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Rosa
02:54
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A woman of the world under another sun,
She must set out while towers fall
As love passed by, she waits an equal time
But on a cushioned throne in the heart of Amichetto
And the man of the mind is left behind
As victory leaps free
To be healed by another time
Rosa, red Rosa in Italy
All around the town with a gondolier,
She rides in a Bugatti back to Napoli
To see the saint who cried a diamond tear
A Pair of perfect pearls formed in a shining shell,
Through history they pass from ear to ear
The sky blue eye sees more than tongue can tell
The waves that lap between the boat & pier
Rosa, red Rosa in Italy
All around the town with a gondolier,
She rides in a Bugatti back to Napoli
To see the saint who cries a diamond tear
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First Fret
03:09
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I think of my life
From the beginning to the end
And this time presses so close around
But those times are laid deep in the ground
Those times that once were now,
They are lost,
Whether they were happy or sad
And my memories can't be trusted,
And my guesses for the future
Just evaporate before they form,
Just a vague sense of an impending storm,
Just the hope for something kind & warm
Like a child deep in a mine,
What are the treasures there for me
That I can't see or find?
And I don't dare open my eyes
But will it protect me to be blind?
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Epiphany
01:37
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Epiphany is a holiday
When things come easy, gold and green
There is a lady in the stars
Too tiny to be seen
Mother & child will bloom in a smile
When you heed the sign and do not pass
And the morning will feel just like a highland reel
In the dappled shade on a bed of grass
And all week long in the heart of my mind,
Puzzles and riddles expand and unwind
Epiphany, Epiphany
A dearer friend you'll never find
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4. |
Set Out Too Soon
02:18
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Feeling like I set out too soon,
Immersed in strange confusions
It must be the moon
That draws the tide of me
Lost in the mirror of vanity,
The planisphere celeste
Led out on stage undressed
Before the dreaming crowd
The moon has no light except from the sun
And i see the stars when they come undone,
The flood of delights that spills from the sky
The Augustine light as the pale becomes bright,
The luminous dew on the pathway to you
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5. |
Free Afternoon
02:56
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Your stern advisors closely lean
But beneath your skirt is a future scene
What you know is bold & true,
Beneath the wind a lily blooms
To lean into the swing of life,
The gaze of a contented wife,
The freedom of a whippoorwill
Who wanders over dale & hill
The flowers tended carefully
Together raised but what is free?
You know the secret of the hand,
Held still within the promised land
The plan began before you knew,
What you wanted others wanted too
A prize for each to have their own,
For every queen to have a throne
A quest, a kingdom and a day,
The star of an enchanted play
Sprung up along the rim of time,
In company of every kind
Bathed in glowing yellow light,
The quiet thrill that holds hearts tight
The penny brings good luck all day
Therefore you know just what to say
For tricks & schemes are planned to please,
Excitement that will end in ease
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6. |
November
02:54
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Autumn wind shakes free the leaves
And so in winter's depths rejoice the trees
What the sun may give so may give the ground,
Retreating to a world without a sound
The blessing of the restful cold
In secret corridors of unseen gold
Life's sister is a death so deep and true
Whose arms already are embracing you
Waiting to take you from the mortal coil,
Where eternity abides within the soil
The bright & sweet delight to be alive,
Great too it is to never move or strive
To be the diamond of the mineral state,
The pearl that glimmers in the Heaven's gate
Fly on - to Journey's End,
The fate of foe & friend
The arrow true to mark,
The coming of the Dark
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7. |
Summer Night
02:14
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Hey baby, go to sleep,
A summer night is fine
For sleeping
Hey baby, go to sleep,
A summer night is fine
For sleeping
A summer night is fine
To read by the bedside light,
A summer night is fine
On the porch with friends of mine
A summer night is fine
To tidy up the kitchen
Hey baby, go to sleep,
A summer night is fine
For sleeping
Hey baby, go to sleep
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8. |
The Air We Breathe
04:24
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Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-flixed
Snowflake; that's fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing's life
This needful, never spent,
And nursing element;
My more than meat and drink,
My meal at every wink;
This air, by which life's law,
My lung must draw and draw
Now but to breathe its praise,
Minds me in many ways
Of her who not only
Gave infinity
Dwindled to infancy
Welcome to womb and breast,
Birth, milk and all the rest
But mothers each new grace
That does now reach our race -
Mary Immaculate,
Merely a woman, yet
Whose presence, power is
Great as no goddess's
Was deemed, dreamed, who
This one work has to do -
Let all glory through,
Glory which would go
Through her and from her flow
Off, and no way but so.
I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round
As if with air: the same
Is Mary, more by name.
She, wild web, wondrous robe,
Mantles the guilty globe,
Since God has let dispense
Her prayers his providence:
Nay, more than almoner,
The sweet alms' self is her
And men are meant to share
Her life as life does air
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Tarot Song
02:08
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The fray and all its flies to shoo,
To tame the heart is something new
Love blooms with the ascending dove
And makes the healing waters flow
The sky gave shelter from above,
The flame is seated here below
Goodbye cruel world with sparing care,
And all's called up to breathe the air
The charger with triumphant plumes
Will fill the world with sweet perfume
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10. |
Heart in the Rain
02:51
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The heart pierced in the rain
Perceives the man who looks away,
For you refused the cup of love
And saved it for another day
Your steed alive from underneath
But you are fit enough to wait,
In stillness you are quite alive
And fierceness is a welcome trait
Dancing forward and yet looking back,
When burdens lend misgivings
Dethroning kings, descending far
Escape the prison in the tower
By falling with the shooting star
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11. |
Fair Youth & Dark Lady
03:21
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Fair youth and dark lady,
Rivals in eternal verse
And which is worse -
To live forever,
Or living to be mortified?
You need more lace in your life,
More chantilly shadows at night,
Fly into my eyes with your sight
The spin within the fountain flight
Past my own nose,
Dressed in your clothes,
Are you the answer to who I am?
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12. |
Wednesday
03:15
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Grace and beauty intertwined,
Serenely too, they float apart
The swans among the lotuses
Don't know the terrors of the heart,
The agonizing of the mind,
Or even the designs of art
We walk on water thinking that
It's really just a path we tread
In mystic robes, in hallowed halls,
Turn off the lights and go to bed
Dear friend, your letters light my face
And bring me in below your wing,
The subject of a mighty king
And bright awake from restful sleep,
The humor of all zest will leap
For you have contemplated all,
While some rushed in with no recall
A heart at love, a heart at risk,
Set still before the whirling disk
And destinies of every kind,
Transform the meaning of the mind
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Frayed at the ends but still a string,
I'll tie on to anything
Being, being, being
Is a beggar's blessing
Wilted and watered and tattered and torn,
Alphabetical order in the eye of the storm
Soar to the center where the water is warm
Over and under and shaven and shorn,
Overgrown and hung over
On a sweet spring morn
And the tints and the hues
Are the colors I choose,
When the lake tide at noontime
Is washing in fish and wine
For all you ever said to me
Was prophecy
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14. |
Live Your Lie
01:46
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