From the recording Mind The Bardo (2025)
Right Effort: Cultivating wholesome mental states and abandoning unwholesome ones.
Lyrics
If you’re bummin’ and you don’t know why
Like something inside of you is trying to die
If you’re spinning and you can’t slow down
And you can’t see nothing as it goes around
And the only sound you’ll hear
Is a whisper in your ear
And the further out you roam
The lights will guide you home
And your bones won’t shatter and your heart won’t break
You feel much better every step you take
You lend a shoulder and I lend you mine
Warm your shadow when the sun don’t shine
Sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear
And sometimes you don’t know respect from fear
But you keep on going and you just don’t know why
But you know you’re dying to try
If you’re tryna get across the flood
Both feet stuck deep within the mud
Won’t do nothing if you stress and strain
Ain’t no nothing to relieve the pain
But to swim through all you’ve lost
It’s the only way across
And if you feel like letting go
I just wanted you to know
(chorus)
Tell your story and I’ll tell you mine
You can’t skip ahead or go back in time
You can move a mountain, you can part the sea
But you gotta let go if you wanna be free
Sometimes sunny, sometimes rain
Sometimes pleasure is the mask of pain
But you keep on going and you just don’t know why
And you know you’re dying to try
