1. |
Identify Your You
03:31
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[Chorus]
Oh, open your mind
Know you are divine
[Verse 1]
Identify your you
Forget this body dress
Facilitates a role play
Is something you possess / transcend
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Identify your you
Divinity explore
Independent to choose what
Appreciate adore express
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Identify your you
Collaborate sacred
Is up to you decide how
Oblivious or God conscious
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Identify your you
Contribution unique
Experience increases more
One already complete perfect
[Repeat Chorus]
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2. |
Otherwise Your Focus
02:56
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[Verse 1]
Conflicted but can't deny personal truth
Same time vowed guru defer to
Uneasy therefore disagree, prefer emphasis
Conviction your purpose positive is
[Chorus]
Otherwise your focus
Judgement fear confused
Yet sacred seems is point of view
[Verse 2]
Conflicted but can't deny inspiration
Even clear in contradiction
To guru, shastra, sadhu proved, is unauthorised
Goal of human life - challenge is prescribed
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Conflicted but can't deny realisation
Inner journey soul awaken
Yet same time admit uncertain, without approval
Unreliable your speculation
[Repeat Chorus]
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3. |
As If My Flesh
03:00
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[Chorus]
Born another birth
Objective why forget
Soul with outer dress
Identified as if my flesh was me
[Verse 1]
Proclivity
Is by design seems
Country of birth home
Identify with
[Verse 2]
Proclivity
God made this way seems
Species of life genes
Identify with
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Proclivity
Is meant to be seems
Colour of skin worn
Identify with
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Proclivity
Propensity seems
Blood family mine
Identify with
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Proclivity
Second nature seems
Suspend disbelief
Identify with
[Repeat Chorus]
... well I suppose God's gotta have a good reason
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4. |
Dichotomy
02:16
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[Verse 1]
Reasonable said faith conviction
The loss of loved ones to disease and death
The fleeting nature of happiness
Today success, tomorrow failure
Evidence enough must have done something wrong ... same time
[Chorus]
You see a problem / contradiction
How say imperfect comes from perfect?
Someone who dotes as parent loves child
Someone who knows no obligation
[Verse 2]
Logical is said explanation
Against will obliged, no power resist
Reaction karmic, sew what you reap
Get what deserve for former misdeed
Evidence enough surely sinned against God ... same time
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Rational is said fact persuasion
Struggle to exist in nature food chain
Aggressor victim - my body meal
To someone else for just survival
Evidence enough must be banished here by God ... same time
[Repeat Chorus]
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5. |
Always Beautifies
03:04
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[Chorus]
You alone decide
Nobody else prescribes
You alone decide
Nobody else prescribes
[Spoken 1]
You - unique
You - individual
You - eternal
You - spiritual
You - divine
You - sacred
You - beautiful
You ...
[Verse 1]
Up to you what you believe
You decide what resonates as true
Identify role wanna play / hat wear
For no matter you disguise
Spark always beautifies fire-divine
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 2]
You - independent
You - interdependent
You - dependent
You - part and parcel
You - separated
You - one and different
You - beloved
You ...
[Verse 2]
You see what you wanna see
Decide where you wanna journey
Where adventure, high or low, come or go
For no matter where you are
Spark always beautifies fire-divine
[INSTRUMENTAL]
[Spoken 3]
You - prone to forget
You - imperfect/perfect
You - player of role plays
You - wearer of blinkers
You - chip off the old block
You - sparkle of splendour
You - forget to remember
You ...
[Verse 3]
Up to you what you desire
How successful manifest / create
How divinity explore / express
Contribute collaborate
Spark always beautifies fire-divine
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6. |
No More Deny
03:11
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[Chorus]
Stop, who remain confess
I, identify
Why hide behind disguise
Self, no more deny
[Verse 1]
As if you someone else
As if divinity forfeit
As if you compromised
As if your hands are tied - obliged
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
As if you body take
At cost of life eternal lost
Some sort of punishment
For independence gift misused
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
As if all negative
There's nothing here is positive
Is prison for the soul
Until addiction rehabilitate
[Repeat Chorus]
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7. |
Anew Each Day
02:08
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[Chorus v1]
Intelligence demands
Uncertainty admit
Evaluate givens
Anew each day
[Verse 1]
More you know
You realise
Nothing is known
Understand
Believable
Is predisposed
[Verse 2]
Call it faith
Is unknown face
Unsure embrace
Honesty
No self deceive
No make believe
[Chorus v2]
Intelligence demands
Uncertainty accept
Evaluate givens
Anew each day
[Verse 3]
Face the truth
No cosy slave
No absolute
Point of view
Is all you got
Say celebrate
[Instrumental]
[Chorus v3]
Intelligence demands
Uncertainty peace make
Evaluate givens
Anew each day
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8. |
Soul Spark
02:48
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[Verse 1]
The sky is blue, the sun is rising
I think of you, the warmth of love smiling
Maybe today will shine on me
[Verse 2]
I feel the breeze a gently blowing
I hear the stream a softly flowing
Today it seems going my way
[Chorus]
For you are my sun, my moon and stars, my universe
You are my fire flame, I am soul spark
[Verse 3]
Fly on the wall - my point of view contribute
Relay to you the way it looks from down here
E.T. phone home - collaborate
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I walk the Earth, green grass between my toes
I live your dream, I make believe - fantasy
Offer to you experience
[Repeat Chorus x2]
[Spoken]
Let me sparkle for you
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9. |
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[Verse 1]
I know what you're saying
You have good reason
To conclude what you do
But I choose to believe
That everything that comes from God is good
For me it must be
[Verse 2]
I hear what you're saying
You make a good case for
Your why explanation
Still I choose to keep faith
That everything that comes from God resolves
For me it has to
[Chorus]
Everything
Us and this world included
Everyone
Even you and I
[Verse 3]
Respect your position
Your logic persuasive
Your argument solid
Yet I choose to hold out
That everything that comes from God perfect
For me is given
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4 (half verse)]
But I choose to flag wave
That everything that comes from God sacred
For me it makes sense
[Repeat Chorus x2]
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10. |
Calling Card
02:51
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[Verse 1]
I found you manifest
In laboratory
In company of scientists who you exist deny
Say why were you there?
[Verse 2]
I saw your calling card
At the scene of crime
I dusted finger prints, my mind convinced clear evidence
Proof that you were there
[Chorus]
Desire to know - face
My carved in stone reassess
My narrow truth question
[Verse 3]
I felt you palpable
In twilight Amsterdam
Within intoxicated debauchery tangible
Say why were you there?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I found you evident
In that strangest place
Inside a house of worship of another religion
Say why were you there?
[Repeat Chorus]
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11. |
Apple Eater
02:45
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[Verse 1]
You see opportunity
You see soul divinity
But they see action-reaction is Newton's law
[Verse 2]
You see role play by design
You see adventure divine
But they see random game of chance, is roll of dice
[Chorus]
Glass is empty/glass is full - state of mind what eyes perceive
Temporary/illusion - up to us what make believe true
[Verse 3]
See conscious/unconscious
Who we are oblivious
But they see sinner - fallen soul - apple eater
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
You see power to create
Explore freedom to decide
But they see goal of life prescribed, see hands are tied
[Repeat Chorus]
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12. |
Must I Wait Until I Die?
03:24
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[Verse 1]
Time and tide they wait for no one, hour is getting late
Starting to look like I will never know
Why I take birth on planet Earth, reason I am here
Begin to wonder what's it all about?
[Chorus]
Must I wait
Until I die
To answers find
If I survive death?
[Verse 2]
What if only get one life, no soul reincarnate
And everything believe true turns out lie?
What if this is all there is, is nothing after life
And when I'm dead and gone, exist no more?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
What if I'm my body flesh, is no such thing as soul
Eternal ego only in my mind?
Transcendental radio rental truth my self deceive
I start to question trust what I believe
[Repeat Chorus to fade]
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Songs Of Dave England, UK
David's songs are generally confessional or observational in nature, sometimes comedic or ironic, mostly of philosophical or theosophical subject-matter ... often in the form of imagined dialogue with God.
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