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Be here now (1979)
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Don't talk about Yoga and Zen to me - let's just make love!
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #1,400
Peak in subgenre #227
Author
Charles Cornelius Tyler
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Charles Cornelius Tyler
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August 11, 2008
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MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:49
Story behind the song
I went through a period of intense interest in all kinds of Eastern philosophy - Hinduism, Buddhism, Yoga, Zen - all that stuff. This song sums up a moment of realisation that talking about it was definitely not being in the 'now'! I made the recording in my room in 'The Elms' in Rottingdean, Sussex, UK in 1979. The picture shows my friend Brenda (not the subject of the song!) in the garden at the Elms that year.
Lyrics
When you ask what I believe in I don't know what to say Cause all my thoughts and my feelings come and go And nothing seems to stay And although it's a mystery That we are here at all I don't want to think why or how I wanna be here now Ooo - in a relative way! Well you read your books on Yoga And you tell me all your Zen And you talk about now and then And how it takes so long till we reach the end And though I hear the words you say You're a thousand miles away And I don't wanna work it out I wanna be here now Ooo - in a relative way! Well your skin looks so bright In this fresh morning light And I can see someone just like me Sitting in disguise behind your eyes And if you feel the way I do Well we can make it all come true I'm trying to get it to you somehow I wanna be here now Oh how I wanna be here I wanna be here now Be here now! Be here now! Wanna be here now Come on and be here Oh be here now Be here now! Oh be here now!! I'm trying to get it to you somehow I wanna be here now Ooooooooo - in a relative way!
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