Translation from Chinese:
Will you wonder to the end of the world with me?
Or, can you give me a home?

That utopic home you talked about, 
You drew a picture in my mind
A Shangri-La that belongs to a pair of lovers, 
Does it only exist in our fantasy?

Is it true that if a heart feels belonging, 
It can travel to the end of the world and still feel at home?
Then does it have less desires, and no longer struggles?
Then is the heart no longer lost, no longer uneasy?
Then have we come home?

(Tibetan Buddhist Green Tara chant)
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha

(Instrumental:)

Can we slow down our frantic steps, 
Can we slow down the ever wondering mind?
Can we let the heart no longer feel lonely, 
No longer waiting for something
Then does the heart open for love, the heart is at ease 
Then do we truly have a home?

(Tibetan Buddhist Green Tara chant)
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha
Omdalei Dudalei Duleisoha (repeat once)

How to go home? 
Really would like a home… 
So much I want a home, 
A home for the heart to rest.

A Home for the Heart

Since childhood I’ve most loved the wild orchid
For it thrives in the most remote valleys.
Storms only make it stronger
Year after year it comes back to cover the hills.

Whenever I encounter obstacles on my path
I always remember my love for the tenacious wild orchids.
No matter how long and harsh the winters are
One day it blooms again into the sun.

Sitting in the concrete cell, I dream of your life. 
I love your wildness and mountain air, so pure and natural.

When can I be like you, detached from worldly desires
When can I be like you, have no need to conceal your truth
When can I be like you, have no contention with the world
When can I be like you, proudly standing alone in your beauty.

Instrumental

Velvety green sets off the azure blue
She is so natural and simple.
Dancing in the wind at ease
Simply with nature’s care, she blooms wildly.

Her passion spreads throughout the hills
Light blue flowers in chorus with the blue sky.
I am embraced by blue
My heart again became relaxed and calm.

Sitting in the concrete cell, I yearn for your life. 
I love your audacity to be vividly alive, fully believing in life.

My most loved flower, blooming so splendidly.
Growing in the canyons, always truthfully beautiful.
Ah….En…

Wild Orchid

For my entire life, I’ve wanted to run away
Run away to the end of the earth.
Thinking this way, I don’t have to carry the past.

For my entire life, I’ve wanted to put up road blocks
Put up walls of protection.
Thinking only this way, can I be free to be myself.

But you have left
You have left
And I found you live in my heart, in my body.
But you have left
You have left
And I found your presence is in the entire universe!

I cannot run away, I cannot carry, I cannot find peace in the heart.
I cannot run away, I cannot withstand, how can I find peace in the heart?

Instrumental

For my entire life, I’ve wanted to put up road blocks
Put up walls of protection.
Thinking only this way, can I be free to be myself.
 
But you have left
You have left
And I found I am left alone in the whole world.

I cannot run away, I cannot carry, I cannot find peace in the heart.
How do I face this?  How do I accept this?  How can I find peace in the heart?

One day until I can
Open this aching heart
For you, for you, and for you…
And release love and hate all back to earth.

Peace of the Heart

Such a cold cold night, and I am still waiting up for you
The moon is setting, yet I am still not sleepy
Time after time I got up, listening for foot steps
It’s past three, my gaze going past the ceiling, time elongating.

When was it that I began to care for you so much?
When was it that you became the only one in my heart?
Please don’t hold on, perhaps you cannot take on the responsibility of love yet
But it’s too late, your mark is seared into my heart.

The moon is blurring, my heart is freezing
The promise you made at the height of passion, was it not meaningful?
The depth of love I gave you, could you understand?
The branches are trembling in the wind, casting shadows on the window, my heart is fading.

They all say, don’t be too deeply in love with him
Without knowing, I’ve already fallen into the rapture
But our physical beauty ages with each moment
When the music is over and everyone leaves, will you still be in my heart?

Three AM

Dreaming for so many years
Try to forget for so many years
Lost for so many more years
But you never left my heart

How much faith does one need
How want desiring does one need
To be able to hold on to you firmly
Right by my side.

Already I am crazy for you
There is no moment when you are not in my heart.
Even in my dreams I continue my longing,
A longing that transcends time, and cannot be severed.

Do you know or not
I would make clothes out of rainbows for you.
Do you want or not
I would collect the rarest fragrances from faraway strange lands for you.
This is not an imagination
They are poetic words my heart wants to sing for you.
Together with you, we taste the flavors of life
Then I would not have wasted my life.

So many years have past
Finally understanding 
You are the meaning of my coming into this world
And the meaning for living
Life is flying by
The soul is still peeping
Cannot let her lose it again
The truth of life

You are my heart and soul
I want to feel all your grief and sadness.
You are my earth and grounding
I want to share all my happiness and joy with you.

Do you know or not
I would be a vagabond of the four seas for you.
Do you want or not
For you I become ardent, unbending and untamed.
I don’t expect anything else from you  
Only that you are by my side for the rest of my life.
Together with you, our life burns bright,
Brightening our hearts.  

So my love, don’t let me down.
Come with me, fly with me
Mi Corazon!

Claire Johnson

Crazy for You

Translation of Lyric:
Do we all feel that we are too ordinary
Money and fame can only give a moment of security
What kind of life do we expect to live
What is it that makes us going and going without tiring?

To go after something versus to own something, which give us more happiness
Expecting and fulfillment, which is more joyful
Year after year, how much detour are we going to take
Time after time, what do we get from our successes and failures?

What is it that can let me quiet down?
What is it that makes me stop?
What is it that make me want to be cheered on more and more?
If I could see through everything, does the “I” still exist?  Still exist?

Instrumental:

What is it that can let the heart relax?
What is it that can still the heart?
What is it that won’t make me want to do it all over again?
If I can let go of everything, does the world as I know it still exist?  Still exist?

What Is It

Mongolian folk inspired.  Lyrics translation:

A:  The childhood homeland I often miss you
Endless grassland was so high that it hides cows and sheep.
Mirror-like lake water was so clear
Flocks of swans make yearly return to it.

B:  Merely ten years we have lost the homeland as we remember it
Even the swans can no longer recognize the dry land.
The grassland cries our tragedy
The earth roars with sand storms.

C:  Longing, I long for my childhood homeland
Longing, a magical place that used to take our breath away. 
Longing, ten thousand years of pristine green grassland
How did it become a sea of sand!

Instrumental: guitar with bits of horse violin

B:  A blue sky without the green grass feels desolate  
Herders without grassland, then who are they?  
I, without the grassland, then how can I  
Tell the stories about the grassland to our children?  

C:  Longing, I long for my childhood homeland
Longing, a magical place that used to take our breath away.
Praying, I praying for the lost grassland,
When can we restore heaven on earth!

2019 Earth-Homeland

Lost Grassland My Home

Child:
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, What is it that I can do for you?
 
Early morning you said a flock of swans had came,
Although it was just for a brief moment.
Even that brought tears to my eyes,
Because in my heart I begin to see hope.
 
There will be one day when they will return, like us, 
Together to rebuild our homeland.
To regain childlike honesty and simplicity
To rest our heart on this land, foot on the ground.
 
Plant a grove of trees, wait for them to slowly grow up.
Let the growing shade they provide, caress Earth's pained body.
Build a horse stable, and let the wild horses run again,
On the newly growing fields of grass.
English:
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, I Want to Do Something for You
Mother Earth, What is it that I can do for you?
 
Pour our heart and blood (into the effort) to irrigate the cracking dry land,
The land would in return, embrace us with her utter love.
At this place you can let go all the sadness in your heart,
At this place coldness and cynicism will soon melt.
 
Here you can let go all the noise in the mind,
Here release all that has no meaning.
Here each moment with a single intent,
Here you may embrace your most true self.
 
Choir: Come to gather as one, for Mother Earth!
Mongolian: Mother Earth, Mother Earth, Mother Earth, Mother Earth.
Whisper: Mother Earth, I will do something for you.

Mother Earth What can I do for you

In Chinese, Lyrics translation:
Without a Father as the Mountain

A child without a father, how does she grow up?
I know I never knew how to be a spoiled princess.
I know I can always be depended on
To help mother to hold up a family.

A child without a father, does she have fairytales?
The prince in the fairytales, are they all like father?
When she grows up she always holds unrealistic standards,
Hoping the man would treat her like a little girl so she could re-grow up.

Yearning so much, yearning so much, for a mountain to lean against.
To rest up, to rest up, the strongness we had to develop so early.
Yearning so much, yearning so much, for a mountain to lean against.
To release, to release, the armor we had no choice but to put on.

Brave, because there is a mountain behind to lean on.
Brave, because there is a mountain behind to lean on.
Brave, because there is a mountain behind to lean on.
Brave, because there is unconditional love inside the heart.

To wear pink fluffy dress for three whole years,
can I make up for the lost part of childhood?
To throw temper tantrums and act spoiled, 
can I make up the part of my character that’s lost?


I don’t want to be whining, I know I didn’t have it really bad.
But isn’t life about finding fulfillment?
I’ve been afraid of others’ thoughts of me,
for too many freaking years.
Right now I am jumping out of the loop,
that I have set for myself. 

Brave, because there is a mountain in my heart to lean on.
Brave, because I am the mountain for myself to lean on.
Brave, because there is a mountain in my heart to lean on.
Brave, because there is unconditional love inside the heart.

To cultivate bravery again in myself, 
because there is a mountain in my heart.
To cultivate a fairy princess in myself, 
because a fairy princess knows,
someone will care about her.

To cultivate bravery again in myself, 
because there is a mountain in my heart.
To cultivate a fairy princess in myself, 
because a fairy princess knows,
my own fate can be changed, can be change, 
Can, Be, Changed.

2019 Father-Men

Without Father As My Mountain

Singer/songwriter since 2008, started recording 2012.  Half time in the U.S., half in Inner Mongolia.  Quickly recording one song per one to three hours, just want to get them out so others can listen, and give me feedback.  I would like to collaborate with other musicians to produce more world music, epic, soundtrack, dance music.  

Claire GuYu Johnson

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