In This Circle

Lyrics by Hila Plitmann

I. Wave

Even though these things all seem
so lost for time
Even though your eyes would kiss me
once and last
Even though our moments
run so fast and melt
with past and past and past

I will not stop
I will not stop
I will not stop
I will not stop and look on frightened
I will not stop
I will not stop

Even though the hint of Autumn
creeps through lashes
Even though my hips are
wider than before
Even though sweet childhood
sheds onto the floor
The kids' still listening
Every minute
Ears glued to your backyard door

So I will not stop
I will not stop,
not stop
I will not stop
until God's wave pulls me under
I will not stop
Ah...

Even though attachment
Is so unforgiving
Even though each breath
Ponders the next

And although
I truly know
the heaviness of living
I'll rip open my soul
Force it through
And make it confess

That I cannot stop
I cannot stop
As my heart is drowned
In beauty's ocean
That will not stop
Ah...

II. The Art of Flying

There is the heart
of a bird
inside this girl

There is the heart
of a bird
inside this girl

It goes -
Frrr frrrr FFFRRRRRRRRR!!!!

For years, for years and years,
For years and years and years
and years and years

A million billion trillion years and years
And oh so many years

She wouldn't accept it
NO!!!!!
She couldn't accept it!
OH!!!!!

Oh, oh, oh, NO!!!!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, OH NO!!!

She tried to be
A BEAR
She tried to be
AN ELEPHANT
and act like
She doesn't really care

But -

there is
the heart of
a bird inside this girl

Oh!
heart of bird inside this

She has the heart of a bird,
YES, YES, YES, YES!!!!!

I accept it
I accept it
I accept it!

I put it on display
And suddenly, one day
Oh!
These dragonfly wings
Will also be ok
Frrrfrrfrrfrrr

III. Outbreath

Closing my eyes
Closing my eyes
Closing my eyes to see

Loosening the grip
Loosening the grip
between you and me

Songs of my heart
Finding release
in the deep blue sky

Oh tender Earth,
In your sweetness
Losing my sense of 'I'

All you are is
Love
love
love
love
love

Opening my arms
To the embrace
past all goodbye

Oh light filled life
I cannot deny

In this circle
I sit.

I am alone alone alone.

No ground to hold me
Listening listening
to Darkness
Emptiness
Unknown

And then
A hand
Not timid
And another
And another
A mother
And my father
A friend
A Someone Other

The shape of my son beyond shape
The shape of my son

He asks me
To stay
To help free him
From these earthquakes
we have put him through
Ah

All of this is going away,
he says to me
All of this is going away

So I gather all the ages
of his hand inside my hand

And then
A sister
And brothers
All held together
All of us
together

All we are is
Love
love
love
love
love

Letting you change into kindness
Nothing here to defend

Closing my eyes
Sending this breath
Wider and wider
Outside
in Surrender
to the
No End