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THE UNIVERSE JAM
©1995 Drew Dellinger, Stephan Snider, Omar Zinn

from the tape "For The Earth" 
by Ruth Rosenhek & John Seed
Tracklist and Review

Second Track: "The Future of Love"

The Players
Ruth Rosenhek - vocals
Cedar Anderson - mouth percussion

The flame has lit up the... world from within
all things individually and collectively
are [inter] penetrated and flooded by it...
you who mold the manifold so as to
breathe your life into it...I pray to you."

-  Teilhard de Chardin  -

The first verse of the universe
pours forth like a sea of mystery
Out of the void, unmanifest silence
space/time comes into existence
Unseen shaping, swirling, unfurling
Hydrogen, helium. Divine is revealed within
galactic whirlpools as energy flows in
a star collapses, supernova explosion
A cloud of cosmic debris
drawn together -- by gravity?
By the mystery of attraction
primordial bonding, universe action
Stardust swirling, swarming gases
organizing and forming masses
See the Sun’s the one that spun the nine others
gave birth to Mother Earth
and her sisters and brothers
Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Everyone is the Sun
the Sun is the one
Everybody better Wake up!

But the Earth gave birth
to continents and oceans
shaping and shaking with waves of emotion
charges of lightning, bombarding and striking
exposin’ the globe as it glows like a strobe
and setting the stage for the first cell of life
so simple and basic, so primal that I place it
at the top of the chain from which all life sprang
more forms adorn the Earth as they bring
diversity, dispersing the song of creation
ring in the dawn, sing along in celebration

I just wanna celebrate...
Life, The Earth, The Cosmos!

The sea comes alive, starts to thrive
with new life forms, storms swept the planet
plants crept on granite
Enchanted by the Sun’s solar power
The Earth gave birth to green leaves and flowers
lava flows, Mountains rose
Tropical islands, Forests and meadows
fed by the fresh water streams - the veins
heavenly rains drain back to the sea
the fish are set free as they swim onto sand
fins turn to limbs and the limp onto land
amphibians, reptiles new styles of creatures,
seeing through new being the range of her features
The Earth - Your Mother!
gave birth to eyesight
looking within as she spins in the sunlight
On to the dawn to the day of the dinosaurs
Pterodactyl soars, Tyrannosaurus Rex
Towering, devouring, so who’s up next?

Mammals and primates
All life interrelated! - Divinely created!
So don’t you think it’s time we celebrated?

Life, the Earth, the Cosmos!