Do you find that when you are looking off in into the night sky your life feels small? Insignificant? Does the prospect of death have you shaking, confused, and scared? This song was written to provide a different perspective on that same amazing universal view as well as the prospect of "non-being" which we all must face in our lives.
From a material standpoint, we are of the same basic "stuff" that everything in the Universe is made of. The atoms in our bodies were once synthesized in the heart of ancient stars. We tend to look at the world outside of our bodies as something that is apart from "us", when in reality, what we are looking at is still undeniably ourselves. From the food we eat, to the air we breath - we are constantly taking in that which is not "us", yet it becomes "us" as it gives us life and energy. The only conclusion that one can come to, having truly understood this, is that all of that which is "outside" of our bodies, is as much apart of ourselves as that which is within them.
We are not the small little blips that we think we are; arising once and burning out forever on the radar screen of eternity. We instead are a manifestation in time and space of the entire cosmos, and share with it in the infinity that only it may know. Every Being throughout the Cosmos represents a nexus whereby the universe can experience itself from an infinitely particular perspective.
"I am it, it is me."
lyrics
A pretty girl,
With golden hair.
Stares at the stars,
She feels so small laying there.
She loves the sky at night,
It’s all so beautiful.
But deep inside,
Se wonders why,
She has to die.
But girl those stars you see,
They’re just like you and me,
They too someday will burn out.
But they just burn, into the night.
And that’s the beauty,
Them just burning, fierce and bright.
I am the cosmos,
I am the cosmos,
I am the cosmos,
I’ve been around before.
I am the thing that comes and goes,
My body dies,
A baby’s born,
A flower grows.
I hear you went,
Around the world.
Saw many colors,
Many places,
Many faces.
But did you know?
That what you see,
Is always around you,
It’s the moment, that you cannot see.
But every night,
Every place, beneath the stars.
Your haunted by the ghost,
Of who you really are.
I am the Cosmos,
You are the Cosmos,
We are the Cosmos,
We’ve been around before.
I am the thing that comes and goes.
My body dies,
A baby’s born,
A flower grows.
I am, I am the cosmos.
You are, you are the cosmos.
We are, we are the cosmos,
We’ve been around before.
And I am, I am the thing that comes and it goes.
My body dies, oh no,
But a baby’s born,
And a flower grows.
And a tree lets its seed, loose in the wind.
And the, wind blows the clouds,
and makes it rain, and there’s a tree again.
And I eat the fruit that,
Comes from, comes from the tree.
So don’t that mean that the
Sun, and the wind, and the clouds are a part of me?
Are you starting to see (Oh oh ohhhhh)
Are you starting to see (Oh oh ohhhhh)Are you starting to see (Oh oh ohhhhh)
That I am It and It is me. (x2)
credits
from The Unknown Woodsmen,
released December 1, 2011
Phil Muka - Guitar, Vocals, Additional Percussion
Casey King - Lead Guitar
Pete Dawes - Bass
Luka Starmer - Drums, Additional Percussion
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