Immortal Child

You can march to the music of the world of time

Or you can waltz to the music of eternity

Tarum Tarum

Go the drums

Tarum Tarum

Go the drums.

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Mesmerized, you get in step with the beat

Moving your feet

To the beat of now

Tarum Tarum

Go the drums

Tarum Tarum

Go the drums.

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It's all you can hear

Tarum Tarum

It fills your ears

Tarum Tarum.

And so magnetic and hypnotic is the sound

The music of eternity is all but drowned

Tarum Tarum.

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You want to stop marching

But you don't know how

Tarum Tarum

And though it doesn't make you proud

You just keep marching

Tarum Tarum

Tarum Tarum

You just keep marching to the beat of now.

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But MLK and Du Bois had it right

Whatever your birth

here on earth

You are an Immortal Child

An Immortal Child.

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And the goal of your soul

Is to discover your destiny

As an Immortal child

Everything else is a lie

A terrible, horrible, abominable lie.

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Tarum Tarum

Go the drums

Tarum Tarum

Go the drums.

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It's up to you to not let reality drown

The beauty, compassion. and goodness

Which is to be found

When you take yourself to a silent place

And become immersed in reverence and grace

And between your thoughts, find the space

To hear the beautiful transcendent music

of eternity.

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And to discover the Immortal Child you are.

The laughing, dancing Immortal Child you are.

For you are nothing less than that.

An Immortal Child.

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Inspired by (and in honor of) recent online readings of MLK and W.E.B. Du Bois.