1. |
Merry-Go-Round And Round
02:33
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[Spoken]
Samsara, the cycle of rebirth - reject the idea altogether or understand it as you will.
[Chorus]
Around and round
Merry go round and round
Merry go round and round
Merry go round and round
[Verse 1]
Samsara - soul entangled
Reborn bound by karma
Birth death disease old age
Prison to escape from, or ...
[Verse 2]
Samsara - soul adventure
Sacred self expression
Body based on desire
Role play facilitates
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Samsara - divine design
This life - object decide
Mission up to you choose
Earth birth what you make it
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Samsara - rebirth reject
Past life deny forget
Argue never happened
Focus only get one
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Samsara - perpetuate
Take birth - reincarnate
Reset wipe the slate clean
Mistakes repeat again
[Repeat Chorus]
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2. |
Same Hymn Sheet Song
03:04
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[Verse 1]
Intuition
Know in their bones
Trust in their gut predisposed
To believe spin reliable
Dismiss who resist this
[Verse 2]
Given given
Self evident
Obvious reality
Confident they are nobody's fool
Wool over eyes never pulled
[Chorus]
They surround themselves with fools
Points of view deferred to theirs
Everybody else exclude
Same hymn sheet all in circle sing same song
[Verse 3]
Certain eyes see
More clearly than mine
No scope agree to disagree
Only one right so I must be wrong
Black and white - no middle way
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
For or against
Friend or enemy
Their way or high way subscribe
Demonise those suggest otherwise
Prejudice perpetuate
[Repeat Chorus]
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3. |
Collaboration
02:53
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Maya illusion
Divine arrangement
Pray serve you somehow
Collaboration
[Verse 1]
But sometimes feel
High price I pay
My birth and death
Stage set role play
Relationships
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
But sometimes fear
My plot I've lost
Purpose forgot
Got turned around
Riven my cloud
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
And sometimes doubt
Mind understands
What was your plan
Why we exist
Reason I am?
[Repeat Chorus]
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4. |
One Of Us Everyone
03:50
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[Chorus]
Everyone family
One of us ... one and all
Everyone kith and kin
One of us ... everyone
[Verse 1]
Everyone ... believer/atheist
Everyone ... dogma dog/agnostic
Everyone ... Doubting Tom/materialist
[Verse 2]
Everyone ... left and right/centralist
Everyone ... communist/capitalist
Everyone ... monarchist/federalist
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Everyone ... Pandava/Kaurava
Everyone ... demigod/asura
Everyone ... Arjuna/Duryodhana
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Everyone ... insider/outlander
Everyone ... citizen/foreigner
Everyone ... friend ally/adversary
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 5]
Everyone ... boy and girl/female-male
Everyone ... feminist/chauvinist
Everyone ... human being/other species
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5. |
Enough About Me
03:40
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[Verse 1]
View point entitled
Skew whiff subjective
Baggage recycled
Screwed up defective
[Verse 2]
View point conditioned
Reality believed
Predisposition
But that said, enough about me
[Chorus]
Don't you also
Favour own truth
Make excuses
See self rose tinted?
[Verse 3]
View point defended
Entrenched position
Blinkered eyes vision
But that said, enough about me
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
View point invested
Identify with
Dissenters rejected
But that said, enough about me
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Blame introspection
Behaviour reflection
Self non-critical
But that said, enough about me
[Repeat Chorus]
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6. |
Hijack My Vote
03:43
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[Verse 1]
Forget talk of dreams
Utopian community
That welcomes everyone
Particularly one in need
[Verse 2]
Forget talk of just
All inclusive society
Of leaders people trust
And people prize humanity
Say does not exist, fake!
[Chorus]
Preach prejudice - fan the flame
Argue my purse - be better off
Social evils blame - on outsiders
Mirror my worst ... hijack my vote
[Verse 3]
Forget talk of wise
Of human being civilised
Of right to life for all
Beyond species of birth divide
Say does not exist, fake!
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Lefty talk of love
Of celebrate diversity
Of freedom to say no
To vaccination disagree
Say does not exist, fake!
[Verse 5]
Forget talk of one
Of planet wide community
Of symbiosis dance
Environmental harmony
Say does not exist, fake!
[Repeat Chorus]
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7. |
Wishful Thinking Not
03:48
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[Spoken 1]
I want to ask you about the divinity of the soul. Where is that divinity in situations imposed against its will? For example, in obligation to so-called karmic debt, or as victim at the hands of an aggressor? I ask you to dispel my confusion in such a way that I can be truly sure of my understanding.
[Spoken 2]
I want to ask you about the notion of sin. The existence of predetermined acceptable behaviour. The idea of punishment for misuse of independence. Where is the divinity of the soul if a narrow path is already decided, determined by someone else? Please explain to me in such a way that I can be certain of my comprehension.
[Chorus]
And wishful thinking not
In the place of truth
Make believe embrace
Reality this time
Self deception free
[Spoken 3]
I want to ask you about the way you view the spectrum of aspirations and desires of the individual souls. Do you favour light over dark? Your said equiposition ... is that indication of indifference? Or are you positively engaged regardless of the way the soul chooses to explore and express their divinity? Please bestow upon me clarity of vision.
[Instrumental]
[Spoken 4]
I want to ask you about acintya bhedābheda - our simultaneous oneness and difference. I want to understand the reason we exist. Do you have a plan? Is that plan already perfectly served by our very existence? Please lift the veil on my understanding in such a way I can be certain I'm not again simply slave to conditioned predispostion and prejudice.
[Repeat Chorus]
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8. |
Strange Dream
05:03
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[Verse 1]
Dreamed enduring happiness more money guaranteed
Widely believed this one thing certain
Understood my worth by car I drive from A to B
How impressed my peers said they were
[Verse 2]
Measured life successful by the objects I possessed
Accumulation satisfied me
Had to stay ahead, keep up, no matter what it takes
But leave it all behind when I die
[Bridge]
And like a bird of gilded cage
To feed forgot unchallenged
Went hungry
[Verse 3]
Dreamed a quest for fame and fortune validates my life
Realises star potential
Of people, fact well known, celebrities are happiest
Well, maybe just a few are less so
[Repeat Bridge]
[Chorus]
Now crazy seems that life was real believed
Now obvious was just a strange dream dreamed
[Verse 4]
Dreamed when win the lotto lottery will happy be
I run my magic numbers lucky
I weekly watch results on TV, tight my fingers crossed
Get struck my lightening - know have more chance
[Repeat Bridge]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Dreamed was trapped inside my body, destined to grow old
Where only get one life then you die
Calculated self-interest as senses gratified
My outer dress identified I
[Spoken]
Is it time to wake up?
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9. |
You Are Soul
03:22
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[Chorus]
(Argue) you are soul - soul with a body, not a body with a soul
Always you are soul - soul with a body, not a body with a soul
Ego you are soul - soul with a body, not a body with a soul
Everything makes sense now
[Verse 1]
You see through eyes, eyes don't see
View point, window to the soul
Within hidden reside
Express body outer dress, yes ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
No birth nor death life constraint
No kill, be killed, dead and gone
No burned by fire, dried by wind
Unborn undying eternal
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
You flow, breathe life, consciousness
Body pervade, animate
Confused yet divine you remain
Recall forget start again, yes ...
[Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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10. |
Welcome To Kali Yuga
03:42
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[Verse 1]
Don't ask me what's going on
All I've got's uncertainty
Might be right, more likely wrong
Answers none, questions many
[Verse 2]
Choice is ours, what we accept
Know for sure or sure reject
Only pray I don't deceive
Absolute my make-believe
[Bridge]
Welcome to kali yuga never know
Who to trust honour the truth
[Verse 3]
Conditioned - my facts unsafe
Ignorance is piggy backed
Heart and mind manipulated
Finger pointed data hacked
[Repeat Bridge]
[Chorus]
Right and wrong evapourate
Moral higher ground is propaganda game
We the good guy - they the bad
But neither side for me believe can I belong
[Verse 4]
Other views invalidate
Characters assassinate
Motives over simplify
Understandable deny
[Repeat Bridge]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Only see what want to see
Cherry pick the evidence
Singular reality
Disregard if contravenes
[Repeat Bridge]
[Repeat Chorus x2]
[Spoken Word Outro]
Well, what did you expect? Kali yuga on planet Earth ... the final pillar of dharma 'truthfulness' on it's last legs? Better keep your head down.
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11. |
Lover By Design
03:24
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[Spoke Word]
Whether for partner, family, humanity, all living beings, or even God, it's always the choosing to love that gives value to love. I'm not talking about being 'in love' ... infatuated ... but the active choosing to make happiness of another important.
[Chorus]
Remains up to me
Always choice is mine
Able, capable
Lover by design
[Verse 1]
You ask me why love you - my excuse?
Does your beauty seduce me? Sometimes
Your shakti attract me? Yes
Your magic oblige me? No!
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
You ask me why love you - my story?
Does your glory entice me? Sometimes
Adventure excite me? Yes
Your desire oblige me? No!
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
You ask me why love you - my reason?
Does your power subdue me? Sometimes it does
Detachment intrigue me? Yes
Dependence oblige me? No!
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
You ask me why love you - my motive?
Does your humour amuse me? Yes
Your wisdom confuse me? Yes, a little
Bewilder, oblige me? No!
[Repeat Chorus]
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12. |
The Way We Fight
03:12
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[Verse 1]
So here we are
Never again said
But points of view entrenched
Neither concede
[Verse 2]
Judge who's to blame
Play finger point game
Propaganda both spin
Other bad guy
[Chorus]
I don't know why
But I feel there's some thing wrong
Can't put my finger on
I know this isn't right - the way we fight
[Verse 3]
Yet here we are
Another Earth war
Tango takes two always
To disagree
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Other dismissed
Unreasonable
There's only one way to see
Happens be mine
[Repeat 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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