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Eye Inside

by SoundandtheMessenger

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1.
Circles 03:55
Driving towards the end of the day You watch your watch for the colors You’re waiting for the moment when she takes your breathe away You can wash your worries away Your worries away You’re strumming to an endless song you know With a fire burning slowly for you You see the shadows on your garden grow Green with the setting sun The setting sun And now the stars circle above you Creating patterns in your mind What it is to be free and far between Nestled in with the painting up above And you draw circles Circles you can find Driving towards the end of the day You watch your watch for the colors You’re waiting for the moment when she takes your breathe away You can wash your worries away Your worries away
2.
Do 06:01
------------------ No matter how you look at the day it is new when it starts once again You ‘ve got your feet on the floor Do what you love to do for it’s the best way To find what your looking for ------------------- You can have all these reasons why you want to do things another way Forces pushing you in a different direction Being attached to what you’re supposed to do Led by what your good at doesn’t mean that it’s you Don’t follow what others say Listen to your intuition --------------------- Everything has it’s own glow when you look at it when your high Everything that people do to help there’s a reason why There’s no telling what your supposed to do Be sacred with everything let life flow through you And if you’re helping others this is good and that’s true But if you have that desire in your heart Well maybe there’s a reason you’re feeling that too --------------------------- Life is filled with all sorts of emotions We get attached to what we like and what we don’t The goal is they say not have any desire But if you have them do them for it all natural how we get there ---------------------------- No matter how you look at the day is new when it starts once again You ‘ve got your feet on the floor Do what you love to do for it’s the best way To find what your looking for
3.
The Locket 08:28
------------------------------- A girl sat in the grass in a long white skirt Ringing a flower around her fingers She traveled lands far and wide Letting the images paint pictures on her skin Of places Of places Of places she had been ------------------------------ She told me of the story of an older man Walking down the street in Pakistan Flying a flag on a cinder night Flames licking cold colored tides Tears going where they shouldn’t go People knowing what they shouldn’t know She didn’t smile She didn’t frown Held the face of an experienced gal As her hair flowed with the cold road As they drove along the coal coast He was a fireman she left it at the that They made love under golden rats Painted on the ceiling of a hotel room Overlooking a draining moon ---------------------- And she smiled in the night She smiled with her eyes As she remembered her possible demise ------------------------- There she was in a field of grass And as I saw her I had to laugh How you could you be somewhere so different Then the story that I just listened? She said soon she forget pleasure and pain And with that she found her place Under rocks in a old pool
 Where she planned to end her song soon A swoon came flying high in the sky So beautiful she cried with a thousand eyes Contained in the folds that no one saw She picked up a locket from Wichita Wore it on her finger Held it up high Reflecting in the water in pool lit light It shone like a diamond tide Cast on the sea right before the dark The dark The dark The dark Right before the dark ---------------------------------- There she sat on the grass And she told me about the blasts Woke her in her bedroom Looking over soldiers lead sticks She grabbed the locket around her neck Hoping for life in that sec Took it downstairs before them Showed it like a beacon of soul dust -------------------------- This is my life Here it is Oil isn’t blood Only one’s a gift So you make the choice right now Before I throw this here on the ground --------------------------------- They paused their eyes looked gold Doing what they were told She took the piece threw it to the ground Fire rose like a millions suns Lit the oil around them on fire Everything burned all around her The back liquid stretched to the sea Hit the water sent up flames ---------------------------- She said She said Why do you fight Why do you cry Follow orders with a blind eye Repeat history in a matter of hours Don’t take time to smell the flowers We can’t keep at this war All because of this liquid gold You name your bullets religion Yet you know the real reason They lay their guns to the ground Kneeled to her sound In the black peace was found And she smiled in the night She smiled with her eyes Oh she smiled in the night She smiled with her eyes As she remembered her possible demise
4.
Next To み 05:07
Next To み Verse 1 Every morning when I wake up Watch the sunrise It looks beautiful in your eyes And I know where I was going It doesn’t matter anymore Cuz distance I’m finding is a petty thing As I have my hand in yours And I can feel your heartbeat Even though you’re a thousand miles away And I think I know your thoughts too Nothing much to say Chorus And we made love last night with the air in space And you were inside me your hair was in your face But I could see your eyes, see your smile, here we wait awhile And I could feel your breathe coming in slow where do we go Trace the lines, find the signs, you’re right there next to me Verse 2 But the way things happen Always I don’t know Standing on a beach holding onto you girl Nothing like the feeling of it slowly getting dark Waiting for the waves to wash as we walk And I held you and I kissed you Like I did before’ I knew those lips and I missed you But I didn’t know what for So we looked into each others eyes Searched for the sights that were hidden in our other lives And we knew for sure, knew for sure Bridge And I boarded a plane not wanting to go away And I searched the timelines making sure I couldn’t stay But we met under the sea spray And the ocean I do feel shows me the way Show s me the way, to you Chorus And we made love last night with the air in space And you were inside me your hair was in your face But I could see your eyes, see your smile, here we wait awhile And I could feel your breathe coming in slow where do we go Trace the lines, find the signs, you’re right there next to me
5.
Foreground 02:46
Well I was sitting out on a mountainside Taking a moment on what to decide Feeling moments as they pass by On their way Taking their sweet time to happen with the day If there is a pretty girl on the street Could take a while for you to meet But the longer it is the sweeter it will be Some say Slip pictures in her window to her playfully by the day For you'll never see till you enjoy the ride So don't take the trail to which all abide today Kicking a rock down the street Keep it going till to see where you'll be That's one way you can live your life You see Following stones in the dirt to see where you go Travel the world think you're walking on gold Chasing something by what you're told Maybe sometimes it'll be better To be Be comfortable in a place you can see Cuz whether you're chasing your tail or standing still You're still willing what you will foresee And if you're sitting cross legged on the floor or kneeling You're still seeing what you will see
6.
Back Room 06:26
You were always there inside yourself Woke up sitting on time in a way Holding up above your finding world And you'll find what you find when you will And the will is important that is no doubt It's easy to get stuck with something when it comes out But you feel what you feel and you do what you do And you keep on keep on working through and through Take a moment.. Stop Hear the drop Of the the silence coming clear Clearing into you The way you like to move with the distance For it's all coming right out to you And it's 9 minutes till something changes Till the whirlwind picks up speed and drops you somewhere So pick up the beat of your step with the places The places you can hear the parts somewhere Shadows cast themselves softly on the cabin walls And I'm thinking how can I stand so tall, yet know so little Compared to the riddle that I come back to again and again And the thoughts that circle and then deepen in to the rhythm That I follow And the words that I create, was it I that created That can't be for look a t me in this place No it's not for then no thinking would then come For these ideas are not created, yet shared from someplace In the back room, that's dimly lit In the back room, waiting dimly underneath And I am sitting in another place and another time Waiting for what should come to pass And feeling with the cry of my soul to come back to what it was before And what it will be forever more And once I see and come to that realization there is the open door It's in the back room In the back room
7.
Here We Go 06:18
Here we go Once again Said the girl As she stared At the sky Asked me why Things were going by Watched the stars Saw what was ours Inside our hearts Knew where we should start What we should do We saw our eyes Go both like fireflies Then we went on our ways Across the world in new ways Saw what we should Saw what we might Saw what we could Saw what was right What was wrong It was all in the song And we traveled the seas Saw what we could be And knew what we could do what we couldn't In the blink of time Everything passed us Went away and made us Strong and weak And though it we knew who we are Everyday When we watched what we saw And we knew where we were going And we wore what we are And I knew what I knew And I found what I found And I went to the sound of the voice in the ground And I knew I was here today And I was happy you were okay And I knew I was here today And I was happy you were okay Here we go Once again Said the girl As she stared At the sky Asked me why Things were going by Watched the stars Saw what was ours Inside our hearts Knew where we should start What we should do
8.
Swim 06:23
Swim You were waiting for the time where you could speak your direction clearly You were seeing where you were going before you went there Traveled roads are the same if you look at them differently Words come like the whisper of smoke from a flint Watch the rocks, burn the sage, feel with time, where you wanna go You can hold your dimension clearly now with the intent of a sure fellow Take your time, watch your soul, step slowly, with what you wanna know You can watch your way before you actually make your decision now There’s nothing wrong Nothing right Only the feeling that you had tonight So take that feeling and see where it goes There’s no final way you have to go Draw your picture I was taking one side running before I got to the runway I was seeing where I went before I arrived Illusions net is just calling you before you solve yourself is what some say Fear is the simple call of your soul Seeing signs, hold the line, filled to rise, right where you wanna go Just staring where your cards are in play right where you never wanna go You can play them right, play them wrong, it’s only your mind that makes You see what scale you’re on It’s all in how you see through Based on a million projections of how you see the song What will it take for your need to belong? Swim with the river Swim with the river いつも 体験 が 全然 わからない ね たくさん が 見える でも どんどん 知らない 世界 が 起き でも 本当に 小さい  毎日 起きたら もうかい 頑張る 頭 の 中 で たくさん が 考える どうして 一杯 来て どこ から  来た から かな 地球 が 多い できたら でも 自分 の 中 で もと 多い に なる  Swim with the river Swim with the river You were always seeing where the salt is in the river You were always feeling where the salt is in the sea Riding with the waves seems the way you have to be And yet sometimes you fight it to see You will see what you will see You can do it for the formula in your eyes You can do it for the one that you rise for Seeing where you want to plant your seed to grow Light the candle inside your heart Ignite the flame and see what starts Burn down a whole room, take everything down to the level of The forest In your eyes Down to the forest in your eye What you will realize What will be your Fruition Intuition Realization Attainment You will see what your face meant You will sew what you'll sew And you'll know what you know Swim with the river Swim with the river Swim with the river
9.
Naraha 04:51
I created two different things at the same time On the left was a perfect representation of the character I had created And on the right was an open window, which I myself had devised It took exactly three minutes to create the two From my point of view I realized it was actually more It took exactly three months for me to stand at the place where I am now And I mean three months to the day I boarded a plane not longer before it the train of thought in my brain The place it took me I can only hint at the fact that it turned out that way Touched down at 11 at night in a rainstorm Caught I wild view of a mountain hidden behind a purple hew That all but shut off the world that I knew And I let the darkness take me Until I was to realize what has seemingly forsaken me It was a dark night And I was far away Yet the bright light Let me know I was not far away Upon opening my eyes it was green as it can be With a pale blue ocean that stretched into the sky before me And everything was warm Even the crisp feeling that let me know I was alive I was alive I was alive And I made love with her so many times with her With the rain pouring off the roof And afterwards we'd listen to our hearts beat with the thunder We'd wonder how we'd met and how we were one another And there's been so many times With my face pressed against the cold glass of a train Watching telephone poles paint the way Staring out at round hills Staring out at those round numbers standing in front of me It was a dark night And I was far away And yet the bright light In my mind let me know I was not far away Not far away Not far away In Naraha 愛してるよ In Naraha 愛してるよ In Naraha 愛してるよ

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This Album is inspired by my travels in 2016 and 2017 and by the wonderful gifts of Oneness University.

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released February 13, 2015

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SoundandtheMessenger Aspen, Colorado

John Hatanaka has been a songwriter and performer for 15 years. Being born in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado and seeking songs in the flames of campfires he has written many songs and has shared them with diverse audiences. He has traveled and played his music in Australia and Japan as well.




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