https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZV-T33MT4
One of my big aims with these new songs is to aim for simplicity. To keep coming back to as pure a melody as I can, to make the words as plain and direct as possible. I am inspired by one of my favourite songs, My Life by Iris Dement, which is almost offensively straightforward.
This is about refining down and working hard to do less.
For Roma
Inspired by the teachings of John Garrie Roshi
Lyrics:
React
Could you do less?
Could you yearn less?
Could you learn more?
Could you be more?
Could you move less and be moved more?
Be content to react beautifully
Be content to react elegantly
Effortlessly
Be content
I write a page
Edit down to a phrase
I uncover not make
Refine not create
Could you say less and mean more?
Be content to react beautifully
Be content to react elegantly
Effortlessly
Be content
What’s this thought for?
What’s it going to solve?
What’s this moment for?
What’s this lifetime for?
Be content to react beautifully
Be content to react elegantly
Effortlessly
Be content
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