Reaching for the Sun
by Soulpajamas
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Now I Begin
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Quantum Leap
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Spirit Flow
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So Good To Me
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Awake My Soul
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Hold on to Love
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Everything I Ever Wanted
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Love, Love, Love
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The House
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released 01 February 2011
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Dan Johnson is a singer/songwriter, blogger, guitarist and geek, married to Erin Johnson, a jazz vocalist, environmentalist ... more and creative cook. The two co-founded Soulpajamas, a musical outfit specializing in positive, uplifting and thought-provoking original songs crossing many musical genres. less
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- Track Name: Now I Begin
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Now is the season, now I begin.
No reason for waiting
No need to hope for my ship to come in,
I set my intention and start right now.
I’ve waited for fortune. Lord, I’ve waiting for fame
Or only a change in the weather.
An Olympic contender in the waiting game
I scanned the horizon forever.
Now is the season, now I begin.
No reason for waiting
No need to hope for my ship to come in,
I set my intention and start right now.
But ships come and go, and fair winds have blown.
While I remain dead in the water.
It’s time to weigh anchor and face the unknown.
A confident hand on the rudder.
Now is the season, now I begin.
No reason for waiting
No need to hope for my ship to come in,
I set my intention and start right now.
When I focus on tomorrow, or dwell on yesterday,
I cannot see that I am standing in my own way.
Now is the season, now I begin.
No reason for waiting
No need to hope for my ship to come in,
I set my intention and start right now. - Track Name: Quantum Leap
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Nature moves in many ways -
Subtle changes spanning generations
Or a shift in the wind.
A body dormant underground,
His world is right and absolutely earthbound
Until his wings come in.
You are life in motion, an ever-changing sky,
Ending and beginning at the same time.
You are transformation, always underway
A quantum leap from yesterday.
Children go beyond our dreams.
Our little men and women fly away, it seems,
All in the wink of an eye.
We readjust at every stage,
While young ones face the questions of their own age,
Both reckless & wise.
You are life in motion, an ever-changing sky,
Ending and beginning at the same time.
You are transformation, always underway
A quantum leap from yesterday.
If change is not the enemy,
But only a disguise for opportunity,
Would you still fight it?
And when good fortune comes your way,
Do you rejoice or mourn that she might leave one day?
Only you decide it.
You are life in motion, an ever-changing sky,
Ending and beginning at the same time.
You are transformation, always underway
A quantum leap from yesterday. - Track Name: Spirit Flow
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Spirit Flow over me,
Clear my eyes that I might see
Spirit Flow over you
And know that you are Spirit, too.
We are floating in a Spirit wind,
Never knowing where we’ll fall
Carried far from we begin
And that’s the beauty of it all.
Spirit Flow over me,
Clear my eyes that I might see
Spirit Flow over you
And know that you are Spirit, too.
We alone determine where we stand
Back to back or face to face.
Everyone will surely take up arms,
Some to fight, some embrace.
Spirit Flow over me,
Clear my eyes that I might see
Spirit Flow over you
And know that you are Spirit, too. - Track Name: So Good To Me
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God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
So good, so good, so good.
There’s something pure about the sunlight
Feel the healing in the rain.
Find the sacred in the wild wind
Out across the plain.
God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
So good, so good, so good.
There’s something pure about the sunlight
Feel the healing in the rain.
Find the sacred in the wild wind
Out across the plain.
God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
God has been so good to me,
So good, so good, so good.
So good, so good, so good. - Track Name: Awake My Soul
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I have been dreaming I was awake
Not understanding what it might take.
To be here and now, committing all,
I have been sleeping outside the wall.
There is no wall, it never was
There is no gate, I dreamed it.
No separation, but what I create
Awake, my soul, to Spirit.
Awake my soul, be still and know
There is no place I need to go
With open eyes, I hope to see
The God in all, the God in me.
I built a bridge from me to You
Spanning a deep, wide river
Another dream within a dream
Will I ever be delivered?
The bridge, illusion, it never was.
There is no span, I dreamed it.
No separation, but what I create
Awake, my soul, to Spirit.
Awake my soul, be still and know
There is no place I need to go
With open eyes, I hope to see
The God in all, the God in me. - Track Name: Hold on to Love
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Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
Oh, babe asleep in mama’s arms
Contented child; safe from harm
Live this love through all your days
And make this world a better place.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
I choose you, you choose me.
Love at first comes easily.
Let it be our choice each day.
With these words we pray.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
You can choose to love, try to make it stay
But it only grows when you give it away.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on.
Hold on, hold on to love. Hold on to love, hold on. - Track Name: Reaching for the Sun
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I am on a mission, a borderline obsession, I wanna know
Where in the world is the tallest living thing.
Is it Northern California, deep in the canyons?
I long to discover the tree of my dreams.
And one by one I find them, far from any highway,
Centuries old and thirty stories tall.
Towering over the floor of the forest,
I’m climbing in giants and feeling so small.
I find myself in the redwoods, like brothers, we are one.
Born on terra firma, reaching for the sun.
An open air cathedral, timeless and primeval,
Lush, like a Garden of Eden on high.
Undiscovered riches of flora and fauna,
A world of its own, next to the sky.
I find myself in the redwoods, like brothers, we are one.
Born on terra firma, reaching for the sun.
I pray for the strength of my brothers.
May you thrive on breath I exhale.
I live on the air you release to the heavens,
A union both sacred and frail.
I find myself in the redwoods, like brothers, we are one.
Born on terra firma, reaching for the sun.
Born on terra firma, ooh, ooh,
Reaching for the Sun. - Track Name: Everything I Ever Wanted
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I wanted to be like Superman
Saving the planet and those in need.
I wanted his cape and all of his powers
To win the day at super speed.
I dreamed of adventure and glory
From battling fires to fighting crime
To run with the bulls, meet a beautiful stranger
I was there, in my dreams all the time.
Everything I ever wanted since I was a kid
Is waitin’ right under my nose
I didn’t need to struggle so hard
Everything I ever wanted is in my own backyard.
I wanted the power to fight injustice
And the wisdom to know right from wrong.
I wanted to dig real deep for the treasure.
But I found I had it in me all along.
Everything I ever wanted since I was a kid
Is waitin’ right under my nose
I didn’t need to struggle so hard
Everything I ever wanted is in my own backyard.
I don’t need no super powers
To offer a helping hand
Or plant a few seeds in my backyard
Watch’em flower, let’em spread.
Well, I find my adventure and glory
When I give a hundred percent.
And baby, you’re my beautiful stranger,
Miss Lois Lane, I’m your Mr. Clark Kent.
Everything I ever wanted since I was a kid
Is waitin’ right under my nose
I didn’t need to struggle so hard
Everything I ever wanted is in my own backyard. - Track Name: Love, Love, Love
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I feel the rhythm beating in my heart,
A blessing from above.
I hear a message in the melody
And it’s all about love, love, love.
It gives me hope for this world
I know it can’t be just me.
There will be others who will sing along
And that’s the way it should be.
I feel the rhythm beating in my heart,
A blessing from above.
I hear a message in the melody
And it’s all about love, love, love.
There are times we must sing
Other times we just dance
Tomorrow might be too late
So let’s not miss the chance.
I feel the rhythm beating in my heart,
A blessing from above.
I hear a message in the melody
And it’s all about love, love, love.
God must be a lover of jazz
A band leader in disguise.
The master conductor has
Created us to improvise.
I feel the rhythm beating in my heart,
A blessing from above.
I hear a message in the melody
And it’s all about love, love, love. - Track Name: In the Air at Christmas
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Snow hangs like a veil and whispers to the moon
Clouds in the air, a puff at every word.
I remember this feeling from when I was small
A season of hope, the meaning of it all,
A time of rebirth and peace on earth,
The spirit of Christmas.
So breathe it in, there’s more than enough
The source in our world is pure love
It’s in everything and all of us
It’s everywhere, it’s in the air at Christmas.
More meaning than meets the eye, a re-awakening.
Rebirth of the Christ inside, inside of you and me.
I remember this feeling from when I was small
A season of hope, the meaning of it all,
A time of rebirth and peace on earth,
The spirit of Christmas.
So breathe it in, there’s more than enough
The source in our world is pure love
It’s in everything and all of us
It’s everywhere, it’s in the air at Christmas.
A---lleluia, Allelu - Track Name: The House
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I grew up in the church, the house made for God.
I prayed and felt nothing, thought it was my fault.
I waited for answers, but did not hear a sound,
I was afraid God didn’t want to be found.
When I was fourteen I strayed from the fold,
Got lost in the Badlands, day and night in the cold.
A medicine woman came to me in a dream
I swear, I was awake when she said to me:
The land is a prayer and church is the sky,
An open cathedral, a natural choir,
The wind in my face, the twilight at dusk,
The earth is the house God made for us.
I jumped to my feet, I gave thanks to the skies, and
Thanks to the ground where I slept, to the tears in my eyes.
In one holy moment, I saw everything new.
And said, "There you are God, I've been looking for you"
The land is a prayer and church is the sky,
An open cathedral, a natural choir,
The wind in my face, the twilight at dusk,
The earth is the house God made for us.
Back in the city, my troubled mind is calm.
God must have been here in my heart all along
And in colors of nature from heaven’s own brush
In the house made for us.
The land is a prayer and church is the sky,
An open cathedral, a natural choir,
The wind in my face, the twilight at dusk,
The earth is the house God made for us.
