Past The Veil — Shannon Lay

Moving

Bring us back to reality

Bring us back to love

The goal isn’t certainty

That’s the one thing you can’t count on

It’s moving it’s always been

The crime lies in stopping it

Let it all be

Bring us back to reality

Bring us back to love

The goal isn’t certainty

That’s the one thing you can’t count on

It’s moving it’s always been

The crime lies in stopping it

Let it all be

Set it all free it’s heavy…

Set it all free

Let it all be

Set it all free it’s heavy…

If it’s different you’ll be ok

If it’s different it’s ok

If it’s different you’ll be ok

If it’s different it’s ok

If it’s different you’ll be ok

If it’s different it’s ok

Let it all be

What does it mean

You cannot give me what you do not have

Follow the light in the darkness find what you lack

What of the future what of the past

Listen for love and find your way back

Mind over matter lay in the grass

Though it is hard to believe

Think twice

I look back holding only

My heart open as wide as it can be

I tired to hold it with shaking hands

But I cannot receive what I do not believe

Call it perspective call it a game

Take it from me it’s all an illusion

Forgive the misstep love the mistake

That is the magic we create

I sit back holding only

My heart open as wide as it can be

You cannot give me what you do not have

Follow the light in the darkness find what you lack

What of the future what of the past

Listen for love and find your way back

Forgive the misstep love the mistake

This is the magic we create

I sit back

Holding always

Your heart gentle as I can be

La da da da da

Honest Man

All time slow dive riding in

So nice sometimes saves a friend

Part of me is an honest man

Fault line break nine soothing

Long sigh date night deep love

Part of me is an honest man

Measure of madness

Habit of cabinets

Sign of fear

Part of me is an honest man

All time slow dive riding in

So nice sometimes saves a friend

Part of me is an honest man

Measure of madness

Habit of cabinets

Sign of fear

Part of me

The Calling

It takes a heart

It stops to start

And away night becomes light of day

Never shown but always showing

I take it in and hold it always

I will notice the light that’s shining through

It lingers there awaiting you

If you can feel you’re falling

And you can’t see a thing to hold

Remember who are who you’ve been

You can have a chance at anything

I see now I saw you then

You are more than your worst day

I know at times we drift away

Take a breath

You are the knowing

I will notice the light that’s shining through

It lingers there awaiting you

If you can feel you’re falling

And you can’t see a thing to hold

Remember who you are who you’ve been

You can have a chance at anything

Past the veil

I drink it in

It’s different now

Open up

Fill it in fill it out

There’s spaces here too

Found in the blue

I can see there’s something beyond

Can this wall be nothing but a hall

Lead me down

Past the grand the great facade

I have found it in the moons light

I’m contorted so I unwind

Help me stay here

Past my comforts

Where the truth really lies

Deep in the blue

Past the veil a hand reaches out

Hold me close

There’s something about this hurt that I love

This warmth here with you in the blue

I have found it in the moons light

I’m contorted so I unwind

Help me stay here

Past my comforts

Where the truth really lies

Deep in the blue

Let it change now

Whom gods destroy

I saw her broken bones

I went insane

My hatred did explode

And in an instant of grief

I destroyed them all

Is this love

I’m not certain I should praise it

Only that it should be left alone

Only that it should be left at home

Is this love

But please give me time

Horizons

I’ve sat around

In no time

Tryin to

Come back down

They need me down here

We need to feel the ways in which we make a difference

It’s smaller than you think

It’s quiet as a year of listening

It tends emanate

It’s a horizon stretching past the sight line and beyond

No need to dry your sad eyes

No need to hide your big smile

They need you down here

We need to feel the ways we feel and feel and feel

Watch it with trust

But know that it will change

There’s time to be calm

But I can’t find it anywhere

Look there

It’s smaller than you think

It’s quiet as a year of listening

It tends to emanate

It’s a horizon stretching past the sight lines and beyond

No need to dry your sad eyes

No need to hide your big smile

They need you down here

We need to feel the ways we feel and feel and feel

Watch it with trust

But know that it will change

It’s a horizon stretching past the sight lines and beyond

Room For Less

When is enough, enough?

When is too much, too much?

If I could stop I would

Maybe I’ll stop

Talk without the weapons

Let the beast of burden rest

Concentrate the separate

Challenge at connectedness

I will make room for less

I’m a boney swimmer battling the waves

It’s a calm lake fed by ocean rage

If I could stop I would

Maybe I’ll stop

Talk without the weapons

Let the beast of burden rest

Concentrate the separate

Challenge at connectedness

I will make room for less

I will make room

When is enough, enough?

When is too much, too much?

If I could stop I would

Maybe I’ll stop

Sky Song

The sun feels me

Hand to face

Warmth of something

More than me

I feel the sun

Full moon holds me

Root to root

Give it all to you

Take from me take from you

The sky sees me

I see the sky

What a joy to be

I see the sky

New moon shows me

Hand to darkness

Held in all the deepest nonsense

New moon shows me

Give to me give to you

The sky sees me

I see the sky

What a joy to be

I see the sky

I need more water

Decide I need more water

I’m fine they’ll just be small

Be leaf I’m standing tall

Indeed we need more

Sunshine

We’ll be alright

This space needs more of us

Serene I must have called

This space is made for me

Sunshine

We’ll be alright

This space needs more of us

What if we called it success to sit around in the shade for days?

What if the world could be sad?

What if the whole thing is missing tears?

Your tears

Sunshine

We’ll be alright

This space needs more of us