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Marketplace

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Marketplace 02:34
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[Chorus] In this marketplace of ideas Any buyer for my wares? If there's anybody out there Please step forward [Verse 1] My subjective given truth Disposition predisposed Blinkered eye-sight point of view Any buyer for my wares? [Verse 2] My important, my worthy Value judgement, make believe Personal epiphany Any buyer for my wares? [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] My conviction obvious Done and dusted carved in stone My conditioned prejudice Any buyer for my wares? [Instrumental] [Verse 4] My faith fragile - clutching straws I know nothing honesty Fantasy reality Any buyer for my wares? [Repeat Chorus x2]
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Fleeting Norman 04:05
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[Verse 1] Times one would trust a policeman Days place your faith in people Walk street at night with confidence No one harm you, yes, no really [Verse 2] Days all children played outside No one was safety concerned No fear of lurking paedophile One time normal, unthinkable [Chorus] Fleeting Norman - given slipping through your fingers Your rug pulled from convictions of your yesterdays [Verse 3] Times one would look to BBC For objective news reporting No hidden skewed own agenda Though sounds far fetched, I remember [Verse 4] Times one could trust in science Theory was just a theory An explanation possible Darwinism, but one example [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 5] Days one could trust government (when was that?) Times one believed laws legal Were something more than politics Serving power preservation [Instrumental] [Verse 6] Times one could trust religion Days place your faith in preachers For guidance along path spiritual Non judgemental cultivation [Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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Remember You 02:36
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Feels familiar From another life Buried all these years Memory survives [Verse 2] Still I hear your song Cherished long ago Sub conscious retained Resurface today [Chorus] Never disapprove Always on my side In my times of need I remember you [Verse 3] Rules familiar Played this game before Round and round I spin End begin again [Repeat Chorus] [Instrumental] [Verse 4] Dance familiar Stepped this way before Deja vu reset Samsara encore [Repeat Chorus]
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How Sure? 02:56
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[Verse 1] How sure is your certain? How set is your stubborn? How fixed are your absolutes? How safe are your givens? [Verse 2] How real is your factual? How snug is your cosy? How smug is your judgemental? How false is your ego? [Chorus] I only ask because How I act rests upon Rational piggy backs What if they turn out wrong? [Verse 3] How firm is your belief? How true is your gospel? How great are your convictions? How chaste is your sacred? [Verse 4] How deep is your wisdom? How strong are your provens? How wise are your conclusions? How wild is your dogma? [Repeat Chorus] [Instrumental] [Verse 5] How pure is your selfless? How clear are your motives? How just is your presumption? How sound is your reason? [Repeat Chorus x3]
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Just Because 02:37
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[Verse 1] Just because you're not yet born Just because body incomplete Just because mother-dependent Just because raise no objection [Verse 2] Just because you count legs four Just because you score no fingers Just because your coat is furry Just because you speak no English [Chorus] Why assume indifference to Life and death, happiness, distress Either way no preferential Assume this just because [Verse 3] Just because you've got no eyes Just because no feet for walking Just because no ears for hearing Just because you grow from seedling [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 4] Just because your skin is fair Just because your eyes are wider Just because your nose is longer Just because your not of Earth born [Instrumental] [Verse 5] Just because you can't be killed Just because exist eternal Just because you're not your body Just because God part and parcel [Repeat Chorus]
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Bad Name 02:26
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[Verse 1] Those praying mantis my way high way Goal of life prescribers What one should do know better than me My sacred choice deprivers [Verse 2] Judge anything but quest for liberation Wasted human birth Is big fat zero everything else May give God a bad name [Chorus] Yet believe one many become Part and parcel Everybody beloved Them included [Verse 3] Those self appointed sanctimonious Narrow minded born again Holier-than-thou dogma preachers May give God a bad name [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 4] Those black book bashing pulpit thumping Fire and brimstone eternal Unless repent now faith imposers May give God a bad name [Instrumental] [Verse 5] Those patronising supercilious Condescending arrogant Other and us - God's chosen people May give God a bad name [Repeat Chorus]
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Play Nice 03:54
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[God's Hat 1] Yes you can follow a religion, ponder the meaning of life, perform austerities, meditate in the forest, study your holy books, bathe in the sacred rivers, donate your wealth to missionaries, preach to those you regard as fallen souls ... but all I really want is you to play nice [Chorus] Play nice, play nice, play nice, play nice x 2 [God's Hat 2] Yes you can attend a mosque, a synagogue, a church, a temple, worship me amongst a congregation of believers, bow down, kneel down, sing your hymns, chant your mantras, ring your bells, practice your rites of passage, observe religious festivals ... but what I really want is you to play nice [Repeat Chorus] [God's Hat 3] Yes you can fast from food and water, avoid flesh of certain animals, or even be a pure vegetarian. But keep in mind that all living beings are my children, your brothers and sisters, family - and not just humans, wherever you find life a part of me is present ... and all I really want is you to play nice [Repeat Chorus] [Instrumental] All I really want, all I really really want is you play to nice [Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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Offer To You 02:31
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[Chorus] Offer to you Contribute my point of view My life-humble pray somehow serves Complete your self-knowing [Verse 1] My child-like blinkered vision Innocent fascination [Verse 2] My wonder struck amazement My raptured soul awaken [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] My horror, consternation My old age trepidation [Instrumental] [Verse 4] My music - spark of splendour Creative self-expression [Verse 5] Divine claim revelation Your beauty appreciation [Repeat Chorus]
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Simple Question 03:25
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[Chorus] It all comes down to this simple question Is the goal of life singular / prescribed for all? [Verse 1] Or is it sacred right individual To objective decide Is no should or must in God's eyes [Verse 2] Is it up to me how divinity I choose explore / express Conscious / unconscious awareness? [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] Or is it mine to choose Fundamental to essence of who I am Part and parcel version of God? [Repeat Chorus] [Middle 8] If freedom to choose bestowed by God, better think twice Before impose, bully, coerce in name of God rethink your life [Instrumental] (yes, I'm talking about all you preachers out there!) [Verse 4] Or is it open book adventure divine Regardless dark or light Contribution positive is? [Repeat Chorus] [Spoken] Is it not in the very choosing that the possibility of love emerges? That genuine freedom to choose, to say yes or no, is fundamental to the possibility of bhakti?
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Like An L.E.D. 02:51
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[Spoken] Am I a bit like an L.E.D (a light emitting diode)? Shining as the current of my life experience flows towards God, contributing, albeit in humble ways, to the ever-increasing completeness of God's self-knowing? [Chorus] Like an L.E.D My one way flowing Current of life Light emanation Connected to you [Verse 1] Am I to you a diode-divine Oblivious semi-conductor My life experience flowing to you? [Verse 2] Am I to you version unconscious My pain and pleasure life adventure Divinity explored flowing to you? [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] Am I to you a soul forgotten My self awareness reawaken My tears of joy relief flowing to you? [Instrumental] [Verse 4] Am I to you your part and parcel Autonomous collaborator My choice to choose freedom flowing to you? [Repeat Chorus x 4] [Spoken] Any chance you could back-flow just a little bit of your awareness ... enough for me to gain a sense of what's going on ... please?
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Beautiful To You 03:54
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[Verse 1] But this voice cannot ignore Time and time again returns Contradictions, no escape, To the truth the master preached [Verse 2] More and more find prone to doubt Black and white - what's all about Dark and light see positive Up to us choice how we live [Chorus] Yet dare you trust your mind - believe Place your faith in heart - embrace Inspiration found within Resonates in time and space And beautiful to you? [Verse 3] See divinity explored See divinity expressed Unconscious / conscious regardless always Part and parcel serves the whole [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 4] You ain't saying they were wrong Just no longer right for you Now prefer appreciate Other facet celebrate [Instrumental] [Spoken] Perhaps yours is a sort of spiritual growth pain - agonising and doubting as you grow into unique personal understanding and appreciation of specific aspects and facets of God? Or have you simply lost your faith, and lost your way? You have to decide this for yourself. Only you can say.
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Chip Off The Old Block 02:52
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[Chorus] I'm not talking mother/father I'm going back, much much further back Something deep inside survived All included - chip off the old block [Verse 1] (strength) Every quest for domination Will imposed, other obliged Contra view point overridden Right to disagree denied Even Christian conquistador Even Nazi total war Heart and mind manipulation Propagand' disinformation, but ... [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 2] (fame and wealth) Every dream of fame and fortune Stage and screen celebrity Glossy photoshop magazine Recognition in the street Even manufactured, contrived Narcissistic self-absorbed All about me, nobody else Notoriety, mental health, but ... [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] (beauty) Every spark of splendour beauty Turn of heads as enter room Charm charisma individual Attractive shakti beautiful Even hidden wrinkle made up Coloured hair dyed - grey disguised Nip tuck plastic surgery youth Botox lips no longer smile [Instrumental] [Verse 4] (knowledge and renunciation) Every search for understanding Questions answered absolute Explanation rational truth Comprehension certainty Detachment renunciation Capacity to walk away Tabula rasa - wipe the slate clean Adventure begin again, but ... [Repeat Chorus x3]

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released January 14, 2022

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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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