Listening to Music by Sean

I So Believe In Love is a song about big, simple, love. What gives you confidence?  What makes you feel strong?  My best answer is loving someone who loves you back.  In the song I So Believe in Love, I explore the unblushing joy one feels at love's first arrival and the strength of heart one knows after sharing love for thousands and thousands of days.  This is a song of celebration.I So Believe In Love (words and music by Sean Riley)Is it true?I hope it's true.What they sometimes say about love.Wonder what's true about love.I'm in love.Yes it true.I know it true.What they sometimes say about love.Now that I know about love.I'm in love.I so believe in love.Big simple love.Enduring changing love.I so believe in love.I'm love.Now that love has found me.The world has grown, I'm so free.Wonder, joy surrounds me.I am confidence.  I am strong.Yes it true.I know it true.What they sometimes say about love.Now that I know about love.I'm in love.I so believe in love.Big simple love.Enduring changing love.I so believe in love.I'm love.

I dream concentric is a song about awakenings.Have you ever dreamt you were dreaming and woke only to find you where still asleep?   Some thinkers suggest our experience of life and the world is merely a construct aggregated from our senses: A dream created for survival through prediction.  I like to think that our experiencing mind is created for meaning, and with that mind, we are continually invited to awake into a next grander dream.To listen to more music by Sean go to seanriley.com/music.    If you could choose, what would you dream?I Dream Concentric (Words and music by Sean Riley)I woke to a still world dreamingsilent save for the sound of breathingI hear your song in bright morning airmy mind sings and soars I am awareI woke to a still world dreamingsilent save for the sound of breathing

God Beware is a song about not letting go.Would you resurrect a departed love, performing spells of reanimation while pulling sinews and bone from covering clay?  If you could, what consequence would such a dark act also deliver?  It's true some partings seem impossible to reconcile, but continuing to court the past, even in thought, leads to the greater casualty of hope.To hear more music by Sean,  go to seanriley.com/music/.   What past have you not laid to rest?God Beware (words and music by Sean Riley)Is this now or memory?Are you here, beside me?When I wake alone,Your gone.I should be brave and let you go.But cast a spell in midnight snow.So your ghost is bound,To me.God beware, my prayer.It is wrong keeping  you from rest?I hold your bones against my chest.Can't let go of who,I was.Is this now or memory?Are you here, beside me?When I wake alone,Your gone.God beware, my prayer

Always Darkest is a song about the endurance of hope.Many would lessen hope to childish and rosy magical thinking that view the world as it is not. Yet, hope allows us the vision to conceive things as they could be. Hope assumes a future making space for possibilities. It is brave to hope out loud and not sink under dark waters. Well founded optimism is contagious and is what we all need, especially in the Always Darkest last moment of night.Thank you for listening to music by sean. To hear more music by sean go to seanriley.com/music. When was the last time hope prevailed over your darkest moment?Always Darkest (words and music by Sean Riley)Its always darkest near the end.The loosing streak before the win.I believe that light is just around the corner.Just get through this night.I'm proud we've held together.Enduring this brutal weather.I believe that light is just around the corner.Love will prove us right.Keep awake and search the darkness.Finding those to help us spark this.I believe that light is just around the corner.Tomorrow's looking very bright.Its always darkest near the end.The loosing streak before the win.I believe that light is just around the corner.Just get through this night.

She Said Yes is a song about Love's arch. Does love at first sight exist? Do we ever really really know anyone? Imagine if at a glance we understood what an entire life with that person would be. Would we choose better? Or, is the best of love what happens once plans fail. If you'd like to hear more music by Sean, please visit seanriley.com/music. For what question did you most want to hear the answer "yes"?She Said Yes (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)Please stay awhile. She said yes.Take my hand. She said yes. Do you love me back? She said yes.Will you share this life? She said yes. Is this our golden age? She said yes.I can't believe the time. She said yes.Is it twilight yet? She said yes.Please hold my hand.

Roll Big is a song about those times when you just got to dance. We've felt it, the irresistible desire to dance. There are times when the body follows its own kinetic potential, submitting to a rhythm's unremitting mandate. At a more basic part of us resides a language of movement which resinates and flourishes when we dance together. This primordial logic is legacy programming from a more ancient time . . . even before the 70s. If you would like to hear other music by Sean please go to https://seanriley.com/music/. What song compels you to dance?Roll Big (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)I've felt the truth of funkAnd the bliss of swayI know my 1 and 3 But 4 is where I playArch your backLean right inI'll mind where we go Syncopated babeThat's it down belowRoll big Dance sexyRoll bigDance sexyKeep the course but use the floorFeel the swing through your hairLet the rhythm push youBystander do bewareShake it down, shake it downRight there to the shameSyncopated babeHold still your to blameRoll big Dance sexyRoll bigDance sexy

Let the Wolf is a song about finding courage after disappointment. Sometimes simply our breath is the best and most comforting companion when we are defeated. Because breathing is both conscious and unconscious, it can bridge between a specific disappointment and greater potential possibilities. Breathe to let the Wolf in and sit with its wild discomfort. Breathe to hear what a loss is inviting us to become. Let the Wolf (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)BreatheWhat's trueBreatheWe'll get throughThis is not the endIt's just starting starting startingJust BreatheWe're hereBreatheIt's okay dear This is not the endIt's just starting starting startingLet the wolf comeThe crow singThe wind howlYour ears ringLike dawnWe will riseIf you would like to hear just the music in this episode or any other music by Sean please visit seanriley.com/music. What big disappointment made you into something better?

Untethered is an instrumental song suggesting the trust needed in letting go. Imagine spacewalking miles over the rotating earth and needing to untether yourself to float into the arms of safety. Or consider swinging on a trapeze five stories high in the air, only to let go, trusting the net will catch you. Letting go of what feels secure can be paralyzing, but trusting in yourself provides the power to move and grow.To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. Send me a message @seanriley on Twitter.Untethered (music by Sean Riley)

Abeyance is a song about returning what's past.Do the dead speak to us? Can they hear our whispered incantations. In the song Abeyance, I invite the hollowed stillness that thins what separates our time from all time so that what's past can be present, what's forgotten remembered, and what's lost can still be loved. If you like to download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What beautiful secret would you like to her from someone who's past? Abeyance (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)With candle, spellAnd hands held tightWe call you to this roomWith incense, bellAnd spirits brightWe hail you from your tombHow am I sure it's youTell me something that's trueI miss youNo more to tellFarewells made rightI still smell perfume

I don't Know My Name is a song about what happens after the end of the world.Is there life after ruin? Can one return from disaster? It's been said despair is the last refuge for those whose world has been dashed. It is despair that provides a moment of frozen numbness to choose between continuing to wish for what was, or stand up and transform into something new. To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. Do you have a life after the end of the world story? Tell me about it @seanriley on Twitter.I Don't Know My Name (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)I crash-landed on a lonely field under a steel grey skyThere’s blood on my hands and blood on my face (but I didn’t die)I walk away from the smoldering wreck across the muddy plainI don’t recognize this land anymore, I don’t know my nameI’m not a hero just lucky enough to outlive my deathI don’t have anything, don’t own anything but I can hold my breathPride pushed me to the stars and pride pulled me to earthWill you still take me even after I’ve fallen and lost my worth

Into Light is a song about the third option.If, as the many-worlds theory may suggest, every choice creates a new universe, then there is always another option. Ancient Irish lore celebrates the Tuatha De Danann people who avoided a hopeless battle by simply disappearing into light right before their enemy's charge. It is rumored they flourish today, just not exactly in our world. Story or not, the advice holds that we sometimes win not through battle but by simply choosing to create a better place - a world where entrance is only available to those who can disappear Into Light . To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What unexpected option revealed itself to you that saved everything? Tell me about it @seanriley on Twitter.Into Light (words and music by Sean Riley)In our warThere's still a wayTo be more than thisWe can go where no one has goneAnd be moreThan what was dreamt for usJust disappear into the lightSurly BondsHold no graspTo those who dare what's rightThere's still a land undiscovered Right hereOnly a choice awayJust disappear into the light

Stain is a song about un-acknowledge culpability.How do you right a wrong? How do you heal the transgressed? Some injustices violate so profoundly they can stain the heart of a generation erasing all optimism. Observers of atrocity reconciliation claim only a truthful acknowledgment of the crime can initiate healing and peace. However, giving statement is both uncomfortable and unwelcome, but without it the Stain will remain.To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What is your most difficult reconciliation? Tell me about it @seanriley on Twitter.Stain (words and music by Sean Riley)We have a past.Mistakes where made.How can I make amends? I don't want to be uncomfortable.The stain still remains.The stain remains.We have history.That's really bad.How can I fix this? I don't want to be responsible.The stain still remains.The stain remains.There were some injuries.Blood on the walls.How can I heal this? I don't want to take my medicine.The stain still remains.The stain still remains.

Anatomical is a song about brevity.What is the half-life of a moment? How many moments span a life? The average human lives roughly 30,000 days. 30,000 days to grow, learn, work, live, love, and give. Currently, I have just over 10,000 days left. This feels abundant. So many moments, cups of coffee, glasses of wine, books to read, times to say "I love you", Sunday mornings to sleep in, and countless meals shared with people dear to me. And against all of that, just one last day. To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What makes your best days so good? Let me know @seanriley on Twitter. Anatomical (words and music by Sean Riley)One breathOne nightIs that all we have?One ageOne lifeFeels like less than halfAfter all I'm only humanBone and bloodAnd heartOne kissOne dayThis is a golden timeOne blinkOne beatHow long your mineAfter all I'm only humanBone and bloodAnd heartAfter all I'm only humanSeems way too soonTo part

80s Leather Pants is a song about possessing a Talisman. Do you possess an object that makes you feel young or powerful? Do you believe luck can be gifted?In myth, a Talisman is a magical device such as a ring endowed with mystic energy to bless a life. At the beginning of an adventure, the elder would give the hero such an object that would soon prove crucial. Myth is not restrained to just the old tales but lives today in the stories we tell ourselves of who we are. What do you hold to keep your hopes and possibilities? It could be a bracelet, a book, your first concert t-shirt, or even a pair of 80s Leather Pants.To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What makes you feel amazing? Tell me @seanriley on Twitter. 80s Leather Pants (words and music by Sean Riley)When I feel like I need a little more.Slide right into what I adore, in my 80s leather pants.When I was young I missed what youth was forNever strutted out on the dance floor, in my 80s leather pants.I put them on and I feel, amazing.Alone in the dark clad shiny and black.Skin on skin wearing leather Prozac, in my 80s leather pants.I feel so much power when I put them on.Bury me and I'll live long past dawn, in my 80s leather pants.

Underground is a song about depth. Myth paints the deep underground as a place of divine insight and spiritual transformation. Only in the starless black of the underworld do our heroes find truth's light. Such brave voyages can also occur in our everyday lives through the emotional labor of generous and meaningful interaction. We exist in conversation: with ourselves, the world, and most importantly with those we love. The brave ones go deep by committing to the genius of the moment. Their love runs past the shallows far underground beyond what mere words can exchange. To download jus the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What's the farthest underground you have been? Tell me about it @seanriley on Twitter.

Cross the Horizon is a song about choice. Do we have free will? Maybe less than we like: Try deciding what your next thought will be. Do we have choice? Maybe more than we believe. Some choices are like event horizons, once taken all other options collapse, leaving only one inexorable path. So is love a choice we decide, or is it something that is decided for us? To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. Do we choose love or does it choose us. Let me know @seanriley on Twitter.

Hold Me is about reckless appeal. And your listening to Music by Sean.They say fear is an aphrodisiac, that we are most alive when dying, most attracted while trusting someone untrue. Near drowning victims speak of a clarity and stillness appearing just after the struggle just as inequitable liaisons provide glimpses of obsidian solace. In Hold Me, the singer offers no caution or heightened perspective, there isn't even a chorus in this song to lift us from the prostrate submission. To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done, tell me @seanriley on Twitter.

I'm Falling is a love note to the song Space Oddity. Can you grow up loving a song? Can life have a soundtrack?Much of my childhood accompanied Bowie's song Space Oddity. I believed in a world of space flight and science fiction whose evolved astronauts had the freedom to not be precisely defined. In the song I'm Falling, I replay a space explorer's uncertain descent. I may not have the stars, but love is always worth falling for.To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. Tell me what song was the soundtrack of your childhood @seanriley on Twitter. I'm Falling (words and music by Sean Riley)I'm FallingSecure up here in my orbit. Hermetically sealed warm and dry.I'm Safe from the blackness If I go outside, I'll dieThen you signal from ground controlI hear you loud and clearI'm fallingI'm fallingFor youI activate braking thrustersBeginning decent reducing speedTemperature is risingI've lost communication feedI'm flying hot in the blindI think my ship is on fire I'm fallingI'm fallingFor youMy parachute is holding meNow I'm on a wave in the seaI'm fallingI'm fallingFor you

Machine of Change is a song about remaking the world. How do you change the world? How do you change your mind? In the song Machine of Change, I work though how such remaking starts with just a single spark of vulnerability invited not through force but by loving kindness. Believing in someone's potential is contagious and can chain-react, changing everything. In this production, I primarily use monophonic synthesizer patches and keyboard envelope percussion sourcing from a pink noise generator. To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. When was last time you changed your mind about something important. Tell me about it via Twitter @seanriley Machine of Change (words and music by Sean Riley)I built a machine of changeSet to maximum range Powered with a flame of hopeYes I'm a misanthropeDimming fear and spiteWhile warming the lonely nightWith my machine of changeDistopia is rearrangedThere's no violence in my designIt's method is anodyne I believe in youI built a machine of changeSet to maximum range Powered with a flame of hopeYes I'm a misanthrope

Little Light is a song about the light we sometimes see. Have you ever closed your eyes and seen a light? Not the subtle shimmering we all notice behind our eyelids, but a moment of pronounced light? Have you ever met someone new and had the sudden recognition that you two will be great friends, feeling this recognition as a brightening of the air around you?In the song Little Light, I work to understand how such light mark moments as true. I know such dazzling light can be attributed to ocular migraines and even synesthesia, and this reality dims the mysticism, but not the meaning or experience. The production here is limited to analog synthesis using simple waveforms and a non-sampled drum machine. To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. I'm curious, have you closed your eyes and seen a light? Tell me about it, via Twitter @seanriley.Little Light (words and music by Sean Riley)Little light i saw one night, drift across the skyWas that a friend of mine, someone who just diedLittle light that shines so bright when I close my eyes Is it a migraine some flickering trick that liesLittle light I day dreamt when I was just a boyWas it synesthesia or a prequel to love's joyLittle light surround me now telling me what is trueIt was them the whole time, leading me to youYou were always there in my futureI can see the light in your eyes

Shine is a song about transformation. I am inspired by the brave ones who live an authentic life out-loud. I am so heartened by those who are dealt a difficult path yet find their way. In the song Shine, I consider discontinuity and transformation through percussion loops and tape-based echo effects. We've all felt out of step, but when that syncopation is rooted in the core truth of one's identity, that is NOT a misstep, it's a dance, a dance that let's us all shine.To download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. I'm curioius, when did you or someone you know last shine? Tell me about it, via twitter @seanrileyShine (words and music by Sean Riley)You are a shooting starYou'll go far, so very farUse the weight of the world, the world's weightTo shine.Shine. Shine. Shine.You are a shooting starYou'll go far, so very farUse the weight of the world, the world's weightTo shine.Shine. Shine. Shine.

Green Flash at Sunset, a song about doing nothing.Who would you be if you had nothing to do? No problems to solve, questions to answer, or worries to resolve? Who would you be if the voice in your head continually telling the story of what is good or bad grew comfortably still. Who would we be? In the song Green Flash at Sunset, I explore this idea. How does spending time doing nothing reminds us of why we chose each other in the first place. Here, time is luxury and abundance resides in the simple act of sitting with someone you love. To download just the music of this episode go to seanriley.com/music. And I'm curious, what was your best moment of doing nothing? Let me know via Twitter @seanrileyGreen Flash at Sunset (words and music by Sean Riley)Sit with me, have some wineWe have the timeGreen flash at sunsetNo where to goFloat with me, in the bayWe have all day (and night)Green Flash at sunsetNo where to goGreen Flash at sunsetNo where to goSit with me, have some wineWe have the timeGreen Flash at sunsetNo where to go