Essential

I hear it in my bones tones which bemoan nothing The spirit, whose visage is the stage we act upon Is a guidance who’s countenance Whisper its will into the weave with The grace and the ease that makes quasars breathe In a consistency That stays with me, and Whose essence is essential Eternal, jubilantly Abides My ignorance- such good luck- For all I do not know out weighs what i do By incalculable magnitudes Seductive, destructive Yet ultimately productive somehow Still somehow made to grow My intents are good No need to further dissect Pure intention is enough Barely just To qualify as trying No thing is unattainable Which will better you By attaining [Chorus] Essential, essential It abides of me Essential, essential A dance of flesh and flex, forces of physics The spirit’s presence imbued in it What it expects and what it will achieve Will never be two different things I am being made By what I choose to do (Essential, essential) I become more like what i choose Must be careful what i do [Verse] All things done impact my sum Their marks go under skin A stain a profane pollution A taint a tiny dilution Each one an indentation And reshapes who I’ve been And in that Who i become Habit has its uses But it’s invasive in your gardens Prune it often, keep it moving Before it hardens. Keep habit fresh Never let it set It can get like cement [Pre-Chorus] Discernment, a concern which fears i might miss truth amidst all the truth likenesses That is: might pass over it As another near miss Never to get that bit of realness Discernment: you have to learn it When your wisdom is least manifest And what? Just trust that its all true? Sounds to me like a chump move. [Chorus] Essential, essential It abides of me Essential, essential A dance of flesh and flex, forces of physics The spirit’s presence imbued in it What it expects and what it will achieve Will never be two different things I am being made By what I choose to do (Essential, essential) As I become more like what i choose Must be careful what i do [instrumental Bridge] [Chorus] Essential, essential It abides of me Essential, essential A dance of flesh and flex, forces of physics The spirit’s presence imbued in it What it expects and what it will achieve Will never be two different things I am being made By what I choose to do (Essential, essential) I become more like what i choose Must be careful what i do