Tip My Hat to Love (demo)
By Mark Neihart
From around age 47 · Music from my 40's, see the decade on the Music page
Versions
- Tip My Hat to Love (demo)Sketches2009This take
- Tip My Hat to Love572017
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Lyrics
I Tip My Hat To Love (The wedding song) Mark Neihart 2010 Join me everybody As I tip my hat to love It takes my breath away When I hear the angels Sing above Babalis and Stoner Joined together on this day Love Came down and chased The clouds of doubt away Love is like a dancer in a river Full with bliss Splashing up the magic Between the lover and the kiss Splashing up a melody So sacred and divine All of us dancers We can’t help But step the time Cause were dancing Deep in the bliss of love Dancing Deep in the bliss of love I bow my head In humbleness When faced With the face of love Awestruck Wonder Heartland Fertile Peaceful Flying dove Found there spinning In the symmetry of truth And grace All of my wholeness Raptures As Love moves and shakes Love is like that dancer in a river Full with bliss Kind of like The Ecstasy Between the lover and the kiss Kind of like a secret That is Open in plain sight All awash in magic All awash in light Cause were dancing Deep in the bliss of love Dancing Deep in the bliss of love Join me everybody As I tip my hat To love It takes my breath Away When I hear the angels Sing above Babalis and Stoner Joined together on this day Love came down And chased the clouds of doubt Away
From Mark’s lyric sheet.Credits
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- Mark Neihart
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Join me as I tip my hat to Love
Join me as I tip my hat to Love. In genuine humbleness I bow low to my friend, my lover, and my master, Love. Love remains my only constant companion in this ever-changing world. So this is for Love… Love is still the reason we get up everyday. I am learning. Love is old and steady. Love is deep, deeper kind of love. Love is alive. What does that mean? I have heard it in songs that love is alive. But what does it really mean? When Love moves and we get to feel the breeze produced by this movement. This is what we feel, the reaction to love moving. It is very big, and ancient. Living longer than reaches of my imagination. Ancient and big, and turning, always turning, around and around and around and around without sound without anxiety, without threats, without longing, without restlessness. Love turns, around me, swirling me up in the eddies. The ebb and flow, the in and out, the love that is. This is what I see. This force, this existence, it has consequences. It has attributes, like my hands, love has form, and function. Though not easy to see, it is very easy to see. Love has miraculous powers, it has compassion, it cares. Love must have consciousness. I have seen it. It IS alive. Love cares about you and me. Love cares for us, like a mother feeding her young. Love cares for all of us. Love matters. The matter of mystery, Love is the mystery. The mystery is how it knows what we need, when we need, and how much we need. It’s just enough to get us through the door, Just enough to matter. Justice. And sometimes we get to get filled up and over. Bliss. Love bliss. Love ecstasy. Love moves. It has locomotion. It moves…never stuck, always moving, turning. It is so light and fluid, symmetrical chaos, like a mixture of water and air and feathers and clouds, SPIRIT. That spirit flows in the River. The river flows, the river knows, the river cares for you, it brings us together, it cares for us and provides for us. Never fear for love IS here. We dance in the ebb and we dance in the flow. We dance in loves bliss. We dance in the river. We dance in the river bliss. The light spray of misty love lights on my darkening skin. Truth is love and love is truth. The truth? The blissful truth. Love is the blissful truth. The spirit, the spirit that dances is the river bliss. The river bliss IS the truth. Bliss Dancer, spirit dancer. Love. I tip my hat to this blissful dancer. I watch in wonder and great humor as this dancer spins and twirls, eyes closed, smiling lips, very fine like silver chain. I tip my hat to this truth. Really I fall to my face and lay prostrate with humbleness. This is the realness of it all. Love holds me to the floor and I lay still in smiling blissful love.
Written by Mark, July 8, 2008 · In Writing →Story & notes
How the song came to be, in Mark’s own words.
Recording notes, instruments and versions.
Other versions
- Tip My Hatmix/master · MP32010-05-17
- Tip My Hat To Lovemix/master · MP32010-02-03
- TipMyHatdemodraft/demo · WAV2009-08-12
- TipMyHatdemodraft/demo · AIF2009-08-12
- Tip My hat To Lovedraft/demo · MP32009-08-12
- Tip my hat to love - Demo version (sent by Mark 2026-10-14)draft/demo · MP32010
6 other versions in the archive; press play on any row to hear it (one plays at a time).