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yamashita riki - monotone

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Channel: yamashita riki · 2011 · Music

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monotone (wake me up before dawn)
(improvised performance)
yamashita riki
www.yamashitariki.com
words and music by yamashita riki
(c) copyright yamashita riki 20040126
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{lyrics - improvised}


AOM

wake me up before the dawn
return to me those lies to guide me
i know that they are

i know where we will meet again
we meet again

i know it's beyond this world
i feel it around me and within me
i know you see what's around you
but you do not see
i can see what's inside of you
i see beyond the world
beyond your superficial
fluctuations
transitory states of being

and we are dying
we're all dying

read to me
those lines for the coming dead
read to me
so that i may not feel
in life beyond life
in the bardo
bardo
bardo

free myself from the wrathful deities
the gods in guise of demons
i want to be free from these cycles

the tathagata is gone
we've been left behind
where are all the bodhisattvas
they've become too corrupted
they're selling us religion and spirituality

wake me up before the dawn
the dawn
wake me up before i die
i want to see
beyond life and death

help me yamashita riki
i want to be free

free

i remember the screams
the screaming around me
the grey monotonous environment
i see nothing beyond this darkness
this grey monotonous world

alone with the pain and the torture
i cannot eat
i cannot satisfy what the mind demands of me
the mind demands so much
it extends itself beyond what it can be
progressing, projecting itself
around, around, around in cycles

in cycles
in cycles

bardo
i wanna leave you behind me now

i live a life so divine
fallen state to be here with you
it comes in three faces
the neutral, the good and the evil
don't mistake it for an angel or a demon or whatever you may call it, human

i don't want to be
hold on to
captured 
in possession
because the mind
attaches itself
it constructs all over
the constructs in your mind
to understand meaning
meaning in this world
this reality
the relative meanings of the one true source
you may never know what is true
what is one
because nothing really reaches the one
variables
invariable

and variables it moves on the waves of fluctuations
let's get on the stream to enlightenment
let's leave this ocean of samsara
enslavement

let's leave this world of enslavement

wake yourself to the enlightened one
the one who is all

in the realm of the dead
the people walk with eyes opened
they never closed
they shy away from you and me
they are so distant

the grey monotonous world 
that moves in motion
they stagnate in a world so distant
from the one we left behind

AOM

the grey monotone

wake me up before the dawn
the dawn of my death
read to me
these vessels of mine
i've just begun
i've passed my time

align yourself to the one
align yourself to me
and we be free
free from the cycles
we be free

yamashita riki
AOM
yamashita riki


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[lyrics produced with permission] 

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