This is a song I wrote for my aunt Beth, who passed away this year.  My father was there when she passed as well as I, and he asked hummed me this tune with the "Let me go" part and asked me to write it.  So I did.  Here it is.  I played it at her funeral and it seemed to help folks.  I hope it helps others get through the hard times, like it did for us.  Blessings.

Great Horizon

I'm joined by the ever-amazing Christine Hajjar here for a chant that names each of the 260 days of the Maya's holy calendar, sometimes called the, Tzolkin.  The little image there is actually a 6 foot mural I painted of Pacal Votan, ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque at its height.

Counting the Days

Here's Christine Hajjar and I chanting each of the 20 names of the Solar Day Lords of the Maya's holy calendar, accompanied by a poem I wrote describing some characteristics of each day.

The 20 Nawales; Solar Lords of Time

Here's me shaking rattles and drumming while chanting the 260 days of the Tzolkin calendar.

Full Tzolkin Round

I wrote this song 20 years ago and I'm still singing it!

Spirit Wings

All our lives spent, searching in darkness... growing beyond with you
Like caterpillars, we're all consuming killers
Falling up through the ages, falling up through the phases

So I'm telling you today, we're gonna sprout our spirit wings
Once we master time and space, we'll complete the human race
Time is closing, its the end of days, after 2012 we'll transcend space
shed our bodies like cocoons, as we emerge from our Earthly womb

White lightning, all matter's brightening... growing beyond with you
Final gestation, sticky situation
Falling up through the ages, falling up through the phases

So I'm telling you today, we're gonna sprout our spirit wings
Once we master time and space, we'll complete the human race
Forget yourself and remember grace, there's a new Earth to embrace
The light inside you will mature, it's about time, thank the lord

Arch-angle Michael, close this cosmic cycle... growing beyond with you
Thank you Great Mystery, for this cosmic destiny, for our yearning to be free
And for our deep, dark history, 
Falling up through the phases, falling up through the ages
 

Spirit Wings

This is a recording by my band, The Long Count, featuring Carlos Kampff on lead guitar 

Serpent Fire

I look at all the violence that's withering the world today
It's a disease killing us, we can heal it now, it's not too late
Just look inside your heart and realize the truth of things
This everything around us is also our soul within

Feel your serpent fire, rising higher, healing all your fears, leaving you clear
I had a vision, wisdom of ages, all life is sacred, we're all related

Don't be afraid of shadows, the haunting time, it's alright
Just go inside and trust yourself to know what's right
Stay focused and remember that you are light, you're powerful!
The Earth is now awakening, she's calling us, so open wide, yeah~

Feel your serpent fire, rising higher, healing all your fears, leaving you clear
There's no time to loose, so you've got to choose
Between the eyes of love and the eyes of fear

I know a secret, we're only dreaming, choosing the eyes of love...
It's indescribable!~

02 Serpent Fire

This is a song by my band The Long Count

These times are strange, they're so deranged
Yah, you can feel it and you know it's true
All around us people sleeping

We've come so far and learned a lot 
And now they want to take it all away
Now ain't the time to be taking
We're in the darkness now and fading
We've got to open wide awaken

These times are strange, they're so deranged
Yah, you can feel it and you know its true
All around us people fading

We've come so very far
We've climbed the highest mountains to the stars
Now is the time to be praying
We're in the darknes now and fading
We've got to open wide
We've got to open wide
We've got to open wide awaken! 

Open Wide

This is another song by my band The Long Count.  I wrote it almost 20 years ago after spending some time in a South Dakota museum with an authentic Ghost Dance shirt.

Listen to my story, I swear each word is true
About a dark power, a history revealed
I closed my eyes and waved goodbye 
To my future and my past
The pain, the fear, the love my dear
The proof is fading fast

The first thing I remember, I was running for my life
Hurling through the darkness with my children and my wife
Nothing in my lifetime prepared me for this
Hunteld by the US calvary and thrown into a ditch



Falling

This is another song by my band The Long Count.  I wrote it almost 20 years ago after spending some time in a South Dakota museum with an authentic Ghost Dance shirt.

Listen to my story, I swear each word is true
About a dark power, a history revealed
I closed my eyes and waved goodbye 
To my future and my past
The pain, the fear, the love my dear
The proof is fading fast

The first thing I remember, I was running for my life
Hurling through the darkness with my children and my wife
Nothing in my lifetime prepared me for this
Hunted by the US carvery and thrown into a ditch

Now I've seen something that changes everything
I've seen behind the curtain, behind what's happening
It's the same old story of greed and ignorance

I'm falling... falling... through

Lean in a little closer and a secret you will hear
About a vast power, hidden all these years
You can feel it in the ocean, you can see it in the sun
You know it in your bones right now
Everything is one


Now I've seen something that changes everything
I've seen behind the curtain, behind what's happening
It's the same old story of greed and ignorance

I'm falling... falling... through

Jason Berube