The Cure for Violence (dem0)

Recorded vocals atop a hill I've been visiting since my childhood. Finally figured out my mix rig - yet now EQing the vox to sound like the iPhone recordings cuz that high end was just so crispy !!

Sitting by a pile of bones that was once a coyote carcass...birds of prey and talkative swallows flying above, below and beside me. The Okanagan sage sharp at my thighs, the dry grass a pouf for my butt to slowly numb on.

I remember coming across the Coyote a couple years ago, still furry and whole. What a beautiful place to lay down and die.

This song may sound "sad" but its just my heart rich with the tender wonder of being alive. The conviction that inner peace is the root of all justice burns in me quietly, pure and whole.

In a couple years, when all the albums I'm in the process of releasing are out; I'll sit down with an engineer and some great players and produce this song - this group of songs I'm creating - get em rite n tite. The album will be called Eshua, my middle name, given to me by Pleiadian demonstration. I'll get Corus and someone's grandma to play some traditional flute where these samples are. For now, here's this dem0.

I struggled a bit with the drums...once I took off the verb they got more decent. And it's okay with me that they're imperfect - it's actually...better. Because in a couple years, I'll come back and be able to track my progress; and what's more satisfying than incremental improvement? Certainly not immediate perfection.

This period in my life is the first when I can't wait to wake up and produce the music I'm making. This music feels so me...like all my years and phases of songwriting are fusing together into something I can stand not just behind, but within, deeply, as well. The walls of my vocations are coming together, as CY predicted 😊

Could cry with joy and hope and wonder. Learning to love music as a guide post to the spirit of Silence's unconditional embrace. Blowing my mind. Arrival.

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Lyrics:
CHORUS
I don’t look outside
When I’m tryna find
My own peace of mind

VERSE 1
Silence’s psychedelic therapy
Vibrating forks make up my symphony
Warm cedar
Is the scent of God’s
Cologne
Walls of wounding fused

Til the cuts don’t hurt no more

Free the people, save them
Save the planet, free the children
The battle cry of all
I have ever known
But I know inner peace will
Save us.

CHORUS
So I don’t look outside
When I’m tryna find
The cure for violence

My own peace of mind
Is for all humankind

VERSE 2
I bet I can conjure anything
I so wanna be able to bring
To the land I’m on
And all the beings who
Share this place
With God and I

Til the love don’t hurt no more

I’ll spread it telepathically
Sign my signature upon the breeze
And core of the Earth
Claim it as my home
Cuz I know that this place/peace will
Save us.

CHORUS
So I don’t look outside
When I’m tryna find
The cure for violence

My own peace of mind
Is for all humankind

OUTRO
The cure for violence
Is in silence
The cure for violence
Is inside of me