[Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

[J and J Barker]

Maybe good to recall that words written by the late Russell Campbell.

Jonathan B

On 27/07/2013, at 11:58 AM, jonzondo at juno.com wrote:

> thank you, Jaime.
> Jon
> 
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> Please note: message attached
> 
> From: Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime at aol.com>
> To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
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> Jon, not formatted the nice way it is on a one sheet but this might work for your purposes:
> 
> BEING
> Tune: Theme from "Black Orpheus"
> My life is as
> Vast as the sea
> No boundaries no 
> Floor beneath me.
> 
> Yet as I look within
> 
> No man has greater sin.
> I am the least of all
> 
> I daily fall.
> 
> But it's then when
> I Doubt that I can
> 
> I choose to be nothing
> For man.
> 
> To die is my lot
> 
> I live as if not
> 
> With Paul
> I merge with all.
> I see then as
> Never before
> The secrets of
> heaven my store.
> With wisdom twice my age
> My life an open page
> Though with each insight
> Gain a deeper pain.
> Yet I live with the Lord on my side
> And wild intuition My guide.
> I'm sent as a sign
> 
> The bread and the wine
> My form
> And virgin born.
> Then I act seeing
> Action is vain
> And accomplishments
> Never as gain.
> To only do is less
> Than forming humanness
> So mission I must be
> To set men free.
> Called to burn as an Undying flame
> Each word and each Gesture the Name.
> 
> I must through life-loss
> An exalted cross
> 
> My place
> 
> Reveal his face
> Then the Lord through
> My life prays a prayer
> And my being is
> Filled being there.
> I can invent anew what
> All the saints once knew
> By being who I am
> 
> I create man.
> And it's no longer
> I who is seen
> 
> But the Lord standing
> There in between.
> Finished as I die
> Held there between
> Sky and sod
> To save our God.
> Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm eaten tree where the All and the Nothing can BE.
> 
> j'aime la vie
> 
> Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonzondo <jonzondo at juno.com>
> To: oe <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Sat, Jul 27, 2013 10:09 am
> Subject: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
> 
> hello community,
> 
> A last minute request...
> If anyone has the lyrics for the song, "Being" I would like to use them for my 
> father's memorial service tomorrow.
> 
> singing in beauty,
> Jon
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