Adam Cedar - Islands and Mountaintops Lyrics

We build our lives out of concepts, beliefs and emotion
Steered by data, inner guidance, vices, slogans
We dive in, make messes, make mistakes, get broken
Heal, hope for the best , learn lessons, start over
Impatient want things as quick as fingers snap
Then look back thinking it all leaves so fast
Creatures of contradiction, sometimes it seems we get sick
To conquer our addictions and see the bigger picture
Life opens eyes and irises, that's why the skies as high it
Possibly can be, creation's expanding
Make space or get crushed by the weight of the damn thing
Make way for the rush as the dams come crashing down
See we give a little take a little back
Whittle down the things that hold us
Sure, it's all connected, sure those roads get treacherous
But that is just a step, the best of it feels effortless

I'm building my house in my promise land
I'm making my story anywhere I am

Hey, what's up family, how are we feeling currently
Sometime what I see worries me
Seems we hurry to these burning screens
Trying to feed our every earthly need
Or we puff, puff, pass out, eat to fill our emptiness
Drink until we black out, gossip when we're discontent
Overstimulated hoping that our interest is held
And all because we don't want to sit with ourselves
I know because I'm right there in it
I speak it because I bear witness
Joy missing in this pursuit of happiness
You don't need a mirror to see that's a backwards script
We could blame a broken system
Or build using love and new visions
We can complain or do different
Hate or pursue our interests

I'm building my house in my promise land
Have faith in your family, yes, we are the plan

Everyone has challenges not to be judged or minimized
We see the world differently, viewing it through different eyes
And each one deserves respect and understanding
But if we don't understand ourselves how can we understand our family
Funny, but it's not just us monkeys
Our building and money, vying for the sunbeams
Thinking so would be a fool of a gambit
See life runs rampant on this jewel of a planet
We're not separate from the world that surrounds us
Barriers are make believe, islands are just mountain tops
And no matter how full our thoughts
Space exists in all of us
Nature's in our nature, our laughter rumbles in earthquakes
Every creature on this planet shares genetics and a birth place
We can build it together instead of watching it fall to pieces
See dreams lived out because we worked and believed them

In my promise land
Have faith in your family, yes, we are the plan
I'm building my house, in my promise land
Have faith in your family, yes, we are the plan