Help Me Now

 

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Help me now

I was once like you

Help me now

I don’t know what to do

Help me now, Help me now

Help me now

I was once a child

Help me now

Cause when I die for no reason

So do you

Help me now, Help me now

 

 

I’ll leave the meaning of this song up to your imagination!

 

Hope you enjoy it!

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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Hikarigroove

 

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Here’s another interlude that really grooves.  Again there’s a dark thing happening here that really helps balance out this album.

 

I hope you enjoy it!

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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Bow Down

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(Lyrics)

We can play with violence

My way of thinking is better than you

We can hope that the game won’t take us

My way of life is better than you

We can make them silent

Silence is the weapon that closes the mind

We can cut them down in front of us

The hand that cuts leaves the soul to die

We can make their eyes shut

One by one, watch em die

Cause they just won’t understand us

Bow down, Bow down

My way of thinking is better than you

Bow down, Bow down

My way of life is better than you

 

 

This song can mean different things to different people.  I really like leaving the interpretation of these lyrics open to the listener’s mind.

 

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Voice In The Dark

 

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Hikarivibe

 

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This track is all about the vibe.  I really got into creating this little instrumental interlude.  While I was writing the arrangement I felt a dark and mysterious type of vibe happening and I dug it.  Considering the title of this album is Hikari, which is  a form of light, this track really seems to help balance the vibe of this CD.

 

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Voice In The Dark

 

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Hikarilude

 

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The interlude is all about fun.  When I laid out this track I didn’t feel like singing a song with any specific lyrics. For some reason I started just singing the word “hey” in a variety of ways and before I knew it I had a track I thought sounded pretty cool.

 

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Voice In The Dark

 

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The Greatest

 

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All day..All day

Always there with your open arms

Always there, all day, all day

Nothing you wouldn’t do to care for us

Nothing could ever stop your love

You were the greatest in the world

You must have been sent here by a star

You were what we needed most

How did you work so hard to make ends meet?

How did you give away your life so your kids could eat?

What made you keep moving on?

What made you so strong?

All day..All day

 

This is a very personal song and I think it’s somewhat self explanatory.

Hope you enjoy it!

Voice In the Dark

 

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Beautiful

 

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With every breath I feel so blessed to be the one to bring you lose to my chest..

Now can you close your eyes and listen to me?

 

Tear down the walls you hide behind

Unlock the door, now step outside

 

With every pulse I hope that I can help to free you..

From the oppressed belief that you’re not worth the drops that your heart had to bleed..

 

It’s a beautiful day, would you like to play

It’s a beautiful world, would you like to stay

 

With every thought, I wish to send you love where I cannot be

When you spread your wings, I know you’ll become the person you were meant to be

 

This song is about recognizing the inner beauty we are born with.  As complex and fragile beings, we are all vulnerable to life’s ups and downs.  Unfortunately the world we live in can be very cruel and unforgiving.   I wrote this song because I wanted to connect directly with people who sometimes feel that life is not worth living because of the overwhelming amount of pain and isolation they are experiencing.

There is no simple answer or easy solution that will miraculously make everything better, but I deeply feel that the more we are able to recognize our own innate inner beauty as well as the magical beauty of nature, the stronger our spirits will become.  This is how it works!

I sincerely believe that some of the greatest opportunities to help others come from reaching out and sharing the wisdom we’ve learned from overcoming and dealing with our own personal hardships.

What have you learned from your unique experiences that could help someone else realize the beauty of their potential?

 

Musically Yours,

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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Spread The Vibe Around

 

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There’s so much we don’t realize

And we don’t have to act like we know

There’s so much we don’t understand

But one thing’s for sure

We don’t know where we’ll go

 

I got my intuition telling me we’re not just specks of dusk

I’ve got this premonition telling me that we’ve just got to trust

It’s a lot to face (But we’ve got each other)

So let’s spread the vibe around

 

What if death is just a passing from clay to light?

What if we’re the same soul with different eyes?

What if we find we have parallel lives?

What if we discover more than one way was right?

 

I’ve got my hearts ambition telling me we’re no coincidence

I’ve got this superstition telling me that we’re no accident

 

It’s a lot to face (But we’ve got each other)

So let’s spread the vibe around

 

We don’t know…We just don’t know

There’s so much we don’t realize

And we don’t have to act like we know

 

 

Thank god we are finally at a place in history where even the leaders of the world’s biggest religious and spiritual establishments are starting to open their minds to the possibilities that multiple paths may lead to the same destination.

 

We are obviously a very complex race.  The repetition of history has finally taught us how very dangerous it can be to blindly align ourselves to any religious doctrine.  We’ve learned that it’s apparently extremely easy for us to make the mistake of allowing a human manifested ideology to imprison our spiritual potential.

 

Aside from the obvious political motivators such as control, power, and greed; the lesser but still important contributors are hereditary conditioning/cultural/ tradition.

BUT..I propose that the two primal reasons we’ve had such a hard time breaking the cycles of religious and theological mind control are:

  1.  We are petrified of death.  We inherently struggle with the thought of losing our individual identities and surrendering to the fact that we just don’t know (or can’t fathom) what will happen to us when we die.  Even though nature emanates the cycle of life for us to learn from, our historical perception of “reality” has made it next to impossible for us not to try to control our fear of dying.
  2. We are spiritual beings who desperately want to connect to our source and believe our lives have purpose and meaning.  This is part of what makes us so unique.  Having this built in “need” actually makes it easier for us to get lead down the wrong path.

 

It’s finally becoming common knowledge that any one ideology that claims to have all the answers is not only antiquated in their thinking but most likely stunting the spiritual growth of its practitioners.

 

“Spread The Vibe Around”  is about continuing to celebrate and spread the message that it’s OK for us to admit that we don’t have all the answers.  The more we accept the fact that we “just don’t know”,  maybe we’ll better be able to evolve our spiritual abilities to connect to the true source of our existence.

 

Musically Yours,

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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God Only Knows

 

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Why?

We can spend our days walking over coals

But can we face ourselves

God Only Knows

 

We can stay out all night and have our fun

We can drink fine wines and dance until dawn

 

So why should we give our love to those who’ve no place to go?

And why should we reach out to who needs the most?

God Only Knows

 

We can lose our way, blame it on the race

We can lie to ourselves, but what can we say?

What can we say?

 

We can just close our eyes, ignore their pain

And we can hang our heads as low as they’ll go

As low as they’ll go

 

So why should we give our love to those who’ve no place to go?

And why should we reach out to who needs the most?

God Only Knows

Why?

God Only Knows

 

Why should I care at all?

What if I don’t?

Why should I give at all?

God Only Knows

Why should I?

 

 

I can’t help but think that deep down inside we all feel horribly guilty and shameful when we see or think about the inequities of the world we live in.  Even though this is the case, we often don’t even try to make a difference because we think we don’t have any extra time or money.

 

In reality, when the abundant resources of this planet are not made available to those in need, we all suffer.

I belief that the suffering we see in others, indirectly manifests within each one of us.  Similar to how weeds and parasites can grow and eventfully overtake the beauty of a perfectly planned garden;  if we don’t take responsibility to protect the soil of humanity, the gardens of our human spirit will continue to decay and become overrun by darkness.

 

So why should I care at all?

God Only Knows….

 

Musically Yours,

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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Universal Mind

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You must believe in yourself

Your mind is a universe and you are in control

 

What if our minds contained the power to create and manifest our own personal worlds?

Imagine somewhere inside our heads, floating around in our subconscious, is the true knowledge of our existence or at least a much closer version of it.  What if part of this hidden wisdom was in knowing that the languages we use to communicate with ourselves while in our bodies and on this earth, was created or evolved in a way so that we could maximize our appreciation of this world’s dimensions and elements.  Our dualistic minds seem to be perfect for framing and conceptualizing consciousness at this level.

However, what if we actually had access to this secret “knowing” but just didn’t know how to find it?  How incredible would it be to be able to understand more about our existence without having to translate that data into what would apparently be a very limited human syntax.

This whole idea about having the ability to know a greater truth and still not be able to explain it is what this track is about.

I believe that not only do we all have this “Universal Mind” available to us, but that on some level beyond our human understanding, we as consciousness can and do communicate with each other not so unlike other species such as migrating birds, salmon swimming up-stream or a number of if not the majority of plant life as they coordinate their continued manifested survival.

If our minds can also have the power to communicate with each other on some cosmic level we are currently and scientifically unaware of, what do you think our true selves would be saying to each other?

 

Music ally Yours,

 

Voice In The Dark

 

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