have been lost in the darkness
Just reaching out for the light
If what you feed is feeding on you
How will you ever win that fight?
One strike of lightning will change a tiger’s stripes
That’s how the leopard came to be one stormy night
The sound of thunder lands so easy in my soul
Reminding me that we are never in control
So I’ll count my blessings until the day I let 'em go
At which point they will be part of my soul
May what I leave behind bring you closer to Truth
For once you’ve seen it, there’s nothing else to do
For once you’ve seen it, there’s nothing else to do
There are days when I wonder
If we’ll ever get it right
For what I’ve seen has left me reeling
On too many sleepless nights
And I have been lost in the darkness
Just reaching out for the light
If what you feed is feeding on you
How will you ever free your mind?
There are days when I wonder
If we’ll ever get it right
For what I’ve seen has left me reeling
On too many sleepless nights
And I have been lost in the darkness
Just reaching out for the light
If what you feed is feeding on you
How will you ever free your mind?
Oh I have been lost in the darkness
Just reaching out for the light
If what you feed is feeding on you
How will you ever free your mind?
How will you ever free your mind?
How will you ever free your mind?
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4. |
Tides
04:16
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It is an art to shape a future from the past
With change being all that’s ever meant to last
Please slow it down, why do we have to so fast?
I don’t the reason so I’ll rhyme until you laugh
Another verse let’s break an ancient curse
Can you find kindness even when it hurts?
Explore the stars of you inner universe
And heal the land before you land up in a hearse
As we wade through tides of mystery and doubt
Learning from all of our mistakes
We keep on risking it all to find out
You’ve always got what it takes
I hear you call my name it’s like heaven remembers my name
And i know that nothin will ever be the same
And you call it’s like heaven remembers my name
And i know that nothin will ever be the same…
So i begin again…
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5. |
Soul Bones
03:24
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She asked, “Honey how does it look for us?
We’re going to have to wait awhile...”
I said, “Darlin’, there really is no rush
Our love is never going out of style...”
On the 362nd day of my 35th year’s 19th and ½ hour
We took a chance on divine romance
And surrendered to that ancient power
I know we weren’t looking
But look what we’ve found
I swear I hear heaven
In your laughter’s sound
And this might sound crazy
So let’s keep our feet on the ground
It feel likes home
So let’s take it slow
She asked me, “how do you know?”
I don’t
I feel it in my soul bones
My soul bones
I know we weren’t looking
But look what we’ve found
I swear I hear heaven
In your laughter’s sound
And this might sound crazy
So let’s keep our feet on the ground
It feel likes home
So let’s take it slow
She asked me, “how do you know?”
It’s real
I feel it in my soul bones
My soul bones
I said, “Darlin’, there really is no rush
Love is never going out of style...”
She asked, “Honey, this will be good for us
We can wait just a little while...”
I said, “Darlin’, there really is no rush
Love is never going out of style...”
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6. |
All I Can See
05:15
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A betrayal of the self hurts the worst
It’s an empty canteen when you’re dying of thirst
The desert keeps going
How will I know what I’m knowing?
When these shackles were locked with my own fists
For the children of trauma it never adds up
She gave it her best shot
It wasn’t enough
You asked how it is
Well the truth is
It’s fucked
My anger distilled into rage
Put it on a top shelf
From her sons it’d be safe
But the day that they drank it
I just couldn’t take it
And I turned and I walked away
But there was really nowhere left to go
So I wondered for miles
Getting drinks with fake smiles
Til it was finally my time to go home
When I walked through the door
Sure I'd been here before
There was a pain that had been building awhile
None of this really makes sense
How will I ever make peace between my heart
And what’s left of the lies holding on by a thread?
So I pulled out my blue pocket knife
To keep a promise to slice all this shit from life
If it leaves me half dead
I sleep until noon again
It’s expensive and I pay the price
Oh, It’s expensive and I pay the price
And right now, I’m running on empty
Only the flame of this anger burns hot
And the haunts of old stories
Still taunt me with glory
Of what I might have been
If I joined them again
Of what I might have been
But I’m not
Of what I might have been
But I’m not
Where is the road I am walking
Ever going to lead?
If I don’t stand my ground and heal these wounds right now
My heart will beat me to death where I bleed
And what is the song I will sing?
Broke my rose colored lenses
Set fire to the fences
And from here this is all I can see
Oh from here this all I can see
And right now, I’m running on empty
Only the flame of this anger burns hot
And the haunts of old stories
Still taunt me with glory
Of what I might have been
If I joined them again
Of what I might have been
But I’m not
Of what I might have been
But I’m not
And what is the song I will sing?
Broke my rose colored lenses
Set fire to the fences
And from here this is all I can see
Oh from here this all I can see
Oh from here this all I can see
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7. |
Sometimes
08:01
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Curiosity crept up
Caught this cat by the scruff of his neck
Just couldn’t resist what was coming next
So let’s wait and see what tomorrow bring
It’s not wise to rush most things
You can be hungry for
All of life and so much more
And not let it all walk right through your door
Trust is earned by showing
You can tend a heart with devotion
Even in these stormy seas
The whale song starts to open
Echoing across the ocean
Rising up to set your spirit free
So what will we become
While we’re dreaming up
Everything under the sun?
I believe in love
That’s how I fill my cup
When it all comes undone
Sometimes I’m ahead
Somedays I fall behind
But when I take a breath I realize
There are ups and downs
And you’ll get dizzy with the round and round
If you think you always have to be right
Sometimes there’s a voice that’s saying
“You better keep on trying”
But I would just rather do
Not 2nd guess
Don’t question how I got here
Just offer all that I am to you
There are some who want to know
Know it all before it happens
And some pretend that the whole thing never did
There are those you can’t tell anything to
It’s gotta be such a hard way to live
So what will we become
While we’re dreaming up
Everything under the sun?
I believe in love, that’s how I fill my cup when it all comes undone
Sometimes I’m falling
Sometimes, I can fly
Sometimes I get lost in the beauty of this life
And that’s alright now
I long for days, with nothing on my mind
Those are such peaceful times
No reasons, no wrong turns and the best news ever
It doesn’t even have to rhyme
Seems like despair is over there
In the wings waiting
To compare my victories to my defeats
If I can nip that flower it it’s bud
I can skip that whole ugly scene
I find contentment in simple things like
Love, land, and family
I came to realize, when the heart is good
You don’t always have to agree
So what will we become
While we’re dreaming up
Everything under the sun?
I believe in love
That’s how I fill my cup
When it all comes undone
Sometimes I’m falling
Sometimes I can fly
Sometimes I get lost in the beauty of this life
Sometimes, sometimes I’m falling
And sometimes I can fly
Sometimes I get lost in the beauty of this life
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8. |
For You
05:58
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Whether you know it or not
The sun burning so bright and hot
In the sky so high up above you and I
Well it shines for you
It’s been rising shining, turning, burning, yearning
Ensuring everything was perfect to get you here
Oh thank God you’re here
Species evolved left their flippers for feet
Some found their wings
Dropped the T and meiosis found love and made love
Birthed you to be so brilliantly
Civilizations arose and tumbled in ruin
Wait a minute now
Do you know what you’re doing?
Even life itself formed from a soup to be served to you
And now we chase the sun as it flies in the sky
With that bright horizon wide smile
There’s no need here for force
Just joy in the dawning
Of another beautiful day hey hey hey hey hey
You are the air filling these lungs
The sweetness dancing on my tongue
Love keep leaping
Pease, keep this heart beating
You are
Joy out for a stroll
Laughing at all of the control
Complexes we ring our own necks with
So
Let’s watch our dreams come true
Cause they don’t know what else to do
I mean c'mon
What else on this Earth would they be for?
Well, the sun’s been shining down
In anticipation every moment for an eternity
Just waiting
Everyday for all of life burning warm and bright
Giving us reasons to dance through every day and night
In dancing music sings in ears and hearts
Knowing each note is perfectly playing it’s part
Plants drinks sips of sunlight from lips of leaves
And blossom into the most beautiful things
An eye has ever seen so in sights sweet gift
As they bloom
As the sun shines for you to see
More than seeing it’s the feeling allowing
Love to stand and handstand while we all still can
And feel good, like always knew we woohoohood
You are the air filling these lungs
The sweetness dancing on my tongue
Love keep leaping
Please, keep this heart beating
You are, joy out for a stroll
Laughing at all of the control complexes
We ring our own necks with
So… let’s watch our dreams come true
Cause they don’t know what else to do
I mean c'mon, what else on this Earth would they be for?
Someday you’ll be gone and we’ll say goodbye
When I feel this I hang my head and cry
The sun will no longer shine on
Though the sun
Oh the sun
In wherever you go
Or whatever you do become
Oh the sun still shines for you
Remembering you
Yeah
The magic you do
Right until those last 2 particles of hydrogen fuse
Having a reason to rise, a reason to shine
A reason to fall and a reason to fly
Towards its own super nova
Yeah, you caused a glorious super nova
And the passion you inspire
In this place called existence
The perfection of every instance we call life
Brighten from a cosmic muse
The sun always shines
The sun always shines
The sun always shines for you
The sun always shines
The sun always shines
The sun always shines for you
The sun always shines
The sun always shines
The sun always shines
Always will forever shine
Until there are no more song lines
Until the very end of time
The sun always shines for you
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9. |
Soul Bones (Reprise)
00:46
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10. |
Today
04:31
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Step outside of your comfort zone
You are thousands of miles from your home
Keep breathing deeper now to warm your bones
Go on now leave well enough alone
There will come a day when joy replaces your pain
It could be tomorrow or maybe it could be…
Today
Right now how can this be real
Your mouth stays silent as your spirit starts to squeal
The waving ocean roars as you reveal
The broken pieces are washed and start to heal
You don’t have to tell me what you find
What are you weaving where are you intertwined?
What is the spell that frees you from your bind?
What is the song that makes your spirit fly?
Go on now, get back to your roots
There is so much good work here for us to do
Remember the ones who are breathing you
With every exhale you breathe them too
You don’t have to tell me what you find
What are you weaving where are you intertwined?
What is the spell that frees you from your bind?
What is the song that makes your spirit fly?
Your spirit fly
There will come a day when joy replaces your pain
It could be tomorrow
Or maybe
It could be
You know if it were all up to me
Then baby it would be…
Today
Today
Today
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11. |
The Distance
05:32
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Everyday has been a pain
Just to pluck these six strings
Aand if I shy away
It seems that it’s here to stay…
Though the three dots on the last sentence
Have something else to say…
If you stay a little longer
Past where fear has the last play
You soon begin to appreciate
The battle it has faced
For the madness of this world
Has never learned to sleep
Can you imagine the new dawn
This slumber will bring?
For the shape of the last question mark
Reveals quite a few things
If you take look not directly
It’s a resemblance from the side...
You’ll see the shape of every question mark
Resembles your own mind
And the space that has been left
From the dot up to the line
Reflects the beauty in each choice you get
Of how to fill your time
May life fill you with the mystery
Of why shadows dance with light
May your ancestors finally be free
When you pray for them tonight
Yes there’s work to do but don’t rush ahead
It’ll take you your whole life
For the path you walk is yours alone
And I am grateful for the time by your side
So do your best and nothing less
And when you cross the final finish line
May you spirit rest there is no test
You’ve been entrusted
With this
1 in ten trillion miracle existence
The stars will tell stories
Of your courage and persistence
When no is looking
Your kindness makes all the difference
Your songs are for singing
Your soul’s true expression
Your dreams are for living
When they speak, please listen
Your love is forgiving
So love with forgiveness
We’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
Oh we’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
In this 1 in ten trillion miracle existence
The stars will tell stories
Of your courage and persistence
When no is looking
Your kindness makes all the difference
Your songs are for singing
Your soul’s true expression
Your dreams are for living
When they speak, please listen
Your love is forgiving
So love with forgiveness
We’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
Oh we’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
The distance
In this 1 in ten trillion miracle existence
The stars will tell stories
Of your courage and persistence
When no is looking
Your kindness makes all the difference
Your songs are for singing
Your soul’s true expression
Your dreams are for living
When they speak, please listen
Your love is forgiving
So love with forgiveness
We’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
We’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
We’ve made it this far
And we’re gonna make it
The distance
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Wild Faith
Connecting land, spirit and music to embody a confluence of worlds.
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