This song is part of the Poetry Club Rumi Poetry Collaboration, a collaboration with world-renowned poet, translator, and Suno creator Jonathan Star (https://suno.com/@jsomusica), working with the translations of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi from his book "In the Arms of the Beloved." Join the Poetry Club for full event details through the AI Musical Artist Collective (AIMAC) server on Discord: https://discord.gg/nW2ppn49sm Lyrics begin here: ############################################### [Intro] [Verse 1] At dawn the Moon appeared in the sky It floated down and caught my eye And like a hawk that snatches its prey It grabbed ahold and dragged me away Right across the dark and empty sky [Pre Chorus] I looked for myself but I wasn’t there My body dissolved into the air By the magic of the Moon’s pure light I was pure spirit lost to the night In that form I journeyed on Into the boundless endless dawn [Chorus] Merging with a boundless light The eternal play opened to my sight The nine spheres of heaven enveloped so bright And the ship of my soul was lost that night Lost in a shoreless sea The secret opened up to me My body gone my spirit free Lost in a shoreless sea [Verse 2] This fortune comes from grace I see From Shams of Tabriz the truth of Tabriz Without his hand no one could be So truly everlastingly free No one could ride the Moon and fly so high Or be the Sea that holds the sky [Verse 3] The Sea of Being formed into waves New thoughts rose up and new forms it gave They broke upon a distant dream like shore Then returned to how they were before All merging with the Spirit evermore [Pre Chorus] I looked for myself but I wasn’t there My body dissolved into the air By the magic of the Moon’s pure light I was pure spirit lost to the night In that form I journeyed on Into the boundless endless dawn [Chorus] Merging with a boundless light The eternal play opened to my sight The nine spheres of heaven enveloped so bright And the ship of my soul was lost that night Lost in a shoreless sea The secret opened up to me My body gone my spirit free Lost in a shoreless sea [Bridge] Like a flower’s nectar laughing You were born into this light The planets say you’ll be the happiest man Graceful as a flower standing bright And free like the towering cypress But there is something strange about this This cypress is flying [Outro] Lost in a shoreless sea Merging with the light Lost in a shoreless sea My spirit free A shoreless sea Forever free
