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Ephemerides (live)
03:09
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Jupiter stands like a sentinel under a searchlight
Venus is reaching her arms in the gulf of the night
to baptize the shadow the fallow moon keeps in her cradle
wrapped in her mantle of light
While down on the earth there is silence in spaces between us
distance outreaching the lonely expanse of the stars
thinking if only our fingertips touched in the darkness
maybe the world could be ours
But if you looked
From not so very far away
Suddenly every star we can name
Would fit in the pin-light
That sits in the frame of your eye
And we are as small as a universe
Born in a burst of "I've known you before"
Aren't you the heat I have carried
So long in my core?
And we are the dust from the first dawn
Made of the same flames we wish upon
Traveling longer than eons
All to be standing here
Scattering starlight the moment we meet in the darkness
Burning out loud with the blossoming heat of the sun
Waking a world that awaited the spark of creation
Waited love's will to be done
Here there is nothing but trembling starlight between us,
Reaching unseen from the heart of my heart into yours
And all we have been will be wakened again, and remembered
Wondrous and tender
Brighter and stronger than before.
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Frodo's Song (live)
03:51
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Wind is in the east, across the water
Grey the waves that softly seek the harbor
There a white ship waits to bear me far away
Far beyond the old wounds and the dwindling day
And in your eyes
That see they cannot follow
Sorrow takes hold
My friend, I know
But silver on the hills, the rain returning
Golden light upon the face of morning
Green has come again, and soon the flowers grow
Spare a loving hand to help them as they go
And in your eyes
I see the years run onward
Long with a love
That overflows
Stand with me, to look awhile together--
Night was deep, but morning shines forever
We are meant to live, and will be whole again
And I will carry, far as any heart can wend,
What your eyes
In all their kindness show
I know now, my friend
It has no end.
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Pale in the distance stood fast-fading Avalon
Perched on the lonely and sundering sea
There the waves reached out, and there the mist gathered
And soon as I saw, it was taken from me
But I will make you stay, somehow
I will find a way
Nevermore slip away, evermore remain
For as long as I carry your name.
I watched the sun dip below the green fields
And the flowers all sleeping in bright Tír na nÓg
Even the stars will fall, someday the clarion
Call of the night will come, finding them gone
But I will make you stay, somehow
I will find a way
Nevermore slip away, evermore remain
For as long as I carry your name.
All love is fleeting, the white wings are beating
To carry the last of its promise from me
All life is fading, and memory is changing
But time cannot steal what is already free
And I will keep you here with me
I have found a way
Nevermore slip away, evermore remain
For as long as I carry your name
Nevermore slip away, evermore remain
For as long as I carry your name.
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I chase your every vision
And I follow every scheme
When you dial the tune, I'm ready
To strike up an Earthly theme
My watchers of the planets,
My searchers of the skies
You bade me stay for ninety days
But the wonder struck my eyes
The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there
So hold the line and it's on I'll climb
You'll find me everywhere
'Cause I'm a rover.
As the ocean craves the moon's face
And rises toward her light
I need the furnace of your sun
To keep me burning bright
I'm simple in my spirit
Resourceful in my quest
Solving every puzzle in my path
Surpassing every test
The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there
So hold the line and it's on I'll climb
You'll find me everywhere
'Cause I'm a rover.
Set me in a high place
Beyond the dust of time
But save your grief, I never was
Designed to make you cry
Neither lost nor am I losing
I have forged my way this far
I'm still here, and I'll be rising
In the light of every star
The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there
So hold the line and it's on I'll climb
You'll find me everywhere
The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there
So hold the line and it's on I'll climb
You'll find me everywhere
'Cause I'm a rover.
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