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I to Eye

by Ben Balusek

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1.
I 03:36
This world’s on its last breath I think we’re better than this Can we not sacrifice to make a world where we can thrive I think it’s time to change our plans I think it’s time to change our plans I think it’s time to change our plans I think it’s time to change I Want peace I Want change Don’t think we’d let ourselves die To live our life more comfortably My heart’s in overdrive with every single new device Can I not learn that what I need is here inside of me If we can open up our eyes, we will begin to see I think it’s time to change our heads I think it’s time to change our heads I think it’s time to change our heads I think it’s time to change I Want peace I Want change
2.
Rebel 03:57
Staring into the screen that fills the space I look into its face It emulates my longing for change Google, show me where I’ll be content Low rent, mountain Somewhere I’ll be(Come) more present No shortage of people anywhere No shortage of anything but clean air I can’t complain but I will I will complain Rebel If what they taught you isn’t love Rebel Though I am part monkey With the worst of you in me I can see what’s underneath And I know I can be free I know I can be free, just repeat Be free, be free, be free, be free Be free, be free, be free, be free Death to our pain, reawaken Reawaken Rebel If what they taught you isn’t love Rebel Be free Death to pain and misery Be free Be love If what they taught you isn’t love
3.
Walking in this place I can see patterns in the space Pictures are singing their embrace I can be happy If when looking at a tree I can see it is just a tree A living, perceiving entity We are this place Here in my world I can hear the birds I read your pain online I feel your pain Talking in your sleep I respond, Taylor, you hear me Are you still inside your dream Are you happy Waking up at dawn I can see the sun is being born Clouds above are making love Was I dreaming Our car is freezing cold On the side of this old road My bladder might explode We are living Here in my world I can hear the birds I saw your pain online I feel your pain Here in my world I drive through deserts You are the thing you need You are me
4.
Serpent 03:07
I’m a serpent Whispering away my song Everything you know is so wrong Everything knows what you’ve done If life has purpose Let it be to sing our own song Let it be to think for our own Let it be right here all along Let it be to reap what we sow Let it be the death of ego This life is so perfect Yet we throw away what we love Burning down truth down with God Left with a body we pay for Am I its servant Or a part of God These questions won’t leave me alive If it’s not working Why don’t you make it a dance Moved by the wind in a trance Letting the stream carve its path out Look in, we are empty But we still think we are I Turning the lights off to wake up Eating the fruit that we gave you The light turns purple When it meets what is unknown Everything you think is a fable Left out of your riddle If our pain is worth it What do we gain from our mourning The answer is calling The truth you are longing The All is forgiving Eternally bonding All is forgiven Lying awake under the stars Knowledge is freedom from the gods We are the answer to the cosmos I’m your serpent And I won’t leave you alone Until your answer is born
5.
Grace 04:40
Grace is pain erased If I could set myself free, I’d be free While we’re chasing safe and frugal advice Well if I were in your seat, I’d think twice What I begin to see Loving you is loving me The hell that you are in is temporary Breathe, let go, be free Grace is pain erased If I could let myself be, I’d be free
6.
I see a hateful narrative Bashing another hateful narrative I think that you’re a hypocrite I think that I’m a hypocrite, too I see a world not built for us Consuming all its energy There ain’t no job for me anyway We are our worst enemy Enough is enough My contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love Is wearing me down If I’m aware that I’m more than flesh and word and thought I’ll figure it out I see plastic water bottles In the most pristine scenery Nothing lasts forever anyway Do we still care about anything Enough is enough My contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love Is wearing me down If I’m aware that I’m more than flesh and word and thought I’ll figure it out Ya, your contempt for this world’s lack of grace and love Is wearing me down If we’re aware that we’re more than what we have been taught We’ll figure it out
7.
Wake from your sleep In a dream Every being suffering Nothing will remain Let go of your pain Let go of your name Remain Nothing will go away Be a wave Be still Be change Believe me All is hopeless All is love Fulfilling our purpose Learning to love Thich, help me My mind won’t quiet The window is closed And so is my fellow man Locked inside Fear of death Fear of life Remember what I heard you say There is no birth and nothing dies All is hopeless All is love Fulfilling our purpose Learning to love All is perfect All turns to dust Forgetting our purpose Learn to unlearn
8.
Hot Springs 03:07
Waking up in my tent I feel the cold Might as well, you’re getting old and tired Just want to live like I’m retired Spend my days on the road to better things How far’s the drive to Santa Fe We could camp next to the hot springs Being here with you With this mountain view Watching fish kiss me In these hot springs Growing up I felt The world was ill, rebel I still feel how I felt So, I’ll be here with mother earth Being here with you Under the desert moon Watching blues turn pink In, in, in this Hot spring, hot spring, hot spring In and hanging out 7 miles to be here now I don’t mind the pain my legs feel When the world becomes my bedroom Being here with you In the forest gloom Watching fog cover trees In these hot springs
9.
On My Own 05:23
On the top of white mountain I get no cell service up here I don’t think anybody’s near I could just stay here In my bedroom where I write I can sit comfortably and quietly Watch the voice inside my mind I can just sit here In the canyon by the spring I can read Jung, Pinchbeck and see The Dao flowing through this precious stream I can just be here On my own In the car on the highway I can watch drivers swerve and sway Just to arrive without delay We are just people In the camera lens I find Scenes of the most fluorescent kind Stars are born on top of light In this river On my own
10.
Begin Again 03:48
I know who I want to be I think more than I need to think Retreat into my melody Concrete covering everything Can we let go of jealousy Repeat the daily offering Indeed, we are perdurable Set free, we will endure more They compete with foreign markets Hungry, they fill their pockets Can’t eat if there’s nothing to eat Can’t see what’s right in front of me Well I can presume what your intention was Consume and say the world is ours Too soon to say if all is lost I too am part of what I cause But I know that I can begin again Begin again Begin again I can begin again Begin again Begin again Hardly where I want to be Until I have some money I’ll have to look in front of me Boredom’s a healthy therapy Do I belong in cities No stars and no forgiveness No time for spirit business My mind is not for your control But you can have a piece of what I think You treat humans like they are sheep We sleep but intermittently Our dream is coming to its end And you know that we can begin again Begin again Begin again We can begin again Begin again Begin again I can begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again Begin again
11.
Eye 03:20
Can’t deny What I have seen in my mind Taste something sweet in my eye Redefine What does it mean to be alive If we are free, then who am I Eye Need to find Replaces need to unwind Replaces need to climb If I’m an eye Then what I see is my bride What’s seeing me is inside I to eye Insufferably, we opine Long for a dream we design I More, we want more More, we need more Love, we are love Love, we need love Eye

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released January 1, 2021

written, recorded, and mixed by Ben Balusek
mastered by Gabe Gonzalez
photography by Ben and Taylor Balusek

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