June 15, 2017

Well, I wrote my first Filk song in 20 years today, well, me and spirit.

When we used to go sci-fi conventions we used to perform these (well, I just wrote). Filk is fan folk singing at these gatherings. A typo changed FOLK to FILK and the name stuck. Think Weird Al Yankovic does sci-fi. We wrote such wonderful songs as Gnomes on the Range, Do You Believe in Starships, and Warp Drive Lincoln. We also used Achy Breaky Heart and told a story of an engineer on a deep space flight that took the engine apart and lost an Itty Bitty Part.

While those were comedy, this new one is not. I heard the first two lines come to me in a dream around the first of the month. I felt that this would be a good story of the life of a lightworker. I wrote a verse and didn’t like it. So it sat for days. Then Imelda passed away. The next morning, words flooded into me. I sat down with pen and paper and started putting it down. (Keep in mind that this is not my normal media. I mean, no rhyming dictionary, no thesaurus.) I wrote four verses, the last one with a twist that shocked me. Then I headed in to work.

There, I started cleaning up the verses I had when I realized it needed another verse between the last one and the one before it. It flowed out.

Once I had cleaned it up, I sent it off to Brian, Imelda’s life partner. He liked it and wondered if it could be performed. (Wow, let’s move mountains now.)

I reached out to three people, one came through. It didn’t hurt that this was her favorite song. We had to change a few words to make it meld better with the music. What we got was magic. Here are the words, to hear it and see the video, go below.

The Realm of Spirit
(Based on The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon)
Words by Brian Dean and Spirit
(Copyright 2017, Brian Dean)

Hello Spirit, my old friend,
I've come to walk with you again.
There are great numbers that need healing,
With the energies that I am feeling.
With intention that starts down in my core
And adding more
All from the realm of spirit.

Our energies spread far and wide,
From cityscape to countryside.
Spreading healing light everywhere,
Helping to remove all the fear.
And replacing that with
pure unfiltered love,
All from above.
All from the realm of spirit.

One on this side, more on that,
We come together for a chat.
Lighting many candles as we go,
Which sends healing light to and fro.
With each person we touch the
light grows even more.
And more and more.
All from the realm of spirit.

With our hands and minds we'll strive,
To keep the dreams of hope alive.
With every person that receives our touch,
The hope and love will increase much.
And everyone will open like a flower,
In every hour.
Crossing the realm of spirit.

Hello human, my new friend,
I've come to help you to the end.
Not long ago I was just like you,
But now I have ascended through
And the light we spread will
go out through the lands,
From cosmic hands,
And echo in the realm of spirit.