[Lucid Shade]
certain moments I could breathe 
let no one know I was alive 
apparently my time was up 
cause I was jolted by my spine 

back to the cycle back to fright
back to seeing back behind 
and on ahead and on the sides 
and all the voices in my mind 

rising up and falling down 
like beating waves upon the bank
still feel the searing of my spirit
like a thousand slashing blades 

stayed there spinning as I lost all hope of coming back to life
remembered that ____ said to hold my breath, & stopped my cry 

cycle slowed down to a stop 
as all the voices drowned to quiet 
and then one voice came on again 
said is he dead? did he die? 

get him out! next thing I knew 
back in a body on a table, 
doctors all in hazmat suits 
we're checking if my state was stable, 

all rushing to see if I can still breathe
moments I saw in the future received, 
noticed computers inside of the room
code for my life from the womb to the tomb. 

somehow made a mistake 
and he knew I was live, 
he said 'throw him back in' 
as he moved to the side 

once again in the worst hell 
I've seen in in this life 
lost all hope of return
lost all will to survive 

several days, several months
several years out of doors 
so it seemed in my brain 
I came back to the floor 

threw up out of the window 
I'm back in this world 
couple hours elapsed 
and that set me on course

[Alan Watts] 
"Behind, of course, all the various colors in the spectrum is the white light, and behind everything that we experience, all our various sensations of sound of color, of shape, of touch, there's the white light. And i'm using the phrase the white light rather symbolically, I don't mean it literally, but there is common to all sensations, what you might call, the basic sense, and if you explore back into your sensations, and reduce them all to the basic sense, you're on your way to reality, to what underlies everything, to what is the ground of being, the basic energy. And to the extent that you realize this and know that you are It, you transcend, you overcome, you surpass the illusion that you are simply John Doe, Mary Smith, or what have you.”

© Covenstead Records Company 6/13/2025

Looper [Pt. 2] w/ Alan Watts

[Alan Watts]
“Even the gods, or the angels, the devas are still bound on the wheel of, the the sort of squirrel cage, of going round and round and round in the pursuit of success, and the idea is that if you pursue something that you can call success, pleasure, good, virtue, which originally of course means strength, magical power, all these positive things, you are under illusion because the positive cannot exist without the negative. To be, you only know what ‘to be’ is, by contrast with ‘not to be,’ so if we say now, there is a coin in the left hand, there is no coin in the right, and from this you get the idea of ‘to be’ and ‘not to be,’ and you can't have the one without the other. So if you try to pursue to gain the positive, and to deny, get rid of, the negative it's as if you were trying to arrange everything in this room so that it was all up and nothing was down. You can't do it. You set yourself an absolutely insoluble problem, because the basis of life is spectrum."

[Lucid Shade]
standing up in open space
I realize I'm on my feet 
soon a technicolor wave 
multiplies into a sea 

by the blank I see 
I'm standing on a pier 
energy is at the end 
as I approach it, growing clear 

a huddled mass of laughing men of metal
pointing as they jeered 
at three golliaths, frightening giants
that were made of whirring wheels 

composed of technicolor flame 
inside each wheel there spun a soul
orbs of light that rolled the same
and then as if I was controlled 

I was raising up my hand 
and laughing too with all the crowd
that's when a voice rang in my mind
that didn't come from any mouth 

but everyone could hear aloud
said you'll know just how this feels
next i'm flipping round and round 
they pulled our spirits in the wheels 

instant pain, tearing soul
sarted listening to the sound
while screaming out into the fire
a thousand voices all around 

said 'stay quiet,' and 'stop crying,
cause you just got here today,' 
while they'd been there for millennia 
in that lost place in space 

and while this tearing at my soul
was probably eating up my brain
I stayed there for what seemed forever 
round the cycle, self-contained 

overlaying all my vision
groveling mosaic face
said each word as I would listen
entity I can't escape 

until a time the cycle slowed
and something grabbed me by my spine
pulled me out from where i rolled
into a room completely white 

inside ____ standing there
I ran up to him as I cried 
how do I get away from here?
you've been before, I never tried 

said, you'll be fine, just hold your breath
he touched my head and showed my times
off in the future I would get
when they would think that I was dying

© Covenstead Records Company 6/13/2025

Looper w/ Alan Watts

1. Looper w/ Alan Watts - 0:00
2. Pleroma - 2:35
3. Ruins - 3:40
4. Thunderbolt - 5:22
5. Bitter - 7:21
6. Red Nettle - 8:49
7. Conflict - 10:40
8. Affirmations - 12:18
9. Brink w/ Alan Watts - 13:59
10. Capsized - 16:38
11. Offspring - 18:29
12. Maestro - 20:55
13. Tonic - 22:51
14. Creation - 25:07
15. Vortex - 27:04
16. Looper [Pt. 2] w/ Alan Watts - 29:52

© Covenstead Records Company 6/15/2025

LUCID SHADE ☰ White Light ☰ Full Album

[Lucid]
Feel the light of dawn
Morning ‘bout to break
See the shining sun
Wake into the day
Help me get along
Lead me on my way
Heading for the heights 
Leaving all the pain

Riding for a fall
All will turn to grey
Rising when I’m down
On my feet again
Try to leave the night
Sticking to the ground
Sick of staying stuck
Tired of laying ‘round

Still I’m making rhymes
Fill another page
Wanna feel the love
Step away from all the hate
Came to find a cause
Lost it to the shade
Did it for my soul
No return, I can’t complain

Lately feeling low
Wander in the dark
Resurrect my heart
Making my escape
Calling to the sky
Searching for some faith
Praying to the mic
Aiming for my fate

Watch me topple off
Back onto the road
Holding out the hope
That yet again I’lll see your face
Feel the rising tide
Pulling me away
Know I’m heading home
With every step I’ve yet to take
 
Feel the light of dawn
Morning ‘bout to break
See the shining sun
Wake into the day
Help me get along
Lead me on my way
Heading for the heights 
Leaving all the pain

© Covenstead Records Company 6/22/2025

Pulse

[Lucid]
got to take another loss
hope to find another goal
watch me breaking down my wall
caught my crawling out a hole

always riding for a fall
no escaping from the flow
drop the load, the final straw
felt alone since I awoke

counting the cost
as I find my way home
climb to the top
just to topple below

long way to go
so I chose to withdraw
wait for the dawn
when my pathway is shown

only want to take a pause
isolated from the show
lately nothing's paying off
reaping everything I've sown

every scene that I saw
every word that I wrote
all the things that I thought
every syllable spoke

stepping stones on the path
leading back to the Whole
on the road 'til we crash
always coming too close

nothing left but to laugh
when it comes to a close
all the good and the bad
was so that we could grow

© Covenstead Records Company 6/28/2025

Endless

[Lucid]
Help me escape
Lost in the shade
Sleep through the night
Then awake in the day

Let me alight
Fly from the maze
Rise to the sky 
When we break from the clay 

Split from the one into two
Light of the sun in my view
Lucid was stunned by the truth
Stuck on the run ‘till we’re through

When I’m in love I’ll pursue
When I’m askew I’ll withdraw 
Brood ’til I’m feeling renewed
Write ’til I’m right with the All

Call to the void from the booth
Reaching far out of my view
Almost completed the cue
Nothing remains to construe

Leaving the game when I drop
Mage in the play ’til I fall
Meet in the back of the stage
After we’ve passed from this plane

Help me escape
Lost in the shade
Sleep through the night
Then awake in the day

Let me alight
Fly from the maze
Rise to the sky 
When we break from the clay 

Split from the one into two
Light of the sun in my view
Lucid was stunned by the truth
Stuck on the run ‘till we’re through

When I’m in love I’ll pursue
When I’m askew I’ll withdraw 
Brood ’til I’m feeling renewed
Write ’til I’m right with the All

© Covenstead Records Company 7/6/2025

Rose

1. Pulse
2. Other Side
3. Witness
4. Endless
5. Flux
6. Spirit of the Depths
7. Helios 
8. Fracture
9. Rose
10. Threshold Guardian
11. United
12. Exhale
13. Omega

© Covenstead Records Company 7/13/2025

LUCID SHADE ☰ Covenstead w/ Alan Watts ☰ [Full Stream]

🎶 Flying - The Beatles 🎶

[Lucid]
Endless precession, confounded avowed 
Wasting my days away laying around 
Bearing the weight as I make my way out 
Fuck I just want to be down in the ground 

Been depressed all my life, been enmeshed in the mire 
From the day that you rise, to the day that you die 
Everything in your sight is inside of the mind, 
Depths to the heights, can attest to the fire 

Cling to the faith what is lost cab be found
Making my way through the swell of the crowd 
Lost in the waves Levitate when I'm downed 
Evaporate, rising up to the clouds 

Roam til I'm home ill arrive when I'm late 
Leave all I hold so i fit through the gate
Broken alone growing old in the south
Caught in a role, roll around and around

Drop all I found when I pass from the day
Take to the sky when I'm losing the weight 
Spilling the spells that I wrote from my mouth
Follow the grain found the way of the Dao

Finding my place as I'm falling to fate 
Watching the scene like a show on the stage
Nothing to move all is always in place

© Covenstead Records Company 8/21/2025

FLYING

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