Last Song

To say goodbye to the Earth that we loved and called home

[Songwriter’s Note]

Several years ago, when I saw the picture of a desperate polar bear struggling on the brink of extinction, I started to imagine what it would be like to die as the last members of a species. It dawned on me that it is a much weightier experience than to die as an individual.

This awareness plunged me deep into a “grief trance” that oddly felt heavy and expansive at the same time. I realized that this grief opened a portal to an area of my psyche I had not visited before. I started to imagine what it must feel like to be a soul that consciously chose this destiny, to be the one who says goodbye to Earth on behalf of the entire species! As I imagined that, feeling into a pain and sorrow larger than my personal ones, a new dimension of life, beyond Earth, beyond what we know as life, began to open to me…

This song describes this psychic journey I took, riding on a big wave of grief.]

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[Lyrics]

Water, coming in from all directions
Towards the ice I am standing on
I am the last of my kind
To tell the story to the end
As I promised my ancestors
To say goodbye to the Earth
That we loved and called home

I haven’t eaten for days, perhaps weeks
There is no food within sight
One by one my friends are fading away
I look forward to joining them
When the northern light is dancing again
It is the time when my Spirit
Will fly to the star where I belong

Fire is burning underneath the ground
Sun is blasting messages through the air
Soul of Earth is waking up
A new dawn is drawing its first breath
My story may end but life goes on
As it always do as it always do

Cry for me, let the tears flow
Swing the gate wide open
Fire will burn off the illusions
Earth is weaving a new story
Open your heart to the music in the air
To the music in the air
To the music in the air

This might be my last song
I think I am ready for DEATH
Death is not the end of life
It is just another passage of journey
I can feel the weight of gravity
I think it’s time to say goodbye

I love you all and I always do
I love you all and I always do
I love you all and I always do
I love you all and I always do
I love you all and I always do
I love you all and I always do
I love you all