"FOCUS" LYRICS



CYNIC - Focus (1993)

All Songs ©1993 The All Blacks B.V.
(music: Cynic)
(lyrics: Paul Masvidal)
Paul Masvidal - Guitar, Vocals
Jason Gobel - Guitar
Sean Malone - Bass
Sean Reinert - Drums

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VEIL OF MAYA

In Maya's grip
Illusion transforms verity
Perceiving thus
A delusive world of duality

Veil of Maya
Balance every joy with a grief
Dual scales of Maya
Earth's unending law of polarity

Ahamkara...Veil of Maya

(lead: Jason)
Illusion works, impenetrable
Weaving webs innumerable
Her gay pictures never fail
Crowd each other veil on veil
Maya subjects you

A charmer who will be believed
By man who thirsts to be deceived

Veil of Maya
Chops and divides God's dream thoughts
The great divider
As we be subject to likes and disgust

Ahamkara...Veil of Maya

(lead: Paul)
Maya subjects you
Maya subjects you

A charmer who will be believed
By man who thirsts to be deceived

(Paul is using his voice as an instrument but no words are being sung here)
Veil of Maya
Balance every joy with a grief
Dual scales of Maya
Earth's unending law of polarity

Veil of Maya
Chops and divides God's dream thoughts
The great divider
As we be subject to likes and disgust

Ahamkara...Veil of Maya




CELESTIAL VOYAGE

As I peeped into my mortal cup of mind
A molten liquid of penance splashed my eyes

Unseen truth, a divine surgery
Reveals view, windows of faith
A breeze to a raft of happiness
Guiding cue, calmness in mental lake

(lead: Paul)
A celestial voyage
To reach the shores and bathe
In pools of divine nectar

(lead: Jason)
My raft filled with delusive waste water
To reach the shores
Shall be drained by holes of wisdom
And bathe in pools of divine

A celestial voyage
To reach the shores and bathe
In pools of divine nectar

A celestial voyage
To feel the bliss of liquid
Healing nectar inside




THE EAGLE NATURE

Learning, discerning, how to arrange
Thinking the haze will just not clear
Viewing, computing, our minds will stage
A vehicle inside we feel...
The eagle nature

Everchanging river flows high and low
Panoramic vision is undefined

For unfocused consciousness
The eagle nature
Precaution for a stream of risk
The eagle nature
It sees changes clear

A crystal goblet, so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time...
Don't be shallow

Noting the fall of a sparrow
Attending the slightest scratch of flesh
Earthly ambitions weigh their share
The vastness of life, it doesn't care

A crystal goblet, so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time

(lead: Paul)
Earthly ambitions weigh their share
The vastness of life, it does not care




SENTIMENT

Won't you
Try too
Won't you

Cosmic mother, awaken us
In thine impartial love for all
Bless us that we be free from
The sway of greed and delusion
Inspire us to build a new world -
One in which famine, disease and ignorance
Will be only memories of a dismal past

Creative mother arouse us to know
That we be not lost in the sands
Open our eyes...

Won't you
Love you
Won't you

(lead: Jason)
Creative mother arouse us to know
Inspire us to build a new world
Since forever we've yearned to
Quench what's never fulfilling
Lost endeavors found in a stilled
Mind if we be willing

(In the previous verse, the first two lines are the main lines of the verse and are also the most audible ones. The last four lines are sung underneath the main two and at the same time thus creating a doubled vocal effect)
Creative mother arouse us to know
That we be not lost in the sands
Open our eyes...




I'M BUT A WAVE TO...

As one I'll meet the mortal memories
Reliving seeking silence
And know that I as just a shell outside
Have sacred joys inside me

No fear, nor fight
Comforting silent side
So free, through flight
Comforting silence

So I call on
Sri, cosmic sea
All is within you
As in a dream
I'm but a wave to...

(lead: Jason)
Infinity within thy consciousness
An ever expanding sphere
Immortal spark ignites
Spreads by the air of bliss
Embracing warmth that heals

No fear, nor fight
Comforting silent side
So free through flight
Comforting silent side

(lead: Paul)
(chorus)



UROBORIC FORMS

Self is the universe
Not separate
The state before the fall into
Self consciousness

Nothing is himself
Everything is world

Primordial egg retains
Consciousness unborn
Pre-personal perfection
Bliss's screen is yet untorn
Uroboric forms

(lead: Jason)
Find itself as a separate entity
An ego germ is just beginning to be

Wherever there is other
There is fear

(lead: Paul)
Birth, primal paradise
No gap, distance or separation
Between self and environment
Unconditional omnipotence

Nothing is himself
Everything is world

Primordial egg retains
Consciousness unborn
Pre-personal perfection
Bliss's screen is yet untorn
Uroboric forms
Consciousness unborn
Uroboric forms




TEXTURES

(Instrumental)

(lead: Paul)
(lead: Sean M.)



HOW COULD I

How could I forget such a revelation
To love without fear and learn without question
How could I regret the meant occasions
I must begin this day again

Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe

How could I?

Humility take charge of me
Drown me in truth's modest waters
Loosen your grip, identity
Free me from an ego's falter

Freedom and reason shine through

How could I?

Love too often is only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
Must I try?
How could I?

(lead: Paul)
Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe

Love too often is only a dream
How could I?

Love too often is only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
For in this spewing cadence of my pride
How could I?

(lead: Jason)

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