The Players Ruth
Rosenhek - vocals
Cedar Anderson - mouth percussion The
flame has lit up the... world from within
all
things individually and collectively
are
[inter] penetrated and flooded by it...
you
who mold the manifold so as to
breathe
your life into it...I pray to you."
-
Teilhard de Chardin -
The
first verse of the universe
pours
forth like a sea of mystery
Out
of the void, unmanifest silence
space/time
comes into existence
Unseen
shaping, swirling, unfurling
Hydrogen,
helium. Divine is revealed within
galactic
whirlpools as energy flows in
a
star collapses, supernova explosion
A
cloud of cosmic debris
drawn
together -- by gravity?
By
the mystery of attraction
primordial
bonding, universe action
Stardust
swirling, swarming gases
organizing
and forming masses
See
the Sun’s the one that spun the nine others
gave
birth to Mother Earth
and
her sisters and brothers
Mercury,
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter
Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Everyone
is the Sun the
Sun is the one Everybody
better Wake up!
But
the Earth gave birth
to
continents and oceans
shaping
and shaking with waves of emotion
charges
of lightning, bombarding and striking
exposin’
the globe as it glows like a strobe
and
setting the stage for the first cell of life
so
simple and basic, so primal that I place it
at
the top of the chain from which all life sprang
more
forms adorn the Earth as they bring
diversity,
dispersing the song of creation
ring
in the dawn, sing along in celebration
I
just wanna celebrate... Life,
The Earth, The Cosmos!
The
sea comes alive, starts to thrive
with
new life forms, storms swept the planet
plants
crept on granite
Enchanted
by the Sun’s solar power
The
Earth gave birth to green leaves and flowers
lava
flows, Mountains rose
Tropical
islands, Forests and meadows
fed
by the fresh water streams - the veins
heavenly
rains drain back to the sea
the
fish are set free as they swim onto sand
fins
turn to limbs and the limp onto land
amphibians,
reptiles new styles of creatures,
seeing
through new being the range of her features
The
Earth - Your Mother!
gave
birth to eyesight
looking
within as she spins in the sunlight
On
to the dawn to the day of the dinosaurs
Pterodactyl
soars, Tyrannosaurus Rex
Towering,
devouring, so who’s up next?
Mammals
and primates
All
life interrelated! - Divinely created!
So
don’t you think it’s time we celebrated?