More Grace
by jiva
This is more varied album that their first two and is my favourite. Less straight-forward rock, more ballads and lyrics that are more subtle and less didactic although
there's no doubt where the overt inspiration is coming from: "Something in my sight, Is brighter than the sun" "They didn't base their lives on anything Real at all" "Oh my Lord, With every breath I breathe, I love you." While all the songs are strong the two highlights are "Love is the Feeling" which encapsulates the feeling of a devotee wavering in their faith and being caught again and finding themselves wrapped inside the "experience." This is the sort of epiphany that occurs when a strong empathetic response in a charged group of devotees overcomes the (very sensible and correct) doubts about the reality of the "Knowledge" and the truth of Maharaji's claims to divinity. The most intense song is "Prayer" in which the female guest vocalist sings up a storm of devotion and worship and the lead guitarist does the same. The song ends with what I presume is a recording of a young Guru Maharaj Ji saying "I love you too" in Inglish.
1977 MORE GRACE - (Remixed 2012)
1. Best Of Life 04:48
2. Right Inside 03:54
3. Sing Me 02:41
4. Page In My Heart 05:37
5. Shine Together 03:06
6. Love is the Feeling 04:12
7. Thief In The Night 05:44
8. Prayer 05:36
9. Alone With You 02:32
10. Moon Song 03:29
This is the follow-up album to 'By His Grace'. It was originally issued on cassette in 1977. This version is a digital remix from the first-generation master 8 track 1 inch tape 23 August 2012.
credits
JIVA is:
Michael Lanning, vocals, guitar, piano
Tommy Hilton, vocals, guitar, bass
Patrick Pearsall, vocals, lead guitar
Stephen Halter, vocals, keyboards
Reedo Reed, guest drummer & Percussion
Judy Jacobs (Rosen), vocals
Available through Bandcamp cheap at $7.50
Jack Reed, Personal Manager
Garry Fish & Jim Hilton,
….. Studio Assist and Equip techs
Produced and Recorded by Jiva
Recorded at Wooden Sound,
….. Beverly Glen, Bel Air California in June 1977.
Remixed from original 8 track one inch by
….. Stephen Barncard, August 2012
Mixed and Mastered at the House of Cubes, San Francisco
Photography by House of Cubes
It doesn't matter what you do
The best of life remains in you
So take a breath and send a smile
And stop your crying for a while
Into a world where you are thrown
A world you're forced to call your own
Well it doesn't matter what you do'
Don't you know that He loves you
And I love you
They love you
We all love you
repeat
Well it doesn't matter what you say
Cause it all comes out in the same way
Cause it doesn't matter what you do
The best of life remains in you
Cause harmony is purity
Peace and wisdom in the key
How it doesn't matter what you do
When the best of life remains in you
Without your love I couldn't stand it
You're all that I want to be
Is everything that I see
I love you
All that we want is to be happy and free
We attach this feeling to people place and things
When we ever wanted in this life
Is inside us
Constantly
An unlimited source of peace
Inside
We've worked all our lives trying to find this peace in vain
We've been trying to find it in a world of constant change
Peace is something beyond our minds' conceptions
We try so hard to find
Something so simple lying right inside all the time
All the time
repeat first verse
Play me a song an endless favour
Round the circle goes
Sing me a taste that I can savour
One that everybody knows
Tell me a rhyme I can remember
In between the two
Sing me a secret you deliver
News of something soon
chorus:
Something in my sight
Is brighter than the sun
Tell me what's more I'm crying
Knowing You're the only one
And I say sing me a life of loving
Cause the soul has touched the soul
Sing me a life of loving
And together we will go
Fill me with laughter
You have shown me
Love the hardest free(?)
Touch me in essence You have shown me
Where I want to be
Fill me with love that You deliver
Freed them through the soul
Play them a song an endless favour
Round the circle go
chorus & ad lib
You play a symphony in the well of my soul
With the beat of a drum though it's not ordinary
It's tuned to a string and the rhythm is mild
So sweet when it sings with this world spinning round and round
On a page in my heart is a bird in a nest
Patiently growing old just to fly on its wings of love
Purity and the wisdom of life touched again
Once within of your deepest blue ocean tide
repeat
We can all shine together in this world
We can all shine together in this world
Well there just ain't no doubt it
We can hardly live without it
We can all shine together in this world
If there's a chance for you to climb up to the stars
Won't you let me be there with you
We got to start right here and now
Get this spaceship operating somehow
We can all shine together in this world
If there's a place an inner space inside your heart
Won't you let me be there along with you
You got to start right here and now
There's no replacing what you already knew
We can all shine together in this world
repeat
I had it all planned out
Like some captain on a sailing ship
Gazing at the stars at night
Mapping out his trip
Seagulls flying in the wind
And artists on the shore
Someone stole my heart tonight
Just as I had planned to close that door
Sunlight warms my window pane
You warmed my heart and now I say
Standing in the morning sun
I feel my life has just begun
A full moon's summer evening
And the air is very still
In a sweet child's bedtime story
Stands a castle on a hill
Scheming schemes on dreamy scenes
Is all I ever do
You came along I wrote this song
You alone can make my dreams come true
Don't you let me close that door
'Cause I've been down
Been down too many times before
Cause I get up
Get up so high when you're around
Makes me wonder
Whats this feeling that I found
Someone stole my heart tonight
Just as I had planned to close that door
Don't you let me close that door
'Cause I've been down
Been down too many times before
Cause I get up
Get up so high when you're around
Makes me wonder
Whats this feeling that I found
Makes me wonder
Is love the feeling that I found
Please don't let me down
'Cause love's the feeling
People are walking where they wouldn't go
And the child grew up in a world
He didn't want to know
People are talking endless rhetoric
But are they really listening
To what they speak
chorus:
And the sun was setting through the haze and red(?)
When the prophecies were all fulfilled
This is what they said
Well You came to me like a thief in the night
And you stole my heart away
And now I can only ask that light
Lead me, led me away
And the world it was shocking
Complete misery
When all the people fell crying
Head in hand to their knees
And the village was burning
Upset the natural flow
Some had more than they could ever use
Yet they would not let go
chorus
It was a karmic situation
Written in that time
And all they really ever listened to
Was what was in their minds
And the village was frightened
For it might crumble and fall
They didn't base their lives on anything
Real at all
And the sun was rising
Night away it's head(?)
rest of chorus
Won't You take away the pain and the sadness
And teach the people how to love
Take the fires that burn deep down inside our souls
Make it rise again to light the world
Tear away the veils that lie before our eyes
And break our hearts of stone in two
Let our voices in blissful harmonies
That sing the praise of loving You
Won't you be the One
The One to set me free
Make me see
Oh my Lord
With every breath I breathe
I love you
Speak the word that's written within inside of us
That holds the key to life and death
Cast your net upon the open sea
Let every man be truly blessed
Won't you be the One
The One to set us free
Make us see
Oh my Lord
With every breath I breathe
I love you
repeat
I can see the game
Been through what I'm sinking in
You all know the pace
That we run
When we know we're living day to day
Out inside our dreams
Get behind when I know I must be fading
Then I'll see Your eyes in my mind
Gives me feelings of love and charity and everything
That I can think when I'm feeling really
Love's a game that you play alone
Alone with you
repeat second verse
Nothing can ever change You
My heart is sinking in Your river
I notice when I'm with You
All of my problems flow behind
When I am listening to Your rhythm
My soul is dancing with your rhyme
I would love to be Your moon
Reflect that love for all mankind
No-one could ever take it
Your ?? ?? love of mine
Yeah there's a dream runs through me now
??? time
Here I am safe inside your shelter
Your whisper always calms my mind
I would love to be Your moon
And reflect Your love for all mankind
repeat last verse