1. |
Why I Said Yes
02:54
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[Verse 1]
Time to stand up
Time to lay down
Time to decide had enough
Time to re-think
Re-evaluate
Or perpetuate more of the same
[Verse 2]
Time to face fact
Mind understand
Or head-bury-deny in the sand
Time to step up
Responsible I
For my ignorance I 'pologise
[Bridge]
Direction change
Old hat forget
Tabula rasa
Object reset
[Chorus]
Today maybe that day
Won't know until tomorrow
Wisdom in retrospect
Big picture - understand why I said yes
[Verse 3]
Time to hold on
Time to let go
Time to call time - walk away
Time to forgive
Time to placate
To live-and-let-live celebrate
[Repeat Bridge]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Bridge]
[Repeat Chorus]
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2. |
Deep Enough?
02:21
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[Verse 1]
Are you rock bottom yet?
Or still digging deeper
Not dark enough yet
To turn around around?
[Verse 2]
Hopeless enough yet
To look within - face
To own your own stuff
Ascension begin?
[Chorus]
Are you deep enough?
Are you deep enough yet?
The stage now set
To start climbing back up?
[Verse 3]
Are you deep enough yet?
Or more heading downward?
Digging deeper and deeper
Going darker and darker
[Instrumental]
[Middle 8]
Suspect is set between you and God
Remember quest prompt - the timing of
What part I play today open question
You ready yet now to change direction?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
Are you far enough down
Act as trigger my plea
Or still my words sound
As if enemy?
'You are not a victim'
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3. |
Big Man
02:34
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[Chorus]
Old man, angry man
Understand I 'big man' no more
Do well to remember
All here naked stand close to death door
[Verse 1]
No more bully to get your way
Power to make or break
Entourage to play your game
Peon manipulate
[Verse 2]
No more office to hire / fire
PA to pander desires
Work force to mobilise
Dependents to bend / oblige
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
No more title to law decide
Position to goal prescribe
Yes-men to toe the line
Might is right to justify
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental + Spoken Word]
1. The whole thing is a catalogue of errors
2. Service is shambolic and unprofessional
3. Organisation systemically broken
4. Can you help me to the toilet now please?
[Verse 4]
Time to catch up, re-tune / reset
See what is gone, know what is left
Which part survives of yesterday
Identify you who remain
[Repeat Chorus]
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4. |
Even Me
02:33
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Even Me
[Verse 1]
I can hardly believe
How problem free journey's been
At every progress milestone best scenario
No way can deny good fortune
[Verse 2]
I can hardly believe
My mind friendly positive
Inspite reason plenty fear easy lose control
Yet somehow my peaceful soul is
[Chorus]
Unworthy though I feel
Evidence suggests real
I AM LOVED BY YOU
Included me as well,
Not just everyone else - even me
[Verse 3]
I can hardly believe
With other contrast my lot
Maybe just my head in clouds dreamer lost the plot
But seems to me lucky me I am
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I can hardly believe
Inspite unsubmissiveness
Rejection of karma law (explanation flawed)
My search for divinity (mine / yours)
[Repeat Chorus]
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5. |
Struggle Divine
03:07
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[Verse 1]
Struggle to believe
Possibility true
Never 'gainst my will obliged
[Verse 2]
Struggle to accept
Power to insist no
Power to decide yes mine
[Chorus]
But time and time again returns
My conviction self divinity endures
So 'gainst my will cannot be real
[Verse 3]
Struggle to find peace
Know confidence my truth safe
That you and I be on same page
[Verse 4]
Ample evidence
But hesitate embrace as fact
My Doubting Tom remains on fence
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Wobble in my faith
I fall down to my knees - pray
Uncertainty alleviate
[Side Quest]
I struggle believe
Is up to me
I struggle accept
My mind reject
I struggle believe
Is up to me
I struggle accept
My mind reject
[Repeat Verse 1]
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6. |
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[Chorus]
I don't believe
- life controlled by karma
- I'm a fallen soul / sinful / envious
- my divinity now lost to me
[Verse 1]
I won't accept
It makes no sense '
My mind reject
No more on fence sit
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
A truth deny
The wrong and right
Object of life
For me prescribed, no
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental + Spoken Word]
I'm beginning to see Karma as a construct - a useful way of thinking at early stages of our homeward journey - later incompatible with progressing self-awareness
[Verse 3]
I've come to doubt
To question how
If I'm divine
Against my will I'm obliged
[Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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7. |
Athena Tree
04:07
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[Chorus]
Athena tree, leaf silver green
Fruit purple gold
Stand prayer folded hands, lay bare my soul
Athena tree
[Verse 1 - spoken]
Old olive tree, two trunks entwined
Remind me now of love divine
Baucis Philemon benediction
Souls transcending space and time
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2 - spoken]
Okay, you know you're not this body
I say love exchange flows soul-to-soul
Affection, care, regret, relation
In spite illusions limitation
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3 - spoken]
Yes one day soon this life time forget
Still all we gave will given remain yet
Old olive tree, two trunks entwined
Celebrate now this love divine
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Chorus to fade]
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8. |
Party Line
02:58
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[Verse 1]
The party line ...
Everyone fallen soul,
Running out of time,
Human life meant for going home - goal
[Verse 2]
A human birth
Opportunity rare
Don't be wasting it
Eating sleeping mating defending scared
[Chorus v1]
But my goal of life
Surely mine to choose
Never pre prescribed
By another, even God Himself
Valueless otherwise
So called offering soul submission
[Verse 3]
Is up to me
Self divinity law
Free from consequence,
Fear of punishment, dark or light explore
[Chorus v2]
Argue goal of life
Surely mine to choose
Never pre prescribed
By another, even God Herself
Meaningless otherwise
So called offering soul devotion
[Instrumental]
[Breakdown]
The party line
Toe the party line
The party line
Tow ;) the party line
[Chorus v3]
No, goal of life
Surely mine to choose
Never pre prescribed
By another, time to realise
Empty glass otherwise
So called offering soul surrender
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9. |
How This Is Love
02:48
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[Chorus]
How this is love - I can't explain
The fear and doubt - I can't explain
Disease and death - I can't explain
How this is love, pray?
[Verse 1]
Yet I maintain that God is good
Is in control is understood
Is on my side, and your side too
Beloved child is everyone, no one excludes
[Verse 2]
But I believe never impose, no path prescribed
No one obliged - freedom to choose
Is by design - facilitates
Pure unconditional love exchange
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Yet I bang on "no right or wrong"
I speculate, as God is good is logical
Purpose conclude for world creation
And life we live must be positive
[Repeat Chorus]
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10. |
The Not Knowing
02:52
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[Chorus]
The not knowing
Uncertainty reality
Wonder maybe is meant to be
Somehow it serves facilitate me
Not knowing
[Verse 1]
My recollection
Recalled forgotten
Mystery uncovered
History remembered
[Verse 2]
My human lifetime
My dark to light climb
My home bound journey
My lost and found again
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
My exploration
My inspiration
Divine creation
Manifestation
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
My chosen role-play
My aspiration
Desire objective
My self expression
Collaboration
My one and difference
[Repeat Chorus]
[Chorus Variation]
My not knowing
Uncertainty reality
Wonder maybe is meant to be
Somehow it serves facilitate you my
Not knowing
[Repeat Chorus]
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11. |
24 The Law
02:41
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[Verse 1]
Say twenty four the law
Life non viable before
Person cannot exist
Moral certainty assured
[Verse 2]
Convenient the lie
This is progress, justify
No need believe is true
Add up two wrong make a right
[Chorus]
I heard it on the news
Headline human right abuse
Sorry, shock to realise
Right does not apply to you
They find Northern Ireland law
Out of step and out of time
Victory to celebrate
Your divinity denied - 24 the law
[Verse 3]
Sacred oblivious
Ego mysterious
Body identify
Eternal soul deny
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Love unconditional
Unique original
Dependent responsible
Hand of God relational
[Repeat Chorus]
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12. |
What You Will Today
02:42
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[Verse 1]
You say you' done nothing wrong
Believe you see what going on clearly
Insult my intelligence
Choice is for or against
[Verse 2]
Insist "I done nothing wrong"
No sharing in blame possible
But I'm no longer husband once I was
Cosy facilitator
[Chorus]
I wish you see soon positive
Forgive, claim your power
No more play cave in co-depend
Think of me what you will today
[Verse 3]
No mission hidden to oblige
My point of view reality persuade accept
Only here to protect
One who love anyway request
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
You and I relational
Who knows reason choose two become one
Regardless why for you believe
Was never enemy against
[Repeat Chorus]
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13. |
Why Only Now?
04:16
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[Verse 1]
Reflect on my 'selfish' - today regret
Curse 'all about me'
I never considered anybody else
Never once occured to me others also deserve get their needs met
[Verse 2]
Reflect on my conduct - today regret
Curse my unconscious
I never imagined cause and effect
Denying my baggage mine - weighing me down - warping my world view
[Bridge v1]
No matter excuses 'I meant you no harm'
Responsibility for causing distress belongs to me - see
[Chorus]
But why not before, why only now?
So many years oblivious
Blinkered my eyes, perverted my mind
Say why only now you pull back the blind?
[Verse 3]
Reflect on my dogma - today regret
Curse my narrow mind
I never considered possibility
Subjective opinions all,
No truth absolute, just saw for / against me
[Bridge v2]
No matter excuses 'I done nothing wrong'
Responsibility for causing distress belongs to me - see
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental + spoken word]
Could it be that timing is as much about facilitating others as it is facilitating me, that sometimes you even utilise unconsciousness - removing blindfold only when objectives are realised by all ... and that in the bigger scheme of things nobody is ultimately abuser or victim? It's a nice thought!
[Bridge v3]
No matter excuses 'intention was good'
Responsibility for causing distress belongs to me - see
[Repeat Chorus]
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14. |
We Are Touchstone
05:24
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[Chorus]
We are touchstone - eternal - transcendental
We are stardust - glow golden - everybody
[Verse 1]
Mother Earth - bare feet born
Human birth - cosmic dance
Right to life - everyone
Two or four legs, or none
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Planet Earth - milky way
Universe fantasy
Galaxy far away
Land of dreams - make believe
[Repeat Chorus x 2]
[Breakdown]
[Verse 3]
Time and place providence
Chance or happy coincidence
Hand of God - roll of dice
The world's a stage - we live the life
[Repeat Chorus x 3]
[End]
We are touchstone - eternal - transcendental
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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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