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This Is Now The Past

by WindCave

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What the people need Only the people know There'll be no peace without freedom There'll be no status quo Some may dream of peace In between fighting to survive And some are entertained While others keep the dream alive Won't you stand with conviction? Expose the contradiction Improve our situation Offer your participation What are you willing to do? When the state of the world is calling out to you? Attune your service to action Got to reach for a greater sense of satisfaction When the change you are willing to make Doesn't add up to the effort that it takes We're gonna start the revolution from inside your heart What are you waiting for now? Start a revolution! [CHORUS] Revolutionaries in the area unite to fight the mass-hysteria Those who stir confusion Use the future as an illusion Value what is transitory Keep you desperate for a new story Making billion dollar movies Waging trillion dollar war Pull the plug on education Toss the welfare mother out the door Got to be the voice of the voiceless Arm yourself with the truth Educate yourself so we can educate the youth What are you willing to allow? We ain't waitin' around for revolution The time to act is right now Community starts with communication Gonna stop at nothing less than a total transformation When the change you are willing to make Doesn't add up to the effort that it takes You're gonna start the revolution from deep down in your heart So who's leading you? Misleading you? Could it be you? There's something you can do You've got to teach the truth You've got to start a revolution
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Words 03:32
Yet another disagreement Unresolved feelings in the air Can we avoid disappointment or worse? Work through the drama and despair Who will ask the question in mind? Say a word perhaps unkind With our words we determine our future In love or at war which one will we choose to be? Choose to be Choose to be Make a choice to be in love or war Words excuse and words disguise Words justify and rationalize Empty words we can do without Words are lost when talk turns to shout Fading fast and finally gone Who fought the hardest to hang on We don't want this love to die But sometimes we must say goodbye Say Goodbye Say Goodbye When we're not at war and we're not in love Would you rather be right than be good? We must understand before we're understood We want things to get better All we have is our effort But we are committed to resolve Stick together to let language evolve So that we never have to say We made a mistake and now it's too late It's too late It's too late We can't relate in love any more
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Look Around 04:43
Do I find love. . . in the hopes and dreams of those that I embrace? Do I find love. . . In a city street As just another face? Now has come a day We are left without a way When the high comes down Do I find love. . . when I look around? Do you come home each night With your thoughts and your fears Flip on whatever's on tv? When survival demands a sacrifice Don't trade your spirit away Just to be... right on the money You can find love. . . Behind a picket fence With two cars in the drive And you can find love. . . In a greater sense and just appreciate what means to be alive And down this road Do we find ourselves Older if not a bit more wise Looking back on what it was I was hoping to find Do I finally now... Realize! Now has come a day We are left without a way When the high comes down Do I find love. . . when I look around? Now has come a day We are left without a way When the high comes down Do I find love. . . when I look around? When I look around Do I find Love?
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Dreamtime 07:14
Traveling the dreampath of creation We've come to hold this sacred space Open up and remember your name Find your place As we move to the next initiation This opportunity won't last Step from the cradle... of civilization This is now the past... This is Dreamtime This is now the past... Dreamtime Öand the past is now Now we activate a conscious meditation With each of us part... each part of us whole We walk in harmony with the Earth and the Stars Redefine our role And now with the strength of all our relations We've been holding fast Now we step from the cradle... of civilization This is now the pastÖ ...and the past is now Serve with full acceptance in this circle See yourself as you are There is no end to this circle Universal Peace - the time is now Enter the Dreamtime This now the past... Dreamtime ...and the past is now This is Dreamtime... Now we activate A conscious meditation With each of us partÖ Each part of us whole We walk in harmony With the Earth and the Stars Redefine our role And now with the strength of all our relations We've been holding fast So we step from the cradle... of civilization This is now the past.. and the past is now Serve with full acceptance in this circle See yourself as you are There is no end to this circle Universal Peace - the time is now Enter the Dreamtime This now the past... Dreamtime Öand the past is now Dreamtime
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("Owa Owero Bemele Twale Omabuwa" is a Nigerian name which translates to: "Spirit of the morning walk with me 'til night") Bemele Twale Omabuwa - Owa Owero - Bemele Twale Omabuwa Messenger traveling Watcher is wandering Stalking a dream through time and place Called away to strike a balance Awaiting returnÖ Messenger! Tomorrow now begins again Consummated by a fire from within Inseparable from sorrow Bear the dread of I sin To show a token for good That those with hate in their hearts might witness Spirit of the morning walk with me ëtil night Guidance and Protection Surround us in your light Bemele Twale Omabuwa - Owa Owero - Bemele Twale Omabuwa Traveling to the city Gathering a celebration Music of the family Rebuilding foundation Searching for those living Sacred Under Nature Movin'! So far and wide across this countryside And up into the hills Where the air is undisturbed In a conscious meditation Ready to receive Ready to receive Transmission! Spirit of the morning walk with me 'til night Guidance and Protection Surround us in your light
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The all-pervasive becomes invisible As human artifacts are everywhere A backdrop of our own creation Veils our eyes to what is really here Mechanistic views of nature Produce a fascination and dependence on machine Electric cities distanced by vehicles and roads Have grown to overtake a peaceful creature's green In absence of the sacred This taken land is butchered and sold To fill the corporate cornucopia With consequences untold Destroying world ecology to fuel the status quo The conquest of corporate culture has let our future go Expose a caustic legacy denying common birth Evince the true conspiracy against our Mother Earth For everything it's worth Why do we have no language With which to question this technology? Have we worked so hard to afford speed and leisure time? That we've consumed a vital curiosity Or does the need to feed our family Keep us from challenging wrongful institution? And so we sleepwalk through the very stages Of the revision of earthly conditions Is it in these ways that we have joined in the conspiracy? To overrule nature's way? Provide our brothers with the means to destroy each other And concede to let the world be lead astray Out in search of enemies to shoot made-for-tv war Eradicating history with ease unknown before For sword to turn to plowshare Hammer to forge must fall Organize and resist Media-complicit corporate bureaucratic violence As it is threatening us all Hammer to forge must fall The discontinuation of victimization involves us all It's time to reinstate our latent creativity In which we blow the cover on a culture-wide passivity When everything we use to the point of abuse comes prepackaged by a business whose business practices remain none of our business We call that Uncritical Consumer Consciousness Yes! The Genie of Technology Was once summoned from the lamp Granted three wishes and then left left us here making a bigger and bigger mess While causing the planet unprecedented stress Forcing open our eyes until we realize What has happened by our own mute consent At the expense of our innocence So how do we begin to reconcile? With Inner-City man, woman, and child And reacquaint us all with a more peaceful time Long before Explorer ever reached this native shore To spread the plague... Conquistador Leaving pock-marked scars of Missionary melÈe Expatriate pioneers carved up an unspoiled frontier Industrial Revolution founded the American Way ëTil how many tree-chopping, gold-digging, oil-drilling, land-filling Buffalo-Indian-Head-Nickel-commemorating Fat-Boss-Opportunists we'll never know Began to grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow Off the backs of fresh immigrants Off the backs of slaves and immigrants Off the backs of more fresh immigrants Large enough to control the whole show Transcontinental Railroad Manifest Destiny possessed Hypodermic injection to the repopulate the west Race to displace the native populations Took a five-state Death March to the Reservation On a coked-up whim had the Goddess put to rest Healing woman's medicine repossessed Burned at the stake Subdued and enslaved Reduced to mere fiction on a page Fanciful imagery of a bygone magical age When tales were not just tales of magic Before the hot-and-cold-running-war of Us Against Them Never stopped applying so much tragic engineering stress to finally crack the Atom's destructive energies All wishes became granted one-two-three By buff-and-polish of an age-old lamp Of master-slave dominance through advanced technology Techsploitation Technologic Exploitation Techsploitation with a sound like this In this age of Technology The Corporation is not a Person with rights like you and me Until the day Corporations and Politicians are held accountable For insider profit greed so boundlessly corruptible For native cultures lost ecologies for world economies so badly broken For this planet's busted bubble which is STILL NO JOKE, and while they sway the law with unlimited campaign contributions While complicit media fills our minds with pollutions While underfunded educational institutions Leave us unable to exercise the rights of our Founders' Constitution We The People are always at risk of becoming We The Sheeple A simple flock of disempowered citizenry Standing on eroding middle class ground Struggling to unite and make a sound Struggling to exist while the 1% are so remiss We-the-people declare Cease-And-Desist We-the-people always organize and resist media-complicit-corporate- bureaucratic-violence That is altogether... to be considered Systemically Organized Crime Stay strong... Organize... Participate... And Resist
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Watershed 04:45
All things provided by water Love and Union Cooling water flowing underground Life dances with water Water bows out gracefully Continues to the sea and back around Water suspends all judgement, as the medium it carries all, marries all In infinite balance We all live downstream In everflowing testimony We all live downstream And we're poisoned by the flow of money How do you explain pollution to your children? How do you explain it to yourself? That a river is sacred but doesn't run through anymore The river places no blame for care not taken with it [CHORUS] Water does not judge as we do, as the medium it carries all, marries all In infinite balance And this watershed is real You can feel it, you can taste it, but it can change in an instant Nothing stands alone Water suspends all judgement, as the medium it carries all, marries all In infinite balance [CHORUS] Respect the water... Respect all life

about

Tomorrow now begins again...
Those long awaiting the proper return of these 90's underground conscious message rockers, have been duly rewarded on-time and with interest. On the eve of 2013, original members regathered to bring forth an eclectic offering of newly recorded personal favorites of yore. From Funk to Rock to Reggae to Ballad to Americana to a few hard-edged gems, each song reveals a new facet of the musical influences at play, and conveys truth from the heart. The WindCave collective spark is still very much alive in these times... catch it.

We acknowledge the purpose of spirit and greater cycles of time that made now the time to finally manifest these works. The album release date coincides with the Mayan long count calendar rollover to 13.0.0.0.0 marking the conclusion of (and beginning of a new) roughly 5200 year evolutionary cycle of consciousness happening in our lifetime. Step from the cradle of civilization, this is now the past (and the past is now).

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released December 21, 2012

Original Cavemen:
Harlan Isaac - Lyrics, Lead/Harmony Vocals, Flute, Harmonica
Robin Macomber - Grand Piano, Hammond B3, Electric Piano, Synths, Electric Guitar, Harmony Vocals
Jason Ace Gonzales - Electric Guitar, Lap Steel, Harmony Vocals
Zachary Tullis-Thompson - Electric Bass, Didgeridoo
Mark Adams - Drums

Recorded and Mixed August through December 2012
At GadgetBox Recording Studio, Santa Cruz, California
Mastered by Myles Boisen, Oakland, California

Producer - Robin Macomber
Engineer - Patrick Brede
Executive Producer - Harlan Isaac

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WindCave Santa Cruz, California

The wind blows across the earth and into the recesses of every cave. Where you find the sweet spots of resonance and reverberation, you will find the cave walls adorned and embellished as sonic markers. Listen... and you will hear... sing... drum... dance... play... allow your eyes to adjust and then contemplate the Original Record... while shadows play across rock imbued with the human story. ... more

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