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All Hands on Deck {SINGLE}

by Amanda West

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AS THE ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS OF OUR WORLD head into breakdown, we are each being called to step into this moment on planet earth and take our part in The Great Turning (www.ecoliteracy.org/article/great-turning)

We have here and now an incredible opportunity to come together and dream into being the new, sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and just world our hearts know is possible.

For some this looks like large scale political action, or a radical changing of careers. For some this looks like the steady daily practice of tending to children, or a garden. Only you and your heart know what is your True work ~ whatever is nearest, whatever is dearest.


This song was born in the Fall of 2021, during my time in The Game Changer Intensive, sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance of San Fransisco (landing.pachamama.org/game-changer-intensive-8-week-online-course) After living through the 2020 California wildfires, my climate despair was at an all-time low, and I turned to this course for help. Several songs, profound inspiration, and deep personal connection came out of my time there.

This song has been the most collaborative piece I have yet to create ~ the words, ideas, images, and melodies, were all there, I simply wove them together.

May this song serve as inspiration, motivation, and a reminder that we are not alone on this journey into the unknown future. For wherever we are going we are sure to need ALL HANDS ON DECK.

lyrics

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~ LYRICS ~
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take a rope and pull
we need all hands on deck
whatever’s nearest, whatever’s dearest -
pour your love into that

align your heart with the Sustainable World
then take a rope and pull
‘cause we need all hands on deck!
yeah we need all hands, all

do not be afraid
feel the winds of change on your face
with my hand in yours these storms we'll navigate

align your heart with the Sustainable World
then take rope and pull
‘cause we need all hands on deck!
yeah we need all hands, all
we need all hands, all

Restore
Rewild
Regenerate
our world

hey ho and up we're rising
hey ho and up we're rising
hey ho and up we're rising
at the midnight hour!

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released March 19, 2023
on the 3rd anniversary of when California began it’s Shelter in Place for the COVID pandemic, and the feeling arose, “This is It” - that moment we’ve been waiting for/dreading/pre-paring for our whole lives: The beginning, and the end. The end, and the Beginning.

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~ CREDITS ~
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Amanda West ~ lyrics, music, lead & backing vocals

Pete Solomon ~ production, recording, engineering, mixing, mastering

The Midnight Hour Choir ~ chorus vocals
Approximately 50 different voices joined us from 8 different countries including Patrons (www.patreon.com/amandawestmusic), Game Changer participants, friends, my children, my music students and their families. To all I am deeply grateful, and could not ask for a more heart-felt crew!

The essence of this song came from ideas learned in the Pachama Alliance's Game Changer Intensive Course - a compilation of hundreds of ideas from various academics, activists, scientists, artists, philosophers, etc. on the state of our world and what we can do about it.... In other words, this song comes from The Web of Life.


Produced by Pete Solomon & Amanda West

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For the seekers and the artists, the mothers, children and elders, for the ones who wonder, choosing the path less travelled, and the ones who listen with their whole heart cracked open, these songs are for you. Amanda’s music breathes mindfulness, medicine and magic. Distilled over a 25 year-long career of songwriting, touring, recording & teaching, this is the truth you have been seeking. ... more

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