Unimaginable Life

Hello there
You tell me
You got a lot of real respect
For my kind
The old timers
I'm old enough to know the rules.
But nobody gave me the book
I had to learn to improvise myself
'n time 'n time i let me down
Until i learned the hard way
How to feel
What's real

Chorus:

But you get one chance at a life
To give it all and get it right
'n after all this time in mine
Everything i thought i knew
Was tellin' me
To give it up
And leave it all behind
But you get endless second chances
To take it one chance at a time

For love 'n money
I made a lot-a dumb mistakes
In my time
Believe me
I proved and proved it
I can't believe i'm gonna prove it again
It's time to reinvent myself
But where the hell does the fire come from
When makin' it don't make it anymore?

Chorus

Time and love
I been lookin' all my life
For time and love
Hoping a breeze will come 'n take me
I been waiting
And waiting
And sailing in one place
Like a bird against the wind
Afraid to turn and fly away

I am opening
I am opening up

Birth energy
Be my teacher
Birth energy
Heal my fears
Teach me trust
Teach me compassion
Walk me into the darkness
And into your light

Birth energy
You are woman
Birth energy
Within the man
Ever constant
Ever changing
Let your winds blow
Rock me in your storm

Let the bough break
Let me fall
Into your arms
It is you i trust
When i say
I'm trusting love

Invocation:
I stand among the sisters of the moon
I am held by the creator of the world
I am opening
I am unbounded
I am luminous
I am powerful
I surrender to this power
Life and newness are continued and
Renewed through me

You are the ocean
I ride upon your waves
I am opening
I am blown apart by your caress
I surrender to you
I embrace you

I am ready now to sing the moon
To be her voice
I am the singer
And life is her song
I sing creation
I sing joy and pain
Beginning and ending
Giving and taking
Existence
Goddess
I embrace you
I am opening
I am opening up

I was runnin' from paradise
Busy dancin' across thin ice
Then lookin' up
I thought somebody called my name
But i kept on walkin' on down
On my own way

I was livin' but not enough
Turnin' my face
From the face of love
Then lookin' up
I'm certain i saw your eyes
And i don't know how
And i don't know why
But i know i'm home

Chorus:
I am not hiding
This time i'm deciding
Now i'm showin' up
To give it all my love
I am not hiding
Now i'm standing here
Shoutin' out to heaven
Runnin' no more

Freedom was overdue
I was starvin' for a dream
And the dream was you
Then lookin' up
Big love was pourin' down
'n i don't know how
'n i don't know why
But i know i'm home

Chorus

The dream of love was more
Than i could have
I'd almost given it up
But darlin' now it's back

I am here
You are real
This time i'm learnin' to feel
I have found
Paradise
Showin' up in your eyes

This is all i know
No more sad goodbyes
Kiss it all hello
I'm showin' up for my life

Oh, love is what it's all about
You gotta go in
To get out

For once in my life
I've found my home
Home in your arms, darlin'
All i know is that i'm finally home
Strong enough to see the truth
You gotta go in
To get out

Let the pendulum swing.
Let the old guard surrender
It is a new day, a new world,
A new language i wish to speak
The language of love
May i have the words i need to speak my truth,
To translate my heart and my vision
To my beloved and his children
To all who come to sit at our table
Or walk with us through the market place
Or pray with us by the water

May i have the plain poetry to tell them how i feel
Or why there is pain,
If the answers are mine to know.
And if they are, i ask the spirit to let me share them
With a light heart, with laughter,
Wth no expectation, with humility
But for the grace of thee, go i.
May i know my innocence
Every moment of every day
May i be a child forever
Intoxicated by hot sand, cool winds, by love
By my own communication to the spirit.
May my aliveness always be as loud
When i make love, as when i cry
May i see my own reflection in the mirror
And smile

My love,
You are my teacher
And i surrender to your heart
The purest heart i've ever seen
Today i give you everything that is mine to give
My truth
All my innocence
And all my heart
I am yours
Let the dance begin.
- julia

There are times
When love soaks you to the bone
'n then those moments leave you wonderin'
If you'll lose your mind or lose control

Life is nothing without love
Love is nothing if not freedom

They tell me the gates of hell
That you shake 'n you rattle
Are secretly locked from inside

Chorus:
You hope 'n pray you'll find
The one thing on your mind
Not until you know
The art of letting go
'n it may seem to be
Defying gravity
That's because they know
The art of letting go

You may think
You built a present perfect world
And you may wonder to yourself
Does anyone really know what else could ever matter?

But the man with his hand
On the hammer
Wears a velvet glove

Does the rich man know he's poor?
Does the beggar care for much more than survival?

When you look into the eyes of children laughing
Do you remember who you were?
Or who you are?

Life is nothing without love
Love is nothing if not freedom

They tell me the gates of hell
That you shake 'n you rattle
Are secretly locked
From inside

Chorus

You hope and pray you'll find
A love to last all time
Not until you know
The art of letting go
And it may seem to be
Defying gravity
That's because they know
The art of letting go

You're dying to believe
In love eternally
Not until you know
The art of letting go
And it may seem to be
Defying gravity
That's because we know
The art of letting go

You can't go through it
Without going through it
'til it goes through you
'til you know the truth

I know we were born to be here again
In the kind of love that you die for
Somethin' in the innocent wind's
Been callin' out to me
Over 'n over

I would build a castle upon our dreams
Or leave it all behind us in ashes
Just to feel your heart in my heart
A promise and a prayer
To lead 'n to follow
Voices that call
From an ancient dream
Remind me of a world i've never known

Chorus:
We are the bridge
We are the fire
'n i burn in a river of love
And now i can sing with all my heart

Oh i believe
All that i've seen in your eyes
An unimaginable life

Something in the way that you say hello
Even to the sound of your heart beat
All seems so familiar to me
My soul-memory of love
Leading me homeward

Voices that call from an ancient dream
The promise of a life i've never known

We are the bridge
We are the fire
And i burn in a river of love

I know i can sing
With all my heart
Here it begins
Freedom is in your eyes
An unimaginable life

Chorus

'n i know i can sing
With all my heart
Oh i believe
Darlin' that we've arrived
An unimaginable life
Our unimaginable life

Love isn't just
Somethin' to try
No "act" of love
Can satisfy
You've got to believe
It's live or die
To ask yourself the question
"how can love survive?"

And if we try
And it don't work out
Like so many people do
It's just a fact of life
No we ain't in charge
There ain't nothin' that's wrong with me
Ain't nothin' that's wrong with you

Chorus:

Love's got nothin' to prove
It's not up to you
Two souls come into a world made
Of time and space
Searchin' for the truth
With nothin' but love to prove
And find it in the gift of
A moment of grace

Your heart is broken
'cause your love was untrue
You're asking god
"oh why you?"

Oh was it crazy
Givin' all of you?
You ask yourself the question
"what more could i do?"

Bridge and chorus

There's always somebody to tell you how
You were a fool who jus' believed too much
But in the end the fool, you'll come to know
Is not the one who loved