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Do You Feel The Music

Do you feel the music?

Does it capture in your soul

the feelings that got lost in there

as you’ve played out your role?

 

Have you ever sat and listened,

let it take you far away?

Well, I’ve done it time and again

and I can clearly say -

 

that nothing else compares.

It’s like a portal out of time,

where you can let things go and heal,

submerged in the sublim...

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Dream In Color

Did I lie awake at night,

or did I dream in color?

Such wonderous things

I saw and heard,

that took me to the other

 

side of the stream

from whence things flow.

A magic filled the air.

So mystified, I was at home

completely unaware.

 

For time stood still,

bathed in the light

and love that make all things,

a message fell

like drops of rain,

and ...

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Deserts Of New Mexico

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,

driven by the wind of change.

And I know… it’s not that easy.

Drove a million miles and it is all the same,

spinning through the circles of my mind.

And it’s cold… it’s not that easy.

 

But there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -

on the deserts of New Mexico,

I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.

Yeah, th...

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By The Light Of The Moon

I sometimes sit awake at night

unsure what I should do,

swimming through my thoughts

yeah, all the worries of the day.

I guess I like the solitude,

although I’m feeling blue

there in the quiet moonlight

softly, God opens the way.

 

In dim of night he reassures,

a peace rests in the air.

The things I want to worry of,

they simply melt away,

replaced by vis...

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Eternal Field

I one time dreamed a dream wherein I walked within an open field,

where every step a memory was, and every breath was poignant filled.

 

I saw each day I ever lived, they all bled slowly into one.

Each opportunity to give now stood a moment left undone.

 

I saw each thing I ever owned and tried so hard to justify,

but every effort woeful fell and I was left to wonder why.

...

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The Reason

This is the reason I do what I do.

A rhyme, a song in shades of blue.

Connections made to a million ties.

The longing stare of a million eyes.

 

Peering out from the darkness, soul by soul.

Bound by the sound of every note.

Bound by the beat of the rhythmic drum.

Bound by the voice of the chosen one.

 

Chosen to carry the weight of them all.

Chosen to suffer, chos...

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Timeless Chill

Granite grandeur draped in snow,

soft whisper falls, clear water flows.

 

No hand extends to measure time,

no cares ascend, no worries find.

 

For purpose fades into the still,

a tranquil peace here in the chill

 

What part of time and space am I?

So small beneath the endless sky,

 

a spec of dust, a grain of sand…

yet cradled in the Master’s hand.

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