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Let the Chaos Feed My Evolution

by Feathers Wise

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1.
Cut the nightmares from my body And burn them with the medical waste Burn the hairs from my skin And cut eyebrows in my face Take the toxins from my system Put the pills beneath my tongue The doctors keep my money But the hormones keep me young The world may burn around me The boundary may be crossed Death may tap my shoulder And all may seem lost At midnight as the present Approaches critical mass Just one thing is certain That this too shall pass If glamour is resistance And mystery my guide Beauty is my weapon When there is nowhere to hide Let the dream become real And the real become dream Let the chrysalis twist And break at the seams Let the chaos feed my evolution Let the phoenix rise again Let the chaos feed my evolution Let the change come from within Can’t stop the world from changing Old legacies destroyed Obsolete and screaming On their way into the void They call my life a protest An existential threat To traditions being vanquished By the peerless Internet But I see no shining future Just the now to trust I can’t trust in fucking Facebook Not Google, or Elon Musk Not Wal-Mart, not Chevron Coke, or the NFL And not Trump, or the fucking government Or any other demon in this hell Rearrange the deck chairs And play the violins Race off to the lifeboats And eat the one who wins The rats have fled the shipwreck Sharks arrive at dawn Capital is everything And everything is wrong Let the dream become real And the real become dream Let the chrysalis twist And break at the seams Let the chaos feed my evolution Let the phoenix rise again Let the chaos feed my evolution Let the change come from within Navigate the sea of information At your fingertips, on command Illuminate the world with your creations Let the children understand
2.
Lay me down into the stream Give me back my memory And then I'll wake up in Another time and place You can follow close behind But take care to open your mind And see what happens when You break into space Yeaaaaaaah, whoaaaaa Your love is giving me life Hear the rushing wind alive And feel the radiating fire You are connected to Something with no name Feel it coming closer now I don't know why, I don't know how But everything, my love Is happening again Yeaaaaaaah, whoaaaaa Your love is giving me life To call the bolt of lightning From your lips to sing A rolling crack of thunder To light the fire in your veins 'Til when you're cut You bleed out an inferno A galaxy of shifting skies Dance the rainbows in your eyes Beyond the dream alive In the afterglow Within the love I have for you Lay the love you have for me Another lifetime in The universe we know Feel it coming closer now I don't know why, I don't know how But everything, my love Is happening again Yeaaaaaaaaaah, whoooaaa Your love is giving me life Your love is giving me life
3.
The shadow on the wall Walks up to you to say Hello, how are you Do you know what you are? I and all my friends hear you Thinking out your problems You drink to kill the voices That the pills can't keep away And live between the worlds Of your eyes and your visions And wonder long and hard Which is which You search to find the edge Of this illusionary kingdom The dream life Just as real as this And love can help you remember That we came here to learn And nothing is lost, no one forgotten You know, you're not alone No, not alone Breathing in the smoke is when you Feel the revelation Of nothing And everything at once You shine out through a neon world Beyond all your senses With patterns Blooming in your way And cry out at the end of time Until you finally realize That heaven Was always here and now And all the kingdom lives For you to see through this illusion And know us As we are And love can help you remember That we came here to learn And nothing is lost, no one forgotten You know you're not alone No, not alone No, not alone No, not alone
4.
Dance, you know they love to Dance, oh they feel it and Dance, just close your eyes I see them too Sing, you've got to let yourself Sing, 'cos everybody can Sing, you just let your love Sing through you, oh honey All your life you wondered how you knew All the things that come to you All your past lives screaming out to you All the wild dreams, they're all true They're all true, yeah They're all true, true, true, yeah Live, despite it all, hon Live, it's never easy just Live, like only we dare Live today to Dream, you know we're living this Dream, just let it come to you Dream, and now you're dreaming This melody, oh honey All your life you wondered how you knew All the things that come to you All your past lives screaming out to you All the wild dreams, they're all true They're all true, yeah They're all true, true, true, yeah Ghosts of tomorrow are calling out to play Ghosts of tomorrow and yesterday They're always with you, so don't be afraid Every day is today A chrysanthemum unfolding in fields of infinite light In the space beyond time where all dreams are manifest In endless waves of liquid pearl shimmering amidst the void Like neon creatures of the deep sea shining out among Livid negative space in the thoughtscape of tomorrow All your life you wondered how you knew All the things that come to you All your past lives screaming out to you All the wild dreams, they're all true They're all true, yeah They're all true, true, true, yeah
5.
I awake at midnight In the pentagram With a beautiful witch And no memory of the days before She is ageless A ritual of one Wears the colors of the earth And smiles like the sun She has a star on her temple And an ankh on her chest She points to an hourglass Between my breasts And she says, "Now your third wish, What will it be? What will it be?" What will it be? What will it be? I'm not ready I ask her, "What happened to the first two wishes?" She says, "The first was to become what you are, The second, to forget what you were And now your third wish, what will it be?" I ask, "Will you teach me what to wish for?" Tongues of neon fire scream from out her whips And shards of living lightning spill from out her lips Streams of liquid starlight pour from out her eyes Snake across the dust, and arrive Sweet and fragrant on my tongue What will it be? What will it be? I'm not ready A burning flush of quicksilver at the base of my spine And the starlight rises vertebrae by vertebrae Until it pours from out my eyes as well The colors of the earth Become the colors of the sky And the Goddess steps forth She adorns her forehead With terror and fearsome radiance At dawn we climb the mountain path And arrive at the gate of wonder She makes an offering and speaks this prayer "You made me to ask a question And I made you to answer." What will it be? What will it be? I'm not ready The gate opens, and we pass beyond To the Palace of the moon And the Goddess fills her seat In honor of heaven, and she says "The moment that you know yourself Is living in your future And the distance from your heart Is ebbing as you learn to listen As you grow and as you glisten In the light behind the door The radiance alive And singing from those distant shores." And she says, "Your third wish, my love What will it be?" What will it be? What will it be? What will it be? What will it be? I'm ready

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released February 3, 2019

written by Feathers Wise
produced by Phil Carroll

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Feathers Wise Brooklyn, New York

Feathers is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She began writing music as a young teenager with her home-built PC and Scream Tracker 2. She studied music in College and dropped out to transition. She found her voice singing at queer piano bars and around Radical Faerie fire circles. After many episodes of marginal living, she landed in Brooklyn in 2016. ... more

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