(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… Help us hear the quiet place where all our voices pray… (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. (Pre-Chorus A — sung, gentle build) When the daylight starts to shutter, When our hearts forget each other, Lift our eyes into you, Hold our minds in you too, Let your memory move through all we do — (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 B — 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! (Verse 3 — rap, reflective, fluid) I’ve been runnin’ from the quiet like the quiet was a judge’s gavel, Scrollin’ through the noise instead of listenin’ to where I travel, Every headline, land mine, fracturin’ the common mind, Feelin’ like we’re separate when we’re threaded in the sovereign spine, I’ve been searchin’ in the data, in the static, in the chatter, But your presence in the present is the only thing that matters, Every breath a little lantern that remembers what is true, Every heartbeat sayin’ softly, “I am livin’ here as you.” (Pre-Chorus C — sung, rising) When we’re drownin’ in confusion, Lost inside the grand illusion, Let your mercy break through, Let your wisdom shine through, Turn our many selves back into you — (Chorus — bigger, call-and-response) 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 feel each other, help us feel the way straight through, Help us feel 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… (Bridge 2 — sung, spacious, echoing the rap) When the armor starts to shatter, And the small self doesn’t matter, Lay our fear at your feet, Let our fractures complete, Every broken piece returning to the beat — (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! (Final Tag — choir refrain) Help us remember, help us remember, Every spark and every ember, From the many to the center, back to you, Help us remember, help us remember, Every tide and every river, Flowing out and flowin’ in as only you. (Outro — whispered, hand drum fading) Thank you, Creator… Everything belongs to you… Everything returns to you… We remember… we remember… Aho.
