The Veil of Maya

I see God when I look at you

Pink and green and a thousand blues, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

Spirit wrapped in the human form

I believe we were meant for more, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

And the spirit

In the blue light

In the white light

In the halo

In the moonlight

In the sunlight

And it feels like

A volcano

It's drippin' off my cheeks and I love it

I can see who I'm now becomin'

I spent three decades runnin'

Tryin' to shine, now I just chill and let the sun in

The Holy Spirit in the human form

You're just hidin' underneath the uniform

I fell pretty far but made it through the storm

Now I got fame and peace, I'm a unicorn

I could feel my dad watchin' me

My life story is like prophecy

I just fear mediocrity

So much light inside, gotta get it out of me

And the journey's been intense

Sit back and light some incense

We don't know where we're goin'

But I do know my past led me to this moment and

I see God when I look at you

Pink and green and a thousand blues, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

Spirit wrapped in the human form

I believe that we met before, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

And the spirit

In the blue light

In the white light

In the halo

In the moonlight

In the sunlight

And it feels like

A volcano

The excitin' thing is, it's only the beginning, the second inning

The underpinnings of sadness have alchemized and crystallized in the service

I still feel that horrible, existential, deep, fucking pain, deep sadness

I just don't try to numb it anymore

I don't try to cover it up with drugs or food or sex or fame anymore

I sit right there in the fuckin' thick of it

And it's the courage to feel this

This sadness

It's that courage that makes me who I am

It's what allowed me to write this

It's what makes me a deeper, more real man

It's what allows me to connect with you right now

And all I really want to say to you is I love you

And by you, I don't mean some person from my past or my future, I mean you

You

I know we haven't met

But in some ways, we know each other very, very well

Because you know that horrible, existential, deep pain just as well as I do

And I just want to remind you what I need to remind myself

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love

You have fallen so many goddamned times, but get up

Get up

Sometimes the thing that hurts the most is just how much love you have inside you

You feel like you don't always have a place to put it

You don't know what to do with it

You think the people around you won't appreciate it

So you pretend like you don't have the love and it gets stuck inside you

And love is like water, when it doesn't flow, it gets rancid and turns to poison

It turns to poison

It turns to anger, resentment, and hate

And if you're really honest with yourself, your hate is really just love that you didn't express

You got scared

You got scared that if you actually gave all the love you had, that you might run out

You got scared that maybe your love wouldn't be received and it would go to waste

So you throttled down the amount of love you were givin'

To match the amount of love you thought you were gettin'

But come home, silly

You could never run out

And your purpose is not to get love

Your purpose is to give love

I wish you could see yourself right now

Strugglin' and thrivin' at the same time

You beautiful thing, I wish you could see how beautiful you are

Go shine

Being who you are will bring great peace to many others

Go

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