Tornado: Song #2
First off, I just wanted to say that I’m going down to the Boulder Pearl Street Mall to day to perform the whole Tornado Set. I’ll be down there sometime around 3pm.
Next, I’m going to ask those questions from the first post again.
If tornados are a cleansing agent, what are the tornados in your life?
For me the tornados in my life are, my spiritual practice, my marriage and the pandemic.
In general, what is the negativity being swept away?
2. Fear of being ostracized for being different
3. Resistance to love, intimacy and humanness.
Song #2
This is the title track. The tornado is my spiritual practice.
The song opens with a children’s song. There’s a reason for this. My wife Sara and her daughter Harmony made up a tornado song when Harmony was growing up. Sara and I decided to include that in this song. You’ll be able to hear the full version of this children’s ditty when I share the song performed by our band, Radiant Deep. This will happen in the next few days.
Alternately, if you’re in the Boulder area, you can come and see us perform this song among others on Saturday, September 18th at 2:30 pm.
Here are the lyrics to the song proper.
TORNADO
Am I near me?
Apocalyptic Destiny
Do you hear me?
As I melt into the sea
I’ve run from God for centuries
It’s time to run into her arms
There’s no need to pull the alarm
There’s nothing left of me to harm
It’s a long way from heaven
But I’ve got to admit
If I just keep on running
I just might make it
It’s up the Jacob’s ladder
And through shamanic tunnel
If I just keep moving forward
And don’t cry uncle
The tornado is around me
And I’m twisting in it
Dance around the maypole
And clouds break open
Is this too real for me?
It’s overwhelming me?
Can I actually pierce the heavens like it’s raining God
It’s my epiphany
Don’t steal Ah Has from me
Believe me when I say I have to make a tower strong
TingZen©2017
To be more specific, the tornado in this song is self inquiry.
The negativity that is being swept away is, simply put, ego.
It’s about losing identity but also holding on to some upward thrust of salvation. Both are the consciousness surrounding self preservation.
Disbelief is also being swept away. In a way it’s similar to Song #1- It’s All Good. There is nothing that is not sacred on the path to Divinity. Everything must be eaten. A jewish friend of mine responded to the Song #1 post with the jewish term for It’s All Good.
Gam Zu L‘Tovah
which means
In addition my attachment to epiphany, or revelation, is being threatened by self inquiry. This seems dichotomous but if self inquiry gets held up by the revelations along the way then the revelations have to go. It’s a bit like flowers on the path. Or is it my limited sense of who’s having the revelations that needs to go? If everything on the path must be surrendered then this attachment to revelation is a deterrent. I would say that I’m an insight junkie, I live for the new downloads of consciousness that come to me. Objectively I know that these insights must be swept away to arrive at true knowing or what I would call the Absolute.
Here is a video of me playing the song.
Click here to join the Facebook Group hosting this song and the nineteen other songs in this set.
If you would like to read the post for the first song click here.
Stay tuned for the next Tornado Song!
