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On the Other Side

by Daniel Snowden

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Distrust is never fundamentally about others. To blame other people for my distrust of "them" is a simple projection of how I distrust myself. This song is grappling with what it means to begin to trust myself/God/life again on the other side of an earthly hell that I allowed to persist in my life for far too long. Feeling the fallout of my own choice/s to live (stay) in fear is the real battle. As much as blaming someone else and dodging responsibility is tempting, only telling myself the truth brings any actual recovery of self.

The first stanza is more a photograph of a moment in the Holden Village winter labyrinth one early morning. It was beautiful, but my mind was annoyingly wild with thoughts. As I slowly got it to calm as well as slowing the labyrinth pace going into round two (being the only competitor), it became clear that finding calm was also going to mean telling the truth about why I wasn't calm. Very frustrating how that works...

The sense of presence in the 2nd stanza sometimes plays in my mind as the sound of my boots in the snow. After all, I wasn't with another human on the hike to Hart Lake that day - just me, the sound of the snow under my boots and a struggle to open to what life was offering me in the wake violence and injustice well beyond my control. Trusting myself to care well for me after allowing myself to be harmed takes ongoing effort; relearning what it means to be true to me.

The last stanza came while standing next to the stream. It was a beautiful morning. One moment I was breathing it in, the next moment I seemed to wake up after being lost in my mind. The verse expresses the mystery of one moment feeling open and embracing what comes in the moment, then in the next moment envisioning myself on the other side of the stream, then disappearing altogether from the present. That was/is, the recovery: learning to trust myself "being" on the other side of harm.

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On the Other Side

The morning light has just be-gun to show
While I walk this windin’ circle in the snow
This mountain quiet it could, clear my mind
If I wasn’t so, afraid of what I’ll find on the other side

As you wander with me, I wonder why
You’re walking step by step, by my side
Your calming beauty near me, I just don’t know
If I can trust you here…
On the other side
On the other side

I hear our destination, as it falls
And my heart expands to hold it all
I see you standing, still beyond
I look away a moment – and when I look back you’re gone
On the other side
On the other side
On the other side
On the other side

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released March 2, 2015
I thank the Holden winter Labyrinth creator/s of 2015 and small piece of the trail to Hart Lake just before a wooden bridge over a small stream. And of course, I thank my pair of Yaks as well as the villagers who maintain the trail and bridge (but also own the Yaks.)

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Daniel Snowden Seattle, Washington

Following his extensive prenatal exposure to 60s Rock’n’Roll, Daniel was born a poet in his pre-verbal head before learning language. His young, compulsive love for writing and poetry found their way into music at age 17. Daniel’s songs find meaningful balance between fallin’ down and gettin’ back up; tying soul-filled melody together with poetic imagery in hopes of capturing the unexpected. ... more

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