Lyrics

Return Once Again

If I could look in the mirror and see
a piece of myself that was birthed
on a distant continent
where ruins spring out of green mountains
and ancient secrets have been buried deep
in the dark mysteriously kind and knowing eyes of its people
I shall see my tribal self
I shall know the song of the elders
drinking forest brews growing with the trees
I shall know the song of the father and the fathers’ father and the fathers’ father’s father
I shall know the prayers of the mother and the mother’s mother and the mother’s mother’s mother
Prayers that were once my own
and still live secretly hidden in the rhythmic beat of my heart
Songs and prayers that have been continually sung and resurrected like the hidden ruins upon the land.
I shall see wisdom standing before me so ancient and yet so young
I shall know love as true as the vine and deep as the roots from which the bones of our ancestors were steeped
I shall see my dark shadow revealing its light
and I shall remember the source from which all has begun and shall return once again