Story Behind the Song
NOTES ON CELEBRATION
Celebration is a very short evocation, but also a very important one.
One of the most central problems we have experienced as people, caught in the conscious constructs of our own and that of others, is loneliness and a sense of unworthiness.
How are you or I or anyone, for that matter, supposed to think of ourselves as valuable and indeed, irreplaceable to the world around us?
We have often felt that we were all alone and never really a part of life itself, a true part of creation. And once again, it takes two main understandings to end this unneccessary state of affairs – the first is an acceptance that one is a part of the all-there-is, truly and completely, in all ways; and the second is that as with the act of receiving, we have to choose this to be so.
For us humans, equipped with a powerful consciousness, it is not just something that happens as a bye the bye, we have to deliberately accept our place within creation and enter within.
This is, of course, a pretty big deal to a person; and the only reason why someone wouldn’t make that choice is the wrongful idea that they are somehow not welcome there.
Yes, there is a creation. Yes, I should be part of it. But I’m so wrong, so tainted and so bad that creation would not want ME anymore – it would be better off without me.
It is excruciating to observe just how many people believe that.
It is further even more excruciating still to believe that and to somehow still go on living.
Sometimes, it takes an outside voice to state the obvious, and in this case, Celebration is a device, a printed and official entrance ticket to the great party of life. There are still parts of all of us who need to hear this, and not just hear it once, at that, before they finally believe it is really and truthfully directed at THEM.
In that sense, Celebration is also a vital antidote to the misery of our old constructs of self.
Once you have learned the lesson, a single breath of air on your skin will indeed remind your true self of the true state of affairs on this planet, of this life. Every cloud that passes, every raindrop that falls, every observation of a shaft of sunshine, the night sky and every creature and every plant you see becomes an affirmation to that fact of life – and that is exactly as it should be.
Lyrics
Celebration
Bright lights,
coloured lights.
A sense of dancing
and of long awaited joy
is building up and up
and when it is
released at once
by one or many
then the celebration
has arrived.
So many people
are full of envy
at the beasts who live
and never question,
never know.
But it is we, the ones
with thought and mind
who celebrate and step
into
a never ending celebration of the spheres
and all there is,
a festival of all and everything,
and everything
will be your invitation -
a touch of cold wind on your cheek,
a single autumn leaf,
the force of life in every single
thing and being you perceive.
Your invitation
to a celebration
that has been happening beyond
the threshold of awareness
since long before
you joined in birth
and don't you know,
you are invited
and you absence
has been noted long,
with much regret?
12. 01. 2003
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