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Another Island

from The Gate by Candy Lee

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Another Island is myth, or metaphor, about finding inner peace. It is about the realization that true happiness does not exist outside oneself, but comes from within. Happiness is a state of mind. Eckhart Tolle once said, "You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

In the myth, the heroine wishes to be on the island across the sea, thinking that life will be better there. As she feels she has nothing left for her where she's at, on the island she has created for herself, she plunges into the sea. In many of the great myths, water represents the unknown, and also the unconscious.

The heroine, exhausted from her journey into the unknown begins to fall asleep. It is here that a sea monster finds her and brings her back to his underwater cave. In ancient religions, people believed caves to be like the womb of the earth. It is here in the cave that the heroin is reborn. The sea monster forces the heroin to sit and be still, and over time, through much reflection, she finds inner peace.

The heroine dies to her ego, and realizes that she is one with everything, and that everything she needs to be happy is within herSelf. She realizes that she is that I AM, a manifestation of divinity in human form. Thus she returns home, having learned a valuable lesson, and through an enlightened perspective is now at peace and grateful for the life she is has and can now appreciate its true beauty.

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Lyrics:

I’m hanging on by my fingernails
The faster they grow, it seems
The faster they break

I’ve no reason to stay
So I’ll dismount this cliff side
And fall into
The ocean unknown

The grass is greener, dear
One the other island
Far across the sea
I have no boat but I
I will try to swim there
Maybe somewhere happiness
Is waiting for me

They waves, they crash and tumble and turn
And pull on my body
The water is so dark
I can’t see my own feet below me
I feel I can’t go on
My eyelids have grown heavy
As I fall into the unconscious

Wake up, Wake up
The sea monster said
Wake up, Wake up
You’re surely not dead
I’ve got you chained here
In my cave of the deep
I’ll let you go when
You find what you seek

And I said
Oh oh, oh oh,
What ever do you mean?
How can I find anything
When I’m trapped under the sea
When I’m trapped under the sea
Under the sea
Under the sea

Well, the hours turned to days
And the days turned to weeks
And in the depths of my solitude I found
Inner peace
Mmmmm

The grass is green right here
And there is no island
It’s all part of the same thing
Everything that I want
I already have and am
I am it and it is me

credits

from The Gate, released August 26, 2010
Jennifer Graham- bass guitar
Dan Dean- djembe

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Candy Lee Fayetteville, Arkansas

Candy Lee is an award winning, "golden voiced" singer/songwriter who combines her love for folk, jazz, and indie music to create her own original style. The first thing you'll notice when you hear Candy Lee is her voice- timeless, entrancing, and ethereal. She Lee pulls you in with her sweet, catchy melodies and moving music, but it is her smart, creative lyrics that deserve a second listen. ... more

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