1. |
Creator Poem
00:48
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Creator of all the universe and existence
Thank you for this beautiful day
Thank you for our families and friends
For the survivors and the bitter ends
Thank you for strength, protection, guidance and wisdom
For the obstacles challenges and opportunities you’ve given
Thank you for most of our senses
For leg, hand, crooked back and our bodies
Thank you for existence
For the atheists, the agnostics and the ability to question
Creator of all the universe and existence
Bless this world and everyone in it
Empower the oppressed
strengthen the weak
Breathe life into lifelessness
make music out of silence
and poetry out of darkness
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2. |
Do You
02:50
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Took a picture of a photograph
hung it on the wall and I started to laugh
"If that ain't art,
I don't know what is"
Using it to fight for my whole life
fighting this whole thing
with such a beautiful mind
As reality and sanity begin to unwind
yes, I find ink in our blood
oh, I find music in our breath
when it's all said and done
when it's all alive in death
How would you know just how to be whole
if you've never had a whole in you?
How would you know just how to be whole
if you've never had a whole in you?
Next verse starts with a proposition
Just take a deep breath this next parts gunna be fun
Just be grateful for all the things that are true to you today
you are strong and powerful
rich and rational
focused and patient and curious and clean
resourceful healthy and stable
you are calm intentional intelligent and focused
yes you are beautiful, you are loved
you are beautiful, you are loved.
How would you know just how to be whole
if you've never had a whole in you?
How would you know just how to be whole
if you've never had a whole in you?
We're given this day
this one and only day
to become, to become all we love
to become, to become all we love
all we love
all we love
all we love
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3. |
Love Poem
00:38
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Love
proof
That all human beings have a purpose
Well versed in the struggles and successes our existence is riddled with
Selected naturally, we adapt, we evolve,
we paint history with life precious
Personally perceived thoughts
Isolated from a life we may not agree with
We may not believe in
Yet we must accept
Happiness, sadness, weakness, strength
Life’s gifts
War, Peace, Famine, Health
Life’s gifts
Consequences
First sentences written by all
Proving we are not invisible
We are not invincible
We are a collection of choices and memories
People we leave behind
will never forget
Even after death
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4. |
The River
03:46
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There's a great big river running through my heart
It's deep and cold and blue and it's the same river that runs through all of us
You may think that I'm talking about time
For this river too, you never step in twice
It just keeps on runnin by
So I plant my roots,
grow strong and bare my fruit
that's what I'll do
There's a great big mountain in my eye
all I gotta do is blink
have the faith of a mustard seed
then say goodbye
I am asking for the highest guidance
for my soul's essence right now
so If I am lost and don't know where I'm going
I can trust I'll get there soon
There are flowers growing from my fingertips
Sand fills my pockets and ocean foam fills my ears
Yes I, am becoming one with the earth again
Know there tiny human, your purpose is so fulfilled
You've so much more light to share with the humans of your world
Yes you, are becoming one with the earth again
There's a deep clear pond chillin in my mind
It sits atop a mountain
underneath a starry sky.
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5. |
2015
00:25
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Maybe I'll go silent
every Sunday for a year
Help all my friends
understand the gift of listening
Let them ponder
whether or not
they are being messed with
If I am genuine
I love you
Just drink water
Smile you’re on camera
be happy for once
It doesn’t take words
to get that far
Just us
Don’t tempt me
With a great
New Year’s
resolution
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6. |
What Will Become of Us
03:46
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(First Take)
(Clears Throat, burp)
music...
What will become of us
if we all just, turn to dust
the end of everything
will it become something else
What ripples will we make
when we throw our stones
the start of a new day
includes every broken bone
What will we become
In light of this, fragile existence
one in which we can conceive
of the end of everything
what will become
of those we love
long lost decomposed
one with the forests and the grass
the forests and the grass
the forests and the grass
As far I can see it’s all just spinning around
somethin that’s spinnin around
somethin that's spinnin around
somethin that's bigger than us
We may only be tiny little bits of dust
with only our memories keeping us
But we’re strong and even stronger together
Survive our lives whether we weather the storm or not
Scrape it all off the face of the earth
You'll still be left with everything not us
That’s a lot of stuff, what a privilege
To know this little bit of, now
Shall we always be present in the day
May the day always be present in us
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7. |
Ephemerality
03:02
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In all the days of a year
What could a whole one teach you
Preach to you about it all
Through two pupils
Cornea just colored too
Individualals of many shades of blue
Bro eyed doe eyed green eyes
staring still at you
Staring still at you
Staring still at you
Staring still at you
one, two, three, four, five
Another down and I didn’t die
Give sunlight another try
Even on a rainy day
Three six four, three six five
Resolvin another way to survive
Only a few hours left
Before we begin another loop
Around the sun
Another one around the sun
Another one around the sun
Desolate
Space
It’s a lonely place
Without us
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8. |
Timelapse
01:35
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Timelapse cloud clearing sunsets
radically ephemeral
neon orange red clumps
turning in on themselves
Paintings by condensation
last days sunlight
cumulonimbus calligraphers
of aesthetic sky language.
Nothing unless someone’s there to look at it
Proof that something will be here when we go
timelapse rainbow over humboldt bay
hope to watch it grow
per the request of our pelican
creatures in kind fishing
The clouds are the mountains
are the second by second movement with
The wind, the soft touch
upon my face
When the calm snowy plovers
float by the hundreds in cloud
bright white tinted grey
brown silhouettes turn, twist
just inches above an inlets water
in motion molding their family around their habitat
Then disappearing into tall grass
it smells like burnt driftwood on your cloths
Stillness takes hold
When the Bay empties
the water retreats
revealing feet upon feet of tiny holes
dotting inside walls of the land
of the grass
where the tall birds stand
Everyone suddenly rises to cut
quickly through the inlets wide arms left bare;
they all stop again to dig
into the dirt for food.
From a distance they appear
as a large shivering blanket
bright white tinted gray brown feathers
all at once leaping from the inlets edges
floating in sync
through the crisp
clear air then disappear
for food is somewhere.
As the Rainbow grows overhead
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9. |
Arise Young Maiden
03:47
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Arise young maiden, retrieve every dream
Hail sweet senses in every seem
Be little darkness while virtue alights
another birds call shall guide thy feet
A hue thickens as starlight thins
The universe reaches, our little speck spins
As everything known retrieves its fare
the good and the evil harken to human ends
Singin love
Singin love
Singin love
A time to believe in moments past
When life well lived it seldom lasts
When billions of people awake to a new day
New light bore a single cast
Hell below and heavens above
Human as beast and beast as dove
Fragile fortune and truth abound
A new breath found as simple as love.
Across the oceans and many seas
mountain tops to valleys below
from the earth's cool surface
to the tips of the tallest trees
beginnings and endings of rivers flow
there exists love and life
where peace and joy abound
abundant fruitful and sound
maybe it's in stillness
silence and serenity
or the hustle and bustle
of the sleepless city
Say love, c est la vies
Say love, l.o.v.e.
Say love, c est la vies
Say love, c est la vies
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10. |
The Ocean
00:40
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The Ocean
It is breathing again
Teaching us how to be after before
Constantly changing the same way over and over
It has eaten the night sky
stars moon day sun since before we were fish
It pushes the clouds through the mountains
Like rivers set into thick cuts rising from earth's crust
They meet with sand and churning of edges
In tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of years
They become each other
Teaching us how to be after before
It is breathing again
The Ocean
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11. |
Grain of Sand
03:13
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Don't you know, nobody's perfect
Beautiful in your own way
don't you know, we all live
We all live and die someday
Someday, Someday, Someday
In a grain of sand there exists more happiness than humankind could experience throughout all of history.
Why? Therein lies the answer for it is humankind who asks, who lives to seek and find.
It is humans who can tempt and be tempted by all things evil; whose complexities of self and other drive us to exercise our will.
Against all odds we have survived our planet, our system, our arc of the galaxy and the universe it exists in.
From the beginning of time to the remotest loneliness of expansion our middle ground of little earth
will be part of the whole just as it always has been.
Now rotating and revolving and providing for our species until its last breath is had when we're sayin,
Don't you know, nobody's perfect
Beautiful in your own way
don't you know, we all live
We all live and die someday
Someday, Someday, Someday
Someday,
when the earth is reminding itself of the brief history in time we
cultivated a fingerprint with.
As earth floated silent through space like a letter alone on a blank page.
Looking to the center to sunlight cast as seemingly endless energy to earth's inhabitants never destroyed.
Destruction, a reference to the ultimate end of everything composed and
organized just as humans are and will eventually cease to be.
For life has as much of a beginning as it does an end.
When all physical constructions turn to dust and return to whence they came.
To join the sand and be happy again.
To yearn, lust, love, fight, prove, regret, reflect and ask why no more
but to exist
as the tiniest pieces scattered amongst a new whole.
Vastly intricate.
Less created than destined to grow old.
Don't you know, nobody's perfect
Beautiful in your own way
don't you know, we all live
We all live and die someday
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12. |
Butterfly
01:04
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If I make it out of this this winter alive
I hope I come out a much more beautiful life like
cold, dark, sadness induced metamorphosis
Victorious larvae
Released from its chrysalis finally satisfied
Nicholas, Nicholas they’ll say
Why were you being such a naive larvae
Crawling around in circles
Instead of climbing up that tree
How quickly you would’ve become what you are now
How did you endure?
You looked as if you would have been
more meaningful being eaten
Your energy sacrificed to the benefit of something big
Yet somehow you survived
Condensing your trauma, your struggle and your tragedy
into the colors of your wings
The very things that allow you to soar above it all
Beautiful
Butterfly
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13. |
Never Alone
02:47
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Ain't goin hungry
Ain't getting cold
Take every chance to crack a smile
cause I'm growing old
I feel it deep within my bones
that light that guides us all
Yeah we got people
who got us
gutter to the steeple
war torn streets to the city bus
Out there in the world or in my head
I got lots of friends alive and dead
I know they're out there
getting into our hearts
with the best intentions
and positivity
I believe they all just want us to succeed
in whatever way possible
It takes a lot of people to get through it all
we make the world go round right?
Whatever else that's left, is meant to be a test
of the kindness we're all capable of
Especially when we're all together
when I can feel your heartbeat and see your eyelashes flutter
and even when you're not I bring you to mind
Cause I love you a whole lot forever and a day and a night
and through the darkest hour I'll be there buddy
When you need a listenin ear
have no fear that I don't understand
cause I'll try to
yes I hear you,
I see you,
I feel you
Your angels will always be near you
have no fear you
beautiful billions of years of stardust
What a must to love us
human beings having a great go of it
Just flow with it, you are,
so you are never alone
It's time again
To end this song
But it will be your hearts friend until the very end
Of this memory
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14. |
Music, I Love You
00:40
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Music
it is a cultural constant
a master of conscience
a cacophony of creativity
consistently corresponding with consciousness
constantly characterized
by the ability to synthesize the environment with subjectivity
and individualize substantial elements
of surprise and consonance.
Music
the conceived by cave people
ever evolving Emphasis
effortlessly evoking forming and morphing emotional magnificence
The inner activity inducing
positivity producing
conceptual to the intellectual
interactive to the master of practical parodies concept
Music
It is ubiquitous
I. Love. It.
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Nick The Drummer
Nick The Drummer is a community taught multi-instrumentalist .
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