Your bio refers to Larry Norman.  I also grew up in the church with built-in audience where playing Larry Norman was teenage rebellion.  This helps me understand your songs.  But I don’t recall his songs being as weighty as yours.  

A friend sent me here.  Think I'll see if he and I can do this with cello.

Beautiful and insightful song from a Christian pilgrim's perspective of the cross that bore the body of the Blessed One, and the long shadow it casts over the centuries, before (Genesis 3, Isaiah 53 et.al.) and long after Jesus crucifixion.  Beautiful song Johnny for Lent and Easter.

Thank you so much for that well thought out and beautiful comment David, truly appreciate it!

@tabaskoo: Hey Bas...thank you so much! And the same for you and your family...will be coming back to listen to your tracks here!

hey Johnny, i still love this song, so beautiful.

@aprilandthedrift: Thank you so much and I'm so sorry to reply this late. I really appreciate it and I do hope to hope to have a few songs on within the coming months.

Compositeur arrangeur : Philippe SEGUINARD
Auteur mélodiste : Guillaume DULER
Lyrics :
Rêves embrumés éphémères danses
Poussières de nuit voilées de silence
Dormir sur la Lune
Voleurs de vent  souffleurs de nuages
Flou d'amours denses à l'état sauvage
Dormir sur la Lune
Apprivoiser nos murmures
Abandonner nos armures 
Dormir sur la Lune
Caresser nos sensations
Effleurer nos émotions
Dormir sur la Lune
Nager sous l'eau delà des courants
Flotter de rives en rives en rêvant
Dormir sur la Lune 

Foggy dreams, ephemeral dances
Night dust veiled in silence
Sleeping on the moon
Cloud-blowing wind thieves
Blur of dense wild love
Sleeping on the Moon
Tame our whispers
Abandon our armor 
Sleeping on the Moon
Caressing our sensations
Touching our emotions
Sleeping on the Moon
Swim underwater beyond the currents
Floating from shore to shore dreaming
Sleeping on the Moon
© Guillaume DULER / Philippe SEGUINARD  2022

Dormir sur la Lune   TRANSLATED

Alice

So Beautiful

"KNOW YOUR FEAR"

The eye that sees everything beyond
Asks me hey dude why there is no bond
I answer with spirit its not how you die
But looking at creation its how you first cry

The truth is i see that through my eternal eye
But isn't it so sad that people do not fly
It makes me really wonder what happened to this world
That likes to live a being that is of soulless soul.

If sight is your spirit, thought is your feeling
End this fucking shit set a new beginning
Make time work for you to avoid those rotten eyes
By spirit body soul to kill what never dies.

Now that you are breathing the air of our infinity
Do not disrupt the messages to end this fake sincerity
Will start to live this trip again all beings together,
And maybe in our hearts we kill our sacred feather.

The one that makes you fly deep down the gap of soul
To bring out to the surface eruption to the whole
To set not a beginning or just another end
But starting to remember whats left to live ahead.

LYRICS BY Ragias Christos
Enjoy the fear!!

KNOW YOUR FEAR

Healing_A_Broken_Wing

In the Shadow of the Cross 
Words and Music by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

Far away and I can feel
That distant moan inside of me
A darkened window I must be
When the full light of moon is lost
Far away as in a dream
I’m half there and cannot scream
As if behind an iron screen
In the shadow of the cross

Far away and close at hand
Lofty kingdoms in the sand
On the trail the saved and damned
Are overcome by violent force
Far away and faith still grieves
Blessed are they who will not leave
Who have not seen and still believe
In the shadow of the cross

Far away in time and space
Yet so near to touch my face
Still so near my tears to trace
Every time I count the cost
Far away beyond the mile
Without a coat is winter’s child
The smitten brave will rest awhile
In the shadow of the cross

Far away and blood is rain
Mocking tongues in cold disdain
Weave with deceit a web of shame
And laugh at love’s unnatural course
Far away the dead will rise
Wounded hands will touch blind eyes
Defiled no more nor beauty dies
In the shadow of the cross

In The Shadow Of The Cross

LYRICS
I keep dreaming these sweet dreams
I make them last all night
This time it could be so special
I couldn't take my eyes off you
Keep dreaming these sweet dreams of you

And I know we've just met 
And I could be wrong
I can still taste your cinnamon lipstick
Never thought I'd fall in this quick
I keep dreaming those sweet dreams of you

Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you

Instrumental

Keep dreaming these sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you

You stole my breath when I first saw you
Now all I want to do is hold you
I've never known a love like this
The magic of our first kiss
And I keep dreaming those sweet dreams of you

Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you

Keep dreaming these sweet dreams
Make them last all night
This time it could be so special
I couldn't take my eyes off you
Keep dreaming these sweet dreams of you

Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you
Sweet dreams of you

Outro

Sweet Dreams Of You

I'm a singer-songwriter from Durban, South Africa. Having being raised in the church I was advantaged with a ready-made audience. Their kindness, patience and ecouragement gave me the confidence to improve my songwriting and to take it quite seriously. At times when the lyrics had a touch of controversy, they never thought it scandalous, which further encouraged me to write on social issues, love songs, and songs with just a story. 
By my mid-teens I was heavily influenced by the hippy gospel songwriter Larry Norman, which may explain why into my 50's I still have long hair! Through his music I learned that songs do have a greater purpose. 
As a young upstart I was blessed with a kind and forgiving congregation. Today I'm blessed with a very tolerant family and a bunch of great friends. I love what I do!



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