R.E. Slater - The Quiet Man Within (a poem)

The Quiet Man Within

by R.E. Slater

Head in the clouds

Living life on the inside

Going through the motions

Feeling like a ghost within.

Never had stopped believing

Never had stopped dreaming

Fearlessly facing the unknown

Living dreams in my head.

Didn't ask for love or support

Didn't ask for help or attention

Didn't have the courage needed

To open the windows of my heart.

But something changed within

Awakening this disbelieving heart

Wishing to push its fears away

Emboldening its journey's start.

Beautiful things had wakened up

Brave things now dared to fail

Causing a fearful heart to believe

To live a life daring to be lived.

Believing where I wanted to be

Knowing where I wished to end

This time to be true to me

Listening the quiet man within.

- R.E. Slater

September 22, 2014

rev. Oct 2, 25, 2014; Jan 11, 2018

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The Arcade Fire - Wake Up

Arcade Fire - Wake Up!

Something filled up

My heart with nothing
Someone told me not to cry

But now that I'm older
My heart's colder
And I can see that it's a lie

Children wake up
Hold your mistake up
Before they turn the summer into dust

If the children don't grow up
Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up
We're just a million little god's causin rain storms
Turning every good thing to rust

I guess we'll just have to adjust...

With my lightning bolts a glowing
I can see where I am going to be
When the reaper he reaches and touches my hand

With my lightning bolts a-glowing
I can see where I am going
With my lightning bolts a-glowing
I can see where I am go, going!

You better look out below!

"STEP OUT"

Video by Andrew Studer

Music by Jose Gonzalez, Step Outside

[movie trailer link]

Jose Gonzalez, Step Outside

Time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step out, time to step out
Time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step outside you

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you

Step outside, time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step outside you

House on fire, leave it all behind you

Living life, feeding appetites
Stayed through every hard stop, every go
Being bland
Breathing half the time

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you

Step outside, time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step out

Broke tooth Monday
Something's not the same
Blank head, crossed eyes sweep the floor
Feel your presence
In your absence shut the door

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you

Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild: Guaranteed

Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild: Rise

Eddie Vedder - Long Nights

Have no fear

For when I'm alone

I'll be better off than I was before

I've got this light

I'll be around to grow

Who I was before

I cannot recall

Long nights allow me to feel...

I'm falling...I am falling

The lights go out

Let me feel

I'm falling

I am falling safely to the ground

Ah...

I'll take this soul that's inside me now

Like a brand new friend

I'll forever know

I've got this light

And the will to show

I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel...

I'm falling...I am falling

The lights go out

Let me feel

I'm falling

I am falling safely to the ground

Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed

On bended knee is no way to be free

Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breathe...

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed

Eddie Vedder - Society

Oh, it's a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all you won't be free

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me...

When you want more than you have
You think you need...
And when you think more than you want
Your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Because when you have more than you think
You need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me...
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me...

There's those thinking, more-or-less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make, your level drops
Kinda like you're starting from the top
You can't do that...

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me...
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me...

Society, have mercy on me
Hope you're not angry if I disagree...
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me...

Vedder Eddie - The Face Of Love

With Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Jeena kaisa Pyar bina [What is life without love ] }

Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to [Now that you have come to this world] }
(2x)

Ek Duje se pyar karo [Love each other, one another ] }

Look in the eyes
Of the face of love
Look in her eyes
Oh, there is peace
No nothing dies
Within pure light
Only one hour
Of this pure love
To last a life
Of thirty years
Only one hour
So come and go

Jeena kaisa Pyar bina [What is life without love ] }

Is Duniya Mein Aaye ho to [Now that you have come to this world] }
(2x)

Ek Duje se pyar karo [Love each other, one another ] }

Look in the eyes
The face of love
Look in her eyes
Oh, there is peace
No nothing dies
Within pure light
Only one hour
Of this pure love
To last a life
Of thirty years
Only one hour
So come and go

Vedder Eddie - Hard Sun