Artichoke Heart – Just Before the Helpers Come

What are you going to do when the big shift
Hits the fan? How do you feel
About what you’ve done with all you can?
How ready are you to run? How ready to take a stand?
Do you trust the feelings in your soul and in your hand?

Life’s not an onion
Bringing nothing but tears
It’s an artichoke heart
It’s just getting past the hairy part(s)
It’s Just breathing through the hairy part(s)

Can you hear the sky calling within your mind?
Would you care to see where you’re blind?
Will you relax again where you feared to perceive?
Do you accept yourself changing
When it’s changing what you believe?

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What are you gonna do when cash
And your end of the world stash runs out?
How are you gonna find your faith again
When you’ve got some more reasons to doubt?

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So why does it seem easier when we have someone else
To blame? Or will we just be ourselves
Respecting all lit by the flame?
Can we really take it breezier this way
That the winds have blown? Or will we
Show true colours finding nature as we hone?

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Can you hear the ancient lands calling
Whatever state you’re in?
Will you just give yourself now
Knowing that better place to begin?
And would you care to see where you’re blind?
Will you listen to your heart now deep deep in your mind?

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