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Woven Together

by Emily Elbert

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1.
Not Alone 04:35
I’d tell you all my secrets But you already know About the whole and all its pieces I’m a sea without a shore Every story has a moral The marrow and the bone And every path leads to a portal Where the code is etched in stone Eye to eye And hand to heart To soul To be alive means never to be alone We’re not alone We’re matter reassembled From millions of stars And through time and space and splendor Arrived at where we are Both complex and simple The whole and just a part As we grow we will remember How we got this far Eye to eye And hand to heart To soul To be alive means never to be alone We’re not alone Though at times it seems the road we’re on is lonely, know Every stranger seeks the feeling of belonging, oh The trip of being in a body And that body flying through space Among the billions of others All different but the same Can freak you out But with a deep breath Our shared atmosphere whispers to our stardust bodies You have nothing to fear Eye to eye And hand to heart To soul To be alive means never to be alone We’re not alone
2.
For Free 02:38
To feel the pulse in the ground beneath your feet Staring up at the sky in sweet reverie Well it don’t cost a dollar No mansions and no machines Cause they can’t compare to what you get for free When the water’s like wine and the wind blows you clean When the loving’s so good there’s no need for sleep If we give up the game Money’s just energy And it can’t compare to what you get for free You can buy what you want Forget what you need Take three of these and go back to sleep It’s easy But if what you seek is feeling complete It don’t cost a thing to take a beat And breathe in If you dare to glimpse eternity Nothing compares to what you get for free Nothing compares to what you get for free
3.
Health in the body In the spirit Feel it This that I wish for you And all who hear this Loving as praxis Krishnamurti said that the truth is pathless Maybe a question is the answer we’ve been asking for Dancing towards the open door All waves reaching for the shore Building a bridge between the past and future Listening for the song of Mahamudra Calling onward Ancestors chanting up from underground Blood, bone, and breath buzzing with the sound Of calling onwards All a dream made manifest Afloat in the stream of consciousness
4.
Seems like the news is always saying that the end is nigh Pushing confusion, sowing fear, selling cheap highs We could listen to them But what good would that do? Baby, the world is spinning fast Not much is built to last these days Castles may crumble and empires will fall as they do But I’m holding on to you Water is rising and our cellphones can read our minds Every word we write is beamed to a satellite What’s the big idea? Are we wasting away? Baby, the world is spinning fast Not much is built to last these days Castles may crumble and empires will fall as they do But I’m holding on to you Still I’m holding on to you Hey, with a love this pure The light endures Free from all the politics and power trips The hunt for more What would we want that for? Love will help the light endure Baby, the world is spinning fast (the world is spinning fast, I’d go crazy if not for you) Not much is built to last these days (not much is built to last) Castles may crumble and empires will fall as they do But I’m holding on to you I’m holding on to you Still I’m holding on to you
5.
Our love’s an ocean Depth and motion But sometimes there’s oceans between Out of every lover We chose each other Still there’s no guarantees Can we, with the light, embrace the dark? Do I have a home inside your heart? Is it already written Our dharma, scripted Or an accident of entropy? Can the love of a lifetime Of matter and mind Live on for eternity? Can we see the whole in every part? Do I have a home inside your heart?
6.
Break down the systems of hate and oppression We’ll rebuild a world fed by collective vision Radical communal healing and pleasure Our liberation is woven together Our liberation is woven together Our liberation is woven together Spirit embodied puts love into action Speaks truth with courage and moves with compassion May we be disciplined, may we be giving Prayers to the ancestors, prayers for the living Our liberation is woven together Our liberation is woven together Our liberation is woven together
7.
In the touch a lover gives when they just know In being held how only a mother can hold To walk at night trusting the light of the full moon’s glow It’s all a song when offered truly from the soul In the art of holding silence In the dance of making sound In the blessing that is breathing in and out In the radical, the ritual, the wild, and the devout There’s a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground A bow in reverence to the water, earth, and sky Just for a moment, stepping outside of time Giving thanks for all that stokes the inner fire Sometimes it’s stillness that reminds us we’re alive In the art of holding silence In the dance of making sound In the blessing that is breathing in and out In the radical, the ritual, the wild, and the devout There’s a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground There’s a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground

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released August 19, 2022

Guitar and voice: Emily Elbert
Drums: Abe Rounds
Bass: Solomon Dorsey
Guitar: Dylan Day
Woodwinds: Hailey Niswanger

Words and music by: Emily Elbert
Produced by: Alex Krispin and Emily Elbert
Engineering by: Alex Krispin
Addl. Engineering by: Kevin Ratterman
Mixed by: Alex Krispin
Mastered by: Jonas Karlsson
Recorded at Forever Island and Invisible Creature
Los Angeles, CA, 2021

Photo by Jayden Becker
Art by Andrew McGranahan

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