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Tumble
05:44
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When I was little I'd walk sometimes
On the high ground, amidst gusts and crow wings
I'd feel the wind, all in my face blowing
Making me feel it was a time of kings
Like a leaf I tumble, all the way down
I tumble, tumble, all the way down
Sometimes the wind just fills up my sails
Takes me to the awareness of my presence
Goes through me, touches at my soul
To the heart of me, to my very essence
But like a leaf I tumbled, all the way down
I tumbled, tumbled, all the way down
But like a leaf I tumbled, all the way down
I tumbled, tumbled, all the way down
One of my hero's sang a song one time
About the wind of his soul to which he listened
He sat down upon the setting sun
While all around him existence glistened
And it made him tumble, all the way down
He tumbled, tumbled, all the way down
At the end of the day at best we're rainbows
Refractions of star light bounced from the walls of the cave
Here for a moment, just the wink of an eye
Stepping on the path from birth to grave
And it makes us tumble all the way down
We tumble, tumble, all the way down
And it makes us tumble all the way down
We tumble, tumble, all the way down
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2. |
Turning Tide
05:47
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Watching from the wide shore
Waves race to the land
Grey and Tall
The Deep is not touched
It's so far beyond
Our reach
Other lands seem far away
But are so near
Just out of sight
One day we'll cross tides
Go out of the reach
Of the shore
Like kites upon a breeze
We'll sail far away
Across the sea
Our souls ride the waves
To the great beyond
Pilgrim bound
There on a Newgale day
We will touch all things
Like fleeting foam
And foam it has no form
It just dissolves back
To air once more
Dissolves back
Breathing out
Resolves back
Breathing in
Watching from the wide shore
Waves race to the land
Grey and Tall
But is the place we stand
The same place again
As it was
Which shore are we on
There or here how can
We ever tell
We can not ever say
How which way runs
The chaining tide
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3. |
Mirrors and Smoke
04:56
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You are made of nothing at all
Just dust from the stars and nothing more
You touch things you which appear to be there
But really they're not even movements in air
Mirrors and smoke, mirrors and smoke that's all we are
We're like ghosts as we live each day
Brim filled with emptiness, we pose and display
As solid as gas clouds, we think we are real
We reach out and touch and think we can feel
Mirrors and smoke, mirrors and smoke that's all we are
Your are made of nothing at all
Just dust from the stars and nothing more
How awesome the dream in which we exist
How awesome the dream in which we exist
Mirrors and smoke, mirrors and smoke that's all we are
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4. |
Damaged Goods
03:20
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I am damaged goods
Like a boat in the water
I leave a wake
And where it lands
It creates mistakes
And no one knows
Where the wake will land
But if you gamble wrong
You better hope someone’s
There to lend a hand
Cos I am damaged goods
I could blame it on my family
And what I went through
But that won’t
Be of help to you
Don't be around me
I’m bad for you
Dont be fooled
Into thinking I’m honest
Just cos what I say here is true
Cos I am damaged goods
I’ll be deaf and blind
To all your pain
It’s happened before
It will happen again
People like you
Should be kept from me
I’m not sure it’s right
To let me
Into society
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5. |
Time Will Tell
06:44
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Mother owned a garden
She could make things grow
Most things would survive
From the things that she would sow
She used to tend the soil
Giving it all good care
So the breath of life
Would hang around in there
I wonder how her children will grow
Time will tell, Time will tell
Me, I grow people
At least I give it a go
I've not lost that many
And mostly their wounds don't show
Me I grow people
At least I give it a try
And I'll search for one I've lost
Though the waters are high
I wonder what my children will grow
Time will tell, Time will tell
Many say they garden
But they just don't seem to care
They'd rather keep them all malnourished
Hungry, in the dark down there
Soil can be damaged and
Seeds can have a hard time
When poisons in the system
It's a shame, it's a pity, it's a crime
I wonder how their children will grow
Time will tell, Time will tell
Natures not too tidy
And nothing ever grows up the same
Diversification is the
Name of natures game
But when a culture grows some people
It grows them mostly in a line
To keep them all in order
And help them fit in just fine
I wonder how our children will grow
Time will tell, Time will tell
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6. |
Hide The Sun
03:17
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They could never replace you
With all the bright stars in the sky
There's no one who could come close
There's no one who could even try
The road is darker now you've past
But all the while your footsteps last
I'll tread the pattern of your shoe
They could never replace you.
They could never replace you
With endless riches from the sea
No gold brought from a distant shore
Could ever mean as much to me
As the simple things you did and said
I learned to follow where you led
To the gates of life, and watched you through
They could never replace you.
They could never replace you
So hide the sun and veil the earth
Take all the seconds out of time
Take creation out of birth
You've stopped the world, all movements gone
There's no song to move me on
It's missing now and so's the view
They could never replace you.
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7. |
Compassion
04:57
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Dont care about the starving man
Sitting outside my door
He can sit there till he starves to death
'Aint compassion any more
My kids, well they can go to hell
I'm showing them the door
If they come to me in trouble
I'm not the help their looking for
Dont tell me of your tragedy
It's not to do with me
What if the world's dispairing?
I will not hear it's plea
I practice non attachement
And I'm not attached to you
Cos I'm a cold hearted bastard
And there's nothing you can do
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8. |
Red Earth Road
03:31
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I’m going down the red earth road,
I’m going to see what I can find.
I am walking into my history,
I’m walking in like, I don’t mind.
And if I see all I believe,
And if I understand what I’ve seen.
And if I believe all that I know,
I’ll be walking down the red earth road.
There’s a past frozen here,
In the heat, beneath the sky.
By the stones, deep and wide.
With the bones of ages lying by.
I stood here when the river ran,
And I strained to hear it’s voice once more.
Doing all I had been told,
Standing on the red earth road.
This is such an ancient land,
Who’s bare bones haunt me still.
The wind always whispers things to me,
Tales of river, rock and hill.
Take a stone and hold it tight,
Don’t fret, don’t fear tonight.
Don’t dream and let your spirit roam,
Just stand there on the red earth road.
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9. |
Sequins
06:42
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Hey, where you running to, my wilful wild eyed child
Are you running away?
Where is your home now, where are your family
Gone are the flowers where you played
Though the game seems over now,
and the cause seems lost
And the crowd seem silent now
You've no need to count the cost
Tomorrow will see me somewhere else but here
But I'll still sing my songs for you
Some times their presence seem clearer than it was
But then those times may be untrue
But who said no flowers grew here anyway
When all they need is time and love
Aim to plant the seeds your given
And the ones that slip through will be enough
Please my wild eyed one If your going my way
May I accompany you upon your road
It seems a sorry state, no colours hides its edges
Even though along it, all the seeds were sowed
But anyway, there's a boat built for your ocean
And it's waiting where your road begins
It's got yellow sails and a stern painted emerald
And fabrics dyed in saffron, and sequined
And you can light its lanterns, they will flutter in the breeze
And sail on till the edge of the world
Where heros of adventures, in glory all wait
For your boats golden banners to unfurl
But who said no flowers grew here anyway
When all of us can see they are
Deep in the stillness that is where we sit
Illuminated by a splendid shining star
I could have given you fine horses
I could have given you fine doves
i could have given you fine tigers
I could have given you fine love.
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10. |
The Way It Is
02:29
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I've followed the thread since I was a child
Never let go of my hold on it once
Held it when all seemed desperate and wild
Without the thread all things would be lost
It's been hard enough for me to percieve
And others have thought I aimed to disceave
But I have followed the thread like we all must do
Through the thick and thin it's pulls you through
I've followed the thread since I was a child
But it's hard to explain to people I met
It's qualities always leave me beguiled
But on the tip of my tongue it always tastes sweet
Tragedies happen and people get hurt
Old age and death we can never avert
But every step of the life upon which you tread
You dont ever let go of the thread
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11. |
Song For You
03:36
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Nicholas Breeze Wood UK
Multi instrumentalist singer-songwriter drawing on Rock, Arabic and Medieval music, using instruments from all those traditions
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