Mindshift is a family of songs that express a shift in my perspective of the world, mostly written while I was living in Scotland in 2007. After Falling (2006), I felt that I'd written my share of love songs, and did some soul searching and traveling to uncover another source of inspiration.

During this time I mostly lived in my notebook, letting thoughts pour in and out of me. Days spent in Glasgow's beautiful parks inspired songs about the law of attraction, connecting with the Earth, the destructive ways this human culture operates, wolf wisdom, and the power of presence. Basically this album documents my experience of personal evolution, a mindshift to a more conscious perspective.

We know so many languages
We speak so many words
We make our noises louder than
Voices that go unheard

But it’s an incomplete harmony; we’re not listening to what we sing.

We write a symphony with every day that passes
With our own melodies so loud, we don’t hear clashes
We all sing the only song in this universe
It’s our decision if this is better or worse

It’s an incomplete harmony, we’re not listening to what we sing

Tsunami, a tsnuami, a tsunami, tsunami

A human life is so short; it rolls and crashes like a wave on the shore.

If we are like waves across the ocean
We rise and fall, continuing the motion of
Everything that we have ever been, and
Everything that we are doing

The force of human nature is taking over…

Every wave moves the sand; as every life transforms the land.

We’re rolling over, crashing all that we can see
We move with the media and take what we don’t need
We raise the temperatures and continue to breed, and
As the ice caps melt, we’re a
Tsunami, a tsunami, a tsnuami, tsunami

The force of human nature is taking over…

And we don’t feeling it but we’re raping Mother Earth
Doing what we want and forgetting what is Hers

The force of human nature is taking over…

When will we stop and think? When will we start to feel?

From a factory farm to a slaughter house
Just close your eyes and open your mouth
From a laboratory to a living being
Just forget the story and keep on eating

What the fuck are they feeding us?
Tell me, what the fuck are we feeding ourselves?

From a third world country to a grocery shelf
Don’t think about them and help yourself
From a marketing boardroom to a colourful box
Just put it inside you and don’t stop

What the fuck are they feeding us?
Tell me, what the fuck are we feeding ourselves?

Take all of your problems and all of your pain
Here’s a short-term solution: eat them away
Take all of your money and all of your thoughts
Here’s de-evolution at low cost

What the fuck are they feeding us?
Tell me, what the fuck are we feeding ourselves?

If we are what we eat, and we eat what we kill
Maybe we’re slowly killing ourselves
If I am what I eat then I am what they make me
From now on I won’t be anything but what I choose to be

I want to plant a seed and watch it grow
Learn the things I want to know
Follow my dreams down a country road
Somewhere in southern Ontario

I want to find a place to call my home
Listen to the land and let it bloom from it’s soul
We can plant our hearts and watch them grow
Somewhere in southern Ontario

Would you like to walk along
Fields of sweet corn that seem to go on forever
Would you like to come along
Oh, the seeds that we could sow together

Let’s follow our dreams down a country road
We’ll go anywhere you’d like to go
We can plant our hearts and watch them grow
Somewhere in southern Ontario

I’m laying on the couch, staring at the screen
Lights and messages and people I see
My body is limp, my brain is thick
And I am forgetting everything
I forgot there is sun outside
I forgot that I am alive
I forgot the blue of the sky
I forgot to open my eyes

I’m standing on the grass, looking at the sky
Wondering, wondering, wondering why
I’ve wasted so many hours of my life
Hypnotized
I forgot there is sun outside
I forgot that I am alive
I forgot my unwritten lines
I forgot my freedom of mind

The lake, the sky, the birds, the trees, the wealth of possibilities!
The life around and inside me, the world is all my family!

I forgot there is sun outside
I forgot that I am alive
I forgot there is sun outside
I forgot that I am alive
I forgot the flowing of time
I forgot that this life is mine
I forgot to let my light shine

She is alive, but she doesn’t know why
She opens her mind, and looks for signs
She decides to do what makes her heart sing

She has the recipe to turn her dreams into reality

Her dreams shine, like treasure across the desert
She will find friends along the way
Her red heart is a gentle compass

She has the recipe to turn her dreams into reality

Your memory is part of me, like
Decomposing autumn leaves
Become the earth that’s underneath
Your love is sleeping peacefully

Time passes in days, months, years
I still remember what was here
The seeds we planted grow in sand
That’s blowing away slowly.

Now leaves grow out of me
In colours my eyes can’t believe
Another day, another dream
Your memory is part of me
Another day, another dream
Your memory will always be

Your memory is part of me, like
Decomposing autumn leaves
Decome the earth that’s underneath
Your love is sleeping peacefully

The full moon, it fills the night
It shows a world where all’s not right
I run to the mountain, I run up high
And my only instinct is to sing to the sky
Oooooooooo…

This foreign land has shown me my own bones
My skeleton of beliefs
All this rain, all this time alone
Have washed away my debris
I look from a tower of priviledge down to a galaxy of lights
And my only instinct is to sing to the sky.
Oooooooooo…

Can you hear the song from my soul
Travelling with the wind?
I can feel you across the world, I believe we are kin
In this moment, we are united, together by life
And my only instinct is to sing to the sky
Oooooooooo…

This world is ours, this world is us
And everything that we love
This is the time, we need to help eachother
Learn and rise above
And although our lives are small, compared to it all
We are very powerful and mustn’t let this world fall
Oooooooooo…

A waterfall of music pushes us to dance together
And in this rainbow darkness, we are birds of the same feather
A wave of electricity surrounds and pulls us under
We swim between the vines of light towards the moan of thunder

Be my lover
If only tonight
Be my lover
This moment is right

You are a sweet fruit fallen from a tree I’ve never been to
I’m salivating, I’d love nothing more now than to taste you

Be my lover
If only tonight
Be my lover
This moment is right

Be my je ne sais quoi, je ne sais quoi, je ne sais quoi, je ne sais quoi…

A waterfall of music pushes us to dance together, and in this rainbow darkness we are birds of the same feather

Be my lover
If only tonight
Be my lover
This moment is right