Our most poignant songs for 2020: Let's share!

[Ben]

Hi all


I've been meaning to start a thread about songs that have had the most significant impact on me, since just after the start of lockdown. Songs of joy, fear, defiance, sadness, hope. Songs that make me want to dance. Songs that have caused me to weep. All of it.

I'd love this thread to be a place where we can all share together, and honour our unique selves, through the music that has touched us through these unprecedented times.

I feel it would be great to post the video of the song, with a transcript of the lyrics, and what the song REALLY and TRULY meant to you, in a way that comes from the heart centre.

I'm really looking forward to hearing folk's offerings.

Love to you all.

[Ben]

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"That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the…

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world"

On the second day of lockdown here in Glasgow, it was a beautiful sunny day, all was still and quiet, apart from birdsong, the likes of which I'd not heard in a built up area like mine before.

My heart was full of joy, and intuitively felt to put this song on, which I'd not listened to in over 20 years.

It encapsulated my feelings of relief and joy, that the world which had so ground me down, had suddenly been put on pause, and the sense that a new world was birthing.

I had such a strong sense of like, 'THIS is what I've been waiting for all these years'.

I played it on repeat for a while, loudly and singing along, with my windows wide open. :)

[Ben]

Gajuumaru by Yaima.

This song encapsulates for me, the knowingness that I'm an eternal soul, on my own individual journey, and by conecting to my hearts centre, all is well and as it should be. It reaffirms to me never to be afraid to stand in my own truth, no matter what others think, and how lonely it can feel at times.

A wonderful celebration and acknowledgment of reconnecting with our highest potential.

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"[Intro]
(ohhh, ohhh woho, ohhh, ohhh woho)

[Verse 1]
Creating concrete visions of a microcosmic prism with a brilliant optimism and appropriate ambition
To be open from the center redirected to the moment
This is it love, this is it love, unrestrainable nature
We can change it from the edges, we can challenge all our borders
There is always a new leader, there is always a new order
Our pathway is proceeding and the way is always changing
We are free from what prevents us to realise our destination
(ohhh, ohhh woho, ohhh, ohhh woho)

[Refrain]
Free, from all old stories i've been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow
Free, from all old stories i've been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow

[Verse 2]
Oh when this is my virtue and i'm grateful for the search to
Dive deep within my own mind and to trust the intuition of the lives i've lived before this are essential form of knowsis it's a simple form of freedom it's as smooth as inhalation, oh the exhale is releasing all the tension i've been feeling, on the surface and beneath me i'm connecting to my spirit, and i'm here now right before you, I am present in this moment, my live's work is to honour the great beauty all around you
(ohhh, ohhh woho, ohhh, ohhh woho)

[Refrain]
Free from all old stories i've been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow
Free from all old stories i've been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow"

[Tyy1907]

Heard the Chili peppers version today
Pick your flavour
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[Ben]

Heard the Chili peppers version today
Pick your flavour
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Stevie all the way for me.

Have you seen his latest video?

[Tyy1907]

Heard the Chili peppers version today
Pick your flavour
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Stevie all the way for me.

Have you seen his latest video?

Dont think so no

[Ben]

Neither has he. (Sorry I couldn't resist). ;)

[Patient]

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Not an exact quote from a band member about the meaning of the song..." no matter what we are going through the answer always lies within."

For me, the song has great energy and gives me the feeling of inner strength to fight back.

With many songs, you might hear the lyrics wrong and totally miss the meaning that the band had for writing it. What's the best about a song that you like is what it means to you and how it makes you feel.

[Bluegreen]

I wish the name of this song was "Today"




Most probably already shared somewhere here... however, repetition is quite alright, in this case.
(Gotta) Feel this:


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...use the gift...
...use it to uplift...



4 days Meeradas since you posted that video. No one knows how to follow it !. I was going to post something here and abandoned it just to watch and listen to the sound of that video 3 times.

I can't follow that, but I can bump it.


Matisyahu - One Day (Official Video)
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"One day this all will change."




3000 people, three languages, and one Haifa all singing Koolulam and hoping that the 'One Day' is near…


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One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

Sometimes I lay
Under the moon
And thank God I'm breathing
Then I pray
Don't take me soon
'Cause I am here for a reason

Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know some day it'll all turn around because...

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play

One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

It's not about
Win or lose
'Cause we all lose
When they feed on the souls of the innocent
Blood-drenched pavement
Keep on moving though the waters stay raging

In this maze you can lose your way (your way)
It might drive you crazy but don't let it faze you, no way (no way)
Sometimes in my tears I drown (I drown)
But I never let it get me down (get me down)

So when negativity surrounds (surrounds)
I know some day it'll all turn around because...
All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play

One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play

One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

One day this all will change
Treat people the same
Stop with the violence
Down with the hate

One day this all will change
Treat people the same
Stop with the violence
Down with the hate
One day we'll all be free
And proud to be
Under the same sun
Singing songs of freedom like

One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play

One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)
One day (one day), One day (one day)

[Ben]

[QUOTE=Bluegreen;1380540]I wish the name of this song was "Today"

Today it may just be. Beautiful.

Thanks Bluegreen. :heart:

[norman]

When this Dylan track came out around the start of the lockdown, I thought it was an omen for the weeks to come. I've had a person tell me it's a masterpiece but I don't think it's quite that, it's just strange and spooky that it popped up when it did.


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[Ben]

As I read somewhere, 'better late than never Bob'.

I agree though Norman, something spooky about the timing.

[Ben]

'You don't stand a chance against my prayers, you don't stand a chance against my love.'
'We shall live again'


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'Crow has brought the message
To the children of the sun
For the return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come
You can kill my body
You can damn my soul
For not believing in your god
And some world down below
You don't stand a chance against my prayers
You don't stand a chance against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
But we shall live again, we shall live again


My sister above
She has red paint
She died at Wounded Knee
Like a later day saint
You got the big drum in the distance
The blackbird's in the sky
That's the sound that you hear
When the buffalo cry
You don't stand a chance against my prayers
You don't stand a chance against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
But we shall live again, we shall live again
We shall live again
Crazy Horse was a mystic
He knew the secret of the trance
And Sitting Bull the great apostle
Of the Ghost Dance


Come on Comanche
Come on Blackfoot
Come on Shoshone
Come on Cheyenne
We shall live again
We shall live again
Come on Arapaho
Come on Cherokee
Come on Paiute
Come on Sioux
We shall live again
You used to do the Ghost Dance
You used to do the Ghost Dance
You don't sing them kinda songs no more'

[Bluegreen]

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[pueblo]

Heard the Chili peppers version today
Pick your flavour
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I like this flavour best!

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[OmeyocaN777]

Nessi Gomes - All Related
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Lyrics in the description of the video

Yonatan Meir Kimchi - Tov Vahessed
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Lyrics in the comments (needs translation)

[Islander12]

I seen this live on Tv ...a music teacher wrote a song during lockdown that perfectly describes the lockdown..and sorry but I couldn’t resist!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1f7OwFqTnco

(I hope that this works, if not maybe someone can in bed it for me)

[Open Minded Dude]

This one is 'dead-on' for me!

Lyrics video:
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Live version in a church:
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Lyrics:

Close your eyes and sleep
Ignore all the burdens that you keep
Come whatever may
They could never harm you anyway

Stirrings in the wind
Resonates a whisper from within
Warnings from afar
Telling you to heed the morning star

Waking from the dream
Witnessing the smoke that's rolling in
The end is what you fear
The scent of embers lingers in the air

It's like a web there is no escape from
It's got you trapped and you long for freedom
Every wish every dream was granted
Never knowing what they demanded
You see the wall how it's getting higher
You want to fight but you're all divided
It's not a world anyone could thrive in
Is this the world we were meant to grow in?
Somebody tell me where are we going?

A brave new world will rise
If we do not act upon its lies
Hold your tongues no more
Learn from all the ones who came before

Catch the wind and fight the storm
Through the fury we're holding on
Take your time but not too long
Make it worth the time you own

You woke a fire inside of me
Fanned the flame and made it breathe
You woke a fire inside of me
Inside of me
Inside of me

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Since 1988 all through the 90ies I must have been the greatest REM fan around. Loved them to bits. Still do of course.

[Hermoor]

Aaah. The year of 2020. The great R number swindle.

It's all bollocks! :cool:

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[Bill Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

[2aware1]

Hmmm... I am going to start with this one... Those were the days. https://youtu.be/kXc5Oe_kj8k And maybe... The life I never led...https://youtu.be/IRHiwaVf9vI And I will add... Quiet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJOrAS2kYo hmm. all for now. One more... Only hope. https://youtu.be/6x8--vP6iQw Ok. hang in. hold on. LOVE. dang it. always, S.

[happyuk]

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[Axman]

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Just as relevant today as it was back then. What goes around comes around nothing new under the sun.

The Axman

[Axman]

Hmmm... I am going to start with this one... Those were the days. https://youtu.be/kXc5Oe_kj8k And maybe... The life I never led...https://youtu.be/IRHiwaVf9vI And I will add... Quiet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJOrAS2kYo hmm. all for now. One more... Only hope. https://youtu.be/6x8--vP6iQw Ok. hang in. hold on. LOVE. dang it. always, S.

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[pueblo]

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Wake Up
Motopony

Dreamers are believers
That's how you buy into a dream
But how much more do you need to see
Before you can believe?
It's time to wake up from this dream
What if I was never rejected?
What if you all just knew the right time to leave?
My judgment was never requested
But what if you gave me exactly what I need?
What if I altered my perspective?
What if I discovered what I never thought to see?
What if I'm still just asleep?
Wake up, wake up, you dreamer
Wake up and see the day
You thought it was a nightmare
But life has a mysterious way
What if these drugs aren't the problem?
What if my freedom's hiding just outside my reach?
What if I never hit bottom?
How far can I go fallin' 'fore I realize fallin's free?
What if we've all got a Satan
Hiding deep within our bellies, where he knows we cannot see?
What if my dollar bill is me?
Wake up, wake up, you dreamers
This dream has gone astray
A generation slumbers
Through modern life's decay
Wake up, wake up, you dreamers
Wake up and discern the signs
You thought it was a textbook
But life is a decadent display
Do you remember, kids?
Dreamers are believers
That's how you buy into a dream
But how much more do you need to see
Before you can believe?
It's time to wake up from this dream

[Ben]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

I was gonna post this song myself Bill, and what a powerful message it contains.

During lockdown, when I was doing food courier work, I was listening to Uprising constantly, and it filled me which such strength and courage to face whatever challenges were imminent, and a feeling of 'Yes! We can do this!'.

It was also played on a portable PA, whilst about 40 of us walked through the city centre to join up with an anti lockdown rally. Was a really surreal experience, and we got a lot of cheers and beeping of horns in support.

"The paranoia is in bloom
The P.R. transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs, keep us all dumbed down
And hope that we will never see the truth around, so come on
Another promise, another scene, another
Packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed with all the
Green belts wrapped around our minds and endless
Red tape to keep the truth confined, so come on
They will not force us
And they will stop degrading us
And they will not control us
We will be victorious, so come on
Interchanging mind control
Come let the revolution take its toll
If you could flick a switch and open your third eye
You'd see that we should never be afraid to die
So come on
Rise up and take the power back
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack
You know that their time is coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend
So come on
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious, so come on
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious, so come on
Hey, hey, hey, hey".

[Tyy1907]

One of my gym go-to's
Not for the faint of heart
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[Midnight Rambler]

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[Ben]

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Waiting for the stars to align..

[Sue (Ayt)]

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[Tyy1907]

Timely, put down the phone's and keep talking

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[chocolate milk]

Not high res but also no phones in the crowd.

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So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters

Yeah, trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know, that's right

Never opened myself this way
And life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters, yeah

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
I never cared for what they do
I never cared for what they know
And I know, yeah yeah yeah

Thanks Ben Macdonald, nice thread.

[angelfire]

Has to be.........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hvkPyiAFE

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world... You...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[Ben]

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""Hymn Of The Big Wheel"

[Horace Andy]

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
Look my son the weather is changing

I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again
You'll turn green and the sea turns red
My son I said the power of axis over my head
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where the factories drone
On the surface of the wheel they build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
And i'll show you sunset sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
And all the king's men cannot put it back again
But the ghetto sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
[x2]"

[bettye198]

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The Sea
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Sunrays touch the coastline
On the cutter shows the dust
Long nights are gone with the river
The water has been waiting long enough
We float on the river of time
Hold steady, hold steady
The sea comes, calls the summer
Forced out the cold
Don't follow the change of the tides
Hold steady, hold steady
Storm for hours and rainy days
And all our lives we're told
The stream will take us home
Sunrays touch the coastline
Warm our feet, show the glare
We walk through the sand in the warm night
The water will take the weight from us
And all our lives we're told
The stream will take us home
And all our lives we're told
The stream will take us home
We sell our lives to the sea
The sky lights up from the beach

[pueblo]

Poignant.

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Let It Be

Malvina Reynolds

When you walk in the forest, let it be
There's a flower in the wood, let it be
There's a flower in the wood, and it's innocent and good
By the stone where it stands, let it be

Let it be, let it be
It's so lovely where it is, let it be

Tho you want it for your own
If you take it from its place
It will not be what it was when you loved it
Where it stood in the wood

Let it be, let it be
It's so lovely where it is, let it be

It's a thoughtful child
Innocent and wild
In the wood by the stone, let it be

Let her be, let her be
When you walk in the forest, let her be

You think that you love her
And you want to discover
How she's made, so you take her apart
And break her heart

[Open Minded Dude]

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Vicarious

Eye on the TV
'Cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor it happens to be like
Killed by the husband
Drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son
She used a poison
In his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun until someone dies
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
"Why, oh why?"

[East Sun]

the above!!!!

[Ben]

The sixth sun... :heart:

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[Ben]

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[Sue (Ayt)]

Van Morrison recently announced that he is releasing 3 new protest songs.
Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54194498)

Here is one that was just released.
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[NX.P]

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[Sue (Ayt)]

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The Boxer

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

[Guru Know It All.]

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9kThoadKI

This track defined for me what a spiritual lover was.
We are not goody goodies , we are not bleeding hearts We Are Lovers.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9kThoadKI

[Valle]

For all the people still in "Platos Cave" => Fear => "In the Cage"

In The Cage Illustrated
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[Guru Know It All.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgBD2wysuI

Always Us Living Love.

[Matthew]

I've posted this in the "Fav. Music" thread, but it is bang on the money for 2020 (released Nov 2020)

TL'DH: Get off Saṃsāra and flee to the mountains and do it together

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