Songs Written About Enlightenment

[Swagala]

 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

Aaaaaaalright guys, I guess it's time to bring out the big guns... let me put my pickup truck in reverse and drop this baby off:

Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde might just be the longest song about spiritual transfiguration that has ever been written (four hours, anyone? Who here can top that?); masquerading as a tragic love story in the vein of Romeo & Juliet, it's a tempestuous tale about delusion, obsession, rapture and transcendence and basically the ultimate psychedelic opera (needless to say, the famous instrumental arrangement of the opera's beginning and ending - Vorspiel und Liebestod - is my go-to soundtrack for shroom and acid trips... oooh man, aint nothing like a dash of Wagner and a drop of Lucy! )

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If one had to choose only one work to personify Love, a sentiment that has nourished and delighted opera and, during the Romantic era, irrigated its flesh and blood, it is likely that Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner would best fill the role. Starting with a rather simple story, reduced to include only its essential characters, Wagner sets another plot in motion, an inner drama centred on the passion of Tristan and Isolde. Tristan and Isolde’s love is more than a mere anecdote. Behind the lover’s smouldering eyes and impatient flesh, their ecstatic contemplation of each other aspires to a union that can only exist in the afterlife. By probing the depths of the night, love and death, Wagner explores the mystic incarnation of unadulterated passion. It is the most full-blooded opera in the repertoire and the apotheosis of musical drama.

- Summary -

When Tristan brings princess Isolde on his ship to Cornwall, where she is to marry his uncle, King Marke, she becomes irritated by his apparent indifference to her. In fact they are passionately in love, but their relationship is doomed. By substituting a love potion for the poison Isolde and Tristan intend to drink, Brangäne only revives their love and it is in this ecstatic state that they arrive in Cornwall. Despite Isolde’s marriage to Marke, the lovers' passion secretly unfolds, until one day they are discovered. Marke feels betrayed and becomes distraught at Tristan's behaviour. Mortally wounded by Melot, King Marke’s vassal, who Kurwenal, Tristan’s servant, kills in turn, Tristan dies in Isolde’s arms. The princess collapses beside her deceased lover and they are reunited in their “love death”, the only possible outcome for their mystic union.

(taken from www.opera-online.com)

PS - For all of you impatient mothereffers out there who aint got time for an entire Wagner opera, here's my favorite Vorspiel und Liebestod recording:

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by Bazooka Jesus

[allislove]

 

[Applegarden]

redrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within

[allislove]

I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
Not what you'd think
And if I'm being honest

It might have been a nightmare
To anyone who might care

I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
But when I wake up, I see
You with me

And you say
As long as I'm here
No one can hurt you

[Nahm]

 

[here-now]

 

[here-now]

 

[cetus]

 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

DEFINITELY a contender:

Beeen listening to this glorious composition on almost 24/7 repeat for the last thee days... I know, I know, I am special

[Nahm]

So much meaning in the lyrics. 

[mandyjw]

 

[allislove]

Captured effortlessly
That's the way it was
Happened so naturally
I did not know it was Love

The next thing I felt was You
Holding me close
What was I gonna do
I let myself go

You filled my heart with a kiss
You gave me freedom
You knew I could not resist
I needed someone

Ain't nobody
Loves me better
Makes me happy
Makes me feel this way
Ain't nobody
Loves me better than You

[SoothedByRain]

We are spirit bound to this flesh
We go round one foot nailed down
But bound to reach out and beyond this flesh
Become Pneuma

We are will and wonder
Bound to recall, remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, sun becoming

Child, wake up
Child, release the light
Wake up now
Child, wake up
Child, release the light
Wake up now, child
(Spirit)
(Spirit)
Bound to this flesh
This guise, this mask
This dream

Wake up remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, sun becoming

Pneuma
Reach out and beyond
Wake up remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, eyes full of wonder

Pneuma
Reach out and beyond
Wake up remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, eyes full of wonder

Edited December 9, 2019 by SoothedByRain

[here-now]

Just this.

Edited December 10, 2019 by here-now

[here-now]

 

[Henkaipan]

On enlightenment. Words of wisdom...

[Iiris]

 

[Nahm]

 

[kamekat]

 

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We ALL been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower
You got to let it, you gotta let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games forever
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender
You got to let it, you gotta let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love