Writing On The Wall (2021) - Wookiefoot - Full Album Lyrics

1. Happy To Be Here

2. All Over Again

3. The Great Unknown

4. Slow Your Motion

5. Writing on the Wall

6. Two Ways to Learn

7. Monster Hugs

8. While We Live

9. All Do Well

10. Small But Fierce

11. Solstice

12. A Great and Unlikely Story

1. Happy to Be Here

I'm so happy to be here, yeah I'm just happy to be here

Still I know the world's on fire

The situation's dire

A lot of work and courage gunna be required

but I'm just happy to be here

I'm sure there's many versions,

 inside this multiverse

Where I put it in forward,

instead of in reversal

The technical skill,

I neglected to rehearse

Understandably landed mе,

handedly into a world of hurt

It could be worse,

I could bе cursed to be

Living a life, stuck on a different time line

Where I never find time to discover my path

And never asked, the questions that I needed to ask

And never signed the bottom line on my soul contract

And the multiple me's,

that just might be

Insignificant in this infinity

We're still strummin' the chords on a string theory

The only thing that's clear to me

Is

I'm so happy to be here,

yeah I'm just happy to be here

Still I know the world's on fire

The situation's dire

A lot of work and courage gunna be required

but I'm just happy to be here

My body is a time machine

Traveling through time and space at sixty minutes per hour

But my mind is like a trampoline

It lets me instantly bounce between different scenes and super-strange superpowers

It could get weird

I could appear like a ghost

Visitin' myself as a kid to let him know it's not that bad

And he should learn to self-forgive

And I could go,

to my bed side near my death

And just laugh with that old man as we enjoy my last breath

And the multiple me's,

that just might be

Insignificant in this infinity

We're still strummin' the chords on a string theory

The only thing that's clear to me

Is

I'm so happy to be here,

yeah I'm just happy to be here

I will take the time to remind you, to find you

(Will you) Kindly remind me, to find me

(Oooh)

I will take the time to remind you, to find you

(Will you) Kindly remind me, to find me

In this maze of possibilities,

It's easy to lose yourself

But on your darkest day,

you can find your way

When you've got a friend to help,

and that's why

I'm just happy that you're here,

yeah I'm just happy that you're here

And in a world gone mad

And no one understands

I know you'll always be around to lend your hand

so I'm just happy that you're here

"You mock my pain!" "Life is pain, highness... Anyone that says differently is selling something

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2. All Over Again

On a dirt road,

headed off into the forest

Ocean beaches stretch out before us

Maybe for a while we'll call it home

The sounds of the jungle wake us at dawn

Hum of the city all long gone

Crashing waves call us out beyond our comfort zones

I watch her dancing there in the sand

Holding her own, holding my hand

Moving like light on the water,

she look like a goddess

Give thanks for what brought us to this holy land

Who is this girl, who could she be

Why did she ever choose to come with mе

Into this wild and deep uncertainty

Cause whеn you travel life unravels

Face your demons, face your battles

Find your darkness, and shine your light

And on that road of many highs

And many lows the only thing I know

I can't imagine you not by my side

From the heights of the peaks we ascended

To the dark valleys below

If I had to do it all over again

I would do it all over

I would not change one thing

Bags on our back, we're off again

On a night train headed to Rajasthan

Coming from transcendental Cambodian temples and dark Laotian caves

Surfing on waves, jumping off bridges

Running on faith, a lot of near misses

Like held up at gunpoint by Mao, his gorillas

Just laughing all the way

But that night in Kathmandu

When I thought I just might lose you

Rebel incursion, city in flames

Hospital bed, and you lyin' in pain

I just hung my head and prayed

Questionin' all the choices we made

But under the pressure we rally together and always find our way

Cause when you travel out the castle

Leave the hustle and the hassle

Meet your devils, you find your guides

To go beyond and then above

We fell apart we fell in love

And now I can't imagine me not by your side

After we're gone, long gone

If there's a part of us, that carries on

I will come back and find you my friend

So we could do this all over (all over)

All over again

So we could do this all over again

From the heights of the peaks we've ascended

To the dark valleys below

If I had to do it all over again

I would do it all over

Into the mother of life and rebirth

And the ocean churning below her

If we get to do it all over again

I would do it all over

and I will come find you

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3. The Great Unknown

I'm so certain,

I'm so certain all the time

I'm just so absolutely positive

That everything I'm thinking is right

And everybody's so certain

Behind the curtain of their mind

And the benefit of doubt just gets drowned out

In the shouts of a world with just two sides

Welcome, my friend, to the new age

No book we can look for the same page

Nobody is searching for inner peace

Just everyone loving the outrage

But I feel you, cause it pains us

But our wounding, so contagious

And I cannot say you're necessarily wrong

Cause it really is fucking outrageous

The thought becoming frigid

And the synapse getting rigid

And they're closing mind

On all sides

See em conquer and divide

Embrace the ambiguity

The wonder and the mystery

That certainty will certainly hide

And we don't have to find Love

Love is gonna find us

We just need to seek and defeat

All the walls that our mistrust built up

Then we can go To The Great Unknown

Then we can go To The Great Unknown

I'm so certain,

I'm so certain all the time

I'm just so absolutely positive

That everything I'm doing is right

And everybody's so certain

To cure the worries of their mind

And just so damn afraid of the gray

That we make almost everything black and white

Welcome, my friend, to the new scene

Conspiracy theories are looming

Misinformation surrounds us

I just wanna listen to Rumi

But I see it, and it's growing

And it show no, sign of slowing

And everyone wounded so

Everyone needs for an enemy to be opposing

We look up to the Sage

as to show us the truth

She reaches out her finger and she points to the Moon

But we're just staring at the hand, staring at the hand

Never understand the whole point is what she's pointing to

And we don't have to find Love

Love is gonna find us

We just need to seek and defeat

All the walls that our mistrust built up

And then we can go To The Great Unknown

And then we can go Into The Great Unknown

Free floating, I lose my center

But this wound is where the,

the Light can enter

Still clinging, hard to surrender

But this wound is where the,

the Light can enter

Free floating, I lose my center

But this wound is where the,

the Light can enter

Still clinging, hard to surrender

But this wound is where the,

the Light can enter

And I don't know and

You don't know

And we don't know

And so we go into The Great Unknown

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4. Slow Your Motion

Slow, your motion

Roll like the ocean

Slowin' down time just like a magical potion

Slow, your motion

Let go your notion

Transcend fourth dimension with that love and devotion

Life is so short

People are telling me all of the time

But we can't ignore

The way that we choose to be living our lives

World's spinnin', busy and pace

Soul, fin, running in place

Searching it for, a way to get out

Run outta time to run into now

That's in past and future tense

Here and now we're staring in

Forever to my never when the hour glass just tips again

Gotta stay cool like Solo

Put on my ring disappear like Frodo

Be ready to get back my mojo

(If I can flip my mode to slow-mo) (Here we go)

Slow, your motion

Roll like the ocean

Slowin' down time just like a magical potion

Slow, your motion

Let go your notion

Transcend fourth dimension with that love and devotion

Slow, your motion

Roll like the ocean

Transcend fourth dimension with that love and devotion

(When will then be now)

(When will then be now)

(How soon, now)

This temporal temple

Under the pressure about to collapse

A Limited vessel

Ambition and vision created my trap

Sand quickly running out

Focus on breath to be slowing it down

Tick by, blink of an eye

Make it to now by taking your time

Fall back into your flow

Always go high when they go low

Don't, need to give up to let go (buckle up)

(One, two, ready, set go)

Gotta stay cool like Solo

Put on my ring disappear like Frodo

Be ready to get back my mojo

(If I can flip my mode to slow-mo) (Here we go)

Slow, your motion

Roll like the ocean

Slowin' down time just like a magical potion

Slow, your motion

Let go your notion

Transcend fourth dimension with that love and devotion

Slow, your motion

Roll like the ocean

Transcend fourth dimension with that love and devotion

(Now)

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5. Writing on the Wall

Recently I've been thinking of you

My great-grandchild

How insane it became to explain what we're going through

And these days my mind can run wild

So I thought it would better if I wrote it in a letter to you

Dear great-grand kids

I wanna try to explain what we did to your planet

And damn it, I know it's hard to understand it

But the fact is, we failed to take action and

Acted like manic generational bandits

And I'm sure you gotta couple of questions like

What were you thinking and what was your intention

But, sadly this message is just a confession about

How we failеd the test and nevеr learned our damn lesson

You know your ancestors worked in the coal mine

Never havin' money, never had time

Never see the sun, poisoning the land with the fumble

Mostly die from black lung, just to provide for they young and

Now everybody thinkin' that we doing all the best that we can

We, do it for our families

Never understanding what we did

(You can't starve your grand-children, just to feed your kids)

And even though there's many souls, with many eyes

They'll never know, never know it's there at all

It's clear to me that I could see, that they tried

Just know tonight, it's in the writing on the wall

It's in the writing on the wall

Dear great-grand dad

While I appreciate the thought of it

Your world sounds beautiful but you left us the opposite

All these floods and famines, you could've stopped a lot of it

You had the opportunity, but you just kept dropping it

All I'm saying is I wish we still had bees

Or maybe I could've climbed in a real tree

Or dove down deep on a living coral reef

And stared in disbelief beneath an unpolluted sea

Cause we are not on this Earth, we are of it

We are not here to exploit, we were created to love it

It's not too late for you to rise above it

Feel the cries through time of generational justice

Only you will know what you did

When the tides came by, whether you fought or you hid

Only you will know what you did

Cause you can't starve your grand-children just to feed your kids

And even though there's many souls, with many eyes

They'll never know, never know it's there at all

It's clear to me that I could see, that they tried

Just know tonight, it's in the writing on the wall

Even though there's many souls, with many eyes

Who'd never know, never know it's there at all

It's clear to me that we could change it if we tried

Just you and I, we write the writing on the wall

We write the writing on the wall

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6. Two Ways to Learn

Lost in this wilderness one more time

Hear the growl of the beast not far behind

Run run to a cliff, find a vine climb down try to hide

Look below and see another pair of hungry eyes

It may seem like suffering is fate

But a fruit grows from the vine

How sweet it taste now

And I'm sorry, I know, I can be difficult sometimes

But the hard way, is the only way, I ever seem to find

Well I may go, I may go too far

But it's, in the darkness I can see the stars

There's only two ways to learn in this life

When we get, burned by the fire, or

We see the light, help me see the light

Starin' at the cloud as the rain pours down

Shake my fist at the sky and I scream out loud

Drown in my doubt now

Now the cloud says son you can sit here

Soakin' in the rain and just complain about the Leviathan

Or you can seek out the shelter of a tree

In the silence and the peace you might discover what you're hiding from

And I'm sorry, I know, life can be difficult sometimes

But the hard way, doesn't have to be the only way to climb

Well I may go, I may go too far

But it's, in that darkness I can see the stars

There's only two ways to learn in this life

When we get, burned by the fire, or

We see the light, help me see the light

Well I may go, I may go too far

But it's, in that darkness I can see the stars

There's only two ways to learn in this life

When we get, burned by the fire, or

We see the light, help me see the light

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7. Monster Hugs

To my son

I haven't met

I need to warn you that

We're gunna be best friends

Thick or thin, sink or swim, lose or win

We can battle in the castle with the dragon

And back in a

A rocket ship

Into the sky

We're gunna cry till we laugh

And laugh till we cry

You and I

You will ride, right on time, time

Try to slow it down as years roll by

And by the way

There's gunna be some times

I'll have to go away

Just for a little while

But while I'm gone

Don't be scared when that darkness comes

Always remember that

When there's monsters under your bed

Don't be afraid son, know that it's all in your head

When you've had enough

Turn around chuck 'em down go give that monster some love

Go give that monster a hug

There's gunna be some days

When there's grey clouds

So we can be amazed

When the sun's out

See our scary shadows

We just laugh at 'em

Not run away we'll just learn how to dance with 'em

I'm not gunna lie

I'm nervous that

I'm gunna try, but I'll never be a perfect dad

Just a clown in this circus of circumstance

Lost on this crazy planet

But I'll just keep workin' at it

There's gunna be some times

I'm gunna let you down

I'm gunna mess it up

But I can promise now

You can always find I'm right there by your side

When there's monsters under your bed

Don't be afraid son, know that it's all in your head

(All in your head)

When you've had enough

Turn around chuck 'em down go give that monster some love

Go give that monster some love

Go give that monster a hug

(Give that monster a hug)

(Monster a hug)

To my son

I haven't met

I need to warn ya that

We're gunna be best friends

Thick or thin, sink or swim, lose or win

At the end of the day

We can just fly away

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8. While We Live

I wish I knew a blessing

For a time like right now

I know you're in pain, but you'll figure it out

I did it to be simple

And not over profound

Just a poem to remind you to put that weight down

Put that weight down

Well tonight, yes tonight

We've got nothing up but time

So lets keep this fire burnin'

Until that sun comes around

Well tonight, oh tonight

Let no water flow under bridges

Light a chalice of forgiveness

For the ones that we burn down

Cause it's a long road

And we've got to lighten our load

And figure out, how

To put it all down

And listen to the sound of what's happening now

And sing

While we livе, let us live

While wе live, let us live, yeah

So when we die, we can die

With a sparkle in our eye

No way for us to say, that we never didn't try

To forget and forgive

While we live, let us live

Today, oh today

We need nothing up to say

Clouds are shattered by sun rays

Already wheels turning again, because

I see a golden ripple

Energy double and triple

Patiently waiting for ship to come in

Riding waves back to where they begin

And times are rough, it's gunna get too long

Be mindful of all the shit we carry round

How, to put it all down

Listen to the sound of what's happenin' now

And sing

While we live, let us live

While we live, let us live, yeah

So when we die, we can die

With a sparkle in our eye

No way for us to say, that we never didn't try

To forget and forgive

While we live, let us live

I wish I knew a blessing

For a time like right now

I know you're in pain, but you'll figure it out

I did it to be simple

And not over profound

Just a poem to remind you to put that weight down

Put that weight down

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9. All Do Well

If we were out to sea and lost on a lifeboat

Would you throw me overboard when you heard supply low

Making me a scapegoat, blaming it on fate though

We both know that no one survives alone

Greed empire, golden spire, standing tall, before they fall

Need to work together now, they thinkin' small, building walls

Urgency that's clear to me, know that we all, get the call

Won't somebody please pick up the phone

Because we only go as fast as the slowest

Wе only get as rich as the poorest

And you'rе not just a lone tree, but part of a forest

We all love your solo, but please join the chorus singin'

All do well, will we all do well

Yeah we all (All do well, yeah we all do well)

Will we all do well, will we all do well

Yeah we all (All do well, yeah we all do well)

(Please check your number, or please call again)

(This is a recording)

(We're sorry)

If we were uh trapped in outer space on a planet

And we had to team up like our live depends up on it

Come on now be honest, would you fight your habit

Would you help put out the flame or would you fan it

We go as fast as the slowest, we get as rich as the poorest

And no you're not just a tree, you are a part of the forest

And yeah we all love your solo, so please don't ignore us come on

Everybody sing the chorus, for us

All do well, will we all do well

Yeah we all (All do well, yeah we all do well)

Will we all do well, will we all do well

Yeah we all (All do well, yeah we all do well)

This golden capture, just make us laugh

Divided up into the have nots and haves

But what's built out of greed is bound to collapse

Cause all the ships rise when the tide gets high

(All the ships rise when the tide gets high)

Oh Mr. Smith, what you didn't understand

The undetected consequence of flames you fannin'

Now we gotta break the grip of the invisible hand

So all the ships rise when the tide gets high

(All the ships rise when the tide gets high)

With the world on fire and the future in doubt

Floodin' up our love gunna come put it out

Now it's all up to us, so let me hear you shout

All the ships rise when the tide gets high

(All the ships rise when the tide gets high)

So don't just retreat up inside your tribe

We live on a sphere here it's got no sides

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10. Small But Fierce

How I wonder what you are

How I wonder what you are

I caught your tiny body, in the palm of my hand

I could barely understand, I could barely understand

Like diamonds fallin' from the sky

Like diamonds fallin' from the sky

Miracles will fall around us, bursting into life

It may have given you yours, but you sure saved mine

And I know I can't freeze time

And we all get scars on this ride

But no matter how far, or how great the divide

I know

I know she'll be fine, cause

Though she is small, she is fierce

Though she is small, small, small

She is fierce, so fierce and

Objects in the mirror are so much larger than they appear

Though she is small

She is fierce

Up above the world so high

Up above the world so high

But a time will come when you must go

Out in the world, out on your own

But you'll never be alone my darlin'

Never alone

How I wonder what you'll be

How I wonder what you'll be

But you're strong just like your mother

Oh the courage I have seen

On that day she brought you to me

She is a fierce warrior queen

You'll collect your scars, in time

Just look to your star, to guide

But no matter how far, or how great the divide

I know

I know she'll be fine, cause

Though she is small, she is fierce

Though she is small, small, small

She is fierce, so fierce and

Objects in the mirror are so much larger than they appear

Though she is small

She is fierce

I wonder what you shine, yeah

I wonder what you shine

Illuminate when the darkness comes

Make friends with your shadow, there's no need to run

Stay strong on this journey that's just begun

And burn like a blazing sun

Just let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine

Just let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine

Don't hide your light my love, and you'll always be fine

Just let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine

Just shine, shine, shine, let it shine

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11. Solstice

There's a darkness so deep

That it crawls underneath my door

It comes into my sleep

You know I've never been down here before

All the water turn to stone now

Feelin' isolated with these cold winds blowin' down

To all the people locked inside their homes

When I see a light on I know I'm not alone

The darkest hour, of the darkest day

Of the hardest year we'll ever have to face

We made it to thе solstice, this coldness

Our souls must go fight on

Can you hear thеir call to a song

Turn your light on

(Turn your light on)

Feel the wheel, turning round

Suddenly the days are getting longer

And the sun is returning now

I can feel us all getting stronger

We're still a long way to go so

Pray for the know how

Unequally we pay the cost

Give some love for the ones on the front lines

And a prayer to the ones that we've lost

It's the darkest hour, of the darkest day

Of the hardest year, we'll ever have to face

We made it to the solstice, this coldness

Our souls must go fight on

Can you hear their call to a song

Turn your light on

(Turn your light on)

(Turn your, turn your light on)

(The darkest hour, the darkest day)

(The darkest hour, the darkest day)

(Turn your light on)

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12. A Great and Unlikely Story

This here's the story

Life is the story, and this one is mine

I write the dialogue as I speak and the actions as I move

The same is true for all men

Though few ever choose to cast themselves as the villain

Many choose to be the victim or even worse, the bystander

But in this story, I am the hero

And as this is a great and unlikely story

I must do great and unlikely things

Only a fool sits by while the music plays

(And thank you for riding Wookiefoot)

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