1. |
New Life
05:40
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New Life
Trapped in this city of a million dark forces
Wrapped tight around the solar plexus
Feeling heavy every day
Seems there is no other way
Gotta keep on top
to keep from going under
I take my leave of this world
Into the mountains
To reform and recharge
Find my seat again
Then back into this world
To this role that I’ve unfurled
Wake Up!
Action with intention
What am I doing and why?
Question everything
What is behind this facade?
Is there anything?
Throw off the sandbags
And unscrew the jacks cuz
This walls gonna fall
DOWN!
My eyes light up in the forest
Carry back that spark to the city
In the time of the tyrannical order
Reigning terror south of the border
White power brutalize
Black, Indigenous lives
Wake Up!
The same thing happens here!
Rise above the dark heavy forces
Use the powerful weapon of our voices
Speak up Sing out and ROAR!
Dark forces we will break you down!
My eyes light up in the forest
Carry back that spark to the city
Written by Geoff Doner
2018
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2. |
First Conscious Shock
04:51
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First Conscious Shock
Born awake
Into a small sleeping town
And In my turn
I learned to fall asleep just like them
But something kept up a fire inside that I have found
A sound reminder of when I was awake and seeing
Something more real!
Sounds and colours I could feel
A depth of field
Time it had no relevance
I want to wake up from
Life-Being-Mechanical
Create First Conscious Shock!
Acute anxiety
Every time I turn around
Inside my head
A thousand voices arguing
It’s like I’m made up of many me’s inside of me
Trying to claim the ownership of my mechanics
Which one is Real?
Who am I when I am Real?
How does it feel?
I cannot remember
I want to wake up from
Life-Being-Mechanical
Create First Conscious Shock!
Long ago
Life formed around your True Nature this Hardened Shell
Now’s the time to crack it open
Rise out of it
Let it Go!
Let Go!!
Stop
Step back
Digest
It's just another "I" in you
Talking
Reacting
Pretending
To be the only "I" in you
Written by Geoff Doner
2017
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3. |
Love More Real
06:18
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Love More Real
Looks like you made yourself another war
Destroying homes collaterally
They come a knockin knockin on your shores
You shut them out
Call them the enemy
(Separate families)
I know that goodness is in everyone
But it gets trampled by so many things
It’s maybe how you’re raised
Or what you’ve seen
What has been done to you
Or chemically
I’ve been honing my innovation
I climb into a ball
And I shrink down small
Fly like a bug into inner spaces
Lets see what this machine is made of !
All my life
I’ve been fabricating
An inauthentic replica
I will get cultivating
A life more true
A love more Real
This is the last nightmare before the fever breaks
We’ll keep on fighting for the remedy as long as it takes
It’s always darkest before it dawns
Still, gotta get up off this trip that we each are on
If you have privilege then share it with the ones that don’t
Dismantle systems that have made it so
Take a breath
Take a moment
Inhale
And breathe out
Corporate greed is the enemy !
We trade our soul for a profit
While our siblings are self-immolating
North of the Himalayas
All my life
I’ve been imitating
A life revolving round the dollar
I will get cultivating
A life more true
A love more Real
A Love more Real!
Written by Geoff Doner
2017
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4. |
No Secret
06:16
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No Secret
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything Is Possible!
Anything!
Can you hear me calling?
From the rooftop hollering -
We're all gonna die
We can be sure of it
And it could come suddenly
Makes me think of my actions
My habitual distractions
My fears -
I will overcome them
And rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Can you hear me calling?
From the rooftop hollering -
We're all gonna die
We can be sure of it
And it could come suddenly
Makes me think of my actions
My habitual distractions
My fears -
I will overcome them
And rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
We're all gonna die
We can be sure of it
So let’s rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Rise above it
Rise above it all
Rise above it all (Anything is possible!)
Rise above it all
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
As long as you got
Freedom Water Food And a Home
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
As long as you got
Freedom Water Food And a Home
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
As long as you got
Freedom Water Food And a Home
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
As long as you got
Freedom Water Food And a Home
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
As long as you got
Freedom Water Food And a Home
Anything is possible
Uh-Huh Uh Huh
Anything is possible
It ain't no Secret!
Anything is possible
Anything is possible
It ain't no Secret!
From the rooftops hollering!
It ain't no Secret!
From the rooftops hollering!
It ain't no Secret!
Can you hear me calling?
From the rooftops hollering?
Written by Geoff Doner
2021
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5. |
Running Out
06:55
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Running Out
A shudder shakes me
As a mind wind rises
Thoughts clouding up inside this
Keeping company with Key Ogre Balance Ka-spel Cure and 93 Nurses
Complete withdrawal from the people I know
Who have I become
I no longer know
In this chrysalis, suspended inside
Breaking down all the built up lies
A seed in darkness
Needs to be nurtured
Transform its being and rise towards the light
“Get a grip!”
I know!
“Be responsible!”
I know!
But it’s hard to find the ground
When I feel like I’m sinking
I have a memory
Of cemetery sites
There my eyes opened wide
From the aged down to the infant
Stones for those that have not yet died
Definite impression
Food for digestion
My time is running out
To my family my dear friends all!
It's been a while
I miss you all!
I've been away fighting demons in the shadows
Terrified to be in the light of the day
I focus all my energy
Searching for the remedy
To turn around
Turn around
All my thinking
Shine a light into this machine
Shine it on everything that can be seen
Until there’s no where left for the shadows
No where left for the demons to be
Drop the weapons
Cast off this armour
Sound the alarm
Our time is running out!
Time is running out!
Written by Geoff Doner
2017
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Geoff Doner Toronto, Ontario
An Electro Acoustic Pop Ambient Goth Rock music project created and produced by Geoff Doner, composer, musician and cofounder of Bureau Of Power & Light (BPL), an art collective cultivating creative energies for positive social impact.
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