TRT – Blue Turtle Seduction lyrics

Talking about the ways of an ever-dancing child,
Inspiration pouring down the timeless river nile.
It starts at the source, a course that comes from within,
Waterfalling from the heart to the valley of the pen.
It pours to the people, the ones that want to hear,
Come down to the river for the time is coming near.
To open up the door to what your waiting for,
Oh what the hell, image doesn’t matter anymore.
It’s a musical explosion passing on it’s seeds,
To all nationalities, colors, and creeds.

Now it comes easy, just a matter of releasing,
Taking a jump from the ship of dignity, into a sea of eternity.

It’s a dance that we do, to the movement of the stars,
Traveling miles without the use of cars.
Fourth-dimensionality, moving as a wave,
Passing through the people, all the people say Hey!
Yes, can we dance to the flames of a fire,
Oh can our voices rise higher and higher?
Out of time, out of mind, only in the now,
Don’t bother asking why, cause we’re going to show you how.
What I’m talking about is not some luxury vacation,
Just a lesson in the one and only, positive vibration!

Uniquely we journey through a higher space,
Subsequently sending peace to our race.
Millenium magic shining in the night,
Right before your eyes and then flashing out of sight.
What’s that you say, Can you explain it a little more?
About this game that we are playing where no one’s keeping score.
Well life is the game and the journey is the board,
Breath is our peace and the lion is our roar!
The sea just bubbles as the stars begin to fall,
While islands of laughter just echo down the hall.
It’s the absence of judgment, but not the lack of choice.
Talkin about another way to utilize your voice.
The power of the people, the one’s that speak as one,
The movement of the masses going to outpower any gun.
Love is our sword and we strike it all around,
To anybody open to this hip vibration sound.
We move as a tribe, as we dance in the field,
Singing, Hallelujah to that ever sacred seal.
That binds us together to make a solid chain, 
you and me, him and her, we’re all just the same.
www.blueturtlemusic.com

Tea Leaf Green – Innocence Lyrics

Thunders below Heavens
Heavens below the stars
Stars are attached by invisible thread
To the darkness that is Love

I’ve been reading this Chinese book
It tells me how far I should go
and that hope is a dream like a butterfly wing
and that nature is Heaven’s accord
Nature is Heaven’s accord

And I wish I was Innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want
Know what I can get
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent

If I loved a girl with long golden curls,
and I was a man without guile,
I would never intend the night we would spend
cuz the life of a man is a trial
The life of of a man is a trial

And I wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want
Know what I can get
I wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent, wish I was innocent

Swingin’ from stars
Too near or too far
Watching them shine
Doin’ my time
Makin’ them mine
Then I leave ’em behind

Make ‘em mine then I leave ‘em behind

Thus it is said that
Your heart not your head should guide you on thru to the end
And if you should find a love that can bind
Taint it through innocence
Taint it through innocence

And I wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
I know what I want, know what I can get

Wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want, know what I can get

I Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent

www.tealeafgreen.com

Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen

He would see faces in movies, on t.v., in magazines, and in books….
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him….and
Through the years, by keeing an ideal facial structure fixed in his
Mind….or somewhere in the back of his mind….that he might, by
Force of will, cause his face to approach those of his ideal….the
Change would be very subtle….it might take ten years or so….
Gradually his face would change its shape….a more hooked nose…
Wider, thinner lips….beady eyes….a larger forehead.

He imagined that this was an ability he shared with most other
People….they had also molded their faced according to some
Ideal….maybe they imagined that their new face would better
Suit their personality….or maybe they imagined that their
Personality would be forced to change to fit the new appear-
Ance….this is why first impressions are often correct…
Although some people might have made mistakes….they may have
Arrived at an appearance that bears no relationship to them….
They may have picked an ideal appearance based on some childish
Whim, or momentary impulse….some may have gotten half-way
There, and then changed their minds.

He wonders if he too might have made a similar mistake.

Modern Guilt – Beck

Taught To Be Proud

Taught to be Proud

Words and Music by Trevor Garrod of Tea Leaf Green

I was taught to be proud of where I come from
And I’m so sad that I’m the only one.
Like a cold preacher boy talking only to himself
How did he think that he got to promised lands?

Sometimes I’m confused and I don’t know where I’m going,
Mistaking gentle rivers for that cold wind a-blowing.
I’m always sure of an angel when she gets here,
But I never see her coming and I miss her when she disappears.

Gone, gone, gone,
Not gone for long,
If you’re taught to be proud of where you come from.

Gone, gone, gone,
Not gone for long,
If you’re taught to be proud of where you come from.

It’s hard to be cool when you’re playing for the prophets;
They really know if you got it or you lost it.
I’ll sing this song but I don’t know where it came from,
Reminds me of a mountainside to stand upon and gently hum.

Sometimes I’m confused
I don’t know where I’m going,
Mistaking gentle rivers for that cold wind a-blowing.
And I’m always sure of an angel when she gets here,
But I never see her coming and I miss her when she disappears.

www.tealeafgreen.com

Blind, but Starting to See…

I remember back when I was a freshman in high school, some 14 years ago now, talking to a guy friend telling him that I wished everyone were blind. I wished that we were forced to only look into each others hearts to make decisions on who we chose around us. That we would choose only the highest quality people for who they were on the inside not how they appeared to be on the outside.

 

My first music festival in 2005, Vegoose, was a turning point in my life. I went originally to see Jack Johnson whom I had been listening for a few years, but had no idea what to expect. It was a brilliant mix of artists, some who I had heard of before, but most that I had not. I liked the beat and the feel of the festival and that scene so much that I really started to get into it. I didn’t really know what it all meant, but I was loving it.

 

Sometime in 2006 I remember a friend posing a question to me… If I had the choice to be blind or deaf, which would I choose? I immediately said that I would choose to be blind, thinking back of my youthful wish. I was still so much into music and moving my body to the beat that I couldn’t imagine not being able to experience it. Along with that, if I were blind then I would be forced to solely rely on my intuition to lead me in the right direction.

 

Then came a huge physical turn in my life… I moved to Brazil. I heard people all the time singing along to songs and not knowing the words and I realized that I also, didn’t really know either. I began on a personal mission to look up lyrics of my favorite songs. This has been so revealing. I didn’t know the lyrics and I certainly didn’t know the meaning of the words that my favorite artists sang. This lead me to start looking up the artists themselves. It inspired me to learn about history so that I could understand the climate of the world and the US at the time the artist grew up and when they wrote the lyrics. I wanted to know why they chose the words that they chose to sing about. I wanted to know why they chose to sing about those topics. I didn’t understand, but I really wanted to so I just started to try. I was blind in another way, for so long.

 

I still don’t know if I really see, but I am beginning to and that makes me feel good. I can only try to do my best in any given circumstance while striving for truth and honesty in every situation.