Lyrics | earthschild

earthSchild ~ Lyrics

all vocals: Jaiia Earthschild & David Techau

all keyboards and lyre, Jaiia

all percussion and drums, David

* words and music: Jaiia Earthschild

** Jaiia Earthschild & David Techau

Engineers: Gary Brooker and Vallorie Hodges (Tasmania) except:

‘If I Were’ and violin on More than Love:Joel Katz (Maui Hawaii)

#14 recorded Live as we wrote it!: so don’t blame the engineers...

for whom we have deep & lasting gratitude

1 Lovelution*

Guitars: Jaiia & Gary Brooker; Bass GB; keys Jaiia;

Drums: David Techau

I hear that a revolution starts

when the people have too much pain

when the kids have got nothing to lose

and probably not much left to gain

while me I’ve been in exile for so long

I’ve forgotten how it feels to write a meaningful song

Like the kids on the streets fighting to survive

I’m still singing on my feet just to stay alive

Every one of us is made of stardust

every one of us has a dream

Enough to make us rise, tear off the disguise

abandon our allegiance to the castle of lies

I’ll meet you there in revolution square

The more we keep fighting for justice

the more we’ll find people to blame (Tiananmen Square)

The victims and the self-righteous

sharpening their weapons of guilt and shame (Tahir)

and soon they’ll be filling up the streets again with blood

(Thaksin) Judgement never did anyone any good …

Anger is a fuel; a dangerous tool

that always wants to destroy

Has anyone ever dared to change the world through joy?

Once in a while a hero arises –

Mandela, Dalai Lama or Gandhi

With the courage it takes to face Goliath

teaching us all how things can

Charting a map beyond retribution

with wisdom that’s found in the silence

Heralding a quantum revolution

ending the need for violence

Every one of us is made of stardust…

Versailles was built upon misery;

the backs of the starving make for fragile foundations

Must we keep repeating history?

Can’t you hear the roaring across the nations?

I don’t care if you are rich or you’re poor

lines drawn in the sand they don’t count anymore

Every one of us is made of stardust

every one of us has a dream

Enough to make us rise, tear off the disguise

abandon our allegiance to the castle of lies

then I’ll meet you here – in love-evolution sphere

2 Now! **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau;

Bass & Guitar: Gary Brooker; Bouzouki: Nick-Glade-Wright

Now! - Now is the time

time to awaken to the call

Now - now is the time

time to remember why we are here

Sometimes the mind is our own worst enemy

Takes us to places where we don't need to be

How can we hope to find freedom

inside this mind-made cage?

There is a place beyond personality

where we can embrace our humanity

And when we accept all that we are

we find that we are far more than we were before.

Sometimes I get a glimpse of how free I really am

Lived my whole life doing what I believe I can

Listening for that inner knowing

attending to the call of my heart

But still the world goes on

In all its darkness and its light

Its blindness and its sight

in all its wisdom and its craziness;

Its sorrows and its happiness.

There is a place beyond personality

where we can embrace our humanity

And when we accept all that we are

we find that we are far more than we were before.

But I can only tell you what you're ready to hear....

3 More Precious Than Gold **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau;

Bass & Guitar: Gary Brooker

All the things I thought I was
I discovered I am not.
All the dreams I tried to fulfill
They came down to 'so what?'
I never found a space in the marketplace
I only found myself in your unconditional embrace
with you I found the only sound
that can never be bought or sold
I found that love is more precious than gold.

One world, one hope, one humanity.

One dream of solidarity.
One world one hope one humanity
one dream of solidarity
Global empathy!
More precious than gold

There are many places in this world
where gold is more valued than life.
And I am certain that's the reason
for most of the misery and strife.
Every time we make that fatal mistake
there's a few getting richer
while millions of hearts have to break.
there's no human being in this world
deserves to be bought or sold
I tell you life is more precious than gold
more precious than gold.

4 You Who Are Ready *

Guitar & Lyre: Jaiia Earthschild; Bass: Gary Brooker

You who are ready for life

let go! your heart is ready now

Let go! Your life is like a flower

on a vine that’s been growing forever

And you know in your soul

it’s not a moment too soon

for you to bloom

So why hide between the leaves and the thorns?

They were just protection

from the wind and the storms

But now you’re strong and you belong

shining on the living tree

a sweet scented blossom

for the world to see and love

Come on love yourself

Love your Self with me

5 Just World **

Keys: Jaiia drums: David Techau

Sax: Teri Young Bass: Gary Brooker

If we lived in a just world

every child would grow up free

Every man and woman

would have the choice of dignity

If we lived in a sane world

we'd close the gap between rich and poor

there'd be plenty for everyone

No more need for war.

then peace would be so easily attained

and Love would reign

I am told there are qualities more spiritual or holy

that can help us on our evolutionary journey

but every child knows when she's being treated fairly

do we learn it early or is it inborn?

6 More Than Love **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau;

Violin: Don V Lax

“It’s more than love,” you said to me,

“I don‘t know what’s more than love – but this is.

“I’ve known love before but this is an open door

to a whole new reality.

This time I walked right through hand in hand with you

I can’t begin to say how it’s changed me.

This needs a whole new language to describe

The feelings - the connectedness

Freedom – committedness Peaceful – Implacable.

Like a slow moving volcano falls flowing into the sea.

The landscape of desire lies forever changed

Lies forever changed

“It’s more than love,” you said to me,

“I don‘t know what could possibly be more than love

but this is…

Beyond right or wrong

The universal song singing through you and me

No beginning and no end

where space and time both bend

Beyond duality – Into eternity.

7 Alchemy **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau; Bouzouki:

Nick Glade-Wright; Bass: Gary Brooker

Give me one more chance
one more opportunity
to show you how much you mean to me
and tell me once again
how you tamed your dragon
and turned it into an ally for you
If I could do that too
that would be, some kind of alchemy

And should you ever need
some strength and protection
along with my love, respect and affection
If you’d receive that from me
that would be, some kind of alchemy

Alchemy...the philosopher's stone...transmutation
healing...the elixir of life...to wellness
form...the masterwork...to formless
patterns...the soul of the world...to compassion

Energy endlessly changes
transforming, forever
until beloved meets with lover
through love, immortality

Ah that would be, some kind of alchemy

8 Sacred Union **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau

Bass: Gary Brooker; Sax: Teri Young

I feel your life giving love pouring on me

Like the sun pours down deep into the ground

I feel my love for you rising like a forest to the heavens

And between these forces - these tremendous forces

Life flourishes

Every union that begets love Is a sacred union

Love is the force in life that makes everything right

Yet it's elusive - so hard to find

Got to love with our hearts - can't love with the mind

Between the earth and the sun lies a distance a perfect space

And everything we know as life

Depends on that celestial embrace

That same sacred space lies between every living being

You can fill it with love and your inner peace

And the fear that keeps us apart just has to release.

Every union that begets love Is a sacred union

9 Recently **

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau

Clarinet: Nick Glade-Wright; Bass: Gary Brooker

Recently families have been coming through our door
children are hungry, more and more people are poor
the wealth of a nation squandered on war

Seems to me
we keep rewarding the thieves
while the rest of us struggle just to make ends meet
and the children play amidst the travesty

what are we gonna do for the children?
What are we gonna leave behind?
When we as a people care for the future of our children
Only then can we truly call ourselves human

When love collides with fear
there's a kind of implosion explosion
seems to be happening everywhere
        I hope love wins

there’s a chill wind blowing across the lands
forces are gathering that few can understand.
I hope love wins

Recently I have seen the light of the future

shining through innocent eyes
can't you see they deserve to inherit a world

where their dreams can be realized

what are we gonna do for the children?
What are we gonna leave behind?
I hope love wins

10 If I Were *

Keys: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau;

Violin: Don V Lax

If I were made of sand

With the waters pouring across my hands

I’d rise and fall with the rolling sea

And still be me.

If I were the gentle rain

I’d fall to the ground and feel no pain

And never once - never once would I try

To tell which drop was I.

If I were the raging wind

I’d howl and roar and no one would ever say I’d sinned

They’d simply allow me to blow through their hair

The God-given gentle or savage air.

But I am made of blood and flesh

With an inborn longing for truth and happiness

And deep and bright the light within me

And warm the sun above me I stand:

The heart and mind of God and Man.

11 There is only Love*

Guitars: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums: David Techau

Bouzouki: Nick Glade-Wright; Bass: Gary Brooker

I’ve been looking inside for most of my life

going within for peace of mind

Recently I realised that the deeper I go the less I know

and there’s no one there no one at all

Now that I can tell you was quite a surprise

Freedom I guess comes at a price

But if you can’t stand primordial solitude

come dance with me here in this mirrored hall

Until there’s no more fear – nor fear at all

and when there’s no more fear there is only love

Love is the birthright of every creature that has a heart beating

and a birthright – should not be denied

Love is the only thing that makes life one art so beautiful

So come dance with me here in this mirrored hall

Until there’s no more fear – nor fear at all

and when there’s no more fear there is only love

When our need for love is completely fulfilled

gone is the need for hate no need to be cruel

gone is the need for shame no need to control

Welcome back to a world where a heart can be whole

and there’s no more fear – there is only love

12 Catch the Midnight Sky (DolphinSong) *

Lyre: Jaiia; Bouzouki: Nick Glade-Wright;

Bass: David Techau

There once was a time when a human slave

was a matter for commerce or daily trade

then America fought the civil war

So the human race could walk free once more.

Now the dolphin has since ancient times

been honored for the sanctity of its mind.

Oracles, legends, mythology -

all attest to the mystery.

Who would even try

to catch the midnight sky?

So please leave the dolphins in the seas.

The great white fathers acquired their wealth

Land theft genocide, slavery and stealth

the past is forgiven - forgotten by time

but the responsibility of now is mine.

Who would even try

to catch the midnight sky?

So please leave the dolphins

and the humans free.

13 Gaia Thing *

Keys & Lyre: Jaiia Earthschild; Drums:

David Techau; Bass: Gary Brooker

I was feeling a searing pain in my heart

and nothing would make it go away

someone who loves me came by

said ‘I hate to see you cry’

so I sat myself down and I became very still

and the pain grew like a flame thrown from high on a hill.

I said Don’t worry, nothing personal - it’s a Gaia thing

some pain is not meant to go away

some will remain until there is change

so if you find yourself in one of those

dark moods again - check in - see if it’s a Gaia thing

When the fine romance inside falls apart

forget the story forget the scenes

There is no glory to be found in those once had-beens

Forget the past forget tomorrow

forget yourself right there deep in your sorrow

Go deeper now deepening deeper now

Don’t worry, nothing personal - it’s a Gaia thing

I was riding on wave that seemed to have no end

watching it all from the edge of the wind

From there I could feel the thundering of change

something quite beyond our range of comprehension

a Gaia thing

Don’t worry, nothing personal

it’s a Gaia thing

14 (Cadenza)

The Universe is rather full of itself tonight

I would be tto if I was it wouldn’t you?

and I am and so are you some say

Oh the universe is rather full of itself tonight