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Music: Lyrics that relate to the buddha's message.
Little pebble upon the sand
Now you're lying here in my hand,
How many years have you been here ?
Little human upon the sand
>From where I'm lying here in your hand,
You to me are but a passing breeze.
The sun will always shine where you stand
Depending in which land
You may find yourself.
Now you have my blessing, go your way.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs free
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Recognise that our world is an independent, interwoven whole,
such that irresponsible behaviour is a nasty hole,
that can potentially harm life's balanced pole.
Exactly. How can you be compassive with the nasty hole?
Love and compassion must be earned, for the sake of life's balanced pole.
Cool neutrality IS legit there. Parasites are usually not recoverable. Those which are, will ultimately cope, and morph into something else. You do not heal them with compassion, though. A paradox.
be here now
no other place to be
all the doubts that linger
just set them free
and let good things happen
let the future come
into each moment
like a rising sun
I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
And if I ever lost my hands
Lose my plough, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands- Oh, if...
I wont have to work no more
And if I ever lose my eyes
If my colours all run dry
And if I ever lose my eyes - Oh,
I won't have to cry no more
Yes, I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
And if I ever lose my legs
I won't moan and I won't beg
Oh if I ever lose my legs- Oh if...
I won't have to walk no more
And if I ever lose my mouth
All my teeth, north and south
Yes, if I ever lose my mouth- Oh if...
I won't have to talk...
Did it take long to find me
I ask the faithful light
Did it take long to find me
And are you going to stay the night
I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
<!-- END OF RINGTONE 1 --> "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"
Meanwhile back in the year One --- when you belonged to no-one ---
you didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone.
`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society ---
one day you'll wake up in the Present Day ---
a million generations removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be.
Skating away ---
skating away ---
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more --- and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day ---
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign
that the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play.
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind ---
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye ---
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?
Can't get the stink off
It's been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you, but not your friends
One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
'Cause you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
Don't get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor
You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I'll get you
And teach you how to get to purest hell
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
It's that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
It's that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, yourself, yourself.
I have a few, which are always in rotation on my music player.
Never Again, by Asia:
I saw the universe, I held it in my hand
The planets and the stars, merely grains of sand
The darkness that I knew is no more
The sun will shine for me, of that I can be sure
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
The age of Gemini, a dazzling creation
A new enlightenment, a great illumination
Dark acts of history must never be repeated
I know I must treat you, the way that I'd be treated
This is the day, the day of liberation
A time for life, for new regeneration
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
I'm climbing now, I'm gaining altitude
And now my hands can feel the grip
My head is spinning with a synergy
The power that takes me up and up
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
Days Like These, by Asia:
The sun was shining
The sky was crying
It just tore apart
And down came the rain
And I was soaking
Yeah I was freezing
But I was feeling
No kind of pain
Come a fireball
I held it in my hand
You see before you
A man who's known greatness
I had a vision
A revelation
I took a look inside of me
And I am a sensation
Days like these I feel like I can change the world [repeat]
It's either easy
Or it's impossible
And if you ain't got it
You ain't never gonna get it
But once you find it
You gotta grab it
Reach down your own throat
And yank it to the surface
That may be brutal
May be gory
But whatever else it is
It's my story
And I believe it
Yeah, I can see it
I sing it out, shout it out
Gimme death or glory
[Chorus]
Days like these, days like these
I think I'll move a mountain or two
Days like these, days like these
Anything you want you know I'll get it for you
The sun was shining
I was crying
I saw a thousand people
Singing in the rain
And I was thinking
About the Indians
And how they say true wisdom
Only comes from pain
Come a rumbling
Humbling feeling
Like things will never
Ever be the same
But what doesn't kill you
Only makes you stronger
Today I'm strong enough
And anyway, I love the rain
We Believe, by Queen + Paul Rodgers:
I believe there's no evil out there we didn't have a hand in
You believe it's a time for peace and a time for understanding
Some of us believe that we are chosen
And if God is on our side we'll win the game
And some of us believe that there's a heaven
When the trumpets sound and the judges call your name
But let's get it straight
I believe there's just once chance in this world to hear our brothers
You believe there's a better way to listen to each other
We don't get what the other guy is saying
We hear the words but we don't understand
So around the world the same old anger raging
And we all cry for shame and the same old tragedy goes down
We believe there's a better way to fight
There's a way to make our children safe at night
We believe there's a war we could be winning
But the only way to win it is to give what we need to receive
I believe we need a hero to step boldly from the shadows
You believe there must be someone on the scene that fits the bill
A man or a woman who knows how to say I'm sorry
With courage in his heart to match his creed
A leader who can build a brand new morning
And match the tide of changes
Match the intent with the deed
We believe there's a deed of obligation
To bring reconciliation
To make peace with every nation - in our time
We believe there's not a minute we should be wasting
When the darkness falls it's too late to fix the crime
It's peace that we need
Every father every mother knows the meaning
Human treasure that our leaders do forget
And the bullets fly in the face of common reason
And the pain we give is the legacy in the end we get
We believe there's a song that's worth the singing
It's a song of truth we're bringing
There's a way to share the Earth with everyone
We believe every creature has a being
Has a right to respect and feeling
To live and breathe and flourish in the sun
If this life is driving you to drink
Sitting round what's the use what to think
Well I've got some consolation
Give it to you if I might
You know I don't worry about a thing because
Nothing's gonna turn out right
Well this world's just one big troubled spot
Some have plenty, some have not
I've used to be troubled but
I finally saw the light
Now I don't worry about a thing because I know
Nothing's gonna be alright
You spend your time trying to be the big winner
The minute you'll get fat somebody else will get thinner
There's always somebody messing with dynamite
You know I don't worry about a thing because I know
Nothing's gonna turn out right
Gunfire in the heavens
<O:p</O:pWillie Pete crackin’ in my eyes
Hungry ghosts surround me
A hooded figure walkin’ ‘cross the sky
Many people see him
<O:p</O:pWhen the time of death is near
I walk with my protectors
I know just why I’m here
<O:p</O:pAnd there ain’t no good in fearing him
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pWell I know he will come for me
I hold on to nothing to be free
In the sky like nature of mind
This is how to be
Dissolve the veil of ignorance
Work on your performance
What leads you into suffering
Will make you start reforming
And there ain’t no good in fearing him
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pDo you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
We all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pGunfire in the heavens
Willie Pete crackin’ in my eyes
Hungry ghosts surround me
A hooded figure walkin’ ‘cross the sky
Many people see him
<O:p</O:pWhen the time of death is near
I walk with my protectors
I know just why I’m here
And there ain’t no good in fearing death
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
<O:p</O:p<O:p</O:p
This is a translation of Concao ao Lado, from the Concao ao Lado CD by the Portuguese group Deolinda.
I apologise to all the wise men, aesthetes,
Poet driven spirits, delicate souls,
For the falseness of my genius and my words.
I sing Erudition,
The awe of Life, the grace of Beauty
But I only aspire to mastering the art of planting potatoes.
Sorry for the inconvenience
But fado isn't going to be played here
If you expected to hear Deolinda you entered the wrong place.
We are playing in the house next door.
We're all in the wrong places.
I know there are masons who are writers,
Well-read handymen and poet-servants
And poets who are truly masons around words.
Sing in your genuine art, humble fisherman,
Modest fish seller...and so many celebrities should
perhaps try and practice some fishing.
Sorry for the inconvenience
Because somehow I'm not allowed to do what I love the most.
I sing out of pain for being where I am.
And somewhere I know someone as stuck in the wrong
place as I am is right where I was supposed to be.
Nobody is happy with what they have and there's always Mr. So and So
Who's going to come and help us.
However Mr. So and So seldom is who he's supposed to be.
Sorry for the inconvenience
I propose this to you: change.
It's not a dreadful step into dark utopias.
It's as simple as changing stations on the radio.
I propose this: switch places with yourselves and make your life right!
Sorry about not offering a Buddhist tune myself, but lately I've come to the realization that I just don't believe in anything like samsara. I believe in something more like providence and the Lord's Grace. I'm not so sure that the Buddha was all that much into the then-prevailing notion of samsara himself.
For some reason I love this song, and although it's in a different language, the message is still there- em... errr.... the message is.... errr... *runs*
Well here goes my take on the Buddha's message in a song. It's a hymn by John Bunyan of Pilgrim's Progress fame. It has Christian cosmology in it which isn't a perfect fit, but nevertheless is about our Pilgrim Path here on Earth to a Truer Place and not to stop until the goal is reached, to use the words of Swami Vivekanandaji. Of course, you can visualize Buddha as the master and the Spirit as the breaths you take (in Greek spirit=breath).
Here it is sung by a young man with a guitar to the tune of Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven:
Thank you, Nirvy - and for the PM directing me here: so many new posts each day that I might have missed it.
I have been singing this hymn since childhood. It was the first real 'tune' that I managed to whistle and still sing it, when washing up or wandering along the canal towpath. It is particularly useful when I am being attacked by the Black Dog: "then fancies flee away..."
Becaue Nirvy has given us a link to a modern version, you may also like to try one that is very dear to me because Maddy Prior came to our little town to launch this cd. It was the last gig my late wife and I went to together:
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As for John Bunyan's Pligrim's Progress, I can't count the number of times I have read it. It would be my 'desert island' book, for the beauty of the langiage and the power of its allegory. It is the English equivalent of Dante, without all the Italian grossness!
Learning to read it as a true non-conformist is a lesson in 'inclusive hermeneutics' which permits all inspirational texts, music, dance, architecture and ritual to be perceived as signposts along the pilgrim way.
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x3)
You say you don't like where you're at (yeah)
You can make a change
If you accept the blame
Stay in control of your reactions, yes
Will determine the effect
Of any situation
You have the power to negate
Any ?-causing feeling
That prohibits you to think
A situation is just that
It has no special power
To do you harm
It's your reactions that count
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x2)
You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x4)
You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
La la la la-la, la la la la
(x2)
[Speaking of] John Bunyan's Pligrim's Progress, I can't count the number of times I have read it. It would be my 'desert island' book, for the beauty of the langiage and the power of its allegory. It is the English equivalent of Dante, without all the Italian grossness!
Learning to read it as a true non-conformist is a lesson in 'inclusive hermeneutics' which permits all inspirational texts, music, dance, architecture and ritual to be perceived as signposts along the pilgrim way.
Thanks for the Maddy Prior, Simon Pilgrim. It's a terrific CD which I play a few times a year, BTW. The St. Dunstan's hymn tune that Prior employs has always been my favorite, but her rendition of the Village Band type approaches the ecstatic.
Thanks for the Maddy Prior, Simon Pilgrim. It's a terrific CD which I play a few times a year, BTW. The St. Dunstan's hymn tune that Prior employs has always been my favorite, but her rendition of the Village Band type approaches the ecstatic.
Ah, to be a Pilgrim!
How good to know that you like Maddy too, Nirvy. It was very exciting to meet her, having been a 'fan' ever since her days with Steeleye Span. I still have that first album, on vinyl. She is, of course, a Leveller and living proof that we can still be sexy after 60.
What Bubyan said to me, when I was starting out aged 13 or 14, is that we can all be pilgrims if we make our life our pilgrimage.
BTW (and slightly off-topic) have you ever come across a duo called Mr Fox?
Haven't seen the Mr. Fox Duo, Simon Pilgrim. Are they in the UK?
I know I posted this link on another thread, but it's in the Members Only thread. I think it relates to the Message of compassion, for the first principle of compassion is that all others are beautiful and worthy of our care, respect, and charity.
It features more than 10 seconds of HHDL "wearing" a Beautiful People button, to go with Melanie Safka's Beautiful People.
(Lyrics Below.)
To me, this song sums up the flowering of the 1970s at Woodstock. The seventies were a happy time in which the battles of the 40s, 50s, and 60s finally bore happy fruit. Please be sure to visit the above link, repeated again here.
LYRICS:
Beautiful people, You live in the same world as I do
But somehow I never noticed You before today
— I'm ashamed to say
Beautiful people, We share the same back door
And it isn't right We never met before
But then, We may never meet again
If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me,
I would run and take all your hands
And I'd gather everyone together for a day
And when we're gathered I'll pass buttons out that say, "Beautiful People."
Then you'll never be alone 'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
— Include him in everything you do.
Beautiful people, You ride the same subway
As I do every morning. That's got to tell you something.
We got so much in common. I go the same direction that you do
So if you take care of me, Maybe I'll take care of you
Beautiful people, You look like friends of mine
And it's about time That someone said it here and now
I make a vow that some time, somehow I'll have a meeting
Invite everyone you know. I'll pass out buttons
For the ones who come to show.
Beautiful people Never have to be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do
He may be sitting right next to you
He maybe be a beautiful people too
And if you take care of him
Maybe he'll take care of you
And if you take care of him
Maybe he'll take care of you ...
Melanie concludes: Cuz all of the beautiful people do
And I'm a beautiful people, too.
How good to know that you like Maddy too, Nirvy. It was very exciting to meet her, having been a 'fan' ever since her days with Steeleye Span. I still have that first album, on vinyl. She is, of course, a Leveller and living proof that we can still be sexy after 60.
I have never been able to be appreciate Steeleye Span's music - despite many attempts by genuine people to share with me the genre and appeal ... now that I am ( rapidly it seems !!) approaching 50, which will soon be 60 if I have the opportunity, maybe this is the connection that has been been alluded to for me - lol
"The Never-Ending Why" by indie band Placebo is often introduced at live shows as "a Buddhist song"; according to the band, it's about accepting that we may never know the answers to some things, that the journey of life is more important to concentrate on than the destination.
It puts me in mind of the Buddha's story of the man shot with a poisoned arrow who will die if he wants all his questions about the arrow answered before he (or another) pulls it out...
The atom will implode
The fragile kingdom fold
The tremor becomes a quake
And there's a body in the lake
And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder: is this all there is?
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why
As the sound of silence grows
As the spider's kiss is laid
The tumour becomes malign
But the kids are doing fine
And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder: is this all there is?
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why
According to the art team that made the video: "the narrative stars a silhouetted couple trying to escape time-shifting neo-Tibetan monsters, all set against a surreally decorated set."
Fox in the snow, where do you goTo find something you can eat? Cause the word out on the street is you are starvingDon’t let yourself grow hungry nowDon’t let yourself grow coldFox in the snowGirl in the snow, where will you goTo find someone that will do? To tell someone all the truth before it kills youThey listen to your crazy laughBefore you hang a rightAnd disappear from sightWhat do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a bookWhat do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book tonightBoy on the bike, what are you likeAs you cycle round the town? You’re going up, you’re going downYou’re going nowhereIt’s not as if they’re paying youIt’s not as if it’s funAt least not anymoreWhen your legs are black and blueIt’s time to take a breakWhen your legs are black and blueIt’s time to take a holidayKid in the snow, way to goIt only happens once a yearIt only happens once a lifetimeMake the most of itSecond just to being bornSecond to dying toWhat else could you do?
Life is a waterfall
We’re one in the river, and one again after the fall
Swimming through the void we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all....
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Life is a waterfall, we drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void we hear the word
We lose ourselves but we find it all...
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGWTAe3M6U&feature=fvw)
Happiness Runs by Donovan
Little pebble upon the sand
Now you're lying here in my hand,
How many years have you been here ?
Little human upon the sand
>From where I'm lying here in your hand,
You to me are but a passing breeze.
The sun will always shine where you stand
Depending in which land
You may find yourself.
Now you have my blessing, go your way.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs free
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Exactly. How can you be compassive with the nasty hole?
Love and compassion must be earned, for the sake of life's balanced pole.
Cool neutrality IS legit there. Parasites are usually not recoverable. Those which are, will ultimately cope, and morph into something else. You do not heal them with compassion, though. A paradox.
october1560
--Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Happy continuation to you,
Happy continuation dear Dalai Lama,
Happy continuation to you!
Palzang
So silence or shear neutrality may as well be compassive. I do not pat self-pity. Is this compassive?
october1560
be here now
no other place to be
all the doubts that linger
just set them free
and let good things happen
let the future come
into each moment
like a rising sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_4wV2GDfQ&feature=avmsc2
He is a great singer/songwriter and has some other songs that are influenced by Buddhism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-l0sRO_ls
..."your buildings on fire
and I'll catch you
destroy all that is holding you down
and I'll nurse you
I'll nurse you"
I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
And if I ever lost my hands
Lose my plough, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands- Oh, if...
I wont have to work no more
And if I ever lose my eyes
If my colours all run dry
And if I ever lose my eyes - Oh,
I won't have to cry no more
Yes, I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
And if I ever lose my legs
I won't moan and I won't beg
Oh if I ever lose my legs- Oh if...
I won't have to walk no more
And if I ever lose my mouth
All my teeth, north and south
Yes, if I ever lose my mouth- Oh if...
I won't have to talk...
Did it take long to find me
I ask the faithful light
Did it take long to find me
And are you going to stay the night
I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
<!-- END OF RINGTONE 1 --> "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"
Meanwhile back in the year One --- when you belonged to no-one ---
you didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone.
`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society ---
one day you'll wake up in the Present Day ---
a million generations removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be.
Skating away ---
skating away ---
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more --- and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day ---
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign
that the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play.
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind ---
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye ---
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
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Palzang
"wheels in the sky keep on turnin
I don't know where i'll be tomorrow.."
Can't get the stink off
It's been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you, but not your friends
One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
'Cause you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
Don't get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor
You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I'll get you
And teach you how to get to purest hell
You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
It's that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
It's that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, yourself, yourself.
Never Again, by Asia:
I saw the universe, I held it in my hand
The planets and the stars, merely grains of sand
The darkness that I knew is no more
The sun will shine for me, of that I can be sure
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
The age of Gemini, a dazzling creation
A new enlightenment, a great illumination
Dark acts of history must never be repeated
I know I must treat you, the way that I'd be treated
This is the day, the day of liberation
A time for life, for new regeneration
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
I'm climbing now, I'm gaining altitude
And now my hands can feel the grip
My head is spinning with a synergy
The power that takes me up and up
NEVER AGAIN will I bear arms against my brother
NEVER AGAIN will I dishonour anyone
NEVER AGAIN will I wish evil on another
NEVER AGAIN will I spill blood of any mother's son
Days Like These, by Asia:
The sun was shining
The sky was crying
It just tore apart
And down came the rain
And I was soaking
Yeah I was freezing
But I was feeling
No kind of pain
Come a fireball
I held it in my hand
You see before you
A man who's known greatness
I had a vision
A revelation
I took a look inside of me
And I am a sensation
Days like these I feel like I can change the world [repeat]
It's either easy
Or it's impossible
And if you ain't got it
You ain't never gonna get it
But once you find it
You gotta grab it
Reach down your own throat
And yank it to the surface
That may be brutal
May be gory
But whatever else it is
It's my story
And I believe it
Yeah, I can see it
I sing it out, shout it out
Gimme death or glory
[Chorus]
Days like these, days like these
I think I'll move a mountain or two
Days like these, days like these
Anything you want you know I'll get it for you
The sun was shining
I was crying
I saw a thousand people
Singing in the rain
And I was thinking
About the Indians
And how they say true wisdom
Only comes from pain
Come a rumbling
Humbling feeling
Like things will never
Ever be the same
But what doesn't kill you
Only makes you stronger
Today I'm strong enough
And anyway, I love the rain
We Believe, by Queen + Paul Rodgers:
I believe there's no evil out there we didn't have a hand in
You believe it's a time for peace and a time for understanding
Some of us believe that we are chosen
And if God is on our side we'll win the game
And some of us believe that there's a heaven
When the trumpets sound and the judges call your name
But let's get it straight
I believe there's just once chance in this world to hear our brothers
You believe there's a better way to listen to each other
We don't get what the other guy is saying
We hear the words but we don't understand
So around the world the same old anger raging
And we all cry for shame and the same old tragedy goes down
We believe there's a better way to fight
There's a way to make our children safe at night
We believe there's a war we could be winning
But the only way to win it is to give what we need to receive
I believe we need a hero to step boldly from the shadows
You believe there must be someone on the scene that fits the bill
A man or a woman who knows how to say I'm sorry
With courage in his heart to match his creed
A leader who can build a brand new morning
And match the tide of changes
Match the intent with the deed
We believe there's a deed of obligation
To bring reconciliation
To make peace with every nation - in our time
We believe there's not a minute we should be wasting
When the darkness falls it's too late to fix the crime
It's peace that we need
Every father every mother knows the meaning
Human treasure that our leaders do forget
And the bullets fly in the face of common reason
And the pain we give is the legacy in the end we get
We believe there's a song that's worth the singing
It's a song of truth we're bringing
There's a way to share the Earth with everyone
We believe every creature has a being
Has a right to respect and feeling
To live and breathe and flourish in the sun
That's what we believe
If this life is driving you to drink
Sitting round what's the use what to think
Well I've got some consolation
Give it to you if I might
You know I don't worry about a thing because
Nothing's gonna turn out right
Well this world's just one big troubled spot
Some have plenty, some have not
I've used to be troubled but
I finally saw the light
Now I don't worry about a thing because I know
Nothing's gonna be alright
You spend your time trying to be the big winner
The minute you'll get fat somebody else will get thinner
There's always somebody messing with dynamite
You know I don't worry about a thing because I know
Nothing's gonna turn out right
We learnt about Yusaf Islam in RE.
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Gunfire in the heavens
<O:p</O:pWillie Pete crackin’ in my eyes
Hungry ghosts surround me
A hooded figure walkin’ ‘cross the sky
Many people see him
<O:p</O:pWhen the time of death is near
I walk with my protectors
I know just why I’m here
<O:p</O:pAnd there ain’t no good in fearing him
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pWell I know he will come for me
I hold on to nothing to be free
In the sky like nature of mind
This is how to be
Dissolve the veil of ignorance
Work on your performance
What leads you into suffering
Will make you start reforming
And there ain’t no good in fearing him
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pDo you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
We all got to die some day
<O:p</O:pGunfire in the heavens
Willie Pete crackin’ in my eyes
Hungry ghosts surround me
A hooded figure walkin’ ‘cross the sky
Many people see him
<O:p</O:pWhen the time of death is near
I walk with my protectors
I know just why I’m here
And there ain’t no good in fearing death
<O:p</O:p‘Cause we all got to die some day
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
Do you wanna think about it
Chasing immortality
<O:p</O:p<O:p</O:p
Sorry about not offering a Buddhist tune myself, but lately I've come to the realization that I just don't believe in anything like samsara. I believe in something more like providence and the Lord's Grace. I'm not so sure that the Buddha was all that much into the then-prevailing notion of samsara himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2paELnM84
Here it is sung by a young man with a guitar to the tune of Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZlPy9HpOyc
Here are the words if you care to follow along:
Simon Pilgrim, this one's for You:
He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster,
Let him in constancy follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
Who so beset him round with dismal stories
Do but themselves confound - his strength the more is.
No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants fight,
He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, with Thy Spirit Thou dost defend,
We know we shall inherit life in the end, in the end…
Then fancies flee away! I’ll fear not what men say,
Yes, I’ll labor night and day to be a pilgrim.
I have been singing this hymn since childhood. It was the first real 'tune' that I managed to whistle and still sing it, when washing up or wandering along the canal towpath. It is particularly useful when I am being attacked by the Black Dog: "then fancies flee away..."
Becaue Nirvy has given us a link to a modern version, you may also like to try one that is very dear to me because Maddy Prior came to our little town to launch this cd. It was the last gig my late wife and I went to together:
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As for John Bunyan's Pligrim's Progress, I can't count the number of times I have read it. It would be my 'desert island' book, for the beauty of the langiage and the power of its allegory. It is the English equivalent of Dante, without all the Italian grossness!
Learning to read it as a true non-conformist is a lesson in 'inclusive hermeneutics' which permits all inspirational texts, music, dance, architecture and ritual to be perceived as signposts along the pilgrim way.
Traditional English. Church gallery music.
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If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x3)
You say you don't like where you're at (yeah)
You can make a change
If you accept the blame
Stay in control of your reactions, yes
Will determine the effect
Of any situation
You have the power to negate
Any ?-causing feeling
That prohibits you to think
A situation is just that
It has no special power
To do you harm
It's your reactions that count
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x2)
You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause
(x4)
You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
La la la la-la, la la la la
(x2)
Thanks for the Maddy Prior, Simon Pilgrim. It's a terrific CD which I play a few times a year, BTW. The St. Dunstan's hymn tune that Prior employs has always been my favorite, but her rendition of the Village Band type approaches the ecstatic.
Ah, to be a Pilgrim!
How good to know that you like Maddy too, Nirvy. It was very exciting to meet her, having been a 'fan' ever since her days with Steeleye Span. I still have that first album, on vinyl. She is, of course, a Leveller and living proof that we can still be sexy after 60.
What Bubyan said to me, when I was starting out aged 13 or 14, is that we can all be pilgrims if we make our life our pilgrimage.
BTW (and slightly off-topic) have you ever come across a duo called Mr Fox?
Don't stand so close to me:
Subtle aversion
Every step you take:
Mindfulness
The second one's good as it gets stuck in your mind and reminds you of mindfulness.
No more come to mind at the moment.
Cheers, WK
I know I posted this link on another thread, but it's in the Members Only thread. I think it relates to the Message of compassion, for the first principle of compassion is that all others are beautiful and worthy of our care, respect, and charity.
It features more than 10 seconds of HHDL "wearing" a Beautiful People button, to go with Melanie Safka's Beautiful People.
(Lyrics Below.)
To me, this song sums up the flowering of the 1970s at Woodstock. The seventies were a happy time in which the battles of the 40s, 50s, and 60s finally bore happy fruit. Please be sure to visit the above link, repeated again here.
LYRICS:
Beautiful people, You live in the same world as I do
But somehow I never noticed You before today
— I'm ashamed to say
Beautiful people, We share the same back door
And it isn't right We never met before
But then, We may never meet again
If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me,
I would run and take all your hands
And I'd gather everyone together for a day
And when we're gathered I'll pass buttons out that say, "Beautiful People."
Then you'll never be alone 'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
— Include him in everything you do.
Beautiful people, You ride the same subway
As I do every morning. That's got to tell you something.
We got so much in common. I go the same direction that you do
So if you take care of me, Maybe I'll take care of you
Beautiful people, You look like friends of mine
And it's about time That someone said it here and now
I make a vow that some time, somehow I'll have a meeting
Invite everyone you know. I'll pass out buttons
For the ones who come to show.
Beautiful people Never have to be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do
He may be sitting right next to you
He maybe be a beautiful people too
And if you take care of him
Maybe he'll take care of you
And if you take care of him
Maybe he'll take care of you ...
Melanie concludes:
Cuz all of the beautiful people do
And I'm a beautiful people, too.
Here is a link to a Mr Fox song. They were a duo of Bob and Carole Pegg - great names in the English folk scene.
I have never been able to be appreciate Steeleye Span's music - despite many attempts by genuine people to share with me the genre and appeal ... now that I am ( rapidly it seems !!) approaching 50, which will soon be 60 if I have the opportunity, maybe this is the connection that has been been alluded to for me - lol
It puts me in mind of the Buddha's story of the man shot with a poisoned arrow who will die if he wants all his questions about the arrow answered before he (or another) pulls it out...
The atom will implode
The fragile kingdom fold
The tremor becomes a quake
And there's a body in the lake
And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder: is this all there is?
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why
As the sound of silence grows
As the spider's kiss is laid
The tumour becomes malign
But the kids are doing fine
And as the two of us rebel
And damn you all to hell
I wonder: is this all there is?
Time will help you through
But it doesn't have the time
To give you all the answers
To the never-ending why
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According to the art team that made the video: "the narrative stars a silhouetted couple trying to escape time-shifting neo-Tibetan monsters, all set against a surreally decorated set."
Fox in the snow, where do you goTo find something you can eat? Cause the word out on the street is you are starvingDon’t let yourself grow hungry nowDon’t let yourself grow coldFox in the snowGirl in the snow, where will you goTo find someone that will do? To tell someone all the truth before it kills youThey listen to your crazy laughBefore you hang a rightAnd disappear from sightWhat do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a bookWhat do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book tonightBoy on the bike, what are you likeAs you cycle round the town? You’re going up, you’re going downYou’re going nowhereIt’s not as if they’re paying youIt’s not as if it’s funAt least not anymoreWhen your legs are black and blueIt’s time to take a breakWhen your legs are black and blueIt’s time to take a holidayKid in the snow, way to goIt only happens once a yearIt only happens once a lifetimeMake the most of itSecond just to being bornSecond to dying toWhat else could you do?
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/belle+sebastian/#share
Life is a waterfall
We’re one in the river, and one again after the fall
Swimming through the void we hear the word
We lose ourselves, but we find it all....
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Life is a waterfall, we drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls
Swimming through the void we hear the word
We lose ourselves but we find it all...
Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go
But you never want to stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play
But you never want to lose
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes eternal prize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1D1pcQ7Og
Great song.
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
The sea is but a tree
and the treeeeee is buuutttt me!
...It's all a part of me!"
The Deep - It's All A Part of Me
The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
- Watch more Music Videos at Vodpod.
I want it now I want it now not
the promises of what tomorrow brings
I need to live in dreams today
I'm tired of the song that sorrow sings
I want more than I can get just
trying to trying to trying to forget
I walk to you through winds of fire
and never let you know the way I feel
Under skin is where I hide love
that always gets me on my knees
I want more than I can get just
trying to trying to trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts forever
I want it now I want it now don’t
tell me that my ship is coming in
Nothing comes to those who wait
times running out before you're running in
I want more than I can get just
trying to trying to trying to forget
Nothing ever lasts forever nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts forever
All the meadows and the fields are coming
to you all the meadows and
the fields are coming to you
All the meadows and the
fields are coming to you