1. |
Inside
04:14
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Inside
I watch the world go by
Flowing, river-like, uninterrupted
I try to sit still in my mind
but the sun is bright, and it draws my eyes
No, I won't be afraid
'cause what I fear is what I refuse to accept is the same
as what's inside, what fuels my mind
what's behind this game we play
The shapes constantly de-shape
and reform again, like waves of an ocean
Their essence ever remains the same,
like a rose untouched behind a glass case
No, I won't be afraid
'cause what I fear is what I refuse to accept is the same
as what's inside, what fuels my mind
what's behind this game we play
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2. |
Strong-Armed Man
04:30
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I was a strong-armed man
with arrow-like intent
I saw what I wanted
and I made it happen
I started on the mountain
of prize and achievement
then early one evening
I saw the great sun setting
And I just wanted to be free like those birds in the distance
I heard them call out to me, they said "your home is in this moment"
But I returned to the world and forgot all about that contentment
It faded to a memory, a pretty dream that I'd cling to in darkness
I was a strong-armed man
with a taste for life's finer things
I thought I had my hold on them
I thought I could control my fate
But when I saw the emptiness
I started to descend the face
I started looking for the path
Looking for the pathless place
I kept looking to the sky, hoping for some voice in the silence
As if one day I would find water hiding deep in the ocean
And I just wanted to be free like those birds in the distance
But comfort had its hold on me, and still I fear life without it
So I walk and trust that I'm guided
by some light ever hiding and humble
Though sometimes I catch a reflection
No strength can catch it
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3. |
Surrender to the Wind
05:07
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I used to get nervous
about all I thought could happen
but now I see one vision
nothing lies outside it
When I surrendered
something in the wind turned
It carried so peacefully
my now leaf-like body
Now I am starting to understand
the forces we cannot see
and to see the outstretched hand
I used to get excited
and have high expectations
I'd ride the waves enthusiastically
forgetting valleys are just as deep
Now, when I face decisions
I know the roads are endless
but I do not doubt this one
and take from the moment
Now I am starting to understand
the forces we cannot see
and to see the outstretched hand
I surrendered to the wind that blows over everything
I surrendered to the wind
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4. |
I Am Not At Home
05:16
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I am not at home, though I don't know where I am
It is not a place, I can't leave it on command
If home is inside, then I've lost the way to feel it
If it's hidden now, well then how can I reveal it?
How strange that people should pass on the street and feel nothing
I can't go on feeling like I'm not a part of this world
I am not at home—home is where the wind blows freely
Not shaped into thoughts, not molded for man's mastery
There's a silent song to which all things dance, unguided
It's forgotten here—we know not how to be quiet
How strange that people should pass on the street and feel nothing
I can't go on feeling like I'm not a part of this world
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5. |
Seeker
03:35
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Wherever you go you look for home
and looking for is all you know
There is a place you knew when you were born
But soon enough you knew you had to go
Voices of many others fill your mind
'til you don't know which path is right
Friendly fire disguised as advice
rots you slowly from inside
But no despair will stop the dancing
Seeker
You know what you need to know
But the search is always on,
the search is always torture
if you don't know that the goal
is nothing more than all this looking for
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6. |
Seeker (Outro)
14:58
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7. |
I Have All That I Need
03:00
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I am always chasing
that which brings me peace
Slowly realizing
that it is always in me
I have all that I need
I have been a-drifting
open sea, my home
waves of life, they lift me
away from what I know
I buy books to comfort
explain things in my mind
but in the end the most true
I've known already inside
I have all that I need
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8. |
Old Embrace
02:44
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I'm alone in the night
Nobody says my name
or whispers their life
between breaths that we don't take
But I don't stay too late
In those thoughts of old embrace
If I walked away
in the wood, and no one heard
Would it take one day
to see I'm not my own person?
I hold no shape
between every old embrace
I've chased for worry
and left piles of peace behind
But none yet have heard me
nor what means my longing cry
But why should I expect the sun
to shine on thoughts
that I can't bring to words
and even through whispers go unlearned
No one can hold me
with these thoughts of old embrace
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9. |
Dancer and the Dance
02:54
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Water flows, it doesn't ask for more
It knows its going home
through an endless shore
Watch branches bend in the wind
They never spin nor toil
they know they're not their movement
Every sun sets so it can rise again
No cry or sorrow stops it
Love always wins
Each grain of sand makes up the land
Each plays its duty faithfully
and doesn't see itself as separate
Like the dancer and the dance
the great mystery so many try to grasp
yet unknowable and vast
yet no words can ever match
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10. |
West
04:38
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To say yes to the moment as it becomes
the light to which we run
seems nice at the start of the journey
but when we face what it means, that's another thing
I follow the small birds, the freedom they sing
is one I pray for daily
But like water in the palm of my hand
When I grab it, it just slips again
I'm going west
To the land that knows I am
Each morning a new song fills up the air
and catches in the branches,
dull brown and shaking, stripped from the cold
Death, so life can take place once more
I'm going west
To the land that knows I am
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11. |
Beyond the Treeline
04:50
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I've waited for the moment
I look at the trees, their swaying leaves
and know what means this longing
Through all the times I've looked to the skies
and kneeling, cried to taste what I have tasted
The love I've chased a thousand miles
still lies beyond the treeline
around the bend where cows graze on green grass,
gold in the setting sunlight
The farmhouse lies just down the lane
I go to sleep in my feather bed
and dream of good times wasted
then laugh as if I planned it
How long ago I stepped onto the road
I couldn't tell in years
But in my heart, many a lifetime
in a blinking flash have passed by
I know there's something secret here
no sin nor sorrow need I fear
No words can touch, I sing despite
This chasing's what is sought in life
It lies beyond the treeline
around the bend where cows graze on green grass,
gold in the setting sunlight
The farmhouse lies just down the lane
I go to sleep in my feather bed
and dream of love I've wasted
and smile—I know it happens
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