Zero Lyrics:
1. Breathing Tide
Breathing tide rolls in
And I receive
All the ripples of love of the earth and sea
As it rolls out let it go let it leave
Mother Moon, as you give and take
We praise and grieve
The circling, cycling, rippling rhythms
Of all that live and breathe
2. Firefly
We are but a flicker of a firefly
Burning up much quicker than a star falling through the sky
Or the blink of an eye
We are just passerbys
So how will you light up the world oh firefly
Oh Firefly the wonders of your blinking lights
When they synchronize the meadows turn to starry nights
And who am I but the aftermath of a confetti fight
Of atoms tossed
Happened to cross and align
So you may as well shine like a firefly
As you hover despite gravity I follow you
Uncovering unraveling the darkness clue by clue
Intermittent spotlights
When we connect the dots right
Into the moving constellations that guide our lives
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Is there a meaning to your morse code mystery
How you syncopate your gleaming are you trying to make us see
It’s perfectly alright
To be both shadows and the light
It’s the space that makes the beauty of the fireflies
3. Night
Thank you death
For giving us life
Thank you joy
For giving us strife
Thank you darkness
For giving us light
Thank you day
For giving us night
Night
Night
Thank you space
For giving us ground
Thank you silence
For giving us sound
Thank you blindness
For your insight
Thank you day
For giving us Night
Night
Night
Thank you summer
For giving us fall
Thank you nothingness
For birthing it all...
4. Juneberry Wine
Fireflies flash, summer solstice
Falling in love in the midnight forest
The intoxication when we recognize
The perfect reflection inside of our eyes
And all of the lifetimes that’ve led up to this
This cosmic reunion, soul joining kiss
Let's capture this harvest, preserve the divine
As if we could bottle up and somehow freeze time
But nothing stands still in suspense
Time bubbles up and the sweetness ferments into
Juneberry wine, Juneberry wine
Born when our hearts were first falling entwined
Mixed with the essence of honeysuckle vine
Foolishly left to the great hands of time
To sour, ferment and refine --
Now what’ll I do with all this Juneberry wine?
You left as a ghost, left with no trace
Except the gallons of wine in which our love was encased
It sat in the corner waiting to be strained
But I could not look, I could not face the pain
Til the longest of nights, in the darkest of dark
From the depths of despair in my catacomb heart
I look to the carboy and know that it’s time
To strain out the fruit and taste that honey wine
That could never stand still in suspense
‘Cause love bubbles up and the sweetness ferments into
Juneberry Wine, Juneberry wine
A bittersweet relic of warm summertime
Mixed with the essence of honeysuckle vine
Foolishly left to the great hands of time
To sour, ferment and refine --
Now what’ll I do with all this Juneberry wine?
Why, can’t the sweetness just stay
Someday you’ll return, and you’ll drink it with me
And we’ll drink to the dream that I dreamed we would be
And I’ll curse and I’ll praise the stars up above
Know that time is the killer and healer of love
Til then I’ll drink to the fireflies and bright summer bliss
Get wasted alone on all the bitterness
Til I taste the beauty of summertime past
Of that decadent honey that was not meant to last
The sweetness won’t hold in suspense
The flavor complexifies as it ferments
Juneberry wine, Juneberry wine
I guess that’s the best thing you could leave behind
To hint at the essence of the honeysuckle vine
That grows better when trusted to the great hands of time
To sour, ferment and refine
Now what'll I do, with this June berry wine
5. Zero
The new moon slid across the sun
Darkness fell like day was done
When the two turned into one
I was naked as I’d just begun
At zero again
Zero again
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At zero I found everything
From empty circle to complete ring
It’s a hero’s journey from fool to king
Step off the edge to find your wings
Had to split my soul in to twins
To not feel so alone within
Join the masculine and feminine
Split one in two to close the ring
Of zero again
Zero again
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Takes a fool to leap and a fool to fall
Takes a fool to feel it all
A fool to fly upon wax wings
To step off and trust everything
To shatter with a thousand cracks
And gather all the pieces back
Like diamond dew drops, shooting stars
That disappear into the dark
Cocoon of night - the great abyss
Of mystery, there’s genesis
I’ll play the fool to feel the depths
And trust there’s rebirth in this death
Sun is rising in the east
Shadows shrink as I’m released…
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6. The Place Between
Place Between
I am letting the wind blow my boat
Just exactly where it needs to go
Got a paddle in my hand
In case i need to steer towards land
Got a paddle in my hand, anyway
I am waiting for life to unfold
Just exactly how it’s gonna unfold
Won’t worry what’s to come
‘Cause I know what’s done is done
That would spoil all the fun anyway
The place between
Thinking and not thinking
Doing and not doing
Floating and sinking
Somewhere in between
Ebbing and flowing
Trying and not trying
Knowing and not knowing
That’s where I’ll be going
That’s where you’ll find me
I am letting our paths intertwine
Just exactly how they’re gonna intertwine
I’ll try to keep an open heart
Though I’ve already torn apart
I’ll try to keep an open heart
Anyway
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In the center of my soul
I will water seeds, so deep roots can grow
And anchor down into this empty hole
Find the place between holding close and letting go
And letting go
Holding close
And letting go
We are watching this world fall apart
But maybe it just needs to fall apart
To come together again
We’ll pick the pieces up and mend
To come together again
In a new way
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7. Winged Nut
You ask ‘cause you wanna know who am I
I’m a wild, gesticulating gemini
I talk with my hands and I feast with my eyes
I look with my ears and I listen with my cries
Look with my ears and I listen with my cries
I’m a beautiful mess but I clean up nice
One part sugar and three parts spice
I’ve given up on reason so I roll the dice
And when they land I don’t look twice
And when they land I don’t look twice
I’m just me
A helicopter seed upon the breeze
A winged nut just trying to be free
Until I land and grow into a tree
That branches out into the mystery
I’m from the mountains, I’m from the sea
From the river of pain inside of me
From the dark from the light from the he from the she
From the paradox of duality
The paradox of duality
I got two sides and I got two wings
When they’re in balance it keeps me spiraling
Always was a searching for that long lost twin
Had to break to know I was whole within
Had to break to know I was whole within
I’m just me
A helicopter seed upon the breeze
A winged nut just trying to be free
Until I land and grow into a tree
That branches out into the mystery
My life is great but I get the blues
The world’s going off and I still hit snooze
But I’m trying to wake up so I can choose
To find the breadcrumbs and follow the clues
Find the breadcrumbs and follow the clues
I’m not afraid of being alone
Wherever my heart’s beating is where I call home
And I hope that when I cross into the great unknown
God pinches my cheeks and says “my how you’ve grown”
God pinches my cheeks and says “my how you’ve grown”
God pinches my cheeks and says “my how you’ve grown”
I’m just me
A helicopter seed upon the breeze
A winged nut just trying to be free
Until I land and grow into a tree
That branches out into the mystery
8. Fire of the Sun
I’m chasing after you
and you're chasing after her
If we chased after each other
It’d be a whole lot simpler.
But if there was no one to run
Then there be no want to chase
But tell me why
Why does love always have to be a race
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To be won, to be won
To win a means to your ends
before you have begun
To become one, to be one
To be lost inside the dark abyss
To feel the burn, the pain, the bliss
To melt back into emptiness
Of the stories you have spun
The blocked the fire of the sun
The electrifying union
Of a soul split into twins
Gazing deep into your soul
I felt my deep within
Now you say you didn't feel it
It was all illusion in my head
Well I guess the magic in your eyes
Was just in mine instead
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Heart beat of the universe
Drumming inside of our chests
Souls meet in the galaxies
Of your eyes I rest
Oh the dancing fire of the sun
Crowned the unseen for a moment and all things were one
With the perfect alignment to reveal the ephemeral night
It had to be you to mirror my shadows and light
9. Cosmic Sunken Treasure
I don’t know if this ship is going under
What will become of it in storms of thunder
Are there too many leaks from our careless blunders
Will we stare as it sinks and watch in wonder
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At this cosmic sunken treasure
For some long-off astronaut to discover
An abandoned mess of a ledger
To show how good we were as lovers
Is this a dead end, or do we keep going?
What’s around the bend of this blind unknowing?
And if we’re not around, rivers keep flowing
But with all we’ve cut down, what keeps growing?
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On this cosmic sunken treasure
For some long-off astronaut to discover
An abandoned mess of a ledger
To show how good we were as lovers
Of the earth
Lovers of the earth
In these times, all is aligned
To reveal our darkest shadows
Feel to mess of our recklessness
As we let the fields lay fallow
If this ship is sinking I’m gonna keep singing
For the forests and the meadows
May they regrow
So let’s pick up the dregs of the world and make some beauty
Out of the trash form the pearls - it’s our human duty
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10. Everybody Wants to Be a Butterfly
Everybody wants to be a butterfly
Spread those pretty wings and fly into the sky
Forget the ground they crawled on as they ride this high
And forget about the caterpillar wondrin’ why and
Who
Wrapped herself into a cocoon
Melted down into amorphous goo
And surrendered to the cosmic stew
Just cause she knew that’s what she had to do
It’s what she had to do
What she had to do
Everybody wants to be a queen or king
With riches and abundance and have everything
As if having the belongings could quell the sting
Of the longing for belonging of a human being
But the fool
Leaps forward with no things and no rules
Dives off the cliff into the deepest of pools
Where he’ll find more riches and more jewels
Just cause he knew it’s what he had to do
It’s what he had to do
What he had to do
Everybody wants the world to be a better place
With love and harmony and equal class and race
As if we could snap our fingers and have hate erased
But we forget about the wounds we’re wearing on our face
That grew
Into the pain that makes us be hurtful too
But in our brokenness we hold all the clues
To put the fragments back together with glue
The glue of love - the only thing that’s true
The only thing that’s true
The only thing that’s true
I believe that we can all be butterflies
Our bright and shiny wings unfold from the inside
If they tell you it’s no use, know that it’s just lies
Don’t be afraid of the darkness that’s behind your eyes
Cause you
Are most magnificent when you are true
To your colors even when they are blue
And the metamorphosis you’re going through
When you know it’s what you gotta do
It’s what you gotta do
It’s what you got to do
What you’ve got to
Do, do what you’ve got to do!
11. Sweet Ghost
Sheer clouds dress the moon with their kaleidoscopic robes
Adorning her glow with praise of undulating odes
that make love to her light to form a brilliant halo
You can ask them to stay but you know that they must go
Go and drift on through the night, ride the wind and dissipate
Reforming, fractalizing and always recreating
themselves in every moment - every move into new shapes
Cloaking the heavens with their gossamer capes
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So Drift on, Sweet Ghost
Though your beauty is astounding
And I want to hold you close
The wind will blow you back again
Maybe as clouds maybe as rain
We’ll meet again as mighty
as the ocean to the coast
As you rove across the skies you let the music of the wind
Fill your sails and breathe you forth and morph you from within
Building up and billowing the plumes to house your dreams
Knowing that the building blocks are forces yet unseen
And on summer afternoons you build up castles so robust
To hold the floating water before releasing it to trust
And I’ll meet you in the middle as I rise up from the ground
In electrifying union - we are light and sound unbound
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In the drifting shifting mystery
What can we do - but make the most?
Oh sweet ghost
We’re all made up of atoms that just hover, buzz and such
Though they dance around each other they can never really touch
Grasping at the clouds is just like chasing after wind
You can never get a hold of the seeming solid state of skin
So I’ll stand atop a mountain and let the breeze blow through my bones
Til I know the love I feel is like the underlying drones
Of the crickets and cicadas as they rub their legs and wings
More subtle than the birdsong, this is how existence sings
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12. Nighttime // Righttime
Sun is sinking down
Dark is calling
All is falling prey to the nighttime.
As it hunts you down,
Let yourself be taken
It all happens at the right time.