Songs Written About Enlightenment

[Nahm]

@allislove

☺️?

[RendHeaven]

Enjoy! Decent translation of the Japanese here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SakuraGakuin/comments/5zr7tm/translated_lyrics_for_cosmos_song/

[StudentOfLeove]

 

☆☆☆☆☆Surrender☆☆☆☆☆

                         ♡

[Rilles]

 

[Yog]

Your dream in a reverse time
You can alter the stream of all light
For above any form of attraction
And beyond every motion
Lies yourself

What a catharstic ending...
 

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by Yog

[Apparition of Jack]

This song came to many moons ago and it's stayed with me ever since. It reminds me of being a lone explorer unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos. I get the same feeling when I look at Actualized.org's new logo. Thought you guys might appreciate.

[Shin]

 

What makes you so certain that I didn’t go through it?
Just like you did - what makes you convinced?
Is it cause it takes me a lot to be agitated
It’s so naive to see that as a weakness
A mellow demeanor, an even exterior
Do you know the work it takes to have this attitude?
I won’t yell to be heard, cause “it’s so much easier”
I will exercise restraint to find a better you

I look around and I see you, friend
You’ve got a lot on your mind
A lot on your mind and
I don’t know if you know it or not but I’m
Gonna get through to you

Take all of your nagging fears as you go
I know you wanted me to come along
I left earlier so you wouldn’t see me go
I can’t pretend that that’s where I belong
With you, bored and low

A mellow demeanor, an even exterior
Do you know the work it takes to have this attitude?
I don’t yell to be heard, cause “that’s so much easier”
I have exercised restraint and found a better you

Shake off what those had-beens told you before
You are resilient, shining off the walls
Take my word, you know I love you as a whole
You know you’re brilliant and you don’t belong
Down there, bored and low

 

Literally God telling you to wake up ?

[Nahm]

"Figured You Out"
 

I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I love the places that we go
And I love the people that you know
And I love the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I love the powder on your nose

Asleep and loving it, in the warm blanket of denial & hypocrisy, of samsara.

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)

And this charactor of mine, constructed of my own denial & hypocrisy, I spot first - in ‘you’. I see through you, yet not yet through me. 

I like the freckles on your chest
And I like the way you like me best
And I like the way you're not impressed
While you put me to the test
I like the white stains on your dress

And I love the way you pass the check
And I love the good times that you wreck
And I love your lack of self-respect
While you passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck

My last throws of denial are upon relishing in yours, masquerading along side you. 

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
(Why not before, you never tried)
(Gone for good, and this is it)

But now this is seen. 

I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And the cause of this is myself, my own denial. I use you. 

And I hate the places that we go
And I hate the people that you know
And I hate the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I hate the powder on your nose

And I hate that I do, and I see how I’ve been wasting my life trying to rectify this in a hindsight roller coaster approach. I see the true nature of denial, of attraction, of my sex addiction, my drug addiction, and I am in disgust of myself. 

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
(Why not before, you never tried)
(Gone for good, and this is it)

Now I see that you are me, I see the mirror. The finite mind, in recognizing the nature of the mirror, never was, and liberation was always the case. In inspecting the suffering, enlightenment isn’t that hard to figure out. But you must try. The fruit of proper inspection, is lasting. 

“I” have figured “you” out.

[outlandish]

Remember those walls I built
Well, baby, they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound

I found a way to let you win
But I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breaking
It's the risk that I'm taking
I ain't never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo ...

[Nahm]

@outlandish ?

[outlandish]

@Nahm I know right?

[Corpus]

As well as being a true family man, Charles Manson made an album of music which, I think, suggests he knew a thing or two.

 

 

[outlandish]

@Corpus family man lol that's twisted.

[Nahm]

Can’t you see! 

It’s we who own the night!

 

[peachboy]

 

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope, with anything
If you see the wonder, of a fairy tale
You can take the future, even if you fail
I believe in angels, something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream, I have a dream
I have a dream, a fantasy

[Nahm]

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, no
I'm tired of being the victim of hate
You're raping me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black man, blackmail
Throw the brother in jail

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, no
I'm tired of being the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I really do hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

They don’t really care about us

[mandyjw]

 

There's a conclusion to my illusion
I assure you this
There's no end to this confusion
If you let it wish you well
Soul to sell
Highest bidders, can't you tell what you're getting?
There is a light to all this darkness
I will tell you this
There's redemption in you asking them just why it is
Some answers are better left unspoken
When you know you ain't getting any

Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any, gettin' any

No you ain't gettin' any

Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?

Why we fight to get on loving I've been wondering
How your mind will leave you hanging your heart lingering
Stay lost
Then found by whoever stays around, forgetting
There is a way to be yourself, I assure you this
There's a way to catch your dreams without falling asleep
You might as well get it while you can, babe
'Cause you know you ain't getting any

Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
You ain't getting any
Younger, younger, younger, are you?
Younger, younger, younger, are you?

 

[allislove]

[allislove]

I just wanna feel
Real love feel the home that I live in ?

[mandyjw]

I listened to this song over and over again when I was a Christian kid. I never realized how true and prophetic it was. 

We're content to pitch our tent
When the glory's evident
Seldom do we know the glory came and went

Moving can seem dangerous
In this stranger's pilgrimage
Knowing that you can't stand still, you cross the bridge

There's a higher place to go, beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau, beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go, beyond belief, beyond belief

Leap of faith without a net
Makes us want to hedge our bet
Waters never part until our feet get wet

There's a deeper place to go
Where the road seems hard to hoe
He who has begun this work won't let it go

And it takes so long to see the change
But we look around and it seems so strange

We have come so far but the journey's long
And we once were weak but now we're strong