This album’s lyrics are inspired by the myth reader, storyteller and visionary, Michael Meade. Many of the words are either paraphrased or directly transcribed from Michael’s podcasts or YouTube videos. These words are shown here in italics.
Weave Dance
To weave is to dance
The dance is a weaving, weaving it into being
To weave is to dance
There is absorption, there is creation
To dance is to weave, weaving it into being
Weave a new world
There’s more going on
than just the end of the world
Everything comes and goes
Everything always is
To weave is to dance
There is movement, there is rhythm
The dance is a weaving, weaving it into being
Weave a new world
Find a spark of the heart
See it flash in the dark
A beacon of light
Illuminate the night
Find your strand, and pick it up…
Letting go of the grieving
Find a thread for the weaving
Of the new world to come
From the ashes of this one
Transformation
The upheaval is the transformation
The chaos brings the transformation
This is Shiva time
Who brings the train wreck
Who tears the walls down
Who clears the slate
For the transformation
The transformation is here
The transformation is now
Find the inner eye of the storm
See the middle eye of the storm
Become the spiritual eye of the storm
We live the transformation
We live with the transformation
We’re living through the transformation
This is Shiva time
Relaxing into it, riding like a bronco
We came for this… we came for this…
Find a strand and then weave a new world
Rite of Passage
Rite of passage, return to center
Amidst the crash of breaking worlds
Rite of passage, initiation
To rediscover the heart of love
And so we dance, ecstatic dance
Through separation, through liminality
To the return to recognition
Of what has changed, no going back
Only forward, into the unknown
We’re all connected, in this together
We walk the same earth, we breathe the same air
Find the deep self that connects to the soul of the world
Imagination goes deep to the roots of the soul
And aspires to the heavens, the heavens of Spirit
Weave a new world
Awaken to the sage in the heart
Alchemy of Fire
A soulful inclination
To go the byways, the wayward ways
The intricate turns
Reach for the other world
Until the other world pierces the heart of awareness
Transcendence is spirit, soul is imminence
Spirit forgets the body, soul inhabits and animates all life
Ascend to spirit, descend to soul
The alchemy of fire
Sip the nectar of the eternal
Revitalizing being
A soulful inclination
To go the byways, the wayward ways
The intricate turns
Still, there is arrival
Sip the nectar of the eternal
Revitalize your being
Reach for the other world
Until the other world pierces the heart of awareness
The alchemy of fire
Light Being
What we love is our vision
What we love is the cure
What we love is our healing
What we love is the cure
In the middle of a dream
Between spirit and creation
Between meaning and delusion
Between hope and despair
There is a light in the darkness
Find the light. Know the light. Become the light.
Light Being
What we love is the pathway
What we love is the cure
What we love is our salvation
What we love is the cure
Find a peace of contentment… from there,
Lean into optimism… from there,
Lean into believing… from there,
Lean into becoming
The joy of the heart
We are all at the threshold of total transformation
Some are looking backward
Wishing that things were as they were
Some are frozen in confusion and paralysis of fear
And some are looking forward, facing in to the fire
Light Being
Some are looking forward, face into the fire
See into a vision of a new and better world
One visionary in alignment
brings more power than a million in arrogant denial
Light Being
Soul of the Dreamer
Turning within
I am here within
The soul of the dreamer
Travels to the center of the cosmos
The soul of the dreamer
Moves to the place of creation
Which is always beginning again
Silence within
We are here within
The soul of the dreamer
Returns with the word held in waiting
The soul of the dreamer
Now stirred into awareness
Awaken, awaken…
In the darkness, softened by the light of a candle
In that darkness, lifted by the presence of stars
Turning within
We are here within
In that darkness that has been here all along
In that darkness, here before creation herself
In the darkness
Turning within… silence within
The Fifth Direction
The sacred fifth… the sacred fifth…
The fifth direction, a place of primal unity
Where all oppositions become resolved
And the secret connectedness of all things is revealed
It is a mythical place from which all other places arise
It is the root of originality, the vital center
and the place of beginnings
The fifth direction is here
The fifth direction is now
It is here, we can begin again
The sacred fifth is revealed whenever we are truly present
Each person can discover it for themselves
For it is hidden inside each of us
The fifth direction is now
The fifth direction is presence
The other four directions have no existence without it
The fifth direction is the realm of magic
And synchronicity, and serendipity
The center is everywhere, circumference is nowhere
It is the realm of divine connection
It is the realm of realization
The fifth direction is the quintessence
It is the source of healing and renewal
The time has come again
To find the secret, sacred center
When we touch this mystical center
All becomes possible again
And the wonder, the beauty, the essence of the world
Can return again to our attention
The sacred fifth
Swing It
Swing it to the highlight
Swing it to the insight
Take it easy, relax, be bright
Have fun tonight!
Swing it to your center
You can know forever
Hang ten, ride the curl
Wake the soul of the world
The world is a complex, intricate, renewable
Relationship of all the beings and all the energies
Of the earth
The soul of the world
Hidden wisdom, essential unity
That is the body of the world
Swing it to your center
You can see forever
The soul of the world is represented
By the potentials that reside in each of us
Inside the earth
The transformation of the collective humanity is needed
To help heal and transform the world
The collective only changes through the awakening
Of individual souls
Who in turn, help awaken hidden potentials of life
The soul of the world
The hidden wisdom within the elements of life
Essential unity that is the body of the world
Swing it to light
The Living Water
It is the water from which everything began
The living water tells us, “all life is change”
It is the water that keeps returning in our dreams
The living water tells us, “all life is change”
A Silent strength unspoken
We stand on the shore of the river of life
Now flooding with disruption and change
Now finding a place of crossing
Passing through a swift and deeper current
To the distant shore, which is another world
A mist arising, a mystic reach
A mist arising, from the waters of life before us
It is another world
The connection to the source of life must be renewed
The awakening, not to another realm
But to this realm
Standing on the shore, in a new way
The way of crossing back and forth
Connecting the divine that lives in both worlds
To reach the other shore,
we find a place of trust and inner being
The alchemy of soul
An underlying unity of deep self and life
Waits to be found and to be touched again
Creation arising from the sea of eternal life
When we’ve been caught
Caught in a flood of change
Renewal
In the end, there is beginning
In the end, there is renewal
We are seeding a better world to come
Rising forth from the cascade of collapse
In the face of the unraveling
The collapsing of systems in culture and nature
Find a strand in the unraveling
A unique, creative offering
A reflection of the soul
And weave a new world
In the end, there is renewal
Weave a new world
