A death-grip on this vision...

[savagefreedom]

The Distance to Here
Live

The way you're bathed in light reminds me of that night God laid me down into your rose garden of trust. And I was swept away, with nothing left to say. Some helpless fool, I was lost in a swoon of peace. You're all I need to find, so when the time is right, come to me sweetly. Come to me. Love will lead us, she will lead us. Can you hear the dolphins cry? See the road rise up to meet us. It's in the way we breathe tonight. Love will lead us, she will lead us. We meet again. It's like we never left. Time in between was just a dream. Did we leave this place? This crazy fog surrounds me. You wrap your legs around me. All I can do to try and breathe... let me breathe. So, that I... so we can go together. Life is like a shooting star. It don't matter who you are... if you only run for cover, it's just a waste of time. And we are lost and we are found, this phoenix rises up from the ground, and all these wars are over. ~ Let him come into the city, let him find his lucky penny, let him put it in his pocket and shake it all around. I've been to pretty buildings all in search of you. I have lit all the candles, sat in all the pews. The desert had been done before, but I didn't even care. I got sand in both my shoes and scorpions in my hair. I saw that the distance is not doable in these bodies of clay, my brother. The distance makes me uncomfortable. I guess it's natural to feel this way. Let's hold out for something sweeter... spread your wings and fly. My car became the church, and I the worshipper of silence there. In a moment peace came over me, and the One who was beating my heart appeared. Oh, the distance is not doable in these bodies of clay my brother. Oh, the distance makes me uncomfortable. I guess it's natural to feel this way. Are we locked into these bodies? Let's hold out for something sweeter. Spread your wings and fly! ~ I'm gathering up my friends today, and those who recognize the face. As the vision that changed my mind from hate to faith was as simple as grapes to wine (and sweet as.) I'm gathering' up my friends today, all these hookers and soldiers and swine, and would-be saints. All alone in their rooms that sparkle in their eye. Play a song that they'll come outside to see if love will overcome. If this love will make us me. Love will draw us in, to wipe our tears away. The day that I was so sweetly sung by the wind and the thunder moved by Someone. The feeling of being loved was so strong. The giver became the gift, all one. The day that I was so sweetly sung, the wind seemed to whisper softly, "Oh son, don't wait for the seas to part or messiahs to come. Don't sit around and waste this chance, to see it!" Love will overcome. Love, this day now, this day that I was so sweetly sung. I know, I know that love will overcome. This love will make us men. Love will draw us in to take our fear away, wipe our tears away, love! And all my friends are here in the city I sing my song, in the face of the hooker, the soldier, the swine. I found it, I found it, I found love! ~ Oh desert, speak to my heart. Oh woman of the earth. Maker of children who weep for love, maker of this birth. Til your deepest secrets are known to me, I will not be moved. Don't try to find the answer when there ain't no question here. Brother let your heart be wounded and give no mercy to your fear. Adam and Eve live down the street from me. Babylon is every town. It's as crazy as it's ever been, love's a stranger all around. In a moment we lost our minds here and lay our spirit down. Today we lived a thousand years.... all we have is now! Run to the water, and find me there. Burnt to the core but not broken. We'll cut through the madness of these streets below the moon. And I will never leave you, til we can say this world was just a dream, we were sleeping, now we are awake. Til we can say, in a moment we lost our minds here and dreamt the world was round. In a million mile fall from grace, thank God we missed the ground! Run to the water and find me there, burnt to the core but not broken. We'll cut through the madness of these streets below the moon with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts. I can see it now, lord. Out beyond all the breaking of waves, and the tribulations. It's a place and the home of ascended souls, who swam out there in love! Run to the water, and find me there. Burnt to the core but not broken. We'll cut through the madness of these streets below the moon with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts. Rest easy baby, rest easy... and recognize it all as light and rainbows smashed to smithereens.... and be happy. ~ Let the world be the world. Let the dream unfurl. Let it run its own game, let it dance with itself. I didn't put it here. Gonna let it ride. Gotta master, crazy on the other side. Waking me up. I ain't got no brains. I can't trust my eyes. What good's a beautiful day if you can't see the light? I can't find my fate, well then I must be blind with the force and fire of love that's taking over my mind... waking me up... obliging me to the sun. Sun, sun, merciful one. Sun, sun, won't you lay down your light on us? Let the world be the world, let the girl be the girl. Let her beauty move you, let her dance be your guide. Let your hunger grow, but don't eat the fruit "too low." Keep climbing for the kisses on the other side. All that we need is to come into the sun. We've been out in the dark for so long. ~ "Light up a cigarette," she said, "and calm the fuck down. You got a serious side to you that could give the whole world a frown. Now nothing really matters to me, you see. Check out these holes in my gown, let your eyes lose their focus a little. Let your guard come down." I was thirsty for everything, but water wasn't my style. Guess we might have to teach me something. Guess we might have to show me how. "Now put out that cigarette," she said, "Something ain't right in here. It's tied to the both of us, I ain't sure now, it isn't clear. We could have been born helpless children begging for our next meal. I could be a voodoo lady, just a classy hooker playing the field, classy holy hooker." I've made up my mind. I came to see your sign. Disappear this morning, but come back tonight. "Light up a cigarette," she said, "and calm the fuck down. Relax and let your ears hear this beautiful song that's hiding underneath the sound..." I made up my mind. I came to see you fly. Disappear this morning, but come back tonight. Voodoo lady. I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style. Voodoo lady. Did I dream you up, or are you for real? Are you for real? ~ Yeah I found god, and he was absolutely nothing like me. He showed me up like some dime-store hooker who was plain to see. I couldn't take it anymore, so I went back to the sea. Cause that's where fishes go when fishes get the sense to flee. Where you going now? What's your plan? Yeah I found god, and he was absolutely just like me. He opened my mouth, looked down my throat, told me I was thirsty. He said I been in this water all my life, never took the time to breathe. Breathe, BREATHE! Whatcha doin in this darkness baby? When you know that love will set you free... will you stay in the sea forever? Drowning there for all eternity. Whatcha doin in this darkness baby? Living down where the sun don't shine. Come on out into the light of love. Don't spend another day living in the sea. ~ You got it bad, you got it good. You saw the sun like you knew that you would. We gotta make this better, gotta make this right. Ain't no peace in the valley baby, 'til the darkness turns to light. Can you hear that children's song? Can you take me to that place? High above the lamentation up on the desert plane. Do you hear that children's song? Can you take me there? Lost in the Maya. Overboard in the sea. There was void and then that water broke, then something called me. Now a trip to the desert to look at the sky. It's like neverending mirrors playing tricks on my eyes. Can you hear that children's song? Can you take me to that place? High above the lamentation up on the desert plane. Do you hear that children's song? Can you take me there? The face and ghost my guide, I must move on. It's the face of one ravaged by love, it's both dead and alive. You got it bad, lover. No, you got it good. You saw the sun like you knew that you would. In spite of my confusion, up above all my pain. I've got a death-grip on this vision. Here we go again. Can you hear them singing? ~ Always fighting the storm, afraid to suffer the wound. All praise to that Conscious One who always suffers the wound, child. Suffers the wound! Never turns from love. Always try to explain, afraid to lay naked in the sun. He's crazy, she dances in the light. The crowd jeers, they won't put up a fight. Suffers the wound! Never turns from love. Give it up until my heart is free to roam. She won't never leave me alone. Saved by the river now. Always fighting the storm, building shelter to house our lack of love. We're only here for a while, tear it down and suffer the wound. Always suffers the wound, never turns from love. Never turns to hate. An invisible Mississippi, Ganges or a Nile, I can feel the quiet river rage, forcing my lips into a smile. Don't believe that the world is empty, it's just too noisy to hear the sound. I can feel the quiet river rage, and I'm falling down. Saved by the river now. ~ Like Himalayan cold winter, these jaws of kaliyuga. Yeah it's a crazy kind of cold, a lifeless slumber in a stranglehold. Yeah Tibet, she can't even touch this. I'd rather freeze in her forests. We're in a spiritual winter, and I long for the one who is..... Fire! amongst the dreamers. You are in my heart. Like the sun on the ice caps, my only friend in the prison, the long lost meaning to the story. The divine and ancient wisdom, how could it be that you've graced my night? Like a pardon from the governor, like a transplant from the donor, like a gift from the one who is... Fire! amongst the dreamers. You are in my heart. Fire! amongst the dreamers... you are in my heart. In a place where everything dies, it's you I follow. See by the fire of my darling. Fire! ... amongst the dreamers. You are, you are in my heart. Like a pardon from the governor, like a transplant from the donor, like a kiss, like a kiss... from my darling. ~ Naked lovers feel the blood beneath their veins. Electric nerves communicate with tiny explosions through our brains. Who is this energy that never left or came? Give rise to passion, the only glory of this human story. I give my heart and soul to the One. We spend all of our lives going out of our minds. Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise. Even scientists say, everything is just light. Not created, destroyed, but eternally bright. Masters in every time, lord in every place. Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate. Who put the flower in the barrel of that gun? Who lit the candle that started the fire, burnt down the fortress, the throne? Who could house all the refugees in a single shack or a lowly bungalow? Who lives in a different dimension, free from the struggles we know? I give my heart and soul to the One. They live in the light. We made it to the moon, but we can't make it home. Waiting on a rescue that never comes. Made it to the moon, but we can't make it home. Maybe home is where the heart is given up to the One. They stood up for love. ~ I was wrong. We are not these bodies alone. In a dream with a mind of its own... I, I know you long to be tethered and tied to the heart of the One. The one that be laying you down on that ancient ground. Nothing more to be found. Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more... to live a life in love the only thing in common was we knew there was something more. Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more. To live a life in love, to hear the voice in the wilderness, the other side of the door. Something more. I feel strong. I'm finally at peace, the war is all gone by no cause of my own. Like an eagle cuts through the air, no time for fear, faith in his wings takes me there. Something more! More than these women in the streets pulling out their hair. Something more than all the pain we feel. Somethin more, more than we could dream of, all light, love-bliss, no death and no fear. No fear!!! ... I was wrong. ~ Sitting on the beach, the island king of love. Deep in Fijian seas, deep in some blissful dream. Where the goddess finally sleeps in the lap of her lover. Subdued in all her rage, and I am aglow with the taste of the demons driven out, and happily replaced with the presence of real love. The only one who saves. I wanna dance with you. I see a world where people live and die with grace, the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace. I wanna dance with you. I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds... and lead us back to a world we would not face. The stillness in your eyes convinces me that I... I don't know a thing. And I been around the world and I've tasted all the wines a half a billion times. Came sick into your shores. You showed me what this life is for. I wanna dance with you. I see a world where people live and die with grace, the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace, I wanna dance with you. I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds and lead us back to a world we would not face. In this altered state, full of so much pain and rage... you know we got to find a way... to let it go. Sitting on the beach, the island king of love. Deep in Fijian seas, deep in the heart of it all. Where the goddess finally sleeps, after eons of war and lifetimes she's smiling and free, nothing left but a cracking voice and a song, oh lord. I wanna dance with you. I see a world where people live and die with grace, the karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace. I wanna dance with you. I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds... and lead us back to a world we would not face...... we would not face.