'The Anchor'

(wave crashes) We've gone through all of this stuff together. We've built this new whole body instrument. We've watched Sadie find hers. We've watched her lead herself into her own expression using her voice. Her dynamics, her daring to suck, and her ability to play with the sound that was created once she was up to being in herself and in her body.

The next step really is, what do we do beyond just playing with this sound, but what can we do? How do we bring it into song? The biggest part of that really is trial and error, finding out what it is that you want to say with words, of course, and with melody, and then eventually with style, and what really is you in that expression. A lot of people ask me, "well what is that?" and you really just have to find it for yourself. Even if it stops at just this experience that we've had today.

That's just as amazing. Bring it back into your life in how you speak. Bring it back into your life with how you conduct a conversation at work, or with your family, and what you'll find is when you step up to communicating like this, that you'll be a better listener, and people will listen to you in a way that you've never been listened to. For me, I'm a singer. I'm an artist and I'm a songwriter, and I get to take what we've done today and shape it on a daily basis, into stories about being alive, and it's a lot of fun.

The song I'm about to play for you is a song that I wrote in one of the bands I'm in called The Kin, and it's called The Anchor. What I mean by anchor is the seed right down into the engine, right into the navel, that that is a point where we enter in our bodies, the anchor, that gravity, that place that allows us to be home. Through a period of my life, I went through quite crazy mental illness where I had no anchor, where I had no ground, and I lived outside of my body. I was not in my expression. I was down many rabbit holes of the brain, living with all thoughts, feeling, sensations, and emotions as if that was reality.

Essentially, I was living in the illusion of life rather than in my life. This song was really about me walking back in to trying, and walking back into the actions associated with coming home, with being in my body, with allowing myself to have thoughts, feelings, sensations and emotions and going beyond that, and going into my life regardless. This is called, "The Anchor." I'm also going to be using my voice in all the dynamic ways we've used today, and I may even do it, even a little bit more just for shits and giggles. (laughs) Here we go, this is "The Anchor." (picks guitar) â?« I walk â?« From shelters that I hadn't even taken flight â?« I see â?« Places that my head was in â?« I heard the cry â?« I'll be the one â?« I'll be the answer â?« I'll be space, the space I'm in â?« I am the hearts â?« I am the anchor â?« I am the yawl the water's in â?« But I've been sucked in sometimes â?« I've been living with a freak mind â?« Now is all about another tao and adjust sights â?« Still I'm tongue tied â?« I heard emotions I was heralding â?« They call the fights â?« Now I see â?« Better than that â?« Every scene I sleep tonight â?« Now, I'll be the one â?« I'll be the answer â?« I'll be the space, the space I'm in â?« I am the heart â?« I am the anchor â?« I am the yawl the water's in â?« But I've been sucked in sometimes â?« I've been living with a freak mind â?« Now it's all about another tao and adjust sights â?« Now is living from wrong and right â?« And I've been living with a freak mind â?« I was going left, going right â?« And adjust sights â?« Now I take this broken heart â?« Now it broke from the start â?« Now nothing can tear me apart â?« I've been talking sometime â?« I've been living with a freak mind â?« Now it's all about another tao and I just sigh â?« And I was leaping from wrong and right â?« I've been living with a freak mind â?« And now it's going left, going right, â?« And it just sighs â?« I am the anchor â?« Oh â?« I am the anchor