Shelter

I see a trail, a grudging light.
It's burning bright, it takes me home again.
And I can't understand the plan.
I try to fight but I cannot contend.
A magnetic force, it's a true north.
What is its source, it is a friend?
But more than once I have begun to feel that I will easily transcend.
Look away. No hope is lost I never fear.
That I'll be desperate, left out on my own.
I feel it yeah, but soon realized the whole time I never was alone.
Busy city, crowded clubs,
or touring in a van away from home.
If we can listen we will hear.
A voice that will teach and help us grow.
I don't know what you're been through but my guess too is life is always rough.
It leaves us bruised and bloodied,
it makes us hard.
It makes our skin real tough.
When my world crumbles on me as it does each week.
It is not the ed. I look inside, I listen too.
'cuz I'm sure there's an ally within.

Another year I? here, unload the gear.
There? a health food restaurant over there.
The sound? check? now but no one cares.
Hey what time are we on stage?
The trailer? like a puzzle packed.
With T-shirts, drums, and all our crap.
We take it back.
It? a science the third day.
Now we pack the gear, we?e out of here.
It? a 14 hour drive but no one? sleeping.
Say your good-byes and then we?e in the van again.
Relationships we?e on the phone.
The autobahn? our second home.
I know those roads, from Berlin to Rome.
Like 80 in the states.
And I love this city ad I? love to stay but at 12 o??lock we?e o our way.
I?l be back again in early May cuz we just got added dates.
I?e traded in the university for this back seat and poverty.
But this whole time I felt so free and learned more in the end.
And winter has passed but we made it through.
Don? tell me about paying dues.
And if you paid, then you?l know too.
you?l end up doing it again and again and again.

A show in Buffalo and you would never know the effect it had right on me.
And everything was fine, so many kids in line.
I was feeling good within myself.
Then six guys ad a gun and I saw people run.
Baseball bats were swinging and little kids went down as they beat them to the ground.
And I stood stunned just singing?æ??ake me today?br> Closed my eyes and prayed.
As the Song of Brahma was running through my mind.
It never seems that this worldæ?? a dream and K.C. looked at me and said,
æ??ife and death, itæ?? just a matter of time.?br> Ran to the van but we were blocked in.
We were helpless and prayed for connection.
So we all gathered æ??ound chanting transcendental sound for shelter and protection.
But my number was up next and they beat me with a stick.
My own blood made me blind.
They beat me from behind but running through my mind The Holy Nameæ?? reflection.
Kneeling on the floor and bleeding more and more.
But now the dramaæ?? ending.
Weæ?®e all players on a stage filled with joy and rage.
But he curtainæ?? soon descending.
æ?¶uz in this world thereæ?? death and danger at every step.
So whatæ?? our meditation?
I had a precious gift.
I knew my mind was fixed,
a chance to view perfection.

In the public eye they?e fabricated you.
Chose your selling points to sell.
Became an object they can hate or pursue.
But no one asked just how you felt.
But don? you think I feel?
Don? you think I? real?
Are you so dull that you don? have a clue?
And I don? think it? right, this invasion in my life.
No, one day you?l feel what I? going through.
In the public eye you?e always on stage.
They?e magnified your every move.
Free to roam around in your golden cage.
But you better watch just what you do.
And you?e bound by their chains,
you?e not allowed to change.
In the public eye.
And you?e living a life you must defend in the public eye.
In this world you exchange the right to know who? your real friend
and why it? a loser? game that I can? win,
I can only try.

Born ignorant of our higher needs.
Lost and trying to proceed.
No direction, just helplessly.
Trying to break free attracted to all that fades.
The temporary world betrays.
And sucks us in, we stand amazed.
And lose our sense as if we?e crazed.
We are spirits blinded by this world that shines
and steals our common sense away.
We are spirits blinded but I want to see the light of day.
Looking for a different high.
More tied up than before we tried.
And if we knew we always lied.
Hurts too much to let it by.
We are spirits but we forget.
And love becomes full of regrets.
To embrace this world? our biggest threat when in reality we haven? met.

I?e got to concentrate on priorities.
Can? negate what means the most to me.
What? our fate?
What? our destiny?
Start with each moment? activity.
I try, I try, I try, I try
But what? important slips right by.
When 20 summers pass and they?l go fast.
Will I look back and be satisfied within my heart
And at peace within my mind?
When 20 summers fly, fly on by
Will I like what I am and who I am or will I even give a damn?
We focus time on what matters least and our reward, a catastrophe.
Looking back, what feels good to me?
Oh, the value of integrity.

I have dream but it seems I try to get ahead,
you try to get in between.
You deride but my cry inside.
You?e got o do what you love.
Or you?e not satisfied.
Killer of my dreams.
You know exactly what I mean.
Killer of my dreams,
I won? let you get inside of me.
Get off my back, I know you lack.
I know inside you?e rotting.
And that? why you attack.
Rise above, give some love.
The more we give, the more we get.
The less we need back.