animals

we are just a different version

of those we call animals

and far less civilized than most of them

in spite of what we think

wanting

wanting  ain't a sharing

wanting is a mugging

an exploitation

an assault


and a form of rejection


openness and sharing

is what life is all about

sometimes

sometimes

i don't know why i am here

or why i am speaking to you


and then there is life to deal with

what ever i am being

i don't appear to be very good at

1102

not sure what to say now

probably should just go lie down

another your truth comment

if you can't face your own truth

you will not be able to face mine


if i am facing my self

and you are not facing your self

a wall is between us

or a fence


there will be separation

and no sharing

your truth

if you seek to be with your truth

first you must surrender your lies


almost all modern people

hide behind a mask

a false front


furtunately my father

didn't learn about that crap


that was a long time ago

and no one told him who he should be


he was just stuck with his self

and he made the best of that situation

as he could

on and on

on and on through life i go
it's an endless wander
still i know that in my heart
i just keep growing fonder

of all the people that i meet
of all the creatures here
more and more i cherish them
forever hold them dear

they seem to be so real inside
tho many no more show it
with outer shell they've learned to hide
but in my heart i know it

all are one  -  as has been spoken
mostly long ago
still i feel i know them all
the bond is still unbroken

here inside

here inside a voice has spoken
from a heart i thought quite broken
seek not love outside yourself
it's not received from someone else

the source of love and life are one
though the spirit is all done
open up your heart to gladness
put and end to all this sadness

in our ideas we have lost
the greatest gift  -  beyond all cost
love's the gift of life you see
endless and of course it's free

one must open like a flower
to receive this mighty power
that holds the world and stars in place
soon to heal the human race

this is what the heart does say
i know it's true in every way
life is love and for us all
the time has come to heed its call

in times long past

in times long past before we learned
about ideas and got burned
men liven in peace with one another
and knew each to be his brother

but in time we lost our way
how this happened i can't say
maybe this was meant to be
a plan of life to help us see

as i said i know not why
yet these results make my heart cry
it seems that all we learned is hate
and at times it seems too late

can all this change  -  the mind does wonder
must the guns all roar like thunder
if we continue on this way
night will soon engulf the day

the children all will lose their home
all will grieve and wail and moan
just because we forsake love
and with our armies crushed the dove

there is still time the heart does say
but we must return to the way
all thought of what to be must go
an open heart and mind can know

facing your self

if you can't face your self

you will never be able to face me

or anyone else

life is more than a preformance

life is a response


which is a part of growing up

and our education with our self


if we are willing to learn


just thinking we already know

is out of date thinking


awareness is not a product of though


as soon as you think you know

you aren't keeping up with life

finding our way

we each must find our own way

which we must respect in others

especially with the children


to not respect a childs right to its own way

is a great crime against life


and life is what we all are


we humans don't have such a great record

in that respecting life stuff

wanting me

all that means

is you are rejecting who i am

and requiring me to preform

cause i'm right here

what now

leave us alone

we almost grown

as chuck once said

well more than once

am a pretty good drinking hand

as i can

by nature

and by birth

thinking about life

is sure as hell not the same

as being life

we

the really cool silver haired dragon

and the wierd guy

being

are you being who you are

or who you think you are

or who you want to be


we all have to find our own way

on through life

as on and on thru life i go
bewildered by its mighty show
i feel sometimes  -  when i'm alone
that all the joy once known has flown

and in it's place i now find fear
replacing all that once was dear
old and cold i still go on
not content  -  yet heart not gone

for life itself is grand to me
inspite of all the pain i see
and still if i get one more chance
to do something that might enhance

this world a little  -  i'll still try
to keep my head up to the sky
and do the work as well i can
to not betray lifes faith in man

ideas

ideas are bubbles blown in the ocean

life is the ocean

in an age

in an age the soul remembers
sensing still its dying embers
man to truth was honor bound
rarely was deception found

but today our greed does rule us
strange ideas do retool us
no more is the spirit free
to create life as it should be

the hand of fate is shunned and broken
respect for life no more than token
now the children live in fear
finding little to hold dear

fantastic dreams now fill our heads
strange contortions fill our bed
grace and love so rarely found
with war and violence so renowned

it's said that once the ancients spoke
about the time man would evoke
the beast that would bring on such pain
when tears would fall like endless rain

perhaps now is what they meant
when powers what we represent
but love is lost in such a way
and peace and joy the price we pay

with guns and bombs we blast and kill
we push and shove  -  enforce our will
the seeds we plant will surely grow
yet still it's grief and pain we sow

love will not be found in war
more sorrow  -  that's what we're in for
you don't make friends with pain and fear
we're losing all the heart holds dear

there's still time  -  we're not quite broken
but it takes love much more than token
no more must we live for power
we must sow love for peace to flower


i wrote that down back in the mid 80's it seems

no one we knew had money

so we didn't know we were poor

electricity

how the native population

managed to live without that stuff

a long time ago

apache woman

i saw her once

many years ago

and a couple of times today


someone said who was that

i said someone i once new

astrological patterns

the astrological patterns this evening

are pretty significant

to mister mark knopfler

thanks for sharing what you do

a piper to the end

a man named lewis

he was my father in this life

he wasn't being what he thought he should be

or what he wanted to be

he was being who he was

and spoke to me a few times

and i am a real lucky guy

complaining

complaining about life

just makes our situation worse

explaining my self

if i were to try that

it would only confuse

both of us

self

we all have to face our self

which is the only way home

being

the hardest situation in life

that i have seen so far

is how many people

in our time

seek to not be who they are


and the drug dealers

both legal and illegal

are making a lot of money

the drag on

if you haven't faced the drag on

what good are you

your expectations of me

not very import ant to me

submiting to an others will

has no attraction  to me

be a man

something my father said to me a long time ago

he didn't say all that much to me

but those words were a gift to me


what he said was

face your day

wanting at me

means i am being rejected

for who and/or what i am

thinkers

thinking to much

retards the mind


thinking all the time

disconnects the mind


the gift is being rejected

want a lot

people that want a lot

are not comfortable with their self


they seek escapes from their self

which is  a symptom of diss-ease


and our little world is in great diss-stress


not getting what is wanted

leads to self-pity

which is an expression of rejection

of self and selfs situation

which leads to more problems

and more self-pity

which is so common in our time


words about our situation are kind of hard to come by

and mostly not very flattering

but if we can't face our situation

we get stuck

which is the original problem again

the moon

without the moon

there would be no life one this planet

as we know life


the moon stirred the water

and made all this possible


the planet provided the heat

pearl harbor

my father was there that day in 1941

just a kid from tulsa on the west virgina


didn't speak of it much

there was a scrap book with a front page picture
  of his mother holding a picture of him in the tulsa world

he was reported killed

but that turned out not to be true


he didn't speak of it much

he did once when i was older a little bit

and i asked him about that morning

he said he swam ashore with another guy

the guy gave him his st. Christopher medal

and then he died

i didn't ask him about that stuff again


he was the best man i've met so far in this life

and i ain't no kid

i've been around

nothing

there is nothing like standing up

when you feel like falling down


and in this world

everyone gets to be some thing


since life ain't tangible

and still is


what do you make of that sport

differences

there are differences

very many differences

between being

and trying to be


and yet they are

the same life

looking for love

that's a waste of time

you better bring it with you

wanting me

wanting me

is not the same

as accepting me

for who and what i am

want

what you want

is what you are rejecting


which is the only way

that can happen

there was a time

when i did not know where to go

or what to do

and i did nothing that time


which was correct

for that time

me

ain't doing nothing

just making deliveries

words - times - places

words
times
places

here among the frozen races

hear me now oh lord of light
free me from this endless night

to share is what we're meant to do
tho this is practiced by so few

the trust for so long has been broken
truth is now so rarely spoken

here inside i feel you still
and pray to know i always will

the healing process has begun
no more do i wish to run

for alone we all must stand
with only you to hold our hand

till love of life is all we feel
with open hearts we can be real

and once again to know thy grace
as truth is found in every face

time and time again

this and time again
we face the dawn and know not when
the end of all this grief and pain
will come and wash the bloody stain

from this world that suffers greatly
and even more from events lately
killing never leads to peace
oh  -  will the violence never cease

peace will only come through kindness
vengeance only leads to blindness
the rage and pain we choose to feel
will never let the old wounds heal

until we learn to serve all others
until we see that all are brothers

everyone claims to be right
everyone claims to know what's right
so few question themselves
so much is wrong

pieces of eight

pieces of eight
are nothing but freight
if you don't have
a friend at your side

all the gold in the land
is not worth that small hand
that i held when we
took that first ride

when the journey is done
and the course has been run
with a smile one my face
i'll have died

and the moments we shared
in the time we were paired
were a dream from which
no one would hide