Close My Eyes
(Dave Tate)
I’ve been hoping all of the day
You would take me far from this place
But in my wanting hands, a heart of diamond grace
Blue blood soothing, red fire burns away
I’ve been swimming as fast as I can
Deep dark waters, where I offered up my hands
But in my hour of need
The answer through me clear
She calmed my kicking feet
and whispered in my ear
Chorus
Close my eyes and the world is new
Life goes by, it’s all I long for
Where every sorrow soothed
Crystal carving, the weaving of fate
Guard disarming to pull my fears away
But though my will was strong I’m falling to my knees
Here undying peace
Chorus
Close my eyes and the world is new
Life goes by, it’s all I long for
Where every sorrow soothed
Let my life for her love come through
Your will’s mine
I've Known This
(Dave Tate)
October 15, 2010
I’ve Known This
Shield of the soldier you’ve carried by your side
Drink of this water until your cup runs dry
Would we plead for mercy, when mercy is the breath
That weaves in all things to carry me through death
(Chorus)
Whispering, I’ve known this
Whispering, I’ve known this
Years would I wander and ask you who I am
‘Till the tears of my children bring me back again
When the swan sings the madness suddenly dissolves
My dear the last song
Before the shadow falls
(Chorus)
Whispering, I’ve known this
Whispering, I’ve known this
Know the silence will take you
No one’s steering you off course
Know but one hand forsakes you
And Know that it’s been yours
Know there’s nothing to accomplish
We are being lived my friend
Grow my heart in paying homage
To it’s bliss again
My dreams were mended
When I set them free
They rose like eagles
And came right back to me.
Copyright 2010 David G. Tate
Find Your Way
(The Houses of Healing)
Feel the madness break
We have come this far
Patter of the rain
Upon your weary heart
Still inside the pain
Healing of a scar
Here a new refrain
Upon your breath will start
Leave the homeless
Find your way to me
Chorus
My long lost friend
Find your way to me
It never ends
Where you’re running
Here the earth we shake
Dying from the start
But I would not forsake
Make your way back to my arms
We are turning now
From the stormy seas
They have thinned you out
Like winter through the trees
Chorus
My long lost friend
Find your way to me
It never ends
Where you’re running
Chorus
My long lost friend
Find your way to me
Your heart will mend.
Greater Than Gold
(Dave Tate)
Bear me down from high loneliness
It’s not me you fear
Close to sound but far from unrest
At the dawn of this new year
Let me die from the man I was
Lift my eyes from pain
It’s no sacrifice to become your love
Or to loose yourself to change
Chorus
Soon we’ll go to the end of seas
Where my heart will reach for you
The same way you reach for me
Cease my mind, this maze of unrest
Peace will find where you are
And though this goodbye will be my final test
We will heal the ancient scar
Chorus
Soon we’ll go to the end of seas
Where my heart will reach for you
The same way you reach for me
Karmic Circle
(Dave Tate)
Enter the night, wrapped in the light of you
I feel the pull, with every moaning move
I’d grown so tired of running away
From the fog and the pain
So I turn and walk into the unknown
Oh and she leads me
Chorus
Kneeling here on my own
Wrapped around the feeling of the world I’ve known
Free me from what I have made
The karmic circle that keeps me from your grace
Older than time, the feeling I’m moving in
Your heart is mine, body’s entwined within
Now there’s no place to hide it away
So I’m giving it all
Underneath words is the language of space
And the depth of all playing
Chorus
Kneeling here on my own
Wrapped around the feeling of the world I’ve known
Free me from what I have made
The karmic circle that keeps me from your grace
You’re the beauty I turn to in my hour of fear
You’re the breath of forgiveness
and the well of my heart
You’re the words softly spoken
To the open ear
You’re the birth where we met
And the death where we part
Falling never felt like this
Where the devil meets the sweet angel
Light and dark, we all are cloaked in many colors
But home to us all is the song of ages
Moon Kissed the Clouds
(Dave Tate)
Moon Kissed the Clouds
I ask, “Would you step closer?”
But you back away, fighting for your life
The axis of love turning over
Yet a crack in the bow
Sinks the ship in time…
Yeah we crashed on the rocks
And were broken
“Till the earth felt our feet, and the sun began to climb
Now the paths of our lives interwoven
Let the sadness release
In the joy of second life
Chorus
We’re so much more than we wanted to see
Life opened roads to the falling of me
Our time is right for divine living art
Cool desert soul who was given to the sea
It’s the healing of grief you have taken
It’s returning to peace and what is truly mine
We’re the blessing of love freely given
As the moon kissed the clouds
When you became my wife.
End of Seas
(Dave Tate)
Bear me down from high lonliness
It’s not me you fear
Close to sound but far from unrest
At the dawn of this new year
Let me die from the man I was
Lift my eyes from pain
It’s no sacrifice to become your love
Or to loose yourself to change
Chorus
Soon we’ll go to the end of seas
Where my heart will reach for you
The same way you reach for me
Cease my mind, this maze of unrest
Peace will find where you are
And though this goodbye will be my final test
We will heal the ancient scar
Chorus
Soon we’ll go to the end of seas
Where my heart will reach for you
The same way you reach for me
By Your Side
(Dave Tate)
Let the magic take me by your side
Let the music make me what I feel
I am new and naked to what I was
Be the breath that makes my
Dreaming real
Every word that made me what I was
Let us not relive the old again
And we knew the fates would run with us
They’re calling me “Boy – you’re coming ‘round again”
Chorus
If I am here on my own
Than why am I led to your door
Time never could show
The lightness of your love
By my side
The cool pursed lips of the wind
The moons cradle I am sitting in
The color of smoke through the trees
Of your memory
The dark clouds that part in the night
The white ship and her charcoal eyes
The speckles of star in my soul
They’re calling me “Boy – you’re finally coming home.”
Chorus
If I am here on my own
Than why am I led to your door
Time never could show
The lightness of your love
By my side
Feel it Open
(Dave Tate)
Rain upon my neck, the skies they weep
I’m calling out again, to the better part of me
The clouds they know my strain, of lying in between
The starry sky and man, would start remembering
That he could
Chorus
Feel it open now
So I took a man’s emancipation, from the shackles of the old
Yeah I packed by bags and left that cold creation
For the gaping shores of soul
So I could
Chorus
Feel it Open now
I never knew the doorway was held by my demands
As the shadows in the evening, I finally fall to land
Life is so much more than I could ever
Grasp within my hands
So I just
Chorus
Feel it Open now
Fall Apart
(Dave Tate)
Fall Apart
To all the seekers in the dark
As I the child never grown
The spinning wheel of choice and fate
of one who’s compass fills with smoke
(Chorus)
I am the light that cracks through your window
To covet your heart.
I am the dream that makes your breath easy
And fears fall apart
To all the people I have wronged
For all the judgement I have laid
Your lessons help this man to sing a better song
Through deep serenity repaid
(Chorus)
I am the light that cracks through your window
To covet your heart.
I am the dream that makes your breath easy
And fears fall apart
(Bridge)
You know they’ll see
Riches and gold in me
But go to the heart
And live in trust
the only way
Within, without
(Chorus)
I am the light that cracks through your window
To covet your heart.
I am the dream that makes your breath easy
And fears fall apart
