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To Hear with the Heart

from Just Down the Road a' Peace by Gray Cox

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In the dark outside, you can hear a step.
And you catch my eye, and I catch my breath.
Acorns fall, you can hear them drop,
As the crickets sing.
It’s a simple thing, to hear with the heart.
But it takes everything, it takes all that you are.
It takes all that you are, and then makes something more,
And then you no longer are, who you once were.

In the dark outside, you can hear the rain.
And it’s murmuring what our hearts are saying.
And above the dark cover of the clouds tonight
There’s a moon that’s full, pullin’ on the tide.
And it’s a simple thing, to hear with the heart.
But it takes everything, it takes all that you are.
It takes all that you are, and then makes something more,
And then you’re pulled along by this strong tidal power.

There’s a fox on the hill, you can hear him bark,
And know the path he walks by where the crickets go quiet.
. . .
Ah it’s a simple thing, to hear with the heart.
But it takes everything, it takes all that you are.
It takes all that you are, and then makes something more,
And then you’re part of this great enormous loving world

And the rain that is fallin’, well it’s floodin’ the creeks.
And you and I, we are two banks of this one stream,
Each one joined to the other side
By the rain that falls and makes the water rise.
And it’s a simple thing, to hear with the heart.
But it takes everything, it takes all that you are.
It takes all that you are, and then makes something more,
And then you’re part part of this great enormous loving song.

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from Just Down the Road a' Peace, released October 11, 2015

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Gray Cox Bar Harbor, Maine

Gray is a singer/songwriter who plays bones and guitar. He is a parent, grandparent, Quaker and philosopher. He teaches at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine is a co-founder of the Quaker Institute for the Future, and works on issues of peace and human ecology. His blog, combining music and social commentary is at breathonthewater.com. ... more

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