1. |
Energy Prayer
04:28
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Energy Prayer (© d. first 2020)
Energy
You walked alive before us
Ever here
And energy
You build the world around us
Every day
All night
Energy
You flow along unceasing
Unafraid
Energy
You swirl around
A brilliant everyday storm
I can feel you growing stronger
Laughing crying healthy dying
I can see you through invention
Physical witnessing offered
Oh my loudness
Oh my goodness
Calling
Calling
Calling out to
Energy
We need you in our darkness
Every day
And energy
You must adjust the madness
Every way
You can
Energy
Can we perceive your purpose
Through our haze
Energy
Don’t hold it over our heads
One day more
I can feel your penetration
Living loving pushing shoving
Almost touching through the membrane
Mystical package of furies
On my honor
On my deathbed
Well
Well
Well
Well
Well
Well
Welcome
Energy it’s me
I am seeking thunder’s rainbow
Breathing in and out and over
Wading through the whirl astounds me
Ethical questioning vexes
All our trials
All our children
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
All our spirals
All our prisons
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
All our whims and calculations
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blur
Blurting
Energy
I’ve walked along beside you
From the start
Energy
I must admit I need you
Never part
Energy
I live a life
Until you break my heart
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2. |
Far Away
04:58
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Far Away © d. first 2020
Hear mourning bells they’re ringing
The Reaper tolls again
What can we do to arrest brutal acts of evil
Can’t we still all ill men?
Send these offenders to Far Away
And watch their tortured sorrow singing
Shattered hearts in hand
What do we say to assuage these bereft upheavals?
To the righteous demands?
Tender is trending in Far Away
And now is the time
To enlist
And align
With the upful inclined
We’re saying
This is the place
To erase
And rewind
Stolen Lucifered minds
And heal with
Peaceful and lawful and moral
Trust in the dreams
That preach
A Love Supreme
And Stevie’s wonderful sides
As gospel
Giving a chance
To embrace
And advance
The enlightening tide
It’s rolling in
Unassailable waves miles wide
People understand
That change is coming
Climbing a mountain streaming
Crossing foreign lands
What more to ask for than every party swinging
Like a beautiful band
Blending and flowing to Far Away
We go
We’re feeling love’s unassailable waves rolling
Love’s irrepressible waves rolling
Love’s all-encompassing waves rolling high
People understand
That change is coming
Change is coming
Change will come in
Come in
Come in
Come in
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3. |
Cradle of Life
05:00
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Cradle of Life (© d. first 2020)
Pulled straight out the door to cradle
Fussing the full face crying
Burping milk while learning the floor tune
Working to claim your playtime
Cut off from the navel cable
Clinging to hurried worries
Vested tricks confirming your fortunes
Stunned by the untamed dangers
Here’s to a new life starting
Here’s to another story
Here’s to a perfect problem
Here’s to the answer
Now drawing lines divining functions
Classic elastic freedoms
Pondering essential commitments
Forming select opinions
Dropping drawers and stopping shopping
Popping the tested question
Stressing with the best of intentions
Schooling the drooling young one
Here’s to a new life starting
Here’s to another story
Here’s to a perfect problem
Here’s to the answer
Counter melody:
Finding a place
Crawling against the grain
Seeking a stake in something
Searching outside expected lanes and
Making a plan
While stepping to fate’s decisions
Feeling your strength evolving
Echoes of ancestors fade up
Passing it on
Checking the child’s confusion
Looking for new examples
Setting your own examples too
Living in space
Hoping for grace
Grinning amazed
Getting a taste of life
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4. |
Photograph
03:36
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Photograph (© d. first 2020)
There was once a tallest order sign one could find ever
Strung along our southern borderline
We would ball our hands in fists
It had come to this
Curtains on our sworn designs voiced
When they tore it up and knocked it down
We rejoiced
In the past
There was a photograph
The light was like a map
A bit too much to grasp
The light was like a map
It was a photograph
A toy set in a trap
It was a photograph
The light was blinding
I was in my room rethinking plans in decline sinking
So I looked at things I thought I knew
What I hoped that I could find
In the midst of twists
And the switches intertwined
How beating riddled bodies that resist
Was quite a crime
From the past
It was a photograph
The light was like a map
It was a photograph
The light was like a map
A bridge set on the path
There’s always photographs
Reminders of the past
My mind could not relax my mind
In the past
There was a photograph
The light was like a map
A promise built to last
It was a photograph
That took off like a flash
It was a photograph
A job but not a task
It was a photograph no smile
Yes no smile
Yes no smile
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5. |
Service Prayer
04:44
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Service Prayer (© d. first 2020)
Let me be useful and help me be helpful
Please keep me grateful and mindful and humble and
Open to charges that may rise to painful
No time for eyes looking downward disdainful
All praise to soulful soldiers
Carrying the world’s weight on their shoulders
Deed must follow word’s distractions
Blessed are the boundaries soon collapsing
Someday the meek will hum together
Humans are human and always too human
Few can do what you can when you can do what you
Came here to conquer solution illusions
Breakthroughs escape routes mistake truths and fake proofs
All praise to soulful soldiers
Tired from the world’s weight on their shoulders
Deed must follow word’s distractions
Blessed are the boundaries now collapsing
Someday the earth will hum together
I’ll bend to your will and will you bend with me
I’ll lend my everything send me the same thing and
All praise to soulful soldiers
Sad for stone cold faces growing bolder
Deed will follow word’s distractions
Symbols and the statues fall collapsing
Someday we all will hum together
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6. |
THANKU-21
05:37
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THANKU-21 (© d. first 2020)
This is the moment we prayed for
These are the days been delayed so long
The lost nights we froze in our fright all while
Courageous skilled savers of life stayed strong
The future has finally returned
The seasons of reason are rolling in
The right of the people to resist and shout
The right to feel safe in your skin
We thank you for this creation
Your will be done
In a daze what amazing strangers deep inside
Have bound as one
And wherever we go we’re mending
The great divides
To lean on each other
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Moving
Moving
Moving
Moving forward
We call on the hostiles to stand down
Stop fossiled apostle’s impunity
Accept our emerging collective choice
Show us your hope for some unity
We’ll holler from the top of the high hills
We will stand on the shoulders of elders gone
Saluting the youth for their sacrifice
Together we’ll be chanting a song
We thank you for your creation
It will be done
In a blaze what amazing strangers tuned to tribes
Have bound as one
And whenever we go defending
The spirit spent
We hold up each other
Every body
Every body
Every body
All you bodies rise
We circle the sun by the moon-full
Scoping the stars in the galaxies
We may be just specks in the Universe
Celibate cells in the cosmic seas
But there’s jewels in the joy we disburse
And as our reflected vibrations sprawl
We’re psychically spinning in sacred states
And deserving of dignity all
We thank you for our creation
This will be done
In a gaze what amazing strangers grooms and brides
Have bound as one
And however it goes we know that
We’re not alone
We hang on each other
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Every body
Rising
Rising
Rising
Rising upward dance
We can dance
We can dance
We can dance
These are the days we prayed for
The future is returning
We’ll stand on elders’ shoulders
And chant our song together
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7. |
David First New York
David’s bands/projects include his psychedelic punk band, Notekillers, SWATi - a drone collaboration with acupuncturist Isobeau Trybula, The Western Enisphere - an audio/visual exploration of psycho-perception, and the AM Radio Band – a solo project for vintage signal generators, oscillators and transistor radios. He is also the proprietor of “Dave’s Waves" – a sonic restaurant A/V installation. ... more
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