This is the story of a man who loved contemplating and discussing lofty ideals and metaphysical thought. While understanding the privilege of having a body and being alive, he more often than not wanted to surpass the limits of the body in the playground of unlimited consciousness.
Yet, one day he met a woman who not only sparked his mind, but aroused his passions. He urgently observes that "she ravaged my mind,, gave my body might". Now finding the joining of physical and psychic ecstasy fulfilling, he no longer views the body as limiting or a burden to overcome.
Through an intimate and passionate relationship he now attains the "deepness for which (he) does yearn, that lies somewhere between heaven and hearth". He finds the joining of body and mind to be far more rewarding than his previous transcendental world of contemplation and discussion.
The island flavor of the music helps emphasize the beauty and hypnotic pleasure of bathing in warm waters beneath blue skies. The celebratory aspect of the song builds and climaxes as does the music as the singer professes his gratitude to his lover for unveiling a form of intimacy whose reality far eclipsed his imagination.
lyrics
Met-a-physique 7/27/1983
I love to think in idyllic fantasy
With word I not too brief
Stalking to be free
I always prayed for some golden wings
To take me soaring above earthly things
Up to the heavens I would climb
To receive the gift of celestial fire
The breeze seduces me, cooling me down
The wind jostling me, swirling around
Sweeping like fire over dried out plains
She ravaged my mind, gave my body might
I felt such awe for this sensual delight
That we conjured by breathing in life
Entwined in magic brown pulsing eyes
Warm my body quiet silent fire
The breeze seduces me, cooling me down
The wind jostling me, swirling around
I can’t go on anymore
Without your love to restore
The deepness for which I do yearn
That lies somewhere between heaven and hearth
Metaphysical, met-a-physique
credits
from Take Me,
released May 26, 2014
Vocals Jim Guido
Guitar Brad Foutch, Chris Allen
Bass Joe Pez
Keys Rob Lesch
Percussion Larry Roberts
Drums Paula
Sax Jim Guido
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