Susan Savia: Listen to Music

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This song was re-created from an old song that never had musical accompaniment. In one evening, I rewrote the lyrics, put a tune to it, played it twice, rewrote it the next morning. Went into the studio and asked Rob to record it so I could work on the tune. He put a BNK in front of me (one mic), I kind of made it up as I went along, and when I was through, knew that it as finished. I love the way Rob captured this.

I should be under the stars tonight
Thinking about the speed of light
I may linger in the darkness
adrift, ignoring the truth

Love is such an awesome feeling
True love is so revealing
How did I know, long ago
It would be this way today?

Can we rise above the ordinary
Maybe on a shimmering thread
We could float delicately as a summer night’s breeze
And awaken to a nuance of becoming, of reality

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As I lay under the stars tonight
Wrestling with wrong, questioning right
How can I calm my mind
To let my spirit free?

This passion for living is ours to bear
A passion for knowing flowers in there
The melody flows tenderly
in my ear and through my body

Beckoning like fire flies
Sparkling on a peaceful river
A sweet, warm mist climbs into the night lush with magic
Pushing ever closer to insight, to destiny

A shooting star marks the sky with a lasting trail
to the universe, a journey that awaits us