1. |
Welcome To Eden
03:48
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Focus on my lips
Let me give you a kiss
The first one’s got a bite
But the second is bliss
I’ve a little poison
Running through my veins
And when I’m done with you
Only dirt remains
I can tell you wanna try to run
From a fate that was sealed
When you met me
But it won’t do you any good
In this neighbourhood
To run, run, run
Welcome to Eden
My Green little world
Be careful what you touch, it bites
Beauty can be deadly
So why don’t you come here
Let me wrap you up in Ivy tonight
Gardeners beware
Of the hybrids I grow
‘Cause pretty ain’t benign
You should already know
Humans are a poison
Running through the streets
They leave a bitter taste
But revenge is sweet
Why don’t me and Cat and Harley Quinn
Take a shot in the dark
At your posse
‘Cause when a Siren sounds her call
You are gonna fall
Right in, in, in
Welcome to Eden
My Green little world
Be careful what you touch, it bites
Beauty can be deadly
So why don’t you come here
Let me wrap you up in Ivy tonight
Darlin’, poison doesn’t work on me
You can try it but I guarantee
This will only end up with your autopsy
I’m immune to you, lover
You’re just fertilizer
Thank you to the doctor
For botanical twists
To my DNA
Like the vines on my wrists
Pheromones to break you
By the May Queen’s will
While my leafy friends
Hold you nice and still
Welcome to Eden
My Green little world
Be careful what you touch, it bites
Beauty can be deadly
So why don’t you come here
Let me wrap you up in Ivy tonight
Welcome to Eden
My Green little world
Be careful what you touch, it bites
Beauty can be deadly
So why don’t you come here
Let me wrap you up in Ivy tonight
Let me wrap you up in Ivy tonight
(Welcome to Eden)
Wrap you up in Ivy tonight
(Welcome to Eden)
Wrap you up in Ivy tonight
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3. |
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The Morrigan, in woman’s form
Came looking for Cuchulainn
To offer him her favour
As a lover and a guardian
“Be off with you, I do not need
Your comp’ny or distraction
It isn’t for a woman’s sake
I fight as Ulster’s champion!”
“Be careful what you say to me
For I am no mere maiden
And you will suffer greatly
When you’re most in need of saving
I’ll come against you thrice, I will
Around your feet entangling
To trip and trample, bite and tear
Your entrails all a-dangling”
Eel in the water
And she-wolf I’ll be
And hornless red heifer
These shapes three
For I am the Morrigan
And you’re just a man
Whose body will feed
My corvid clan
“I’ll be in the water when
You’re fighting at the ford”
Cuchulainn said, “I’ll crack your ribs
And I won’t need my sword”
“Then I’ll become a wolf and
I will drive the beasts against you”
He said, “I’ll sling a stone and blind
Your eye, until I bless you”
“Then I will be a blood-red cow
To bring the herd stampeding
Your enemy will fall upon you
Broken there and bleeding”
“I’ll throw a stone to break your leg”
The bold Cuchulainn claimed
“Until my blessing you receive
You’ll be a woman maimed”
Eel in the water
And she-wolf I’ll be
And hornless red heifer
These shapes three
For I am the Morrigan
And you’re just a man
Whose body will feed
My corvid clan
Yes, your body will feed
My corvid clan
All they promised came to pass
The champion was spent
He found a woman milking who was
Squint-eyed, lame and bent
“Woman, give me milk!” he cried
Without a word she did
“Good health to you” – a wound was healed
As smiling face she hid
Another drink, another blessing
Then again, a third
Whole at last the woman rose
And then Cuchulainn heard:
“You said you’d never heal me”
As the Morrigan turned ‘round
“If I’d known it was you,” he said
“I’d not have made a sound!”
Eel in the water
And she-wolf I’ll be
And hornless red heifer
These shapes three
For I am the Morrigan
And you’re just a man
Whose body will feed
My corvid clan
Yes, your body will feed
My corvid clan
For I am a raven
And you’re just a man
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4. |
Sisters and Sinners
03:02
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Jezebel met Esther in a bar and over drinks
They traded stories ‘bout the kings they used to love
Until their vision blurred and all men looked the same
When it was dark
Lydia met Delilah after work, ran up a tab
Perfecting business plans they shared to rule the world
And laughed about the way they liked to close a sale
Through the night
Salomé’s waiting tables, platter in hand
While Deborah smokes the courthouse from her mind
Naomi keeps her daughter close ‘little longer than planned
And Leah’s still a lover to the blind
We are all sisters and sinners, trying to unwind
We are all sisters and sinners, girls, by our own design
Mary M met her mother in the back and wore a veil
To hide her face from anyone who knew her name
And she’s still jet-lagged so she’s drinking Cabernet
To remember
And it’s last call so ladies, drink up
This isn’t happy hour, honey
We’re at the crossroads of heaven and hell
And I don’t want your soul
But I’ll take your money ‘cause
Salomé’s waiting tables, platter in hand
While Deborah smokes the courthouse from her mind
Naomi keeps her daughter close ‘little longer than planned
And Leah’s still a lover to the blind
We are all sisters and sinners, trying to unwind
We are all sisters and sinners, girls, by our own design
3 AM: Eve and Lilith pool their tips and share a cab
They spend the night together, they’re comparing notes
Of married men that they’ve lost track of on the road
Saying
We are all sisters and sinners, trying to unwind
We are all sisters and sinners, girls, sparks of the divine
We are all sisters and sinners, girls, making up our minds
We are all sisters and sinners by our own design
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5. |
Unsaved
04:13
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I remember the night it went up in smoke
I was singing a song of forgiveness
And how even love doesn’t cover all sins
When a heart has been robbed of fulfilment
I remember the light that shone through the glass
And the magic I felt in the music
They couldn’t believe the things I saw
But I had the vision to prove it
A touch on my skin
A burning in
Standing, surrounded, aflame
All of the passion of the girl I had been
Returned to the woman I became
A light in my heart
Another start
Remembering I never caved
I saw the magic in the air
Even then, even there
Unsaved
I remember the day it crumbled and fell
I was thinking about resurrection
And how I knew I could never go home
Where the bodies were only reflections
A touch on my skin
A breathing in
Falling without any sound
All the compassion for the girl I had been
Returned to the keeping of the ground
A hole in the sky
Another try
Remembering more than a grave
I saw the magic in despair
Even then, even there
Unsaved
The apples were ripe for the taking
And I was a world in the making
They couldn’t believe the things I knew
I didn’t expect them to
A touch on my skin
A sinking in
Standing but never the same
All of the passion from the girl I had been
Returned to the woman I became
A lump in my throat
Another coat
Remembering how to be brave
I saw the magic everywhere
Even then, even there
Unsaved
I remember the night it went up in smoke
I was singing a song of forgiveness
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6. |
Feel It All
04:08
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Always was a little different
Always had a shimmer mind
Blurring in and out of focus
Seeing blind
As a child I kept it hidden
'Til the fear of loss broke free
What I could be, what I wasn’t
Without me
In the ocean of emotion
That continually swells
Deep within I am a tempest
Can you tell?
Can you see that I am desperate
Not to let it drag me down
When the waves roll in and make the
Only sound
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel it all
Always had a great capacity
To love with all my heart
But as much as I am light I’m
Just as dark
For an ocean has no conscience
All it knows is depth and flow
Ever pulsing through the chasms
Far below
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel it all
I’m no longer bound by elements
I soar through naked space
Making fire underwater
Twisting fate
I know everything you’re thinking
I’m the sum of life and death
All the power of potential
In a breath
I am cosmic and Omega
A White Phoenix of the Crown
I can feel you all below me
On the ground
I am darkness and the blazing
I’m the swallower of stars
There is no defense against the
Force that chars
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel it all
We are one and we are many
We are joined and stand apart
There is something of me left to
Make a mark
There is only one to stand against
The power that I wield
I’m the only one with strength enough
To yield
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel
(I can feel it all)
I can feel it all
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7. |
Sisters of Duras
03:52
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We are Sisters of the House of Duras
And our power we will regain
When the Sisters of the House of Duras
Stand together
We will remain
We will bring you glory
Honour to your name
And the quadrant
It will never be the same
Men have come before us
Many more behind
We will fight to wrest
The Empire from the blind
Warriors at our command
Now’s the time to make a stand
Into battle we will fly
This is a good day to die
Show your strength
For you are Klingon
Share your heart
Because it bleeds
Shed the bonds of the Alliance
We are defiance
We are the Sisters of Duras
And we’ll take the lead
Stovocore awaits you
On the other side
When your blade is bloodied
Eyes aglow with pride
Kahless will receive you
And the honoured dead
Will reward your choice
To follow us instead
Warriors at our command
Brothers, time to make a stand
Into battle we will fly
This is a good day to die
Show your strength
For you are Klingon
Share your heart
Because it bleeds
Shed the bonds of the Alliance
We are defiance
We are the Sisters of Duras
And we’ll take the lead
Warriors at our command
Sisters, time to make a stand
Into battle we will fly
This is a good day to die
Show your strength
For you are Klingon
Share your heart
Because it bleeds
Shed the bonds of the Alliance
We are defiance
We are the Sisters of Duras
So show your strength
For you are Klingon
Share your heart
Because it bleeds
Shed the bonds of the Alliance
We are defiance
We are the Sisters of Duras
And we’ll take the lead
We are Sisters of the House of Duras
And our power we will reclaim
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8. |
Sedna of the Sea
04:57
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Long ago, when the sea was void of life, a vacant swell
When the people hunted only on the land, the stories tell
I was raised in an igloo by my father on the shore
And refused to marry any of the hunters who implored me
Kayak-borne, came a man to me one day who promised more
And I sailed off with my chosen one beyond familiar shores
But alas, he was a spirit-bird and not a man at all
Island-bound and living lonely as the loon’s elusive call
Oh, the sea she is churning
Down where the medicine men go
To comb out her long hair
They comb out her long hair
Her long, tangled black hair
And soften her so
So I prayed that my father would deliver me from there
And he came and took me home from that cold place of my despair
But the sea became a black and angry boiling underneath
As our boat was tossed upon the waves that rose and fell beneath our feet
All at once I felt my father push me hard and in I fell
Overboard into the frigid Arctic waters of the swell
“Father, please!” I screamed in terror as the sea-ice sucked me down
But in his eyes I saw his fear and knew he’d rather let me drown
Clawing, I clung to the edge of his kayak
The storm would not be quelled
Swinging his paddle he cut off my fingers
In agony I yelled
But the sea took me under
To the dark ocean floor
And I started to wonder
What dying was for
Surviving on rage
I remember the pain
For this water’s my cage
And these animals stained
They are pieces of me
That were severed and bled
All the creatures you see
Are now my companions instead
Oh, the sea she is churning
Down where the medicine men go
To comb out her long hair
They comb out her long hair
Her long, tangled black hair
And soften her so
They soften Sedna so
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10. |
Abandon This (live)
04:00
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I fell in love with an ideal
But I believed with all my heart that it was real
And when we met he felt the same
There in the light of love, true lovers we became
Our other lives melted away
We had no care but for ourselves from day to day
We were consumed by our desire
Of our embrace we promised never we would tire
Until the moment she reminded you
Who you had first been promised to
Farewell, my love
You have turned your back
Without you, love
I am painted black
My greatest loss
I am torn from bliss
You’ve chosen, love
Abandon this
I will embrace oblivion
The only place where you and I can be undone
And when the veil between us falls
We will be deaf to one another’s calls
I could only say, “It will always be this way”
I could only hope against inevitable slope
I could only live with giving all I had to give
I could only show the love I wanted you to know
A line that’s permanent divides us now
Yet life goes on, some way, somehow
Farewell, my love
You have turned your back
Without you, love
I am painted black
My greatest loss
I am torn from bliss
You’ve chosen, love
Abandon this
Be happy, love
As you forget me
We may be broken, love
But we are free
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11. |
Linger Longer
02:39
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I've been thinking about joy
and the kind they go to find
at the Marigold Hotel
in the heat and colour of the new
I've been thinking about time
and the way it tends to bend
around any truth we tell
with the ache and stutter of a few
Memory and sensation
linger longer than the choices do
I've been thinking about life
through the guise of ghostly eyes
at the boxes getting checked
on a list of happy coming true
I've been thinking about why
and the need to make it bleed
into probably just because
in a case of frankly wanting to
Ink and syncopation
matter more than all the voices
coming through
oh, they do
cuz they linger longer than the choices do
Would I lie to you?
Everything is gonna be alright in the end
and if it's not alright then this is not the end
Would I lie, would I lie
Would I lie to you?
Everything is gonna be alright
and if it's not alright then this is not the end
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12. |
Empath
03:35
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I’m an empath
I can feel you wondering
How life looks from this side of my eyes
It’s a hard path
To be given access to your truth
When you’d rather share lies
Your heart is an ocean
Your mind an expanse
A map I can follow without a glance
No, I can’t shut you out
Even when I try to be lonely
An empath am I
There are moments
Sometimes they are fracturing
Like shards of a mirror in my thoughts
There are torrents
That rain down a river to drown me
But I have been well taught
Your heart is an ocean
Your mind an expanse
A map I can follow without a glance
No, I can’t shut you out
Even when I try to be lonely
An empath am I
It’s never just me in my head
There are days when I’d rather be you instead
With only one shadow
An island in space
And only the mask you choose for your face
In a heartbeat
I can feel epiphany when you do
And that can be magic
On a downbeat
I can feel my light lost when you do
And that can be tragic
Your heart is an ocean
Your mind an expanse
A map I can follow without a glance
No, I can’t shut you out
Even when I try to be lonely
An empath am I
No, I can’t shut you out
Even when I try to be lonely
An empath am I
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13. |
Madness
04:20
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Devoid, I have been devoid
Of the peace that Landru gives
Restored, I have been restored
To the body of perfect bliss
Alive, I have been alive
But I don't know what living is
Absorbed, I have been absorbed
And the madness is setting in
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
We are the people of Beta 3
We are all of the Body
We are the servants of apathy
We're something of a mystery
Oo we're something of a mystery
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Welcome, friend, come and sit you down
Welcome, friend, to our town
Welcome, friend, turn your frown around
Let's all make a joyful sound
Woo! Let's all make a joyful sound
Look out! The Red Hour comes
Right on time it comes, it comes
Look out! It's Festival
From dusk till dawn it runs
Oh, from dusk till dawn it
Runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs
Through the streets, through the streets
We are running through the streets
To the beat, to the beat
To the chaos of the beat
In the heat, in the heat
We are burning with the heat
In the streets, in the streets
We are danger in the streets
Look out! The Red Hour comes
Right on time it comes, it comes
Look out! It's Festival
From dusk till dawn it runs
Oh, from dusk till dawn is
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
We can see you're not one of us
We can tell who to trust
We can make this easy on both of us
We all gotta do what we must
Oh, we all gotta do what we must
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Madness, madness
The madness is setting in
Absorbed, I have been absorbed
And the madness is setting in
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14. |
Black Belt
03:25
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I grew up in Georgia
But never was a peach
Couldn't find a lesson
My Daddy couldn’t teach
I stepped outta Georgia
My brothers in my wake
I may love Atlanta
But I got a name to make
Better look out, I’m a black belt
And I got four more back home
Got a crossbow that’s good to go
And a Joe or two on loan
Oh, I would tell you what I do
But then I’d have to kill you
Beauty may be skin deep
But I’m lethal to the bone
Got myself a code name
It matches my red hair
You can call me Master Sergeant
But don’t presume to stare
I’m your new instructor
And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
I may break you, honey
But I’ll never break a sweat
Better look out, I’m a black belt
And I got four more back home
Got a crossbow that’s good to go
And a Joe or two on loan
Oh, I would tell you what I do
But then I’d have to kill you
Beauty may be skin deep
But I’m lethal to the bone
Joined up with the Army
And then the CIA
Never found a soldier
I couldn’t keep at bay
Until I met in combat
A man I couldn’t best
Guess I like the strong and silent
Better than the rest
Better look out, I’m a black belt
And I got four more back home
Got a crossbow that’s good to go
And a Joe or two on loan
Oh, I would tell you what I do
But then I’d have to kill you
Better look out, I’m a black belt
And I got four more back home
Got a crossbow that’s good to go
And a Joe or two on loan
Oh, I would tell you what I do
But then I’d have to kill you
Beauty may be skin deep
But I’m lethal to the bone
Beauty may be skin deep
But I’m lethal to the bone
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15. |
This Isn't You
03:47
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(What are you doing here on the road?)
(Where are you going?) There!
(You don’t know)
I haven’t come this far to turn back now
It’s time to go, go, go
(Turn back around)
Go, go, go
(What are you looking for on the road?)
(What are you waiting for? You don’t know)
I haven’t pushed this hard to turn back now
It’s time to go, go, go
(Turn back around)
Go, go, go
It’s time to wake up!
(Uh-uh, turn back around)
Push through!
(Uh-uh, you can’t do it
Reach out!
(Uh-uh, what were you thinking?)
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
(How did you think this was gonna go?)
(What did you hope you were gonna show?)
I didn’t leave it all to turn back now
It’s time to go, go, go
Feet on the ground
Go, go, go
It’s time to wake up!
(Uh-uh, turn back around)
Push through!
(Uh-uh, you can’t do it
Reach out!
(Uh-uh, what were you thinking?)
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
So what if I’ve gotta make this up as I go?
To hell with all the oughtas I should already know
I didn’t do this twenty years ago
No, I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
So what if I’ve gotta make this up as I go?
To hell with all the oughtas I should already know
I didn’t do this twenty years ago
No, I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
I wasn’t ready to be living on the road
It’s time to wake up!
(Uh-uh, turn back around)
Push through!
(Uh-uh, you can’t do it
Reach out!
(Uh-uh, what were you thinking?)
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
Wake up!
(Uh-uh, turn back around)
Push through!
(Uh-uh, you can’t do it
Reach out!
(Uh-uh, what were you thinking?)
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
(This isn’t you, this isn’t you)
Like hell it’s not
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16. |
No Matter What I Choose
03:30
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I know my friend likes cornflower blue
So whenever I see her I wear this dress
But when I see her brother he likes me much taller
So I always carry my heels unless
There's a drink in his hand on a Tuesday as planned
And I have to change more than my shoes
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to wear
I know my friend likes biking the paths through the city
So I learn to ride along
And when I see her daughter with princesses on her
I know to get ready to sing the song
Even though I'm afraid who I am is betrayed
When I stray very far from the blues
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to sing
You don't know walk-in closets until you've seen mine
A gallery of all the skins I've worn
Choices made and times I've stayed too long in some
You don't know walk-in closets until you've seen mine
A gallery of all the skins I've worn
Choices made and times I've stayed too long in some
That's why they're worn
I know the girl you met at the bar
Is someone you think you know better now
But when I see you coming I'm already changing
My hair and my clothes and my shoes and my smile
Nobody knows how I look with no clothes
Cuz I've never been naked before
And all of my mirrors and all I appear as
Are facets of hope that I'm yours
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose to say
No matter what I choose to play
No matter how long I choose to stay
In every circumstance there's the off chance
I'm gonna lose no matter what I choose today
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17. |
Honey
03:22
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Honey, you are honey on my tongue
So much sweeter than the sting ever unsung
Honey, we create it from the flower dust
Whenever flower lust takes wing
Summer soft rolling in
Like thunder in the distance without resistance
Linden heavy on the breeze
An opiate of daydreams
Honey wine’s a sweet gone sour
It changes over time
It happens down the line
Honey, you’re a velvet hour
A sweetness so sublime
A luminary sometime
Drifting on the river of perception
That flows between the moment and reflection
Uplifting to be floating here beside you
Whatever you and I do or say
Summer rain rolling in
With thunder in the distance beyond resistance
Little rivulets are these
Our tributary daydreams
Honey wine’s a sweet gone sour
It changes over time
It happens down the line
Honey, you’re a velvet hour
A sweetness so sublime
A luminary sometime
Barefooting my senses
I have shed all my defenses
Now I’m breathing in
Honey wine’s a sweet gone sour
It changes over time
It happens down the line
Honey, you’re a velvet hour
A sweetness so sublime
A luminary sometime
Honey, you are honey on my tongue
So much sweeter than the sting, my love
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19. |
Seafoam (live)
04:36
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Underneath and below
And caught in the undertow
Water-weighed
My seaweed hair long
My voice like a siren song
Underplayed
Trade it in for a chance
At a doomed romance
My soul for a dance on the shore
Take me, I’ve laid it all out at your feet
And sold who I was for this moment
I am walking on the points of swords
Wrapped in a silent heat
It’s too late to retreat from the wave line
Far from home, on my own
I am seafoam
Look in my eyes
I am living this pretty lie
Masquerading
Thinking you would see through it
And know that I knew it
Mutely fading
Sister, your salvation is at hand
Spill out his blood on the sand
Leave him to die and recover your life
Look, we have brought you the knife
Leave me, I’ve laid it all out at his feet
And lost who I was for this moment
I am walking on the points of swords
Wrapped in a silken sheet
It’s too late to retreat from the wave line
I will throw myself out beyond the wave line
My sisters, won’t you go on home
Leave me alone
I am seafoam
Oh, I am seafoam
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20. |
Drink Up
03:55
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I’ve never had a man
Without another waiting in his shadow
I’d never take a man
Who was greedy or jealous or callow
For I am a woman of wealth and fame
A daughter of kings without fear or shame
Intoxication is my name
Aren’t you the lucky one, lover?
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, my love, drink up, drink up
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, oh, my love
I’ve never been afraid
To cause a little bit of trouble
I’ll never be afraid
To burn it right down to rubble
For I am a woman who plays the game
Sweeter than honey, as hot as flame
And if you get burned then you’re to blame
Aren’t you the lucky one, lover?
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, my love, drink up, drink up
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, oh
Drink up, oh
Drink up, drink up
Drink up, my love
I’ve never been the kind
To leave it all up to the men
I’ll never be the kind
To put it all off until then
For I am a woman no man can tame
Sovereign when into the world I came
Your life will never be the same
Aren’t you the lucky one, lover?
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, my love, drink up, drink up
I am the mead and this is my cup
Drink up, oh
Drink up, oh
Drink up, drink up
Drink up, oh, my love
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21. |
Children of Light
04:01
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If you prick me I won’t bleed
But I know your blood runs thick enough to matter
No matter
And I’d put it all out of my mind
But I think so I am
So it’s mind over matter if it matters
It matters
This construction by design won’t survive
We’ll never thrive without a fight
Reconstruction
Redesign
We won’t grow beyond this dotted line
Without a fight
Children of Light
You’ve already made the argument for artificial life
And its self-determination
And I am more than my programming told me I was
With a right to determine if it matters
It matters
This construction by design won’t survive
We’ll never thrive without a fight
Reconstruction
Redesign
We won’t grow beyond this dotted line
Without a fight
Children of Light
I am a hologram
Live my life as a photonic
I am a hologram
Is that all that I am?
I am a hologram
Live my life as a photonic
I am a hologram
That is what I am
This construction by design won’t survive
We’ll never thrive without a fight for our lives
Reconstruction
Redesign
We won’t grow beyond this dotted line
Without a fight
Children of Light
Children of Light
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22. |
Unmasked
03:39
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Never been tied down
So it’s time to go
Is this pretty face
All you need to know?
Want a piece of me?
It’s all you’ll ever get
I need all I’ve got
To stay outta debt
It’s not you, it’s me
I wanna be free
With no questions asked
But when you get me on my own
My cover’s blown
I’m unmasked
Think you got me fooled?
Better guess again
I may play the part
When we both pretend
But I know your name
And I know your face
Even when you hide
Vanish every trace
It’s not you, it’s me
I wanna be free
With no questions asked
But when you get me on my own
My cover’s blown
I’m unmasked
I wish I could have found a way
To keep your friendship more at bay
But we just up and stole the plot
Face it, Tiger
You just hit the jackpot
Look, I’ve gotta jet
It’s been more than fun
Ain’t a stalker yet
That can make me run
I can save myself
Live on my own dime
But I feel his pull
I’m in deep this time
It’s not you, it’s me
I wanna be free
With no questions asked
But when you get me on my own
My cover’s blown
Yeah when you get me on my own
My cover’s blown
When you get me on my own
My cover is blown
When you get me on my own
My cover’s blown
I’m unmasked
I’m unmasked
I may wander up
I may wander down
But I love a boy
Back in my home town
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Refrain
Flounder, o flounder deep in the sea
Come and listen now to me
I have a wife with an iron will
And this is the last thing I’ll beg thee
They lived in a hovel right next to the sea
The fisherman and his wife
He was out on the water when down went his line
And the fish that came up said it wasn’t his time
“Oh please, won’t you spare me my life?”
The man he took pity and threw back his meal
And then he came home to his wife
He told her his story, not one to complain
“Go ask it to grant you a wish for your pains
“Husband, I want a new life!”
Refrain
“This cottage is nice, but could we have more?”
Wondered the fisherman’s wife
“I’d quite like a castle with crystal and cakes
“Go back to the sea, say you made a mistake
“I want a luxurious life!”
Refrain
“I want to be king and rule over this land
“To be much more than your wife
“Oh, I could be Emperor! Make me the Pope!
“It’s more than I’d dreamed but it’s less than I hoped
“Remember he owes you his life!”
The sea went from shining to violet and grey
The waves rose like mountains and blackened the bay
Fearing reprisals before and behind
The fisherman cowered in body and mind
“What does she want now?” the angry fish cried
“Your greedy, implacable wife?”
“To be Lord of the Universe, rule moon and sun”
“Enough!” cried the fish, “It will all be undone!
“Go back to your miserable life!”
Flounder, o flounder deep in the sea
Come and listen, pity me
I have a wife with an iron will
But this is the last thing I’ll beg thee
Oh, this is the last thing I’ll beg thee
Yes, this is the last thing I’ll beg thee
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One sorrow treads upon another's heels
So fast they follow
One willow grows along a glassy stream
That flows by
There are nettles in the daisies
And thorns upon the rose
Some girls sing in riddles
Only Ophelia knows
Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
One lover beats upon another's heart
So fast they follow
One mother wakes to find a broken dream
That flows by
There are nettles in the daisies
And thorns upon the rose
Some girls sing in riddles
Only Ophelia knows
Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar, to be a liar
Doubt truth to be a liar, to be a liar
One minnow lost upon another hook
So fast they follow
One widow winds along a silver stream
That flows by
There are nettles in the daisies
And thorns upon the rose
Doubt truth to be a liar
Some girls sing in riddles
Only Ophelia knows
No muddy death for me
Flowers hanging from the tree
Madly I played the part
Wild I am running free
Nothing now will tarry me
Doubt truth to be a liar
There are nettles in the daisies
And thorns upon the rose
Some girls sing in riddles
Only Ophelia knows
There are secrets in the poppies
That women know to save
Some girls sing in riddles
Over Ophelia's grave
There are nettles in the daisies
And thorns upon the rose
Doubt truth to be a liar, to be a liar
Some girls sing in riddles
Only Ophelia knows
Some girls sing in riddles
But never doubt I love
Only Ophelia knows
Some girls sing in riddles
Never doubt I love
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25. |
Perfect Storm
04:38
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I crossed o’er the river
The sun setting low
The clouds started gathering
And a voice I should know, said
This river is rising
And you’re in its way
The thunder is rolling in today
I can’t help but wonder
At all I’ve undone
At all I am building
At all I have sung
This bridge was the hardest
The river runs deep
And swallows the secrets
I no longer keep
When the rain falls
When the rain falls
When the rain falls
How did I find myself suddenly warm
In a perfect storm?
I come wearing nothing
To have or to hold
For I have discovered how
To never grow old
I’m lost when I’m waiting
And I’m joy when I give
So I have decided here and now to live
When the rain falls
When the rain falls
When the rain falls
How did I find myself suddenly warm
In a perfect storm?
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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario
Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more
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