I wrote this song during a trip to Prague. I had trouble adjusting to the time change when we first arrived, so I found myself wide awake at 5 am in the basement of the hotel I was staying. There was a marble staircase I was sitting at the bottom of, the remarkable acoustics of that stairwell had a whisper travel on for an eternity.



I sat there quietly singing and penning out this tune, my only audience was the cleaning lady mopping the floors, she smiled and kept on working. I'd like to think our language barrier ceased for that moment and she understood the words I was putting to ink, that I would eventually send out into the world, pleading to everyone to pause and love each other a little bit more.



The song is about the uselessness of war, every time I hear about a death as a result of war or violence, my heart grows heavy with sadness. To think your 22 years into this life, your just getting ready to start your adult life and its gone in a second, not for some accidental reason, mistake or sickness. Purposely your life is taken from your mortal casing from another person who is just like you biologically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually; they have different viewpoints and experiences, but still we are all the same. All of this done for someone else's grudge or more often than not it's usually about money, this other curious creation made by humankind that doesn't seem to exist except for numbers on a sheet of paper or a computer screen.



All those years of childhood forgotten, the years of parents tending to and caring for their children on both sides gone, all the laughter, tears, the possibilities of wild dancing, spiritual awe, being so full of divine love that you are ready to explode with uncontrollable happiness and joy....gone; gone as quickly as the seconds pass in a day. When we are born we are a clean slate only looking for the unconditional and constant love from our mothers and as life goes on the innocence we started with slowly gets torn away from each of us as we are filled with the dysfunction of the world. Here in North America it feels we are distracted and addicted to materialism & gain. We are desensitized to violence and the news of what is really going on in the rest of the world gets watered down and spoon fed to us without any real connection to the humanity that is being lost, or they become movies and video games only adding to the fiction in our minds that is a reality for others.



There is currently not enough love in this world, we live in our heads filling it up with the bullshit of what needs to be done, obsessing about others, pointing our fingers outward, blaming the world for our suffering because we are too scared to look inward, myself included. I have noticed this about myself and it's the first step to changing it, it's hard work and worth every moment of crumbling and triumph.



I will boldly say WAR IS USELESS, there is no gain from it, only suffering, heartache and pain. PATRIOTISM IS SENSELESS, we've drawn imaginary lines on a map but we are every bit like the countless species of animals and living organisms on this planet of ours, except we have thumbs and communicate on a different level, we are getting better with it and I also believe we have a lot more growth to be done with it. Lastly, WE DON'T OWN SHIT except for what comes out of our asses and even that is returned to the earth.



I understand it is hard not to succumb to the hardships, the temptations, the escapist mentality of life. I also know that I have felt love, I have felt never-ending joy in moments, I have cried witnessing the sheer brilliance of life and existence. I think it is foolish to believe you can achieve never ending happiness and I wouldn't want it, I want the full and complete human experience and I want the same for everybody on this tiny little speck we call earth.



What I am saying with this song is pause, comprehend the insanity of WAR & VIOLENCE and from there begin to radiate love onto everyone you know or meet and then spread that onto the entire globe. One man/woman can change the world and it starts within ourselves, by loving your self, realizing the beauty and power that you possess, by doing that it will be noticed by others and spread on to them. Nothing will happen over night and you will experience resistance; when that happens pretend you're a gardener planting seeds, they will grow in some capacity over time.

LOVE IS ALL WE NEED TO HEAL US ALL!