The Goat Herders
Six squares and my mind is wandering everywhere
A Few New Songs and A Few Old Lyrics
One of my first songs went something like this: When love is to life as air is to breathing – when you can let yourself go without expectations – when peace is within without confrontation
There’s no anger inside – everything is alive – your body moves with the beat of 10 million lives (1985)
She Loves
I wrote this song to honor mothers who have to live with the unbearable loss of losing a child too soon. She Loves honors mothers around the world who shoulder the extraordinary gift of loving no matter what. I’ve never witnessed a more meaningful expression of love than that of a mother for her broken son.
No Mystery
Have you been around a person who sees everything accurately and without any need to make the story better or worse than it is? This song is about this rarified being that is in fact within each of us. May you find yourself in awe of where you are in each moment and see it as it is through this open lens of loving it all and holding it all in love.
You Are God
Is it possible to believe we are all here to create? To love? To live fully? And say yeah to it all!
Unturned Stone
Life is filled with crossroads. Do we work on letting go of the past or is it better to revisit the past? Is either approach better or is it situational? And the real question is whether or not we have a choice in the matter. Our past experiences find their way into our present through dreams and idle moments. Some of us give into reliving these often painful memories while others internalize the past. My vote is to practice letting go.
Belief
I wrote this song about the many streets I’ve walked over the years and how these city streets taught me some subtle life lessons about beliefs.
Lyrics
Yeah To It All
Cheers to the living Faith of our fathers Tempting the values Ageless and ever Account the mens stories True as an arrow Could this be all that it was When there were heroes Cheers to our mothers Breath of our living Trust in the nurturing Languishing feeling Look to the heavens Then into the eyes Of your love And start believing Here’s to our friendship Brave as the unknown Deepening our love Strengthening our courage Everyone standing may peace be among us As we say Yeah to It All Cheers to the living Memories of our loved Found in silence Seduced by the beauty Wait for the sensing Be still and trusting Give into the fall And start believing Here’s to our friendship Brave as the unknown Deepening our love Strengthening our courage Everyone standing may peace be among us As we say Yeah to It All
No Mystery
She smiles away most of the day Picking moments to feel the noise in her way So she can feel what its like To breath em in She can feel what its like To be one of them She shakes it off and turns it around Giving everything she’s got to break some ground Of a lonely heart That could use some love Of a troubled soul In need of letting it go There’s no mystery Why we can’t see Each other in each other Sisters and brothers Theres no mystery How we fall apart We start believing In broken hearts Theres no Mystery The city’s quiet with a chill in the air her stride shortens to slow the pace of getting there Too many years of rushing to get nowhere Too many moments lost With nothin to share She see’s each face and reads each book Feels each moment as she meets each look Of a lonely heart That could use some love Of a troubled soul In need of letting go o o There’s no mystery Why we can’t see Each other in each other Sisters and brothers Theres no mystery How we fall apart We start believing In broken hearts Theres no Mystery
Perfect in the End
Can’t know what you’re missing When your missing what you know Tripping over moments underneath The midnight glow Tryin hard to stay ahead All the while falling behind Each story has an ending And I know this ain’t your time Chorus Go on and cry cry cry when it hurts Too much to fight You might just want to lie lie lie No shame it getting by But be sure to come back to where you’ve always been It all turns out perfect in the end Verse So stop making up stories About where you might a been If only this or because of that Timings’ not your friend Truth is never easy and when it is It just ain’t true Leavin everything behind To get to another part of you Chorus Go on and cry cry cry when it hurts Too much to fight You might just want to lie lie lie No shame it getting by But be sure to come back to where you’ve always been It all turns out perfect in the end It all turns out perfect in the end Verse Doesn’t matter how you got here It just matters that your here When the day ends tomorrow And nothing is clear Stay ahead of the music Play around the beat with style No one will ever notice If you present it with a smile Chorus Go on and cry cry cry when it hurts Too much to fight You might just want to lie lie lie No shame it getting by But be sure to come back to where you’ve always been It all turns out perfect in the end It all turns out perfect in the end
She Loves
She told me how good it was back in the day when she had no time to go astray and fill her days with her own thoughts I sit with her in agony as she asks “why cant you see” and rages on To figure out why she Lost her son Yet she loves loves loves Despite it all She lets go of the anger for a stream of tears I see her fall Deeper into the darkness she fears Yet she loves She lives her life in absolutes Make’s it hard to bear new truths about the way things ought to be In her family Her stories of a better time Covered up the scars left behind No one will know the evidence Is hidden in plain sight Yet she look loves loves Despite it all She lets go of the anger for a stream of tears I see her fall Deeper into the darkness she fears Yet she loves loves loves Bridge Terrified to wake up alone And trust in the unknown She feels it all and nothing Unsure of where she’s going Yet she loves she loves she loves She loves loves loves Despite it all She loves She loves She loves
I was standing on a city street and stopped listening to the noise. All my ideas and beliefs rushed in to fill the void.
I thought, its either this or I’m going away. Since I don’t know where away is I decided to stay.
Guy Bell Lyric
Free Thinking 