Sophie: Young Love

So, tell us who is Sophie?

Sophie is a young girl in love with a young boy.

I see. Sophie isn’t about someone you had a childhood crush on? Is she someone in your life right now?

No.

No?

No…I mean most of us fall in love with someone when we happen to be very young and naive to the world. I’m no exception.

Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. You wrote this song about someone in your life?

No…not at the moment. I wrote the song about two young people who have a real, true love for each other. I’m promoting young love.

Really? So, you think kids cutting classes, sneaking around behind their parent’s back, and ignoring what their parent’s told them do is a good thing?

Uh-uh. Uh-mmm…

And, kids having sex and fooling around is cool to you?

When it’s a real, true love it can’t be denied. Love follows through. Doesn’t matter how old you are.

Let’s look at these words:
Rainbows and butterflies
All of my hopes and dreams,
when I’m with you Sophie
They can only try, but they can’t take what we feel inside 

What does this mean? What are you trying to say?

Hopes, rainbows, dreams, and butterflies…well, those are all simply wonderful things.

Sounds like you want kids to be free to do drugs, have sex for the sake of being “in love”, and avoid getting an education, not to grow up and become upstanding citizens.

Well, that’s a very lop-sided and unbalanced view. Guess you’ve never been in love.

This is not about me. It’s about you…

Green Day.

Excuse me.

Wake Me Up When September Ends.

Hmmm?

I saw the video about a year ago. The one when the boy decides to go off to war and his girlfriend gets mad at him. But, he feels more obligated to serve in the war. The video was great because it was painful…

What?

…painfully clear that, in general, real, true love is constantly ignored and denied by so many people in this world. But, I know young love can be just as real as any other kind of love… so, I, put it in a song.

I see….so you want us to think that kids who are “in love” are capable of making responsible decisions that could ruin the rest of their lives?

Wake me up when this interview ends….

Scars: Behind the Mask

I wrote this song in September 2005 in one night. At the time, it was the most personal song I had written. I thought I would never top this writing. Then, I wrote Answers this year. This month I’ve finally written and produced the music track for Scars.

This song is a true to life story. Even now, thinking of what to write about stirs up many emotions – some unresolved, some accepted.

I was born with many medical problems that has left me with several physical scars. Whew! (Okay… I can do this…)

For 99% of my life, I’ve kept these scars hidden from the physical view. As a kid I avoided a lot of ridicule by being quiet, shy, and keeping to myself. I’ve never been an extroverted type of person, I have only learned through adulthood how important it is to speak up if/when you want to be heard. That lesson has helped me overcome my scars and forge forward into becoming a well balanced man.

Have you ever met a man too afraid to fall in love,
because of the scars that won’t disappear?
What’s life without someone special to be thinking of,
not the scars that are always here?

I guess the older you get, the more mature you become, and the less you care about what people think of you. When you realize all you truly have is Love for people and you can see that we all suffer some kind of pain, then you can begin to find the relevance and meaning of your experience. With that understanding, you can confidently share your experience with Love that can positively impact someone else’s life to move forward and grow.

Who hasn’t been afraid to fall in love these days, fearing the pain of a breakup, the trouble from “drama”, the disappointments of selfishness, and surrendering to the doubts? I’m trying to shift my focus, y’all, and stop being so guarded against chances to fall in love. I’m trying to enhance my other qualities like self-esteem, wit, maturity, knowledge, Spirituality, and my passion for music and writing. I fight to keep a balanced perspective of my physical body as just a “shell”, with scars, pimples, short height, baggy eyes, and my two gapped-teeth…HA!!!!!

Kids are influenced by everything they see
thinking that’s how they’re supposed to be
Mamas and papas teach your babies’ minds to be free
that’s how they’re supposed to be

For so many years, I’ve avoided taking pictures because I thought I’d never measure up to the perfect expectations. I was so locked into the media hyped-up value of image and lifestyle. Being so young and unaware, it is easy to want what you see “out” there because it’s not inside or around you. Thanks to technology and Photoshop we can all look flawless, photo-finished like in a magazine.

But, I don’t want that anymore. Still, people feed the contradictions by being distracted from a positive message because it doesn’t “look” right. How is positive supposed to look anyway? I thought being positive was about a feeling, a mentality.

We all have Scars, whether they are physical or emotional. All I can really do is hope that you will not deny or ignore your scars, but you instead reshape them in your mind to being those distinguishing marks that make up a beautiful You!

Thank you!

Broken Soul: A View on 3-D

The Universe will have restored Love to the people,
who will realize, actualize, and energize their Spirits,
putting comfort and strength back into our hearts
to mend all of our broken souls
and give us the dawn of a
new experience

I wrote Broken Soul back in July of this year 2007. I started with the first two stanzas, and put it away. As I was making music one day, what I had written came to my mind and I started reading the words over the music and the two just fit together. I kept reading the words to the music and worked it out. I just knew I had to finish writing the piece. It took me about a half-hour to write it all out. But, there’s so much more to this story…

This has been the biggest, most important spiritually awakening year of my life. But, more information only leads to more questions. Many of my life questions have been answered and many aspects have been brought into a unique, though alienating, perspective. Funny sometimes, when death taints your life, how you quickly come head on with all of your personally unresolved issues and unanswered questions. You are immediately forced to make lighting fast decisions, cut through the bull****, accept the realness of situations, and be firm in your actions. The older you are, the less tolerant you become with uneasiness because you are keenly aware that time is still going forward… with you or without you.

Bottomline, everything I’ve been told to “believe” in or have accepted on “faith” has been challenged to a outstandingly great degree. Listen, all the things I thought I knew I had answers for have all been turned upside down.

    I feel like I was spiritually led to discover information that has been so hard to accept. But, it has opened my spiritual eyes wide to understanding our existence on this 3rd dimension.

I don’t have anwsers, I have possiblities. I don’t have judgements, I have understanding. I don’t have faith, I have knowledge. I don’t have to believe, because my Spirit shows me everyday that I am Loved, that I am cared for, and that I am living my experience.

I could write a book explaining the deep inspiration behind this piece. Though I can intelligently explain everything I’ve written in this piece, I do not know that I am ready for the backlash from the readers. What I’m talking about goes beyond a David and Goliath story. I could trigger all kinds of warning alerts and alarms from explaining this piece in detail.

As if the very words weren’t enough already to turn some heads sideways, by writing about the experience of this piece could certainly serve to alienate me even more.

What I can tell you is that these days, the greater population of individuals in this world have been and are being pulled further and further away from their spiritual centers. I do think this is by design, yet very much out of our control. The contradictions, the confusion, the unjustice, the uncompassion are so embedded in our soceities and existence that we never need to question where it all comes from and why it is. We just accept it.

I do know that Love is Energetic-motion that vibrates through us all. Love is not doubled-sided. Love and hate (light and dark) can not, will not, has not ever existed in the same space. Yet, they are somehow twisted, braided within the realm of religion and government, in this 3rd dimension. Have you ever honestly thought, how could God’s Spirit Love and Hate at the same time? Are you really allowing yourself to think that could be a contradiction or are you saying that it is absolutely so because that’s what you’ve been taught since you could remember?

If you take away money supply, wouldn’t we still have our Spirits? Take away sin wouldn’t we still have our spirits?

I’m not saying I have the answers, just possiblities.

I know that if I can be open to discovering the information that leads to my on-going spiritual awakening and recover in confidence from what I find, then everyone else can and will too. Once our collective desire to spiritually awaken ourselves happens, then the time will be upon us to shift the totality of all our experience. That is when we will reclaim our spiritual connectedness and overcome these obstacles and ills of societies. With the help of Universal Love we can and will chase away the darkness, so that we suffer no more.

Thank you for reading! As always take what you will, and leave the rest to be still.

(Comments are always welcome!)