stay out of the sun (the originally published name) is an episode of song.land where we discuss pressing into the uncomfortable, painful parts of our lives.
Except the sun. Don’t pick a fight with the sun. You will lose.
Transcript
Welcome to song.land
It is the afternoon
Which is usually the time when I feel so tired
Get the afternoon laziness in me
Not at at song.land
If you want to go to places you’ve not yet seen
Then you have to risk things that you do know
How do we control the world?
Around us? Oh
Oh, life
You are so hard to understand
Some moments, it
Doesn’t make any sense at all
Like how we just open endlessly
What’s the value of our days?
2:00
Well, I can say a lot of answers, like:
Make money or
Have power or
Have influence or might
Or just struggle until I can be some form of happy
That I find in my heart
Or I can pursue the pleasures of a power greater than myself
A cause, God, a lifestyle, it’s
Oh, so varied
But still I often end the day feeling lonely
And still I often end the day feeling discontented and sad
So somewhere
There is a deeper way
To align ourselves with this planet that spin around on
Every single minute of every day
And all the revolutions go and go and go and go and go
But something special’s going to come out of it
And I think a part of it is finding the heart of it
Finding your soul
And singing a song about it
song.land
Welcome here with me
song.land
Welcome here with me
Welcome here with me
5:00
INTRO
6:00
What do you need in your life
Where the pieces fall?
What do you need in your nights
Where do your pieces fall?
For me, it’s always something different
But usually it has to be with how much sleep I got and how I’m connecting to people
So what do you need in your life?
What do you need in your life?
I hold up a world different than mine
I observe a perspective different than mine
How do I do that?
Well, it’s not always clear
Looking out my windows, I see a tree
But I can never, ever look out your windows
I can guess, I can ask, and I can listen to you describe
But in humility
The truth is I can never understand you
‘Cause you are you are, and our consciousness is different
So, talking and listening
Seems easy and it seems universal
But it is not
It is not
It is not
8:20
I still interrupt
I still speak over
I still asked closed questions that have my preferred answered in the way I ask it
I’m not letting you decide for yourself
And I am someone that watches out for that
I try to watch and observe and improve
But even I mess up all the time
All the time
All the time
All the time
And I don’t listen to you
Not in the way I could if I were perfect
But I am not
You aren’t either
And I hear what you say
And I try to see it in your way
But I understand my view will always be cloudy
Even when we feel so magically connected
After talking for a very long time
9:45
When you or I are frustrated
What do you do?
How do you express it?
Where do you take it to?
I hope we have healthy ways
I hope you have healthy ways
It’s all that the powers of the world
Want to work out of
Human relationships
‘Cause productivity drops in all the measurements we seem to care about
Go down when we do the most important things in all our lives
Truly, it’s vital
It’s no waste
It’s like a business looking out for the next three months instead of the next 10 years
So listen to your way of communicating and try to make it better
What did the person before the person before the person started talking,
What did they say?
What did they contribute?
What did they add to the circle?
The volleys of conversation
11:50
It’s gotta be 95 degrees up in this attic today
This is an unsustainable place to record my music
I came up only at the beginning of this podcast
I’m sweating now in ways I wouldn’t care to show you
I am wearing deoderant
That’s ok, that’s ok
We all need to sweat
To build you heart muscles and your soul muscles and your arteries
The sweating’s not the issue
What it is is that I realize I have a low threshhold for discomfort
So many things in my life are marketed to me to make life easier
But that’s not what I really need
The sweating is fine
The work makes us better
Creativity splashes out of your need
So stay a little uncomfortable
Uncomfortable
14:49
Heat stroke
Heat stroke
Stay out of the summer sun
Heat stroke
Heat stroke
Stay out of the summer sun
Don’t let life get the best
Don’t let life overcome you
Be smart, be wise, and be shrewd
Be as kind as a dove
And as cunning as a snake
Stay out, stay out of the sun
If it’s killing you
But don’t run away from those uncomfortable places in your life
Wait patiently
See how you grow
How you change
‘Cause I know I don’t change when I’m comfortable
And I know I’m not learning new things unless I’m just a little bit desperate
I don’t reach out for help
Unless I really really really really need it in socially acceptable ways
That’s rediculous
But we still have to play the social construct game
So what do we do, what do we do?
That’s where you’re shrewd as snakes and as wise and kind as a dove
Flying through the sky
Looking like an angel
Oh, but I can slither on the ground and hunt
When I’m hungry
So stay hungry, and curious
And out of the sun
Out of the sun
17:30
‘Cause life is all I have
I need to protect
I need to give it all the time to raise me into a new kind of person
Let pain guide me
To become whole
And stay out of the sun
18:00
All I need is something that is out of reach
And all I need is the sun to warm me
To guide my way
And to set my days
And to let me know
Even if today is bad
Tomorrow will rise again
Stronger, stronger, stronger, stronger
Than today, oh, ’cause I have learned so much
From the pain in my life
Oh, it hurts, oh it hurts
And I change and I grow from the awful things that
I would not wish on anyone else
But it makes me whole
But it makes me whole
You have no idea your life is shaped by the terrible
Oh, it hurts so much
You are strong, and better
And glorious
‘Cause love
‘Cause love
‘Cause love is the song that remains when pain is a part of us
20:00
Learn and grow, my friends
Learn and grow, my friends
Learn and grow, my friends
And stay out of the sun
Stay out, everyone
Stay out of the sun
Stay out of the sun
21:30
I resonate good
So you can sing
Singing these songs everyday
It’s song.land
song.land
song.land
Have a good day!