WHAT WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE - 2018 - ALL LYRICS

HOW IS THIS ALL ENDING?

The news pours down on my mind like the storms left in its wake

Another day of senseless violence, all this pain and suffering my mind can’t shake

And another legend passes way before their time

Tributes, tears we all break out in familiar song

Still I’m warm in bed each night with my loved ones at my side

Seems like something’s got to give as these blessings keep extending

My heart goes out to the suffering, how is this all ending?  

Driving to the night’s show colors beckoning, the light turns imperceptible

Driving home that night, thinking about the music and all the sweet people

Northern California’s like a lovely dream

I make the kids laugh on the swings, will they ever want to stop?

Try to keep my mind and eyes off that all pervasive screen

I know we’ll learn a better way, it’s love that needs some tending

My heart goes out to the suffering how is this all ending?  

The news is us tonight, heavy smoke, orange glow, emergency

Get my family in the car, no time to pack, driving south uncertainly

Fire spreading all around erratic as the winds

We are spared but others have lost everything

And still tonight I’m cooking udon noodles with my loves

There’s got to be a shift the laws of physics aren’t bending

My heart goes out to the suffering, how is this all ending?

THIN VEIL

It’s hard not living day to day in anger

It’s hard not living day to day in fear

But as we walk through the darkness towards the danger The truth couldn’t be more clear

I am a product of my privilege

But I can still see right from wrong

And I can stare into the belly of the beast and know its time is almost gone

For there’s a Thin Veil that separates what appears from what is real

It’s just a house of cards, a web of lies to distract and to conceal 

but if we look towards what we know is possible 

we can end this whole ordeal

I know we’ll overcome this madness

Change the message, elevate our sound

We’ve got to listen to each other, work together

Solutions will be found

For there’s a Thin Veil that separates what appears from what is real

It’s just a house of cards, a web of lies to distract and to conceal 

but if we look towards what we know is possible 

We can mend and we can heal

I don’t know how we’ll win this battle, 

Perhaps there is no battle to be waged

War is what maintains our divisions, 

We can’t heal our wounds enraged

For there’s a Thin Veil that separates what appears from what is real

It’s just a house of cards, a web of lies to distract and to conceal 

but if we look towards what we know is possible 

We’ll create the world we feel

I am a product of my privilege

But I can still see right from wrong

We’ve got to listen to each other, share the world before it’s gone

The darkest hour comes right before the dawn

POWER OF THE PELICANS

Know that you’ll get well again

Trust the Power of the Pelicans

Set your mind free from distractions

Take a glimpse at your reactions

With the Pelicans you will find rest

You will find peace in the silence

Let your mind rest, you’ll get well again

Trust the Power of the Pelicans

LOVEENCEE

If it’s love that moves

Then why are we still waiting

It all unfolds so fast

The endless day endures

The planet breathes pulsating

Electric lights ablaze

Shattered glass

Within my child’s grasp

He’s bleeding

A shift in time’s revealed

Depends how we perceive it

If what’s revealed remains

And when the moment calls 

Will you and I behold it?

I’d like to think we will

If it’s love that moves

Then why are we still waiting

We must not lose our grasp

Foolish war

Your aims are such a bore

It kills me

Will there be peace on earth?

I’d say to be determined

No reason I can’t see

LIGHT IN MY WINDOW

There was a time

When it looked like the end game

Soldiers rolled through the streets and

Children cried as there hunger just would not subside

Broken and bent

All our dreams were abandoned

An impossible climb and

We had believed we had run out of time

See me floating through the sky, maybe I can see us down there

See a world where we all try to reconcile that which divides us

There was a time

When it looked like the end game

But we cast off the systems

Self imposed by our fear, finally seeing what’s clear

Soldiers dismantled their guns

In spite of their orders

Fully seeing their threat was 

Fabricated by lies and created by borders

I reached out my hand

You received it with warmth and

impeccable understanding

We could begin to see what it’s like to be free

And if it’s love that you are and you are (and you are and you are)

I’ll leave a light in my window

And if it’s love that you are and you are (and you are and you are)

You’ll find a light in my window

And if it’s love that you are and you can’t seem to find

A path to your heart, think you’ve run out of time

Or you don’t trust your vision, think it ain’t worth a dime

Don’t know where to begin, an impossible climb

Well you can look in my eyes and I’m sure you will see

That this all happened before and it happened to me

We’re all infinite light streams colliding with force

Imperfect and messy but never off course

The grief and the sorrow, the loss and the pain

All blended together washes out in the rain

We will never regain what we’ve lost 

Grab your boat cast your sails we’ll set out for the sea

One of the last places where we can still truly feel free

If I was a lighthouse and you were a light

Then let the waves crash down on us impeccably bright

AS IT STARTS TO FADE -2019 - ALL LYRICS

PRESENCE OF MIND

When love is divided factions in the mind

We delve out our portions trusting mostly our kind

In turn we’re left weakened, fractured and torn

Slightly sensing our own scorn

Our love has no limits, inexhaustible force

Revealing in shadows this obstacle course

Problems arising take root in our minds

Inexplicable design

Passing sadness, fading fear

Infiltrates our atmosphere

Causing blindness, causing harm

Yet there’s no cause for alarm

Sudden senseless suffering ceases

Attention turns our joy increases

We choose our frames so choose them wise

Many pathways will arise

Anticipate surprise

We’re alive

Focus distracted, connections come frayed

combative reactive media parade

The truth’s an impeccable source to be spread

Don’t let your instincts be misled

We care for our children, we care for our tribe

But where are the margins at which our cares subside?

Can we stretch our intentions to care for the whole

While relinquishing control?

Endlessly our visions shifting

Helplessly we follow suit

Loveencee our time has come to find

Presence of mind

PUT A SMILE IN YOUR MIND

Put a smile in your mind if you feel inclined

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you can realign

Only for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you may feel alive

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind

I know you need your smile (put it in your mind)

I know your friends need your smile (put it in your mind)

I know that the world needs your smile 

So let me state the case

That if you put one in your mind it may just end up rocking your face

Put a smile in your mind if you feel inclined

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you can realign

Only for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you may feel alive

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind

Cause you can’t wear that lonely face for long, undo 

All those tightened muscles that don’t speak the truth

Cause we’re alive and it’s a blessing

We all woke up today got dressed and

Took a breath, digested 

Do you need anymore proof?

I know it may sound like a funked up voodoo abstraction

I know it may sound like new age snake oil prank

But I know that if just for one second you can see it right there in your mind

Then you can remove that uncomfortable disguise and liberate those beautiful eyes

I know the world is troubled please don’t misconstrue 

My words cause we can still be full of gratitude

We all are working for this justice

It takes love and time to trust this

Process will adjust this

World as it groans anew 

Put a smile in your mind if you feel inclined

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you can realign

Only for a moment

Put a smile in your mind you may feel alive

Just for a moment

Put a smile in your mind, in your mind

If only for a moment


NOT AFRAID (WE ALL WILL DIE-E-OH)

We all die-e-oh

We all will die-e-o

Hey we will all die someday

No, we can not stop decay

Civilizations end

Our lives between the threads

How focused is your lens?

Stunned outside your father’s lawn

Look it is not all foregone

We cycle on and on

The queen was once a pawn

Certain phenomenon

I see your face / A lovely place

I see your face / As it starts to fade

I see your face / A lovely place

I see your face / You are not afraid

Where we’re going who can say?

Spin together, wash away

We must all go oh well

The only sure intel

Eternal Carousel

No we must not fear the pain

Loss will leave us bear and plain

Whether it’s preordained

Your burden is ingrained

Can’t stop the hurricane

I see your face / A lovely place

I see your face / As it starts to fade

I see your face / A lovely place

I see your face / You are not afraid

We all die-e-oh

We all will die-e-o

I see your face / A lovely place

I see your face / As it starts to fade

Possible mourning follows hopelessness

Separate presence beckons brokenness

Opposite futures pondered one will be

How would this be different?

The air gets to your brain

Consuming everyone

Getting harder to maintain

Invoking hardship triggers worry

But be patient no need to hurry

What once was urgent later is blurry

Try not to strain

We all die-e-oh

We all will die-e-o


NOT GONNA WORRY


You called me up again and again

But pretty early on I could see that we wouldn’t be friends, no

I’m standing here now listening to your point of view 

Not sure what you’ve been hearing, cause I know my song is true

I’m not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

Not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

I still got this restless feeling, questions linger incomplete

And these Boots of Spanish Leather are now Positively 4th Street

I’ve toiled with your recklessness and I’m ready for a break

What ever did you want me for? Are you really this opaque?

Cause with a little love

Maybe we could right our wrongs

Add a little forgiveness to our songs

You may be crazy, I may be proud

Still transformation is allowed 

Not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

Not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

Cause I’ve known my worth long before your ostentatious review

I’m not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

You’ve been spewing nonsense, you’ve been spinning lies

You might be the whole world’s savior you might be its demise

But I know one day what you’ve been sowin you will reap

And until then I won’t let you disrupt my sleep

Cause with a little love

Maybe we could right our wrongs

Add a little forgiveness to our songs

You may be crazy, we may be proud

Still transformation is allowed 

Not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

I’m not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you

And we’ll sing our song we’ll sing it sure as we scrape off your residue

I’m not gonna worry about you no more, not gonna worry about you