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Soul Orchard

from Prezent by Zen Tempest

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Visions and dreams. This is not at all what it seems…/
Visions and dreams. This is not at all what it seems…/

Try to find a meaning in the madness./
Joy in the sadness. To master it, it takes practice./
Love is like the Sun… /
Makes you bloom like a flower on a cactus./

It's mystifying… Living is dying./
Failure isn't trying and failing, it isn't trying./
Sitting silent, I listen to the sirens./
Minds make time, for the instant, it is timeless./
Dive in… Infinity's inside us./
Mankind's sympathy for science is a blindness./
Spine stiff, the rigidity that guides us/
Not only defines, it confines us. Eyes shut./
My myth points straight at the divine rift,/
Asks me to pick which side to align with./
My gift is a set of sublime lips./
Life's spit out, life meets death's kind kiss./
Why risk it at all? Why bother?/
My mission, my calling, my daughter./
My vision, my mother, my father./
My brief moment with God, Light, Water./

I pick my soul off of the tree./
I see the faces of the people who love me./
I gently flow into the stream./
I know the same that is below is above me./

Sooooooo…Oooooul… Orchard…/
Sooooooo…Soooooul… Orchard…/
Sooooooo…Soooooul… Orchard…/

Visions and dreams. This is not at all what it seems…/
Visions and dreams. This is not at all what it seems…/

...Is it really all a dream?/
Is it all as simple as it seems?/
...And if life's just an image on a screen,/
Why am I addicted to this particular scene?/
...And it seems strange. Wind blows and the seas rage./
Heart keeps beating in its cage ‘til it decays./
...And honestly, these days,/
Its better to be brave than to be safe./
Please wait, freeze, stay, stagnation./
Grief, hate, brief pain, that stasis./
Peace, rain, heat, strain, damnation./
Everybody feels that split, that's basic./
...Yeah, everybody dies,/
But not everybody that's living has felt alive./
...And, at the center of it all,/
Lies that age old question: Why?/

Why?/
Why?/
Why?/
Why?/
Why?/
Why?/
Why?/
Why?/

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from Prezent, released February 4, 2017
Lyrics by Zen Tempest
Hook co-written by Flylingual
Intro written by Lisa Vazquez
Beat by The Chief
Featuring Lisa Vazquez, Flylingual, and OcWord
Recorded by Michael Maruska at Lane Community College
Mixed and Mastered by Potion Productions

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