[Dialogue] Nine ICA Songs - Words Part 1 of 2

[Janice Ulangca]

All Life Is Open


Refrain:

All life is open, embrace the future with vision,

Die your death for the living,

The Mystery has received all.

 

Our knowledge falters and crumbles, our thoughts turn banal and senseless,

Our feelings food in to drown us, our hearts cry out, "Push no further!"

But don't stop now, lead us onward 

To what we know yet cannot see.  Refrain

 

The real word bursts in upon us, our cares are ruthlessly tromped on,

Yet our desires are unceasing, the power pushes us further.

Is there no end to this chaos?

Must separation be final?          Refrain

 

Illusions trap us and bind us, we can't endure endless struggle,

We need our promise of greatness,  or must withdraw isolated.

Then life demands we embrace all,

That all is good and accepted.  Refrain

 

We see our linkage to history, we see the duty demanded,

Our cares unite in the power, all life is served in obedience.

We give our minds, hearts, and spirits

To forge the free deed in history.  Refrain

 

But we alone can do nothing, we stumble on in our weakness,

Till we unite in the mission and structure human endeavors,

For we belong to the movement

That lays its life down for all men.  Refrain



Fifth City Love Song
And I love you so, that people ask me how,

How I've lived till now, I tell them I don't know.

People say I've changed, that they don't understand,

Ever since the day, the day I took your hand.

First refrain:

And yes, I know how lonely life can be.

The shadows follow me, and night won't set me free. 

But I don't let the evening get me down,

Now that you're around me.

 

And you love me too; your thoughts are just for me. 

You make my heart alive and set my spirit free.

The book of life is brief, but once a page is read

All of love is there; this is my belief.

          Repeat First Refrain



You are City Five, Chicago's old Westside,

Where Iron Man first was born to build a global sign.

Oh yes I know you've changed, and some do not believe

            This world has a new day since courage set you free.

Second refrain

And yes, we've known this world's great agony,

The billions still denied their hopes and destiny.

But we will go wherever they may be,

Till all communities live free.

I've lived with you so long, no other love have I,

Your pain is all my own, your buildings, streets and cries. 

Soon I may pass away, but love will still remain,

The Iron Man standing tall, that all the world may gain.

Repeat second refrain

 

In the World of Spirit
In the world of spirit, radically contingent, trustful expectation, intense shock 

Life's impacted by the Mystery, and it's all a cloud of awe!

In the world of spirit, revelation of enigma, wheel of fortune, no excuse

One essential task, create the world, sudden reeling, Mystery's won the day.

Oneness of all creation, wholly engulfed in marching with all of history, 

Binding the wounds of time, everything's worthwhile.

The Other World you see through all and move mountains,

And there's none to show the way,

All in love with life and all poured out.

In the world of spirit, resurrectional existence, gloriously condemned to waltz. 

Rapture walks with woe, struck dumb by bliss, playing in a symphony.

In the world of spirit, irresistably impelled, and simply all a-tingle now

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Running on an endless marathon, suddenly deciding I'm the one

Running on an endless marathon, Mystery has won the day.



More songs in Part Two



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Janice Ulangca
3413 Stratford Drive
Vestal, NY  13850
607-797-4595
aulangca at stny.rr.com
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