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A Song to Stay
03:36
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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 Tir na nOg
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 changing, and memory is fading,
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.
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2. |
To Dance Upon the Shore
03:46
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Enfolded in the shadows of the sea
Ten thousand years and more where dreams in darkness sleep
And every shadow there a secret keeps
Ten thousand years and more beyond all memory
I call on the waves and the ghosts of the water
To be still as the world at the waking of time
And the moon shine a path for your sons and your daughters
Through the valleys and hills of the sea let them walk in the light
By silver ship and star my soul was borne
Ten thousand years to stand upon this lonely shore
But should I sing above the ocean's roar
Then hearing she will rise and lead me home once more
So I summon the sky and the spirits of seabirds
To flash in the mirror that brightens the strand
And their wings on the wind to find passages leeward
Make the dark into dawn and a hero of old from a man
I call on the waves and the ghosts of the water
To be still as the world at the waking of time
And the moon shine a path for your sons and your daughters
Through the valleys and hills of the sea let them walk in the light
Enfolded in the shadows of the sea
Ten thousand years and more where dreams in darkness sleep
And every shadow there a secret keeps
Ten thousand years and more beyond all memory
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3. |
Song of the Monk Seals
02:22
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under the wave-roof - we run in rough water - fathom the deep ways - last of our kind
glide with the currents - swiftly and slowly - shadows in motion - suspended in time
sun-sleekened silver - bask in the warm sand - hold fast together - the fin-footed race
long before striders - strode on the shoreline - swam we by seaway - home to this place
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4. |
Ar Lan y Môr
02:40
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Ar lan y môr mae rhosys cochion
Ar lan y môr mae lilis gwynion
Ar lan y môr mae 'nghariad innay
An kasgir nos a chodi'r boray
Beside the sea red roses growing
Beside the sea white lilies showing
Beside the sea their beauty telling
My true love sleeps within her dwelling
Ar lan y môr mae carreg wastad
Lle bim an siarad gyre am cariad
O amgylch hon fe dav uh lili
Ac ambell gahng en o rosmari.
Beside the sea the stones lie scattered
Where tender words in love were uttered
While all around there grew the lily
And sweetest branches of rosemary
Ar lan y môr mae cerrig gleision
Ar lan y môr mae blodau'r meibion
Ar lan y môr mae pob rinweddau
Ar lan y môr mae nghariad innau.
Beside the sea blue pebbles lying
Beside the sea gold flowers glowing
Beside the sea are all things fairest
Beside the sea is found my dearest
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5. |
Uncharted
03:50
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We dragged a boat down to the shore one morning in the fall
the sky was blue with promises, and we had heard the call
of far-off lands that filled our sails with warm and welcome wind
our compass was unfailing and our courage had no end
At night upon the open deck, we sang without a care
two invincible believers in the voyage that we shared
I watched the constellations spinning silent in the sky
we knew the stars by heart and which were best to travel by
And on a happy ship of fools, what watches need be kept?
the bells hung cold and silent and we drifted as we slept
til in the dawn, the fickle sky had shaken out her hair
the world turned grey and angry, and no shelter anywhere
The night returned, and only then, we’d start to understand
the stars had turned to strangers and we could not find the land
take the charts and calculations, sacrifice them to the sea
there is no map to help us here, wherever here might be
Together in an ocean both uncharted and unknown
and still at night our hands reach out to hold what’s left of home
as we search the far horizon and remember, faintly, when
our compass was unfailing and our courage had no end
But you always were a mariner, and I have always been
A daughter of the waves, and we will find our way again
Though the storm has drowned the moonlight, and the tide has drowned the bar
I will make my heart a compass if your love will be the star
For you always were a mariner and I have always been
A daughter of the waves, and we will find our way again
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6. |
Seaborne
05:33
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In the beginning, my maker made me with a keen eye for perfection
A pleasing figure, a smooth face and a crystalline reflection
I was beautiful - but the years have not been kind
A broken vessel - out of hand is out of mind
Now I am seaborne, I am time worn
A bit of glass beneath a century of waves
And so I gleam forth from this cold shore
Until the day a pair of searching hands
Find something they can save
And so I drifted - sometimes a lonely sailor looked to me for answers
But found no message - I was a bottle on the sea, a hollow dancer
I was beautiful, but the years have made me small
A broken vessel can't help anyone at all
One day I shattered on a stone that would not yield to my desire
To turn so stony - to be a rock like him, though I was forged in fire
I was beautiful, but so much was washed away
A broken vessel - just a fragment now remains
I am seaborne, I am time worn
A bit of glass beneath a century of waves
And so I gleam forth from this cold shore
Until the day a pair of searching hands
Find something they can save
A beach in winter - a lonely child with muddy feet and bright eyes
Comes seeking treasure, and finds a gleaming bit of sea-glass in the pale tide
I am beautiful, though the years have worn me down
This broken vessel is a diamond to a king without a crown
I am seaborne, I am time worn
A bit of glass beneath a century of waves
And so I gleamed forth from this cold shore
Until the day a pair of searching hands
Found something they could save
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7. |
Over an Ocean
04:44
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Who can measure the height where a heart finds its wings?
Skip a stone on the sea, who can say what it brings?
Tell the stars what you wish, and who knows what they’ll do?
Once I followed a star, and it brought me to you.
Over an ocean and under the stars
That sing out together from ages apart
Through the dark night there, my hand reached for yours
Over an ocean as vast as the stars.
Who can measure the depth of a heart full of dreams?
Skip a stone on the sea, who can say what it brings?
Take a chance on a dream, and who knows what you’ll do?
Once I followed a dream, and it brought me to you.
Over an ocean, I saw all my dreams
That shone on a shoreline too distant to reach
But you came to dwell in the spaces between
Over an ocean as deep as my dreams.
Who can measure the miles that have carried us here,
Brought together and borne over oceans and years?
Who knows how many times I have loved you before?
Once for each of the stars in their heaven, and more.
Over an ocean of all that has been
Through nights without number, and days without end
We will stand looking back at forever, and then
My heart will find you
My heart will find you, again and again.
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8. |
Voices
03:17
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When I worry I have nothing new to say
I go and ask the ocean
with her everchanging song
and she says oh, my daughter--
do it anyway.
I have listened just a while
I have sung so very long
But when you sing with me
it’s something I have never heard before
the ringing of the rocks
around the waves upon the shore
There is a voice that wakes the water in your veins
And brings to life all breathing things
It shifts and shapes, it moves and makes, it bends and breaks
And takes its place here
Forevermore
When I fear that I am drifting in the dark
I look out to the stars, alone and shining distantly
And they say oh, my darling,
hold on to your spark
what you touch is changed forever
though you may not always see
But from the highest places,
all your hidden colors show
The fire in your eyes
will set the universe aglow
There is a brightness that surrounds you like the dawn
And it goes on and on and on
And love creates the light that takes a human shape
Its ways to wander
Itself to know.
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