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... the straightahead “This Is The Time,” with its chilling Tower Of Babel monologue, using multiple over dubbed voices, shooting out in stereo, intermingled chatter of people being interviewed about their quick and dismissive opinions about Asbury and what’s going on with the town layering the chatter till it hits its crescendo in the most claustrophobic of ways, reminding me just how many times I’ve heard these same lines myself and how it’s affected us all.

~John Pfeiffer, The Aquarian Weekly

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Went down to the ocean just the other day
Listened for what the sea and sky had to say
The breeze was a caress and the sun was in my eyes
The summer temperature was beginning to rise
The storm from the day before was just a memory
The lashing rain and thunder were by then history
And then out of nowhere came the word
With a force so undeniable—this is what I heard:
This is the time
The time of the season
This is the time
The season for completion
This is the time
The completion of the overdue
This is the time
It’s overdue but you’ll see it through.

Cruising through the atmosphere up above the clouds
Far from the rat race and the madding summer crowds
The earth spread out below me, above me just space
Held aloft by physics and a dose of divine grace
A spiritual magnet, drawing me near
Not by might, not by power, not by terror, not by fear
But rather by a force much greater than us all
And all around me on that flight I heard its voice call
This is the time
The time for new horizons
This is the time
Bear is bull and bull is bison
This is the time
The present, not the future
This is the time
The time to silence the accuser.

Walked through my beloved city just the other night
Heard that voice calling, Do you see the light?!
The rising of the truth comes like the morning star
All the doom merchants will be shown for what they are
Don’t let the lies and propaganda wear you down
Your blinded brothers and sisters will eventually come around
Your mind has been poisoned living in exile for so long
Your resolve has been weakened, now it’s time to be strong
This is the time
For salvation and redemption
This is the time
No exception or exemption
This is the time
For doing what you’ve planned now
This is the time
The world is in your hands now.

This is the time
The time for fulfillment
This is the time
The potential is so brilliant
This is the time
For so long you have wished it
This is the time
Now it’s yours, don’t you miss it.


© 2007 The Hesh Inc.

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from Soul In Exile 2: Jersey Shore Baby, released June 1, 2007
Hesh Meister—piano, organ, electronic percussion, lead vocal
Steve Lopresto—bass
Yonah Lloyd—guitar
Chimene Petitt—featured vocal
Chris Ghilino—backing vocal
Wendy Horn—backing vocal

Recorded/engineered by John Noll and Paul Ritchie at Retromedia Sound, Red Bank, New Jersey

Mixed and mastered by Steve Goodie at Punch Sound, Santa Monica, California

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