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Taṭasthā śakti
02:25
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[Verse 1]
Something deep inside desires to know what's going on - truth
Why I'm here, the meaning/goal of life, open or prescribed
[Verse 2]
Sometimes make believe, my self deceive, fact know for certain
Others admit no idea what lies behind the curtain
[Chorus]
No matter desire, never see
Seems soul, by design, made this way
Somehow serves divine - hope and pray (taṭasthā śakti)
[Verse 3]
Not much fun to see from where I stand my glass is empty
Contribute my humble point of view, confusion plenty
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Keeping faith blinkers facilitate divine expression
Necessary evil, devotees eager to wear them
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 5]
Conscious or unconscious seems to me this only question
For either way I function according to God's intention
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2. |
Questions Three
02:40
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[Verse 1]
You make strong case for woman's right
How dare religion term oblige?
Sacrifice life for unborn
Conceived by accident or force? (for example)
[Verse 2]
You make clear case for you decide
How dare the state get in your face?
Veto flesh ownership claim
Your sovereign right to choose deny
[Chorus v1]
Yet I decline to enter, prefer to pose my questions-three
1. Who do you think that you are?
2. When you believe life begins?
3. How do you define what person is?
[Verse 3]
You make good case for moral fight
Arm military justify
See enemy in other
With land of birth identify
[Chorus v2]
Yet I refuse to argue, prefer defer to questions-three
1. Who do you think that you are?
2. When you believe life begins?
3. How do you define what person is?
[Instrumental and spoken word]
How safe are your answers? That's for you to decide. What if life and personhood have nothing to do with the body ... they exist before and after? Do you think that's possible? Would it change the way you position yourself?
[Verse 4]
Find evidence in nature's way
At top of food chain human race
Dominion means exploit
In other species see fair game
[Chorus v3]
Still I refuse to engage, prefer return to questions-three
1. Who do you think that you are?
2. When you believe life begins?
3. How do you define what person is?
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3. |
Maybe Not Today
02:07
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[Chorus]
Maybe not today but sometime
Need to look again
God's love find
[Verse 1]
Now fallen soul
See karma bound entangled
Judge suffering
Wages of sin fact given
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Now banished here
Divinity compromised
Mortality
See proof enough blinkered eyes
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Now us and them
Other divide disconnect
Identify
Species of birth misconcept
[Middle 8]
Somewhere on homeward journey
In quest for understanding
Believe will need to reassess
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Now envious
Impure of heart certainty
Rebellious
Unlovable/unworthy
[Repeat Chorus]
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4. |
Responsible But
03:15
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[Verse 1]
The jury's out on guilty or innocent
The said offence unconscious
Is no excuse, has consequence nevertheless
[Verse 2]
Oblivious of outcome, in ignorance
Yet damage done no question
Extenuating circumstance, no ill intent
[Chorus]
Responsible but faultless
In every action sanction
For not a blade of grass moves
Outside permission of God
In soul to soul connection
Divinity perfection
[Verse 3]
Say "Never meant to do harm" argue defence
Was well intention deflect
Is culpable refuse accept, victim regret
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Some people claim is karma effect and cause
Fear karma-police from past-life
Come track you down to settle debt, idea reject ...
[Repeat Chorus]
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5. |
What's Going On?
03:25
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[Verse 1]
Everywhere I'm wary
Nervous who I dare trust
Top of list BBC
Tell me lie-cence fee pay
[Verse 2]
Research facts internet
Code to keep me online
Piggy back prejudice
Demonise / polarise
[Chorus]
Tell me truth what's going on
Tell me truth what's going on
Tell me truth what's going on
What's going on?
[Verse 3]
Politicians take cake
After them corporates
Where integrity gone?
Call me old-fashion john
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Palestine dare not ask
Fear of anti accuse
Labour don't get me start
All I want is true truth
[Repeat Chorus]
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[Chorus]
But all I see finger pointing
Around and round retribution
Preach demonise/dismiss other
Don victim/aggressor hats in turn
[Verse 1]
I'm hoping for reason
Reasonable human
Willing to wear other shoes
To strive to imagine
How feels from inside them
To understand point of view
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Dai's praying for Jesus
Divine intervention
Believes his the only way
May judge I am heathen
Yet peace both believe in
Regardless religion pray
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
High time for forgiveness
Provocation resist
Let go justification
Be first to say no more
Forget how it started
Decide now we end it - stop
[Chorus]
Na na na na ... yes
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7. |
So Sets The Stage
04:10
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[Chorus]
So sets the stage
Struggles included
Facilitates, conditions
This human birth
This life on Earth
Act yet to play - soul mission
[Verse 1]
Identify ego - my who am I
Play fallen soul - banished
By karma bound bondage
Or atheist
Choice up to you choose which
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Identify with country - my history
With family - my line
With body worn - my I
See us and them
See enemy and you
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Identified my I species of life
Number of legs/brain size
Who I must eat to survive
Nature's food chain
To know my place escape
[Chorus v2]
So sets the stage
Struggles included
Facilitates, conditions
This divine birth
This life on Earth
Act yet to play - soul mission
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[Chorus]
Identify who do I think I am?
Open my heart to who convinced you are
Before I try stop you whose arrangement question
[Verse 1]
If you want to know forgiveness
Need believe someone offender
Need to see abuse historic imposed on against will
Reality
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
If you want to know redemption
Need to feel oneself soul fallen
Need to find in this world evidence of sinful banishment
Reality
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
If desire afresh discover
Need to first forget who you are
Need to feel hopeless samsara birth and death entangled
Reality
[Repeat Chorus]
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9. |
Speciesism
03:42
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[Verse 1]
Speciesism - personhood denied
Bodily concept of life lie
People require two legs, no more
Everyone knows this for sure
[Chorus]
But what if soul the source of consciousness
My body is just an outer dress?
What if?
[Verse 2]
Speciesism - feelings denied
Bodily concept of life lie
Emotion requires human I.Q.
Everyone knows fact is proved
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Speciesism - desires denied
Bodily concept of life lie
Passion demands large size of brain
Every human knows to be the case
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Speciesism - divine denied
Bodily concept of life lie
Sacred requires human body
Only humans share divinity
[Repeat Chorus]
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10. |
No Longer Believe
03:21
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[Verse 1]
I bow down apologise
Forgive me my heavy
I don't mean to criticise
Nor impose my worthy, sorry
But I just can't find the faith
To attribute value
I don't aim to rain on parade
Neither desire spoil fun, sorry
[Chorus]
Just material world adventure has lost it for me
Idea one day will find fulfilment no longer believe
[Verse 2]
To my mindset waste of time
Tick tock clock is ticking
Frivolous appears to me
To ignore position, sorry
But important's up to you
Celebrate your divine
Soul divinity explore choose
Choice is yours how express, not mine
[Repeat Chorus]
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11. |
Just In Case
03:30
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[Chorus]
Just in case my faith later be proved
Just in case my suppositions true
I better stand up, step forward, speak up
Just in case they resonate with you
[Verse 1]
A disconnection
From country of birth
From colour of skin
From body and mind ego
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
My identify
A soul with body
An outer dress worn
Its birth and death survived
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
My making sense of
My belief in God
Divinity shared
Regardless species body
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
My fallen soul doubt
My sinner reject
My karma questions
My everything perfect
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 5]
The sacred sound om
The holy name form
The non different from
The transcendental recall (Hare Krishna)
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12. |
All Change
04:36
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[Chorus]
Close eyes on the setting sun
Rise up when the morning come
[Spoken 1]
Exploring divinity and in so doing, regardless of conscious or oblivious, always contributing to the completeness of God's own self-knowing, no matter trading aggressor for victim, victim for aggressor, pursuing material or spiritual goals. Maintaining faith as a believer, agnostic or an atheist. Conducting oneself humble or proud, quiet or loud ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 2]
Expressing self-divinity, regardless how choosing, everything always worthy by dint of who we are ... who we remain, contributing our bliss of spiritual awakening, our joy of realising against-the-odd dreams, our fear of death and ecstasy of redemption having so long believed oneself a fallen soul or sinner ... how otherwise would God know these things?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 3]
Contributing our mite, finite no question, but same time unique in terms of our individuality and the present canvas of predispositions, childhood conditioning and association with tri-guna sattva, rajas and tamas (the three modes of material nature), no matter exploring the light, the shadows, or even the darkness, no matter playing offender or forgiver, or our thinking thoughts shallow/superficial or deep.
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 4]
Like diodes we are - the current of our life experiences flowing towards God but, at this time, the current of God's incremented self-knowing not flowing back to us. Maybe at some point we can become more like semi-conductor transistors ... the current of consciousness flowing both ways under certain conditions ... a sort of simultaneous inconceivable oneness and difference? Achintya bhedābheda tattva.
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13. |
This Fight Is Not Mine
02:38
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[Chorus]
Country history, parent's family
Ancestry line mind accept as mine
Self identified by one body born
But if eternal soul in reality ...
[Verse 1]
This war is not mine, no matter the stage
Defines other side, role enemy plays
Conditions my eyes, propagandas my mind
Feeds prejudice-hate, us and them cultivates ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
This brawl is not mine, this tit for tat game
Victim-aggressor / aggressor-victim claims
Accuse, finger point, other side demonise
Provocation deny, is them always I blame
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
This fight is not mine, where was I when began?
My life previous, who can say who I am?
Could be I was born on fence other side
Today's near and dear past life I despise ...
[Repeat Chorus]
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14. |
Like As To Known
03:11
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[Verse 1]
He lived a life preparing for when he died
Absorbed his will resisting
No question why, in name of God, nature denied
[Verse 2]
He counted breaths as numbered, his quota set
Identified with sinner
Condemned himself as envious. How I forget
[Chorus]
Was made that way seems predisposed
For him his faith like as to known ... given
[Verse 3]
Guarded his time as precious commodity
Ne'er entertained prajalpa
Nor filled his mind with nonsense thought, spoke idle talk
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
He made is peace, admitted uncertainty
Maintained belief, accepted
What could not prove nevertheless he chose believe
[Repeat Chorus x2]
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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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