Recently, I've been listening to one of my favorite albums, Regulars & Refugees by Carrie Newcomer. One of the songs on that album has been in my mind night and day, so, I finally looked up the lyrics and was even more taken by the song when I read the lyrics:

All Saints Day

V: All around us and within us
Yet it's only at times we notice
It's as real as rain, and soft as stardust
We know deep down, what nobody told us.

Ch: Can't you feel it ever closer
We breathe it in and we then we exhale
We touch both sides and now eternal
Standing closer to the veil

V: Now is just a, moving image
Not a ribbon, a start and end
There is a bird, a hidden singer
That calls and listens, and calls again

Ch: Can't you feel it ever closer
We breathe it in and we then we exhale
We touch both sides and now eternal
Standing closer to the veil

V: Centered down and moving outward
Sometimes almost, to sweet to bare
There are endless ways to reach home
Just keep walking and I'll meet you there

Ch: Can't you feel it ever closer
We breathe it in and we then we exhale
We touch both sides and now eternal
Standing closer to the veil

V: There’s a blurring of the borders
And I swear that I heard Verse: voices
But every act of, simple kindness
Calls the kingdom down and all around us

Ch: Can't you feel it ever closer
We breathe it in and we then we exhale
We touch both sides and now eternal

Standing closer to the veil
Standing closer to the veil
Standing closer to the veil

© Carrie Newcomer 2005