The Man

What you’re doing isn’t what you dreamed of. Those dreams have gotten displaced.
Where you are isn’t where you were going. Now your time’s gone to waste.
Who you are isn’t who you are being. That person’s being subdued.
What’s effects everything in this world now…has cast its shadow on you.

And you struggle and sigh cause you don’t like the life that’s been dealt you.
Think the world could be better, but you don’t know what it is that you can do.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say you’re someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

You know you’re making some dreams come true…just not for yourself.
Half the time you’ve spent living this life…benefited someone else.
What started as a tool in life… has opened into a hell.
Running yourself down in an exchange…that just isn’t mutual.

Try to take it in stride but just getting thru life makes you so stressed.
Don’t take too much to see what you want isn’t really of their interest.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

I’ll not be owned by a rich man…nor will I be afraid.
Won’t bear that burden my whole damn life…too much a price to be paid.
It’s all the difference in life to me…can’t let myself be used.
Why spend my life dreaming I had another…with so much I’ve left to do? No! NO!

Too much struggle inside…don’t have to wonder why I don’t fit in.
I know I’m better off…cause something isn’t right with their system.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

I may stumble or even fall…I’ll always climb back to my feet.
Keep trying till I get it right…you just can’t give up that easy.
If we stop relying on the man…a smaller man he would be.
We can start to direct our own fate…and life may begin to feel free.
Life just may begin to feel free!

Balance

(said)
Life in balance
Clarity of mind
Heightened sensation
Perception refined

Lucidly attuned
Receptive, retaining
Drinking every nuance
Finding value and meaning

(sung)
The greatest potential of humankind
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind

(inside parenthesis from here on is said rather than sung)
We are inflicted...
(Life in balance)
A sick society,
Too damn conflicted...
(Clarity of mind)
And we don't get what we need.
Blugeoned, unwitted...
(Heightened sensations)
Tired from the siege,
life complicated...
(Perception refined)
Don't know what to believe.

In a world filled with suffrage and strife...
(Lucidly attuned, receptive, retaining)
What have we left to cherish in our lives?
(Drinking every nuance, finding value and meaning)

The greatest potential of humankind
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.

Willfully engaging
Open and limitless
A newborn state of being
A higher consiousness

Appreciation deepens
Elation swells inside
So high from the vibration
Desire to spread the light

The greatest potential of humankind
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.

Wave of inspiration
Dreams start to manifest
Effective good intention
Collective vision quest

Where once was desperation
Hope thrives and heals the heart
Strength to heal the word around us
Of which we're all a part

Life turns into art

The greatest potential of humankind
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.

Religion

God never asked for your religion
She just meant to bless your life
With some basic rules for guidance
Away from hardship and strife
Her words have been abused and twisted
For the agenda of a few
Portrayed as jealous and spiteful
To manipulate you

God never asked for your religion
You are not required to give him praise
And if you use the mind he gave you
You won't be judged for lack of faith
He didn't make you in his image
That's a human vanity
Born from a human ego
To satisfy his needs

Tread lightly sons and daughters
Lightly woman and man
God's wisdom's more than anyone
Could ever completely understand
Stay humble and remember
You'll be held to what you do
It's your relationship with your God
And not your point of view.

God never asked for your religion
And she never told you to
Have hatred for others
Who do not see her as you do
To devalue another's life
Or be cruel in her name
Take retribution for her
And you'll be judged the same

God never asked for your religion
That concept's from the minds of men
Interpreted and expanded
With poetic license
You say the bible is the word of God
Part of his master plan
I find it hard to take verbatim
Written by the hand of man

Tread lightly sons and daughters
Lightly woman and man
God's wisdom's more than anyone
Could ever completely understand
Stay humble and remember
You'll be held to what you do
It's your relationship with your God
And not your point of view.

God never asked for your religion
And she really thinks it's time
You practiced what you preach
And keep yourself in line
Leave judgment to the higher power
Cause your the one committing sin
Her rules aren't for you to judge others
But to judge yourself within

Tread lightly sons and daughters
Lightly woman and man
God's wisdom's more than anyone
Could ever completely understand
Stay humble and remember
You'll be held to what you do
It's your relationship with your God
And not your point of view.

God never asked for your religion
Oh, but spirituality
Is a guiding light in your dark hour
To find the happiness you seek
Spirituality -yea! Spirituality!
I don't need your religion to guide me...
I've got spirituality.

Our true nature is to be creators -now get started.

Doesn't help to look at life as something you can't change.
Doesn't help to reject new things as trivial or strange.
Doesn't take a genius to know the world's in troubled days.
Doesn't help to pretend that life can still go on this way.

You can ignore the problem, but it will not change your fate.
You can hope someone will fix it for you and that they don't come too late.
You can add to the destruction and hope more pain will set you free
You can repeat history til it kills you -but not me! Not me!! Yea!!!

I am -a creator!
We are creators!

Well I make music, beauty, love, and art,
Within creation's splendour -explored the reaches of my heart.
I have created answers to the problems that have plagued me
And with belief's persistence created way to be...Yea!

Creation gives you wisdom -a spirituality,
An homage to your higher power -no matter what your faith may be.
No purer way to live a life in the things we say and do-
A cretor -in the image o what created you! .....Yeah!

I am -a creator!
We are -creators!


When in the grip of despiration -counter with belief.
Takes more than to just end a conflict -you've got to create peace.
Can't answer hate with hatred -because it only breeds.
Can't end destruction with destruction -only creation sews that seed!

Create a positive inlfuence -where there's negtivity!
Create solutions -where there's overwheling need!
Create resistance -where opression threatens fate!
Most of all -create love when in the face of hate!

We are -creators!
We are -crea -to -oh -ors!

We can create true freedom! We can create our fate!
There is not a situation -we cannot create!
We can create our future! Listen to what I say!
Creation is a living power and we will create way!
We will create a way!

We are -creators! We are creators!
We are -creators! We are creat -oh -oh -ors!

FEAR and PRIDE

Always talking about your job, the one you say you hate.
Your time’s given to values to which you can’t relate.
You wonder how you let your life get in such a sorry state.
But uncertainty seems scarier than a mediocre fate.

Been told all your life that your country is the best,
Your wrong from right, your way of life is never second guessed.
So damn anxious to call yourself better than the rest,
You can’t admit that in your name the world’s been made a mess.

Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride
Has got it’s hand on your life.
Living your life in –Fear and Pride
Sho takin you for a ride
Living your life in –Fear

So you’ve got the right to hate someone cause they don’t act like you do.
They have a different God, How they like sex seems odd –did you even think it though?
Won’t contemplate that this tirate leaves you slightly more than screwed,
When it aint hurtin nobody –why even bother –when it’s only about you?

You say the muslim man and you can’t live side by side,
Cause he’s diametrically opposed to the way you live your life.
Can’t see this image for what it is –manipulation and lies.
Put out there to confuse you and keep your mind occupied.

Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride
Has got it’s hand on your life.
Living your life in –Fear and Pride
Sho takin you for a ride.
Living your life in –Fear

Your pretty sho what you think you know –or at least so you’ve been told.
Tossin words round, wanna hold your ground, but the story’s tired and old.
Won’t be so great when it’s too late & your life’s been bought and sold.
Your fear and pride has you compromised and your left out in the cold.

Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride
Has got it’s hand on your life.
Living your life in –Fear and Pride
Sho takin you for a ride.
Living your life in –Fear

Your Destiny

Preacher, Preacher out there teaching the golden rule
Teacher, teacher busy passin the word on too
Will your life have meaning in a world that's screwed?
Tellin you, now more than ever it's up to you

Crazy people comondeering your life for greed
Blood and warfare over an obsessive need
Poisoning our life source poisons us too
How can you pretend there’s no effect on you?

Control your destiny............or someone else will
Control your destiny or someone else will
You better control your destiny...........or someone else will...
Control your destiny...


Runin around pretending you don't have to care
Looking for comfort, surprised there isn't comfort there
Waitin for someone to save your life so displaced
Your life's in your own hands, and life is interlaced

Control your destiny ...or someone else will
Control your destiny or someone else will
You better control your destiny...or someone else will...
Control your destiny


Far as I know in life you only get one chance
Your life's potential is the consequence
Don’t let your prescious world be wasted for someone else’s cheap thrill
You better control your destiny or someone else will


Control your destiny...........or someone else will
Control your destiny or someone else will
You better control your destiny...........or someone else will...
Control your destiny

Disposable People

When I was a young girl
I did not understand
I was already being thought of as a resource
In somebody else's plan

You know the rich man wants to put me to work
So he can reap my reward
The woman wants to sneak behind my back
So she can be my man's whore
The politician wants to keep me in line
So I can work for him the best
The con man wan'ts to sell me some fake dreams
So he can take the rest

But I say...
We're not disposable people
My life is not throw away
Your motive's selfish and evil
If you're tryin to use up a part of me

Now that I'm older I still have my dreams
Some old and now some new
And life's experience has afforded me wisdom
And clarified my view

Because government is just another word for big business
I'ts money resource is you
And the taxman don't give a damn about freedom
When the bill is due
And that lover man, he'll fade out after a while
gets his kicks then move on
It seems like every man wants to jerk off in my body
cum and then then be gone

But I say...
We're not disposable people
My life is not throw away
Your motive's selfish and evil
If you're tryin to use up a part of me

If you've dreamed you're life different from this picture
You want to write a different page
If we don't start placing value on each other
It aint ever gonna change

Because respect is the only answer to avoiding extinction
I said respect is the only answer to avoiding extinction

We're not disposable people
My life is not throw away
Your motive's selfish and evil
If you're tryin to use up a part of me

This aint a world of disposable people
We live and we love and we hurt and we bleed
If you live your life through using people
You're putting your want in front of our need
I'm standing up for all this worlds people
Not here to be used and then just fade away
We'll no longer tolerate your kind of evil
We're making a stand, Yea it ends here today

We're not disposable people
My life is not throw away
Your motive's selfish and evil
If you're tryin to use up a part of me

Change

All my life I tried to live like
People told me to
I didn't trust my instincts
Or what I wanted to do
I listened to the fools
when they told me
Girl you dream too loud
I followed in the rut
they paved for me
hoping it would work out

Years pased by and I got tired
Nothing seemed to change
I watched the same fools
who would mold my life
Act through selfishness and rage
Then I realized I'd
grow old and die still
Waiting for my turn
I took a good look inside myself
This is what I learned

You can only be told lies for so long
Before you just have to trust yourself
You can only be led for so long
Before you decide to lead yourself
You can stand by and watch for so long
Before you have to stand up for what is true
the lesson's impact is lifelong
The only one you can trust to bring change is you

Aint it funny how nobody
seems to recognize
what feels right for themself
fear demands reassurance
it also justifies
It puzzles me
how we'd rather listen
to the ideas of someone else
it leaves us victim to usery
Because we didn't trust ourselves

Or just maybe we're too lazy
to take back control
seems too big a task
programmed to accept last
and a life that can't feel whole
With so much unjust
how can we trust
their claims that this is the best way
When in your gut you know its not
you don't believe what they say

You can only be told lies for so long
Before you just have to trust yourself
You can only be led for so long
Before you decide to lead yourself
You can stand by and watch for so long
Before you have to stand up for what is true
the lesson's impact is lifelong
The only one you can trust to bring change is you

trust yourself to really hear this
then you can decide
life's new meaning is greed
Were ruled and bullied
Into living for a lie
It has come to a place
where theres such careless waste
If we don't try to transcend
this world that values want
and makes a world of need
We can't avoid its bitter end

You can only be told lies for so long
Before you just have to trust yourself
You can only be led for so long
Before you decide to lead yourself
You can stand by and watch for so long
Before you have to stand up for what you know to be true
the lesson's impact is lifelong
The only one you can trust to bring change is you