Messages - Xavier Rudd

Our Mother Nature's telling Nature when to sleep When to rise, when to fight, when to eat When we need shelter from the storm that's getting cold When to run away, or never run at all How to lose a loved one, and how to grieve it She lets you cry, 'cause they were all you ever needed Writhing this world, there is a balance, you can feel it We tune it out and then we wonder why we are bleeding I'm trying to feel it in the messages It's in the wind that blows, it's in the storm ahead I'm trying to make it like it used to be before society, before anxiety Yo, I can feel these little messages It's in the water's flow, it's in the fires breath I'm trying to make it like it used to be This world is crying out I hear it quietly I hear it in the messages I can feel it in these messages And I can hear it in these messages I can see it in these messages Yo Every answer on this earth is all around you "Protecting yourself" it just surrounds you And all the truth, it loses track of where it found you You start to lose all meaning And something grows inside you every single year And depression is the representation of all your fear You take prescription, make your mission disappear and You start to lose all feeling But, I'm trying to feel it in the messages It's in the wind that blows, it's in the storm ahead I'm trying to make it like it used to be, before society, before anxiety I can feel these little messages It's in the water's flow, it's in the fires breath I'm trying to make it like it used to be This world is crying out I hear it quietly I hear it in the messages I can feel it in these messages And I can hear it in these messages I can see it in these messages Amid the noise and haste There's beauty in the silence I can hear it in these messages Amid the noise and haste There's beauty in the silence It's all there in the messages I feel it in the messages

Streets full of people With trinkets to share Offering them up for folks in despair Yandi and crystals and oils for growth Of spirit and body and mind as we go Emphasis placed on the body and mind The heart os often somewhere behind Strange Tiny little bones of the innocent child Lookin' up at me with the saddest of eyes Is her innocence in tact? Or has it been stained? Has the creature that feeds her taken it away Strange So sad it's strange I recognize my health Things I have been dealt Places that I have roamed Feelings I've had Things that I know Home, my home Home, my home Home, I'm home Running through the bush And all of the trees Moving in time with my capable speed Skippy ants claw At the edge of the bowl Of the shell of an egg Of bird long since gone Maybe it rose up To spread it's new wings Or maybe it nourished A stronger sibling Strange Places we roam And people we meet Some connections are strong And some of them are weak One or two or three or four Or maybe five or six or more Strong as the roots Of a big old gum tree And we'll carry them through To the next life we see Strange So beautifully strange Recognize my health Things that I have been dealt Places that I have roamed Feelings I've had Things that I know Home, my home Home, my home Home, I'm home

And I'll hold you up again And I'll hold you up again Hold you up again And I'll hold you up again I'll hold you up again And I'll hold you up again You fought and you won Now my brother, you're gone You fought and you won Now my brother, you're gone Well, you fought and you won Now my brother, you're gone Well, you fought and you won Now my brother, you're gone I'll hold you up again Yeah, I'll hold you up again You were your country Deadliest, I've seen And I feel you many times When I shut these eyes And I feel you many times When I shut these eyes And I'll hold you up again And I'll hold you up again

Here I am this is my shelter Here I'm at one with these trees And all these birds sing to my rhythms And these waves they comfort me Do what you will while you're able Find what it is that you seek Only I'll fly, fly, fly above the ocean Fly so high above the sea If it's shelter, you're searching for One that I cannot provide Well, I wish you well on your journey I hope your dreams they come alive I hope your dreams back down and they, they thrive Well, I filled my cup with your answers I filled my cup with your lies You topped it up with your mysteries And all those secrets I denied Do what you will while you're able Find what it is that you seek Only I'll fly, fly, fly above the ocean I will fly so high above the sea If It's shelter, you're searching for One that I cannot provide Well, I wish you well on your journey I hope your dreams they come alive I hope your dreams back down and they Well, they thrive I hope your dreams they come alive Well, I hope your dreams back down and thrive Yeah, now

Hey-ey-ey There's the wind that through the souls of my feet into my lungs go Meditation of an ancient kind Exhaling through my third eye Stand strong in what I know Stand aside from the ego As they day turns into night Through the breeze I hear you cry I believe in you. I believe in you. I will pray for you. I will pray for you. (Believe) I believe in you. I will pray for you. I believe in you (I believe in you) I believe in you (I believe in you) I will pray for you (I will pray for you) Your rivers flow with ease Down the serpent's line once streamed In these hands I hold your light Through these hands, Nanna, I'll guide I'll guide You fuel me from the ground Pulled me up when I was down I believe in you I believe in you Stand strong keep the fire burning I'll stick together Gotta keep the wheels turning Forcin' companies to stand aside Forcin' government to recognize the power of this dragon Stand strong keep the fire burning I'll stick together Gotta keep the wheels turning Forcin' companies to stand aside Forcin' government to recognize the power of this dragon Stand strong keep the fire burning I'll stick together Gotta keep the wheels turning Forcin' companies to stand aside Forcin' government to recognize the power of this dragon I stand strong keep the fire burning I'll stick together Gotta keep the wheels turning Forcin' companies to stand aside Forcin' government to recognize the power of this dragon I stand strong keep the fire burning I'll stick together Gotta keep the wheels turning Forcin' companies to stand aside Forcin' government to recognize the power of this dragon My God (stand strong, keep the fire burning) As I go in my (stick together) darkest days (Keep the wheels turnin') Oh your spirit held me tight (forcin' companies to stand aside) Through the (forcin' government to recognize) wreched days and nights (the power of this dragon) I believe in you And mother I will pray, pray for you

Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Butterfly the catcher and the dove, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Your waters decending, from your mountains ascending To my arteries for cleansing, from the arteries of life Your mountain says aloha, to the roots of the Lapuna And the old man Ayahuasca on the quest for where and why Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Butterfly the catcher and the dove, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei You're spraying your chemicals to increase your decimal To continue domination, keep holding people down Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Butterfly the catcher and the dove, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei I'm only a man in my prime though my hans are tied If you show me the way I will go See we've all been designed to reveal our own knots we have tied We've all been designed to believe and I believe I will go The trick about recognition, the trick about reconciliation Can one man fight his demons with another man holding him down The trick about recognition, the trick about reconciliation Can woman birth creation with a sister holding her down Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got, hanalei hanalei Butterfly the catcher and the dove, hanalei hanalei Come on mumma give me what you got