1. Let Go
Wow! What a story! Awake to a world where
The house built by slaves is taken over by fascists.
Wow! Who’d a thunk it!
A bumbling, sniveling imbecile
With his fat little fingers on the buttons of destruction
Letting it go! Let Go!
Looking for love looking for light
Looking for dawn to follow the night
Looking and I’m ready I’m ready I’m waiting and for now I’m
Letting it go! Let Go!
Looking for love, looking for light
Looking and I’m ready I’m ready I’m waiting and for now I’m
DONE.
Have fun with your media whine
I’ll sip from a spirit of a different vine
Clear my head, and I feel fine
Hold the vision of a better time
Turning the anger into light
Talking heads, all blowing smoke
Their buzz is a cosmic joke
I look past with a vision long
Bright eyes and inspired song
Clearing the nightmare from my sight
Turning the anger into light
Sit in the stillness, silent and golden
See from the inside out, out of the darkness
Free in the calming, free as I empty
Out of the madness, slowly awaken
Letting it go! Let Go!
Looking for love, looking for light
Looking for dawn to follow the night
Looking and I’m ready I’m ready I’m waiting and for now I’m…
Wow! What a story!
I’m putting that book of darkness down
Turning my attention to the Unobstructed Light
The Unobstructed Light
2. The Rubble
In the calm of the smoldering rubble
What have I let go, and what remains?
My faith story is uprooted and burned
I may walk the road that starts from here…
But where is here? What is here?
Do I even want to be here?… do I even want to be here?…
I call the circles of my rippling life back to center
I call the circles of my rippling life back to center
I call the pieces of my broken life back to center
Back from a dumbed down world and my rage of disillusionment
This country may be a shameful mockery of the democracy it claims to uphold
But my home life is still magical, creative, loving and free!
Humanity may be racing toward self-destruction
But life itself is indestructible, and will always find new expression
Life expression does not require the existence of humanity
There is something profoundly reassuring in that knowing
3. Bliss
The darkness is deep, the rain won’t stop
It’s fearful cold outside, stoke the fire…
Keep checking the lamp oil, the Nothing is coming
Uncertainty grows…
At the heart of the nightmare, right under my nose
My bliss is alive
I see the deer in the meadow, the beauty still shows
A new ground is forming…. Deeper, stronger, more true than before
At the heart of the nightmare, right under my nose
My bliss is alive. The heart of me knows.
4. Crack the Shell
Crack the shell. Crack the shell. Crack it.
Shaking it up, waking it up, breaking it up, making it up
Chrysalis, Shape shift, alchemy…making it up
Crack the shell
“So this is the road that starts from here. Who’d a thunk it!
I guess it’s into the night we go.”
5. Into the Night
Now there is a stillness as the vision slips away
Now there is despairing as the darkness takes the day
We knew a time of understanding, when every feeling had a name
We thought the light was everlasting, but nothing ever stays the same
Innocent eyes are blind, wondering what we’ll find
Into the Night we go
Into the night, where no one really knows
Now we leave the twilight, without knowing what we’ll find
Now we are beginning, for we leave it all behind
We knew a time of inspiration, for a peace we could attain
We thought the light was always with us, but then
The world went insane
Apathetic eyes are lost, and we’re wondering at what cost
Into the night we go
Into the night, where no one really knows
Now there is a stillness as the evening slips away
Now there is surrender as the darkness takes the day
We knew a time of understanding, when every feeling had a name
We thought the light was everlasting, but nothing ever stays the same
Into the night we go…
6. Dreamwalk
Let the dreamwalk begin, Oh, let the dreamwalk begin
May we pass through the shadow
awake from the daze of darkness once again
I awaken from slumber, but the nightmare remains
Open season for bigots, and the criminally insane
I cannot fight against them, but I can stand with my friends
We’ll be there for each other until this nightmare ends
Love is still the answer, love is what will survive
So we’ll spark for each other and keep the love alive
I cannot fight against them, but I can pray for the light
I can hold it together… be a spark in the night
Let the dreamwalk begin, oh let the dreamwalk begin
May we pass through the shadow
Awake from the daze of darkness once again
7. One Step
One step, and then another
Looking to find me a life worth living
One step, and then another
Right here where I am
Turn off the radio
They’re selling fear I don’t want to know
No news of any kind, or else I’ll lose my fucking mind
Clearing the nightmare from my sight
I can believe again, I can have faith again
Leap frog to another dream
I know that nothing is what it seems
Clearing the anger from my sight
Turning the madness into light
Calm down, the morning is here
Reframe, letting go the fear
Right now, a step in time
Turning the heart of the mind
I look around, it’s a beautiful day
It’s not time to give it all away
Right now I can let it be, because
Right here is working for me
I can laugh, I can sing, I can love, I can dream
Into being, I can hope, I can reach, I can dream
Into life, in the night, into light, I can dream…
I can dream….
One step, and then another
Find me a life worth living
Clearing the madness from my sight
Turning the anger into light
Wow! What a story!
Turn my attention to The Unobstructed Light
8. No Media
No media – no cell phone – no face book – no haircut
No media – no cell phone – no TWITTER – no haircut
Gotta life outside my door, it’s a world that I adore
I’m living my heart’s desire, I don’t need to look for more
No media – no cell phone – no face book – no haircut
Right here under my nose, the meadow greens and grows
The river overflows, A renewal that all life shows
The leaves burst on the trees, the birds dance on a breeze
The flowers open to the bees,
The heart knows what the mind sees
No media – no cell phone – no INSTAGRAM – no haircut
There are some out there I care about
And I am present with their whereabouts
But beyond that its insanity, narcissistic superficiality
Just skimming the surface of “reality”
Lemmings obsessed with mediocrity
Scrolling through endless sites and stations
Take in countless stories, have knee-jerk reactions
Complete disconnection from a more considered view
Not looking for substance, don’t care if its true
ENOUGH OF THAT!
Enough of that.
No media – no cell phone – no face book – no haircut
No media – no cell phone – no TWITTER – no haircut
I got all the world I need right here, and I’m gonna get my fill
The rest of humanity can go fuck itself… and ya know, it probably will.
Aw.. too cynical for ya I know… you want something positive… here goes:
“I know we can make it. I know darn well we can work it out.
Yes we can can, yes we can can….”
“So give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen knotted, polka dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided,
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied”
“‘cause it’s springtime for fascists in amerika….”
OK…OK… I’ll get a grip… it’s you and me now love… you and me….
9. You and Me
It’s you and me now love… it’s you and me
Gonna see it through together, with friends and family
In a world gone crazy this is how it’s got to be
It’s you, and it’s me
You’re always hopeful, so full of hope
Even when everything is looking hopeless to me
You’re holding the vision, and nothing can take it away
Of a world that is kind and loving, and free
Doesn’t matter if it makes sense, don’t need to be logical
Your hope is a magical new tomorrow. I’ve seen it.
And you stand for the light, and I’m by your side through the night
In a world gone crazy, it’s gonna be alright
Hope is your principle, hope is your dream
And your dream is sustenance to me
We can laugh, we can grieve, we can stand for what we believe
With our love, we can send and receive
We can dance, we can sing, we can let our freedom ring
With love in our hearts, love is what we bring
And you stand for the light, and I’m by your side through the night
In a world gone crazy, it’s gonna be alright
It’s you and me now love… it’s you and me
Gonna see it through together with friends and family
In a world gone crazy this is how it’s got to be
Yeah, it’s you…. And it’s me
10. Currents
There is a current at the surface of the ocean
It goes where it goes…
And at that surface, from quiet to chaotic
Tumultuous madness, insanity flows
Go down deep enough… go down deep enough
You find a new current, in another direction, with steady serenity
It’s a fool-proof ride, not a win or a lose
The choice is yours, which current do you choose?
The truth is, we want both currents
We want a variety, an endless range
We seek stability, but we need uncertainty
It’s what we signed up for, in these parameters
Of mortal frame and linear time
11. The Spacious Moment
Ah yes… contemplating what was, and what will be…
Shadow dancers on the periphery of what is
Seduced again by linear illusion
And so expanding awareness in this eternal spacious moment
So ride that sky bird to another expression
All to deepen appreciation, and to clarify intention
These priceless pearls on the necklace of our life’s moments
This is the true abundance
Still here, contemplating what was and what will be
Only shadow dancers on the periphery
A flash of light on this spacious moment called eternity
12. Better Day
There’ll be a better day for everybody
Joy under the sun for everyone
Because life is what we are, so one day or another
Gonna be there when it comes
We can talk about the darkness that’s upon us
And acknowledge all the pain that people feel
But I’m reaching for a light that’s unobstructed
A be about making it real
We can cry and we can fear what might be coming
We can scream about injustice ‘till we’re blue
But I’m reaching for a light that’s never ending
And then I’m gonna bring it to you
We’ll know a better day for everybody
Joy under the sun for everyone
Life is what we are
One day or another, gonna be there when it comes
13. Sparks
See only the sparks, release the world story
There is an awakening happening all the time
Inconspicuous pockets of vortex poppers
Of course, the mainstream lemming nation
Will not have the slightest interest in such expansion
But the invitation is to let them all go
So that the attention can be laser focused
On the sparks of light that are happening all the time anyway
See only the sparks, release the world story
The funny thing is, to do so is to become
The greatest gift to the world that you could ever be
A vibrational offering of illumination in the world’s darkness
And for this gift to be given freely and undiluted
The illumined one must not care
How or whether the world receives it
The illumined one is interested only in the illumination
And then…
The illumination happens for all
See only the sparks, release the world story
And so it is.
The Unobstructed Light.
Becoming.
Thus spake PFD
