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Salvation

by George Craig McMillian

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1.
Milky Way Dreams There’s a place I go to find my way Spent some time there just the other day All relations to the past are gone All tomorrows falling from the throne I put them on No investments…no more scheming mind Left my troubles rotting on the vine Open road just begging for a ride. Looking back now one last time Passing through like yesterday’s wine Wondering if I’ve ever seen the light of day Blinded by the Bright Lights on the way……Yeah yeh Now I got the wind at my back Got the sunshine in my face Seeing better now where I‘m going Look to me like a better place Saw a star through the smoke and screens Out there in the Milky Way Dreams In a flash another answer came This is it…nothing left to explain (Chorus) I can promise those days are over Once a fool …now a knower And a whole lot of life left to lead Holdin on to what was always History’s just a passing phase No more walls left for us to peel It’s all been a dream but You and I are Real…that’s Real (B-section) Another broken promise passing by Didn’t care how hard you tried Take a hold of shifting sand Disappears right through your hand Satisfied and unsatisfied On the wheel it’s all the same Going to make you cry Time to say good-by Up and Down and Away. Borderline …we just crossed over High on a moon-lite beam Feel your arms around my shoulders Safe inside the Golden Stream Letting go an even keel Punch a hole through the 7 seals Nothing wrong with being extreme Don’t you want to hear yourself scream? (Chorus) I can promise those days are over Once a fool but now a Knower And a whole lot of life left to lead Holdin on to what was Always History’s just a passing phase No more walls left for us to peel It’s all been a dream but you and I are Real…that’s Real Words by: George Craig McMillian & Dennis Palmer  2009 Music by: George Craig McMillian  2009
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Delta Jiggle Jungle Empowerment Tonight you’ll know Just how easy it can be No more sides to disagree No more ups and no more downs No more waiting to be found Wonderin when your time will come No more places left for you to run to 2) Lay your mind at ease Come and go as you please Listen for the in-between Say good-bye the old regime Wait awhile till it feels right Inching closer day and night Make your leap…and fall into the stream Sink or swim now don’t you worry There’s no slow and there’s no hurry There’s no up and there’s no down There’s no inside and there’s no outside There’s no here and there’s no there There’s no time to get prepared What’s come before you can disavow What you will to do…better be right now (Pre-chorus) All right now Ain’t no way to pull out Flesh and Blood All entire I’m on Fire (Chorus) All rise up Carnalize up Hit the ground like big freight train This is break in With a tail spin Open wide for my spray (All night and day) (B-sec meditation) Time got ya in a strangle-hold Fellin like you bought and sold Some people just along for the ride Some people don’t even try Did you wish it would just all go away Now you can show the world a better face Here’s a message from above Feel the piston of our love (Chorus) All rise up Carnalize up Shake this ground like big freight train This is break in With a tail spin Open wide for my spray Om Aim Hring Kling Om Aim Hring Kling Chawman daye viche nama Om Aim Hring Kling Om Aim Hring Kling Chawman daye viche nama (Ending meditation) If I had then thousand tongues And then thousand years I could never say how good it is But it’s so damned fun to try I I I Words and Music by: George Craig McMillian  2009
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Vanish In The Love Take a stand right where I am I’ve been trying way to hard Every time I long for You You walk away in disregard I ain’t cryin no more nights I ain’t dying no more days Done crawlin on my knees Hide e Ho I’m on my Way I be rolling down that highway strong Turn around you’ll see I’ve gone A brand new song B) Story closes, cease to be All the outcomes just a tease Pickin up what I laid down Lo and behold Myself I found!!! 2) Close my eyes and I can see Everything I used to be Turn my gaze inside to look The real deal’s got no hooks Cried tears that never end Called out for help to send From the echo I un-hooked All this time it was Me mistook I be rolling down that Highway strong Turn around you’ll see I’ve gone A brand new song. B) Found my way through the Night I am dancing in the naked Light Final act of chasing more My boat has landed on the shore Everything got in the way Now we going to blow away (Exorcism) I’m talking to all you demons now::: Lust you just can’t get a hold of Anger that brings nothing but sorrow to yourself and everyone around You… Greed that hollows out a human into nothing False un-earned pride …that turns you into a pillar of salt…trying to Cover all your lies… And attachment so strong that it makes one think that “stuff’ is more important than People… Now I want you to head straight on into the Lovin arms of the Creator Where you will be die, dissolve, and be re-born as something a little less Stupid. And meantime, for the rest of us We will mount burning…like a cone of fire Across our own soul’s unmapped immensities Where we will meet Face to face The incomprehensible… (Chorus) Hee Yeh Yeh Ha Eloheim Elat O Shilo Hee Yeh Yeh Ha Eloheim Elat O Shilo Alaha Allah Eloheim Elat O Shilo May all your sorrows vanish in the Love 3) No more cavin in to shame No more fear of burnin flames Take on back what they took The real deal’s got no hooks Oh my sweet human parts Come to earth to play my part Here’s our ticket out of Hell Stand up tall we never fell…. I be rolling down that Highway strong Turn around you’ll see I’ve gone A brand new song (Chorus) Hee Yeh Yeh Ha Eloheim Elat O Shilo Hee Yeh Yeh Ha Eloheim Elat O Shilo Alaha Allah Eloheim Elat O Shilo May all your sorrows vanish in the Love Words and Music by: George Craig McMillian  2009
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Love Is Here To Stay If you were to go away No one d find my Hideaway Endless coil of Soulless dreams Nothing ever as it seems Babel Tower Plastic flowers Broken promises and sweet illusions Trap the fly in its delusions… tight It’s not right No light A bad night No sight 2) I’d pretend I was so strong Show the world that nothings wrong Who am I foolin…life would be gruelin Endless are the needs of night Iron shells Private hells Visions of a joyless mind Drive this world into the dust of time Such a crime To give up trying It’s feeding time Here’s a dime 3) Out here where I’ve never been You make me say and you make me feel Everything that I was afraid Afraid to know was real Like a feather in the wind Gone to far to comprehend Nameless rapture Silent Sound Something’s callin I am fallin…where there is no ground No up or down No all around No inside found No outside bound When the words all fall away Are ya going to run or are you going to stay Out here where the wild wind blows Love is fierce…there are no holds (Chorus) Don’t play me Come Sleigh me Don’t leave us in Maybe Heaven’s a moment away Take hold me We’re home free Always better than it can be This time love is here to stay Hey Now…love is here to stay 4) Can you swear you really tried Or did you hold it all up inside Sleepless nights and endless plans Hold tomorrow in your trembling hands You want to run away You want to try and stay In between you feel life slippin away Doorway Wrong way Gonna pay Better pray 5) Now its time to take a stand Bind the wound by your command Walk the trail to matter’s verge Dive into the pounding surge Come now with me Heaven agrees Fall into the pool of Nam Listen to the never ending Song On and On Foregone So Strong Sing along When the words all fall away Are ya going to run or are you going to stay Out here where the wild wind blows Love is fierce…there are no holds (Chorus) Don’t play me Come Sleigh me Don’t leave us in Maybe Heaven’s a moment away Take hold me We’re home free Always better than it can be This time love is here to stay Hey Now…love is here to stay Words and Music by: George Craig McMillian  2008
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My Eyes Have Seen a Better Way Rhythm cutting through the artificial fog TV newspapers lying like a Dog Press that noxious Hum into your Mind Make you feel like what the hell’s the use in trying What you see surely ain’t what you get Stripped down truth keep you chompin at the bit Reduced to a number in a buyers sellers hail Pool ball on the table Just bumpin off the rails 2) Hidden dictators they got it all figured While hired reptiles spit out the facts and the figures Implacable to the poor To the rich they’re just whores Bom Bombastic basturd laws Firmly behind all the Ra Ra Ra Designed to confuse when the chips are all down Cuz it’s all smoke and mirrors in the Devil’s Playground. 3) When did cruelty and torture become The badge of courage…the rule of thumb Guess the leadership done become a dealership For the Demons of Greed Cuz only the spineless feed on those who Bleed I know your shakin inside Cuz you try so hard to hide You know only that house can stand that be built by the Lord Not your lying…your scheming…and your visionless dreaming Hear me Now Your lying…your scheming…and your visionless dreaming And its time for you to get out the way Now Cuz we comin on board (Chorus) Gather up to the roof of this jail Take a better look at what will prevail Say good-by to those who make you a slave How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave Walkin like the Man upon the waves A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way Little faith going to bring back the good days My eyes have seen a better way My eyes have seen a better Way… yeah yeah 4) TV newspapers owned by the Blind man Spread their lies all across this land Divide and Conquer is the name of the game They say you’re my enemy I say you’re my brother And the man of god is nothing but a fraud When he tells you to kill for some principalitized corporation’s cheap thrills Yeah your castles in the air look real good up there on the marquee But your mouth is shut when it comes to the admission fee Well we not as dumb as you look We can read it all just like a book So you can make it ramble Or you can make it scramble But truth is like a compass needle pointing to the North Just what is it you think you can hide When we looking from the Source But ya know…what goes around comes around Is the only rule on this playground And it only takes the Faith of a mustard seed To bring it down (Chorus) Gather up to the roof of this jail Take a better look at what will prevail Say good-by to those who want to make you a slave How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave Walkin like the Man upon the waves A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way Little faith going to bring back the good days My eyes have seen a better way My eyes have seen a better Way yeah yeah (B-section Meditation) Everywhere I go I here people say Heaven is not that far away Soul of man and woman is greater than their fate We could bring to Earth those Pearly gates And through that doorway I saw unfurl Nothing less than a brand new world All the aches now seem worthwhile Through the Long and Lonely trial No more dark pretense of hate Soft the rictus on Love’s face Swallowed in wisdom’s mesh Gone the gain & gone the debt Set out in this nascent land Open heart and open hand On your brow we place the crown Hear and Now the Song is found. (Chorus) Gather up to the roof of this jail Take a better look at what will prevail Say good-by to those who want to make you a slave How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave Walkin like the Man upon the waves A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way Little faith going to bring back the good day My eyes have seen a better way My eyes have seen a better Way yeah yeah Right now Today Words and music by: George Craig McMillian  2008
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I Made It Home Well I’ve traveled the back roads most of my life A whole lot of party almost no strife If I had to do it over…might do it again But what happens when you’ve done it all And it’s still a dead in? 2) Well I chased down those good times Like on life it did depends Runnin like an outlaw till I reached the end It never made me happy though I tried and tried But through Harley’s and Jesus…I found my ride Well I’ve seen a lot a cross roads Which way will I go? Is it right or is wrong hell if I know But one day he talked to me inside my head “I’ll give you a new life” That’s what he said (Chorus) Hey yeah yeh ho… Life is just a ride Hey yeah yeh ho… you crash or you glide Hey yeah yeh ho… all my life long Through Harleys and Jesus…I’m staying strong (Instrumental) 3) Well I’m looking down the road now I like what I see Everything I need is comin to me No more apprehension…just rollin along All day and all night I’m singin my song Still runnin like an outlaw Still dancing like a fool Sometimes I fall down From drinkin too much fuel Well it don’t seem to matter I’m just hittin my stride Through Harleys and Jesus I found my ride (Chorus) Hey yeah yeh ho… Life is just a ride Hey yeah yeh ho… you crash or you glide Hey yeah yeh ho… It’s better than OM Through Harleys and Jesus I made it Home Words and Music by: George Craig McMillian  2008
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Salvation 04:36
Salvation Don’t want a Heaven after I’m gone I need a place to keep my family warm Don’t want a vision of saints all in white I want the blind to see the sweet morning light Don’t want a future where God sets things right I need a neighborhood to walk safe at night Don’t want a banquet in heaven above Till no one is hungry in this world that I love (Chorus) Salvation’s not just a personal thing Everyone’s got to hear that Word sing Ain’t going to get there by push and shove The Good Lord says it’s about Love…sweet Love 2) Don’t want a path that rises above Someone else that fell from love Don’t want to jump and shout with joy When another man’s country is being destroyed Don’t want a doorway closed to some Too many people left un-done Don’t want a race where I have to out run And leave my brother out from the fun… (Chorus) Salvations not just a personal thing Everyone’s got to hear that word sing Ain’t going to get there by push and shove The Good Lord says it’s about Love…sweet Love 3) Don’t want a kingdom don’t want a crown Till all nations lay their angry weapons down No Armageddon no thousand years No more tomorrows…Only Now Only Here (Chorus) Salvations not just a personal thing Everyone’s got to hear that word sing Ain’t going to get there by push and shove The Good Lord says it’s about Love…sweet Love Words and music by: Rory Cooney & George Craig McMillian  2009 
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Out On The Road Out on the road in the early morning Exercising my free will choice Which way will I turn my longing Everyday is a brand new voice Easy rise and a easy fallin The road is rolling at a gentle pace Sky above and the earth below me Everything I need is in its place. 2) Saw a man in a big Mercedes Drivin by at a frantic pace Looked like a puppet on the strings of time Shadow of the world upon his face Had a pretty girl sitting there beside him Collagen lips and silicone tits Hadn’t a clue where she was going Driving next to someone who though he did (Chorus) Eieh Yeih Yeh Well I thank the Lord this road is so wide Eieh Yeih Yeh Just a Country Boy out here for a ride 3) Headin down to Natchez on a Sunday morning Looking for a map and a bottle of beer Motor was a hummin and the pipes were roaring Sounds like music to my ears Stopped into a store where he called me a sinner Guess I was looking to laid back 38 special, bottle of whisky, Bible on the shelf behind his back I bought me some longnecks Wrote him a bad check Walked out the door and gave him a wave Never argue with a fool on a Sunday morning Out on the road I’m already saved. (B-Section Meditation) Unknown the Shadows in my mind Somehow they get left behind All that has been renews I Am before the choices I choose I can see the Great Design Hear the voices between the lines Anthems from the Silent Sound Unveils rapture all around Fall away the hidden cords Time’s temptation I ignore All my thinking decodes Feel myself back on the road Smiling for no reasons Known Like a child chasing his shadow We’re headin straight on Now We’re headin straight on Now For the Mother-Lode 4) Out on the road no one can own me Dancin to a music I can’t define Clamor of the experts fall around me Nothing in this world I call my guide Never let another man tell you who you are Freedom is something you find inside Out on the road I got everything I need Got my name, got my friends And I’m always right (Chorus) Eieh Yeih Yeh Well I thank the Lord this road is so wide Eieh Yeih Yeh Just a Country Boy out here for a ride (Repeat verse 1) Out on the road in the early morning Exercising my free will choice Which way will I turn my longing Everyday is a brand new voice Easy rise and a easy fallin The road is rolling at a gentle pace Sky above and the earth below me Everything I need is in its place. Words & music by: George Craig McMillian  2008
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A Message from Elvis There’s a pounding in my head as I sit here alone A creature of habit… I wait by the phone This message I’ve been waiting on is takin too long I could slip into the great unknown Somebody told me life’s an unexpected chance It roles and it tumbles while we make our stand But you can join any time be a part of the dance Don’t wait till the end of the song Heartaches and troubles been callin your name But like the leaves in the autumn they all fall away And someday that sunshine well it won’t go away But sometime someday’s got to come (Chorus) Round round round we go Joy and sorrow nobody knows We all take our chances But a fool even knows Nothing can happen till you let your dice role 2) Lost in self pity…I just couldn’t resist When the phone rang inside my own head from out of the mist I said,” whose this callin me” I wasn’t ready for the twist The voice said, “Better shut up boy and listen This is Elvis” (Elvis) A hanged man can’t cut himself down But by and by natures going to have its way So what’s the need of all this sadness? Everything’s going to be OK Human urning can sometimes run amok But what creature in time hasn’t once felt itself stuck Toss and turn…cool and burn But then a moment’s depth can spread out like a stone dropped in a calm pool And a luminous nest of your own self-innocence you can find in a moment If you wish And torn from the clutches of chance and self oblivion A swift and fiery flood of life will lift you up to the windless summit Remember that pounding in your head It’s because you weren’t a listening But here everything is as soft as a mother’s heart beat Wandering waves fill every tendril that has ever grasped the rope of doubt or fear And dissolves what no longer need to be felt…seen…thought…or feared Yea in Graceland everybody knows The Kingdom is always Now…Always Here… Heartaches and troubles been callin your name But like the leaves in the autumn they all fall away And someday that sunshine well it won’t go away But sometime someday’s got to come (Chorus) Round round round we go Joy and sorrow nobody knows We all take our chances But a fool even knows Nothing can happen till you let your dice role Round round round we go Joy and sorrow nobody knows We all take our chances But I’ll tell you what I know Nothing can happen till you let it all go Words and music by George Craig McMillian ©2007
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Kalachakra Tantra Mantra Om ah hum ho ham ka sham ma la VA re ya pay Om prem vish VA mata hum hum pay Each passing step I don’t regret Take it all in stride Don’t ask myself if I’m right or wrong Hesitation override Now some will say that’s a perilous way We command you to live by the norm But they be dreaming they is sinners…just cuz they was born Now I lose no sleep ‘bout what I’ll reap Freedom has no doubts But it seems to me if you put junk in That’s what you’ll get back out. The whole damn game is just a shame Surely don’t need to be Get off your knees…Dance and Sing That’s the admission fee…fait accompli (Chorus) Om ah hum ho ham ka sham ma la VA re ya pay Om prem vish VA mata hum hum pay (Meditation) Now here’s a little twiddle on the dial I think this one will make you smile They hide the TRUTH behind sweet veneer To many people sellin water by the river Even my mama asked what will happen when I die She was real sincere…tears in her eyes Mama don’t ya worry I ain’t going below You can be proud I’m walkin the road I can see St. Peter standin at the gate But ain’t no man the judge of my fate I got a little closer and heard him say Now what you think you’ve done to deserve your way in here On this fine day I stepped back and checked him out…then got up in his face And said with no doubt “Peter…after the last 10 years in America…you just get the hell out of my way” (Chorus) Om ah hum ho ham ka sham ma la VA re ya pay Om prem vish VA mata hum hum pay Return on home…a friendly face Wide and endless calm Roam in the wilderness of life Compliance to your own pace Sweet surprise no comprise With the demon song Reflex reason has no face There is nothing to despise. Wake up from somnific charm Let the idols go Breath the free and easy power And do no one no harm Let us embrace the human race Churn it from above Be a river to the people Our mandate is to love. (Chorus) Om ah hum ho ham ka sham ma la VA re ya pay Om prem vish VA mata hum hum pay Words and music by: George Craig McMillian  2009
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Down In Mississippi Sweet sixteen, cute as can be Waitin for a Saturday night She loves her mama and her daddy too But thinks they hold the reigns too tight There’s something about a Mississippi moon Drive a poor boy insane Got to take it all down to the high school hop Flying on high octane From across the floor their eyes did meet Enuf to set the blood on fire But the Sunday school preacher chaperones tonight Waiting for the kids to conspire Up on the stage a brand new band No one ever seen before Some real cool cats, and some old field hands They looked like a last resort Well the music start playin The girls start swaying The boys start shakin their bums Preacher mans face turned white as a Ghost He said… Lord where did this come from? 2) Down where the cotton fields meet the river Willow trees weep so low Peanut farmer sucking on a bottle of white lightning Laying down his heavy load Juke joints jumpin in the middle of a hay field Hound dog lying in the Sun Red-hot gumbo and a backwoods jug Whole lot a shakin going on Hot rod Lincoln and redneck thinking Going to race ya down the road Hot dam all right going to town tonight Soon as I get the lawn all mowed Got a hickory fiddle, an over turned tub Something called a electric guitar Scratches like a cat, chase the blues away Preacher says we gone too far Tear your shirt when the music gets hot Hips start jumpin like a toad Ground starts rolling and ya head starts rockin Think we going to call this rock and roll Chorus 1 Ya work so hard your head starts drumming Suns so hot your hands start strumming Got to be a way of overcoming Down at the crossroads something started jumpin Ya take your good days Ya take your bad days Ya take your right ways Ya take your wrong ways Throw in some fighten, and throw in some lovin Sunday school teachin and the golden rule Stand for your rights and spit in the eye The girl next-door and apple pie Put it in a pot, boils over the sides That’s what we eat every day of our lives Down in Mississippi we can party all night long All Night long…All night long…All day…All night Down in Mississippi we can party all night long…. 3) Yea out in the fields it all started cookin Couldn’t keep a lid on the “pot” Servin wang dang doodle and boom boom boom And great big balls of fire We got mojo workin and rollin stones That can’t be satisfied Got Muddy Waters and Albert King Born under a bad old sign Got Willie Dixon and John Lee Hooker And Jerry Lee in overdrive Got Smokestack Lightnin And hey Bo Didley…tell me “Who Do Ya Love” Got Howlin Wolves and Hound Dog men And Chambers Brothers tell ya bout time Got Five Blind Boys and Staple Singers They going to kick you above Sam Cooke twistin the night away Mary Wilson so supreme Jimmy Buffet take ya down to margarita Ville And keeps on rollin like an oiled machine Chorus 2 We got Robert Johnson’s beat A poor man stands on his own two feet We got Muddy Waters smile We got BB King for style Jimmy Reed and John Lee Hooker Willie Dixon and Iceman Butler Howlin Wolf and hey Bo Diddley Jerry Lee Lewis and yeah Ike Turner Chambers Brothers and Albert King Mary Wilson and Sam Cooke 5 Blind Boys and Staple Singers 3 Doors Down and Blind Mellon And we got Elvis P the King Yeah down in Mississippi we can party all night long All night long………………. (sub chorus) Yea Jimmy Rodgers and Conway Twitty Tammy Wynette and Jimmy Buffet Ray Price and Bobbi Gentry They aint rock and roll But down in Mississippi Hot damn…we love our country All Night Long…we can party all night long Words and music by George Craig McMillian ©2007
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The Bright Blue Rose Come now here this song’s been waiting Off to find the Bright Blue Rose Broken hearts the world’s been making Will not take you where you long to go Gaze beneath the broken promise Yesterday no need to hold Reach down where your heart is beating There I’ll meet you at that river Refrain Some will rise and some will stay free Some will fall and some will go Some will stay lost inside their daydreams Some will find the open road Come with a light on Cast your shadows Come with a reason For heaven’s ways I’m with a mind for journeys yonder Cast your ropes…we start now here today Refrain 2 Man the oars for the way out through the harbor Set a course past unconstant shores Set the sheets a hard for the outward flowing Sailing on the promise of an open door I am a sailor on the open ocean Fill me lungs with the lively breeze Out into the Mindless Vast I’m going There I’ll find a Bright Blue Rose for me… Words and music by George Craig McMillian© 2007
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High Mass 13:04
High Mass (1st Movement) Candle light and soft the whispers Cover me from the storm And turn my mind from glamour once it craved Words of Power lift like incense On the wind I caste a prayer And breathe a new diviner air Open doors for me… I hardly know your name Oh but mid this world I still have heard you sing Come to me invade my breast And flow the honey of your word They say your joy is giving more Than I deserve. (2nd Movement) Bless the man that stands till the end…when the Light will shine His children shall be plentiful and free Bless the women who cried through the night unseen you bleed Now the World will be what you decree We were waiting like a tree Holy purpose within its seed Worlds awaiting… never known Now its time to be shown Call my name Tear down all my resistance Lead me by Your assistance Sing my heart song Night and Day Lead me far from the “isms” Hold me inside your rhythm Oh my heart show me Oh my Love Know me Never let me fall away B) Call my name Tear down all my resistance Lead me by your assistance Sing my heart song Night and Day Lead me far from the “isms” Hold me inside your rhythm Oh my heart show me Oh my Love Know me Always let me sing Your Name…Your Name (3rd Movement) On Your way…On Your way The treasure is given Today Rapture so Strange and Sublime Translating Infinite Mind The Spirit it turns you to Gold And opens the door to your soul Density reaches its goal The rhythms of wisdom we hear Dissolving all worldly fears The God and the Goddess are joined Ecstasy down through your loins Breath in the mystical joy Breath in the mystical joy Breath in the mystical Rising all around us Oh I will love you forever Never ending is your Peace Many lifetimes I was clever Now I surrender in your ease I’m on my knees B) Restlessness now it can be Eyes that were sightless now See Heaven descending is free Its purpose is tranquil and sweet Your flesh becomes like a stream Flowing you out to the sea Color a visible tone Telling you now that you’re home Innocence holy re-found Innocence holy re-found Forever may your joy resound Forever may your joy resound Forever may your joy Rising all around us Oh I will love you forever Never ending is your Peace Many lifetimes I was clever Now I surrender in your ease I’m on my knees. Words and music by: George Craig McMillian 2009
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The Sin of Our Time I took my old friend Billy To see the Queen Mary He could see it from his hospital down in the wharf He said it was a troop ship in WWII And he and his two brothers had fought in that war. Now Billy’s been cryin for near fifty years And with a broken spirit he tries to carry on On the isle of Iwo Jimo they were hit by a mortar Billy lost his legs And his brothers were gone. We walked up the gangplank…looked over the side Today’s the anniversary his brother’s had died He was looking for healin But I saw his mind fall apart As we looked out on a parking lot filled with Japanese cars (Chorus) Out on the highway…into the skies Into our thinking late in the night He said, “War is big business…we always make more Someone gets rich…and the World gets poorer.” 2) Now Billy’s son went to Vietnam…he wished he wouldn’t go But governments don’t want their young people thinking on their own Take a blanket of loneliness and a Mind yet unformed Turn a boy into a soldier and business goes on He came home without a scratch and medals on his chest But his heart was broken he said he was mis-led But nobody listened…we already knew Billy’s son sent a bullet Through his own head (Chorus) Out on the highway…into the skies Into our thinking late in the night What the blind man don’t tell you…don’t want you to know More took their own lives than died in the war 3) They called it Desert Storm…like a Disneyland ride It flashed across our TV’s the ratings were high And arms dealer’s showcase…carefully contrived Right down to the newscast It looked so civilized But out in the desert down in their bunkers The enemy wanted surrender we had bombed them all night Their officers wouldn’t let them…they held them at gunpoint They were young and scared Just wanting to survive Now it takes a lot of lies…for a man to kill his brother Make believe he’s not human…he’s on the “other side” The top brass had no answers…they sent down the orders Start up your bulldozers And they buried them alive (Chorus) Out on the highway…into the skies We all hear the screams late in the night He said, “War is big business…we always make more Someone gets rich and the world gets poorer.” (Ending Chorus) Oh sweet sweet surrender Come into out hearts we’ve lost out way Stop this World with your Heavenly Grace It’s time for you to keep the Promise you made Send it out on the highways…into the skies Into out thinking late in the night In the unfeigned Kingdom…there’s no “other side” Separation is the Sin of Our Time Words and music by George Craig McMillian  2009

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released August 1, 2010

Created at INFUSED STUDIOS - Eudora, MS - www.infusedstudios.com

Written & Directed by
GEORGE CRAIG MCMILLIAN

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