1. |
Singer of an empty day
02:17
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SINGER OF AN EMPTY DAY
(excerpt from “The Earthly Paradise” by William Morris, 1868-1870)
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time.
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme
Beats with light wing against the ivory gate,
Telling a tale not too importunate
To those who in the sleepy region stay,
Lulled by the singer of an empty day.
Folk say, a wizard to a northern king
At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show,
That through one window men beheld the spring,
And through another saw the summer glow,
and through a third the fruited vines a-row,
while still, unheard, but in its wonted way,
Piped the drear wind of that December day.
So with this Earthly Paradise it is,
If ye will read aright, and pardon me,
Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss
Midmost the beating of the steely sea,
Where tossed about all hearts of men must be;
Whose ravening monsters mighty men shall slay,
Not the poor singer of an empty day.
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2. |
Earthly Paradise
03:54
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EARTHLY PARADISE
Verse 1 :
Wake before you dream
For nothing’s what it seems
You might find your blindness waning
Verse 2 :
A new world is near
Where weariness and fear
Finally will be disappearing
Bridge :
Through the battlefield you slumber
Don’t dread your enemy
In your memories you fumble
You’re nowhere
The bloom now can spring
Verse 3 :
In your dream machine
You rejoice and you feel
Earthly Paradise is blooming
Verse 4 :
Wake before you sleep
For nothing’s what it seems
You might find you’ve been just dreaming
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3. |
Lady of the Canyon
04:34
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LADY OF THE CANYON
Chorus : Lady of the Canyon (4 times)
Verse 1 :
Flow through my mind in a colored Stream
Never ending source of life
Sculpting memories of what has been
And that’s never gonna die
Winds make braids in your yellow hair
Knots of gold and rings of clay
Sand is covering your eyes of jade
While the day draws to its end
Chorus : Lady of the Canyon (4 times)
Verse 2 :
Moving mountains just waving your hands
Only sand is what i see
With the stream you’re going away from me
Waters i drank taste of grief
The empty river you drew through these stones
Is too deep to be undone
It’s a bruise that will never heal
Here I wander all alone
Verse 3 :
Flow through my mind in a colored Stream
Never ending source of life
Sculpting memories of what has been
And that’s never gonna die
In my dreams I see your yellow hair
And I try to hold the jade
While the jade turns into desert sand
Through my fingers running…
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4. |
Þórsmörk
05:12
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ÞÓRSMÖRK
VERSE 1 :
I’ve been searching for something to worship
Through all my life
Asked for Odin to show me his face
In a northern night
Slowly groping out
Of brainwashing machines
Clumsy preachers bringing us
Back to the Middle Ages
VERSE 2 :
Far away from the land
Where my mother sang lullabies
At the age when my father
Was already old and wise
All the pieces perfectly
Fit into place
The magnificence of the Cosmos
Now I can face
CHORUS :
Cause I found
A maid with kaleidoscope eyes
Knocking at my door
Showing me all blue skies
From the timeless time
When the Universe came to life.
ALL CHANGES
Harmless ants
Of dust we’re made
Soulless, everything is just
In our brains
And our thoughts will disappear
As the keeping chest decays
Living in a wonderful nonsense
We created our rules and morals
Though the Universe goes beyond
The meaning of good and bad
As we know it
Nothing exists beyond matter
Nothing exists beyond matter
And the Universe
Has no moral
Has no moral
Has no moral
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5. |
Anandi
02:18
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ANANDI
VERSE 1 :
Sleep now
It’s just the rain
The sun will shine again
Sleep now
I’m on your side
And I will keep you safe from the tide
CHORUS
Anandi my child
This night may last a while
VERSE 2 :
Sleep now
And I will sleep too
Here there’s just me and you
Though you
Were never born
You are my flower
With no thorn
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6. |
Electric Troubadour
04:45
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ELECTRIC TROUBADOUR
Verse 1
The wheel of fate is turning
The wind whispers no more
Of fame and fortune’s yearning
The blind lady won’t ever knock at your door
Verse 2
Entangled with no warning
The moon led you to parting ways
A gong was then resounding
As a dead end drew a close to those days
Verse 3
Will you sing for me troubadour
Now the pot head man lays in slumber
Play a planxty play me a song
of the tea pot that floats in wonder
With satellite tea spoons
That no one can see
Will you tell me how it can be
That the sun does not fall on the moon
Verse 4
Why the rich man enslaves the poor
How can one man control the masses
Give them guns and send them to war
Turn the world into dust and ashes
Sing me of the one tale
I have not been told
Will you tell me my Troubadour
Why we slaughter our brothers for gold
Verse 5
The wheel of fate is turning
The wind whispers no more
Of fame and fortune’s yearning
The blind lady won’t ever knock at your door
Verse 6
You sailed back empty handed
And in Tangier you left your wings
Before this world ends stranded
Won’t you tell me now why are we sleeping
Verse 7
Will you sing for me troubadour
Now the pot head man lays in slumber
Play a planxty play me a song
Won’t you tell me now why are we sleeping
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7. |
Pilgrims of Hope
03:12
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PILGRIMS OF HOPE
Verse 1
One man fell down from the sky
And colored my flowers in red
One woman tried to cross the sea
Of her flesh the fish are now fed
Verse 2
One man walked for days through the dunes
And was buried by the sand waves
One woman defeated the highest mountain
The night carved her a white snow grave
Bridge
Another one flew like a bird yesterday
And thousands are sinking while screaming their names
The filthy humanity arising over here
Rejoices of graveyards built under the sea
As if being born in the west was something we have earned
And the pilgrims of hope deserved death
Verse 3
All those Ulysses who sank and drowned
Like pebbles we cast to the sea
And those who fell asleep on the ground
I wish they all may become seeds
End
When we all will learn to fly
We’ll see no boundaries in the sky
We’ll all be part of the soft machine
‘cause there’s no war that we can win.
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8. |
Satori in Paris
05:46
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SATORI IN PARIS
Verse 1:
I recall a time from so long ago
Of castles and trees
Taking walks to haunted houses
In the southern fields
Verse 2:
Now I’ve grown up
And my life has brought me
Here in this fair land
Nothing seems to worry me
There’s nothing that I really miss
Chorus 1:
But I cannot forget the sound of the sea
It hurts to know that it’s not near
That I cannot take a walk and contemplate
Its immensity
I never thought that I could leave
Verse 3:
In my home land grow the twisted trees
Of contradiction
Those that lead you to abandon
Something you love
Verse 4:
And besides it was so long ago
It’s worthless worrying
Thinking about what it was
And what it could be
Chorus 2:
But how far my home land
Will seem to be
To a child that I may have one day
How meaningless my thoughts and pain
Will seem to him
If now I’m home why should I mind?
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9. |
Syd
03:26
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SYD
Verse 1
You will never tell me anymore
That I should grow up
Get a haircut and
Dress up like a man
Verse 2
Though I worked so hard
And lost my sleep
Your would always see
Me as a grasshopper
Not as an ant
Chorus 1
Life was hard
For you from the start
But I only wanted you
To accept my ways
To see that through the days
When I was away
I have grown up
And become a man
Verse 3
Tireless you took care of everyone
’til the winter came for you
But you couldn’t sit and unwind
Verse 4
Memories turn into shapeless pain
When I want to call you and sing
You’re out of sight out of mind
Chorus 2
Through the sky
It’s you who gave me life
And let me overhear your voice
Through your breast
While on your lap I sat
When the evening was calm
And the night storm
It did not break out
Chorus 3
So now it’s my time to bring you
Inside of me
For we will never meet
In the hollow vale
Where willows weep
And where time’s standing still
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10. |
Iktsuarpok
04:16
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IKTSUARPOK
Verse 1 :
I’m watching the ships
sail away on the shore
Mine is long time gone
and won’t come back no more
Verse 2 :
I’ll plant a willow tree
In my lawn
Rustling in the wind
And hiding my mourn
Verse 3 :
Narrow is the way
To your desire
Sing I will until
You’ll hear the sound of my lyre
Verse 4 :
And walk in the meadows
On my own
Until darkness fades away
And I greet the dawn
Verse 5 :
I’m watching the ships
Sail away on the shore
Mine is long time gone
And won’t come back no more
Verse 6:
Forever I’ll be waiting on the strand
Time will curse me…
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11. |
Colette the Witch
03:58
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COLETTE THE WITCH
Verse 1 :
There once was a lady who
Haunted all my dreams
Through the wall late in the night
I could hear her scream
She could talk for hours
Not saying anything
In her opium trips
She spat her anger against me
Verse 2 :
Colette the Witch her cat Lola
Smoking on the door
Talking about astrology
And what the moon is for
Twirling smoke around the symbols
Tattooed on her brow
She couldn’t understand my words
And told me
How I’ll dig my grave
Verse 3 :
I forgot about her until
In the darkness of my garden
Her silhouette through the window pane
Drew terror on my face
Her opium trips brought her away
Somewhere far in the woods
And through the wall
It’s silent now
She stopped screaming for good
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Psychedelic Folk project based in Paris, France.
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