From the recording Being Well
“Come Away From It” shifts the focus to finding inner stability amid external chaos, without necessarily invoking an eternal other world. Drawing on Epictetus’s dichotomy of control, the song asserts that even when “fate [has] its way with [us],” we retain power over our responses: “Feelings control you, or you control them.” Resilience comes from stepping back from what is not up to us.
Lyrics
Fate
Having its way with me
Whether I like it
Like it or not
The weight
Of every new choice I make
Caught it in wake of
Something it’s not
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Come away from it
The trouble all around you
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Come away
Faith
Find its way back to you
The feeling controls you
Or you control it
Wait
In the center of everything
Wherever it takes you
That’s where you are
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Come away from it
The trouble all around you
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Unamazed
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Come away from it
The trouble all around you
Come away from it
Leave it like it found you
Unamazed
Unamazed by it
Unenslaved, by it
Unafraid, of it
You’re unfazed by it
Come away from it