1. |
Always Yours
03:06
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[Verse 1]
Everyone is here by choice
Nobody obliged by force
Why you chose I dare not say
Yet I'm convinced you come to play
And supplement the completeness of God
Even though already God complete
[Verse 2]
Everyone divine express
A spark of splendour manifest
Sparkle like the rays of sun
They beautify the planet from
You contribute unique your point of view
Investigate as individual you
[Chorus]
Beloved son, remain as one yet same time apart
Divinity is always yours - explore it
[Verse 3]
Everyone, though some deny
Existence of the god inside
From dogma-blind to atheist
From unconscious to open eyed
Facilitate, regardless foolish/wise
Never decree what you should do prescribe
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I believe in positive
Is up to you the how you live
Desire is king in land of dreams
Reality or make believe
Sacred to you, your choice always divine
To live the dream or back to God decide
[Repeat Chorus]
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2. |
Will Fall In Place
03:16
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[Verse 1]
I've been thinking 'bout my life
Reason I have taken birth
Englishman identified my self
Am I blessed or am I soul cursed?
[Verse 2]
I've been thinking 'bout this life
Why all born to live and die?
Quest for happiness see compromised
Everyone we love say goodbye
[Chorus v1]
Still convinced it somehow serves
Just how is fact today cannot explain
Mind can only speculate
In retrospect puzzle will fall in place
[Verse 3]
I've been thinking 'bout my life
I'm a fallen soul deny
Karma-bandhana misunderstood
Self-divine in contradiction
[Chorus v2]
I'm convinced is positive
Just how is fact today cannot explain
Mind can only speculate
In retrospect puzzle will fall in place
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I've been thinking 'bout my life
If everything divine design
Self deceptive I'm inclined that way
Perfect, just as God intended
[Chorus v3]
I'm convinced is beautiful
Just how is fact today cannot explain
Mind can only speculate
In retrospect puzzle will fall in place
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3. |
Doubt Is Lonely
02:30
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[Chorus]
The problem with 'know' is so easy to slip into
Judgement/dismissive-of-others where they disagree
The problem with faith is it's not so cosy
The problem with honesty: Doubt is lonely
[Verse 1]
You grant me this
I may not be wrong
My epiphanies
Say you celebrate
Of my certainty
Say entitled to
My reality
Partial point of view
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
You grant me this
My desire to give
Dot to dot connect
Soul intuitive
Need an audience
Seer fancy self
Objectivity
Maybe something else
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
I grant you this
I am talking down
Interrupt me not
My voice - like the sound
Who I'm preaching at
I forget to ask
My humility
Maybe question mark
[Repeat Chorus]
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4. |
My North Star
02:27
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[Verse 1]
After all was said and done
All that highfalutin
Wood-for-tree philosophy
Round the houses routing
[Verse 2]
Benefit of retrospect
Chose the path indirect
Deviated from my goal
To judgement lost my soul
[Chorus]
Clear at last my important dawns (I was searching for you)
All a long you were shining (you were waiting for me)
My north star
[Verse 3]
After all was lost and found
Worthy/unworthy merged
Truth/untruth turned upside-down
Black and white became grey
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
There you were, right from the start
Compassion in your heart
Pure and simple understood
Far better to be kind
[Repeat Chorus]
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5. |
Choice
02:08
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[Chorus]
Will I hear or will I talk?
Should I speak or should I walk?
Shall my tuppence offer up
Or silence imply my support?
[Verse 1]
My opinion
To contribute
Place in the mix
Of views exposed to
Duty of care
To intervene
Or come what may
To let things be? Choice ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
To wisdom voice
Upon deaf ears
Misunderstood
As interfere force
To represent
Personal truth
Or preach impose
As if absolute?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
To challenge fact
Button push risk
Hostility
Choose tolerate this
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6. |
Will To Power
02:47
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[Chorus]
Create by choices make
Perpetuate by fanned flame
And anytime direction change
[Verse 1]
When now no longer serves you
Look back on how present arrived
The part you played remind you
The path you chose remember why
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
When situation snafu
Retrace your steps that brought you here
Connect those dots that set stage
Consider way choose time to change
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
When self-pity is wallowed
When tears to cry run river dry
When heart open to let go
Then, only then, move on decide
[Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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7. |
Clue?
02:38
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[Verse 1]
I found myself looking on
Offers of hand rejected
Substance of friendship tested
Offers of help judged interference
[Verse 2]
I found myself brushed aside
Offers of kindness dismissed
Words of advice offensive
Offers of love misunderstood/blocked
[Chorus]
Makes me wonder clue maybe
To why you seem distant
Of suffering aloof indifferent
Divinity always see souls express
[Verse 3]
I found myself excluded
Offers of light extinguished
Personal view-point pooh-poohed
Offers of insight uninvited
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken Word]
I realised that it's not for me to oblige or coerce another ... just because I see suffering unnecessarily prolonged and perpetuated by choices made. After all, isn't divinity inherently expressed simply by the soul's choosing - regardless foolish or wise those choices may appear in context of my personal subjective sense of worthy? And then I started to wonder ... is insight into the way God sometimes seems to stand aloof to be had here? Like a supreme expression of detachment and renunciation, but not at all a manifestation of indifference. And what might God be feeling about my own choices today?
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8. |
Weighted
02:50
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[Chorus]
Deep conditioned
Reality yet filtered
Heavy my baggage
My every word is weighted
[Verse 1]
Guru says sin - I hear Christian word
Samsara - I hear fallen soul
Action reaction - I hear Newton's law
Karma bandhana - I hear punishment
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Guru says one - I hear I am God
But different - I hear God I'm not
Simultaneous - I hear contradiction
Inconceivable - hear impossible
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Guru says truth - I hear absolute
Goal of life - I hear path prescribed
Now is temporary - I hear waste of time
Goddess Maya devi - temptress out to get me
[Chorus x2]
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9. |
Good Guy Bad Guy
02:40
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[Chorus]
Divinity always manifest
Regardless part now play
Good guy/bad guy
Conscious/unconscious
No matter who today
[Verse 1]
Pies in the sky
Head in the clouds
Fantasy - make believe
Tear in your eye
Wind in your hair
See positive everywhere
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Tear in your eye
Mud on your face
Believable powerless
Against your will
Calamity real
Find negative everywhere
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Feet on the ground
Identity found
Reality recovered
Part of the whole
Ray of the sun
You beautify everyone
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
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10. |
Promise I Won't Tell
03:16
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[Chorus]
I need to know for sure
Why hide the purpose for?
I promise I won't tell
[Verse 1]
I wanna understand
Is this the way is meant to be?
Desire to know the plan
To decide how apply myself
[Verse 2]
I wanna face the truth
Is this a place of laws and rules?
Or is life open book
No goal prescribed, no wrong or right?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
I wanna pierce this veil
To break on through to other side
To get beyond their lies
No leisure drugs or drugs prescribed
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I wanna hold your hand
To walk my feet on promised land
To know before I die
Why take my birth - the reason why
[Repeat Chorus]
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11. |
Self-Divine Champion
02:24
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Self-divine
Champion
Independence
Freedom to love give, beloved
[Verse 1]
Opinion own
Non existent
Follower blind
Is not for you
[Verse 2]
Conditioned soul
Disqualified
God out of reach
Is not for you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Guru saviour
Jesus like role
Soul covered remain
Is not for you
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Said realised
Like loaded gun
Cosy defended
Is not for you
[Chorus]
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12. |
No Certainty Safe
02:09
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[Verse 1]
Conspiracy
Face value see
Predisposition
Truth disagree
Yet equal believe
[Verse 2]
Prejudice deep
Facts cherry picked
Cosy deception
No one admits
[Chorus]
Nothing is sure
No certainty safe
Egg on my face
But never embrace this
[Verse 3]
Judge wrong or right
Paint day and night
Good verses evil
Read black and white
Reality
[Verse 4]
Bow to the ground
Offer a prayer
Yet God understanding
Nobody shares
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Nobody sees
God's eye view
Maybe deluded
Maybe confused
But nobody sees
[Breakdown]
[Chorus]
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13. |
Tainted?
02:50
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[Verse 1]
Challenge goal of life already prescribed
How apply myself someone else decided
My desires - is not for me to choose them ... divine denied
[Verse 2]
Question opportunity or burden?
Human birth: Divine expression or lesson?
Sacred soul collaboration argue completes God
[Chorus]
Want to get beyond unconscious givens oblivious
Want to crystalise the reason forget myself
[Verse 3]
Am I really apple-eater banished?
Is this world simply a prison to escape from?
Am I envious of God position, disgraced soul?
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Lifetimes, do I really only get one?
Is my birth on Earth evidence of envy
Is my consciousness impure, polluted, tainted?
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
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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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