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A Moment's Falling
04:14
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A Moment’s Falling
when the half-light fades
and you’re not bothered
to strike another match
like counterforce this thing
this phenomenon
a moment’s falling or rise
impossible to know
'tween sleep and drifting
It holds you falling
a dancer with lilies
a bird accepting its fate
how poised she looks
while cradling his head
you've sung with charlatans
knew no better than deceit
but this took one glimpse
to know this comes of love
eyes wide open
hear your cynic’s heart weep
a speck of light that makes you yearn
to outlive shadows
a glimmer of hope
to redeem your soul
no more need to know
what’s beyond this day and hour
you said
I’ll always be, in one form or another
I’ll be soft grass under your feet
a snowflake melting on your breath
perhaps, I will be the wind kissing your face
I’ll be everything you know
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2. |
Half Way
03:40
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3. |
Bliss
03:17
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Bliss
when the air is heavy with blossoming leaves
and slow passing trains vibrate through me
I think of the mountain you climbed for me to have a view
I think of your soft hand melting through the icy flowers on the glass
for me to have a view
when the snow folds around me with its blinding white
and I feel there really is no need to know the way
eyes closed, I trust your lullaby to pull me up from the deep
eyes closed, here I stand unshaken by the falling world and closing walls
'cause you made it safe to be
I'm of my own ilk
when the wind blows, I stay
when the world is still, I move
in and out, through all the frostbite and the bliss
of being healed healed healed
you broke the circle, you lived in the end
you knew through love you’ve redeemed yourself
and it didn’t matter how you fell and why
complete as a rainbow you’re now safe in the sky
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4. |
Wolf
03:13
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Wolf
first I heard you, then I saw
your sweet face fill my view
perfect, thoughtful and so light
there was nothing I wouldn’t fight
there's a wolf inside my chest
to keep you safe, keep you warm
push you out of harm’s way
knew this instinct, knew it well
knew it’s there to stay
place you’re going has no room for doubt
love can fool us, make us proud
need to learn to say ‘oh, just let go'
when you’re swallowed by the crowd
cannot always be round you now
when it hurts, when all goes wrong
with a bleeding heart, I watch you fall and hope
this will only make you strong
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5. |
Must Keep The Cold In
02:57
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Must Keep The Cold In
day falls unshy
to glean your your peace
hard-earned by cheating grief
buried deep under your sleep
your eyes so pale
lips sealed with frost
broken within you’re yearning
to feel if you’re still alive
and so you gamble with a frozen lake
you wish not be found
this land so perfectly barren
it now feels home
and then she came
in snow and blood
half-child half-ghost
and made you cross the void
red coat, green mittens
a snowflake on her brow
that shimmering hair
how it lights your darkness
you want to laugh and howl
she brought you kill
she fed you berries
she smelled of moth and twigs
what a cruel trick of mind you knew
and yet you held your breath
must keep the cold in
must keep the cold in
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6. |
Letters Across The Room
04:00
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Letters Across The Room
there you are, my lovely heroine
standing next to your groom
it was you who sent those letters
flying across the room
centuries kept turning like pages in a book
withering flowers in bloom
as the ancient canvas opened its arms
to let you out just this once
tell me tell me, let me in on this
tell me what's worse
be broken, unequal, inferior to men
or simply vanish away
boldly you told them
that easel was your husband, your dowry
you studied the muscle and bone
sickened with all this virility
canny in craft you saw his masculinity
become his fall
now shoulder by shoulder
with your sisters in crime you stand
you know your work has just begun
cover those ears, close those eyes
let sentiment and pity yield to the crush
the Witch is ready to burn
over and over again
my flesh, my blood, my only sister in crime
of not walking away,
of painting your life
in a thousand shades of solitude
Artemisia...
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7. |
Handful of Rye
03:16
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Handful of Rye
from the falling stone see the ripples flow
rippling through my calm unspoilt demeanour
there I was thinking you were just a person
selling fruit or flowers somewhere around the corner
someone I didn’t care about
someone I didn’t care about
alas, there you stand strangely awkward
as baffled as me 'bout this strange encounter
never thought you too had to go on living
never thought you too longed to be wanted
somewhere somehow I must draw a line
but I've crossed them all already
somehow somewhere I must build a wall
oh, but they crumble when the heart skips a beat
release me, just let me go
don’t hold me down
time is not for turning
go fly be a bird, free at last
dance your way up up
I’ll dream of a tiny blackbird
gazing at itself from the deepest blue
go fly be a bird for ever and ever
sing your way out
I’ll dream of a curious child
handful of rye
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8. |
Zhenya
03:40
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Zhenya
remember my friend, my beautiful friend
remember the lightness of life in flight
remember how well the silences spoke
remember our wishing under cold starlight
remember my friend, my beautiful friend
your soul was a meadow where I ran barefoot
our dreams, our ideals, our idiosyncrasies
remember the thrill from our spiritual loot
…. I miss you so
guess we drifted, guess we had to grow
with half-dreamed lives in summer's heat
we had nothing yet we felt so complete
wake up tomorrow
I want to shake you up
I want to hold you close
with all the shifting apartness
you still burn so bright
stay a little longer
like a poem burnt under my skin
each word a rare blossom
each line a storm within
… I miss you so
guess we drifted, guess we had to grow
with half-dreamed lives in summer's heat
we had nothing yet we felt so complete
… how could we know
we’d write this chapter then set pages aglow
when nights are stunned from skies unlit
I’m still saved by the love you transmit
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9. |
Outsider
03:33
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Outsider
and so I think of you
in contexts of all sorts
of time and place
of gender and race
swift changing currents
that brought you up
and swept you down under
and so I think of you
in sounds of human heart
of howling loneliness
and crushing silence of despair
those soft vibrations of joy
you never thought you had in you
untied you fall away
the tide was right but was it you?
you turned and walked into the sun
and I know there was a lot of sadness
but I also know that there was joy
you wrote a note, not a hint of despair
you'll start afresh elsewhere
you left a cupboard full of joy and sadness
and disappeared into thin air
but you meant to be found
oh, you meant to be found
you meant to be found
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10. |
Ordinary Magic
03:25
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Ordinary Magic
day was bright and sun was sunny
there was nothing extraordinary
on that day like any other
some overslept, some didn't bother and then
you stepped in and the circus stopped revolving
so much became clear, so much ceased to matter
didn’t dare to think, to move
to wonder or rationalise
how you made things happen
stop or vanish, with your eyes
I thought it’s complex
this otherworldly maze
but you just smiled
and it all fell into place
and then you stepped in
and the circus stopped revolving
so much became clear
so much ceased to matter
I felt like I was falling
falling, falling into you
intoxicated by the sweetness
with nothing to hold on to
our overlapping timelines
makes us spin and crash
and I felt like I was falling
falling, falling into you
without a sense of time or place
all fades but your sweet face
this ordinary magic
makes us spin and crash
falling in to you
day was bright and sun was sunny
there was nothing extraordinary
on that day like any other
some overslept, some didn't bother and then
you stepped in and the circus stopped revolving
so much became clear, so much ceased to matter
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11. |
Way On
03:27
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Way On
the door is open and time is now
to start all over if only we knew how
so no more blame or pointing fingers
I know it hurts but let’s not linger
wake up at night
crushed by your thoughts
those battles, won or lost
you wish you never fought
so many truths convincingly true
you ask which one, if any, is for you
just stay real close
don’t you look behind
there’s nothing there
no happiness to find
the road’s wide open
think what lies ahead
there’s that lifting feeling
from wings you’ve never really spread
all those moments we spend
overcome by doubt, anxious
that we’ll never see the other end
take my hand, this leap will be hard
what is there to lose, to fear
what is it that we guard
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