Name: My Morning Mantra
Duration: P00H04M01S
Description: *This song represents the call to adventure. since every journey has a beginning. One of the first songs written for the album. I was living in Seattle at the time, unemployed and unknown. Every morning I would wake up do yoga, say positive affirmations then spend the rest of the day practicing music and looking for a job. These song lyrics came from some of those times.

My Morning Mantra

from Learning Adventures In Love and Revolution by Plaedo

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*This song represents the call to adventure. since every journey has a beginning. One of the first songs written for the album. I was living in Seattle at the time, unemployed and unknown. Every morning I would wake up do yoga, say positive affirmations then spend the rest of the day practicing music and looking for a job. These song lyrics came from some of those times.

lyrics

This story starts
in a trailer park
when I heard an alarm
within my heart
it said the world
is falling apart
find the rainbow children
help them rebuild it
I moved out the mountains
the friendly forest
for the city's the slums
where dreams come true
if I struggle through
the concrete jungle
confident and humble
willing to work hard
like an immigrant
so everyday I awake
and I pray for the grace
to embrace climbing over
the boulders the roll into my way
no If I was a sculpture
I would not re-invent the wheel
just to roll that boulder up that hill
my boy Sisyphus knows how I feel
Cuz if that boulder rolls down the other side
I will let it go
I don't even know
where this life or poem is goin
five years from now I might be homeless
or I could be famous
my name and face
carved on the cover of a rolling stone
only time will tell
so I drop my clock in a wishing well
and sing seranade at the midnight bell

Chorus

Allow me to brake this down
that last verse was zen
this verse is dao
so today is the day when
I learn how
to be patient with my partner
and to play with my daughter and to listen
to my sister
and have compassion for my comrades
so I'll practice the math
of the 8-fold path
I'll pick up trash
of the street
and I'll share some food for the homeless to eat
since life is a treat
sometimes bitter
and sometimes sweet
my shalah, que sera sera, akunamatata

chorus

Dear Sacred Sadness
I know you like to happen
on random circumstances
but today I feel like dancing
being romantic, taking chances
on my way to work
I walk past abandoned
buildings where these poor children play
I'm gonna make the world a better place
so I'll rock the planet if that's what it takes
to make me shake and awaken your complacent
consciousness, because I got the confidence
to accomplish this
conscious bliss
so I take the risk
to live my myth
follow my bliss
and free my chi
so the beauty I see
is the beauty in me
this beauty is true
because this beauty is you

credits

from Learning Adventures In Love and Revolution, released November 18, 2013
*lyrics by Plaedo/Chorus: SNCC Freedom Singers/
Produced by Plaedo/Mixed and Mastered by John Philip Buzis.

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Plaedo is a story telling hip hop philosopher of play. Plaedo is a true M.C.- A Master of Ceremonies who Moves Communities with a Message to Communicate. Plaedo can Plaedo has been spotted at poetry slams, coffee shops, festivals, schools, protests and street corners performing, spreading peace, love, joy, and wisdom with his brand of performance art he has labeled "Tribal Hop Raptivism" ... more