Dance Video

I don’t know if you can tell (you probably can), but I was really angry that day.  Angry and tired.  All things considered, by the end of the night I felt as if I had taken myself on a date and full again.  

I chose this song because it speaks of what I was grappling with that day: my own pride and greed in the form of enviousness.  The more, more, more false ego that is stuck in this delusion of jealousy and anger at myself for not doing enough, when all I have to do it be.  I am enough; and so are you.  I don’t have to prove myself to anyone.  All I have to do is believe in my own inherent strengths to inspire, while other people hopefully do the same.  We all have something to contribute to this creatrix that is uniquely ours.  I truly believe that.  We are all creators in our own right, brilliant frozen light in a corporeal form.  I’m happy to have gotten this out in the form of dance.

Music: Thrice – Only Us

Equipment: My GoPro

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Lyrics:

I see through your eyes
You breathe with my lungs
I strain with your ear to make out
The words your mother sung
I bless with your hand (Bless with your hand)
You pray on my knees (Pray on my knees)
It's my blood in your veins
And your heart is beating in me

[Chorus]
Finally when will it be enough
To find there's no them
There is only us
There's only us

I strike with your fist
You shoot with my gun
We spit in your face with my mouth
And curse me with your tongue
We cast us aside (Cast us aside)
We silence our plea (Silence our plea)
But the system that terrifies you
Should terrify me

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[Chorus]
Finally when will it be enough
To find there's no them
There is only us
Finally when will it be enough
To find there's no them
There is only us
There's only us

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We burn at our stakes
We die by our swords
We choke in our trenches
We drown in our wars
We're locked in our chains
Though we long to be free
We keep building walls
Till it's so hard to see
We are one with everything
We are one
But it's so hard to see

[Chorus]
Finally when will it be enough
To find there's no them
There is only us
Finally when will it be enough
To find there's no them
There is only us
There's only us

Artist: Thrice

Album: Palms

Release year: 2018

Personal Note: This was the first song that I danced to in public in its entirety.  There’s a lot of waving arm movements and specifically, focus on my left shoulder.  I’m wondering if that’s remedial for a stored trauma I had once. Using my arms is a motif I've noticed in most of my dance routines.