---
title: "Om Nama Shiva Ya (One Day From The Darkness)"
artist: "Derk de Geus"
key: "Am"
capo: 5
tags: ["mantra", "devotional", "original"]
description: "An English sacred narrative framed by a repeated Shiva mantra."
tradition: "Hindu / Kirtan"
date_added: "2026-10-07"
---

## About this song

In 6/8. Parenthesized Fmaj7 in the source progressions is retained here as a final optional chord without parentheses.

```chords
[Verse 1]
Em                C
One day, from the darkness
    G                Am
The light it came to be
Em            C
All that is, around us
    G                  Am
Our eyes could finally see

Em                   C
The world in all its glory
    G               Am
Our mind and spirit deep
Em                  C
Our soul stood up rejoicing
G                      Fmaj7
Celebrating... that we breathe

[Chorus]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
Em   C      G  Am
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA

[Verse 2]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
The dream grew ever stronger
All the light and all the dark
We lost ourselves in hunger
And gathered our scars

So we dance and sing and pray
We dream our days away
But the One that was forgotten
Hides in plain sight.... clear as day

[Chorus]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA

[Verse 3]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
One day, at the bottom,
Something cracked and opened up
That which was forgotten,
Put the whole world to a stop

In the Moment without equal
The world reveals itself
As the sacred loving dreams
Of the One... Unto Itself

[Chorus]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA

[Verse 4]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
The cycle is completed
Awareness never went
The cycle is repeated
New beginnings never end

A new day has begun
A new dance, a new song
The world was never wrong
We are right here... where we belong

[Chorus]
Em C G Am Fmaj7
OM NAMAH SHIVA YA

[Outro]
      Fmaj7
SHIVA YA
      G
SHIVA YA

(repeat)
```