I am not just like my mother or father

I am just like me

I am an individual

I am all I want to be

Society defines us

By what job we tend to do

one hundred and sixty hours a week

I walk in my own shoes

I may have a waitress job

I may live in a council flat

I may not be as rich as you

But what is wrong with that?

I am me, I am many things

I am a girlfriend, I am a mother

I live life the way I choose

and I am like no other

I am a poet, a traveller

I am open minded and free

I am blessed with many friends

I am as happy as can be

We used to play, Like really play
Not like the games we play today
Technology is taking over our games
Nothing will ever be the same
Colourful minds being taken away
Colourful minds now fading to grey
Suppressing the inner being wild
Taking the dreams from many a child
Take away this dreary technology
Give our children their right to be free

If you listen its getting quietier and I don't like quiet
It's as if he were gone, or about to go
Its getting lower, slower, quieter
Maybe his talent lay in vision
a vision he once had
'My photographs are my children'
'They will be around when I am gone'
and then quickly, quietly he was gone
like a shooting star, that forever burns brightly

Its about free love, its about frugality
Step on the bohemian bus, take a ride with me
Calling all artists, all musicians every writer
This is one journey,that's gonna be an all-nighter
The radicals, the cultured, its gonna be a ride
Don't need money, just yourself, so step inside
The bohemian bus parked down by the sea
We sit in the sunshine with a dram of whisky
Don't need no rules we need free understanding
Society is governed by a law somewhat demanding
Nouveau, gypsy, dandy, zen or beat
Whatever you are come join us on the street
Its our Rainbow gathering, bless mother earth
Bless one another, live life as it is worth...

Caught beneath the carpet floor
Lies the crumb of a biscuit wanting more
Lay in a packet for most of their life
Only ever halfed with a butter knife
If the world is a carpet, crumb you know
Savour the sugar of our biscuit dough
Blessed in life with many a crumb
Some in friendship, some even as mum
We gather together in a sweet cookie affair
Experience our life together then disappear
Some make speeches, some make mumbles
But my dear that's the way the cookie crumbles

It's a space oddity
for all that this came too
for the man who sold the world
should have sold it all to you

Let's dance, for we are heroes
we know there's life on Mars
you our dear modern love
now dance amongst the stars

You were a rebel, rebel starman
without you our world changes
ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Your body, your soul exchanges

We know you're still alive
but where are we now?
Maybe next a china girl?
we'll meet again somehow

Moving Statues
break free
existing
Not living
lost inside of thee
Unlock your mind
so thoughts flow
Roam wild
Let it all go
Moving Statues
Stuck in a shell
Open you mind
no longer dwell
living minds
crimson tide
Break this shell
you live inside
Moving being
soulful inside
dreams and blessings
wisdom and guides

I have lived for many minutes, hours and days
I have lived in so many different ways,
Do not judge me nor preach your advice
For in my life scale you have been but a slice
I am many different things to many different a mind
I am a loyal friend, I am loving, I am kind
I am open hearted, open minded and free
I am a person, I am all I want to be

Be strong mummy, please never let go
hold me tight tell me you love me so
Wipe away your tears put your lipstick on
Dance with daddy to our favourite song
Think of the memories we made everyday
Keep them strong so they don't fade away
Close your eye's and I'd cuddle you tight
Mummy everything is going to be alright

Mummy my sweet I am always your dear
hear my whisper in the wind on the air
I am now the one who's watching you grow
I'm proud of you mummy, I want you to know

The little things you did just to make me smile
you were the one, who made everything worthwhile
you dried away my tears, tickled my little toes
Helped me tie my shoes, helped me pick my clothes
Be strong mummy, for I am never far
just look up at the sky, find the brightest star

The poorer get poorer
and the rich get rich
Its an unfair turn
its an mounted stitch

The temptress shows us
want we want to see
she does not give us depths
she does not set us free

We must give up
what is making us blind
to unblock our vision
to seek all there is to find

We envision our lifes
In a whole new light
To l...ive with our freedom
Hope is in our fight

To understand our world
what lies upon our land
to seek our truth in answers
Live by ungoverened hand

Don't hold on just let go,
let your feelings flow
There's a bigger world to see
Your heart is young and free
I have opened up the door
so spread your wings and soar

CHORUS
(You can do anything
for I believe in you
Dreams are made to be chased
catching them is what to do
Always follow your heart
for it sings your own song
What seems to be a lifetime
is never really long)

Dance to the beat of your own drum
the best is yet to come
Your mind is your beautiful place
thoughts shine through your face
try to cheer all those you pass
give them a hand if they are last

CHORUS
(Don't hold on just let go,
let your feelings flow
There's a bigger world to see
Your heart is young and free
I have opened up the door
so spread your wings and soar

The panoramic vision of my life
Does not come from paper nor screen
I chase the rainbows
I follow my dream

although I cannot catch them
I hold my head towards the sky
to capture this for my memory
To view it through my eyes

People are too distracted
With the imperfections of life
I think beautiful memories
Help to calm our strife

Caught up with poccessions
An armchair thats never seen arms
surrounded by the living dead
When life has the greatest charms

I saw a small boy today
Who smiled and said to me
He was the happiest kid in town
Cause he has his own TV

I looked down and him
I smiled and I said
insecurity and inadequacy?
TVs gonna mess with your head

Beautiful blue skies, sun is shining
Todays the perfect day
to try to capture a memory
'You must go outside and play'

Take my golden wings and fly away
Through dark of night, through light of day
When you've found your paradise
if it be summer sands, or cystal ice
Sit and wait for me under the moon
I shall come to find you very soon
It is not yet my time to fly
so not for long we say 'goodbye'

Meadow of dancing dandelions
Waving, olive shreds of grass
I lay beneath ocean skies of blue
sun embrace, like a painted scarf

Tree spirits and faeries whisper
the birds are singing to the bees
In the warmth of summer sun
flow secrets on a gentle breeze

I lay beneath the apple tree
dungarees, straw hat and smile
I could lay here for my lifetime
But instead I'll stay a while

I clarify my moment of infinite freedom
I open my mind to travel through the skies
This moment the universe is revealed to me
Wandering soul looks through my eyes
I feel confused but keep on searching
I look for wisdom in those who'll teach me
I understand in an disappearing single moment
What is is to open my heart to being free

The moon tips slowly on the meadow,
illuminated oak trees, dancing dandelions,
Alone we sit with a peaceful silence
nothing stirs,
nothing but cool whispers
from the nature that surrounds us
Listen carefully,
Quietly,
Can you feel mother earth breath?
She is alive and well,
Let your mind open
Do not fear,
Listen to the beat of your heart,
Like a pounding drum
Everything has a spirit
We are all connected,
Can you feel mother earth breath?
she breaths with you
she breaths for you

Life can be exciting but crazy
Things forever evolve and change
Like an hourglass with grains of sand
In this world we rearange
I will of forgotten by tommorow
Some of the things I learn today
Years from now things I've said
are things I'll no longer say
Like when I was a little girl
Jimi Hendrix was a man
As I grew he became a boy
This is hard to understand
I still have my memories
Still places I want to see
In a world where I forever evolve
Will I ever find the real me???

Be curious not judgemental,
Be careful what you say
Speak in turn of another
as if they were in the room today

Be careful what you wish for
You have already what you need
Learn to change your perceptions
Open your mind to being freed


Things evolve and change
Like your personal life view
Sometimes peoples opinions
are opininons you once had too

We're not all too different
In a world that can be demanding
all we need is a little love
friendship and understanding

Use your body as a navigator
for the compass use your heart
use your mind as a tool
Now it's your turn to start
Follow your heart
not everything will be as it seems
But if you keep on reaching
in turn you'll find your dreams

Beautiful people dance on the sand
underneath the pale golden moon
Their rythmic chant awakens the gods
with an ecstatic state of swoon
undulating crashing white-capped waves
Roll on the beach, thrash into the cave
Like broken mirrors, sparkles the sand
Like a cosmic shift a night so grand

Looking out across the shore,
there's nothing now that i want more
than you right next to me
sharing that sweet little breeze
Sharing memories
It's you that I want
it's always been you
It's you right there
in a little of all I do

(CHORUS)
It's a beautiful day for memories
a day for fun,
a day for sharing summer sun
But It feels cold & lonely inside my heart
because we're so far apart

Strolling along in summer sun
watching the children having fun
Icecreams and slushies
rollerskates and puppies
Waves dance upon the sand
there's a broken boardwalk for me to stand
Artists gather to paint such a day
In my painting I'd use just grey
It's how I feel when you're so far away

(CHORUS)
It's a beautiful day for memories
a day for fun,
a day for sharing summer sun
I wish you were here to ment my heart
I ache inside when we're apart

I look across the grains of sand
I meet a face from where I stand
deep inside I feel a warm glow
for it's the face I love you know
I run to you, you run to me
you're here to share a memory
I've been waiting here every day
and you've never been too far away

(CHORUS)
It's a beautiful day for memories
a day for fun,
a day for sharing summer sun
Now that you're here we'll never part
for you're here to offer me your heart

Burning fire, red tongues licking
Crackling heat, crimson flicking
Earth, dust and ashes form a pyre
flames of forgiveness growing higher
I sit, I scream, I cry and I shout
...Every tear I shed won't put this fire out
You have gone, somewhere else you dwell
Pile of burning cinders, nothing but a shell
Feel the peaceful spirit birds and trees
Nature seems to calm me, sudden breeze
then I stop, think and I start to smile
Cosmic meeting was all worth while
I lay here hours till break of dawn
Comforted white widow, silent morn
Love is strong, our spirits will greet
different time and place, again we'll meet
True love, your beauty rare thing to find
close my eyes you're inside my mind
burning fire, red tongues flicking
Crackling heat, crimson flicking
Gone is the pain, as I bathe in glory
For having you dear, in my life story

The white open sky leaves a fear deep inside
Of a silent cool breeze and somewhere to hide
I stand silenced in a room of noise
Trying to gather some kind of poise
I try to gain my stance in this place of manic
As my attacks grow stronger i am riddled with panic
This is some kind of suppressed inner fear
I hold on for the ride until they disappear

I perform rituals inside my mind
through your eyes you see blind
dancing spirit gave an intense visitation
Opening my soul to a deep sensation
You see what you want to see,
through your eyes you can't see me
I've seen the plain you seek to find
answers are there, open your mind

He doesn't know the value,
He just knows the cost
Owns everything he's dreamed off
But yet he still seems lost
Buried in his pocessions
His greed makes him want more
But everything he owns now
Is not what he's looking for
he's looking for a different life
one he does not yet understand
where you can count all true friendships
on the fingers of one hand
he will realise his heartship
may remain in a simple letter
When he finds his real values
he will want for nothing better

Lets fly to the moon the stars and the sun
To catch the dreams that have just begun
we collect the feathers we gather the stones
we collect the sticks and search for the bones
We bring them here to our sacred land
we swim through the seas and dance on the sand
Our life on earth is but a mere stitch
We search for spirituality, not for the rich
We bless all spirits, all animals, all trees
Tie knots in our leather to calm the breeze
When our life on earth is ready to end
We call upon spirits of our ancestors and friends

To someone you will always be
the best friend in the world
To someone you will always be
the brightest person they know
To someone you will always be
...The first person they want to call
To someone you will always be
the right person for the job
and to someone you will always be
the most beautiful girl in the room
©Rachel-erika Henderson 2010

We need to put down our weapons
that is just the start
We need to open our arms
we need to use our heart
We are all many things
we are all different colours
but somewhere down the line
we started as sisters and brothers

(CHORUS)
Dance across our mother earth
Feel the beat and dance
as John Lennon rightfully said
Let's give peace a chance

Money doesn't make us richer
It's just paper in our hand
It doesn't give you power
You've got to understand
There are many different religions
so many cultures too
It doesn't make it wrong
if it is different to you

(CHORUS)
Dance across our mother earth
Feel the beat and dance
as John Lennon rightfully said
Let's give peace a chance

Smile at every stranger
be nice to all you meet
You may not follow the same path
but you may cross the same street
Use your heart to love
use your mind to be wise
We are here to make a difference
Like a sunset in the sky

(CHORUS)
Dance across our mother earth
Feel the beat and dance
as John Lennon rightfully said
Let's give peace a chance

The new beggining when you start to roam
to rise through the clouds away from home
The new beggining when you arrive here
a brand new life away from there
We are born each from our mother womb
Or infact in this our ancient tomb?
Everything is not relayed by how it seems
What do you want? be it desire or dreams
Follow your dreams then, before you are old
To inspire in life, let your stories be told
The blessed sun by day bathes us in light
Though the moon doesn't always bring us night
There are many lessons to learn, many to give
So open your hearts to freedom, start to live!

Events take turn beyond our knowledge and control
We are enslavered to perceptions within our soul
Whom choose to perceive us in different ways
From minutes to seconds, from hours to days
We must learn to live with open hearts and arms
With a childs freedom and graceful charms
Choose who you really want to be
With guidance from the world you see
Angels shall be with you in everything
So in a lone concert, they hear you sing
Let your subconcious play its own way
till the end of time and night of day.

I gonna sip another whisky, or drink another beer,
I haven't yet decided what we're all just doing here,
Well maybe this is a love song, if not some other time
I just want the world to know that I am doing fine
I may have a few regrets but for things I've not yet done
Life is full of ups and downs, after each storm comes the sun
You left me here alone to watch the sun vanish from the sky
We should of shared it together confused I don't know why
To me you were my story, I wore our hearts on my sleeve
Why did you take your heart away, why did you have to leave?

We were once so high, our love was so strong,
In the blink of an eye where did it all go wrong?
I taste the salt on my lips like drowning in an ocean
I'm riding out a difficult wave of every difficult emotion

I haven't quite decided but I feel like getting drunk
Don't feel like working today, I might just do a bunk
You were my guy you were everything to me
I'm trying to figure out just who I'm supposed to be
Well maybe this is a love song, or just a broken heart
Or maybe it's a new chapter and I'm right at the start
As the sun goes down an disappears from my view
I slowly close my eyes and all I see is you

We were once so high, our love was so strong,
In the blink of an eye where did it all go wrong?
I taste the salt on my lips like drowning in an ocean
I'm riding out a difficult wave of every difficult emotion

Life is a series of events
sometimes we wander without a care
when life takes us down amongst the shadows
It'll soon take us right back up the winding stair
Embrace each new surounding
you shall never fail
in the grand scheme of life
each experience, will become a tale
Our lives are designed individually
there's a map inside each mind
If you want to find your treasure
It'll be right there to find...

I wandered down the cobbled path,
On a sweetly fragrant summers day,
What a difference a shade makes
when skies are blue instead of grey

I walked down beside the meadow
humming with creatures great and small,
Dancing amongst the wild flowers
The beauty of them all

I felt overcome with joy
It's the trivial things you know
to relax and enjoy mother nature
Let all your worries go

Dancing along side them
to the beat of my own drum
I honoured every one of them
by creating my own hum

I wandered back up the cobbled path
On the most beautiful summers day
I knew creating my happiness
Is never too far away

I want to understand the world, I am trying to find my way
while trying to figure out who I am, every single day
I know I'll never be perfect, but I want to be the best I can
I have come a long way from the place that I began
This world it can be crazy, people can be so unkind
I try to see beauty in the darkness, I use my own mind
I have walked across the shadow's, lifted my head high
sometimes along the way, I wanted to hang my head and cry

I won't be boxed in with bitter chains, a label is not for me
open your mind from humankind, set your spirit free
We may want different things but at the end of every day
a little love and understanding will always light the way

So what if they want to judge, does it really bother you?
It's a learning curve, one day they shall come through
For you are truly beautiful, so let your spirit shine
I'm happy you are in this world, especially in mine
I have given you my heart, I want to make you proud
I want to be your blue sky, and you my every cloud
Let's figure it out together, let's help light each others way
I want to understand this world, beside you everyday

They appease us with the images they want us to see
They lead us to a chamber of distorted reality,
The events taken place are not all that they seem
We are governed by a circus in a media dream,
Perceptions can be hazardous, we drown whilst awake
Our vulnerability gives them much more to take,
Rejection hurts so they dry our tears
In a state of panic they blind us from our fears,
Paralysed in a demention of distorted reality
Open your mind so you can truly be set free

Sometimes the little things mean the most later on,
Every single moment becomes a memory before long,
Hard times you've encountered have lead you to where you are
Even when it seems dark, look out the brightest star
Our own beautiful world isn't that hard to find
The life that we dream of starts out in our mind
Be open to understanding, it takes two to create a fight
Your belief in a fleeting moment may not always be right
Let's make peace my brothers and sisters all across the land
put down your weapons and hold your neighbours hand
Let's open our mind to a better world, create a better place
we owe it to our children, and our fellow human race...

In the story of my life

you're at chapter 33,

I'm happy you are here

to share this chapter with me



I use to think that everyone

I chose to be my friend

Was exactly the same as me

this idea I had to mend



No one is ever the same

we have different stories to tell

We have all come a long way

from where we first did dwell



We have learnt many lessons

we've grown along the way

Our choices whether right or wrong

have led us here today





Our opinions are varied

we'll never always agree

But I feel so blessed

that you're part of my story!

Who knows how long I've loved you
Or that you've always been my guy
Who knew how much I'd missed you
After all this time had passed us by

You may think I am a little crazy
but I'm only crazy when I'm with you
My heart pounds, my mind races
I just don't quite know what to do

I wear my heart on my sleeve
this much I know is true
I couldn't go on living a lie
When I am still in love with you

Am I destined to stay a memory
locked up inside your mind
Just know another heart like mine
Is truly hard to find

You may think I am a little crazy
but I'm only crazy when I'm with you
My heart pounds, my mind races
I just don't quite know what to do

I have called on all my angels
tarot cards and my guide
I cannot seem to find clarity
My head is all mixed up inside

I never really thought about it
Till it hit me like a favourite song
when everything felt so right
How could it all be so wrong

Here it comes again
after oh so many years
I thought I'd left it all behind
I thought I'd cried it out in tears