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Babyface

by Jeffrey Rothman

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1.
Babyface 03:58
Satchitanda, Satchitanada! You are the Author of all works You have become the Universe! Grace unveils my eyes to see That, oh my God!, You have become me! Satchidatada! Rain soaked slug is in my path He’s gone out for a sun bath I blow soflty on his skin In this crazy game only love can win. Don’t throw rocks at a babyface Our hatred will destroy this race. Nothing is outside It. Infinite worlds describe It. No pithy tongue can name It And nothing can contain It! I’m swimming in Him like a fish called wanda And all that I see is Satchitananda Inside, outside, just the same it’s the Cosmic Dreamer lost in the game Of the universe, the endless dream of the formless One who forms all things Evolving at His own pace Masquerading as the human race But mace forms a thick coat in our eyes Duality fashions a wardrobe of lies ignorance of the shining Truth Creates the conception of me and you Its true, but there’s another side Where duality is just a lie And concepts pop like sizzling bacon The veil is lifted and we awaken! Don’t throw rocks at a babyface Our hatred will destroy this race Don’t throw rocks at baby skin in this crazy game only love can win Satchitananda! Rain soaked flower has bloomed to see That everything is Thee o yea, o yea!
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They wear their suits and ties and grin So damn determined to win But they do not control the key That makes every galaxy spin, and spin, and spin. They build their pipes and electric lights Read the news on plane flights But they do not control the day, Cause it to come or pass away The fee of gravity Will pull you down to the ground, hey! If you’re the king gonna die anyway. You think you’re the shit cause your in control But your nothing but a pile of dinosaur bones Like a dog without a home Without love you will roam and roam. You will come down, you will see how The fee of gravity Will pull you down to the ground, hey! If you’re the queen gonna die anyway You think you’re the shit cause your in control But your nothing but a pile of dinosaur bones Like a necklace without a bust Without love you will rust and rust. No point is above another in a circle, in a circle. Red and blue need each other to make purple, to make purple. No point is above another in a circle. Gravity's now pulling me down but its the cup lifting me up. When will I become That which I worship? When will I love, love as I must? Resurrect That which was crushed? And pay the fee, pay the fee, of gravity? One day, one day, you will pay The fee of gravity.
3.
Iron Bunny 04:47
They will cage you with rage If you’re a dreamer. They will make prison bars out of the sky. I can turn invisible and dissolve the world, the world! They will bake you a cake and make you eat it. They will cut off your toes one at a time. I can turn invisible and dissolve the world I can live a billion lives and not live at all. In the silence of the night I rest in emptiness I dream the poetry of Light. I dwell in the windless place I melt all of time and space Where pain of contradictions collide. And they cannot destroy me You cannot destroy me They cannot destroy me there. Iron bunny Hopping in me Soft and fuzzy But indestructible. Iron bunny Who could say please? This is Your dream You do what you like. And they cannot destroy me You cannot destroy me They cannot destroy me there. I dwell in windless place I melt all of time and space Where pain of contradictions collide. They will give you a pat if you surrender Into hell they will sell your soul for a dime. I can turn invisible and dissolve the world, the world.
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Spiraling leaf catches a sunbeam As it descends from the tree. And I felt 25 years of hopes and fears Drop like tears On the wavy grave plains of the county line I didn’t know nothing, but I knew just fine, As the windmills of Kansas whispered songs Divine. Marcel Proust sipped his fancy French tea As I looked into his eyes and I sat at his feet And he said, “I don’t create, I simply reflect what’s already great.” And he turned into mist like a bubble that popped And all cognition stopped. The Creator’s dream unfolding As galaxies exploding A trillion words can’t show ya My heart is a supernova. All my life I’ve dragged this weight Of the image I fight to protect But the heart rebels till it claims its land Till the True Mind resurrects. My heart is a supernova! Spiralin’ leaf catches a sunbeam As it descends from the tree. And I felt 25 years of hopes and fears Drop like tears On the flowing black snake of the state highway I gave up the past, but I gained Today As the windmills of Kansas washed my sins away.
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Stacks of books and teary eyes Mother Raven outside flies. From the depths of my deep gloom She speaks softly inside of my room. Leave your books and lets go fly Into the womb of the starry night Leave all of your fear behind The universe is just a jive! Mother Raven flying high Swift and free through the starry sky Swoops her wings and dips them low From my window I grab them and go On a journey across the Earth Oceans pass like a good desert So fast I forget there’s a future or past Just colors and the smell of grass Nothing to begin, no race to win Beyond goodness, beyond sin No path is the path that I’m takin’ Chillin’ in the sky with Mother Raven. Leave your books and lets go fly Into the womb of the starry night Leave all of your fear behind The Universe is just a jive God is a woman dancing for no reason in ecstasy God is a baby playing with Itself for infinity. Beyond why Ravens fly The Universe is just a jive.
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They stich you a suit to parade around As if the elixir were finally found They build a casino and call it a town A plastic smile hides a blubber frown. But I was not born to condemn their jail For fire on fire makes the fire wail So much louder, and meaner. I’m winged diamond that was born to fly And I wont let my spirit die Because they lie Because they lie to me. They say success is what life’s about Christmas card kids and the marble house And I aint saying they should be ignored It just aint the reason that I was born. I went to the church feeling hunger vast But I couldn’t fill my belly with the stained glass Or the hackneyed words of the preacher Dimly heard from the bleachers And I went to the market where the goods are sold But the money and the jewels couldn’t ease my soul So I bowed down in ash and tears and cried, “Where is this wonder That I cannot find?” But the Spirit said softly “Just open your eyes.” He said: “Don’t let the system steal your fun You were born to surf the sun The obstacle you think you see Is itself Infinity!” “Where is this wonder That I cannot find?” But the Spirit whispered softly “Let go of your mind!” He said: “Don’t let the system steal your fun You were born to surf the sun The energy youve used to hate You must use now to create!“
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Brother hawk, perched atop the tall tree I saw you watching, I saw you watching me Brother hawk, flying on the soft breeze I saw you crying, crying for everything. Brother hawk, upon my knees I told you I am so sorry, sorry for all the things we do. Brother Hawk, I asked you to forgive me When I saw you crying, you took me flying. Cities go by! We pass em all, pass em all Down the hall, watch em fall Oceans go by! We pass em all, pass em all Through the squall, hear the call People can fly! But they never do, never do Walls they can’t break through! In my heart, I knew that I loved you But sentiments do not free Greed and hatred haunted me. But Brother Hawk, I asked you to forgive me When I saw you crying, you took me flying. Cities go by! We pass em all, pass em all Down the hall, watch em fall Oceans go by! We pass em all, pass em all Through the squall, hear the call People can fly! But they never do, never do They're never told to. Brother hawk, I am not equal to you With the wisdom that you prove with your silence By your gaze, touching me, internal thrills unseen But we have destroyed you with the violence Of civilizations and competing nations This insane asylum, torn and divided inside But you're animal joy will rise Like a flame and quell All names with your nameless spell.
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I’m on the grey hound, east bound Passin’ town after town Had me a subway, made my stomach sway Guy next don’t return my greet And our next stop is Nashville, Tennessee. I thought, “How many grass blades are in the earth? Or galaxies in the universe?” Then a gal next to me said she lost her job Would sell her soul for some corn on the cob. Night is fallin’ and the wheels they turn Even though I’m gone, man the memories burn All my failures laughing at me As we hit the brakes in Nashville, Tennessee. Man, I feel so lonely here But I open up my window to the stars and passin’ cars. Man, I feel so lonely here But I open up my window to the stars And open my heart. Nashville, awaken me There’s no mistake in me Nashville, awaken me This is eternity! Nothing can touch you When you’re in love. All things become you When you’re in love. And now I see only beauty Junkies and bums become my body Closer, look closer, and you will fall in love. Nothing can touch me When I’m in love! I’m on the grey hound east bound passin’ town after town North, south, east, west sun up to sun down Wherever I go I’ma help the hurt With a heart too big for my shirt.
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Spreading out my hands to the mass with pleading eyes- They are thirsty they are searching- I speak to them the physics of the merciful Of the gentle, of the Unsurpassable Dove Redeemer. Like to Noah of old, he brought me an olive branch In his guiless mouth and whispered, “Jeffrey you will only gain what you are willing to lose, What you are willing to give, What you surrender.” I looked into his radiant eyes and saw the whole universe Reflected by the cadence of pure love, pure compassion, Like sunlight channeled through a diamond. I asked, “How can I attain this?” He whispered, “Seed’s end is tree’s beginning.” Then I touched his wing, we flew, and he took me to Mt. Everest And asked, “What’s the use of the top If you are shivering cold and all alone? What’s the world if you lose your soul?” Asked the Dove Christ, gently weeping. Then we transported to a garden, Luscious with the musk of dew dripped flowers fruits and plants And the olive branch in my hand Transformed into a planet and I heard, “The one is for the all, and giving’s its own reward.” Then the dove redeemer flew into my mouth And I was flooded with peace, inexpressible, boundless. I saw all things as he does, as waves of holy stillness Dreams of flowing suchness, as himself. And I vowed to speak a message to the nations An echo of the prophets, whose words and deeds are known, A pleading to the leaders of mankind To look into the faces of the innocent children And weep with repentance. To proclaim that love alone is real That all else is a fleeting made illusion Hindering the joy, swept away like a hidden key, From unlocking the treasure chest within thee, From opening your eyes.
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Earth spins round the sun, you see? Sun spins round the galaxy And galaxies spin round each other Like ducklings behind the mother. Yet you offer endless whines To fit them into straight lines, Boxing life into a fence, But when did the universe make sense? Oh, clay, just submit to the Potter You will find that everything Will craft itself into perfection And that this resurrection Will dissolve the preconceptions Of your rational brain And you will find that you ever wanted Was to go insane. At the threshold of the zero The admission is your greed. There’s a password, there’s a riddle You must whisper to proceed. What if the One who made your plans Is a pixel dream man And everything you’ve thought or seen Was playing out upon a screen And you’d be free only when This question sets your bones ablaze: “Who’s the One watching the show And causing the projector to play?” In the garden there are cherubim With their fiery swords You must meet. But when He came with only pure love They bowed down at his feet. And they set Him a table and placed a crown upon His head, And they gave Him a scepter to judge the living and the dead. They anointed Him with oil and in power He rose above Every hindrance and toil into everlasting love. And they set me a table and placed a crown upon my head, And they gave me a scepter to judge the living and the dead. They anointed me with oil and in power I rose above Every hindrance and toil into everlasting love. At the threshold of the zero The admission is your greed.
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A man lives 100 days at a time To the heart routine is a life of crime To the world a million years is a dime And, darling, I’m doing fine. A dream takes decades of life to unwind But comes in a flash to the screen of the mind And then you’re shot down however high you climb But, darling , it’s all alright. Cause a dream to a man to the world is a joke That comes apart like a fresh ring of smoke Or a king that drowns in his own mote But, darling, that’s what she wrote! And the ways of the world are the ways of the wheel That turn despite the way we feel In the end we all submit to the Real And, darling, it makes me kneel When I can hear the Autumn call This boisterous leaf I love will someday fall Every leaf it will pollute, except for one, the deathless root, And, darling, ain’t that a hoot? The ways of the mind to the ways of the soul Are like a racehorse that gets stuck in a hole Or an infant stolen by a 100 foot troll Cause, darling, they’re so damn cold. And the fears of the rich are the boons of the mensch Who lives his life with his fists unclenched Who knows this body is just his tent And, darling, there aint no rent! And the forests outlast the towers of steel Because they know how best to yield I’ve learned my greatest enemy is my own shield But darling, I’m getting healed From the twisted, hopeless ways of the proud That make them float high above the crowd. The wise cut through em’ like a plane through a cloud And, darling, they laugh out loud! When they can hear the springtime call New dreams will sprout so fast and tall But a day will come when they cease to burn And the owl will say wide eyed, “He’s finally learned.” But darling, I’ll get my turn! And I can hear the winter sing Of the hidden joy its loss, to us, can bring. For in its barrenness there’s wealth And new life contained within itself But, darling, its got to be felt. A man lives 100 days at a time The heart puts 1000 lives on the line And it keeps telling me I’m falling behind But, darling, I’ll take my time And, darling, I’m doing fine.

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A great Zen master once said, "Treat everything as if it were your own eyes." If you were spiritually enlightened, you would see that the whole universe was yourself. You would treat it as gently as you would a baby's face, and consequently be kind and compassionate to all other beings, who in truth are inseparably one with you.

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released July 19, 2017

Produced and mixed by Benja Farber
Mastered by Chris Harris
All bass, and various instrumentation, by Benja Farber
All drums, except the Fee of Gravity, by Boyd Littell.
With musical contributions from Ben Hill and Zach Meints (specified in songs)

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Jeffrey Rothman Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jeffrey Rothman is an artist, musician, social worker, and writer based in Tulsa, OK. His music primarily explores themes of memory, spirituality, and creativity.

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