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Lyrics by Sr Jewel (using quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh)

(Note "There is no Way to Peace , Peace is the Way" is a quote from A J Muste)

There is no way to peace.  Peace is the way.
There is no way to freedom.  Freedom is the way.
There is no way to happiness.  Happiness is the way.

Peace is in the here and now.  Peace is the way.
In every breath, in every step, peace is the way.
When I wake up, it’s right there waiting.  Peace is the way.
Smiling, saying, “Take my hand.”  Peace is the way.
“Don’t look for me in the future.  You can have me right now, right now.”
Listen, Sisters, listen, Brothers:  Freedom is the way.
Freedom when we walk, hm-mm.  Freedom when we talk.
Freedom when we smile.  Freedom when we rest for a while.
Freedom in every bite.  Freedom day and night.

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I wanna sing about happiness.  Happiness is the way.
Don’t wait for tomorrow, children.  Happiness is today.
Happiness for me and you.  Happiness is shining right through,
shining right through the clouds of forgetfulness.
Open up them clouds, and let that happiness come through.
You know it wants to, so don’t stand in the way. (hey, hey)
Let happiness be today.

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Don’t have to go to heaven, now.  Don’t have to go the Pure Land.
Don’t have to turn on the tv, now.  Don’t have to go see a movie.
Listen here, listen now:  all you have to do is breathe in and breathe out,
enjoy your in-breath, enjoy your out-breath… and smile.
Feel your lungs.  Feel your whole body.  You are alive, what a blessing!
Don’t need to go the Bahamas.  Don’t need to take a vacation.
Don’t need to get a new car, now.  Don’t need a new partner.
You can find happiness in the present moment.
If you go around lookin’, you just might lose it (ah-hah)
If you go around searchin’, you just might lose it ‘cause it’s right here for you.
So just stop.  Put your hand in your pocket.
Just stop.  Put your hand in your pocket.
Happiness is right here.  Peace is right now.  Freedom is right in your hands, ‘cause…

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Feel the soles of your feet. (2x)
All you have to do is touch the Earth (oh) with all your being.
First the right one, then the left one.  Kiss Mother Earth. (yeah)
Kiss her with your feet.  Enjoy her support.  Her solid strength under you.
She’s there for you, now, always loving you (yeah).
I said, that is peace right there.  You don’t have to anywhere else.
Breathing in, you take one step.  Breathing out, you take another, enjoying being alive.  Feel the breeze, now.  Feel the sunshine.
It’s so simple, and it’s free.  Peace is here for you and me.
Please believe it.  You can touch it.  Together, we can make it come true.

Chorus
And together we can make it come true.  So…
clap your hands and stomp your feet, hm-mm-mm-yeah (2x)
Celebrate peace, freedom, and happiness for all of us, right here and now.
Dance to the rhythm of peace, downt-downt-downt.
Sing to the tune of freedom, downt-da-downt.
Laugh, oh, laugh, laugh in the embrace of happiness, mm-mm-mm.

Don’t need to deny your pain and your sorrow.
Just don’t build it into your house of tomorrow.
‘Cause most of spend too much time seeing what’s wrong,
and we don’t realize (oh, no) that everything we need,
we already have it (yeah, we do).
And there’s always far more going right than there is going wrong.
In our garden, there are many trees in blossom.
Yet, we choose to sit and cry at the foot of one that’s dyin’.
So, if you run around searchin’, you just might lose it (oh).
If you run around searchin’, you just might lose it.
So, put your hand in your pocket.  You’ll find it where it’s always been.
That’s happiness right in your pocket, in the spreading of your smile,
the relaxing of your shoulders, your breathing in awareness.  That’s all it takes, ‘cause

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Yeah, mm-mm-mm.

There is no way to peace.  Peace is the way.
Freedom and happiness, they are ours today.
Peace is the way.  Freedom and happiness are the way (yeah).
Peace is the way (yeah, yeah) and freedom and happiness are the way.
‘Cause there is no way to peace.  Peace is the way.
There is no way, no way to happiness.  Happiness is the way, the way today.
Don’t look for freedom in the future.  Freedom is today.
Enjoy it, Brother, now.  Live it up, Sister, Sister.
Together, we can make it come true.  Together, we can make it come true, now.
Together, we can make it come true… me and you, come true, come true.