1. |
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. |
Let Yourself Be Seen
05:03
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Let yourself be seen
like a flower in the garden
like a thank you or a pardon
these words are bringing bloom to what you mean
like the colours of the meadow
there's wisdom in this world you know
just watch the way the woodland comes to green
let yourself be seen
Let your spirit show
like the stars above the hillside
the love that starts there inside
within and continues there to grow
as it has forever as the starts that come together
remind us that there's nothing we don't know
when you let your spirit show
Let your feeling free
as the clouds when they're becoming do
allow the water running through
down into the rivers and the sea
as our shared emotion from the air becomes an ocean
somewhere we can sit beside and breathe
let your feelings free
Let yourself be seen
like a flower in the garden
like a thank you or a pardon
these words are bringing bloom to what you mean
like the colours of the meadow
there's wisdom in this world you know
just watch the way the woodland comes to green
and let yourself be seen
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3. |
A Little Love
02:54
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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. |
Human All
06:54
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When you stand hand in hand and you be calm
Where there was you and I we become
Where there was two we become one
can you feel it?
Face to face and you listen in
See those eyes are sparkling and glistening
It feels like there's nothing that you're missing
It's like you have it all
It's there in the feeling
It's there in the giving and there in the receiving
When hearts are hearing hearts life is healing
To be a part of because
All our blood is red
All our sweat is salt
After all when it come to it
We are human all
Close your eyes there's a river
Flowing wide and if you give a, If you give a,
Time and a space it grows bigger
It's flowing
Comes into you from the mountain
Comes there from the clear crystal fountain
Sprung from all the love that's amounting here
As youLike from a mother and we're all part of faer* because
All our blood is red
All our sweat is salt
After all when it come to it
We are human all
And it's growling and it's flowing
and you know it and you see it here with to you
Coming and running and leaving and leading all
and it's coming through
You know it and feel it and caring to share it
You know it's true
It's a part of you
All our blood is red
All our sweat is salt
After all when it come to it
We are human all
When you stand hand in hand and you be calm
Where there was you and I we become
Where there was two we become one
can you feel it?
*faer is a gender neutral pronoun you can find more about what this means here
gender.wikia.com/wiki/Pronouns
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5. |
Oak Tree
04:24
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Down into the Silence down beyond the road
Follow to the forest for to see a friend I know
when my heart and head are heavy and hopelessness arose
and I know I cannot be alone
For there is a friend who resides beside me
for there is a friend
For there is a friend who resides beside me
until I'm calm again
The patience of the old oak tree
standing in the shimmering light
standing over me
the patience of the old oak tree
may it come to me
Down beyond the branches over bracken under dray
not long before the leaving of the day
out into the clearing where the light gets in
for my head and heart the healing can begin
For there is a friend who resides beside me
for there is a friend
For there is a friend who resides inside me
until I'm calm again
The patience of the old oak tree
standing in the shimmering light
standing over me
the patience of the old oak tree
may it come to me
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6. |
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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7. |
There's A Place
03:41
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Where do you go when you're on your own
and your far from him
where do you go...?
Where do we rest when everything's a mess
all is more the less, where do we rest... ?
There's a place where there are trees there
and there's water running through
close your eyes child
and find that place in you
and when you need shelter for your sleep
a roof for your relief
when you need
where do we find help in troubled times
a space between the lines
where do we find ?
There's a place where there are trees there
and there's water running through
close your eyes child
and find that place...
There's a place and there are trees there
and there's water round the roots
close your eyes child
and find that place in...
find that place in you.
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8. |
A Thousand Hands
06:29
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To clean, to clothe, to comfort and to care
to be, to be with, to be with and to bear
To have, to hold, to harbour and to heal
to find, to foster, to forgive and to feel
This I understand as generations grow
through a thousand thousand hands
And this is how this is how love grows
when the now nurtured the now that we now know
And our faith is furthered in the space we can become
a space on earth where love continues on
Feel that furtile ground I feel it where I stand
feel it in a thousand thousand hands
It takes a thousand hands
And so to share the seeds that have been sown
to give from grain that has been grown
for those in need this is too their home
still they suffer from greed that's not their own
Feel in each arrival a calling to care
to give is loves survival there
It takes a thousand hands
Some are scared and some are insecure
fingers are folded and so unsure
What the cost for hostility
and what is lost for what some may call security
see how words divide us, to be a border closed
do we need more of those?
It takes a thousand hands
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9. |
We Go Sailing
03:40
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We go sailing in the sea
we go sailing on the sea
me; my sisters my brothers and me
we go sailing on the sea
We are guided by the stars
we are guided by the stars
me my sisters and my brothers are
we are guided by the stars
Through the water and we draw the line
through the water and we draw the line
me my sisters and these brothers of mine
through the water and we draw the line
We've been sailing and we're sailing still
we've been sailing and we're sailing still
me my my sisters and my brothers will
we've been sailing and we're sailing still
We go sailing in the sea
we go sailing on the sea
me; my sisters my brothers and me
we go sailing on the sea
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10. |
So Around
03:29
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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 as birds
these feathered forms unfurl
and we know that all ideas settle and inspiration stays
Then on wings with songs to sing togther make their way
Breath to body born from all
the hope that is alive
drawn in dreams and here in streams
go underneath the sky
and we know its less the years here
as you and i we lived
more the love that's given
and the things with it we did
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
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Joe Holtaway England, UK
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