Story Behind The Song
"Shape shifting into truth". We all find ourselves confronted with moments of enlightenment or realization. We gotta keep those moments fresh in our lives, so we're constantly remembeing who we are, and living authentically in that truth!
Song Description
lyrical 6/8 rhythm, Baroque flute and trumpet intro, poetic lyrics on becoming who you truly are in this life, lovely flute solo, urgent spoken word
| Song Length |
4:32 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Rock - Classic |
| Tempo |
Non 4/4 |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Exultant, Still |
Subject |
Change, Existence |
| Similar Artists |
Jethro Tull, Joan Armatrading |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
Shape Shifting
This morning I woke with lilies sprouting from my tongue
Sun was dancing through the air, something has begun
Truth is looking out my eyes, I see the stars on the other side
Drop of water in the sea, I'm a candle in the sun
I am shape shifting into truth
Dream making, waking into you
Love changing, I am taking
A chance we'll find, a higher love
A chance we'll find, a higher love
How can I touch you, beyond where you try to hide
How can I love you, when you won't allow what you feel inside
You say you wanna change, but you hold onto your skin
I see your beauty shining like a fire from within
We are shape shifting into truth
Dream making, waking into you
Love changing, I am taking
A chance we'll find, a higher love
A chance we'll find, a higher love
Look at me, do you see
My shape melting before your eyes
Do you think I'm one you can touch
Here in my defiant midnight
Before morning and the damned
Business of busyness makes its
Naked way into my life
Don't you think I'm one like you?
Spirit stolen out of earth
To a time where heavy boots stamp out
Lurid songs in praises to the gods of war
And cold-blooded tactics for survival
Negotiate their way around
Any chance of mine
But tonight I am shape changer
Dream maker, nyad, dryad, lady
Looking for a silence to pour
Her liquid bones into
Looking for a tree to melt into
Roots sinking, arms reaching
Like I used to do
If there's somethin' I wanna change, let me do it right now
Release my fear, give up my pain somehow
Give it to the sea, feed it to the fire
Bury it in the mountain, give me back my one desire
We are shape shifting into truth
Dream making, waking into you
Love changing, I am taking
A chance we'll find, a higher love
A chance we'll find, a higher love
A chance we'll find, a higher love