“Creator (Help Us Remember)” — Rap/Folk Fusion (Intro — spoken over a heartbeat drum) Creator… source within… Feel Mother Earth… feel all your children… Yeah… help us get out of our own way… (Verse 1 — rap cadence, multi-syllable) I’ve been wonderin’ where the wonder went, I’m huntin’ for the evidence, Every second feels eternal but the reverence is ever-tense, Elemental, temperamental, sentiment I’m sendin’ up, Ain’t no accident, the residents of heaven never ended trust, I’ve been walkin’ through the shadow like the shadow was a shepherd’s cloak, Talkin’ to the silence like the silence was the spirit spoke, Witness to the wilderness, forgiveness in the wilderness, I’m a fragment of the sacred tryna limit my forgetfulness. (Chorus — melodic, huge, folk-choir feel) Creator, all creation is a mirror made of you (made of you), Every sorrow, every color bendin’ back into the blue (into the blue), One spirit, one horizon, one unbroken point of view — Help us see each other, help us see the way straight through, Help us see the way straight through! (Verse 2 — rap, faster, wittier) Bless the elders with their wisdom, bless the children with their wonder, Bless the mothers holdin’ thunder, bless the fathers pulled asunder, We’re a family of fractals, every practical is mystical, Every ritual initial to the miracle that’s typical, I ain’t tryna be dramatic but the static’s automatic, When you’re livin’ in the matrix and forgettin’ that you have it, Compassion is a passenger inside of every passage, I’m assemblin’ the message like a message in the wattage. (Pre-Chorus — sung, tender) With your love and your compassion, Teach us tenderness in action, Help us see it this way, Help us be it this way, Let Mother Earth reveal it this way — (Chorus) Creator, all creation is a mirror made of you (made of you), Every sorrow, every color bendin’ back into the blue (into the blue), One spirit, one horizon, one unbroken point of view — Help us see each other, help us see the way straight through, Help us see the way straight through! (Bridge/Rap Break — sparse beat, intense) Help us move beyond the sufferin’, We been buried under wonderin’, Everything we’re goin’ through right now, Let it pass on through, no thunder, and No lightning left to hold us, Just the silence when it’s told us — We are wanderers, meanderers, Severed from the splendor that remembers us, Help us remember, surrender the defender in us, Back into the one truth — everything inside of us, All things as you… all things as you… (Final Chorus — full voice, folk-choir swell) Creator, all creation is a mirror made of you (made of you), Every heartbreak, every heartbeat, bendin’ back into the blue (into the blue), One spirit, one horizon, one unbroken point of view — Help us come back home to you, Come back home to you! (Outro — whispered, hand drum fading) Thank you, Creator… Everything belongs to you… Everything returns to you… Aho.
