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CADIZ
02:44
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won’t you stay with me
in the city on the sea
place your faith into my hands
as we stroll across the strand
by the coral wave
death will be our slave
on the jasmine shore
we will weep no more
you can stay with me
in this city made for sea
find ourselves in an ocean drop
sacred moment never stop
the path to the citadel
sun-drenched , sun-charmed
the way of the wanderer
a space of inner calm
by the evening tide
those people there may realize
what the whole thing is
and why the whole thing’s bliss.
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So you escaped
03:31
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So you escaped.
Where did you go?
As I went licking in street corners
That you left unscathed.
So you’re gone.
Who are your friends?
I hear your name bandied around
You found your time to mend.
What is left of us
When the body falls away?
When will our souls converge?
And so I’m here
Within myself
I scan the past - a dream so clear
You learn when you’re alone.
You’re all grown up
And split the scene
Your cosy conflict hippy friends
I hear they keep you keen.
What is left of us
When the body falls away?
When will our souls converge?
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Deep in the shady hollow
03:13
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Like a stranded ghost I walk the streets
Looking for a sign to take me there
Broken on the rocks of pain and grief
Entertained by my own mischief
Beauty takes away my inner sight
Beauty clouds my mind and makes me go astray
Drifting out to drown inside your eyes
A bobbing cork upon a black sea sinking
Take away the lips of wordly knowledge
Let me slowly drift away from earthly pain
Deep in the shady hollow of the heart.
Fallen angels or evolving apes?
Is our time on earth a test to taunt us?
Have we just an age to settle worlds?
The strength that is within can make you no-one.
It tears me apart…
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Song about a friend
03:10
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Don’t you know? Can’t you see?
I am not the man that you want me to be
I can only help you lose your way.
Who are you? Don’t you know?
I am not the one who has forced you to grow
I am only here to let you go.
Who are we meant to be?
I am only here so you can mirror me
Just a pale reflection so you’ll know.
Song about a friend, song about an enemy....
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Dark night that creeps thru my window
Never will you break my soul
The pale naked angel that stands by my bed
He said “everything must turn to gold”
Lover oh lover, come into my bed
Your skin is so warm, mine’s so cold
I’ll treat you and greet you and see that we’re wed
He said “I cannot be bought or sold”.
Giver oh giver, I need you tonight
To open a crack to my soul
He turned with a sigh and gave me the eye
And said “you will do as you are told…”
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No coward soul is mine
03:59
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No Coward Soul is Mine - EMILY BRONTE
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heavens glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
O God within my breast.
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life -- that in me has rest,
As I -- Undying Life -- have power in Thee!
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move mens hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The steadfast Rock of immortality.
With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.
Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou -- Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
-- Emily Bronte
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7. |
The Alchemist
02:38
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as i was walking out one day i met an alchemist
he took his cloak, my breath away and led me from the artifice.
he blew the embers in my heart, he turned me upside down
he turned my stagnant blood to wine then took me to his town.
and underneath the circus hill he made the night a fire
and deep within the carnival my soul it did aspire.
and standing naked as a man, the woman in me shining
a universal master plan the alchemist was mining.
“but now i have to leave” he said and so went on his path
and left me living with the dead to write my epitaph.
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As the wind went slowly turning
Through the trees and fires burning
In the mountain pagan dancing
While the Goddess watches us.
In the darkness slowly wandering
To a high place where the dawning
Sun begins to warm the morning
Leading us to silent hope.
With the ghosts of past wolves howling
And the phantom boars all grunting,
Painted faces, drums are rolling
While the mist is lifting off.
I will stumble to the growing
Peace within me, clearly humbling,
Taste the elements controlling
Everything that seemed so wild.
At the heights where falls are tumbling,
Taste the waters, purifying,
Cleansing senses, cold, refreshing
Centre of the universe.
One so small but cosmic, reeling,
As a consciousness revealing
Oneness with the ever growing
Bottomless awareness still.
There the lovers coiling, rolling,
There no difference appearing,
To the eyes a truth unveiling
Slowly for the open ones.
Unity is oceans merging
With the shore of understanding,
Drawing back illusion’s growling
Roar of crude attachment.
Stepping back to be the witness
Of a scene which I thought real,
Seeing that there is no difference,
Nothing left to beg or steal.
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Within the dark wood
03:52
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Within the dark wood by the bower
Where sorrel grows and mushrooms flower
Where greens a thousand-fold are flowing
Where foxes play and badgers growing.
Between the oaks and sycamores
Between the bushes, bracken, dock leaves
The darkest figure walks and blows
For all the woodland stags to hear.
And the rubbing leaves are whispering
There the winds through branches wailing
Where russet leaves like rain are falling
Over footfalls where they break
He who makes the wolves a shelter
In his arms, the lord protector
He who keeps the hot beast calmer
Separating life from dying
He who knows the way thereafter
Lord of dances, meditator
Lord of silences and rivers
Caught within the gurgling stream-flow
On the banks and round the marshes
Within without the stags and ravens
He who holds the bow and arrow
Targeting our imperfections
Where the meeting rivers blissful
Hold their act of union
Where the timeless takes its no-form
There The Lord is listening
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10. |
Our connection
02:46
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Our connection has been dangerous for my mind
I look to you but you break me with your eyes
I’ve never seen you naked, I’ve only seen you smile
I don’t know who you are and I don’t know who I am.
And I’m left with nothing but my foolish frame
And all that you leave me is to play the game
Again and again.
I’d rather be a beggar than to live without your eyes
Lay me in the garbage with your photograph.
I’d give it all up for you. If there was anything to give up..
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Whole
02:46
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Whole before the sun was born
Before creation set her stall
Before the constellations of the heart
Whole we two enjoined as one
Internal work’s begun
We cannot stop what is inevitable
Whole we two are slowly led
To our sacrificial bed
Where ego is emasaculated righteously.
Whole is holiness itself
It needs no others help
And comes about spontaneously
Whole we two enjoined as one
Internal work’s begun
We cannot stop what is inevitable
Whole we two are slowly led
To our sacrificial bed
Where ego is emasaculated righteously.
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WHITE GODDESS Granada, Spain
White Goddess is a multi-national group based in Granada, Andalucia formed of Austrian singer Marie O`Nette, Spanish guitarist Alberto Avilla Casas and English singer-songwriter Darren Anderson.
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