1. |
In the Water
03:43
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Dry as a bone
And more impenetrable than a stone
Still you break the crust of me
And I dissolve into the dust of me
Carried on the wind
Dispersing like the finest sand
Until the merest grain of me
Finds its way across the land, and
In the water
Open in the water
So we may see who we are
Is there anything so dead
Her waters cannot wake?
Threaded through the needle’s eye
And driven like a stake
Through the heart of matter
Split the atom
Stir the batter
Raise a clatter
Spin a pot
Of equal parts is and not
A single point of light
Has taken birth and taken flight
And it’s alright
And it’s alright
And it’s alright
And it’s alright
And it’s all left
To surface from the pool
A new student in the dust school
A scaly thing
A wizened fool
Never there to be the like again
Is there anything so dead
Her waters cannot wake?
Is there anything so dead
Her waters cannot wake?
Is there anything so dead
Her waters cannot wake?
Is there anything so dead
Her waters cannot wake?
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2. |
Ode
03:59
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Ode to the day and the night
Ode to the dark and the light
Ode to the wide and the narrow
Ode to the quiver and the arrow
Ode to the wicked and the kind
Ode ahead and behind
Ode to the war and the peace
Ode to the hold and the release
Ode to the hunter and the prey
Ode to the one and the array
Ode to the wretched and the blessed
Ode the escape and the arrest
What’s revealing in the feeling
And increasing without ceasing
The calling in the falling
Grounding and surrounding
Rendering and surrendering
The harkening in the darkening
Ode to the glory and the shame
Ode to the form and the name
Ode the beloved and the lover
Ode the reveal and the cover
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3. |
Mother
03:21
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I am more your mother
Than the woman who begat you
I am more the howling yin
That pushed you out
And pulls you in
I gaze on you adoringly
Unmoving as a statue
Until your plundering demands
That I unbind my feet and hands
Creation is a mother’s work
And still you claim dominion
You thought me only here to please
Now you’ll enter on your knees
There is no more equal time
For your profane opinion
Before your desecrating knife
There was and is my deathless life
She’s sucking seeds
Through bloody teeth
Her throat proceeds
A string of beads
A string of heads
She cooly threads
Above Her breasts
As gruesome guests
Her feet are pounding on the earth
Until at last She’s given birth
And from Her springs
A mouth with wings
That’s come to swallow everything
She has never set you down
She never forgot your face
Every particle of you
Is leaning into Her embrace
She has never set you down
She never forgot your face
Every particle of you
Is leaning into Her embrace
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4. |
Ash of Ash
02:31
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You’ve got to get quiet
To cut through the noise
To cut through the noise
To cut through the noise
You’ve got to be still
So you can be moved
So you can be moved
So you can be moved
You’ve got to set a place
So that you can serve
So that you can serve
So that you can serve
You’ve got to get quiet
To cut through the noise
To cut through the noise
To cut through the noise
Frail human - ash of ash - awake!
There is no bread or wine to take
There is no altar to attain
There is no body to contain the body
To contain the body, to contain…
Curtains of light.
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5. |
Body On
02:25
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I got my hands on
I got my feet on
I got my face on
I got my body on
I got my arms on
I got my legs on
I got my chest on
I got my body on
I got my ears on
I got my eyes on
I got my mouth on
I got my body on
You say you want it very much
But then you bridle to the touch
But then you bridle to the touch
(I don’t feel safe I never felt!)
So you go travel in your head
And leave your body on the bed
And leave your body on the bed
(I don’t feel safe… I never felt!)
Who gets to say if you can stay?
If you can stay in your body?
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6. |
Enchained One
04:14
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You brought me to your city
And you thread me through its maze
Lit up like a circuit board
The thrum of an arcade
And captured in your gears
My mouth tastes of lead and blood
You pulled me through your navel
And you hasten forth the flood
You held my gates open
Letting all your babies pass
A crush of bewildered human kind
Set upon our end
Then your reached down from smoke-wreathed mountains
And you plucked me from the line
You took me to the precipice
And took me from behind
(You said:)
"In <Your> darkness there is
Hidden a light
That shall once again
Return to its source"
How total your attention
So unmaking, so entire
That a walk out on your avenue
Turns to dancing in your fire!
Turns to my astounded marvel
When another breath is drawn
When these chains fall from me
That in slumber fastened on
(You said:)
"In <Your> darkness there is
Hidden a light
That shall once again
Return to its source
And that this light
Wanted to descend
Into the darkness
To deliver the enchained one
Who languishes there
To lead you into the light"
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7. |
Beautiful
04:20
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Here
Stepping barefoot in the garden
Fecund and wild
Blooms
Pressing up against your bare skin
A rose in your mouth
This!
Wants to be beautiful
To be alive
This wants!
To be beautiful
To be alive
Look
What is present in the stillness
(Let me go…let me go through!)
A door to the divine
Light
Across a darkened chamber
(Let me go…let me go through!)
Build a bridge of your body
This!
Wants to be beautiful
To be alive
This wants!
To be beautiful
To be alive
Beauty wants to seed and to give birth
You do violence questioning its worth
You say: No one will hear
No one will care
If nobody sees you, are you even there?
But it is of the body to vessel and receive
Of the body to author and conceive
And it’s not ours to know
Where it will go
Allow your body to be writ upon
Wake up!
Turn these guitars up
We came here to play
Lucid
In the dream of our own making
We choose. We choose.
This!
Wants to be beautiful
To be alive
This wants!
To be beautiful
To be alive
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8. |
Here We Are
04:36
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Here we are, here we are
The center of the feeling
Here we are, here we are
The rushing of the feeling
Yeah
Build it up.
Yeah
Tear it town.
Yeah.
All the lights, all the lights
Come rushing up in you
And I feel it in me, yeah
All my darkness, all my darkness too
And I said, I would say yes to it.
Yes
Tear it down.
Yes
Build it up.
Yes.
Bodies we’ve been discouraged from being in
My body - it pains me
How I flew apart from you
But now I’m diving into
Your inky black
Your earthy deep
Through all the lifetimes
I was asleep
And I will find every annexed part
And call her forth to make her art
What serves my fear anymore
When the shadow holds what I’m searching for?
Willing to meet my beast
My splendor is increased
I humbly come
I humbly stay
I touch your garment’s hem and pray
And melt into the grace
And at last I recognize my own face
Here we are, here we are
The center of the feeling
Here we are, here we are
The rushing of the feeling
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9. |
Even Me
02:36
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First you break up, break up my frozen ground
And then you wake up, wake up a merry sound
Like the wind, like the water
Enfold and suspend me
And then you enter, you enter, you enter
Yeah, yeah, here you come
Crashing through me like a wave
Then I’m the wave and
I feel you move into my throat
What is mine, what is yours
Throw wide the doors
I surrender to your humble choice
Even me, even me, even me
Even me, even me, even me
Flag me down
Wave me through
All the branches part for you
All creation bows
All beings arouse
To pay our debts
To make our vows
Bless these bones to bless the most
Make them more Spirit than host
On the merest chance that we
Are the ones to set us free
You’re the tower, the sower, the reaper, the grower, the deed and the doer, the pot and the thrower, the boat and the rower, the stem and the flower, the wind and the blower, the tower, the sower, the reaper, the grower, the deed and the doer, the pot and the thrower, the boat and the rower, the stem and the flower, the wind and the blower
First you break up, break up my frozen ground
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10. |
Ahead and Behind Me
02:59
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Ahead and behind me
Ahead and behind me
Light, curtains of light
Parted and drawn
Drawn and parted
On and on
A ward to the heart
A hold to the eyes
A set of new eyes
Fixed on the prize
The prize of reunion
With all you’ve ever been
And never to be separated again
Ever to be separated again
Never to be separated.
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11. |
Fasten
03:21
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I breeched your ramparts
Floating silent as a ghost
Enchanted your gatekeeper
I left him sleeping at his post
And now I’m just outside your chamber
Won’t you roll away this rock?
I landed on your beaches, Baby
I’m howling at your lock
I’m at your lock
Now I’m lighting you a lantern
Now I’m perfuming the air
So let it down, Love, let it down
Let down for me your hair
And loosen off your dress, girl
Until there’s nothing left to bare
Unburden me your body
And I will meet you there
I’m there!
Oh my Lover
Oh my Child
Oh my Mother
Oh my Wife
Roll the stone away
With worthy weight
To fasten to your life
All the minutes, all the days
All the lifetimes
I’ve been circling your tower
Roll the stone away
With worthy weight
To step into the power
You said you’d save this dance for me
when first you invoked my name
You said, “tomorrow” and “tomorrow”
But tomorrow never came
Will you arrive at some perfection
To justify your claim?
To validate your birthright
To realize the name, I am
Oh my Father
Oh my Husband
Oh my Brother
Oh my Boy
Roll the stone away
With worthy weight
To fasten to your joy
Never further than your breath
Never further than the fragrance from a flower
Roll the stone away
With worthy weight
To step into the power
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Julianna Bright Portland, Oregon
Julianna Bright is a rhythm keeper, a singer, a song-scribe and channel. She began her musical life behind the drums in punk bands in the 90s. Her band with her partner, Golden Bears, was an alternative pick on iTunes and Amazon. Cat Doorman, her award-winning children's music project, continues to be a mainstay on Sirius Kid's Place Live. She stewards land in Portland and Cloverdale, OR. ... more
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