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I don’t know where to start from where I’m sitting
With everything around me so defined
But how could I begin with no beginning
The universe is vast, alive and breathing
Growing out of sight and out of mind
Every particle enthralled with being
As above, so below
And so deep, deep, deep within
I don’t give any credence to the power of entropy
Or any of its meaningless kin
I sing to radiate the light
What else could I possibly desire?
Dust to water, ashes into life
Springing forth, a vision of unparalleled delight
This is what I came for
If I can’t steal the thunder
Maybe I can borrow
I was the archer
And now I am the arrow
It’s time to stop believing what you’re seeing
Put down the obsolete book of rules
And start to see what you believe in
Maybe confirmation bias is a misunderstanding of the fact that we have a reciprocal relationship with the world…
Do we visualise what we most desire to manifest?
Or does what-wants-to-be put down roots in our fertile subconscious?
‘Cause most of the visions are coming unbidden
Spiriting away my doubt and all this indecision
A two-way exchange between the wisher and what they’re wishing
Inextricably intertwined, the dreamer and the dreaming
Fractals and patterns sparking off reactions
Deep down, deep down inside
Now enjoy the ride...
I sing to radiate the light
What else could I possibly desire?
Dust to water, ashes into life
Springing forth, a vision of unparalleled delight
This is what I came for
If I can’t steal the thunder
Maybe I can borrow
I was the archer
And now I am the arrow
I was the archer, now I am the arrow
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Who You Are
05:14
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Open up, give your heart to the mystery
Turn the clock back and rewrite your history
Stand your ground, but let the ground move you
We move mountains that invite us to lose our
Self and other, the boundaries are merging
Exclusivity is not installed with this version
Identity, it can be limitation
But it could be myriad joys and a cause for celebration
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
You don’t have to be anything at all (to) be what you are
You don’t have to be anywhere at all (to) be where you are
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
Watch the air fall in love with condensation
The resulting clouds enamoured by precipitation
Just as the waves face the sand’s anticipation
The currents call for ocean deep meditation
Most clear in the water is your reflection
But it’s in the notes of the song, mirrored in every direction
Fluidity of the sounds in the soundless
Shrink back to the centre and expansion is boundless
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
You don’t have to be anything at all (to) be what you are
You don’t have to be anywhere at all (to) be where you are
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
Right from the very start you were writing on the parchment
Etching on the stone, “I don’t want to be alone”
When all at once you were all at one unwittingly
Your imagination stumbled on the revelation all alone
You could imagine forces, you could imagine spaces
You could imagine half a million versions of yourself with different faces
You could imagine love
You could imagine hell below and heaven up above
You could imagine you, you could imagine I
You could imagine feathered wings and bravely court the sky
And if you imagined that the sky had imagined you
Could you be the sky in you?
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
You don’t have to be anything at all (to) be what you are
You don’t have to be anywhere at all (to) be where you are
You don’t have to be anyone at all (to) be who you are
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Meld
04:44
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If I hadn’t found you, then I might still be looking
In all of the places that I thought you should have been
Chasing my tail, doggy-paddling through oceans
Driven in circles by some hare-brained notion
Just to find you here, back where I started
Time waits for the perfect moment
You and I could not have chosen
Let me let you in on a secret we both know
We made this happen just by wishing that it was so
We’ve already got all the seeds we need to sow
So just imagine all the places we could go
It takes less than you think to manifest
We both know the truth of magic
This song is the spell to cast it
I always knew that love was real
I always told you that love was real
I have been guided inexorably to you
Destined to meld inextricably with you
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Four Percent
06:35
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Well I started out with a question
So I could embark on my quest and
Here’s my inventory, my itinerary and my mission statement
Wasn’t very long on the road when
Thought I could afford a distraction
Gain some experience being itinerant, ‘til the answer’s blatant
What could be the harm to be a little aimless?
Maybe I can wait ‘til the war is over
Sitting on a rock lost for words
Nothing coming out, nothing works
Quiet little universe
Like a warrior wearing pyjamas
Like a warrior drowned in full armour
After many years I met an old man
Rambling and raving and broken
I was struck by the inescapable feeling I was staring at my own reflection
Though this vision won’t likely come true
I don’t want to wake from this dream to
Unknown environment, ‘Game over: 4%
Goodbye, and thanks for playing.’
Sounding the alarm
Yeah it’s time to wake up
I don’t want to wait ‘til my life is over
Sitting on a rock lost for words
Nothing coming out, nothing works
Quiet little universe
Like a warrior wearing pyjamas
Like a warrior drowned in full armour
Sitting on a rock lost for words
Nothing coming out, nothing works
Quiet little universe
Like a warrior wearing pyjamas
Like a warrior drowned in full armour
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The Heart of Now
07:08
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Standing before our dreams
But never quite diving in
We search but we do not find
We lose ourselves in our minds
We doubt and we pine and yearn
“Uzun ince bir yoldayım”
When all we must do is learn
To be here and now
It’s what it is
It’s the sun caught in morning dew
It’s the bud as it’s bursting through
It’s your bare feet upon the ground
It’s the feeling of lost then found
It’s the ocean within a drop
It’s everything that we’ve got
It’s the couplet that crowns the verse
But it cannot be put in words
The past is a fiction
The future an idea
The heart of the moment
Why we came here
Truth
Here and now
Beauty
Here and now
Love
Here and now
What are you waiting for?
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Flying Fish
07:39
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Given to wonder, I dream of flying
At home in the water, at home in the air
Two elements combined, mutable and unrestrained
Free from foundation, so much to dare
Free from the past
Let it go
Free at last
Let it go
In the joy of the moment
No hooks, no ropes and no chains
Just an iridescent horizon
In this place that doesn’t need a name
Take part in life and life takes heart
Welcome to the playground of the real
Shimmering water, the ebb of the swell
Wings and fins, air and water heal
Free from the past
Let it go
Free at last
Let it go
In the joy of the moment
No hooks, no ropes and no chains
Just an iridescent horizon
In this place that doesn’t need a name
Fear drowned in the ocean
And if anyone builds a gravestone, it’ll sink to the bottom
No looking down, no glancing back
This is the way home
Fly with me
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Love is All
06:29
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A long, long, long time ago
I sang a song to the river
And as the currents ebbed and flowed
I heard a voice in the water
It told of all the things
For which there are no words
So I guess I’ll have to sing
To express what I heard
Love is all we’ll ever need
Love is all we’ll ever be
A long, long, long time ago
I sang a song to the forest
All the ancients gathered there
And many things were promised
And though I often wander
From the path there chosen
The way is always waiting
The door is always open
Love is all we’ll ever need
Love is all we’ll ever be
A long, long, long time ago
I sang a song to the ocean
And the circle of life
Remains unbroken
Just as one cycle ends
Another has begun
Just as the river loves the sea
The sea adores the sky
The sky, betrothed to galaxies
And all of this to one
Love is all we’ll ever need
Love is all we’ll ever be
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Riverside
07:30
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I asked the river what it thought
It whispered of the stars above
I asked the spirits and the gods
They answered me, but not with words
I asked the mother, and the crone
I asked an old man by the road
And they told me what they had been told
Don’t regret; just wonder
Don’t forget to remember
Keep yourself open to the light
There is…
There is this
There is no up, there is no down
There is no in, there is no out
There is nowhere to go, because
There is nowhere but here and now
And every way that you look, there is light
Every way that you turn, there is darkness
And there is light
So keep yourself open to the light
Keep yourself open to the light
Let the light in
I listened to the wind
I listened to the rain
I listened to the voice within
And always the same refrain
Keep yourself open to the light
Let the light in
Riverside
We are riverside
We’re all riverside
Riverside
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Robert King Scotland, UK
Acoustic adventures, worlds within words
Wandering the green skin of the earth in the thin blue line of its atmosphere between the hands of earth and sea
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