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Light and Darkness

by Be Cause

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1.
Stay 04:47
STAY I really don’t explain why what we do everyday The easier it is to make the more likely is a big mistake It’s easy to misjudge, it’s easy to condemn It’s easy to deride, it’s easy to look at the other side It’s easy to forget, not easy to forgive It’s easy not to regret, it’s easy to misgive someone What if you stay and don’t keep your eyes just on the other way The way that’s easy for you The most comfortable way to choose Stay among the ones you don’t know without self defense Stop doing it easy and start doing it fair Stop doing on your own and start to share It’s easy to defend yourself, it’s easy to be blind It’s easy to divide and rule, it’s easy to be aligned Welcome everything for what it is Breathing a new accomplishment and freedom to be, and see Not going away as long you Stay, Stay among the ones you don’t know without self defense Stop doing it easy and start doing it fair What if you stay and don’t keep your eyes just on the other way The way that’s easy for you the most comfortable way to choose Stay among the ones you don’t know without self defense Stop doing it easy and start doing it fair Stop doing on your own and start to share
2.
LIGHT AND DARKNESS Let it go, let the conscience flow, for a while you forget your mind Leave thoughts behind and proceed just like you were blind Don’t explain, don’t even give it a name, from a name follows judgment, blame Listen to the unnamed and dwell just on the feeling of it The conflicts disappear a new vision is growing clear Leave it, let it be, immerse in this sea of essence Let the answers go overcome ideas and thoughts Let the truth arise abandoning surmise And I can see, and I can see, I can finally feel light and darkness live in me The left and the right, the darkness and the light Let it go what you think to know don’t assume your mind’s an empty room As it’s the first time without paradigms Let the past go a new meaning will blow, all is seen as a whole blank screen As open as a child and finally reconciled Leave convictions go there’s a third way you’ve got to know The duality is resolved your hands are finally joined together Thoughts are made like this temporal and associative Binary and preset following a path I can see now what you talked me about I can see now Open wide your arms then join your hands again Darkness to the left light to the right I can see now what you talked me about I can see now Open up your heart in the center the divisions have gone Day and night are one before the dawn
3.
BLACK AND WHITE If something is black then a different thing is white But how many colours are there in between? If right is one side wrong must be the other one But it’s too simple nothing is so clear The truth my dear In one the other they both are brothers Black and white are one Depending each other with a common father Black and one are one Tell me where the difference lies Where’s the wrong where is the right side? Perceive the shades of color dwell just in the among Don’t look at them to find what’s right or wrong See the picture as a whole as they’re different grades of life Don’t think in black and white missing all that’s in between Look at this great rainbow towards you It’s the world see though The different kind of truth So black and white, they are not opposite They are just different tonalities of light The truth it’s here Tell me where the difference lies Where’s the wrong where is the right side? In one the other they both are brothers Black and white are one Depending each other with a common father Black and one are one Tell me where the difference lies Where’s the wrong where is the right side?
4.
Lullaby 03:57
LULLABY You will find lovers, you will find pain And maybe injustice along the way You will have dreams to be fighting for I hope that after there will come thousands more Sometimes it could be that you will go away In the moment that your heart would stay, but now Hush, hush, little baby, hush, There is nothing to be worried about Hush, hush, little honey, hush The moon is watching at you you’re at home tonight Don’t mind the ingratitude if you will meet it You have to bother only for the one you feel And even falling, you’ll understand Sometimes is needed and better than to stand And when you think you’ve found a really answer It’s the time that thousand questions come, but now… Hush, hush, little baby, hush, There is nothing to be worried about Hush, hush, little honey, hush The moon is watching at you you’re at home tonight Maybe a million words won’t teach you sometimes What the silence does in just a while But now… Hush Hush, hush, little baby, hush, There is nothing to be worried about Hush, hush, little honey, hush The moon is watching at you you’re at home Hush, hush, little baby, hush, There is nothing to be worried about Hush, hush, little honey, hush The moon is watching at you you’re at home tonight
5.
Light 05:00
LIGHT Often the sunshine hurts our sight so we don’t raise our eyes to the light We are too far from being stars we can see them just in distance at night Just like a sword the sunlight hits me I am not ready for it Without a sound it reaches my soul without defences I fall Light, light don’t hurt me now Light, let me bear your sight Light, light don’t be so strong Tell me where are we wrong? Oh, tell me Light, light, light don’t hurt me now Light, let me bear your sight Light, light don’t be so strong Tell me where are we wrong? What a barrier is in between us? What a irreducible gap One day my eyes will put down on you And my soul will finally find peace Until that time, I keep on wandering I’m too human to see Light, light don’t hurt me now Light, let me bear your sight Light, light don’t be so strong Tell me where are we wrong? Oh, tell me Light, light, light don’t hurt me now Light, let me bear your sight Light, light don’t be so strong Tell me where are we wrong?
6.
Eclipse 03:36
ECLIPSE Close your eyes even you know That soon all will be dimmed The sun will be hidden by the moon All will lose outline All will be a single thing Until the eclipse will last But for you this will go on Like you ever dreamt You can dream now a world Where the light is like the dark You can shine like anyone You can breathe you can run, and run, and run, and run, oh You can dream now a world Where the light is like the dark You can shine like anyone You can breathe you can run The master’s gone but I have seen His eyes in an eclipse
7.
I see you 04:57
I SEE YOU I see you running fast In the circle of the past Shuttered dreams, frozen heart Scared, alone, feeling apart Hold out hands to the wind that now blows So hard that takes you away Hold out hands uselessly I just can see you go away Jailed in fears, feeling cold I see you sitting there Your run ends out of breath I see you but I once felt the same As I was you trapped in the same mistake So you are me only in a different space That’s why I feel so close to you Hold out hands to the wind that now blows So hard that takes you away Hold my hand, you’re my friend I just can’t see you go away There’s no fault, it’s time to heal I see you, see me too It’s the dawn, time to go away
8.
The Lovers 05:09
THE LOVERS The foolish man still is on the way The magician has got the key The priestess is veiled in the light of the moon Venus, the empress, is the door the sun of the morning is the emperor death rules over the entire world the one seated give wisdom and light parting out the essence of life but then again and again The lovers seal the eternity, the lovers The lovers seal the eternity, the lovers Two hands forever and ever combined Me wayfarer of the long long path way Me poor witness of the night and day May I love and create love around me May I reach and give my heart May I present myself May I present myself at the door Having the strength to go beyond So, my hand, don’t’ hesitate, So, my voice, please don’t be weak While I will be before The lovers seal the eternity, the lovers The lovers seal the eternity, the lovers Two hands forever and ever combined (Sun and Moon …seal the eternity, the lovers) The lovers seal the eternity, the lovers Two hands forever and ever combined
9.
In the Moon 04:43
IN THE MOON The sunlight and the evening breeze hadn’t mean without complement Otherwise I couldn’t give to good things a worth The darkness makes me appreciate the value of a beautiful day And even in the misty Moon lies a piece of Sun Even in the darkest place There must be a light Maybe there’s a place in hell Where the hope remains There must be the winter for springtime And the rain for the sunshine, the sunshine, that’s life And the Easter for Christmas In the end a beginning In a death a new living, new living, that’s life And the light for the shadow The two phases of the breath The night time is coming to the end A new day will be born again By the window I see the rain Everything is chained Even in the darkest place There must be a light Maybe there’s a place in hell Where the hope remains Even in the misty Moon lies a piece of Sun
10.
IT’S SO STRANGE It’s so strange that the things around must ever change The river goes forever to the sea, the man in mirror now, it’s me Look the birds flying It’s so strange everything always to rearrange Every day to start another life as if the whole world is not in strife Look the lovers kissing It’s so strange all must change But the feeling that I’m living every day is just the same Really don’t matter if you are so far away You are always near me along the way It’s so strange the world falls in pieces but something stays It’s you and all the people that we love Like to look at life from high above And to welcome it in a hug It’s so strange all must change But the feeling that I’m living every day is just the same Really don’t matter if you are so far away You are always near me along the way
11.
ANCIENT HEART Heart of a great forest, soul of a million trees An enormous old oak is standing still Since the oldest ages over centuries He has always stood guardian of the wood But now something is threatening all the trees People with strange cars, people with the guns He knows the drought the fire and the flood but all this not “I am so tired out” said the old tree “what does it happen to me? I’ve fought for so long during my life, for this ill what can I do? I am so tired out” said the old tree “what does it happen to me? For thousand years I took care of trees, how can I face this disease? Since the beginning we bring the life giving the world the fresh air And our people made what you call home Giving you a shelter from the storm” From the oldest ages over centuries He has always stood guardian of the wood But now something is threatening all the trees People with strange cars, people with the guns He knows the earthquake, the hurricane, the rain It seems really insane “but if the end is near to arrive, it will find me at my place Those evil people will know what it means to fight against an old oak And they will learn at their own expense that it’s so hard to defeat An ancient heart a still steady root, ‘cause I hold out to the last” Heart of a great forest, soul of a million trees An enormous old oak is standing still
12.
Time will go 05:05
TIME WILL GO Struggling for the day and out of breath your life is going away They have told you that this is the way many lies to believe And day after day the time will pass and you are convinced of it But you’re not the one you used to be, was it you? Was it me? Thinking to renew to restart from what you feel within you give this way an end Because the time will go my friend And it’s giving you the chance to understand You have to believe after this pain and grief There must be another way to live and start again You were never meant to live a life in chains It will never be too late Your world is built ‘round your thoughts Your thoughts may change the way you live the world Doing things the same way all your life don’t you think there’s something wrong? They give you convictions and a work to do, was it me? Was it you? Perhaps the only way is to rethink every single detail question your believes Because the time will go my friend Every moment is a chance to understand And start to believe after this pain and grief There must be another way to live And start again You were never meant to live a life in chains It will never be too late to reclaim your own fate Time contains the power of change The time that goes my friend It’s a chance to understand after this pain and grief There must be another way to live, another way to live and start again a chance to understand It will never be too late To reshape your own fate Time contains the power of change
13.
Renaissance 04:09
14.
Jerusalem 05:00
JERUSALEM Jerusalem, what did it remain? Something that unites dividing us as well What is the truth? Is that someone has to arrive Or is that someone died instead? There somewhere a child has a gun Someone is used to betray With a gentle kiss Jerusalem, tell me what does it mean To be supposed to be the capital of love Being a symbol of the war? Hear the sound of the bombs But it is holiday see the people dressed up Oh my God, Elì lama sabactani Tell me how a teaching of love Could shape a world of hate? Two thousand years of history Led us to this tell me, Jerusalem, How much more time should pass?
15.
New Sun 04:46
NEW SUN A dim light draws in remoteness The limit of the sight where mysteries begin Darkness disappear stars give up to the Sun In the eternal dance of the opposites Grow in your light I see the truth Fill me up with you Warm my soul and take me high There will be no end, my friend No wrong of right, only dark and light What is between the end and the beginning Grow in your light I see the truth Fill me up with you Warm my soul and take me high I feel like a child All the answers have been done I will never feel alone ‘cause I am a part of you There will be no end My friend
16.
THE DOWN WILL COME The horizon is unclear, the old differences don’t work anymore The uncertainty coheres with a sort of emptiness that’s unknown There is only one true way in order not to go astray Become water, flow away If you keep the ice inside, something will break it apart Followed shortly by your heart Tell me seer if you may push your sight further on And behold afield what is there beyond It has never been a more mysterious time than this But rest assured that soon The down will come, this night will come to an end The sun will shine again The life will turn and everything will change It will never be too late The horizon is so close, this fog is making us so blind, we can only turn inwards The past is no more our guide, the old days are longer gone we must build a new home if I keep the yesterdays always present in my mind I’d be fool, I’d be blind tell me seer if there are the times we were waiting for the foreseen days when something new would come the traditional old ways have become aged and obsolete suddenly we have the power to create The down will come, this night will come to an end The sun will shine again The life will turn and everything will change The down will come, believe me my old friend Your life will start again From the small things a smile, a glance, believe me
17.
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH The dream has gone, now I am alone and I believe I will be me, really me The life begins, it’s time to do All I have learned in this journey inside my fears, away The dream has passed, it’s time to make a choice To take the decisions, to do what counts To face the right and wrong The real is here, it’s the moment of truth To make my dreams real, to make them concrete To take them in this world The time of decisions, of balances and counts This road is so hard, but I think it is The only way that allows me to be
18.
JOIN THE LOVE Someone has told someone that love is to share Then listen to me my friend Take all your belongings with you and join us at Joyful mews Where there is just good news Join the love and share it out with all Play this song to everyone you know Give your smile, happiness and joy To the people all around the world Dancing at the rhythm of the love That keeps beating in the heart Join the love and give it to the world Everyone is close in one great soul Take my hand and dance with me tonight The dance of beauty in the shining light This circle is growing up some more Come with us and join the love You can find us easily, just by the flowers smell And by the music in the air Ring a ring of roses a pocketful of posies And the world will change Maybe it seems too easy but the life is a joke of fools We just need to agree the new shape the world will be The matter is whether we could make it together, but let’s try Join the love and share it out with all Play this song to everyone you know Give your smile, happiness and joy To the people all around the world Dancing at the rhythm of the love That keeps beating in the heart Join the love and give it to the world Everyone is close in one great soul Take my hand and dance with me tonight The dance of beauty in the shining light This circle is growing up some more Come with us and join the love

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Third instalment of the Inner Quest series, Light and Darkness is maybe the more enigmatic one. It embodies literally two souls, Light and Darkness, not intended as opposite but rather as complementary. The differences in genre, mood, sound among the tracks reflect this concept, and while sometimes the songs appear distant from each other, surprisingly the overall work is very organic and consistent.

The lyrics root in the deepness of philosophy, but even in abstractions and myths as well as in the simplest things of everyday life, as if to say that everything coexists simultaneously, like different layers that compose the reality, each layer having the same importance of the others.
This is a concept album, like the earlier ones, and all the albums are a concept as well, related to the Inner Quest.

The first one, Anima Mundi, is related to a personal quest, the research of the inner self.

The second one, New Knights, is the further step. Once we have reached ourselves, even if not completely, a choice needs to be made, and the ultimate, possible choice is to put our own experience and realization at disposal of the others, as keepers of higher principles, just like Knights do.

This final chapter explores the apparent opposites in many different ways and forms giving to this subject a third kind of vision, one that considers the so-called opposites as couples.

So black and white are both different grades of colours, the sun and the moon in some way contain each other and an eclipse is the conjunction of them, the day and the night are essentials part of the day, the Light and the Darkness metaphorically and philosophically could be considered as the constituents of the reality, the left and the right hand are joined together and while doing this they create a third thing.

It’s not about pretending that there isn’t something wrong or right, it’s a more comprehensive point of view, which overcomes conflicts, stances, prejudices and beliefs.
So, the binary logic is defeated in favour of a three-dimensional vision.

Abstractions and ordinary life are treated the same way, not giving more importance to one or the other.

At the end, “this world is a joke of fools”, and the last song is both literally an invitation not to consider ourselves so important and a funny joke.

This work even musically overcomes differences and styles, and while it could be considered as Prog, melodic Prog, or post prog in some parts, other tracks are not so easily definable.

We could use the term Prog not in a technical way but rather as a musical journey free of schemes, prejudices, rules. A journey that adopts the musical language which embodies the subject, the mood and content the most, and explores different approaches to the music writing in the most creative way. Including ways that are distant to the genre.

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released June 23, 2021

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Be Cause London, UK

Be Cause is an open project aimed to overcome the boundaries of the musical genres with a multi layered approach to the lyrics.
The content of the lyrics has often more than a literal meaning, and the music - while in the first three albums is related to progressive - it will be not stuck to a specific genre.
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