Going Down

I noticed with my healing that there is sort of a path I have to take. Most of what makes healing hard is that I keep accidentally wandering off into the woods and then have to find the path again. Eventually though, I get better at walking the path.

But once I got good at staying on the path I realized that it wasn't a path I was consciously choosing so much as one that was laid out before me. I wanted to be on the path... but I realized that the only thing that makes me me is my wandering.

So I had a choice to make. Do I walk this path of healing and relinquish myself in the process? Or do I veer off and live a miserable existence... but at least get to feel like I am me?

This song is about ego death.

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Verse 1:

          C     G          Am       
I'm going down, down, like lightning
           C  
Feeling my way
                 G   
Down through the rain
            Am     
Zigging and zagging

           F                G                  Am    
Taking the path, taking the path that's most inviting
          C     G          Am       
I'm going down, down, like lightning


Chorus:

       F     
To the ground
          G               C   
I'm going down, I'm going down
            F     
Down to the ground
            G                Am 
Down to the earth it beckons me
            Dm  
Down to the soil
            G            Am     
Down I will go 'til I am finally
           F   
Resting my head
             E7            Am  
There in the bedrock of my body


Verse 2:

          C     G          Am       
I'm going down, down, like lightning
           C  
Feeling my way
                 G   
Down through the pain
                    Am    
Through feeling and memory

           F                G                     Am        
Taking the path, taking the path that seems least frightning
          C     G          Am       
I'm going down, down, like lightning


Chorus:

       F     
To the ground
          G               C   
I'm going down, I'm going down
            F     
Down to the ground
            G                Am 
Down to the earth it beckons me
            Dm  
Down to the soil
            G            Am     
Down I will go 'til I am finally
           F   
Resting my head
             E7            Am  
There in the bedrock of my body


Bridge:

F               G      
No one knows my journey
C      G         F  
No one holds the key
                  G            C 
The path I travel is unique to me
             F 
But it ain't me
       G        
It's embedded in
    C           G       Am   
The air through which I weave

                    F    
It's time for me to sleep
      G 
I let go
    E7              Am 
Let go and cease to be

*CRACK*


Verse 3:

               C     G          Am       
They're coming down, down, like lightning
              C  
Finding their way
               G   
These beings I gave
                Am 
The essence of life to

        F                           G     
Runaway thoughts, who struggled and fought
            Am       
To see what they'd be
           F                    E7              Am    
If given a chance, I watch them dance across my memory