Song 3 of 26 - Burn the Candle Brightly

The third of the 26 songs is called "Burn the Candle Brightly". Scroll down below the following videos for the lyrics and a brief discussion of how this song ties into the project. The direct link to this first video is at one.revver.com/watch/413707. A blog post which lists all 26 songs, including 1 video for each song can be found by clicking here.



A direct link to this video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGC2Ff_uOw

And here are two videos for the same song as performed by Ron Scott.

The direct link to the above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydru-VYfybU



The direct link for this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81hATcdG38

One of the very simple and self-evident truths that is discussed in my book is that attitude affects outcome. Have you ever heard someone say "I was too busy to get sick so I didn't"? Do you know of an elderly person who lost their will to live and died shortly thereafter? Have you ever worked through a simple deep breathing exercise and found yourself feeling more alive, more in tune with the world around you? We live with mysteries like these all the time, and of course there is a huge worldwide industry built around self-help programs that thrive because people are looking for ways to make their lives better. This song is about those simple truths that are what make self-help programs succeed: because it's all about how attitude affects outcome, and if we're imagining a multiverse and a set of branching parallel universes that result from a combination of choice, chance and circumstance, then the above mysteries make a little more sense.

As I say in the book, life is any process that becomes interested in "what happens next". This open-ended definition applies just as well to us as it does to the very first chemical processes that started life on earth when they somehow developed strategies that enabled their own propogation from generation to generation. It also applies to other versions of "life" that scientists are beginning to imagine as they explore the other possible expressions of matter and energy that exist within our own universe, and by extension the other universes of the multiverse. "Burn the Candle" takes those high-falutin' ideas and turns it into a simple country song to talk about a simple truth.

BURN THE CANDLE BRIGHTLY
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

Each of us carries it within us
Each of us has a little spark
That moves us to dance in the sunlight
That lights our way through the dark

I want to burn the candle brightly
Never let it fade
Burn the candle brightly
Let it light my way, yeah, yeah


Each of us tends to a fire
That burns so dim or so bright
Some like a blaze in all its glory
Some like a flicker in the night

I want to burn the candle brightly
Never let it fade
Burn the candle brightly
Let it light my way, yeah, yeah


Some go gently to the darkness
Some will rage to the end
All of us carry it forever
This tiny spark that we tend


So when this journey is over
And that beautiful spark is finally gone
We can see that the vessel is empty
But we know that the light carries on

I want to burn the candle brightly
Never let it fade
Burn the candle brightly
Let it light my way (let it light my way)
I want to burn the candle brightly
Never let it fade
Burn the candle brightly
Let it light my way (let it light my way)
Every day

Still, it's not quite that simple, is it? Song 15 of 26, What Was Done Today, is about some of the other factors that work against this process, and can keep us from being able to use simple self-help techniques to realize our dreams.

Here are some blog entries about the "attitude affects outcome" idea surrounding this song:
Boredom and Consciousness Part 2
Vibrations and Energy
Waveforms in the Ten Dimensions
Seeing Eye to Eye
Remembering the Future

A large number of videos surrounding this project are also available at YouTube, if you search for content by 10thdim.

Next song: 4 of 26 - The Unseen Eye