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Be Still
04:58
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There's a message from the window cill
where you sit there and you're sitting still
and green grows up the vine
and flowers take their time
There's a message and it's coming through
the coming of the morning to...
You can hear it in the whispering
of the bird song sing
Be still dear one
let the seasons go and let the rivers run
and be still dear one
and you'll know
And youre sitting there
you hold your hands and roll your hair
and you'll come back to there
time and time again
to watch the animals
to watch the rise and fall
of days and evenings and it all
as it comes in
Be still dear one
let the seasons go and let the rivers run
and be still dear one
and you'll know
So teach your children well
and may your love the ringing bell
sound in stories that you tell
to them as they grow
Cause they'll come back to here
through the seasons through the years
back from joy and back in tears
to come back to your care
Be still dear one
let the seasons go and let the rivers run
and be still dear one
and you'll know
Be still dear one
let the seasons go and let the rivers run
and be still dear one
and you'll know
Be still dear one
let the seasons go and let the flowers come
and be still dear one
and you'll know
that Spring will come
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2. |
Lay Down
03:42
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When you find your brother in the eyes of another one
like when our friends and others cross the line we get stuck upon
when you through your covers and you lay down your disguise
the one who suffers they've got nowhere else to hide
lay down your hands
lay down your heart
When you see your sister long lost before now
and you know you've missed her and you both feel this somehow
for the wells you wish her for the time you've been apart
may see to the world a whisper but you know that it's a start
to lay down your hand
lay down your heart
When you feel your Father feel him in all his joy and pain
and you know that you've come after to journey on the same
When you hear your Mother in the stories she told
with her love for others and the hearts that we hold
lay down your hands
lay down your heart
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3. |
A Little Love
02:54
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Cold In the dawn and you think about it all
the world spinning around and around
your head goes up and down
up and down
You need love a little love
to bring you round
You need love a little love
to bring you round
When the notes that are coming out your throat
are singing sad songs only sad songs
as though there's water in your boat
you know you won't float so long
You need love a little love
to bring you round
You need love a little love
to bring you round
When the books you read there not everything you need
turning pages there must be more than these
may everything you feel not last so long
You need love a little love
to bring you round
You need love a little love
to bring you round
to bring you round
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4. |
So Around
03:29
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So Around
Seeds a softening shoot to stem
a sapling from the ground
Branch to bud and light to leaf
will grow gracefully bound
And we know that fruit from flower flourish
falls and so around
All that came again remains
and future form is found
Thoughts and feelings forward weave
their way into the world
Gather words and rise and birds
these featured forms unfurl
And we know that all ideas settle
and inspiration stays
then on wings with songs to sing
together make their way
Breath to body born from all the
hope that is alive
Drawn in dreams and here in streams
flow underneath the sky
And we know it's less the years here
as you and i we lived
more the love that's given
and the things with it we did
So seeds a softening shoot to stem
a sapling from the ground
Branch to bud and light to leaf
will grow gracefully bound
And we know that fruit from flower flourish
falls and so around
All that came again remains
and future form is found
And we know that fruit from flower flourish
falls and so around
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Joe Holtaway England, UK
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