2nd BIAB composition.

As I listen to what you are saying, every word is a spell that you cast
Without care or concern you’re creating a nightmare I can’t get past
You are sleeping and walking in charnal grounds
Tripping over the dead as my heart pounds
And you think it’s alive but it’s been dead for years
And I’m sorry it’s just as you feared

Where is your faith?
Where's your conviction?
Is your authority scattered in all directions?
Like a broken mirror, shards of your reflection
Beg you protection, put me back, put me back together again

Don't you know we're all just storytellers weaving tales.
If you do not like his story, you've got to jump your rails.

It isn’t a true reflection, if it barks yet it acts like a duck
It isn’t true incantation, if you’re putting in ifs ands and butts
You are sleeping and flinging your words like a child
Who is tantruming in the grocery aisle
If there’s something you want, there’s no need to scream
Just change the way that you dream

Where’s your love?
Has it faded?
Are you happy with what you’ve created?
Like a broken mirror, shards of your reflection
Beg you for protection, put me back together again

Storyteller (Demo)

he knew I’d call				
it wouldn’t surprise me		
he’s seen the way I walk through hell		
he holds me in his heart
waits for the veil to part
turning the dust of my heart to gold

    right before I give it away		
    poised in a self-designed power play
    strange alchemy
    he gives it all back to me
    strange alchemy

you’ve looked outside
and tried to find
what you could only find within

what we push away
when we are afraid 
is always bound to return someday

it wasn’t about him
he wasn’t the source
he was just the answer to a prayer
I’d merely forgotten
I’d merely denied
I breathe and the breath of God breathes me

Lyrics and Melody by Tilted Halo
Original chording credit to Matthew Blank and Eric McCuen

Strange Alchemy (Demo)

This is my first ever BIAB song.

My heart suddenly thrown open
I’m by myself no one is around
That must mean its inside of me
Growing strong like the great oak tree
A smile breaks and everything is clear

No object of devotion
I can go there when I want to
When grace is on my side
There’s no place love can hide
I can sit and be with what is true

The love inside of me
Is the love inside of you
Love is love it’s what we are
The love inside of me
Is the love inside of you
Love is love/shining star

It breaks my heart, tenderly open
so many look outside themselves
for the love they’ve always longed for
how was it so damn easy to ignore
and miss the inside where it dwells
like a fountain and ringing of soft bells

May I bring light/ to darkness/
May I bring love/ to the pain of shame
Be in integrity/ and let go of the blame
and may I know/ the love inside myself

May I be happy, healthy and fulfilled.
May you be …
May we be ...
and may we know the love inside ourselves

The Love Inside (Demo)

O---overlooking the waves of the sea
In the misty darkness a shadow I see
Am I asleep or awake
As you reach for me, as you reach for me

Nearing the cliff of ancestral power
Time shifts to the bewitching hour
Sprig of mint to keep me present
You hand me the flowers, you hand me the flowers

In the Sweetest Place, led there by grace
I walk through the mirror, my step with yours apace
 Run with the offering, run with the offering
Back to the Sweetest Place

O---ver your shoulder, a bag of magic tools
Sweet whispers, sweet wisdom, sweet rituals
Step out of my universe
The mystery pulls, the mystery pulls

*To the…

In the chill of this enchanted night
You offer me a tea that fills me with light
We leave but I’ll return
Yeah, I just might, return some night

*To the...

Lyrics and Melody by Tilted Halo
Original chording credits to Matthew Blank

Sept. 17, 2024

The Sweet Place (Demo)

there is just no way
back down the road 
up ahead is blocked
stone upon stone
now there’s no direction
left for you to go 
The only way is up, my dear
Got to step into your fear 

Let your heart break
Straighten that halo
Get off your knees
Stand humbly 
Feel the pain 
Let it rain  

Now the clothes you’re wearing
soaked to the bone
won't let you turn
from truth you’ve been shone
Realize you’ve fallen
torn your pretty wings
All of the heart songs
You were meant to sing
have given to other voices
All because of your own choices

Let your heart ache
Fallen angel
Get off your knees
Stand humbly
Get ready
Be empty

it’s all illusion
it’s just another lie you believed in

om tat sat

Fallen Angel (Demo)

Dedicated to the quiet ones out there...

I've got something to say
And it might not come out quite the right way
But I've got to speak my mind
And say it anyway...say it anyway

Talks not easy for me
So I bottle it up; You never see
But I got to speak my heart
yeah, I gotta start...before i fall apart

	Listen, listen 
	To my silence
	Read between the lines
	In that quiet
	there’s a chance for a
	meeting of the minds

Though my voice might shake
And my fear of losing you makes me quake
Still I can’t go on this way
Got something to say...then I'll be on my way

I know you're so important
And my words are just so small for your ears
But I've waited patiently
and I’m gonna break….if I don’t take space

	Excuse me if I shout it
	though no words pass my lips
	Don’t you dare fill this moment with words
	and wipe the grace of silence away

Something to Say (Demo)

This song is dedicated to those enduring the after-effects of disasters. It was inspired by the Paulo Coelho book "The 5th Mountain", a story about endurance, faith and courage in hardship.

The tests of strength and faith get harder
So you do the impossible with ardor
You’ll be challenged when you take a stand
No prophet’s ever welcomed in his own land

Why would you want it the way it was, beloved?
When you’ve already paid the price for the change, beloved?

The unavoidable will take its place
Can you feel your sadness float in grace
Towards your heart, what difference does it make
All will turn to dust without a trace

By running faster than you can
You evolve beyond the ordinary man
Finding strength, you will not cower
Now’s the time to take your power

Climb the mountain and into the trees
Life revealed on a whispered breeze
Just how small it all looks from here
Lets a new perspective clear the fear

As you learn to rebuild all you have lost
Release the past and forget the cost
Choose a new name, put the old to cremation
Stand, proclaim you new name, liberation

By running faster than you can
You evolve beyond the ordinary man
Finding strength, you will not cower
Now’s the time to take your power

Why would you want it the way it was, beloved?
When you’ve already paid the price for the change, beloved?

Inspired by the book The 5th Mountain by Paulo Coelho

The Mountain (Demo)

How artfully you drift away 
Making talk as if you’d stayed 
What is your problem with being here 
Let go of your fear

Original chording credits to Matthew Blank

Be Here Now (Demo)

This body is a spaceship
I am it’s alien.
I am not the body.
I am not the mind.
I am the alien that no one can find.
I am the void, provocateur divine

self-luminous
alien
not of this world
radiant
invincible
eternal gold

The mind is a computer
that needs a programmer
but I am not the thinker
I am not the thought
but that which over eons, many seekers have sought
infinite light no enemy can thrwart

These feelings are a compass
That guide me on my path
but I am not my feelings
Nor the one you see.
Deeper than a wise soul, from planet Real 3
Primordial, absolute and free

formless
then taking shape
but unchallengable
nameless
alien
unfathomable

numinous
mysterious
coming foretold
wonderous
alien
bringing peace to this world

Alien

Desire
Reveal to me your true face
Free from this material race
Illuminate with your grace

Desire
nothing moves without you
or everything is forfeit
to a shallow lie, to a shallow lie

I've been too frightened to see
My only desire is to be
what you make of me
and the only thing that I have ever 
wanted was to love

True desire
Please come out of hiding
Show me what you're keeping
Safe inside my heart of hearts

Lord, give me courage to fulfil
whatever desire's inspired from your will
and the only thing you've ever asked of me 
is to be...yeah

Every desire that comes from / inspired by you
Guides me forward, leads me true

Desire (Demo)

This song was inspired by Sufism, specifically this phrase from the Golden Sufi Center:

Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
and to love without leaving traces.

Lyrics:

secret of secrets
only found within
deeper go deeper
to what has always been

secret of secrets
mysteries unfold
deeper and deeper 
treasures untold

lifting the veil to the heart's way of seeing
reveals One's True Being
may all of our ancestors rise up
uplifted by wings
and in one voice sing

  fly without shadow
  sing without echo
  love without leaving a trace
  love without leaving a trace

secret of secrets
chambers of gold
glowing with fire
deep within your soul

  fly without shadow
  sing without echo
  love without leaving a trace
  love without leaving a trace


Secret of Secrets (Demo)

No
is a word
No
is a sentence

It’s complete without explanation
A boundary placed on expectation
It’s been hard for me to say 
and for years I’ve had to pay the price

But it doesn’t mean I don’t love you anymore

No empowers me
No empowers you
Not to do the things
We don’t want to do
No frees us from the roles
that we don’t want to play
By simply saying no
We’re both free to walk away

But it doesn’t mean I don’t love you anymore

No
can feel like rejection
No
wonder it’s hard to hear

Though complete without explanation
To avoid all speculation
it’s just a step to keep me whole
a flower placed on the alter of my soul

But it doesn’t mean I don’t love you anymore

cover art by Bhavani

No (Demo)

You are the life
you are the sun
you are the truth
you are the one
it is time
to awaken
now awaken

we are the life
we are the sun
we are the truth
we are all One
it is time
to awaken
let's awaken

we've believed for far too long
they had the power, we had none
when it was ours all along
so let's declare it with this song

we are the life
we are the sun
we are the truth
we are all One
it is time
to awaken
let's awaken

it's all a mystery
it's true
we can't make sense
or even prove
what is real
we must awaken
must awaken

cast off the chains of every lie
they were imagined anyhow
affirm the truth and we defy
lift up and let your voices cry

we are the life
we are the sun
we are the truth
we are all One
it is time
to awaken
let's awaken

Awaken (The Demo)

Feeling lost and insecure
Watching worlds collide
Fall into the great unknown
So tired of the lies

Living when confusion reigns
We’ve all misunderstood
Never knowing who we are
Judging bad and good

You are the eye, not the storm
You’ve never been who you believed yourself to be
You are the center, the calm and all seeing
You are the I, not the storm

You are not the inhumane
Nor the one who justifies
You are the one who merely sees
and not the one who cries

You are not the forest fire
Burning everything in sight
You are not false powers
Thinkin' they have the right

You’re are the eye, nor the storm
You’ve never been who you believed yourself to be
You are the center, the calm and all seeing
You are the I, not the storm

You are not the weary soldier
tramping through the mud
Nor the body underfoot 
Losing its life’s blood

Your are not the tossing sea
Nor the boat that rocks upon it
You are not the quake that shakes
Not the glass that it breaks

You are the eye, nor the storm
You’ve never been who you believed yourself to be
You are the center, the calm and all seeing
You are the I, not the storm

You Are the Eye (Not the Storm) Demo

This is my life
I’ll live it my way
You’re free to choose
if you go or stay

You beg me to be here
then you shut me out
It doesn’t make sense
and it fills me with doubt

You’re wearing me out
You’re wearing me down
You’re wearing me thin
nobody can win
You’re wearing me out
You’re wearing me out

You make me a friend
you say never say die
What kind of friend
makes another friend cry

I chase you down tunnels
Defend what I say
You make up arguments
to prove your own way

[chorus]

it’s not black or white
it’s not either or
it doesn’t really matter
when we reach the end
when we come to the end

[chorus]

Wearing Me Out (Demo)

Remember   to see the invisible
Remember   to walk your own path
Remember   to speak the Truth

There's nothing to learn
in Infinite Knowing
Nothing to do
When you're already growing

No need to become
When you already are
Don't try to shine
You're already a star

Remember   to see the invisible
Remember   to walk your own path
Remember   to know the Truth

What need of defences
for the changeless one
No wrong direction
Choicelessness done

Intuit, perceive
Hear every note
Drink of this medicine
Forgetting's antidote

Remember   to trust the invisible
Remember   to forge your own path
Remember   you know the Truth
                     you are the Truth

cover art: "Tara" oil painting by Divine Me Time 2015


Remember (Demo)



Things are always
always working out for me
No matter what it seems
What's meant to be will always be
What's not will never come
and what's done is done

Things are always always working out for me
Things are always moving towards our greater good
Things are always always working out for us
Things are always turning out as they should

Easy to forget
forget there's a greater plan
Remember to detach
Expectations lead to suffering
What will be will be
in letting go we are set free

Things Are Working Out (Demo)

Opium Tears
Reflected in mirrors
And dreams lie her fears

Relying on someone
Who doesn’t have time
Inspired, affected
While he draws the line

Swimming in oceans
Sweeping away
A day in the life
A life in one day

She’s rehearsed her outburst
with nothing to defend
She’s screaming and he’s held her
or so she’d pretend
But truth be known she’s frightened
And the tears are stuck inside
So she’s waiting out the force of the doubt
So she can push the feelings aside

Further she falls
She opens her eyes
She crawls
Into disguise

Falling away and
Losing all touch
Sunshine and madness
It doesn’t take much

If only he’d say that
Those three little words
He’d send her off
In the sky like a bird

She’s rehearsed her outburst
with nothing to defend
She’s screaming and he’s held her
or so she’d pretend
But truth be known she’s frightened
And the tears are stuck inside
So she’s waiting out the force of the pull
So she can push the feelings aside

In his embrace
It's his smile she feels
within her own face

The Empress card is drawn
It tells no lies
Just like the Lovers
She will learn to fly

Way past the pyramid
And out to the sun
Her heart on fire
With everything one

Opium Tears

There’s a master watching over me
as I go through life’s lessons
a teacher with his hand on my shoulder
giving me his blessings
There’s a guide who stands behind me
as I make all my mistakes
There’s a force that surrounds me
as I grow for Love’s sake

Love fill me up, love fill me up
Fill me up with just the courage I need
Love give me wings, love give me wings
give me wings to fly, set my spirit free

There’s a power I draw from
when I feel weak
There’s a courage I gather
when things look bleak
There’s a source that won’t fail me
when I’m ready to break
There’s a love that surrounds me
as I live for Love’s sake
(chorus)

When I feel like he’s left me
and I can’t feel love there
I sometimes forget the truth
and start to despair
And just when I’m stumbling
and can’t right myself again
I'm reminded Love’s carrying me
right through to the end
(chorus)
(improv/jam) Just so I know, there’s a master watching over me
(chorus)

Master

Floating out into outer space
looking down on the human race
Feelings mixed with both 
awe and hate
Wondering now
what's to be our fate

too tired to care

to weary to dare

I need fresh air

Don't know how we can come together
seeing as how we blame one another
the truth is it hurts in every bone
collective soul but crying alone

FreshAir

They try to weigh us down
with rocks of ideology
Tell us what to think
and play with our psychology
but we are not that different
And you are not my enemy
Want us bowing to the lie
and weakened in complacency

They couldn’t care less
have forgotten how to bless
They're a cancer in the masses
time to revoke their free passes
They may think we are stupid
That they have us in control
I'm here to say it isn't so

Their sick psychotic minds
their blackened, ugly souls
hold a dark collective shadow
that no one wants to know
we must face our pain and rise
We all know that shit’s insane
Want us fighting all their wars
by telling us who we should blame

They may think that they are winning
that they’re closer to their goal
But folks are waking up
the human heart will triumph
there’s no way to stop it
We're gonna be free
from their rocks of ideology



Rocks of Ideology

Puppeteer to a king
The raising of sheep
Escaping the slums
Emotions run deep
Some rich and some poor
The foods and the dance
A history of stories
An ancestral trance
Endurance and courage
Survival and fear
Their hopes and their dreams
And shadows draw near

Not as real as we seem
We were dreamed into being
We sing the creation
The ancestral dream

Family secrets
Deep family ties
Our fate to heal them
And follow their cries
Bring light to their darkness
Love to their shame
Live in integrity
Let go of the blame
With each of their gifts
And wisdom too
Fulfill every prayer 
And dream something new

Not at big as we think
Nor as small as we pretend
We have to awaken
For the dream to end

May we fulfill the hopes you had for us
May we heal your sickness too
May we recognize the doors you opened
With hearts open as we walk through

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