Give Yourself A Gift
The great adventure starts with a cry
And from a single cell a life goes by
Bridge by bridge step by step to the end
Some days are easier
Some days are hard
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
Give yourself a gift today
This is your one life
Give yourself a gift today
This is no rehearsal
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
In the hubris of certainty passion will leave
All that once was held true, adored and believed
Faith falls like Jericho’s walls
Now where do you turn?
You turn into yourself
You become yourself
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
Give yourself a gift today
This is your one life
Give yourself a gift today
This is no rehearsal
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
Magpie mind full of shiny thoughts
Ricochets through your head
All that’s seen and is unseen
Reminds you where you could have been
You’re the star upon your own stage
Your voice lifts the story from the page
In every scene that you play
You’ll be forever young
But just for one day
The time is here
The time is now!
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
Give yourself a gift today
This is your one life
Give yourself a gift today
This is no rehearsal
Give yourself a gift today
Give yourself what you need
Morning Princess
From a bed of roses
Full of thorns
Reflecting in your eyes
All the love you’ve born
Your child picks a flower
Brings the flower to you
Your joy with his joy
Your love with his love
When that voice from the past
Reaches into your day
A voice that will not last
A voice with nothing to say
More than words can say
Sometimes it’s better that way
You stand out from the crowd
Your silence is loud
Comes as morning princess
Standing like a lioness
Standing tall and proud
Your silence is loud
What comes around
Goes around
What comes around
Goes around
And around
And our human jigsaw
Made of memories
Made piece by piece
Made so carefully
Interlocked by love
Nurtured to the end
Growing stronger with the years
On each other we depend
When that voice from the past
Reaches into your day
A voice that will not last
A voice with nothing to say
More than words can say
Sometimes it’s better that way
You stand out from the crowd
Your silence is loud
Comes as morning princess
Standing like a lioness
Standing tall and proud
Your silence is loud
For the martyr, for the victim
Empty words, echoes lost
That was, the way
That was, the highway
This is, your way
This is, your day
You are a lioness
You are Morning Princess
More than words can say
Sometimes it’s better that way
You stand out from the crowd
Your silence is loud
Comes as morning princess
Standing like a lioness
Standing tall and proud
Your silence is loud
Love Inherited, Love Bequeathed
Family photographs on the wall
Faded smiles long gone
In my tribe many memories
Our love still strong
Some are lost some are found
Some are finding themselves
Down all the generations
Our love goes on
We are receivers, we are givers
We are receivers, we are givers
Pass it on, pass love on
Pass it on, pass love on
In this, the sweetest moment
I find all I need
From those who came before me
From those who planted a seed
It is that love sustains me
Gives me all I need
The love that I inherit
The love that I bequeath
Never assume, never presume
Never take for granted
This gift, this privilege
That we share
The inheritance, the succession
This love we share
To bequeath, to leave
This love we share
We are receivers, we are givers
We are receivers, we are givers
Pass it on, pass love on
Pass it on, pass love on
In this, the sweetest moment
I find all I need
From those who came before me
From those who planted a seed
It is that love sustains me
Gives me all I need
The love that I inherit
The love that I bequeath
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is not jealous
Love is not boastful
Love is not proud
Love is not rude
Love doesn’t demand
Its own way
Love doesn’t anger
And keeps no record
Of being wronged
By others
Doesn’t rejoice
About injustice
But rejoices
When truth wins
Love never gives up
Never loses faith
Always is hopeful
And always endures
Like the river, trickles then flows
Into an ocean, that grows and grows
This is the cycle, of the love we know
The love we have, the love we show
Silent Thunder
Now the morale compass is gone
We are just floating along
Rudderless on the tide
Thrown off course with no guide
And the planet keeps spinning
Revolving and evolving
And the fires keep burning
Flaming and turning
In the sky in the distance
I can see ready resistance
I can see lightning flash
But there comes no thunder crash
Is it any wonder
That it’s going under
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
For the void gets wider
And the hole gets deeper
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
See the elephant in the room
Last of her kind
She is the endling
Pursued by hunters cruel
In search of ivory prizes
From that ivory tower
The view is barren and wasted
The garden is withered and perished
The trees lost their leaves
Is it any wonder
That it’s going under
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
For the void gets wider
And the hole gets deeper
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
Silent scream trapped inside
Soon the planet will roar
There is no time to deny
All we know is in decline
We are the virus killing the host
All consuming, consuming all
Is there time, can we change
For our children, children’s children
Is it any wonder
That it’s going under
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
For the void gets wider
And the hole gets deeper
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
Is it any wonder
That it’s going under
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
For the void gets wider
And the hole gets deeper
There is silent thunder
Everywhere
The Day The Earth Smiled
Once there was a lone explorer
Set out into the unknown
Flew far between the stars
Toward the Saturian giant
Slingshot past Jupiter
The voyage took nearly 7 years
To reach that celestial body
To reach the planet of Saturn
And looking back 1.4 billion k
Towards the earth
On a very special day
A cosmic selfie
Taken by Cassini
Raise your hands to the sky
The day the earth smiled
In that photograph
Taken by that spacecraft
Earth, Moon and Saturn’s rings
The day the earth smiled
And for 20 years
Cassini followed the mission
Travelling to the hexagon poles
Dipping in between the rings
Then to the moon of Titan
To release Huygens probe
Down through a golden haze
Landing safe on the surface
And looking back 1.4 billion k
Towards the earth
On a very special day
A cosmic selfie
Taken by Cassini
Raise your hands to the sky
The day the earth smiled
In that photograph
Taken by that spacecraft
Earth, Moon and Saturn’s rings
The day the earth smiled
And for the grand finale
There was only one way to go
For the spacecraft Cassini
To close out the show
The last daring adventure
For the lone traveller to tell
Plunging downward into Saturn
Transmitting a final farewell
Easy Come, Easy Go
Fixed up broken down
Quiet chaos it’s all around
A dull roar heralds a start
The truest fiction lies at the heart
I’m found missing I’ll even the odds
Debate creation with all the gods
Devout atheist with faithful doubt
The coolest passion and quietest shout
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the storms of life will blow
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the darkness starts to show
Make it easy come, Easy go
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
The only choice is static flow
The safe difference is all you know
A minor miracle opens your eyes
This open secret familiar disguise
A cruel kindness it’s bittersweet
Where wise fools always meet
The saddest smile is pretty ugly
It’s icy hot with intense apathy
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the storms of life will blow
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the darkness starts to show
Make it easy come, Easy go
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
An unbiased opinion
That is terribly good
An impossible solution
To a peaceful conquest
Of this magical reality
It is loosely sealed
For the loyal opposition
Speak such eloquent silence
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the storms of life will blow
Make it easy come, Easy go
When the darkness starts to show
Make it easy come, Easy go
This is all you need to know
Make it easy come, Easy go
Eden Is Gone
There are serpents in the sky
With tails on fire that light up the night
It’s a sign that something is coming
It’s a sign it’s all going to change
Welcome to the age of man
Farewell to the golden plan
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Farewell to the Holocene
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Inside us all a sense of yearning
We are searchers on a quest
Look to the myths look to the legends
There are answers deep within
It’s a sign that something is coming
It’s a sign it’s all going to change
Welcome to the age of man
Farewell to the golden plan
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Farewell to the Holocene
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Intrinsic to our being
Is the knowledge that once was held
From those ancient ice age survivors
Passing on those tools and skills
We are a species with amnesia
Forgotten history, forgotten ways
Welcome to the age of man
Farewell to the golden plan
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Farewell to the Holocene
From wonderland to wasteland
Our Eden is gone
Déjà Vu
Sitting here with all these wishes
Swimming like fishes around my head
Translating thought into a word
Like a caged and mute songbird
The past it has informed me
The present it transformed me
The future is a story
Up in the air
With plumage spread
My wings are red
There’s scarlet in the sky
Disruption and distortion
Womb of isolation
For it’s all coming true
All my déjà vu
For it’s already seen
All my déjà vu
Escaping into dreams
Drowning in the dark
Lost all sense of self and worth
Sold my magic charms
In tombs of fatigue
In rooms of intrigue
The space between that I have seen
Has left me cold
For it’s all coming true
All my déjà vu
For it’s already seen
All my déjà vu
In this arena
Of value and forfeit
The years that you cherished
The years you forget
For it’s all coming true
All my déjà vu
For it’s already seen
All my déjà vu
Climbing out with a shout
My heart it is elated
The thorns I feel I know are real
I know I have created
My spirit burns
My stomach churns
My ears still are whistling
The drive in me
Is alive in me
It keeps me moving forward
The legacy will set us free
From all that will be
Such a rich tapestry of comedy and tragedy
Holding on and hanging on
To this flammable emotion
This part of me
This life in me filled
With furious devotion.
Consciously Aware?
Oh the aura
Oh the illusion
All the daily confusion
That adds to the mix
Looking for the magic fix
Another breath closer now
In changing into an angel
I’ll have my day in the sun
Before I leave those things undone
Aware, of all the time that is left
To Share, of all the time that is left
To Care, to be so consciously
Aware, consciously aware
For now I draw my focus
And feel every sensation
In an effort to maintain
This practice of concentration
I know love I know it well
I have been so very blessed
To have loved
To have lost
To have found you
Aware, of all the time that is left
To Share, of all the time that is left
To Care, to be so consciously
Aware, consciously aware
To my future self
I am sending love
Wrapped in this time capsule of words
To my future self
I am sending light
Whatever happens
We will prevail
Aware, of all the time that is left
To Share, of all the time that is left
To Care, to be so consciously
Aware, consciously aware
Can You See The Future?
Midnight, it left me wanting
Going over all the scenes inside my head
3am, it left me haunting
Passed a ghost child on the stairs
She whispered truth
Daybreak, it brings the light
The shadows die, the gloom it fades
The fire ignites.
Nothing turned out, how it was planned
Standing at the alter in the church of the damned
Where demons rise, and angels fall
Just one kiss started it all
Day is coming, it’s coming soon
Voice of the disenchanted
Is singing out of tune
Now can you see your past
And can you see your now
Can you see your future?
Can you see your future?
Days, they are numbered
Each heartbeat winding down
This clock of life
Weeks, that are caught
Time it is a precious gift
That can’t be bought
Years that I’ve tasted
Compromised and rationalised
And now seem wasted.
Nothing turned out, how it was planned
Standing at the alter in the church of the damned
Where demons rise, and angels fall
Just one kiss started it all
The day is coming, it’s coming soon
Voice of the disenchanted
Is singing out of tune
Now can you see your past
And can you see your now
Can you see your future?
Can you see your future?
Stranger to the person, trapped inside
Danger to the world, like Jekyll and Hyde
All the screams of a lifetime
Fade into whispers and memories left behind.
The rainbow in the sky
Is the greatest lie
Learning from all the mistakes
Making it up day by day
And the stranger looking back at me
He’s got my eyes, he’s got my smile
All the words that I speak
They’re honest and they’re brave
Does that make me weak?