I wrote this song for Debi the day before I left the Hummingbird Hill back in July.


Composer/Vocals/Rhythm: Damodar Dahal
Bass: Bishwas Gautam
Drums: Rojan Shrestha
Lead: Diwas Bhattarai

48: Travellin' around the States

Hummingbird Hill (Almond, NY)

Third song from my album, 48: Travellin' around the States. The lyrics was composed while I was in Cobbscook Bay State Park, Maine, and was later recorded at Canton, Michigan.

Song by: Damodar Dahal
Bass/Lead guitar: Bishwas Gautam
Drums: Rojan Shrestha

Full of Empty (Cobbscook Bay, ME / Canton, MI)

Flying away
Damodar Dahal

The train whistles roaring through the tracks of Houston
While I sit down an an empty booth at the Cafe station
I left today, my home after so long, without dropping a shed of sorrow
Like every time I used to do, but this time I know where I’m going

I’m going to the edge of the world where there’s no tomorrow
Not even the tales of my past, all that’s there is hollow
Like the heart of a saint who sat deep in meditation
Except I am searching for the whispers of my existence

I wanna live a hundred thousand years, but my master’s only given me a few
I looked at all the men talk of nothing but hollow wisdom
For he knows, knows not, at least not enough to not know one thing
And for he who claims to know himself, hasn’t known anything at all

So I’m flying away in my thin space suit with a full tank of oxygen
I’ll pass by the rains in Europa and then to the rings of Saturn
I’ll spin along a neutron star fore I pass into a black hole
Finally then, I’ll rest in peace watching the end of this universe

Flying away (Houston, TX) [Pre-release]

United Sapiens
Damodar Dahal

Some barren trees and some which withstand the cold
The sky looks young, but the road looks old
I am by myself, I’ve hit the road
Like the men used to from the days untold

I set out this time to make my own story
To watch the time unfolding before me
But I’m afraid, can’t keep everyone happy
So I ask you, to find your way to be

I’ve got no house but I’ve got a tent in the trunk
I've got no stash of cash, but I’ve learnt to live alone
Making friends with some rich ones and some homeless ones
Living under the same sky, living on the same home

There’s no denial, one’s gotta learn how to live
Making thru life always struggling
As the sun shines in the morning, orange light fills the horizon
As my pass my days, driving through the Northern

I see the flags and the rules, also the wars and peace
and everyone and myself lost within our own castles
The waves in the water won’t stop, even though she may freeze
As I’m pondering down from 21st century of humanity

The country of the States, which I call the land of the brave
For how I gotta live my life, no one’s here to dictate
Everyone’s got their freedom here, which is priceless
But then again also decay with old age

The people who built my car have gotten so far
So far that they can take me now to Mars
And the same people who built my car will get us so far
So far that they will take us one day to the stars
There's going to be a day when we'll be jumping across the heavens
Writing the story of us everywhere, United Sapiens

Driving thru the Northern / United Sapiens [Pre-release]

The Tales of Your Name
Damodar Dahal

If the world were to collapse tomorrow,
    Where would you choose to go?
The day you cross the road with the Reaper
    Your time has come before you know

While dancing with fairies and demons in my head
    I never got to know you
But I wonder if the world looks any different from your eyes
    I saw it once, that we’re both of pieces of the same pie,
        So, you are right, and I am right.

Living in a castle of practicality, you forget the possibility
that maybe your soul has been here since eternity
Lost in the castles of language and humanity maybe
you forgot to wonder how you breathe
When the child grew up and learnt the tales of your name,
Have you come to forget how you were born?
Desires and evil wrangling around you now,
Did they make you forget the fact that you are all alone?

When I tried to fathom the Cosmos, a light dawned in me
    That showed me the eternal beauty, and a dark tunnel
Leading to it. So I prayed and cried upon the heavens
    To free myself from myself, to know how to untangle
So I eat bread, make mistakes, and accept dares,
    The only way I could even be myself
This light and this tunnel, you must forget em;
Cause they’re just here to fill your head.

The Tales of Your Name [pre-release]

Wise Person
Damodar Dahal

I was a wise person
    When I was just born
When all I knew was
    Not needed to be learned

But what I know now
    Is the world is alone
Tired of fighting
    Its own prison

But people will live
    And they will thrive
The lone man will seek the truth
    Before he dies

But now I have my
    Mind filled with clutter
Clinging to dear life
    Afraid to start over

In the land of this darkness
    What is your light?
Except for the context,
    What is always right?

Wise Person (Seattle, WA) [pre-release]

Once upon a time by the town
of Hammond, Louisiana
I met a girl who she was
was wonderful.

So I went to her doorsteps,
To ask her out on a date
She agreed, and
I drove us to PJ's
I then bought her a latte
And showed her to the country roads
Everytime I had her with me,
Time would fly away

[Chorus]
She was wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful

[Bridge]
Am        
But as the wheels of time turned
F
I only saw tears on her face
Am
That bloomin’ smile of hers weathered away,
F
Everything got colder as winter fell

So the next month I packed,
My clothes on a suitcase
To fly to a land
Half the globe away
I thought that I’d be done with her
With the falling waves
But here I am, so many years later
Telling about her

[Chorus]
I guess she was wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful

[Bridge]
So much I'd give her I thought,
But I only left with remorse,
I brought down the moon to her feet,
Though I couldn't wipe the tears off her face

I came back to sit on a corner,
As she was with another man
Not the brightest of all, maybe
But a better man than I am
In all my life, I’ve had
but one regret
Of breaking the promise I made to myself
That I made for her sake
I hope she’ll forgive me that I’ll
I’ll never forget her face
Which I wanna see one last time
Fore I part my way again

[Chorus]
Cause she was
Wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful
Wonderful

[Outro]
Hope you're thriving and still living with your dreams
That you look up for the day, as your mornings begin

48: Travellin' across the States

Wonderful (Hammond, LA)

As the dreams of airy castles flew
Among the shadows of my mind
Them ghosts of desires lit a fire pit roasting me
and it wasn’t easy to unwind

So I travelled through time and space
Over fields that stretched miles long
Searching on for my true self
but I just kept moving like the sun

I’ve got a mortgage to pay to the stars on the horizon
To the mountains and the trees, the people and the ocean
But some days I fear that I'm worthless, that I might drown
So I watch the moving wind remembering the dusk of my own

I’ve got evil, on my left hand, and righteousness on my right
Anger on my shoulders but fierceness on my mind
Love on my chest, and trust on my soul
But with the weight of a dying man, I can’t carry no more