The endless path

Spiritual & Metaphysical Matters
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I wrote these lyrics a couple of years ago, and i made a track with them, but honestly i don’t feel like i did the material justice in my delivery of it.

I will probably do a remake at some point, until then, perhaps your inner voice can do a better job at delivering this piece of art.

this was something i was inspired to write, and being inspired is not the same thing as being frozen in knowing. it’s knowing being in more of a fluid state, crystallizing in words and exploring elements of observation based assumption.

Still, i feel there is some level of accuracy in the following, i just can’t confirm on what level that is. Regardless, I felt good seeing and hearing the sequence :slight_smile:

enjoy :purple_heart:

the endless path:

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the endless path
is hidden in transition,
shrouded in mystery
inside our human condition.

entwined in the mechanics
of this curious place.
a symbiosis of aspects
a distortion of grace.

“death is dangerous”
an understandable conclusion.
the evidence is overwhelming
regardless hints
of its grand illusion.

as many have been there
many have had a taste,
reports of a loving light
letting no soul go to waste.

the endless path
is hidden in transition,
like silence between the tracks
on the album of a musician.

every composition
has its flavour,
a symphony of vibration
made to savour.

immersed in rhythm
as with timing,
music is a friend
that’s always shining.

settle in the connection
and let it string you along,
with emotional resonance
we are one with the song.

the endless path
is hidden in transition,
subjective experience
evolving its mission.

coming to an understanding
doesn’t require us to fully understand,
love in circulation
makes for lighter steps at hand.

none are born with hate
or contempt in heart,
a will willing to break
has pain as its start.

even the messiest of moments
have a return to peace,
trauma from human life
is washed away
in our origin of ease.

the endless path
is hidden in transition,
it’s hard to see
past an invested vision

what rings true today
can be out of tune tomorrow,
what used to move us forward
can become a source of sorrow.

with renewal behind the wheel
and nostalgia backseat,
we drive down the road
of being existentially incomplete.

in transition between the tracks
simmers our soulful song.
infinite experience
was part of us, all along.

the endless path
is hidden in transition

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Well said. As a fellow poet of what one thinks about after reading into such things, I congratulate you on your seeking. I see a few things that others may also connect with. The first verse, second line is something to ponder about. We can think about where we were and then look to what we are becoming. The transition from one form of thinking to another has value in every aspect. I wrote something similar after reading the Ra Material for the first time. There is an obvious wonder and transition to another form of thinking.

I looked above and shouted with frustration
I wandered through life with little narration
I came across a book that opened my eyes
I could not believe until it revealed the prize
I searched and read until I could understand
I cannot believe this is some sort of wonderland
I look around but see it all as realistic
I must be crazy or was I just egotistic
I dreamed and meditated about all this
I now fall down because the rest may miss
I am one so are you, please think deeply
I am you and you are me, we live freely
I die whenever but have the option to return
I recall nothing of before but I will never unlearn
I give you my light for those in the sun
I am infinite creation and all is one

For those who may have not connected with the second to last line… waiting is a part of the mystery. Seek and you shall find.

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Thank you for your affirming feedback and followup :slight_smile:

I resonate and relate with your style of literal expression :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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I did not expect to publish a new version so soon.
With the help of ai, I managed to get the material delivered in a song that feels amazing :slightly_smiling_face:

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i love this, is there music somewhere?

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found it!

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ah, i shared it as a link rather than posted it as a direct youtube window.

Sorted in my previous post :slightly_smiling_face:

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Also available on Spotify now, for those who prefer that medium :slight_smile:

Spotify link: The endless path (Cinematic version)

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After discovering an ai-sound-mastering tool that increased the sound quality, in a very appealing amount in my ears, I recalled the track and republished the refined one :slight_smile:

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You made a track with them? Is that a non AI track? Like with instruments?

Damn, a lot of people won’t be able to tell the difference between AI and the real person. The AI woman’s voice sounded deeply feminine. To me it seems as though there is no processing of the profundity of one word in comparison to another but… I doubt there is with a lot of modern pop artists either. If people didn’t know it was AI they might project it.

I started putting the lyrics to my guitar (I won’t steal them!) just something to do on my practice session. But the first two verses are massively emotionally different from the third verse. So I would come back to it when I was able to get in the mood of “Death is dangerous” if I were to continue, definitely with an intervening riff or solo. “Death is dangerous” sounds like a minor tone, whereas the first two verses especially the end of the second are distinctly major. I think when singing it “inside our condition”, is easier than “inside our human condition”… You brute leaving them ET’s out!

Normally when I have written songs in the past the song has come at the same time as the music, but it might be good to try lyrics first a few times and matching music to it. A lot of really good songs. Such as Bob Dylans “Desolation Row” and “Highway 61”, or Johnny Cash’s “When the man comes around” , seem to be made from a more cerebral place. Singing to a disconnected story rather than personal experience seems to be a positive tool.

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Every part of the track, apart from the (written) lyrics, was generated with ai, at suno.com and mastered, at masterchannel.ai

I´m in love with the tools there,

in regards to the voice work, if you think about it, when you talk with a cell phone, it´s a digital voice that mimics your voice, as with every situation of a microphone connected to a digital environment, it was only a matter of time before we learned to simulate this in a more realistic maner.

Feel free to use the lyrics however they uplift you, i would appreciate if you reference me as the original writer in regards to public use, apart from that i just think it´s cool if anyone feels inspired to use my material :slight_smile:

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Thankyou. It’s very unlikely to get as far as being performed, but you being relaxed about the lyrics does free me up to finish tabbing a tune to them, at the moment, as kind of a music exercise. I have not been able to create my own lyrics lately. Had you been defensive I would not have continued further. And if it did get to them being used I would give credit and inform you.

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Also, for your enjoyment what I do sometimes is have a song going through my head and change the lyrics to my preferred ones.

I think this kind of fits if you want to sing it to yourself, but perhaps worth finding another if you would prefer. I did one line to one line and ‘curious place’ matched ‘old hotel I chose’! I.e. the feeling of it matched.

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I did find the chord it was B minor.

There we go. The video is unlisted random people on youtube won’t see it but anyone with this link will. I did the first four verses and then whistled out what I thought the chorus might be after that point. I feel a bit exposed putting this on here and reserve the right to just delete the video whenever I choose, even if it is only a few hours. But this is a very casual chord attachment to the beginning of your poem with enough editing to make the youtube video visually presentable:

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Phoenix, thank you so much for sharing this, your spontaneous candor combined with your skill of analyzing music (in a tangible maner) is a refreshing breeze. And it feels surreal (in a very good way) hearing the lyrics i wrote in your voice.

The original style of the lyrics was in a ‘spoken word’ format, and it was my English version of ‘Vägen utan slut’ (The road without end, as a direct translation from Swedish)

I did a spoken word version that I was not happy with my delivery of the material in parts of it, and was planing on redoing it when I stumbled in on the ai tool. after playing around with a few styles that fell flat, as the 4 minute limit clogged the lyrics, the version I published emerged, containing the entire thing, smooth as butter, in exactly four minutes. It was truly a liberating feeling…

For reference, here is the original track:

I have published a couple other tracks since, referenced in two other threads,

A track that reflects my ongoing creative process:
The practice of balance

And a track created as a ‘pick me up’, inspired by ‘Doctor who’, taken to the next level:
a Little Like “Doctor you know who”

Edit: The first tattoo i got, when i was 18 (I´m 43 now) was of a Phoenix in tribal style on my right arm. A symbol that has followd me through my life in very fitting ways :slight_smile:

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This is so sweet, guys

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