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Dreams of the Unknown

by Nathan Osterc

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1.
The Unknown 02:45
We sail the seas Of the unknown Tack the ship So winds will blow And thru our days Keep thoughts at bay Are we dashed to nothing By crashing waves? We wait to see These ports unknown And hopefully We’ll find a home All that's ever known Illusions owned These fragile webs To pieces blown So where’s your heart and mind? (Sailing the Seas) Is it a choice we made? (Wandering the Ocean) Is it a game we played? (Always Searching) Is it the price we paid? (All these efforts come to naught) Will we ever know? Sailing the seas of time and space Wandering the oceans of thought Always searching for our place But these efforts come to naught We walk from dawn to twilight Span the chasm with a bridge Strewn with dust and starlight But we’re heading for a cliff You say you’re free How do you know? When did you choose How life unfolds? All we ever know Delusions owned These fragile webs To pieces blown So where’s your heart and mind? (Sailing the Seas) Is it a choice we made? (Wandering the Ocean) Is it a game we played? (Always Searching) Is it the price we paid? (All these efforts come to naught) Will we ever know? Will we ever really know?
2.
Siren's Call 03:10
Searching the shadows I'm in the lost and found Running at a stand-still In amaze with no way out What I want eludes me In the diffusion of it all [of it all] And when I try so hard, I fall so far, I fall so far Beckoning the siren's call Keep listening to the wind blow But I just can't find the sound Keep looking in the water But my sanity has drowned What I want deludes me In the confusion of it all [of it all] And when I try so hard, I fall so far, I fall so far Beckoning the siren's call I’m awash in this muddled state of mind It may be out there, but nowhere can I find Hear the echoes of a far and distant chord A ship adrift on a long forgotten shore Dove so deep into the ocean And I’m sinking like a stone The voices they surround me Singing songs of the unknown What I want eludes me In the diffusion of it all [of it all] And when I try so hard, I fall so far, I fall so far Beckoning the siren's call
3.
Mescalito 03:34
Fifty miles outside of Santa Fe Dwells a man can change his shape He listens to the desert’s voice And disappears without a noise If you’re cold he’s got a fire If you’re down, he’ll take you higher Coyotes shape he can assume Tho you hide, he’ll sniff your truth Mescalito stalks the night His voice is piercing Eyes are bright Mescalito dreams the day His fire can burn Your pain away Knows these ancient desert paths by heart You can’t render him and land apart Sand and sagebrush in his veins He abides and waits for rain Mescalito stalks the night His voice is piercing Eyes are bright Mescalito dreams the day His fire can burn Your pain away And if you look, you can find him still He walks amongst the driest desert hills He talks to beast and plant and wind And so remains until the end
4.
Alchemy 03:08
Trouble waking up today Drowsing in my bed Seems you’ve gone away for good Pain’s my new best friend Haven’t seen the sun for days All the gold has gone to gray Memories like broken glass Are sticking in my head Have to motor round the bend Though my tank is running low There’s something inside of me - yeah That still hasn’t let you go See sparkles in the silver glass Where light and darkness meet In the blinking of an eye Unsteady on my feet Seems my heart is breaking thru now Driving this pain away And in my mind I'm seeing you now But I know that it’s okay Just around the turn I'll see the rain -it start to glow Shimmering on the branches And my world begins to grow Can I embrace this alchemy of mine Turning rain into a sun that shines I'll embrace this alchemy of mind Never knowing just what I'll find I know I’m waking up today To the newness that unfolds Possibility my new best friend Seems gray can turn to gold
5.
Think I heard you say Trouble’s on the way Seems to make you feel good To borrow tomorrow from today When these words collide Is there a point in taking sides? We all have our point of view True for me ain’t true for you Are you awake in the dream? Or just a pebble rolling in the stream? Are you a lamp at the door? Or feeling like a dissonant chord? Are you awake in the dream? Or just a zombie shuffling your feet? Are you in fire in the night? Or stumbling along without sight? Think I heard you say Trouble’s on the way Seems to make you feel good To Borrow tomorrow from today We all have a path to choose Right or left, nothing to lose At times we’ll disagree True for you ain’t true for me Are you awake in the dream? Or just a pebble rolling in the stream? Are you a lamp at the door? Or feeling like a dissonant chord? Are you awake in the dream? Or just a zombie shuffling your feet Are you in fire in the night? Or stumbling along without sight? Are you awake in dream? Or just stumbling along with sight? Stay awake in the dream Or you'll be stumbling along without sight Awake in the dream.. Awake
6.
I was born with high tide Felt the waves like a storm - yeah There were stars in my eyes Wind was singing my song River Flowing Wind is blowing us away Time is moving Ever onward with the day You were one with the sun Felt the waves like creation There was light in your eyes And it captured my soul We were a force of nature It was the nature of our force We were forged in the fire Felt the flames in our hearts - yeah And we shone like the sun And then we crashed like the waves River Flowing Wind is blowing us away Time is moving Ever onward with the day Now I sit in shadow Dark thoughts, they fill my head And I begin to wonder Now I sit in shadows Grim mountains overhead And I begin to wonder Am I alive or am I.. Am I alive or am I dead?
7.
There’s a stranger staring at me From inside To find the truth you have to read Between the lies Have you always believed There’s more than meets the eye? Sometimes we’re in the weeds And seem to lose our minds To get back on your feet Feel the truth inside Go on, and find the Open Doorways In your heart This revolutions ever changing Where we start Have you always believed That there’s more than meets the eye? The taste is bittersweet The rose grows old There ain’t no easy streets Paved with bricks of gold There's a price we pay To live another day These savage gardens are The places that we play And find new lessons to learn We ebb and flow taking our turn Keep finding lessons to learn We ebb and flow, taking our turn I’ve hiked for miles within the forests Of the mind Found the stream that feeds these rivers That divide Have you always believed we live and then we die? The taste is bittersweet The tales we’re told There ain’t no easy streets Paved with bricks of gold There's a price we pay To live another day These savage gardens are The places that we play And find new lessons to learn We ebb and flow taking our turn Keep finding lessons to learn We ebb and flow… taking our turn
8.
Mind of God 03:11
There’s times when I look around At these faces I pass in town So many of us come and go Living our lives in the to and fro And I wonder.. And I wonder.. Do we really know? Sometimes these hearts They’re set on fire And all these feelings Come to bear Sometimes we’re waiting Out in the cold We’re trying to find Our place in this life But at the end of the day We all go our way We have all taken our turn On this ride Could it be that we are Just a thought In the mind of God And maybe you and me Are awake in the mind of God Could it be that we are A way to be For the mind of God And maybe you and me Came awake in the mind of God And maybe you and me Can awaken the mind of God And maybe you and me (And maybe you and me (And maybe you and me) Can be awake in… There’s times when I look around At these faces I pass in town
9.
You are the garden where I plant my seed You’re the field in which the wind will blow You are the atmosphere in which I shed my tears You’re the heart in me that knows Will you let it flow? From the source of the stream Into the deserts below Don’t try to hold the rain Let it fall from your sky So new life can unfold Yeah… Yours thoughts are complicated Yeah… You always contemplate it Do you want to know [spoken] From this fountain Dreams will flow Into the Garden Where wisdom grows From this mountain Streams will flow Into the ocean Where we all go You are the water with which I quench my thirst You’re the mirror where my reflection shows You are the atmosphere in which I shed my tears You’re the heart in me that knows Will you let it flow? From the source of the stream Into the deserts below Don’t try to hold the rain Let it fall from your sky So new life can unfold Yeah… Your thoughts are complicated Yeah… You always contemplate it Do you want to know [spoken] From this fountain Dreams will flow Into the Garden Where wisdom grows From this mountain Streams will flow Into the ocean Where we all go (repeats)
10.
Hear the screech of tires In the falling rain Spinning round and round Fear and pain begin to fade Now you’re floating free In a sea of memory Flashing lights.. are below A distant face is growing cold A brighter light up ahead And the voices of long forgotten friends And everything you thought you knew And All that you had ever done Seen from a new perspective Points of views of other ones Now you’re floating free In a sea of memory In the space of a moment In the blink of an eye It can all come crashing down And we fade out of sight But all these colors bleed to one In the wake of the setting sun [spoken] Now you’re drifting down Concerned voices surround you The alarm of machines A rush of sharp pain Through your body again But everything you thought you knew Now seen from a new perspective Remembrance of another you Pulling in a new direction [spoken] Familiar faces beside you [spoken] Someone holding your hand In the space of a moment In the blink of an eye It can all come crashing down And we fade out of sight But all these colors bleed to one In the wake of the setting sun We’re all here for a moment For the blink of an eye We all keep on dreaming This dream for a while But all these colors bleed to one In the wake of the setting sun Now you’re floating free In a sea of memory

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released August 22, 2015

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