Enlightened ROCK lyrics

How about some rock lyrics about enlightenment? No Christian rock or weird stuff please, just main line "hippie type" rock, jazz, blues by groups or individuals we (us old people) would know.


Something like this:

Within You Without You

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"We were talking - about the space between us all
And the people - who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late - when they pass away."
"We were talking - about the love we all could share - when we find it
To try our best to hold it there - with our love.
With our love - We could save the world - if they only knew...
Try to realize it's all within yourself, no one else can make you change."
"And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you."
"We were talking - about the love that's gone so cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul.
They don't know. They can't see. Are you one of them?
When you see beyond yourself then you may find,
peace of mind, is waiting there."
"And the time will come when you see we're all one,
[FONT=&quot]and life flows on within you and without you." – George Harrison


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AUM


This garden Universe vibrates complete​

Some because it sounds so sweet.​

Vibrations reach on up to become light​

And then through gamma, out of sight.​

Between the eyes and ears there lie​

The sounds of colour and the light of the summer​

And to hear the sun​

What a thing to believe?​

But its all around, if we could but perceive.​

To know ultra violet, infra-red and x-rays​

Beauty to find in so many ways​

Two notes of the cord that’s our fore scope.​

But to reach the cord is our life’s hope​

And to name the cord is important to some​

So they give it a word and the word is​

OM​

The rain is on the roof​

Hurry high, butterfly​

The clouds all pass my head​

I know why the sky’s all dry​

Aum Heaven Aum​

The earth turns slowly round​

Far away the distant sound​

Is with us everyday​

Can you hear what its saying?​

Aum Heaven Aum​

The rain is on the roof​

Hurry high, butterfly​

The clouds all pass my head​

I know why the sky’s all dry​

Aum Heaven Aum​

The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
OM, OM, Heaven, OM


Mike Pinder, Moody Blues
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There Is A Mountain

The lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is.
The lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
The caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.
Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain.
Oh Wanita, oh Wanita, oh Wanita, I call your name.
Oh, the snow will be a blinding sight to see as it lies on yonder hillside.
The lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is.
The lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is.
Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.
Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.
Ah, my-my.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
First there is a mountain

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Donovon​

("First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is." Is a Zen aphorism)


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Cleaning Windows

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Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street
Got in my nose
As we carried our ladders down the street
With the wrought-iron gate rows
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break
Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner
And went straight back to work.

Oh, Sam was up on top
And I was on the bottom with the v
We went for lemonade and Paris buns
At the shop and broke for tea
I collected from the lady
And I cleaned the fanlight inside-out
I was blowing saxophone on the weekend
In that down joint.

What’s my line?
I’m happy cleaning windows
Take my time
I'll see you when my love grows
Baby don’t let it slide
I’m a working man in my prime
Cleaning windows (number thirty-six)

I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon
On the street where I was born
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee,
Muddy Waters singin "I’m a rolling stone"
I went home and read my Christmas Humphrey’s book on Zen
Curiosity killed the cat
Kerouac’s "Dharma Bums" and "On the Road"

What’s my line?
I’m happy cleaning windows
Take my time
I'll see you when my love grows
Baby don’t let it slide
I’m a working man in my prime
Cleaning windows...

-Van Morrison
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The Best Way to Travel

And you can fly
High as a kite if you want to
Faster than light if you want to
Speeding through the universe
Thinking is the best way to travel

It’s all a dream
Light passing by on the screen
And there’s you and I on the beam
Speeding through the universe
Thinking is the best way to travel

We ride the waves
Distance is gone, will we find out?
How life began, will be find out?
Speeding through the universe
Thinking is the best way to travel

And you can fly
High as a kite if you want to
Faster than light if you want to
Speeding through the universe
Thinking is the best way to travel

-Moody Blues​

 

Nirvana

With no obstacles, and no fear
Liberates herself, from illusion
Now to realize perfect Nirvana
Gone, Gone, Gone to the other shore
O-awakening. All hail.

Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana,

All Buddhas in the past, present and future
Thanks to this, Perfect Wisdom
Arrive at full and right, universal enlightenment
Gone, Gone, Gone to the other shore
Gone, together to the other shore
O-awakening. All hail.

Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana
-Donovon​

 

Be Here Now

Remember, now, be here now
As it's not like it was before.
The past, was, be here now
As it's not like it was before - it was

Why try to live a life,
That isn't real,
No how
A mind, that wants to wander,
'round a corner,
Is an un-wise mind

Now, is, be here now
And it's not what it was before,
Remember, now, be here now
As it's not like it was before - it was

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- George Harrison​