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ABOUT THIS SONG Prayer is an interesting thing. There are many types of prayer: guidance, support, desired outcome, gratitude, healing, a change of form, a request for Godly assistance in smiting down ones' enemies. Wars are typically entered with each side beseeching God to favor them. Athletes thank God when they succeed but not when they fail...curious.Countries say my God is better than, stronger than, cooler than, your God...curious. So, as I started gathering perspectives around peace for this CD, I had to turn to prayer because it so often put out there as a means to the end peace...but because of the personal intent and the perspective from which it is delivered, it feels more like a sham, a manipulation, a last resort. Perhaps, if there was a collective acknowledgment of One Source which all pray to there might be some results in line with the wish. That is where I came from on this song. Often prayer does come as a last resort request, a desperate move, when all else seems hopeless. That's where the first verse starts in this kind of state of the world scenario.And from this place, and here is where I divert from the status quo, we pray to all beings, the complete Source, instead of our personal favorite. For in this choice we open to and hopefully affirm the unified collective that humanity is...to eradicate the fearful need to control and avenge another. It is a call for the re-union of all, a deep inner knowing that permeates us all, regardless of country, race, sex, or religion. I put the song in B flat, which resides between the Crown Chakra B and the Third Eye A . It seeds the vision with the Celestial in a conscious way. I use the 1 6 2 5 chord pattern that fed the 50's and the 60's music to provide a familiar framework in which to seed the new perspective. Listen and see where it takes you. Then listen again...see what opens up. See if you see the other with a different eye, one wrapped in the heart based big love. Why not, my friend? |
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SONG LYRICS: PRAY FOR PEACE
I’m not sure what is true anymore It’s a world with addiction to war Is it terrorist threats or oil or greed Is it standard of living or children to feed We are all humans we’re one single race But beliefs and borders have turned us away I’m down on my knees and I’m turning within I’m taking a breath and I slowly begin To pray I pray for peace To Mohammed and Jesus Jehovah and God To Krishna to Shiva to Buddha and Allah To the Source of us all with no name and no face I’m calling for union I’m calling for grace To turn off the hatred the fear in the heart To open all humans to what we all are Brothers and sisters united by life Let us remember please open all eyes Let the Love we are come raining down And wash this hatred from us now Let the peace begin...I pray We can alter this world that we see If we change from within our belief No matter the form that’s laid at our feet Just hold to the vision of all people free Though bombs they are falling and guns they resound Hold to the vision and see them laid down Call to the Power that feeds us inside The unwavering Truth that cannot die CHORUS I will pray for peace With each breath I take I will pray for peace in each word I say I will pray for peace when the bombs they fall I will pray for peace. Peace for us all ©1994. Music for Every Soul. All Rights Reserved. |
07 Pray For Peace
