Jack Stafford PODSONGS

Hear my prayer hunched over my heart
Father-Mother have mercy on us 
By your grace we awaken to the truth
Of the treasure ever-present in our Nous
Patient sister Mary, may we finally find the way
A vision of what Yeshua meant when he said
We might be saved 
It’s time that we hear her story
It’s time for us to sing a new song
Of how every human being is worthy
How all of us truly belong
May we learn that in our own sacred bodies
Is the holy place we hear G*d’s voice
On earth we will manifest heaven 
By remembering that… Read more

One day everyone will have always been against this But today I fight the feeling it’s just me  Tell me how do you keep your head above it? Slow down, hold those you love before they go.
Empire - a word so decadent, oil and glory Detaches its history so we can’t see Fire and “might is right” - an ouroboros  Let it fall, the power we love, we let it go. 

You're sick about money
sick about time
I'm not here to tell you it'll all be fine
but there's no medicine in fear of trying
just gonna lock you up, make you blind

There's nothing wrong with where you're from
we're all fed by the same red sun
you gotta keep your mind like an open door
if we ain't learning what the hell is it for

Put your worries in the gas tank
you'll be surprised how far we'll go
I've been dreaming of the ocean
something deep and wild and slow
if we only get this one chance
let's make…Read more

Don't wanna go slow, cause reality ain't enough I'm already falling for your good guy bad guy stuff The only one I'm seeing, is whoever we wind up being So let's go supernova, get a load of this persona Maybe we can do some yoga in the morning light I just wanna get to know ya
Let's go supernova
The way that I know is never in a million years have I felt this glow.  I'll wipe away all your tears I'm under your thumb, it's a spell I'd never ever wanna break Cause the way you move, the way you look When it… Read more

Who could've known Who could've known Who could've known  You'd be here with me Blue moon typhoon  chance encounter Daughter of a black bear in the water
I don't have anything left, I said "yes" So many times I can't count the cost I don’t know what’s left I always said “yes” I am a tarantula
Adrenaline Adrenaline Adrenaline Sweat beads on my skin Remember what Simon said It’ll change your style Lay you up in bed
I don’t have anything left, I said “yes” So many times I can’t help myself I don’t know what’s left  I always said… Read more

Some days I wake up My heart is aching I don’t know, I don’t know how to fix it The sky in my mind is heavy with clouds The sun has turned it’s face from
That’s when I look for your voice I feel your arms around me You help me find my strength O brother I’m trying to live better
Get to my feet Raise the blind Take a razor to the hairs on my face Lift my burden to my shoulders I’ll carry it for you and me
That’s when I look for your voice I feel your arms around me You help me find my strength

O brother I’m trying to…

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Heavy is here on the mountain
Where I am slipping away
Heaven was you in the valley
Running free on a spring day in May

Oh sweet Margie,
Lay beside me
And I’ll whisper in your ear

Go tell Saint Roch
No more I’ll walk
And could I lie with the Dogs of God?

I think of the times that you stood by
I think of still calling your name
I remember the feeling of freedom
As we stood in the fields of Spain

From Alabama
Oscar came and
Lived like he dug winter’s bone


Come down St Roch
By the collar
Pull him up to the Dogs of God

In the…Read more

On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous 
Connecticut gray 
Wraps me in its carcass  
Where the fall meets fall from grace 
I’ll never come up with a life hack or anything to save me from this place 
Nah 
I seek change not a savior 
Some days living off loose change in the sofa 
Don’t know the exact day that I became a grown up 
Just know it was too soon 
Live quick like a throw up 
Graffiti or the bile 
Since I was a child 
Been breathing wild style 
From heaters to the dome 
To cooking rock  on stoves 
With black & gold  kings… Read more

Go on, sweet gift of grace.  
Step into the light
sorrows heavy on my back
as I walk through this dark night

I guess Ive seen the other side
I get from my Mother
She’d go dancing with the faery kind
she would love me like no other

these times they get the best of me
and feelings take their toll
but everynight I lay it down
and sink into my soul
I sink in to my soul

Cary Me, over the hill
say a prayer
to keep me still

This lonliness, a pale freind
I know will some day shine
I sink inside the daydream
that I knew was never… Read more

Leave me here
Beneath the moment
To tend the distances
Disappearing

I am the night
Drawing closer
Skyward, the silences
An entrance opening

Move the silver
Plough the fields
Of darkness
A homeland

Return Return Return

The wound permits the light
The portrait re-surfaces
An open window
Love held eternal

A state of change
Barefoot,
Beyond the trees
The moon appears again

Move the silver
Plough the fields
Of darkness
A homeland

Return Return Return

VERSE Prayers to fill the silence of the void Notions of control have been destroyed
When enveloped and caressed Doubt collapses under its duress
CHORUS It goes on and on and on and on, we go, We start and stop, we speed and slow
Now we know we're all we ever had We all worship idols good and bad 
VERSE Preaching to the prophets in the crowd Heretics and loyals all allowed
Every leader's worshipped like a God Hanging on the words they offer us
CHORUS We go on and on and on and on, we go, We offer up, we cast below
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I’m sad today but I don’t need a pill to make it go away It’s not my brain, there’s a bigger story to why I’m not ok  home should be the place where people notice you’re not there Sanity is having a few friends that I can share my burdens with  Plant a garden with
Please, believe that the world is a safe place for you, and everyone else feels the same way too
Still something’s lost Society is disconnected from the heart  It’s no one’s fault Instead of pointing fingers could we open up our arms Together we’ll remember… Read more

Everything's the same everything changes As the sun burns behind the ranges I think of my language and my nation Sad times and celebrations 
The father I am  Where I've been I still don’t understand Don’t tug too hard on the line my friend Gotta wear out some shoes
Give your destiny time to find you 
Cold winter time in Boston But I'm warm here by the fire We all live young forever We all fade away with the weather
Into the water gently wade All your debts left paid and unpaid  You made the medicine… Read more

 Weave yourself a way out of this cave The water's rising to your feet The hours speed and time is ticking All alone you started out but Listen to the breeze the sky is Coming in to see how you are doing
Hold on
Open-eyed and eager you have
Followed every siren now you're Stuck here in the dead and born and gone Small and silent hands are waiting Simply say the word, oh there is
Reason to believe the morrow's dawn
Hold on
And in and out the needle goes
The rise, the fall, the rest, the note The in between, the never… Read more

If you get that call are you gonna rise If you get that call are you gonna rise
If you get that call are you gonna rise
If the children sing will you  If you hear their cries
Are you gonna rise? Are you gonna rise? Are you gonna rise? Are you gonna rise?
Come faith comes in disguise are you gonna rise If you hear their call are you gonna rise
If your ancestors call are you gonna rise If your ancestors call are you gonna rise If you hear their cries are you gonna rise If your ancestors call are you… Read more

Time is a river Rushing by my door  I hear the babble Hidden inside the war
The mystery of existences Dances in my dreams Closing the distances Nothing's what it seems
The call of possibility Gives me the courage to be free To open up my mind's eye To see what I can see  
And I don't have to go there Cos I'm already here On the road to nowhere as it disappears
When I'm feeling low down Like I'm just about near the end I listen to the sound and it picks me up And takes me home again Takes me home again Takes me home again
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On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
Connecticut gray
Wraps me in its carcass  
Where the fall meets fall from grace
I’ll never come up with a life hack or anything to save me from this place

Nah

I seek change not a savior
Some days living off loose change in the sofa
Don’t know the exact day that I became a grown up
Just know it was too soon
Live quick like a throw up

Graffiti or the bile
Since I was a child
Been breathing wild style
From heaters to the dome
To cooking rock  on stoves
With black & gold  kings as kid
To make a… Read more

I can see you, bright as the sun Oh you're a teacher, yea she's a teacher Clear as I see Wave after wave, space after space Oh She's a teacher, yea she's a teacher Taking the lead In a million pieces, my thoughts dissolve Time is an ocean, my body's a sail It's illuminating, and I feel so small Hold hands with creation, a profound ideation Color me pink, color me black Oh she's a teacher, yea she's a teacher keep me on track Is it the drugs, or is it in me Or are you my teacher, oh you're a teacher Clear as I see Painted… Read more

 A book is never just a book

there's always a backstory an uphill climb that's overlooked or something grim and gory 
Someone had to find the pieces and put them together Write a letter, get on a plane, go out and find the answers
There's so many stories to be told all the threads that connect us so many things we can't control  all the different perceptions Gotta let perfection go  before it breaks us
On your desk, something grotesque we hold hidden seasons a paperweight, the skull of a snake tell me all your reasons
So… Read more

 CHORUS
 
C Am F
What the world needs now is a rest
G
Between breaths
C Am F
All the world needs now is a rest
G
Between breaths
 
G
 
Verse
F
When you’re feeling upside down
G
If you’re longing for higher ground
C
Might be with you all along
F
Just a breath to bring you home
 
Am
Butterflies and bumblebees
C
Feel the wind move through the trees
F
Settle with the flow of life
G
Finding treasures deep inside
 
CHORUS
What the world needs now is a rest
Between breaths
All the world needs now is a rest
Between breaths
 
One chorus Instrumental… Read more