This is a newer song I’ve written for the piano and it’s based off of My Name Is Asher Lev in which Jay and I were ruined momentarily while reading it. We had a discussion about the necessity of venturing outward from familiar traditions and thought in order to embody the creative, generative self that speaks gritty, embodied truth. This incarnate truth enlarges the territories of love and freedom. Both are very dangerous in dark hours, whereby we cling to the warm and cooing truths of others in order to not stare into the possibly grave, mysterious, unanswerable faces of God. So, a small song is due from the challenge of staring into the often unknown-ness of God, in which surprisingly and inadvertently empowers blessing to arise, uncomfortably so, but still arises with the new dawn.
Go outside from what you know
They’ll protest to keep you home
Wear your discipline round your neck
And don’t go past the lines in the sand
Because we’re,
bound to safety
We’re hushing all the anxiety
That we may not know,
we don’t know
Go outside from what you know
You will find skin unnamed
Who will tempt your blood ties
So, step through lines with your home on your back
Because we’re,
staying with purity
We’re nulling all fantasy
That we may not feel,
we don’t feel
Go, go, won’t you go
Because we’re,
fighting against beauty
We’re loosing all sensitivity
That we may not weep
For all that’s killing you and me
Go, go, won’t you go
