It’s important to run
The metaphorical
Red Lights
But please don’t run
The literal ones
Category: Singer-Songwriter
Original Song – This Invisible Ocean
For mom.
THIS INVISIBLE OCEAN
As a wild eyed child, little shovel in hand,
I dug for treasure in a box full of sand.
I uncovered a seashell, a spiral of ivory,
And ran to ask my mother what this wonder might be.
She motioned to the plains, as she explained to me
How they were underwater as far as you could see.
I looked out in amazement as the tall trembling trees
Trickled as they shifted in the quick liquid breeze.
I turned to my mother and I said, “No way!
You mean what we see here, that’s just today?
But mama, oh mama,” I said, suddenly afraid.
“Mama, oh mama, why can’t it stay the same?
Mama, oh, mama, will the water come again?”
She took me in her arms and kissed my salty tears,
Caressed my dirty forehead, and whispered in my ear,
“If you live in this moment, you will learn to swim
This invisible ocean that we’re living in.”
Original Song – Never Alone
NEVER ALONE
One by one
my lovers have all moved on
Leavin’ me
With only this lonesome song
And quiet nights
With only myself to blame
Feelin’ as though
Nobody knows my name
(Knows my name)
I walk along
The sidewalk still wet with rain
Just singin’ to
The shadows that move so strange
The moon it hangs
up in the sky so grey
It looks on me
Without a word to say
(A word to say)
And then a man
With an unearthly smile
he says to me
“you’ve got it all wrong my child
You cannot be
alone in a world so grand.
and love it grows
out of the palm of your hand”
(The palm of your hand
Just give me your hand
Help me understand)
(instrumental verse)
And then the man
He vanished into the wind
And took with him
My feelings of isolation
And now I know
That all of life shares one
Love and so
I’m never alone
Never alone
Never alone
Never alone
Adam Astra 