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This song is filled with calls for peace in our communities, nations and for refugees. A special thanks to Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca for inspiration from his song 80's for the drum pattern.

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Rowing down this sacred river
through the sunlight, through the storms,
let the current guide your travels,
humbly bowing to the flow.

See the boats pass
tense and hurried,
set their coarse for mines of gold,
where they hope to shed their worries,
bathing in a false disguise.

Lord Almighty - bless the cold heart,
spread some love across this land,
to people hopeless, people crying,
people kept away from peace.


There's a strange wind a'blowin'
callin' out for Peace.
Show me a bit of this peace they speak of,
would you please?

There's a rumor goin' round:
there's a peaceful place
out beyond this sound,
the confines of this space.

Peace in our body.
Peace in our mind.
Peace in this city,
take hold at this time.
Where can we find it?

I feel it slip in through the cracks,
supplanting something good,
something great,
some little mystery,
pouring in through every pore,
infusing into my blood cells,
and particles, and my fingertips,
through the keys,
and every word I speak.

May it grow out with the fractal systems,
fraying out in endless spiral motion,
ocean, potion, explosion,
flowing out to the heavens,
every home and hut
and farm and alley,
city, suburb, field and valley.

I feel the sun sinking down again below the horizon.
Thunder clouds have crawled,
and clustered into chaos,
endless earthquakes,
toward demise of our design.

Refugees reaching for release.
Peace!


See the hint of fearless spirit,
held inside a child's eye.
Therein lies the soft equation,
sure to heal the hardest heart

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from Soft Equation, released December 15, 2021

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Steven Hobert Luck, Wisconsin

Pianist, composer, explorer - reveling in life’s mysteries through improvisation. Music to transport, heal, emote and challenge.
A breadth of texture and emotion incorporating musical vocabulary and spirit from America, West Africa, and Northern Europe. ... more

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