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Ocean of Silence
04:58
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Silence gives birth to sound
Holy when it exits your mouth
Bitter and sweet, creating melody
Altar of fire, ceremony
Speak from where you are, here now
Speak from where you are, here now
Every bone is home in sacred tone
No cell left alone, the way, the way is shown
Every bone is home in sacred tone
No cell left alone, the way, the way is shown
Deep inside
Ocean of silence
Deep inside
Ocean of silence
Blue and red blood colors of the elements
Earthy and deep, embody her to receive
Heaven above, sweet lovemaking inside the belly of this land
Create with me, Great Spirit is beckoning
Create with me, Great Spirit is beckoning
Deep inside
Ocean of silence
Deep inside
Ocean of silence
Profundamente a dientro
El silencio del mar
Profundamente a dientro
El silencio del mar
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Mornings and Openings
04:10
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Mornings and Openings
Molding this new day,
Like sculpting with clay
initiate, the contours
and the shapes,
Activate, like a sky
colored with coral rays,
then medicate
full body thrush
and wash away because.
thèse challenges, are always awaiting
these challenges, are always engaging
these challenges, are always awaiting us.
Mindfully watch and let exist and then allow
awareness to comfortably sit
this expression will live and I let live
and then I give compassion and
understanding that emit
like a soluble wave that can create
and permeate,
even through the thickest of membranes
piercing
into the heart of the matter
the quiet in the chatter
the roots beyond the clamor
and the glamorous lies
and humanity's cries
of a truth that lives beyond the lies…
Here there is no need to disguise
no need to compromise
because this awareness contains
all of the life, all of the love, all of the pains
this is an open book
these are eyes that look
simply for the joy to see,
experiencing, experiencing
without any seeds projecting
nothing here needs protecting
this is an open sea
abundant sea
that from which flows everything
everything, every star, every queen,
every king, encompassing
due north
set course,
higher and finer shores are awaiting…
these indeed are not uncharted seas
but rather
they are realities
the mystics cries
the prophet's pleas
in the heart of the mystery….
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Before the Light Comes
05:59
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Before the light comes, before the light comes...
Waiting silent darkened rooms
Until my time has come to bloom
Pure potential is my name
No rush, sit back, let it settle, watch it grow
Stone by stone
Pure potential is my name
And my ocean of patience, tracing my hesitance
Back to its source
I let go, nothing is forced
I let go, nothing is forced
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Give me wholeness lest I walk on as a fractured soul
In shadow I am home
Yet reaching for that limitless door of transformation
I burn it up and become light
I could write a book, but I'd rather feel and touch and taste and look
I could write a book, but I'd rather feel and touch and taste and look
For sense lives not in the thinking mind
But in hearts full, rich, robust, and kind
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Yet I honor those moments of pitch black, retract, return to the womb
Yet I honor those forget, being death, heavy lead denseness of the tomb
In that space where life and death dance face to face
Coexisting in impossible ways
Bending my logic and growing my grace
Bending my logic and growing my grace
Defracted rays splinter, shatter, shadow filter cover up what appears to be, you trick me!
Yet less and less am I fooled as to not hear music as silence's jewel
Love is a ceremony, drink up, we are one, becoming more of what we are
Love is a ceremony, drink up, we are one, becoming more of what we are
Fully alive
Fully alive...
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Why to run? Why to roam?
Why to trade the depths for waves and foam
Before the light comes, before the light comes...
Before the light comes, before the light comes...
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4. |
The Coming, The Dawn
05:12
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The coming of the dawn
I can see everything now
along with everyone
once the nighttime dies
so with it then all of the lies
that we've based our life upon
underneath the sun
I hope that we can see
that we here are all one
what a definitive kiss to bury in your heart
The cleansing of our home
sparkling mirrors reflecting
integrity and soul
how we are unique
how we are composed
how are very substance is
more valuable than gold
perhaps the natural weakness
of suspicious and anxious beings
suddenly seeks
permanence in time
and limits on earth
Perhaps the tediums
and the ages
implacably, accumulated
extending like a lunar wave of an ocean
newly created
NEWLY CREATED
Ah, let what I am
then be
Ah, let what I am
go on existing
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To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done, until love is our home
To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done, until love is our home
Sweet and sour, it is the hour to go back in time
Sweet and bitter, the bite of winter
I'll watch it unfold, and hold my tongue
Picking up the pieces of what I've left behind
Rewinding to burst forward
The past, it only teaches us to let go
Extending what we know, to the depths of our feeling
It's a wild world, it's a wild world...
Grant me tolerance, total acceptance as I dance between the worlds
My home is always shifting and my soul is uplifting
As I burn through the blockage
Picking up the pieces of careless explosives
Now I walk with grace on this road
To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done until love is our home
To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done until love is our home
It's a wild world, it's a wild world...
Picking up the pieces of what I've left behind
Rewinding to burst forward
The past, it only teaches us to let go
Extending what we know, to the depths of our feeling
Picking up the pieces of careless explosives
Now I walk with grace on this road
To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done until love is our home
To all who came before me and all who are yet to come
This is not done until love is our home
It's a wild world, it's a wild world...
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6. |
Child
05:49
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You come to me as the person no one else can be
a completely unique happening in the entire universe
so wondrous are your gifts
courageous yet delicate
oh, lovely, lovely, lovely
how can I hold you
in every moment
in every way
how can I live life more fully
how can I completely portray
your beauty as my life
your brilliance as mine
one in the same
gathering the rain
So let this goddess coalesce into our hands
to lift her to our lips and kiss and drink the spirit
as it gives, as it gives
oh how can I open my heart up to you
keep on living
for this
Building bridges between our hearts again
layers upon layers
connect us in
trusting
such an open air to breathe
refreshing every single part of me
I will walk face forward
and dead on into
shout your blessing
through the room
oh how that I am love
all here right now
oh great spirit
you have spoken so loud that finally I hear it
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This force has come to claim me
And take me for its own
This fire burns within me
And the flames they rise and grow
So open up my fingers, the taking of a hand
No flesh will last forever, now I understand
I understand
My body is a vessel
I am a hollow bone
What strength will stop the river
Of love when it is shown
That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet
Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery
That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet
Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery
Release me from what holds me back
Grant me courage, I want to feel this
Embrace me as I fall into my feeling
Letting love leading
Oh... letting love leading
I watch a boat departing
It leaves me on the shore
With some greater longing
My soul hungering for more
But oh the waves that tossed me, and oh the space that's growing
I suppose they call this loving, I suppose it means I'm living
I suppose it means I'm living, I'm living
My body is a vessel
I am a hollow bone
What strength will stop the river
Of love when it is shown
That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet
Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery
That you were made for loving, and dying at the feet
Of some big dark that swallows, of some great mystery
Release me from what holds me back
Grant me courage, I want to feel this
Embrace me as I fall into my feeling
Letting love leading
Oh... letting love leading
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8. |
Galaxy Revealing
05:32
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Close the distance, I am coming to you
Make my heart ready to tremor and shake
We will create, painting words with color
And I will not wait one moment longer
And all I have is what I allow to move through me
And all I am is a galaxy revealing
Close to me means that I will be seen
Intimacy with life and all that it brings
I will allow the fires of existence to transform me
I won't hold back what's stirring me and calling me
And moving me on
And all I have is what I allow to move through me
And all I am is a galaxy revealing
My inner world touches the All, touching the word
Hearing the call across the land
And I can't stand to keep it inside
So I release my deepest dream out into space
Trusting the grace that follow through
The road of truth
That follows through, the road of truth
And all I have is what I allow to move through me
And all I am is a galaxy revealing
And all I have is what I allow to move through me
And all I am is a galaxy revealing...
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9. |
Human Star
04:03
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Adventure unbound
losing myself in the heart
and its sounds
and I let it carry me
deeper and deeper like a personal
safari through
wild entry points along
as I am captured in the song
like a devotee
showing up every second
always honoring
the question of why this chose me
why I am choosing every second of my life to be free
Unlimiting, honoring our periphery
impulse
chance
opportunity to dance
explore the unknown
mystery
becomes our new home
by accepting
what we do not know
and inform the flow and let go
and even more set off and explore
follow the contours
as they pass through this
human star
that we are
in every single cell
in every single scar
and let the grace
that carries this song
carry me
all the way home
my elders my brothers, my sisters, my lovers
i share with you the song
i want to grow
so clear to walk into your fears and your doubts
expanding the range of what can be felt in your house
initiating movement to
deepening our groove into know the flow
that will carry us
all the way home
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10. |
A Myriad of Ways
03:53
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Open wide these open skies, these open eyes to see you
Open sea, abundancy, more than enough to please you
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
So I'll listen close to hear...
Inviting the muse
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
Electric elegance, all the elements moving to the rhythm
Symphony, cacaophony, birds are awake, I hear them
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
So I'll listen close to hear...
Inviting the muse
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
Dimensional shift, abysmal rift, catching a glimpse of Source
So channel it through me, letting it use me, letting it change my course
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
A myriad of ways to give thanks and praise
A myriad of ways to be
So I'll listen close to hear...
Inviting the muse
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
Come near to me, inspire me, set fire to the water
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11. |
Gather and Drop
04:42
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honest eyes look back
reflecting the past
passing tradition
gather and drop
your branches your leaves
down to your roots your seeds
passing tradition
gather and drop
flourish me flush me
nourish me touch me
speaking to God right now
uncorrupt me
purge me move me
guide me loose me
soften the boundaries
the bondage the stories
allowing
creation informing
and how the winds are change
constant and re-arrange
your visions
decisions
listen
ancestral
revival
standing on the shoulders of our collective
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12. |
The Traveler's Wealth
05:46
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Oceans of traveling soul
So many pathways home
I live in the unknown
I am moving
Caress fate and chance
Create happenstance
This wave is a flow
I grow, wandering seeds
Abundantly, growing like trees
Ship sailing, here to trade
Intangible exchange pays our way
And paves wide, we dive into the road of the sea
Currency flowing, I am open sea channeling
Currency flowing, I am open sea channeling
From mother's mouth to our sails
She speaks that more is available to you
If you just move, listen, move, listen
Move, listen, move...
The ocean screams, release
The ocean screams, destiny
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper of tide
Light bouncing on the sea
Your eyes are shining, we are alive!
What's next?
Welcoming the rest of this life
We dive into the depths of the sea
We dive, into the depths of the sea
We dive...
Release the anchor, we are free to wander
Release the anchor, we are free to wander
From mother's mouth to our sails
She speaks that more is available to you
If you just move, listen, move, listen
Move, listen, move...
The ocean screams, release
The ocean screams, destiny
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper of tide
Here is nothing
Here is empty
Here, come reside...
The ocean screams, release
The ocean screams, destiny
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper
And falls to a whisper of tide
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13. |
Ahh Mama
04:59
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Taste the wild essence, presence
Taste the nectar of flowers, the power of
The Great Mother and she turns in me
And turns in you
Take me to the open fields
Yielding, deeply feeling
Take me to the open fields
Yielding, deeply feeling
Ahh, mamama yeah...
No other medicine will know you so deeply within
Trusting her to go inside, guide darkness into light
Fear not those darkened spaces
Fear not the demons' faces
All comes to dust as the wheels are turning
Hearts are burning, souls are yearning
Ahh, mamama yeah...
Taste the wild essence, presence
Taste the nectar of flowers, the power of
The Great Mother and she turns in me
And turns in you
Take me to the open fields
Yielding, deeply feeling
Take me to the open fields
Yielding, deeply feeling
Ahh, mamama yeah...
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The Ancient Wild Oregon
Harp, piano, male & female vocals, guitar, and drums create a unique acoustic-industrial sound reminiscent of Dead Can Dance, Tori Amos, Imogen Heap. The collaborative project between US-based composers Kate Wilde and Christophe Shepperdson.
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