Tea Leaf Green – Innocence Lyrics

Thunders below Heavens
Heavens below the stars
Stars are attached by invisible thread
To the darkness that is Love

I’ve been reading this Chinese book
It tells me how far I should go
and that hope is a dream like a butterfly wing
and that nature is Heaven’s accord
Nature is Heaven’s accord

And I wish I was Innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want
Know what I can get
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent

If I loved a girl with long golden curls,
and I was a man without guile,
I would never intend the night we would spend
cuz the life of a man is a trial
The life of of a man is a trial

And I wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want
Know what I can get
I wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent, wish I was innocent

Swingin’ from stars
Too near or too far
Watching them shine
Doin’ my time
Makin’ them mine
Then I leave ’em behind

Make ‘em mine then I leave ‘em behind

Thus it is said that
Your heart not your head should guide you on thru to the end
And if you should find a love that can bind
Taint it through innocence
Taint it through innocence

And I wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
I know what I want, know what I can get

Wish I was innocent
Wish I could believe in it
Know what I want, know what I can get

I Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent
Wish I was innocent

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A Poem: Tidal Wave

Like a tidal wave of chaos, emotion and life hitting me all at once… for a moment I felt like my feet were in the sand, the sun shinning down, a nice breeze and all was going well. I then realized that there was a shadow overhead, something covering up the light, the sun… oh, wait, it is the mighty mighty water that I have learned to love and fear and it is coming my way, I can try to run, but I am so far in now that it is hard… I feel the wind whipping around, I try to run, I try to but it is so hard when you run against the wind in the sand, my feet get really hot, I don’t move so fast, that same heat shocks my body, makes my heart pound but this time it doesn’t help me to get out of the way… the water comes down in a force unlike anything I have really felt before, I am brought under the water, I can see the air but cannot breathe, I can see the light above, but cannot swim up to it, my body is being trashed around, that precious sand is slapping against my body during it all… I just want to get up and out of the water, I want to be on dry land again… my mind takes me to that place or at least how I remember the shore to be. Eventually the tide will return to the ocean, I know this will happen, I just need to keep this thought with me at all times… there will be relief and it will teach me a bit more about life… maybe to stay a little closer to shore… but in it all I must recall that this is where the tidal waves hit…

A Poem: Butterfly Art

My visions blurred with butterfly wings

the stars are all around me

I’m back to back with the moon

with the sun shining so I can see.

 

I dance between the yellow and the blue

I hide nothing and strive to be true.

I’m not always in the sun

but I’m also not trying to run.

 

There is a balance in the light

that expands and stretches into the night

where the butterfly finally takes flight

where everything is intense and right.

 

Inspired by Drea’s Art on 11.27.08