tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15701511824305053792024-03-05T21:50:30.271-08:00Be Free InsideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1570151182430505379.post-1931324873693124002007-10-29T14:59:00.002-07:002020-12-27T19:52:21.592-08:00<span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #6600cc;">Click </span><u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/nf20s7Zh382ShdmrHgOmKPFZ3b0iyK6lKTRylizo1Mk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HERE</span></a></u><span style="color: #6600cc;"> to download the full "Be Free Inside" album, or any individual track. See below for song info.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Lyrics</u> for all 32 songs are shown below.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #6600cc;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">• All music and lyrics by Swami Kriyananda unless otherwise noted</span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-style: italic;">• More about the author, more music: www.swamikriyananda.org</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #6600cc;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #6600cc;">• Voice and guitar by Dambara Begley unless otherwise noted</span></span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #6600cc;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #6600cc;">• To contact me, please click <a href="mailto:dambara108@gmail.com">HERE</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Special Thanks to:</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #663366;">• Chaitanya Mahoney</span> -- recording & engineering tracks 1-25, & 28; overall CD production</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #663366;">• David Eby</span> and <span style="color: #663366;">Dave Bingham</span> -- recording & engineering tracks 26, & 29-32</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #663366;">• James Morris</span> -- recording & engineering track 27<br /><span style="color: #663366;">• Singers and Instrumentalists <span style="color: #cc0000;">-- see songs 25-32</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> and</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #663366;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #663366;">• Swami Kriyananda</span> -- example, friendship & inspiration beyond words to express</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">How the CD came about: Late in 2005, an Ananda friend who was living and working far away, & feeling very isolated, emailed me: "Here's what I'd like--would you go into a recording studio and record some Ananda music and send it to me, so I can stay in the vibe here?" Well, that was a hard offer to refuse! I made up a list of my favorite songs by Swami's that I could accompany myself on, including several that we don't often hear. Chaitanya recorded 'em all on 12/31/05. (He engineered them later). Later, I added a few other tracks from concerts and other CD's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">1. Be Free Inside<span style="color: #6600cc;"></span></span><br /><br />I'll tell the world </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(4 claps)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />I don't have money.</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> <span style="color: #6600cc;">(3)</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />But life is wonderful, </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(2)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />And every day is sunny. </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(1)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />The trick is this: </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(4)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />Don't beg from anyone,<br />Just live in joy, </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(2)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />Be free </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(2)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br />inside. </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">(2)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">2. The Secret of Laughter</span><br /><br />The secret of laughter lies in the laughing,<br />Not in the search for joy:<br />It’s a swallow winging on the wind;<br />It’s innocence in a boy.<br /><br /><span style="color: #6600cc; font-style: italic;">Chorus:</span><br />Luru luru lero,<br />Luru luru lye,<br />Joy will come to anyone<br />Whose soul has learned to fly!<br /><br />Joy in the singing, not in the song sung,<br />Welcome, but never crave:<br />If you think that laughter lies in things,<br />To things you’ll be but a slave!<br /><br />Joy in the giving, not in the gaining,<br />Grasp, and you’ll never sing:<br />You could win the world and still be poor;<br />Win peace, and live like a king!<br /><br />Sing when the sun shines, sing when the rain falls,<br />Sing when your road seems strange.<br />In a tempest seize the lightning flash<br />And ride the winds of change!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">3. Boxes</span><br /><br />(A sailor from England remarked to a foe,<br />“The reason we win is: We pray as we go.”<br />“But we pray as well, and just look at our dead!”<br />“Ah, but we pray in English,” the Englishman said.)<br /><br />I had a little box when my Lord made me,<br />And in that little box I did put a tree,<br />A pony, a teddy bear, a bright green sled:<br />Everything around me that my eyes did see.<br /><br />How can a little box ever hold a sled,<br />A pony, and a tree?—puzzles your poor head.<br />It can’t, my friend, but in a tiny baby’s mind<br />This mighty world becomes a little box instead.<br /><br />Well, as I grew older my box grew too,<br />Held airplanes, and ships, and a birch canoe,<br />And school books, a foreign trip, and college proms,<br />Good times, and friends aplenty—yes, and also, you!<br /><br />But somehow in this box would only fit one school,<br />One family, one country, and one social rule,<br />And certainly one church, for only my way’s right,<br />And anyone with other ways is just a fool.<br /><br />Well, so I used to think, but now I must confess<br />At judging fools I wasn’t any great success.<br />Truth somehow lived without me, though I called it mine.<br />What box could hold the world?—It’s just preposterous!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">4. Hawaiiana</span><br /><br />Haliki pa weha<br />Hanalei peha<br />Hakane likea na kalea kapu.<br /><br />Hali ki pa weha<br />Hanalei pe Ha<br />ma ka ne li me a ka namea kapu.<br /><br />Ne mi kauai ki wahini lei ki<br />pakale Ha lia napali ma<br />me lu ka le hi ka<br />Na pali kane la<br />wahini me Hawaii le kauai mu.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Note: The lyrics are pure whimsy…as is this subsequent English "translation":</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">The young man sailed in a little boat</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">from Hali, a distant island in the southern seas.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">He sailed in safety far, far --</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">to Hanalei, the peaceful, the beautiful.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">The dark stranger, alas, was kapu (taboo).</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">But on this isle of Kauai he met a beautiful maiden,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">who, seeing him, fell in love,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">wreathing him in a lei of fairest flowers.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">And so it was that this Hali man,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">wreathed in sacred flowers from the Napali coast,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">became purified of all sin,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">and united in holy love to this Napali maid.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">She took him home with her and wedded him,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">in the land of Hawaii, on the fair island of Kauai,</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">according to the rites of the ancient land of Mu.</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">5. The Fairies’ Song</span></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Lyrics by William Shakespeare, from</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> “The Merry Wives of Windsor”</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Fie on sinful fantasy!<br />Fie on lust and luxury!<br />Lust is but a bloody fire,<br />Kindled with unchaste desire,<br />Fed in heart, whose flames aspire<br />As thoughts do blow them higher and higher.<br /><br />Pinch him, fairies, mutually;<br />Pinch him for his villainy;<br />Pinch him and burn him and turn him about,<br />Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">6. All the World Is My Friend</span><br /><br />All the world is my friend<br />When I learn how to share my love;<br />When I stretch out my hand and smile,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">7. Lightly I Fly</span><br /><br />Lightly I fly when I live in laughter,<br />Lightly I fly when my heart sings.<br />Lightly I fly when I live in laughter,<br />Lightly I fly when my heart sings.<br /><br />Fling to the ground every heavy burden.<br />Now I can soar up above the clouds!<br />Fling to the ground every heavy burden.<br />Now I can soar up above the clouds!<br /><br />Lightly I fly when I live in laughter,<br />Lightly I fly when my heart sings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">8. Melody’s Everywhere</span><br /><br />Daddy’s in the garden talking to his roses.<br />Sally’s in her bedroom combing her hair.<br />Mommy’s in the kitchen laughing with the neighbor,<br />Oh, melody sings to us everywhere!<br /><br />Say, listen to the robin singing from the housetop!<br />Hear my little kitty romping on the stair!<br />Listen to our dog, Jim, barking up a pear tree!<br />Yes, melody sings to us everywhere!<br /><br />Oho! The wind is calling: hear it in the meadow,<br />Telling everybody: “Toss away care!”<br />Hear it: My, it’s happy! Swirling leaves have joined it:</span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;">And melody sings to us everywhere!</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">9. Of His Dreams Our Love Was Made</span><br /><br />God is our father, our mother, too;<br />God is our dearest treasure.<br />God's ever near, the one friend who<br />Loves us without any measure.<br />Of his dreams our love was made.<br />Only from Him is love repaid.<br /><br />Let us in gladness all live for Him;<br />Serve Him in every season.<br />Serve Him with thought, with hand and limb;<br />Love Him without any reason.<br />God befriends us as we are:<br />Fools we, that hold his love afar!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">10. Life Is Beautiful</span><br /><br />Life is beautiful, life is gay,<br />When I give myself away;<br />When I live to please Thee, Lord,<br />Dancing in Thy ray.<br /><br />Let me see Thee everywhere<br />Hear Thy melodies in the air.<br />Let me feel Thy strength in me.<br />Give me joy to share.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">11. I’m Determined No More to Play</span><br /><br />I'm determined no more to want to play!<br />I'm determined no more to play.<br />I'm determined no more, I'm determined no more,<br />I'm determined no more to play!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">12. I Wonder</span><br /><br />Baby Tim’s in the nurs’ry, asleep in his playpen,<br />His calico pony close by.<br />It’s all set, if a dream calls to carry its master<br />Away to a calico sky.<br />And I sit by my window and wonder<br />Why it’s only in dreams we can fly;<br />Why a pony can’t hurdle the sunset,<br />Maybe that’s what makes small babies cry!<br /><br />Daddy sits in his study, and hums with his reading<br />The tune of his favorite song.<br />He tells me his “homework” seems nicer and lighter<br />With music to lift it along.<br />And I sit by my window and wonder<br />Why a book has no song of its own;<br />Why the world doesn’t flood us with music—<br />And why people must sing all alone.<br /><br />Mommy’s out in the kitchen, she’s making our dinner,<br />I hear, by the clink of the pans,<br />That she’s happy, just cooking and knowing we’re near her:<br />Her happiness flows from her hands.<br />And I sit by my window and wonder<br />How the world without mothers would be,<br />And if people could live without loving:<br />Such a world I hope never to see.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;">(</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">I only recorded verse 1 because at the time I didn’t know that verses 2 and 3 existed! – Dambara)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Lyrics by William Shakespeare, from</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Who is Silvia, what is she?<br />That all our swains commend her?<br />Holy, fair, and wise is she:<br />The heav’n such grace did lend her,<br />That she might admired be,<br />That she might admired be.<br /><br />Is she kind as she is fair?<br />For beauty lives with kindness.<br />To her eyes love doth repair,<br />To help him of his blindness,<br />And, being helped in habits there,<br />And, being helped, in habits there.<br /><br />Then to Silvia let us sing,<br />That Silvia is excelling;<br />She excels each mortal thing<br />Upon the dull earth dwelling.<br />To her let us garlands bring,<br />To her let us garlands bring.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">14. Someday</span><br /><br />Someday, friend, we'll all be free:<br />Loose these chains, someday!<br />When the hidden light we see,<br />Veiled within earth's clay.<br />He alone is a prisoner whose thoughts have been bound.<br />He alone can escape this cage,<br />Who wisdom has found.<br />Someday, friend, the darkness will flee:<br />God will be ours someday!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">15. Cherish These</span><br /><br />Is there anywhere on earth,<br />Perfect freedom, sorrow’s dearth,<br />Selfless friendship, blameless birth?<br />Cherish these, naught else has worth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">16. Sleep Is Calling</span><br /><br />Sleep is calling, fly up high,<br />Be a cloud moving in the sky!<br />Sail above the winding rivers.<br />Ask the stars, “What am I?”<br />Lullaby, Lullaby, Lullaby.<br /><br />Sleep is calling, soar in light.<br />Be a star shining through the night.<br />Tell all creatures that you love them.<br />Tell the shadows: “Be bright!”<br />Lullaby, Lullaby, Lullaby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">17. Goodnight, Sweetheart</span><br /><br />What do you feel<br />The night may reveal?<br />Darkness can’t harm you,<br />Its fears are unreal.<br />Light will enfold you;<br />Just open your heart:<br />Let peace through your dreams gently steal.<br /><br />Good Night, Sweetheart,<br />I’ll see you in the morning.<br />Till then, sleep tight; Sweet dreams!<br /><br />Starlight, Sweetheart,<br />Your silken hair adorning,<br />bring peace on silv’ry beams.<br /><br />Though sep’rate for awhile,<br />The mem’ry of your smile<br />Will linger in my heart,<br />And bless me.<br /><br />Now flow, Sweetheart,<br />All cares and troubles scorning,<br />Adrift on astral streams.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">18. Daughter of Aran</span><br /><br />When she smiles, the sun rays play in her eyes.<br />From the sky, her laughter draws song<br />As, her hair to befriend,<br />Cheerful breezes descend:<br />It’s to Nature her spirits belong.<br />Oh, her spirit was made<br />From the sun on a glade—<br />Far, far from the madding throng.<br /><br />There on Aran, loud waves lashing the rocks,<br />Screaming gulls that rise, surfing the air;<br />There, where clouds meet the hills<br />To beget dancing rills:<br />Oh, it’s freedom her wild spirits share!<br />It’s release that she brings:<br />When she smiles, my heart flings<br />Far, far ev’ry worldly care!</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">The desolate Aran Islands are the scene of John Millington Synge's great play “Riders to the Sea.”</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">19. Two Souls</span><br /><br />Two souls were conceived,<br />At night,<br />Ere stars in the sky<br />Gave light.<br />Ere planets were born,<br />Ere hearts could know scorn.<br />Together they danced in God’s sight.<br /><br />Up pathways radiance<br />They flew,<br />Before them, bright starsv<br />They strew.<br />Deep seas and vast plains,<br />Men’s joys, and men’s pains--<br />All these, in perfection They knew.<br /><br />Their love called them down from<br />The skies.<br />To live here on earth in<br />Disguise:<br />They seemed mortal, now,<br />Yet rememb’ring their vow,<br />They ever maintained their Soul ties.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">20. Make Us Channels of Thy Peace</span><br /><br />Lord most high our heav’nly father,<br />All our lives we dedicate to Thee:<br />All our labors, all our joys and woes,<br />All our pleasure, all our melody.<br /><br />Make us each a channel of Thy peace:<br />When in darkness, guide us from above;<br />Where there’s sorrow may we sow Thy joy;<br />Where there’s hatred may we share Thy love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">21. Cloisters</span><br /><br />Long I’ve called You, my Lord,<br />Long I’ve called You.<br />Many years I have longed for Your sight;<br />Bathed the darkness with tears of devotion,<br />Offered candles in prayer to Your light.<br />How much longer, Friend,<br />Must I cry Your name?<br />I am Yours, ever Yours.<br />Will You come?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">22. Keep Calling Him</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">By Maitri Jones, based on 2 poems by Paramhansa Yogananda</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Keep calling Him, keep calling Him, keep calling Him.<br />Whether He replies or not, keep calling Him.<br />In the temple of unceasing prayer<br />Believe that He's approaching there<br />And call to Him, Keep calling Him.<br /><br />Thou dost know I'm praying, Lord,<br />You know I love no other.<br />I'll speak not nor ask when<br />To expect from you an answer.<br />You know my heart.<br />I'll call to Thee again.<br /><br />Keep calling Him, keep calling Him,<br />Whether He replies or not, keep calling Him.<br /><br />I'll wash Thy feet of silence<br />With the waters of my tears.<br />The altar of my soul<br />Will be empty till Thou comest.<br />I'll wait for Thee,<br />No matter days or years.<br /><br />Keep calling Him, keep calling Him,<br />Whether He replies or not, keep calling Him.<br /><br />In the center of my heart I have<br />A mystic throne for Thee.<br />The candles of my joy are dimly burning now in hope,<br />Awaiting Thy coming,<br />Though it be eternity.<br /><br />Keep calling Him, keep calling Him,<br />Whether He replies or not, keep calling Him.<br /><br />Even when there's no reply,<br />never let your longing die.<br />And call to Him. Keep calling Him.<br /><br />Remain persistent, undepressed<br />Through dark and seeming silence.<br />If in the midst of life, disease, and death you play the dancer,<br />Yet keep calling Him,<br />You will receive His answer!<br /><br />Keep calling Him.<br />Keep calling Him.<br />Keep calling Him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">23. Song of the Nightingale</span><br /><br />Nightingale! Nightingale!<br />Sing of joy through the night.<br />Teach my heart<br />To impart<br />Everywhere your delight.<br />Sing of moonrays on the rain,<br />Sing that love’s not in vain:<br />Every grief, every wrong<br />Has its ending in song.<br /><br />Nightingale! Nightingale!<br />Sing of joy through the night.<br />Teach all men<br />How to spin<br />Clouds of gloom into light.<br />Without silence, what is song?<br />Without night, where is dawn?<br />Were it not for men’s woes,<br />Who would smile at a rose?<br /><br />Nightingale! Nightingale!<br />Sing of joy through the night.<br />Let each tone,<br />Silence-grown,<br />Earth and heaven unite.<br />Morning laughter, evening tears,<br />Snow and blossoms—all fade!<br />Joy must sing in the night<br />To face change unafraid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">24. The Christmas Mystery</span><br /><br />Long ago there was a little shed.<br />There three mighty kings did bow their heads<br />To a gentle babe of low degree,<br />Whom men called the son of Mary.<br /><br /><span style="color: #6600cc; font-style: italic;">Chorus:</span><br />Who'll tell to me this mystery:<br />How a tiny babe in a manger laid<br />Could so many hearts to love persuade?<br />This holy son of Mary.<br /><br />Shepherds came and knelt in wonder there,<br />Seeing Him in light beyond compare,<br />And His eyes that told them all love was he<br />Whom men called the son of Mary.<br /><br />Wonderful it was, that Christmas Day,<br />How from far and near they came to pray,<br />How from far they glimpsed his majesty<br />Whom men called the son of Mary.<br /><br />Could it be that in that little one<br />Spirit's universal love did shine?<br />If it's true, he lives in you and me<br />Whom men call the son of Mary.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">25. Looking for a Friend</span></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">With the Ananda Singers</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Where are you going my little one?<br />"In hope these empty streets I wend;<br />I've seen a star rise in the east,<br />And I'm looking for a friend."<br />Turu, luru lurulay.<br />Turu, luru lurulay.<br /><br />Where are you going, good shepherd folk?<br />"From a lowly valley we ascend.<br />A wondrous vision sent us here:<br />We're looking for a friend."<br />Turu, luru lurulay.<br />Turu, luru lurulay.<br /><br />You learned men, where are you going?<br />"Our souls' long journey we would end,<br />Therefore we've come to Bethlehem:<br />We're looking for a friend."<br />Turu, lulu lurulay.<br />Turu, luru lurulay.<br /><br />Good people, let me come with you.<br />Perhaps he's just around this bend,<br />But whether near or far, I, too,<br />Have been looking for a friend.<br />Turu luru lurulay.<br />Turu luru lurulay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">26. Where Has My Love Gone?</span></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">With The Ananda Singers</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Todd Billingsley, guitar</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Where has my love gone?<br />Long are the nights,<br />Now that she's left me,<br />Dimmed my delights.<br />Where is my love, friend?<br />Passed she this way?<br />Saw you her smile?<br />Ah! What did she say?<br />Ah! Passed she here?<br />My sweetheart, passed she here?<br /><br />Sweet was her promise<br />When first we met;<br />Whispers of heaven<br />Made me forget<br />Heartaches and labors,<br />Earth-searing pain.<br />"Rest now," she said,<br />"You've found love again."<br />Ah! Passed she here?<br />My sweetheart, passed she here?<br /><br />Surely she lied not.<br />Heaven did shine,<br />Piercing the darkness:<br />Love then was mine!<br />Could she not linger?<br />Must even she<br />Rise and depart<br />Like mist on the sea?<br />Ah! Passed she here?<br />My sweetheart, passed she here?<br /><br />Life's made of dreams, friend:<br />Dreams that must break,<br />Quickly dispersing<br />When we awake;<br />Strange, that when love calls<br />Memory stays,<br />Crying across<br />The tides of our days!<br />Ah! Passed she here?<br />My sweetheart, passed she here?<br /><br />There by my bed<br />She left me a note.<br />Can you explain<br />These words that she wrote?<br />"Seek me," she said, "love,<br />Out on the sea:<br />Boundless the reaches<br />Of true love must be."<br />Ah! Passed she here?<br />My sweetheart, passed she here?</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">"This is a mystical love song. The idea of it is that what we lose is only intended to help us to grow. The pains of change, the pains of material loss, pains of material growth, even, are all intended for positive ends. The growth that we experience in understanding with every pain makes the lesson of bereavement, of loss, of tragedy the most important and valuable lessons in human life. And that's the meaning of this song: to expand our consciousness outward until it embraces the whole sea, and not to cling to one little island of affection, of infatuation, of attachment." – Swami Kriyananda</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">27. To Death I’m a Stranger</span></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">With The Ananda Singers</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Arrangement by David Miller</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />To death I’m a stranger,<br />Poor youth that I am.<br />What destiny bears me<br />Hence to that shore?<br />The chalice of life,<br />Scarce sipped at the brim,<br />Has slipped from my grasp<br />And stains the dark floor.<br /><br />Has life any meaning?<br />The grail that men sought<br />Has never been found<br />On earth.<br />The fountain of youth—<br />Ah, merely a myth!<br />Everyone who roamed<br />Far in search of it<br />Died an untimely death.<br /><br />Yet see how the night sky,<br />Which banishes the sun,<br />Is banished in turn by dawn!<br />Death comes like a gypsy<br />Who camps on the way;<br />At dawn, his dark caravan’s gone.<br /><br />To death I’m a stranger,<br />Yet, strangest of all,<br />The stranger I feared<br />Is a stranger to me!<br />Can shadows strike fear<br />That hide from the sun?<br />What horror brings death?<br />In light I am free!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">28. Dark Eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Todd Billingsley, keyboard</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />I’ve known them forever:<br />They’ve haunted my slumber,<br />And called to me out of the deeps of space.<br />The love that they promise<br />Has helped me remember<br />Another time, a caring embrace.<br /><br />Dark eyes in the morning,<br />Dark eyes in the evening,<br />Dark eyes in the starlight at end of day:<br />Dark eyes that speak silence,<br />They whisper, “Come find me:<br />You’ll never know true love, if you stay.”<br /><br />Now I seek them in the wintertime,<br />Oh, I seek them in the spring:<br />Those two dark eyes draw my heart away<br />To where sun and moon sing!<br /><br />I laugh now in the summertime,<br />When ripples on the river play.<br />I laugh, soaring with the meadowlarks.<br />Love has made my heart gay.<br /><br />I’ve known them forever:<br />They’ve haunted my slumber,<br />And called to me out of the deeps of space.<br />The love that they promise<br />Has helped me remember<br />Another time, a caring embrace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">29. In the Spirit</span></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">From “Christ Lives: An Oratorio” by Swami Kriyananda</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Todd Billingsley, keyboard</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />I was caught up in ecstasy:<br />’Twas a day sanctified by God.<br />There He showed me the truths of heaven,<br />Truths which all, seeking Him, should know:<br /><br />How the soul, made to live in freedom,<br />Can reclaim its eternal right;<br />How the night, born of our delusions,<br />Can be fired, blazing with His light.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">“I wrote this song after a visit to the Greek island of Patmos, where Saint John wrote his ‘Revelation,’ also known as ‘The Apocalypse,’ which is the last book of the Holy Bible. His account states in the tenth verse (following a long preamble), ‘I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.’ “ – Swami Kriyananda</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">From “Christ Lives: An Oratorio” by Swami Kriyananda</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">David Eby, cello</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Thy will, Thy will, Thy will be done!<br />All that I am is Thine, all that I am.<br />Nothing of man endures, wonder or scorn.<br />Birth, life and death are one: veils of Thy love.<br />Thy will, Thy will, Thy will alone!<br />All that I've done is Thine, all that I've done!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">31. O Master</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Lyrics by Mukti Girard and Swami Kriyananda; music by Mukti Girard</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;"><br />With the World Brotherhood Choir and Spirit of Joy Orchestra, both directed by David Eby; Panduranga Heater, guitar</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />O Master, may Thy joy fill our days.<br />O Master, may Thy wisdom guide our ways.<br />The time has come for us to see<br />That there’s but one reality<br />Upon the earth and high above:<br />The truth that all was made from love.<br /><br />A love that calls to us to fly<br />Above the hills, above the sky,<br />Above the storms, above the pain:<br />A land where peace and laughter reign.<br /><br />O Master, may Thy joy fill our days.<br />O Master, may thy wisdom guide our ways.<br />Guide all our hopes and all our dreams<br />Past every glow that only seems,<br />Into the light, the inner sun,<br />Into the truth that we’re all one.<br /><br />Help us to find in every hour,<br />In every thought in every flower,<br />A joy that spans eternity,<br />The truth that makes us ever free.<br />O Master, may Thy joy fill our days.<br />O Master, may Thy wisdom guide our ways.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">32. Love Is a Magician</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">Mukti Deranja, keyboard; David Eby, cello; Donelle Page, harp</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Love is all I know:<br />Sunrays on the snow<br />Of a winter long<br />In darkness, without song.<br /><br />Oh, my heart’s afire,<br />Burning all desire.<br />Only You remain,<br />And life again.<br /><br />Too long I did stray,<br />Flung lifetimes away,<br />Imagined You did not care.<br />I know now Your smile<br />Was mine all the while;<br />I listened, and love was there.<br /><br />I can’t breathe for love!<br />All the stars above<br />Call to me, “Come home!<br />Life’s waves all end in foam.”<br /><br />Only love can heal<br />All the pain I feel.<br />What a fool was I<br />To turn away!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0