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Great Eastern Songs is a collection of 9 original secular songs written by Bryan Wade and one standard by Perkins/Parrish that illustrate how the Shambhala path manifests in everyday life, with themes such as fearlessness, joy, the meditation experience, pain of the cocoon, tender heart of sadness and celebrating the journey. Bryan performed a concert with his band, The Ghost Notes, at Scholes Street Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on March 16th, 2019.
Eleanor
Meeting Drala
Live from the Great Eastern Songs concert, March 16th, 2019, Brooklyn
Lyric Excerpt Bright, shining light beaming gleaming sight so bright for all to see Sheen, gleaming Queen, giving living green your sheen for all to see Through the fall and the winter time I call Eleanor, can't you see that it is me you're looking for Fly, skying high wheeling reeling by to fly your name to me Sing, swinging ring, swirling curling spring to sing your name to me I call around, all I want is to be found Eleanor, can't you see that it is me you're looking for - 1 more verse and chorus in the song...
How To Build an Air-Tent
Natural Hierarchy
Lyric Excerpt If you are the older brother, you will be Project Engineer. You will need one large box fan…. Come on sister let’s clean up the floor And by the way, we’re gonna have to take out the door Gotta make room for the crane I need a million hundred thousand twenty hundred feet of rebar I’m gonna put the foundation right where your feet are All materials flown in by aeroplane While the butter beans bask in the sun, And the dog digs his dirt just for fun As the cat takes an interest in her health, the grass grows all by itself - 3 more verses and choruses in the song...
Learning To Stay
Getting To The Meditation Cushion
Lyric Excerpt Tonight will be my first night home in two weeks. I will perform meditative house chores. I will bake brownies. I will not go out. I will read. I will read The Pleasure Seeker by H. Verner Dixon, a tempestuous novel of a woman’s strange desire I will prepare myself That no one will text. That she won’t reply. That no one will ask where I was. But I will not go out And search - 2 more verses and a chorus in the song...
Pipeline To The Sun
Craving Social Status
Lyric Excerpt He had a big gun. He had a half-stack He had a cool job that would pat him on the back He had a zoom ride, he had a zoom cash He had a zoom closet that would make him zoom flash (Heaven hold my hand) I listen to the word box. (Heaven hold my hand) I listen every day (Heaven hold my hand) I listen to the hip sound (Heaven hold my hand) and it seemed to say Hey, where you been, man? Out in the Weed? You know that milk and honey ain’t got what you need You come up here, boy, where it’s all done We got a pipeline right to the sun - 2 more verses and 2 choruses in the song...
The Stalker
Self Aggression
Lyric Excerpt I can see it now, staring back at me. I can hear it now, speaking fluently When will you ever learn to hold your tongue It comes creeping in, working every day. It’ not a sin, but it will damn you anyway When will you ever learn to hold your hands Tell me how can I come around, tell me when will it come unwound Tell me do I have to cut it down with my own bare hands No more givin in, no more believing that excuse. No more cavin in, to that subtle self abuse When will I ever learn not to act like me - 1 more verse and chorus in the song...
Serenade
Bodhicitta Aspiration
Lyric Excerpt How could she have loved that child and have just run away How could she have loved that child and have tossed her away Turn me out, Turn me in, do not turn on me Though I love her with all my heart that will forever haunt me How could he have beat that child after all he went through How could he repeat that trial be victim… attacker, too Turn me out, Turn me in, do not turn on me “Doing this hurts me more than you” how could that ever be Tear me up, Tear my life apart Break my heart How could we become a wonderlove How could we become a serenade How could we become a rose in bloom How could we become a serenade - 1 more verse and chorus in the song...
My First Lie To You
Fearlessness In Parenting
Lyric Excerpt My first lie to you You wanted to run on your bare feet into the glass littered street That will hurt - too much Just think of the tears you'll cry as you bleed Then I lied again You wanted to see how badly she bled Your mother in pain Gash on her head That will hurt - too much I’m sure such a sight will haunt round your bed Did you believe it? More and more I lied you wanted to beat your friend in the race kid gloves were off no second place that would hurt - too much Just think if you lost All the shame what a waste Did you believe it? Now listen what I say, Don’t ever turn your back ,Be careful where you step Cause you know that I love you, you know that I need you, you know I won’t leave you You know I would never would never let you down This is my one and only wish - 2 more verses and choruses in the song...
Clinton Greene
Glimpses of Sacred World
Lyric Excerpt The stately stoops the wrought iron gates, the tulip trees in bloom The sun so cool on the walk to school, and the Macs in the coffee shop smile at the meter cop The mansions tall the mansard roof, Queen Anne our Facebook friend The school a dream of a mommy team and the dads on the Citi Bike ride for a cleaner life The library is overfull the babies have the floor. Let’s sign the search more bike lanes in the church, volunteer at the local Y The brown-skinned child with eyes of blue, two moms don’t need a dad Well heels stroll with the rent control , All the kids playing in the grass Drink from the same glass - 2 more verses and choruses in the song...
Mister Moon
Aloneness
Lyric Excerpt Tell me Mr. Moon, are you jealous of the stars? How they keep their place and know just where they are Guiding travelers by, mapping earth and sky Do you wish you could stop your wandering? Tell me Mr. Moon, are you jealous of the sea? With its endless waves and tireless energy Tides no one can tame never wax or wane Do you wish to be forever full? Or is it better alone, to be free without a home? Can you see into my soul and feel the hole? - 2 more verses and choruses in the song...
Stars Fell On Shambhala
music by Frank Perkins, lyrics by Mitchell Parish (Lyrics lightly edited by Bryan Wade 2006)
We lived our little drama We kissed in a field of white And stars fell down on Shambhala (Alabama) Last night I can't forget the glamor Your eyes held a tender light And stars fell down on Shambhala (Alabama) Last night - 1 more verse and chorus in the song...