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Transcendentals

by Benjamin Spriggs

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1.
I thought you were the one happy sunshine and love all that stuff we’ve been told since we were kids, two and one we had fun, we had love we were dreaming in sync one to the other we beat hearts together and seen I mean we had so much there or was it the thrill? a love exploding like flowers in sun fireworks in the summertime time stretching to get it all All it takes is a word to send me high like a bird or low like a stone sunk into the ocean deep what we had were our words honey dew, chamomile soothe our minds and our hands hold us close in our beds to all our poems, spring! our hearts both did a thing we heard love’s song now that’s gone and now I’m here in the dark feeling blue and apart catching our memories like wind in the hand but not to re-live life to find it again
2.
A Dirty muddied brown winged bird perched upon a branch a dirty muddied melody comes for the songbird’s match a grassy molding earthy tone reaching for on high but only catching melodies as clouds, drifting by as it opens up its jolly wings to take flight once again it finds its arms have disappeared and its feet are fastened deep it struggles from this earthy pit this prison of itself but yelling out to call its friends its voice makes not a sound at once it thinks its given up and resigns to this beige tourniquet it tries to find a comfy spot God willing that it may but all to con-o-trary thoughts this bird can still have hope For what, I am not so sure that’s why this song I wrote
3.
Might Be 04:31
An ache in my bones enough time to be alone my feet have drawstrings always cinched tight a blanket around my shoulders a cloak for old soldiers or maybe a cocoon to hold me past midnight The chilled grass tickle my feet tease out the hits and the falls with their wintry tendrils make these abused feel all right the cover doesn't quite reach my toes and I'm already compacted and cold but I'll try to stay warm later now is the time to strain my sight I might be this, I might be that I've try to decide what I can who knows what I'll decide tomorrow? or if I'll decide to fight The pit in my stomach the hole where the love goes has always yawned wider when I find a light There's space to my left space to my right if I could share a moment with another if I had the guts to say help I would be all right if I had the guts to say help I would be all right Held by the clouds, strapped to this earth always felt a little bit penned in and somehow I'll find my wings
4.
Monochrome 04:33
Do we have to sit on our hands while the old world falls around us? Do we have to lower our gaze as our friends are becoming strangers? Why don't we sing a stronger song? Why don't we fight 'till the battle's won? Stuck inside a brave new world, a dream becoming unable to face reality in find some release I'd love I've locked myself in jail, a hell my own A child we're seen by those suspended by beliefs and convictions from long ago for what reason are we blinded, then? released to die, never loved again? Why don't we sing a stronger song? Why don't we fight 'till the battle's won? A child is no more incapable of being twisted than a mighty oak we've somehow got lost raising them blaming others for the bent saplings they've become I'd rather live in a world where we can love and live together Why don't we sing a stronger song? Why don't we fight 'till the battle's won? Do we have to sit on our hands while the old world falls around us? Do we have lower our gaze as our friends are becoming strangers?
5.
Oceans 03:32
The wall where the oceans meet The wall as long as the eyes can see A thousand miles in either direction to stifle the lovers’ obsession Oh, if we could only meet, if for a day or three all I know is the pain of being separate from me To the left, an expanse of the bluest complexion To the right, a field of exuberant convection A cobble wall of the surest construction Guards leviathans, the perfect obstruction Oh, if we could only see our fates for wanting to be free to see the world through each others’ eyes, to live happily Two souls, through love, became as one without the either, neither could run like clay in the hands of well-meant intention they were separate in time to serve as a lesson Oh, the curse of separation can only be explained as fire your love has sustained me, so for hell I will not tire The gods decreed that they are as equals but living as one, they fell under no weak rule They were separate, from body, from mind banished to the corners, until the end of time Oh, how lovely your cries from far ‘cross this ocean blue if only I’d be free from this life, and I could finally be with you How love is a gift we are still deciding The meaning of life we still stand to finding What lesson’s to be learned from this sorrowful tale whether to love completely, and be damned to hell Oh, the wall twixt the oceans blue separates me from you but all that keeps us going is to love through and through
6.
Sunrise on an open sea bracing Pacific breeze The sand is cold but friends are close this coast is the most snug post (chorus) Still so much we've got to see once we are finally free Time, time may take us by but we will never say goodbye Open sky, Open mind head to the stars, see what we'll find Deepest blue, black velvet a galaxy's cradle, a silent minaret (chorus) Whoa, don't say goodbye Whoa, don't say goodbye Soulless clouds cover the sky rain so much we could die Winds agust, storm afoot what a perfect time to read a book A thousand times, yes of course! Like wings on a bird, we could soar Hand in hand, to explore the land as far as our little legs can (chorus) The world is an open book filled with liars, filled with crooks but always, to their dismay resolute souls find a way How can it be the society that we see that those with good hearts are brought to their knees Not today, but tomorrow you'll see all this life can crack up to be Whoa, don't say goodbye Whoa, don't say goodbye Whoa, don't say goodbye Whoa, don't say goodbye I know it's there, that shred of hope Keep it safe with this simple note Mmmm... Whoa, safe as can be
7.
An empty boat moves with the wind a separate leaf soon leaves its kin the still pond reflects the light of the world’s most wondrous sights Midnight sky, the sea, a chilling breeze a fire, a log, a place for thought Where will I steer? With whom will I go? Across the ocean blue to just God knows (chorus) Don’t stop your dreaming for it is almost here Don’t stop your struggling for it is almost here How short our time, while we survive on thoughts we’ve shared while we’re alive A bond we’ve made, from distant shores of ‘who are you’ to ‘yes of course’ (chorus) The storm of storms has engulfed the world as the King of Kings has so foretold the sand will shift, and winds will blind the end will come, and we’ll be fine The hurricane visits rich and poor razing the land, ‘till it leaves no more and in the end life must go on the new begins and old is gone (chorus) In stillness our feelings come likes waves of the sea to break us down what once did crash must soon lose shape; the sadness is not our fate (chorus)
8.
Tomorrow 04:12
Oh, oh, oh, to be free, to be free, only tomorrow waits for me. A hundred nights, a thousand days, only tomorrow waits for me. To leap, To jump to soar anew but only tomorrow waits for me. The blackened morning, to wake my soul only the sorrow waits for me. An act undone a thing abandoned only tonight waits for me. The words held back the love not shared only the night waits for me. Time that’s spent on goodsome dreams only tonight waits for me. The world cast grey a smooth chilling sheen only the night waits for me. A boat on the dock held back- - “Not yet” “only tomorrow waits for thee.” The moonrise on far white eye of God only the journey waits for thee. A face in the mirror so full of naught so close to the future a future so fraught that someone like me will willingly flee- - that tomorrow that waits for me.

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released February 22, 2015

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