1. |
Wake Me Gently
03:31
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[Chorus]
A life time dreaming
R.E.M. deep
So stir me slowly, careful in my sleep
My peaceful slumber
Life fantasy absorbed
Awake me gently - remind me who I am
[Verse 1]
No need to wake me up with a bang - shoot me dead
No need to rape me, break me, shock me, chop my head
No need to knife me, stab me, bleed me dry
No need to grab me, drag me screaming - blow my mind (moo)
[Chorus]
A life time dreaming
R.E.M. deep
So stir me slowly, careful from my sleep
My peaceful slumber
Life fantasy absorbed
Awake me gently - remind me who remain
[Verse 2]
No need to shake me down, take my wits, fade to black
No need to disease cancer T.B. heart attack
No need to run me over - hit by bus
No need to leave a mess, freak out who left behind
[Instrumental & Spoken Word]
Of course no one knows (or perhaps remembers) the experience from the other side, but it all looks pretty grim from here. Why can we not simply do a Yoda when it's time to step off the stage? I want to ask God about this ... what's that you say? ... I'll understand it differently later? Keep faith until then ...
[Chorus]
A life time dreaming
R.E.M. deep
So stir me slowly, careful from my sleep
My peaceful slumber
Life fantasy absorbed
Awake me gently - remind me who we are
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2. |
Taken Given
02:52
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[Verse 1]
I feel the sun
Warm on my skin
A new day dawning - yawning
My eyes open
[Verse 2]
My last night's dream
Evaporates
My birth on Earth fantasy
So far away, but ...
[Chorus]
Celebrate a life is lived
Love taken given
As soul to soul sacred relate
May we meet again
[Verse 3]
My last life's dream
Here long forgot
Yet I believe
Gone for good not, I ...
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
My day-dream dream
Reality
So real it seems
Must pinch my self, and ....
[Repeat Chorus]
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3. |
Connection Past
02:57
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[Verse 1]
And as you pass me in the street
Look twice like recognise me
Something familiar you see
Cannot put your finger on what
[Verse 2]
Stop in your tracks, shake head turn back
Retrace your steps, say hello
Where do I know you from pray tell?
Dig deep your memory call
[Chorus v1]
Did we share life time previous?
Were you my enemy / friend?
Reveal to me connection past
[Verse 3]
Feel as I stand before you here
Relationship rekindle
Anonymous other reject
Though who we were now forget
[Chorus v2]
Did we share life time previous?
Were you my father / mother?
Reveal to me connection past
[Instrumental + spoken word]
What if we all have a loving inner circle of soul companions with whom we take birth again and again over multiple lifetimes, as we support and facilitate mutual explorations of the divine within? And when we meet someone in this life with whom we feel immediate, yet unexplainable, connection, this is because we are reuniting with a soul we know already in the deepest possible way?
[Chorus v3]
Did we share life time previous?
Were you my soulmate lover?
Reveal to me connection past
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4. |
I Have My Fantasy
04:12
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[Chorus]
I have my fantasy
How things are meant to be
Parallel reality
Where all are family
Like distant memory
Sometimes it feels to me
From life time previous
Is my insanity?
[Verse 1]
Where every animal
Also has right to live
Where unimaginable flesh as food to eat
Nobody would believe
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Where every human being
Regardless truth believe
Is seen as brother / sister individual
Part and parcel divine
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Every plant and tree
Living entity
Regardless species of life see divinity facet
Explored and expressed
[Repeat Chorus]
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5. |
May I Never Deny You
03:04
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[Verse 1]
Free to hold on
Space to let go
No right or wrong
May I never deny you
[Verse 2]
Freedom from fear
Space make mistake
No should or must
May I never deny you
[Chorus]
Celebrate
Up to you
Whatever your choice
OK with me
Sacred - you choose
[Verse 3]
Freedom say no
Space embrace yes
Choice meaningful
May I never deny you
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Freedom to change
Space remain same
No when prescribed
May I never deny you
[Repeat Chorus]
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6. |
Up To Me
03:44
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Up To Me
[Chorus v1]
I don't need dogma religion
Tell me now confused
Blind belief nor blinker vision
Further feed delusion
[Verse 1]
Up to me to find my own sense
Sit on fence or climb down
Choose my side or go my own way
Change my mind tomorrow
[Chorus v2]
I don't need no corporation
Tell me what desire
Sell me lie, market my data
Bleed me dry my pocket
[Verse 2]
Up to me to choose direction
To or from ignorance
Dark or light, both way see alright
Favourable in God eyes
[Chorus v3]
I don't need no politician
Feed me us and them
Prejudice my mind against me
CBT my thinking
[Verse 3]
Up to me decide important
Aspiration stake mine
Always make my contribution
Sacred collaboration
[Breakdown/Instrumental]
[Chorus v4]
I don't need no Darwinism
Tell me man evolved
Thin covered ape atheism
Further feed my monkey
[Repeat Chorus v1]
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7. |
How Will Ever I?
03:17
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[Chorus]
Geographical
Socio-political
Cultural localised - see through blinkered eyes
Layer 'pon layer
Confess this true, yet believe what you need somehow I know better than you - ooh
(How presumptuous is that?)
[Verse 1]
Ways accustomed to, ruse oblivious
In my social norms childhood sponge absorbed
With my classroom facts - teachers filled my head with
How will ever I know your point of view?
[Repeat Chorus]
(How ridiculous is that?)
[Verse 2]
Through my prejudice - dumb self-righteousness
By my predisposed cherished absolutes
So called progressive, seen from where I stand
How will ever I foot step in your shoes?
[Chorus]
(How embarrassing is that?)
[Instrumental + spoken word]
Given my background, conditioning and aspirations, probably it would be difficult for me to feel positive in your shoes. At least that's they way it looks from where I stand. But why should that lead me to assume that's how you feel? Where's the logic in my measuring YOUR life success in terms of MY objectives. Maybe by divine arrangement we're after something completely different?
[Verse 3]
In my arrogance, by my narrow mind
Altruism play in my cosy lies
With my self-deceive via certainty
Can I celebrate you your point of view?
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8. |
No Imitation
02:40
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[Verse 1]
A hint of a smile in a glint in an eye in a sideway glance
A kiss on the lips or a peck on cheek
A walk in the park on a grassy path
Opinion spoke, a word-play joke
[Verse 2]
A bird on the wing, butterfly in the sky on a cloudless day
A phrase from a page in a yoga book
A meal on a plate to a dirty shirt
A serviette, a table mess
[Chorus]
Celebrate what it is for what it is
No limitation
No contrive what it is for what is not
No imitation
[Verse 3]
A nudge and a wink and I know what you think for the glasses lost
A day in a life of a Beatle boff*
A take of a song in a moment passed
A focused mind - no more to ask
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
A facing of facts in a search in the dark for a mystery
A proof of a truth of a lie believed
A seed of a doubt from a fertile mind
A trust betrayed, a faith misplaced
[Instrumental]
[Repeat Chorus x3]
*UK English
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9. |
Mind The Gap
03:09
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[Verse 1]
Reclaim your power, separate you
Know your mind games - where they lead to
Evaluate them - how they serve you?
Habits break old cultivate new groove
[Chorus]
You mind the gap now
Thoughts are not you
Rethink your thinking
Position distant
Own your platform
Mind that gap now
[Verse 2]
Police your thought flow, stand apart from
Mind unbridled - take control back
Assert your divine, no more slave to
Up to you choose liberate your you
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Re-programme language, system restore
Set objective, decide where for you
Reduce your mountain, make a mole hill
Impose own will, bow to floor no more
[Repeat Chorus]
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10. |
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[Verse 1]
Oh my child of innocence
In your openness to trust
So assume your facts be safe
Always black and white, never grey
[Verse 2]
Oh my child of certainty
In your eagerness to please
Never doubt your truth is sure
Suspect absolute in fact flawed
[Chorus]
Past is fading fast
Future - intangible
Now ... a momentary apparition will o' wisp
[Verse 3]
Oh my generation next
From your pinnacle present
Cannot touch your history
Though yesterday now used to be real
[Repeat Chorus]
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
Oh my point on journey long
Embarkation port forget
Destination mystery
No way understand 'now' context
[Repeat Chorus]
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11. |
Original I
04:18
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[Chorus]
I try believe
Believable known
If ignorance be bliss is folly to be wise
Faith blind embrace
Cosy certainty
Self divinity deny original I (but)
[Verse 1]
Feel I'm outside looking in
No way I'm part of this
Dance out of time, sing out of tune
Unclear my purpose here - why the human birth?
Feel I'm inside looking out
My soul in fish bowl gold
No matter try cannot relate
Say how this serves me now, how facilitates?
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Feel I'm hanging upside down
Buttoned up wrong way round
I'm out of step and out of style
Unclear my mission here - why the human birth?
Wear my T-shirt inside out
My logo make no sense
No matter try cannot relate
Say how this serves me now, how facilitates?
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
I original
Self divinity deny
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12. |
With You
03:41
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[Verse 1]
Find you, I wanna find you (locate)
See you, I wanna see you (open eyes)
Hear you, I wanna hear you (speak to me)
Know you, I wanna understand you
[Chorus]
I choose collaborate
As one relate with you
For you hold open door
Expand explore with you - as us
[Verse 2]
Touch you, I wanna touch you (in my mind)
Hold you, I wanna hold you (in my heart)
Taste you, I wanna taste you (soul to soul)
Face you, I wanna celebrate you
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken word]
Yoga means to link. It's not about merging - it's about simultaneous oneness and distinction. We're all connected. Always a positive, a plus ... even if some preach that you're a negative.
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
Trust you, I wanna trust you (be confident)
Serve you, I wanna serve you (defer to you)
Love you, I wanna love you (gratitude)
As one, yet separate from remain
[Repeat Chorus]
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13. |
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Verse 1
And if I wander lonely
As in a field of daffodils
And if I fade to dreaming
Find me waiting in the hills
Beside a lake, beneath a tree
Verse 2
And if the waves are dancing
With my one hand moving free
I may forget tomorrow
Walk my bare feet by the sea
To the sound of tambourine
Chorus
Shine like the moon
Luminate the darkness
Brighten the night
As we wait for sunrise
Verse 3
And if the tap be broken
Draw the water from the well
And if the truth be spoken
Let the speaker practise well
And don't forget to sound the bell
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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