Facing a life bereft of certainty can be both exhilarating and a bit frightening. The choice isn’t between certainty and chaos, but rather a grey area filled with possibilities and potential tragedies.
Nothing’s for certain
We’re often surprised
Patterns unveil
Repetition, history and I
A person seeing life as precious and death as a true ending often looks to maximize each and every moment. Many seek the solace and reassurance of the promise of eternal life or of a continuing existence of essence or spirit. Such individuals can find the prospect of a life devoid of certainty to be too daunting and the inevitability of total death to render life meaningless.
Don’t walk away
Seek the eternal deny decay
Make love a concept
Wish our bodies away
Understanding the safety and security offered through belief and certainty the person enthralled with life calls out to their mate.
Let’s please each other
Treat our bodies as art
Mold and hold and exultate
Make my strings vibrate in song
All day long
For those willing to live with possibility and uncertainty life is a tenuous process without the prospect of perfection. A process in which we develop and become increasingly intimate with ourselves, others and the world up until our last breath.
I want to look inside not beyond life
I want to savor each drop of juice
I yearn to sleep with your heart beat
I long to unbutton you
One can always reject intimacy and possibility and choose certainty and belief. Sensitive to the seduction of certainty and safety, and realizing the risk they are asking their lover to engage in they ask and implore over and over.
Don't you want me in your world?
lyrics
In Your World 12/14/2009
That sense of choice
Charged up my voice with emotion
We make our way
Fashion, ration or complain
Toil or declare a holiday
Nothing’s for certain
We’re often surprised
Patterns unveil
Repetition, history and I
Every moment’s a puzzle (don’t you want me in your world?)
Each word’s a potential cure (don’t you want me in your world?)
I don’t hide from the darkness (don’t you want me in your world?)
No end to the wonder we unfurl
I feel like crying
so rich and satisfying is our world
Don’t walk away
Seek the eternal deny decay
Make love a concept
Wish our bodies away
Let’s please each other
Treat our bodies as art
Mold and hold and exultate
Make my strings vibrate in song
All day long
Hear the choir’s swelling voices (don’t you want me in your world?)
Cause our hearts to rise and soar (don’t you want me in your world?)
Fill our lungs with love’s musky incense (don’t you want me in your world?)
Intoxicate me with your will
I want to look inside not beyond life (don’t you want me in your world?)
I want to savor each drop of juice (don’t you want me in your world?)
I yearn to sleep with your heart beat (don’t you want me in your world?)
I long to unbutton you
credits
from Significance,
released December 31, 2016
Vocals Jim Guido
Guitar Jim Guido
Bass Jim Guido
Sax Jim Guido
Drums Radix Faruq
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