New Song: Learn to Morrow

“He said, ‘My name’s The Teacher. Oh, that is what I call  myself. And I have a lesson that I must impart to you, it’s an old expression but I must insist it’s true.’”- Jethro Tull, Teacher

My music mentor, Michael Morrow!

Hey now, what’s that sound?
Can’t you hear the motion in my mind?
I need time to capture all the minutes.
I don’t have a box to keep them still.
Who can help me? Morrow says he will.

Hey now, when’s the day?
Don’t you know this offer will explode?
There’s no limit to your love inside.
But you need to know how to create.
I can help you unload all the weight.

Learn to Morrow, lift your voice in flight.
Learn to Morrow and you’ll be alright.
Joy or sorrow, you can’t pick and choose.
But Learn to Morrow, beat or play the blues.

Hey now, look around
singing, dancing, shining star delight!
We have got the recipe for you.
You can bake it, fry it, mix it up.
Taste it, lick your lips and drain your cup!

Learn to Morrow, shake it up and down.
Learn to Morrow, coming to your town.
Beg or borrow, there’s no need to steal.
Learn to Morrow and your heart will heal.

Hey now! Hell gone! Damn your worried soul.
Hey now! Hell gone! Music takes control.
Today, play through, you can learn the way.
Morrow, Morrow, teach me how to pray.

Learn to Morrow, sing with us tonight.
Learn to Morrow, turn your wrong aright.
Joy or sorrow, beg or borrow, it’s ok.
Learn to Morrow, Learn Today, anyway.

The Peace Arrow

All aboard the Peace Arrow!

(Note: The horn of the Peace Arrow, a lovely RV, is in the key of F.)

When the Peace Arrow’s coming down the road
Grab a bottle, grab a seat and just a-lighten your load

If you ain’t got papers and you ain’t got cash
You better know how to roll or you better let it pass

Can you hear the highway screaming?
Hear the rumble strips a-blow?
In the howls of the evening flies the Peace Arrow from the bow…

Shooting ‘cross the land!
Soaring fast and free
The arrow don’t slow down
The arrow pierces me

If Peace Arrow drives through your town
Give a smile to the Devil as he’s riding around

If you wanna climb aboard you better roll ‘em up right
Cuz if the devil doesn’t like it you’ll be crawling all night

Can you see the lightning flashing?
Hear the thunder call your name?
In the wind and rain and darkest night, the Peace Arrow is aflame…

Shooting through the streets!
Through the traffic seas
The arrow don’t slow down
The arrow pierces me

There’s a target near the northern coast
There’s a target in the south
Once the arrow sets its sights on you, ain’t a damn thing you can do but

Shoot across the land!
Flying day and night
The arrow can’t be caught
The arrow stays in flight
The arrow stays in flight
The arrow stays in flight

Outside Riding: Poem for National Poetry Month

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I want to mount you in a field of flowers
and ride you as the wind blows ‘round
Let’s bathe in a sunshine shower
and feel the burn as we both come down

You are the blade in my sunlit sheath
You are the cream in my hand-me-brown
You are the air of my fiery wreath
Come plant your earth in me and drown

Outside riding, where we feel in the light what’s real
There’s no hiding from the steel of our body wheel

I want to wrap around your Maypole
and twirl like a spinning top
Let’s free the horses from the stable
we can ride all day, nonstop

You are the seed in my apple core
You are the stick in my caramel pop
You are the sand on my evening shore
Come, let me lick your salt water drop

Outside riding, where our secret can be told
There’s no hiding in the sunlit fields of gold

Riding long and sliding fast
Racing out into the east
Hold me tighter; grip my soul
Keep me close but let me roll

Outside riding, inside gliding
Outside breaking all the rules
Inside lighting up the night
Outside, inside, it’s alright

In Time and In Place

Princess of Wands from the Thoth Tarot Deck. Image source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xF86j3374Ns/TABgObhHTkI/AAAAAAAAEuo/8854yr-6IbU/s1600/Princess_of_Wands.jpg

This song was written as a reminder, as a warning, and because I needed to create something today. The Moon was in Aries, sextile Neptune in Aquarius, trine Mercury in Sagittarius, and opposite Saturn in Libra. I wrote it after thinking about the Princess of Wands.

I never have a plan or a mapped destination
I wait for the signs to reveal my location
And when the compass breaks it’s only to help me
Learn a new route without hesitation

Living this way has its ups and its downs
Sometimes I know where to look to get found
Often I’m lost and believing in fate
To fall down upon me and turn me around

There’s a time and a place to give up control
A time and a place to follow your soul
A time and a place to take up the reigns
And set your own course and make your own name

I conjured a vision to light up my life
It lived in my mind through the bleakest of nights
And one day I dreamed of a way to achieve it
My thoughts were a fume about to ignite

I pushed and I pulled with the fear in my heart
A pressure so deep it could tear me apart
Defeated at first, I began to see through
My victim, my foe, my doubt in the dark

There’s a time and a place to put on the brakes
A time and a place to make your mistakes
A time and a place to face your destruction
And conquer the beast or suffer abduction

A black hole can suck all the wind from your sails
And sometimes there’s no one around when you fail
The world is a cycle of blossom and burn
You have to be ready to play on your turn
You have to be steady to stay on the ground
You have to be open to get closed down

There’s a time and a place to fight or be beaten
A time and a place to fall in with the seasons
A time and a place to believe or to question
And find your own place in this world or the next one

Every Circle has a Turn

This song is dedicated to a member of the Splintered Sunlight Family who brings the dance floor to life. She’s a “bull-headed twin,” Taurus/Gemini cusp. It was written during a Sun/Mercury/N.Node conjunction in Sagittarius, squaring Mars in Virgo.

The Circle Turner

“She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”- Jim Morrison, All the Poems

Every circle has a turn
Everyone!
has a fire to be burned like the sun
Every circle has a turn
Everyday!
has a night to lead the way to the sun

There ain’t a square that can’t fit a circle in its box of rain
There ain’t a moon that can’t shed a light upon your windowpane
There ain’t a song that’ll keep a dancer sitting on the side
There ain’t a dancer like the lady with a twirling in her eyes

Every circle has a turn
Everyone!
has a fire to be burned like the sun
Every circle has a turn
Everyday!
has a night to lead the way to the sun

There is a girl in the midnight floating on a cloud of sound
She is a wispy, waltzy wonder, glowing round and round
She paints a circle with her arms and paints a heart with care
Take your turn upon the dance floor, follow her spinning hair

And if you feel caught up, just get your feet unstuck and let your spirit lead the way
Forget about tomorrow and yesterday, just keep your focus on today
Join the circle dancer among the sparkling notes of the guitar
She’s a jewel-maker, sundrop nightshaker stirring up the stars

Every sunrise has a light
Everyday!
is a fight to keep the darkness away.
Every morning has a sun
Everyday!
is a reason to believe in everyone.

And every circle has a turn…

Capricorn Lady

This song is dedicated to my Capricorn friend, to whom I credit my entry into the world of the Grateful Dead. She also took me to my first Splintered Sunlight show in 2009.

Earth Goddesses

There’s a woman I know, who comes and goes
She’s a gun filled with roses
She runs on the fuel from a beating heart drum.

With a fold of her arms she can shut your face down
With the gold of her heart there’s enough to go ‘round.

Oh, Capricorn lady! Maybe we can build you a home.
Let’s gather the stones of the plans you’ve delayed.
Let’s build you a home with the love that you’ve paid.
From above you were made.

I remember a time, I had fled from a lie
There was no place for hiding
I was dying in slow-motion, watching through fog.

Then I met such a lady, her spirit carefree
I was swept up in laughter when the lady swept me.

Oh, Capricorn lady! Maybe we can plant you a tree.
Let’s gather the seeds of the dreams you have shared.
Let’s plant you a tree with the hope you’ve repaired.
From strength you have dared.

In the traveling winds and the rising of Suns, there is always a keeper of words.
In a dark night of questions and mornings of ash, the Capricorn lady plows through, unabashed.

There’s a lesson I know, it comes and goes
It’s a play on the senses
It stays on my mind like a scorching hot brand.

With time I will learn it and teach it to you
With rhyme I can weave it so you can teach too.

Oh, Capricorn lady! Maybe, oh, maybe.
Oh, Capricorn lady you won’t wait for maybe.
Oh, Capricorn lady, you’ve made it already.
Oh, Capricorn lady, keep shining on, baby!

Our Friend Ben

This song was written during a new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius for a friend of mine of the Splintered Sunlight family for his birthday.

Inside the Splintered Sunlight temple. Image source: Splintered Sunlight

He takes the chance; first to dance
in time with Mason’s Children.
We are swaying; we are pilgrims.
We have traveled from the hills to hear our songs.

He makes the rounds and hears the sounds
the beat cannot escape him.
We are family; we are kindred.
We belong amongst the wind and sun and fire.

Our friend Ben’s an early riser.
Our friend Ben’s a soul advisor.
Every morning he reminds us
that our lives are here to drive us to the sea.
The sea of peace.

We want so much but what’s the rush?
Our time is now unfolding.
We have wheels and we are rolling.
We have wealth inside the gold of our embrace.

Our friend Ben, he is a seeker.
Our friend Ben is a believer.
Every morning he reminds us
that the life we live’s a gift and we are free.
Free to believe.

Come now, children, let’s assemble in the Splintered Sunlight temple.
Bring your lights and bring your flowers; bring your power to the tower of the night.
It’s alright if you feel lonely, in the crowd you’ll find the only friend you need.
And Ben will lead the way, indeed.

Our friend Ben’s an early riser.
Our friend Ben’s a soul advisor.
Every morning he reminds us
that our friends are there to guide us to the sea.
The sea of peace.

When the Muses Meet

This song was written during a Moon, Neptune, Chiron conjunction in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo, and a Venus, Mercury conjunction in Sagittarius. It is dedicated to the lead guitarist of Splintered Sunlight and his wife.

Butchy the Muse. Image source: Splintered Sunlight

Out on the dusky rails of road
The sun was setting up the show
I saw a woman in the sky
She was a cloudy firefly

I shifted gears into the air
My wheels-a-turnin’ up the stairs
Upon the heavenly highway
I gotta meet my woman there

When the muses meet
(When the muses meet)
Won’t you move your feet
(Why don’t you move your feet)
To the sound of love
(Yea, the sound of love)
To Mother Nature’s beat
(Oh, Mother Nature’s beat)

Across the silky strands of night
Her hair a raven-winged delight
My woman shook her locks for me
They wrapped around my heart so tight

We sailed among the leaves of rain
And washed our souls of earthly pain
I love my woman, she loves me
Oh, won’t you play our lovin’ game?

When the muses meet
(When the muses meet)
Won’t you move your feet
(Why don’t you move your feet)
To the sound of love
(Yea, the sound of love)
To Mother Nature’s beat
(Oh, Mother Nature’s beat)

There ain’t a storm or hurricane that’ll blow away our home
We got an angel on our fence and our love is garden-grown
You may be wonderin’, my friend, how to find your lovin’ land.
Me and my woman can show you—come and play with our Lovin’ Band!

Well, well, when the muses meet
(Oh, when the muses meet)
You gotta move your feet
(Why don’t you move your feet)
To the sound of love
(Yea, the sound of love)
To Mother Nature’s beat
(Oh, Mother Nature’s beat)

Yeah, yeah, when the muses meet
(Oh, when the muses meet)
Your soul will be complete
(Yeah, it’ll be complete)
You can dance in love
(Yea, you can dance in love)
To Mother Nature’s beat
(Oh, Mother Nature’s beat)

Keymaster

This song was written during a Balsamic Moon in Virgo conjunct the Sun and Venus also trining Pluto and Jupiter and opposing Neptune and Chiron, as well as a Mars/Saturn square. 

Where’d you get those hands, man?
Way to play that tune!
How’d you set my soul on fire and illuminate the room?

There are only two things, man, that can set me free.
One’s a set of keys and the other: mastery.

You must be the keymaster, you must be the release.
Set us free into the hereafter.
Set us free to be.

When will you return, man?
We will wait on end.
Why does time refuse to wait and forget about its friends?

There are only two doors, man, and you have the keys.
One door to tomorrow’s shores; the other door leads to me.

You must be the keymaster, you must be the release.
See us free into the hereafter.
Set us free to be.

I wonder how high a minute flies when an hour sticks like glue.
I don’t know how the system goes but the years stay true to you.
And my tears shine through…
My tears shine when you play the blues.

Who do you believe in, man?
We all believe in you.
Where do you find the reasons? Will you teach us when you’re through?

There are more than two truths, man, but you make the keys.
Give keys to the children; keep the master as your fee.

You must be the keymaster, you must be the release.
Set us free into the hereafter.
Set us free to be, to be, to be, to be…

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius: 3rd and 6th house influences

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How’s the solar eclipse in Sag treatin’ ya? This one hit my solar 3rd house and natal 6th. As the 3rd (ruled by Gemini/Mercury) rules communication and the 6th (ruled by Virgo/Mercury) rules routines and work, you can see this is an ultra-communicative eclipse for this Mercury-infused gal!

To celebrate this new bursting forth of energy, I’ll be sharing my lyric poems and songs. I’m aiming to make this a more regular occurrence so I can really use the energy of the 3rd and 6th houses.

Stay tuned!