IF

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BEYOND, WITHIN I sing electric to the sky I sing to the orbs in the heavens I move outwards to the stars like dust There is more than can be imagined Beyond, within we see Many worlds in many galaxies In many interstellar seas Beyond, within, we are but one Look out, look up, we all see the sun I sing the light years passing by I sing to the edge of all that can be known We give we take we all are stardust We make the journey without moving, moving Countless stars give endless light And here are we awakening from night Beyond, within, we are but one Look out, look up, we all see the sun And what does dwell within me And how does my song come to be Am I the final meaning A cosmos self-contained In infinite creation Is there a small infinity A micro-cosmic universe That sings out to the next And if we listen to our hearts The sound the color Who do we hear Is it greater are we smaller We are on the boundary Of one miracle to another The vastness of the heavens And the vastness contained within Worlds orbit overhead As we circle one another And I can see you I can know you I can hear you And who does dwell within me And who does my song call out to Who looks into my dreaming And makes my visions whole In infinite creation So many small infinities Each singing out their own song Each one a soul to rise up and take flight 2. BEHOLD, THE ZIDDLE The way you must find So you stop to read the signs Don’t be alarmed by the riddles It’s just the language of the middle Let the locusts fly Let the fires rise Pay no heed to the glaring, mischievous eyes Silently calling Afraid of falling And never looking round Uncertain backing Clearly lacking And drowning in the sound See the man with the grinning face that never smiles He’s been watching you back all the while And thinking thoughts that are just a little sideways Here comes the parade In torrential rain, Just to soothe the commoners The possessed and insane Their stomachs are gnawing They’re ready for clawing If I linger long I’ll be butcher’s bait In the Ziddle’s hands Is your fate! What a feature This odd little creature Whose efforts appear so vain There’s things he can’t find Inside of his mind That used to make him sane He has a three-sided dance that’s all the rage It looks like it’s in reverse But that’s just because You can’t see things from his perspective Through a wintry scene I flee A murky hollow looms ahead of me Down I slip and tumble Torn and bruised I lay humble Am I lost forevermore In this dark world Now I only walk the lonely way Where all is sadness How dearly I’d love to pray Yet all is madness But I’m realizing I’ve walk this road before Could it be I’m only dreaming And nothing more And if this is indeed merely a nightmare Then I’m the sole creator of the Ziddle’s lair Thus will I end his evil world And a sure pathway home I will unfurl Down, down, down That dark road I went just to see Just to see Down, down that dark road I’ve ceased to be me Yet a light I can see It’s growing close Searching for me How I long to be free Free at last! Good morning sunshine! 3. GRACE THE SKIES Fly free oriole fly, believe Your time to dream has arrived In sleepwalking society A youth questions his role to be A pillar, puppet a parasite Get your head on right As your heart takes flight If the bird is free to fly Then why my soul should I deny If the bird is free to fly Then why the wings of my soul should I deny Oh bird of paradise Let your colors grace the skies And with courage on your wing Rejoice freedom’s blessing Come of age, turn the page And your cage is Now opened wide The beckoning wind is high You’ve got to soar into the sky And reach for a better life Fly free Oriole fly Believe your time to dream has arrived Now the time has come to fly, to fly Fly away So there I traveled along the guiding stream Through a deep wooded valley, led within a dream And just as the sacred tale had foretold There, the rarest bird in the highest tree Then it looked down and spoke to me If the bird is free to fly Then why your soul should you deny Oh bird of paradise Let your colors grace the skies And with courage on your wing Rejoice freedom’s blessing Reach high into the sky Drifing by The white dove is ascending Higher and faster than I’ve ever dared to dream Fly, fly high, fly free Carry me on your wing Carry me home 4. AT LAST WE ARE Came a sound, from the stillness as the morning woke Sweetly he sang, yet urgent I heard his song stronger as the dawn was breaking There through the mist on eastern hill So I climbed on I know I’ve heard that voice Born upon winds from Eden I will follow him till heart’s rest Till at last my journey’s ended Sing to me a star Set it in yonder sky Shining, and guiding me For I’ve lost my way before There in the mist on eastern hill For I would Climb to the sun and then beyond to Hear what you might sing Such was the power of your voice Oh, that I might hear more Now it fell upon a summer night Climbing up the fells in the lingering light Glimmering yet faint through the gathering mist Holding forth promises Brilliantly climbing the sky Find the singer, chasing starlight Racing moon beams, onward I climb He will show me the way When I draw close he’ll be waiting there Father of my soul in the morning fair Then I recall He has never been Far from my side Leading me, cheering me Feeding me, guiding me home Where I will see familiar faces And as children who once were lost Found, at last we are And free to run and gather ‘round A shining King, who laughing Welcomed us home at last For at last we are And dancing ‘round our Father Who wipes away all tears Welcomes us home at last Welcomes us home at last 5. IF THE STARS Man, just a grain of sand on an island In a sea of stars I heard the call to come home And sweetly, yet urgent as A mother calls to her wayward son One who in darkness lingers Lacking faith I stood rooted As the darkness wrapped me round she sang If the stars should then appear One night in a thousand years How would man believe and adore If the light of the city of God was shown there Would they believe? If the stars should then appear One night in a thousand years This recurring theme beckoned A song snatched in fragments I heard Uplifted into infinite space All as one The one is all, yes the one, the one is all On the distant line of the horizon man beholds Light of his heart as he looks to the sky He need not question how or why The perpetual presence of the Higher Mind In His life, the sublime and the power divine I watched the morning star burning brightly I could sense its passion reflected there In the fire of your eyes If the stars should then appear One night in a thousand years How would man believe and adore If the light of the city of God was shown there Would they believe? If the stars should then appear One night in a thousand years The scope of imagination Searching the dark for a way Just look to the multitude overhead All point to the one The one is all The power divine Light of the higher mind Love, the power divine Light of the higher mind Love, the power divine Yet man still doubts his destiny with God 6. IF THE SUN Where does this road lead Where, where in the sunlit sky Why should I keep running hard What is the meaning deep If I thought I heard your name upon the wind I could aspire If I saw the final line I'd have some fuel to feed the fire Now I only know here am I High, high up above me Where I have no wings to fly To the earth I'm bound to gravity I am a slave enchained But I can still chase the wind If I thought I heard your name upon the wind I could aspire If I saw the final line I'd have some fuel to feed the fire Now I need to know who am I Long search I for little answer Far I wander yet I never move Through the distance to the mountain tall I can hear a call but faintly There's a sound throbbing in my head I can feel something deep within It won't leave me, it torments me It compels me to move ever forward If I thought I heard your name upon the wind I could aspire If I saw the final line I'd have some fuel to feed the fire I just need to know who am I What am I, why am I High on a mountain top I woke Far to the east the morning broke Far below I saw a land All was darkness, all was shadow And yet Who led me here, who carried me Away from there I sensed a presence A calming spirit watching me And then I knew That the darkened land was behind Never need I return What I had once thought of as home Was just a place of gloom and wandering Sing, sing to me, please sing Whether I had run away from home Or merely lost my way It mattered not, no For I knew I was close All would be answered And my heart would find its rest For here I find myself at journey’s ending Sweetly came that song Growing now and strong Higher than mountain peak Everything I would seek Was waiting there Home at last, am I found I am found, I’m found, I’m found, I’m found If the sun could light a thousand dreams To carry us away Whispered on the wind A call to transcend Still I’m rooted and fixed as stone To the ground One last look back to where I’d been Bitter sweet, I retreat Call me weak for I am but Man A fallen creature bound to earth This is just a symptom of Something deep, I can’t break its hold Thus I weep as the world grows cold yet I hear Drawing near, singing clear And I can’t help but turn You can call it anything that you desire But I can’t ignore I am going to make a run for it Or with broken wings I’ll fly Hoping he’ll see, hoping he’ll see This damaged fragment of life Is struggling homeward at last I can see it And it’s beautiful So at last I return home! He sang me a song to break The hardest heart For I had made mine a stone If the sun could launch a thousand dreams and carry us away If I thought I heard your name upon the wind I could aspire If I saw the final line I'd have some fuel to feed the fire When at last I heard your song I knew the meaning and broken-hearted Like a child who lost in darkness finds his way when the sun At last breaks free When the morning comes When at last the sun shines clear I will hear you singing That familiar song That’s haunted me my whole life long Tugging me relentlessly Back to where it started In the gardens of our youth Where the white dove sings Where all is wonder, all is cheer Though I stumble, though I fall When the morning comes When at last the sun shines clear I will hear you singing I can hear you singing For it all comes clear in the morning sun When the morning comes When at last the sun shines clear I will hear you singing When the morning comes When at last the sun shines clear I will hear you singing Yes I will hear you sing I can hear you