1. |
Hello Shadow
03:22
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Hello Shadow
We’ll turn and face you
We’ll stand and fight
We wont leave that to the child
I will turn and face you
Though the chasm opens wide
I try to forget you
But you’re already inside
I will stand and fight you
I wont leave that to the child
Though I’m growing soft and grey
I’m still radical inside
We’ll turn and face you
We’ll stand and fight
We wont leave that to the child
Sunrise almost sinks you
But you’ve crept under the skin
You’re the shadow creeping round the world
But you come from within (as without, so within)
When I meet your gaze
All your darkness melts away
All you are is space
A part of all this grace
But I’m still afraid to face
You
We’ll turn and face you
We’ll stand and fight
We wont leave that to the child
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2. |
Pindan Heart
03:08
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Pindan Heart
I stand on this land that harbours a heart so remote
Where the rivers run red from the pain that was bled
I’ve heard tell, but they guard it so well
With seas you can see through and bright white sand
And a night sky choir that cools down the land
I’ve heard tell, but they guard it so well
Oh, fear and caution rise up from the ground like clouds
Ooh, you’re gonna have to prove yourself now
For the ways are barred and you don’t have a key
And you’re swiftly becoming the island you never wanted to be
And that pindan heart don’t beat or break for you
And the only loving thing for you to do
Is leave
You lie by my side, two islands and an ocean between
You’ve damned all your walls and you’re deaf to my calls, I can tell
We do remote so well
Where all the forces repel
And that pindan heart don’t beat or break for you
And the only loving thing for you to do
Is leave
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3. |
Eve, Meet Skywoman
03:19
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Eve, Meet Skywoman
Have you heard about another mother
Of all creation?
She made the green grow
And she could eat any apple that hung low
Indigenous to the sky,
She fell but by and by
She planted her two feet on this land
And all the creatures they gave her a hand
Now, Eve, you were no gardener
You learned to fear the fruit
Flung into the wilderness
So far from the root
Oh Eve, you were an exile
You were just passing through
On a rough road to your real home
In the sky
Did Skywoman ever pass you by?
On her way down from the sky?
A loving look in her eye?
Oh Eve, did it make you want to cry?
Don’t worry, Eve, it’s gonna be all right
We’ll hug these 60,000 years so tight
And we’ll plant our two feet and our hearts
Right where we are, right where we are, right where we are…
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Hold Up the Sky (Pleione’s Plea)
I’m gonna hold up the sky tonight
‘Cause Atlas, you’re tired
For all these centuries I’ve carried
Little worlds in my belly,
And though they’re light
They’re so full of light
Atlas, lay down your burden
Atlas, lay down your care
Atlas, lay down your burden
‘Cause it’s a weight that we’re willing to bear
For this big wide world has grown heavy
It’s bringing you and all us down, down, down
And it’s hard to reconcile these worlds I carry with yours
Who cut the cord?
Atlas, lay down your burden
Atlas, lay down your care
Atlas, lay down your burden
‘Cause it’s a weight that we’re willing to bear
‘Cause you told me my home is the hearth
But the one that I wander is earth
And the babes that I send forth
Need a world that grows their light
So move over Atlas, I’m gonna hold the sky tonight
Atlas, lay down your burden
Atlas, lay down your care
Atlas, lay down your burden
‘Cause it’s a weight that we’re willing to bear
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5. |
Run
04:02
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Run
So many things nipping at the heels, nipping at the heart
So many things tumbling in and tearing apart
You gotta clutch at straws so you don’t sink
You gotta dull that mind so you don’t think
You’d better run, run, run
You’d better run, run, run
It’s an illusion that we’ll get somewhere but it’s still worth the pace
Any rush is better than despair or turning to face
A wolf with endlings in its eyes
A beggar woman with apples in disguise
We’d better run, run, run
We’d better run, run, run
Who you gonna run to?
Where you runnin’ from?
Where you gonna run to?
Who you runnin’ from?
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6. |
Little Feather
02:30
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Little Feather
Do you remember when you sent me
A feather from a sparrow, and did you know
That birds are messengers from God?
And so I held that little feather
In my hands just like a letter from your soul
Did you know?
And though it couldn’t speak your words
The feather wrapped its softness round my holey heart
My aching heart
So thank you little sparrow
For the arrow to my core
And floating the memory, once more, of how
Love, it can fly away
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7. |
Still Life
03:21
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Still Life
Like pictures at an exhibition, I’m looking at you
So many pictures in my mind, but this one’s new
Your face more fully in the frame
And in your eyes there’s a naked flame
But all that burns are all the pictures that I held before
You are still life, still breath
Still love, still my love
Walking down the hallways of my heart
So many pictures could explode apart
Paintings of the narrow view
Pictures of the truth askew
All the wars we waded through
And then there’s you and something new
You are still life, still breath
Still love, still my love
The truest picture of them all
The one for the centre of my wall
Shows the little sparrow footprints round your eyes
And all the furrows and the dimples and the lines
Your face a map, that brings us back
You are still life, still breath
Still love, still my love
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8. |
Whalefall
03:21
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Whalefall
I found hope at the bottom of the ocean
I learnt of the light there in the dark
And oh how we cling to the whale as it loses its spark
Let’s sink down to the haunches of the sea floor
Where night doesn’t fall into day like before
It’s whalefall that brings the light, calling feeders oh so bright
To this place of eternal night
It’s not the end, it’s never the end,
There’s always a turning point, always a turning point
If the whale’s gaze ever met my own
I’d remember all the depths to which I’ll never go
Oh how we need the wilds to feed all the hungry inner lives
And so we love, and devour what we love
And all the while the bubbles rise from sea floor to above
Hope, it comes from nothing, and nothingness returns
But oh it always turns, it’s always turning
It’s not the end, it’s never the end,
There’s always a turning point, always a turning point
Hope is coming
Hope is coming for you
Hope is coming
Hope is coming for you
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9. |
No Words for This
03:38
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