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Tha Great Shift (ft. Jessica Haeckel)

from Empires Die​.​.​.​Life Evolves by Plaedo

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about

(This song is the Thesis statement for the album. One of the first songs written and recorded for the album, this song really encapsulates the essence in the question of what does it mean to exist in this modern era of great transition. I remember being really proud of this song when I first finished it, it was leveling up creatively and was like a sign that the album was going to be my best yet.)

lyrics

Sometimes I feel like it’s the end of the world
But don’t you know the Apocalypse is just is when the veil gets lifted
So the great shift is here that happens every few thousand years
It can even be felt in the atmosphere so it’s easy to be fueled by fear
when the old truths turn out to be lies when the meaning making structures
Fall apart and rupture when you come to understand that the kingdoms of the land
Are just castles made of sand and we’re drops in the sea
You feel the tides of change They are rising in we
so in this age that we all live in
If you need a compass use your intuition
to navigate through the nation
Where the fires are a’ raging in the forest in the trees
In the cities in the streets where employees sweep for needles
On streets where people lay half asleep and half dead
By the drunks who creep to the bars looking for the face of god
In the bottom of the bottle go to church like a brothel go online and get hostile
It’s all helter skelter you can follow all the rules
Still wind up in a homeless shelter
Because the big business got with the politicians
Wrote all the rules in their interest
So at our expense is how they get rich
But baby hold on I know that it’s hard
Keep that vision in your mind and that hope in your heart
Can't you see this is all a house of cards
And that their greeds causing it to fall apart
So when Babylon Be Gone Zion will be ours!

A whirlwind of transition until the world we live in
Is the world of science fiction
With the Crypto currency digital dollars
Radioactive rainbows stem cells and cell phones
Bionic limbs and genetically modified potatoes
With the rise of the robots everybody living in
Virtual reality as the internet
Weaves her world wide web
So society’s now a spider
On social media
Technology it is taking over
Yet what it wants evolution began
So hydrogen begat carbon began life humans than computers
So maybe this is all evolution
But still that don’t feel like a solution
The past is in the present
So what do we want to say about the future.

So we in the final hours of the ancient sunlight
Alive in these times that will try our souls
As we wonder worry woe if we can float
while the sea herself fashions her own boat
I don’t know what this means for you and me
in this moment but we gotta keep swimming in this ocean
So I looked within that was my notion And were 80% water
so it is not the Changes that we need to make
But rather the changes that are made through we
I navigate my space a captain of what I see
Because in the great shift many get lost in the mist
So I pray for those who won’t make it
With the faith that this is still sacred
Because it’s a brave new world
For the boys and the girls and the non binary
With the choice of who they want to marry
I never thought I’d see legal weed in the dispensary
So what I’m trying to say despite my fear in this age
For every yin there's a yang so with a bigger yin compes a bigger yang
What I’m really trying to say about this change
is it’s not good not bad not white not black it’s both it ‘s neither, it’s gray
Just like everybody is a little gay
So the truth is scary but don’t be afraid
no one will save you but it will be okay (repeated a bunch of times)

credits

from Empires Die​.​.​.​Life Evolves, released October 18, 2021
Produced by: Jessica Haeckel & Plaedo
Bass by: Max Miller
Guitar by: Casey House
Keys by: Jessica Haeckel
Vocals by: Jessica Haeckel & Plaedo
Mixed by: GART Studios & Plaedo

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