Hi Jeff,

It took me the first verse and a half to get the  rhythm and timing flowing but once there I enjoyed playing it. The lyrics, well they ask the question that we would all like to know the answer to. Some have faith and believe others hope for the best.

One little point. The last word in the 6th verse, unless this is an American word we Brits do not know, it may be a typing error.

Thank you,

Roger

I thought the lycrics were very much like searching as if on some spritual journey for answers that cant be given in our physical state if its any comfort one of the laws of physics is "matter can niether be created or destroyed" if you burn a piece of wood you dont destroy the wood you only change the molecular structure that piece of wood has changed to ashes much the same with all forms of life after death they decompose and take on a new identity we as humans myself included wonder what lies beyond these earthly bonds im not worried because i believe everything in this world,solar system,galaxie and the entire universe is made of electrical charges the physical body is comprised of atoms protons neutrons electrons and some particles even smaller the human mind "thinks" and the process of thinking is nothing more then electrical synapses of the brain as is the physical makeup of everything in gods universe dont worry you,ll have the answers when you depart enjoy the present the past is gone and the futures just beginning acapo

Hey - thanks for all the comments. I pretty much figured I was not alone in this.
Marc - thanks for sharing the poem - very thought provoking. I can't say I'll ever figure out until that fateful day what will happen. I won't let it take up too much of my mind though...life's too short.
Lena - thanks - I sure wish I could play sing as good as you...okay write as good as well. This phase has pretty much been with me since childhood when a friend of mine was killed in a car crash. It didn't feel like he was gone and yet he was. Later in my life when many other friends and relatives died, I still felt like they were alive and kicking even though I knew they were not. So I still wonder about them and what will happen when eventually me, my wife and kids will die. I'm not a very good funeral person. I have no clue how to act. Words like sorry for your loss feel hollow when I truly don't know the extent of the loss. There is a big difference between going to a better place, a place of enlightenment and turning back into the earth. I guess I'll live with it and see.
Hey Acapo - I think I get what you are saying. I'm not sure I buy into atoms that make me up still being me when I die even though there are great amounts of power in even the smallest morsel of matter. I'm also not sure I buy into the whole spiritual side that I want to believe is in me yet I cannot feel it touch it ....sense it. Fortunately for me it does make for a good song topic.

That is very true. I think the "leap" part has to have a stronger support structure than I have right now but I'm working on it.

good song by the way!:cool:

we are all working on it in our own way does anyone remember desiderada im not sure i spelled it correctly bu it was a reading put to music and recorded by a disk jockey about thirty years ago the text was discovered in a monastry acapo

Hi Acapo,

i do believe you mean this beautiful piece. I was given this in my late teens and have given it to many friends since.

desiderata - by max ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann c.1920