Lyrics for Retreat Songs
All Lyrics and Music Copyright 2009, Mirabaimusic
1. Dangling from a thread
This is today's pose
You
must hold it for an hour
Balanced on the toes
Mind focused on a
flower
Hands above your head
Strength within the thigh
Dangling
from a thread
That descends down from the sky
This is today's pose
Let the sorrow settle
See the space around the rose
Hear the silence
of its petal
Offer up some gratitude
For breath and sweat and bone
Give yourself an interlude
From all that you have known
This is
today's pose
You must hold it for an hour
Breathing through the
nose
And trusting in your power
Gazing straight ahead
Not with
but through the eye
Dangling from a thread
That descends down from
the sky
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2. Whatever appears is your own mind
Nightingale sitting
in the locust tree
Cardinal's song hidden from view
Two dogs moving
in the sloping grass
By the twist of highway cutting through
Tanker
moving out to sea
Airplane trail, slicing the blue
Motor grinding
as a car moves past
And a letter comes, postage due
Butterfly on
a cup of tea
Picket fence, shiny and new
Children laughing near
the broken glass
In the old ravine, where the lilacs grew
Hands
resting on my knee
Nothing to wish for, nothing to do
Waiting as
the breath moves past
To understand what I once knew
that Whatever
you touch and whatever you find
Whatever you hear and see
Whatever
appears is your own mind
Your mind from the start is free
Your
mind from the start is free
Your mind from the start is free
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3. Spinning
"Turning and turning in the widening
gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart,
the centre can't hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" (Yeats)
I
read that once and thought it profound
Now I'm not so sure, the
second time 'round
T
he falcon needs freedom to squawk and to fly
Not roped to a tether that muzzles its cry
Maybe it's fine to let
things spin
Too much of the time we just hold it in
Atoms in motion,
planets that whirl
No way to stop the endless swirl
Look at the
bees, the way that they travel
Make 'em fly straight and they'll
just unravel
Roads up a mountain, they twist and they turn
Rivers
meander, they froth or they churn
Everything's bumpy, lumpy and
curved
Like driving on ice, you can't help but swerve
Like hitting
a ball with the round of a bat L
ike taking the earth and making
it flat! I
mean look at your life, you gotta admit Y
ou keep you
shoes clean but you still step in shit
O
nce in a while you might
walk a straight line
But you can't stay sober all of the time
All
these people who want to control
Let's lock 'em away with no hope
for parole I
t wouldn't take long to come to consensus :-)
That
their goal in life is only to fence us!
Everything's turning, spinning
for good
I'd make it spin faster, if only I could I
t's the freedom
to fly and the freedom to think
When the river stops moving it
just starts to stink I
nside of us there's these little wheels
And
a little bell that peals and peals
Take a few moments to give them
a spin
There's a lot to see when you look within
Turning and turning
in the widening gyre
Let the falcon go, higher and higher I
t's
your soul up there, wants to break free
You figure it out, don't
take it from me
So that's the end of this little song about spinning
We've reached the home key, the good guys are winning
Gonna take
a wrong turn and see what I find
Whatever it is, it's the nature
of mind
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4. Standing on the edge (Right to know)
Standing
on the planet's edge
And I look out where the oceans fall into
starlight
Pushing through horrid crowds
Past the fence where the
blind preacher gives out sight
Stepping into space Stepping into
space
(CHORUS) I hear this is where the demons go
I hear
this is where the angels glow
I
hear this is where the heart can
grow
I hear this is where the ecstasy can flow I
f not I really
have a right to know
Floating on a thistledown
Above the roar where
the stone men give up their song
Holding up a thundercloud
Below
the palace, where the empty hallways sing along
Dissolving into
light Dissolving into light
(CHORUS)
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5.There is nothing wrong with you
Time to let the
voices go
The ones that just keep saying ‘no’
The ones that say
there’s something wrong
The ones that say you’re not that strong
The ones that say to keep you place
To wipe that smile off your
face
The ones that always want to blame
And the one that always
needs to shame
Time to let the voices go
The ones that just keep
saying ‘no’
The ones that want to teach a lesson
The ones that
want the full confession
The ones that tell you ‘don’t be proud’
That say don’t stand out from the crowd
The ones that say to give
up quick
The ones that never miss a trick
Time to let the voices
go
The ones that just keep saying ‘no’
The ones that say there’s
something wrong
The ones that want to stop your song
The ones that
say you’re born in sin
The ones that say don’t look within
The
ones that only make you tight
They smother you and hide your light!
Time to let the voices go
It’s something you already
know
They’re not real they’re just like dreams
And nothing’s really
as it seems
Just let go and you will find
The beauty of your natural
mind
There’s nothing else you have to do
‘cause there is nothing
wrong with you
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6. Finding the Peace
You arrived with an invitation
in a music box
With marches and ragtimes
You undid the locks of
my hesitation
So we tripped beneath the rainbows by the tidal pools
With laughter and longing we sang of zen fields
of zen fools and
magic shows
We got the urge for going and we answered the call
With nothing to hide we let go of it all A
brand new life flowing
Then we sang namaste to our ancient home
Along the
bumpy rail we continued to roam
Still seeking our way
We taught
and we learned below the mountain snow
And we met the wisest man
that we will ever know
We knew we’d return
We saw so many souls
and had so many tales Y
amana and Ganga and the Eyebrow Trail
We
came back with the gold
And then the sad descent and the falling
away
I was lost to madness by the end of the day
And we (you) had
to relent
You went and took the time to find your phoenix wings
W
ith strength and resolve you let your heart sing
Singing in chants
and in rhyme
At last the sorrow cleared and the shell was cracked
With hard work and sharing we found our way back
Back through the
fear
And so we sit now at our ease with light and with
song
Treasuring the moments as the days grow long
Finding the peace
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7. Time was
After a while, you get used to it
The
ticking clock, the steady drip
The plate on which you eat your
meal
The table where you signed the deal
The morning coffee, the
TV news
The long commute, the daily blues
The rise and the fall,
the shortened kiss
All that now must pass for bliss
(CHORUS) Time
was you saw the mountaintop
Time was you had a war to stop
Time
was you had a life to live
Had a heart to give And now, and now?
After a while, you get used to it
The drawer that
holds your manuscript
The lawn, the fence, the invitations
The
smile, the rent, the expectations
The promises that are insincere
The words you use to mask the fear
The drumming down, the building
up
The whisky in your coffee cup (
CHORUS)
After a while, you get
used to it
The music slows, the records skip
The paths are worn
but you keep on walking
The words are old but you keep on talking
The way you never keep in touch
The making love, but not too much
The memories you keep inside
The Self from which you try to hide
(CHORUS)
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8. Wired
Wired world, a new cliché
Wired word, wired play
Wired music, wired text
Wired paintings, wired sex
Wired thoughts,
wired feelings
Wired plans, wired dealings
Wired losses, wired
gains
Wired hearts, wired brains
Wired ears, wired eyes
Wired girls,
wired guys
Wired husband, wired wife
Wired death, wired life
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9.Both Kinds
OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA
Is it fair
to love the touch of this cup to my lips? I
s it fair to love
My
bare feet slapping the cool of the old wood floor,
While the warm
sunlight dibbling down through the maple leaves?
Is it fair to
treasure another day of silence?
Is it fair to let my ears take
in the intonation of the bees
While the birds, like me, rehearse
and perfect their song?
Is it fair to spend my days tending the
blueberries in the garden?
I
s it fair reaching out my hand to pluck
the sweatpea from off of the vine
While the neighbor's cat staries
me down with its jungle eyes?
Is it fair to love the healthy crack
of my spine?
Is it fair to rest my mind, sitting still between
earth and sky
While outside the gate, I can hear their sorrowful
cry?
OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA
Is it fair to sing this
gentle song of hope and possibility?
Is
it fair to love my skin
ecstatic with the touch of the morning breeze
While others sit
in their prisons, darkened and along?
And so I sit here on this
day, in the space between realities
Letting my eyes fill up with
both kinds of tears
My eyes fill up with both kinds of tears
My
eyes fill up with both kinds of tears With both kinds, with both
kinds of tears.
OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA
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10. I became a memory
I woke up just before the sun
And I climbed to where
I knew the light would come
I
was a thousand miles from anyone
who knew my name
And all that I had learned and everything that
I had gained
was left behind
And now I was alone with my own mind
I
finally was alone with my own mind
The sun began to rise
And
I was caught without an alibi
The day was spreading out its honey
from the blossoms of the trees
It was melting off a snowfield it
was sending down a breeze
to fill my cup
I was empty and I drank
it up
I was empty and I drank it up
(CHORUS) And the words were
forming on the amber of the sky They became inverted in the mirror
of my eye
And the curtain finally rose between world out there
And I, I became a memory
Then I thought of you my friend
And I
thought of how our love had reached its end
I
remembered all the
changes I had seen within you eyes
How our love was like a coat
that we had worn as a disguise
for separate dreams
I do not know
what loving someone means
I only know it’s never what it seems
‘
Cause life itself is a disguise
We can only see it
with our grasping eyes
The world is always different than the way
we’d make it be
And the ship that you are watching as it sails
across the sea
will always fade
Below horizons only you yourself
have made
The kind that only make us feel afraid
(CHORUS) And the
words were scattered on the amber of the sky And I heard that breaking
mirror asking me why
And the curtain finally fell between my lovers
face
And I, I became a memory
So do you have a path to ride
If
you’re telling me you’re never satisfied?
‘Cause you’ll never learn
your secrets just be sitting in your chair A river’s only peaceful
if it’s traveling somewhere,
don’t you see?
We are only what we
pretend to be
Like a golden leaf still clinging to its tree
(CHORUS)
And the words were fading in the brightening sky
And the land was
pouring from the river of my eye
And the curtain disappeared between
world out there
And I, I became a memory
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