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  Kathleen Hannan

Songs for Our Journey 36

9/11/2019

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I believe that we only awaken to our true nature when we see through the false promises of divisive thought.  In the days following September 11, 2001, Rumi's poem (translated by Coleman Barks)  ran through my mind over and over and over.  "Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field, I'll meet you there.  When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.  Ideas, language, even the phrase each other, doesn't make any sense" 

I started working on this song that December, and continued for years, always feeling that something wasn't quite finished yet. After about three years, in a deep meditation, the truth of Rumi's poem became evident.   All ideas of right and wrong, and the suffering that come with those ideas, eventually disappear, just as all thoughts and all forms disappear. What remains is the Heart,  the open, spacious, silent, aware, ever present truth of who we are and what everything is.  Even through these troubled times on Earth, that heart lives in all of us, deeper than form, deeper than thought, deeper than sorrow.  And the song finished itself.
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Out Beyond That Road
© K Hannan 2004

No colors in the world, just black and white
You were wrong and I was right
But I won't go down that road no more
I won't go down that road no more
'Cause we knew in our hearts when the towers fell
We can make a heaven, we can make a hell
And I won't go down that road no more
I won't go down that road no more
I know that out beyond that road there is a field
Out beyond that road there is a beautiful field
When the soul lies down in that grass
The world is so full
The world is so full
The world is too full to talk about

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Even words like you and me 
don't mean nothin' when we get down in that field
In that field of the heart

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Out beyond that road there is a field
Out beyond that road there is a field
Out beyond that road....

Where the heart does not need to ask
The heart does not need to ask
The heart does not need to ask
​The heart does not need to ask
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Where the smallest flower on the smallest grass
Shines with the answers to the question
Heart does not need to ask

The heart does not need to ask
The heart does not need to ask
Love I'll meet you in that field
Out beyond ideas. in that field of Love

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4 Comments
Lois Hill
9/14/2019 08:43:45 am

I so love this song, Kathleen...such a beautiful co-creation with Rumi,
your great heart and lovely voice joined with other hearts and voices
pouring love and understanding into other lives, inviting them all to
come join you in that field of love. It lights me up, opens me, and fills
me with gratitude. Thank you for your wonderful work in the world. Lois

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Kathleen Hannan
9/14/2019 10:10:48 am

Thanks so much Lois! I feel that same deep gratitude singing this song with you and with others. Gratitude for Rumi's poem, and for this love song that came out the suffering of 9/11. The miracle of that still stuns me, how suffering is transmuted to peace in the heart. Namaste!

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Lauren Martell
9/11/2020 07:27:32 pm

I was a few days from giving birth to my son when the towers fell. I was grieving and scared when I went into labor wondering what sort of world my son would be born into. To be able to sing this song with you in the years after was extremely healing. Thank you for writing it and sharing it with us. Love, Lauren

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Kathleen Hannan
9/11/2020 09:24:15 pm

Dear Lauren,
Thank you so mch for your note, you are so welcome. Singing with you is always extremely healing for me as well. And recording this with you and others was a huge blessing in my life. Thank you for that! Love, Kathleen

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