Swirled World Lyrics
SWIRLED WORLD LYRICS by CHRIS RAEL (Morbid Stork Music, BMI)
1. WAKE UP
Follow your dreams through time unless your dreams are bad like mine
I guess dreams can be good or bad
You know the best dream I ever had was with you sleeping in my bed
Wake up and smell the sun
I feel warmth lighting up my face
Believe in power of the day
No dream can steal your strength away, no way
Dreams are fulfilled awake
2. EVER DEEPER
Kiss away the tears
All the tears that I draw out of your eyes
Sometimes I'm unkind
Sorry but I just hurt deep down inside
Long before us, I paid a price
One and only you, skin as thick as sandpaper
One and only me, bullets piercing body armor
The love that we give is the love that we take
The pain that we shield is the cream on our cake
Darling I believe I can love you better
Darling I believe I can touch you deeper
I can love you better when I love myself
Gotta find a way to better love myself
I commit my pride to pursuit of a deeper peace inside
If not for us, I would be lost
Ever deeper inside, I feel for the light
3. I REMEMBER YOU
I remember you, do you remember me?
Was a time our bond was true, us and god made three
Locked in art and locked in love, how the spirit flies
Til the weather changes us, past remains alive
I remember you, do you remember me?
What we made was rich and true, set each other free
Free to roam the maze of time, to the other side
Opposite and back again, memories collide
Memory, history
What we create can't be taken away
The present seems to last forever til the energy fades
The present seems to last forever til we blink it away
You may not be around but you changed the beat of my heart
I remember you, do you remember me?
The seed we planted long ago has grown into a tree
Never mind the rain that fell in years since you've been gone
I observe your lessons well, give thanks and carry on
4. BEAUTIFUL VESSEL
We band together to take on the day and all of its challenges
Why can't it be simple?
In different directions we're running today
Cris-crossing our corner of ocean
Visibility is low, the weather changing on a dime
Compass spinning
Beautiful vessel, navigate the raging main
We are your faithful crew
Beautiful vessel, tracking that Northern star
We place our faith in you
So many mercies along the way
So many unplanned gifts help us stay the course
When tsunami threatens to sweep us away
We must remember the joys of this journey
Through it all, we turn to you
Steer your precious cargo to safe harbor
Lord know I try to get us by
I turn to you, beautiful vessel
In spite of my might, it's a fight
Day is night, beautiful vessel
The lightning and thunder crash across the sky
Beautiful vessel
5. I DON'T SING
I walked the walk into the fire
I bled red blood for your voyeuristic pleasure
I walked the plank into the pyre
You are my witness
I laid my soul bare on your sacrificial table
I don't sing anymore, cos I don't want to share my life with you
I don't sing anymore cos the deeper I cut, the less there is to show
I took the stand and came clean
Confessed my sins for your voyeuristic pleasure
I testified to my lies
I was your witness to painful regrets for your passive catharsis
I dug so deep for whatever was in me that might not have been heard before
But no one cares when the sonic martyr dares
"What is this? I ain't never heard it before"
Out the door
I told the tale of my life
Exposed mistakes for your educational pleasure
But tales of caution run dry
If you could witness the hubris and folly, as if I've learned nothing
O how I've tried to improve my lot in life
But it seems the joke is all on me, lost in the weeds
Well it may be that the truth will set you free
I wouldn't know because I'm miles away, bored with the chase
6. ENDURE
Sister it's alright to cry
Sister it's alright to cry when it hurts, or else it just hurts worse
Sister it's alright to cry
Sister it's alright to show what's inside, or else it's just a lie
Come to me sister, alright to cry
brother it's alright to fight
Brother it's alright to stand up for yourself
If not you, who else?
Brother it's alright to fight
Brother it's alright to struggle with the pain, push against the grain
Stand up my brother, alright to fight
So many challenges
One after another down the line, that's just fine
Life is a puzzle box
Each piece a new mystery to be solved, down the line
Stand up together, endure endure, we'll be fine
Stand up together, we are born to endure, yes we are
Mother it's alright to cry
Mother it's alright to touch your deepest love for another
Mother it's alright to fight
Mother it's alright to battle for your son
Raise another one into the world, alright to love
7. SWIRLED WORLD
Welcome the new world, baby it's a new world
Welcome the new world, can't you see the new world?
The zeros and ones string us together from the corners of every continent
Our blood is swirling together, we unite through common eyes
Welcome the new world, joy to the new world
Welcome the new world, speeding through a new world
The zeros and ones add up to power
Launching us all into helpless orbit of those with a lease on forever
But we still occupy our minds
Baby it's a swirled world, feel karma whirling around you
Listen for another's heart as the white noise surrounds you
All together come, one world, one vision
Here's to the old world, yes it was a helluva world
Cheers to the old world, kiss it all goodbye my love
There is a comfort in the familiar
Especially when all the tears of the past have dissolved into the future
In a cloud of never-minds
8. BROOKLYN SOUL
Born in America, raised on rock n roll
Cut my teeth in India, searching for my soul
Now I live in Brooklyn and the planet feels alright
Every flavor at your doorstep, every vision out of sight
Glowing in the streets of gold
Every spice mingling from around the globe
It's Brooklyn soul, it's cool
Little Russia out of Brighton, Chinatown in Sunset Park
Muslim prayers on Atlantic to Jamaican East New York
Every color of the rainbow fills a corner of this town
When the colors blend together there's a party coming downtown
The music in the streets, every heart pounding like a bass drum beat
It's Brooklyn soul, it's cool
Summertime, water fountains
Promenade, Wall Street mountains
Williamsburg, hipster heaven
Polar swim at Coney Island
Born in the many distant corners of the globe
The dreamers and the seekers come to Brooklyn, one and old
From the poor and weak and hungry to the masters of the world
It's a stew of human drama, it's a snapshot of the earth
Every joy and struggle here, birth, death and everything in between
It's Brooklyn soul, it's cool
In Vinegar Hill, warehouses decked in luxury
Bushwick sidewalks sprouting art and living cheap
Crown Heights playgrounds full of kids and menacing boys
Every shade of Jew across this borough of hope
Dip me in the Gowanus!
Watery hives along the Red Hook waterfront
To eternal sleep at Greenwood, my love
9. MUSE
Every song I sing is for you and you alone
Even the ones that seem about something else
Are refracted through the prism of your eyes
The further away you are, the more you're in my mind
The deeper inside I go, the more of you I find
Feel life behind my eyes
The world is my muse, I see it through your eyes
The world is my muse, I feel it through your smile
The world is my muse, I see me through your mind
The world is my muse
I ventured into you, I didn't hesitate
I dove into your well and deeply I drank of your soul
This world can be cruel
But I realize the task on each of us
Is to make some kind of peace inside and outside of us
10. PAELLA
A little of this and a little of that
Some young, some old from around the world are gathered here
A little of this and a little of that
Old friends and new from out of the blue are gathered here
My friend is a magnet for our hearts and our souls
We come together and share each others' gold
From every walk of life, drinking every drop of life
We are a microcosm
A little of this and a dash of that
So generous, so effortless, we share our food
A little of this and a pinch of that
The secret ingredient is love
Come one, come all into this world within a world
The simple joys of accepting who we are
From every walk of life, drinking every drop of life
We are a microcosm
We are a paella!