"The Sanctuary Song" - More Fiddling with Lyrics

The lyrics below are pasted from Pages which is the word processor I need to get the file down to the iPad via iTunes. Yes, I'm serious as to that process. You can write the editorial on ludicrous but my purpose is to fiddle with the lyrics some more because ... they need some more fiddling.

X2 So much fear crawls out there (sung)
it consumes them everywhere
One moment they are here
and next they disappear

X3 We won't bring that inside
It's not that we would hide
but here we will have peace
we will not be denied


X1 You've come to find Sanctuary (spoken)
but you knew all along
it wasn't in the speeches
it was always in the song


X1 Just leave it behind (sung)
you won't need it here
Come feel the love
you've nothing to fear
anymore

sun shines on down / it’s coming around / in your life / in your heart

X2 Come into the light
Sanctuary is here
It's music and peace
it's always been near
next to you

sun shines on down / it’s coming around / in your life / in your heart

X3 Here are all of your dreams
Yes, they are what they seem
This is all real
you know what you feel
right now

sun shines on down / it’s coming around / in your heart / in your life

The lyrics aren't that clever.  There are no mystical references to anything in "Lord of the Rings" nor is there any particular metaphor.

John Locke wrote in, maybe, the 17th Century of mankind being in 'a constant state of war' and that was in a wide philosophical sense, much more than shooting guns at each other.  The first stanza is to address that but it still drills me with 'do it better.'

The form of the fear should not be named because they're afraid of everything from fluoride in the water to Muslims to a hostile state controlling their minds with chemicals in the contrails of jet aircraft.  When there is peace, there are afraid of that as well because then someone may take it away.

In "Dune," there's the Bene Gesserit mantra, 'fear is the mindkiller,' but that's hardly poetic either.

The first two stanzas are in the intro fanfare part.  This is the welcome to the Rockhouse and the second stanza is in thinking of "Imagine" in which Lennon suggests the possibility whereas here we want to bring you into it.

That's followed by one stanza about coming to find Sanctuary and may appear the reference to speeches is to spank politicians.  They deserve a great deal of spanking but it's more than that with, for example, white corporate executives giving speeches about diversity when they don't follow a word of it.  We get lectures incessantly from puritanical neo-femmes, etc, etc.  Yah, so we don't need speeches; conversation is good and songs even better but speeches hardly ever will be.

That brief bridge gets to the main body of the song and the stanzas in that one feels good to me.

This post will sit for a while and I may update it after some more thought.  The intention is to record the new-and-improved.  There is some additional thinking needed on whether it should go to the intro fanfare part to end it because the 'we will not be denied' seems a peach of a sentiment on which to close.

(Ed:  that sounds like a state of war)

It does and so more thought.  The other alternative is to end from the main body of the song because you're here, this is it, all-out trips and isn't this grand, much better than living in fear and here are all the others who have been 'imagining' ever since Lennon sang of this the first time.

(Ed:  what happened to the Rainbow Bridge?)

This is the same thing.