By and by we’ll defy,
a little bit of gravity
The Beach Boys
Kokomo
Novocaine
For the soul
Before I sputter out
Before I sputter out
Can’t feel my feet touching the ground
Jars of Clay
Flood
Funny how your feet In dreams
never touch the earth
Heart
These Dreams
Life is white
And I am black
Jesus and his lawyer
Are coming back
These dreams go on
when I close my eyes
Every second of the night
I live another life
Heart
These Dreams
Guess who’s living here
With the great undead?
This paint-by-numbers life
Is fucking with my head
Once again
Living is easy with eyes closed.
Misunderstanding all you see
The Beatles
Strawberry Fields Forever
Life is good
And I feel great
‘Cause mother says I was
A great mistake
(Lift me up) When I’m falling
(Lift me up) I’m weak and I’m dying
(Lift me up) I need you to hold me
(Lift me up) Keep me from drowning again
Jars of Clay
Flood
Hold me, hold me
’cause I wanna get higher and higher
Hootie & The Blowfish / 54-50
I Go Blind
Novocaine
For the soul
You’d better give me something
To fill the hole
The left brain, on the other hand—literally—is geared, McGilchrist argues, toward breaking up the whole that the right presents. It turns the right brain’s unity into bits and pieces, which it can then manipulate. Its job is to analyze the big picture presented by the right and reduce it to easily manageable parts, which it can control and arrange to suit its purposes. 1
Gary Lachman
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
I held the pieces of my soul
I was shattered
And I wanted you to
come and make me whole
Vertical Horizon
I’m Still Here
For those who have a sense of this invisible, other reality, the answers to life’s mysteries offered by modern science are inadequate and unsatisfying. They are unable to accept them and they find themselves seeking something else. 2
Gary Lachman
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
I know I’m searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
Billy Joel
River of Dreams
Can you take me higher
To a place where blind men see?
Creed
Higher
Heaven
I’m in heaven…
Frank Sinatra
Cheek To Cheek
Fade into you
Strange, you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
Mazzy Star
Fade into You
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