Now and Zen

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Smoke

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Everybody dies
Everything is lost
Everybody cries
Life’s precious cost

Every price you paid
Decisions that you made
All make sense somehow
And it all adds up to now

Refrain:
Living life
From the inside out
Sometimes it’s beautiful
Sometimes it is just what it is

Everybody rents
It all goes away
But everything of value (is)
Within your reach today

Keep this in mind
As it disappears
And memories of tomorrow
Wash across the years

Refrain:
It’s good to see you
Baby, how you been
Relax with a cocktail
Equal parts of Now and Zen
Of Now and Zen

Don’t let time make
A prisoner of you
When you’re lost in thought
It’s an easy thing to do

Focus here and now
At first that might seem small
But when the light explodes
Suddenly it’s all…baby, all there is

Refrain:
And this is you
Has always been
It’s always now
(Always now) And now again
And now again…

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