1. |
BS Jobs
03:22
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[Chorus]
Isolated but not alone
Now B.S. jobs reflect upon
Society can do without
We wonder why they pay so much pay?
[Verse 1]
Is obvious
How contribute
Nothing of worth
For rest of us
[Verse 2]
Opportunity
Value assess
Humanity
Be better off reset
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
While rank and file
The you and I
Who contribute
Struggle survive
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken Word]
Time to reset ... identify which jobs are useful and important to society ... the farmers, teachers, carers, refuse collectors (don't forget the website designers and social workers!) ... and adjust remuneration to reflect this ... do away with all those nonsense B.S. jobs, or at least adjust salaries to reflect their actual value to greater society.
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2. |
But Looking Back
03:33
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[Chorus v1]
But looking back see things different / understand
Where previous saw against me see your hand / big plan
[Verse 1]
Should never 've doubted
But there you go 'gain
My mind bewildered
I did not choose this
Is forced upon me
Reality / fact
[Verse 2]
I felt abandoned
Selection random
Of choices finite
No easy wrong right
My search for day light
Saw only black night
[Chorus v2]
But looking back know things different / understand
Where previous saw against me see your hand / big plan
[Verse 3]
Should not have lost faith
But there you go,
So my faith is shallow
My trust is fragile
My preaching hollow
My Tom is doubting
[Repeat Chorus v1]
[Breakdown]
[Repeat Chorus v1 and v2]
[Verse 4]
Should not have questioned
Upon reflection
The new direction
Upheaval resisted
Should have embraced
Arrangement perfect
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3. |
Conspiracy See
03:33
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[Verse 1]
You always see
Conspiracy
Is all around
[Verse 2]
Find evidence
Proof obvious
No question ask
[Chorus]
Mind be predisposed
Find everywhere signs
But my eyes see victim played
Disempower embraced
[Verse 3]
Propaganda
Hidden agenda
Manipulation
[Verse 4]
Evil empire
Illuminati
Reality
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 5]
Fact is given
No need discussion
Is done and dusted
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4. |
All I Get Is
03:18
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[Chorus]
I was hoping for an answer
Explanation - why I take birth?
Why I suffer - what objective?
More confusion - all I get is
[Verse 1]
I want to know
To know for sure
No make believe fake
Pretend you talk to me
[Verse 2]
No self deceive
No leap of faith
No wishful thinking
Creative fantasy
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
I want to know
With confidence
My truth is true truth
My real reality
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Chorus to Fade]
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5. |
Today I Choose
04:00
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[Verse 1]
I wanna know you from top to bottom
To celebrate you - all situations
I wanna see you - always believe in you faith
To recognise you in everybody find
[Verse 2]
I wanna wake up - now face my music
I wanna hear truth - mind understand it
I wanna let go - no more perpetuation
Embrace my freedom - my liberation calls
[Chorus]
Too many lives I lived chewing the chewed, now I claim my power
Today I choose / decide I've had enough, now I claim my divine mine
[Verse 3]
I wanna go home - way back remember
Retrace my footsteps - adventure over
Recall forgotten - divinity believe in
No more samsara - what was I thinking, pray?
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I wanna thank you - I hope I served you
Through my ignorance, as I denied you
Then I remembered - identity rediscovered
That happy day stage - so long in setting up
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Today I choose it
My coming home
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6. |
Evil Necessary
02:39
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[Chorus v1]
Is this really the only way
Nay, the best, the perfect way
My heart desire facilitate
Some sort of evil-necessary?
Seems to me too higher price pay now
[Verse 1]
From what they say
From what they preach
One gotta jump, one gotta faith-leap
From what I hear
From what I read
One gotta fall, one gotta face fear
[Chorus v2]
Is this really the only way
Nay, the best, the perfect way
Explore divine facilitate
Some sort of evil-necessary?
Seems to me too higher price pay now
[Verse 2]
From what I see
From what I learned
One gotta doubt, one gotta question
From what I feel
From what I know
One gotta shout, one gotta challenge
[Chorus v3]
Is this really the only way
Nay, the best, the perfect way
Mine / your divine facilitate
Some sort of evil-necessary?
Seems to me too higher price pay now
[Verse 3]
From where I come
From where I stand
One gotta smile, one gotta wonder
From true believe
To lie reject
One gotta know fact never certain
[Instrumental]
[Chorus v4]
Is this really the only way
Nay, the best, the perfect way
Expand divine facilitate
Some sort of evil-necessary?
Seems to me too higher price pay now
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7. |
Samsara
02:52
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[Chorus v1]
Long time ago
When now forget
Decide somehow samsara serves
Facilitate something desired
[Verse 1]
But blinkers
Limit my mind
What oblivious
To me mission lost
[Chorus v2]
Long time ago
When now forget
Decide somehow samsara serves
Make manifest divine expressed
[Verse 2]
But maya
Covers my eyes
Makes reality
Of some crazy dream
[Instrumental]
[Chorus v3]
Long time ago
When now forget
Decide somehow samsara serves
Collaborate sacred explored
[Verse 3]
But blind fold
Prevents me see
Understand clearly
Just what is going on
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8. |
Always The Power
02:39
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[Verse 1]
Celebrity doesn't need to make you self absorbed or all about me
Name and fame needn't mean behave like demi more / gimme more
Wealth and health doesn't need to translate to okay jack
Silver spoon needn't make you hate on plastic cup / paper plate
[Chorus]
Always the power
Refuse the pitfall
Excuses, who needs them?
Always the power
[Verse 2]
Confusion doesn't need to mean intelligence is be-come-wildered
Uncertainty don't need to make no double negative
High IQ doesn't need to equate to arrogance
Personal growth needn't mean now become more intolerant / dismissive
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Religion doesn't have to be something that takes you away from God
Belief doesn't need to make you narrow mind / dogma blind
Conviction doesn't necessarily prove one criminal
Birth on Earth needn't indicate you fallen soul / envious
[Repeat Chorus]
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9. |
Language Of The Soul
03:45
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[Verse 1]
Experience, manifest, express
Explore, facilitate, realise potential
[Verse 2]
Collaborate from within without
Expand, understand this is all role play, about ...
[Bridge]
Emotion
Feel the feelings
Relational
Communication
Speaking language of the soul
[Chorus]
But now I'm here objective confuse
Remind me why (why I've taken birth)
Reason I am born (why this planet Earth)
Step in to my shoes
[Verse 3]
Divinity, not just mine but yours too
Always part of me, remain one yet different at same time
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Duality, happiness and distress
For or against, manifest unmanifest - stage set
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10. |
Blessed
04:48
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[Spoken]
Blessed are the preachers who share rather than tell
[Chorus]
Yad yad vibhutimat sattvam*
Wherever wonder perceive**
Srimad urjitam eva va*
Beautiful, glorious, sublime**
Tat tad evavagaccha tvam*
Understand ... try to see**
Mama tejo-'msa-sambhavam*
Spark divine be manifest**
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken]
Blessed are the gurus who nourish rather than clone themselves
Blessed the disciples who flourish rather than co-depend
Blessed the believers who know that they don't know
Blessed are the preachers who share rather than tell
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken]
Blessed are the meek who are humble-strong not sickly-weak
*Bhagavad gita (sanskrit) chapter 10, verse 41
https://www.asitis.com/10/41.html
**personal paraphrase drawing on various English translations
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11. |
My 'dentity
03:27
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[Verse 1]
I spied a man on the road today
Eyes to the ground - focus far away
From out of town - passing through
From where he come - nobody knew
To where he go - no one could say
Just he appears to know the way
[Verse 2]
I heard a song blowing in the wind
Triggered a light bulb moment deep within
Worded motion never tabled
Answered questions never asked
Understood, so far as able
Flame rekindled from a past fire
[Chorus]
From this dream - struggle awaken
Long asleep - accept is all
Reality - ego confusion
Self forget who used to be
My 'denti ty
[Verse 3]
So I pack my bags, give my guitar away
Clean shave my head - said my goodbyes today
Make my choices, change direction
Turn my back on old illusion
Back on track - my cultivation
Assume previous objective
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Next Life]
I spider man on the road today
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12. |
You Won't Find Me
02:45
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[Chorus]
You won't find me in my music
In my playing, in my singing
In my timing, in my swinging
Emanation, self-expression
Yet here I am now - feel my presence
Experience my one and difference
[Verse 1]
No matter try emulate
To humanise, bot disguise
To conjure relational
To mimic emotional
[Verse 2]
No matter you plagiarise
You C.G.I. digitise
Reality fantasise
Impossible realise
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
No matter try replicate
To AI thinking replace
To Turing Test pass impress
To human impersonate
[Repeat Chorus]
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13. |
Home At Last
04:13
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[Chorus v1]
Everyone raise your glass
Everyone home at last
One and all celebrate no questions asked
Everyone - them and us
Everyone - me and you
One and all - all include - no judgement passed
[Verse 1]
Even though 'times denied
Played atheist or mayavadi
Never left, walked away, turned my back, disapproved, abandoned you
[Chorus v2]
Everyone raise your glass
Everyone home at last
One and all warm embrace no questions asked
Everyone - them and us
Everyone - take your place
One and all - all include - no judgement passed
[Verse 2]
Even though 'times abuse
Brother sister confuse
Identify as enemy, reality - family all the while
[Chorus v3]
Everyone raise your glass
Everyone home at last
One and all reunite no questions asked
Everyone - them and us
Everyone - you and I
One and all - all include - no judgement passed
[Instrumental + spoken word]
You always served ... contributed in a unique way to the completeness of my divine expression, no question of favourable vs unfavourable ... better understood as simply conscious vs unconscious.
[Verse 3]
Even though 'times lay blame
Finger-point - name defame
Believe a lie, impose upon, others oblige, in name of God hate justify
[Chorus v4]
Everyone raise your glass
Everyone home at last
One and all eulogise no questions asked
Everyone - them and us
Everyone - open eyes
One and all - all include - no judgement passed
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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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