Memoirs in a Song...
Stories, Stones and Bones is a name given to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I used the title for my first book of lyrics when I sent it to be copywritten... This blog is a compendium of my book of lyrics, from 1996 to present.
The name holds a sense of ancient wisdom, which I hope begins to seep thru my songs: What are the stories the earth tells, that are written on our ancestral bones? What is the deeper pool of knowledge that we can drink from as we birth ourselves into creative evolutionary beings? Where are our roots? What is the journey we have taken, personally and collectively?...
And so begins the story, woven in song, as fallen through the lyrics of my music...
More lyrics will be coming soon (I've written well over 100 songs!)... In the meantime, I hope you enjoy!
[Please note that you will want to read from bottom to top (in reverse). The "archive by date" list on the lefthand side will help your journey - which begins in March of 1996, when the first song flew out of my lips... You can also search by THEMES: the songs which I like a lot or are in current performance rotation are in the theme of *favorites*]
Playin' with finding my hip-hopin' spirit... Written in a blazing hot sauna at Harbin Hotsprings - where I spent several days this December visioning my future, purifying my past... This song felt like a breakthrough - simply because I could feel the truth of being infused with the power of Spirit.
“You can’t touch this, cuz I’m electric
And if you touch this, you’ll get shocked (shocked)
You’ll get shocked (shocked)”*
You’re playin’ with fire
You’re playin’ with fire child
Earth water and air
You’re playin’ with fire child
Earth water and air
You’re playin’ with...
Fire and air, fire and air
Earth water, earth water...
You’re playin’ with...
Thanks and praises
to the fire
to the father
to the mother
to the most high holy
Thanks and praises to the most high holy
Holy holy! Holy holy!
...
© December 1998, Harbin Hot Springs, CA, except *©Beastie Boys
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