[Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being" Is this it?

[Lynda Cock]

Thanks, Susan, for sharing this.  Sadly, I have never seen the movie.  Great addition to my common memory.  Now that there's Netflix, I'll put it on my list.  
This is one of the first songs I heard as we came to Chicago as very green interns.  I know that song made a deep imprint on my life. 
 
Lynda   
 
 

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From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Susan Fertig
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 2:15 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being" Is this it?


I believe the song title is Manha de Carnavale. Remember he sat on a bluff looking over the sea and "made the sun rise" with his song. And then the little kid, when Orfeu died, took the guitar and went out to keep the sun rising. Susan

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From: "jonzondo at juno.com" <jonzondo at juno.com>
To: "oe at lists.wedgeblade.net" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Subject: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being" Is this it?
Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 10:33 PM










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.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:07 PM, jonzondo at juno.com <jonzondo at juno.com> wrote:


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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Paula  

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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