1. |
Look At Me
03:29
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Look at me
straight in the eye
I’m a foreign object
who stayed open for love
so she could roll
straight through me
like the light from a far off planet
travels through time and space
so that I could see your face
Let's not be shy
Oh no
sink with me
like a grain of salt
into the sea
schilliya schilliya
I have an offer for you
Look at … look at me
I am a star
shaking …. shaking … shaking like a leaf
in your gaze
Why have an eye
if not to see?
Why haven't I stayed up all night
to open my eyes
so I could see your face?
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2. |
Body Can Do
03:12
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Breathe like a fawn in the grass contemplating the dew
if that’s what I gotta do that’s just what I’m gonna do
Lips, hands, knees relax
a certain body and mind combine to find the so sublime
Say what you want about me,
if you have the time come look and find
Do you know what a body can do?
Wanna know what a body can do?
Have you been trying to live in the in-between
cuz I keep on trying and trying and trying and I keep on getting the squeeze
So it’s back to my twisted roots and my fallen leaves
so my long lost shadow breathes
Me and my crooked swans and my backwards yawns
another day another try
Do you know what a body can do?
Do you know what a body can do?
Wanna know what a body can do?
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3. |
Reflection Affection
05:43
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Ooo and nothing at all
it’s me reminding of me
an oasis shimmering
and when just one thing shifts
the thirsting and thirsted for spiral around and around
be with me in this breeze
lose ourselves in the sheets
she brings me back to me
and when the feeling’s known
it all undergrows and leads me back into the wild
Who am I to be lost in this affection?
Who am I to be lost in this reflection?
this is all that I see
waiting weightlessly
she drifts in with her ease
but when the beetle breaks its back into brine
then it feeds the sublime
shake me round with your lady fingers
make me wild with a useless abandon
becoming an island of sea
in flat out defiance of the grief that I found
I won’t ever let down
Who am I, to be lost in this affection?
Who am I, to be lost in this reflection?
I have waited my whole life on the edge of your embrace
now as you see me I’m finally leaving,
oh how now?
How now?
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4. |
Constance
04:39
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Everywhere I go, everywhere I go everywhere I go
I do want you to see me through
from far to wide way out and deep inside
and these folds and hollows which we traverse
with reverence and reverberance dance
I believe so
will I be so out of sight
this I know
I won’t be so out of sight
This I know is true, this I know is true, this I know is true
There’s white sunlight streaming through the branches
of the trees on this path that I walk along
and there’s no far reaches that are far enough
that one and others’ whispers cannot be heard
I been here before, I been here before, I been here before
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5. |
The Morrow
05:04
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In the light of the morrow
the dark of night is the shore that follows us along
no matter where I go
In the morn I swim to the light
in the noon the waves they are bright
but never out of sight
does the shoreline recede
mmmmm
Out of the fire in the dark jumps a spark that carves an arc
that all of us will know
And whose high call from afar
that plants a seed in a star
that all of us will know
Let all of us be known
Will all of us be known?
Days bend, fires end
this shifting earthly garden
the stone smoothed and smoothed again is sand now
The falling out and gathering in
the gifts that shadows bring
fear, pleasure, quaking
Now that the fog has lifted
the light of the day is falling down on all of us below
The garden is old and I, with quiet ear, am young
listening to the hum
the hum of everything
Listening to the power of the hum of everything
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6. |
No Wandering Road
03:49
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There’s no wandering road to lead you far away
Stay here or follow
solid or hollow
This can’t be, if that won’t be
There’s no wandering road to lead you far away
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7. |
Someone To Love
03:53
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Send me someone to love, send me someone to love,
send me someone to love and hold
send me someone who’ll love and hold me too
And if they seek higher ground
if she seeks higher ground
if he seeks higher ground
let it be higher ground beneath her feet
And if it’s love that grows
let it be love that grows
let it be love that shows the way
let it be love that all around we see
I don’t want higher ground
don’t want no higher ground
I don’t want higher ground
I want the very ground beneath my feet
And if it’s all around
let it be all around
let it be all around me
let it be all around and inside me
Send me someone to love
send me someone to love
I want someone to love and hold
send me someone who’ll love me too
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8. |
A Garden's Lifespan
06:20
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Everyone gathers around the child
counting blessings with mercy mild
Just why I came I do not know
or maybe, maybe I do
Though I burn bright inside
and wonders deep in me abide
and ancient music in dried up river beds
travel neural pathways from my toes to my head
I could spend a lifetime collecting beer cans and plastic bags
from the beach grass on the south side of Toronto Island
but what good would that do I’d better go inside
and make friends with my destructive side
Burn as I burn you’re the colour of my eyes
and the sound of my childhood cries
no matter matters no flame returns from ash
my life is littered with these illusions
Oh it may seem long, sometimes never ending
the lifespan of this garden we’re tending
The churning of earth, the gathering of steam,
the chasm in waiting our footsteps receiving
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9. |
Outro
03:15
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