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Potential
07:55
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There is something I see, I see it so clearly
Because I don’t use my eyes to see it, I see it
With my breath I see it, with the soles of my feet
I see it with my blood, I see it with my heart beat
There is something about this world which drowns my spirit
With endless joy
What is it that I see?
I think I see Potential
For everlasting truth.
There is something I see, I see it so clearly
Because I don’t use my eyes to see it, I see it
With my breath I see it, with the soles of my feet
I see it with my blood
What is it that I see?
I feel I received a present
An angel’s kiss
I know what did he give me
He gave me another world where I can exist.
I think I see Potential...
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There is no reason to be afraid
One should not be afraid of change
Changing oneself, changing what you do, how you do, what you regard yourself as.
One should not be afraid to leave old ways behind
So to make it possible for new ones to be learnt.
But one should also not forget what were the real motives for life so far
in order not to lose the foundation of self earned with Pain, Love and Time.
There is nothing better than being alive, as far as we know.
All actions therefore ought to be a continuation of
The curiosity, sense of thrill and freedom
Naturally provoked by existing.
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So Soon
04:56
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It’s all gonna be over so soon
So there is nothing really to be sad about
I know it in my head but I can’t feel it in my heart
Yes I know, I just need to cheer up.
An argument is right just because it sounds so
So I’m convinced
So tell me why I can’t convince myself
To believe in whatever I please?
And when I know Something I can feel it in my fingernails
This is how I know I’m right
And by right I mean knowing I’m on the right track
To appreciate a little more my life.
The Answer is the balance between freedom and knowledge.
How can I be so ungrateful? How do I dare being sad?
How could I give up on me just like that?
And say nothing really matters if it has an end?
And when I know Something I can feel it in my fingernails
This is how I know I’m right
And by right I mean knowing I’m on the right track
To appreciate a little more my life.
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Mother and Oxymoron
01:22
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Now I wonder how I’ll feel to be just me at last
Without the hopes to one day have another person’s life.
To know I deserve to live without being great.
To know I have so much love to give and believe I’ll get some back.
When you are interested in something outside of yourself, regardless of yourself, which primarily had nothing to do with yourself - This is when you are interested in life. And when you are interested in life, you can be yourself.
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The Key
04:54
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There is a key to the treasure, to where your own god is
To where the sacred lava boils, to where heaven is
To where your creation starts and never ends
To where all judgement collapses into itself
To where past, future, present live as one
To where the mind becomes the heart
To where feedon rules them all, to where all is possible
To where you have no solution but one
To where all is, to where you are
To where all is, to where you are
I found it
I found it
I found it.
There is a key to the treasure -
Soon it will disappear.
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Free
03:18
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I thought by being good I’ll ensure being free
But true freedom can only come from love
For so long I’ve been trying to be as good as I could. To be excellent.
I was blurring my flaws, hiding my fears
All I ever wanted was to be good and therefore free
from other people’s judgment, their help and my dependency.
But as I was going I learned to realize
That my way of thinking can only emphasize
How desperate I am to allow another’s help
How freedom is about letting love to navigate.
How can I inspire you?
It’s my new way to find myself.
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Don't Know Why
06:51
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Why is it never quiet outside and within
Why don’t you ever look me in the eye
Before making love to me
Why don’t I have an answer to where exactly I should go
Why do I feel sometimes that nobody loves me
When I know it isn’t so
I don’t know why, I don’t know
I don’t know why, I don’t know
Why do I feel such pity towards others and towards myself
Is the guilt that I’m feeling is because of my mother
Or there is something just not right in my head
Why am I never tired and never entirely awake
Why do I smile even when I don’t want to
Why don’t you help me if you can
I don’t know why, I don’t know
I don’t know why, I don’t know
Now when the time has come
The evening glows
The whisper of the wind
I don’t ask myself anymore….
Why is it never quiet.
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Believer
02:43
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I was a believer for far too long.
And I’m ready now to be able to stop.
I don’t need to believe any more, because all that I want - I myself can do.
I can create my reality and I don’t mind to fail,
I’m ready to put my wounded heart aside to go out to sea and sail.
Believing is putting the responsibility on someone, something else.
Get up! do it, do it yourself.
The fact that we are not sure we will succeed
Doesn’t mean I need to shake off my responsibility
To shape my own future, to create my own path,
No one helps you because no one knows how,
So get up! you think too much and do too little,
Leave the cowered behind get up
It’s in your hands now.
Yes I was a believer for far too long, for far too long
I shall stop now being a believer, and start to live my life,
Nothing is too hard but waiting for a miracle which never comes.
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Signifier
07:12
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When I say love I don’t say what you think I say. I say that I want to live so so bad. When I say breath you don’t get what I mean. When I say connect you don’t get what it takes and it burns so bad. And it is the best feeling this kind of burn I’m burning from the inside and so I shine. I bring my light.
What signifies me is Love
What turns me into being me is Love
What grants me my identity is nothing but Love.
Do you even know what Love is? I didn’t know for so many years
That what signifies me is Love.
And not where I come from, not what I wear
Not what I know, not what I have
It doesn’t matter where I was born
The sound of the prayer doesn’t matter to a person who has learnt
The power of Love…
Love is the only safety
Love is my protection
Love is the only thing that lasts long enough
For you to realise
That all that’s good forever comes from love
That all that’s good forever comes from love.
When I started the journey I thought I will find true love, only to discover that true love can not be found. It can only be exercised. My journey is the exercise of true love.
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Doubt
02:21
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Yesterday I doubted the value of my work
I thought it might be pointless, it might be silly, I forgot
I’m protected by love
I doubted the value of myself, I doubted my ability
To do something really good
I even doubted whether my love is real
Whether it’s an ego trip which will go away
I must not forget that love is simple and love is honest
So you can allow things to be silly to be pointless
To be not so good at all
Because when you're protected by love
All will shine and fall into place
All will be light, all will make sense
Be strong don’t give up on love
Love is so much more than what you think
It’s so much broader
So much more versatile
Please don’t give up on love
Please don’t give up on love.
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I once was a little girl. I was me and I was happy. I loved to eat and I always wanted to win. I had this energy in my thighs and a big big smile on my face. It was up until I was five that I was me and happy and then it changed. People hurt my feelings, young and old, I grew sensitive, I developed doubt I became aware of who and how I was. And I didn’t like it because other people used it to cause me pain. I lived in my future and I constantly wanted to change. And the scars grew deeper and brighter with time and with them I grew tired because I was busy hiding me because the true me caused me pain. I hid her, I was ashamed and I grew tired by the day. All I had was funny voices in my head saying thoughts which are not mine, fears I did not have. But all along I was waiting. I was waiting for the future to come. I was looking forward to being different, to make some dreams come, true, to be safe and to never allow myself to get hurt again. And even though I grew tired the spark was not yet gone, and somehow I found courage to keep it breathing to keep my hope. The hope I was born with, the second nature type, the self sustained one, the hope which is in itself is truth, which in itself is life. And one day without a warning she just came back. She didn’t announce it, didn’t make a fuss, like she used to be, she was there once again at last. And I don’t know what will happen now, and I know the scars are forever there, but it feels so much better now, to have her. To have her back.
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Mirror
04:59
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And then I looked in the mirror and I couldn’t recognize myself
And I couldn’t recognize all the things I had around me
They so easily could have been somebody else’s
And then I understood something, a real important thing
I understood that all this stuff around
Isn’t really me
And by stuff I’m also saying my skin, my hair, my body
My hormones and my brain
All these are just around me
And perhaps it sounds cliche
But no emotion is
So trust me when I’m saying all these things don’t mean a thing
And then I realised that all these are here for me
For me so I could use them
I’m the owner, I should lead!
My thighs are here to jump
My mouth is here to shout
My eyes are here to cry with joy
My heart is here to love
At last no one controls me, at last I’m truly free
Cause now I know nothing defines me but the fact that I exist.
Perhaps it sounds cliche
But no emotion is
So trust me when I’m saying you're nothing but your life so make the best of it
I’m free at last, I’m free at last, I’m free
At last I’m free
I know it sounds cliche
But feelings can not be
Because an experience is the most original act of living
Doesn’t matter how many times it happened to others before
Live for yourself and everybody will follow
Live for yourself, set yourself free
Live for yourself and therefore be loving be kind
Be the child that you used to be
Be brave, be truth, we can all be free
Be brave, be truth, we can all be free
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Emotion
02:59
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Emotion is neutral. Adjectives are placements of judgment. Life is neutral. It has no agenda. We decide on our agenda, and how will we use what is given to us.
Better:
Because this is how I become a better person, you see.
R.W:
A smart person is not the one who can analyze reality But the one who can analyze himself to the point where reality can be created.
Debt:
I need to embody my deepest self. Also my deepest fears. Also my deepest limitations. This is the only way I’m going to connect. To connect to you, to connect to MySelf. This is the only way to create, to let go of your narrow minded, limited, little thinking head. Stop being in debt to who you are. Stop being in debt to who you are.
Past:
Now is the time to justify your past. Now is time to justify everything bad that happened, every sad memory now is time to justify them all. Cause they all led you right here to this point so now it’s time - to justify your past.
Shape:
Look at yourself from the outside. Imagine the shape of you doing what you want to do. Look at yourself from the outside.
This assumes epic proportions.
Suspended in Between the Elements.
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Tal Katsir
I'm Tal, a singer, pianist and song writer. I studied music at Oxford University, and performed throughout Europe, Israel
and the U.S.
I founded the ensemble Occitania that rearranged medieval troubadour songs and earlier this year I wrote 'Self Help', my debut solo concept album.
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