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Closer Than It Seems
04:37
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This is best if it’s fully expressed
The rest the slashing mad beat the heat
Tending now never ending as the beast far west further west goes down
Mark this excellent point upwind hold this breeze close to your chest
Suck it up strong now, you’re fixed heaven
Don’t wait, don’t ask and don’t let go
It’s arises sheer it’s that near
And everything here is closer than it seems
Everything is closer. Closer...than it seems
You there sweet and fair for all you care lay it bare
The other side of any coin you know your point coming is their point going
Fear and Love in a ball rolling hard down the hall, as strangers pass in a dream
And everything here is closer than it seems. closer than it seems!
Look up! Oh look up!
Open doors need no keys for lack of love
I’m here on my knees
I crawl begging please
Can’t you feel the release, release
For sure, no doubt escape the burning house
Here’s the house: clear call clear dream one hope one beam
Everything is closer than it seems
Arise arise ashes fall away
A new skin, a thick skin, a thicker skin today
We arise as we are awakened to be as from begin, the salt of the sea
A quiet still center a surface that teems
Where everything here is closer, closer than it seems
Everything is closer. Look up. Everything is closer than it seems
Oh look up
Look up
As the layers, layers peel away what I once needed to get by pins me hard with a cry
I need to think again and re-decide
I know well this same old ride, same old ride
Grip the shore, resist the tide. Is that all this is? Just a place to hide?
Come on open sesame open wide
More room to move than anyone’s tried
Held close, let go, chilly winds, warm glow
Right heart, right song, green grass grows long
Leaping waters in bright streams
Where everything is closer, closer than it seems
Closer!...Clo-ser!
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2. |
The Big One
02:17
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3. |
Already Gone
03:38
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Though I was still dreaming about you and me
You were already gone
It takes all of my time looking for love in this world
It takes all of my time
I want to thank you my friends for bringing this searching to an end
Oh my dear brave friends
I’m offering up my heart and my home the things I love down to the bone
I’m throwing in both my hope and need: the good, the bad, what makes me bleed
I’m asking nothing in return. I’m gonna fan those flames while it burns
I’m like a tight rope walker walking on a thread no net below, only sky ahead
With a heart like a weary and a wild lost child I’m floating over here between a cry and a smile
The loving that I gave you is the loving that I meant. I gave it to you straight but it got bent
And now it’s gotten loose and it just roams cuz unmade love and got no home
Oh the sweetness you bring makes my heart sing
Oh the sweetness that you bring
It takes all of my time looking for love in this world
It takes all of my time
Though I was still dreaming about you and me
You were already gone
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4. |
The Glow
04:00
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Time stands still now awe struck on this shore
Deep cavities chiseling, cleave deeper still beyond these bones
And old, the mother load
You left me there about to take hold
Here with a heart prettier than can be told
At the end of words the shining of gold
Your love strong supreme almighty forge of love
Breath spoken, words are tokens… next to you
Lapping waters ancient stones soft licking
Gentle wrapping into giant makes the tree
And down: molten heart and boiling bones
The strongest of yearnings are met by your every hold
Here with a heart prettier than can be told
At the end of words, the shining of gold
Your love strong supreme: almighty Forge of Love
Breath spoken, words are tokens… next to you
Long awaiting these songs for a new day
In love and glory happening to come this way
We throw it open as the sun draws its bow
Over strings yoking summers to the coming of snows
Here with a heart prettier than can be told
At the end of words the shining of gold
Your love strong supreme almighty forge of love
Breath spoken I find my words are tokens next to you
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5. |
Shining
04:01
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Golden curtain of occurrences lifts before the play
Everything set to spiraling in a consequence of days
In the eye of this emotion eternity stake claim
On my thought my breath my deed intention be thy name
And shining: in the middle of the night
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
Shining though the darkness is bewildering
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
Open palette bright with color to be painted on the sky
The wings of glory softly beat and the winds softy sigh
The temple door stands open, through the heart the breath does climb
Moving thought to prayer form, sweetness made sublime
Shining: in the middle of the night
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
Shining though the darkness is bewildering
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
In out of nowhere radiance is born
Gathering fineness into blessed sharp form
Shining to light both the bird and the bee
And the flower in the hand and the you and the me
Shining in the middle of the night
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
Shining though the darkness is bewildering
There’s a light on, always on it’s always on
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6. |
Dust and Bones
04:12
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Shaking off the dust of time, locked up memories unwind
This story it began so long ago
No, no things are not the same but there is no one to blame
Anyone we would hurt would be our own and
Finally we are searing, the flame we have been nearing
Everything we have been fearing, it is just like they say
The tongue that does divide a chasm open wide
The space between, these screens are thick as mud
What is what and who is who? Resolute on breaking through but
The outer and the within are both the same
And how would we begin to take each other in
Not seeing ourselves. Unknown. This starless night
Oh Lord the broken home
Scattered children all alone yelling at each other throwing stones
Show us the way forward now as feet do fail behind the plow
All our history is just dust and bones
All our history, all our history, all our history is just dust and bones
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7. |
Hoopsnake
03:55
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We’ve got just a minute to get it down before it goes
Going quicker than the winging mind can hold
Oh slippery slipping past, slipping to and from our grasp
We hold to the center mast. It’s made to love, but not to last
Waking up this world found. Once we were cradled now we’re bound
The children laugh the adults they frown. The mothers womb the broken ground
The seeds we’ve gathered will be scattered when we go: these winds do blow
Such is the weather breaking the tether and we must go but the seeds will grow
Way ah o hoopsnake nadi o, way ah o the winding road
What we might be what we may find: the bittersweet, the double bind
Oh slow the soul’s unwind though we can see we are still blind
Oh for one thing that is pure in a world so unsure
Our home in love is secure
Way ah o hoopsnake nadi o, way ah o the winding road
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8. |
No. 1-33
05:04
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Number one: live your dream
Number two: stay home and watch t.v
Number three: give it all away
Number four: keep it
Number five: remember all you forgot
Number six: forget about it
Number seven: adapt to the changes
Number eight: radiate
Number nine: speciate
Number ten: evolve
Number eleven: invite Charles Darwin to dinner
Number twelve: feed him
Number thirteen: eat him
Number fourteen: proceed as follows
Number fifteen: grasp wildly
Number sixteen: pursue your folly with devotional abandon
Number seventeen: include others
Number eighteen: exclude certain people
Number ninteen: hide things
Number twenty: find other peoples hidden things
Number twenty one: resign
Number twenty two: sign up
Number twenty three: get after that sweet something
Number twenty four: reside beside sweet soft thighs
Number twenty five: eat pies
Number twenty six: list all the things you could have done
Number twenty seven: do only one thing
Number twenty eight: stop doing that
Number twenty nine: keep moving forward now
Number thirty: do not repeat 27
Number thirty one: do #31
Number thirty two: bend what bends
Number thirty three: break what breaks
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9. |
Silver Sheets
03:10
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Slicing silver sheets yawn welcome, high singing droplets lick and dance down
Muscles pull on tubercles on trochanters they seethe and pulse with blood
The rushing gurgle accelerates exhilaration it soars through the motion
Air surrounding whirling dashes into lungs permeates the blood
Going out to every need it seeds it feeds eyes light excitement flushes
Dragonfly flickers through sunbeams reeds arch with the breeze
Sunlight scatters on lily pads
The clouds blow in and the clouds blow out. The rains they come and the rains they go back
When they go, they don’t go alone they take these dark skies and leave a big blue hole
Deep in their mantra on wild waters sunken boxcar size boulders below
Your pounding heart that jumping fish two birds wing past and wheel in the air
Later we’re killed off by sleep only to be resurrected by another sun another morning
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10. |
Lift Me Up
04:19
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I'm looking looking for something that I can depend on
Come on ooo a little of that
That's right a little bit of something to depend on
I need ooo you to forgive me and take me back take me back
Why won't you give me oo just a little bit
Yeah take me back oh take me back come on
Give me something don't leave me crying come on sweetly now
Oh please darling give me something give me yeah
Don't leave me crying crying for you take me back
Don't leave me here standin' wonderin
Hey lift me up. A little bit-a ooo gimme gimme
Come on now listen
Forgive me darling forgive me and take me back
Oh please take me back just a little bit
I need I need a little something something to depend on
Take me back come on I need this
Bringing it back one more time ooo let's bring it
Take me back oh I crying oh darling please please
You lift me up oh you lift me up you lift me up
I only want to be there I want to be by your side
You lift me up you lift me up now you lift me up
I'm crying lift me up hey lift me up I can't stand it
Please lift me up oh lift me lift me
I'm crying I'm crying take me back
I miss you
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11. |
Honey
03:40
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You honey, honey honey, yeah yeah
I’ve reached for you a hundred times
Oh! It seems I’ll make it now; a thousand years and a thousand hopes and cries
You listen to these whispers in the night
Fill us all you fill us all
Listening for you I tried, listening for you I cry these cries
Honey honey whoa
Give it light now, make it grow
Resolution is in the air, revolution inside your front door
Walk it down the street now, walkin’ it
Feel your way, feel your way
You dry my tear soaked sorrows kissing my broken eyes
God they’re trying to close the door, they’re closing it
I’m reaching in
I’ll come in
I don’t care
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12. |
Mudfoot
04:15
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Oh my dear my dear right here. Did it have to be in the middle of this?
How can we now? But we have to get it done despite the broken sun
And though I know it's alright still it keeps me up all night
I'm hardly sleepin'...so let's move this
Dusty ancient devil in this land always tries to get the upper hand
Low sweet fruit hanging on the tree. Leaving the Garden we fall into the Sea
We've been gone from there so long I can't even find the words
Words never spoken words never heard
Sweeping arm of fortune sweeps it all away. Tomorrow escapes from yesterday
Wet eyes blink and search the water's dark blue
If all these disasters are personal then I'm in deep shit sure
And now these heavy rains. Cataclysm finds it's mark again. Oh please not again
The mountain side the typhoons eyes
As we bump along and rumble down, the tide foretelling deep and wide
The corner post marking entry is shown only to those most able
All the cane brought in bundled high on backs of haystack glory
The buffalo they shift and heave.
Tiny cries grow. Happy stick-and-hoop away
Come toward me little feet
Pad on the mud, cool road
Catch me empty I fill in easy
A ribbon of film flickering
Make me up according to your designs
Written straight into the unfolding of this time
Coming is steady I'm washed away
Rolled like a sand grain the working surface of the beach
All the grains rolled and worn and frosted diamond bright inside
Yeah sure, right oh I believe in miracles
Since you came along sexy thing
Hollow, aching, worthless, wasted, gone, come on, come on
This is sure going wrong. Get a grip, get a grip. Hang on to anything
Anything is better than this empty, pathetic, agitated shit
Down, down. Burning into a hard hot point
One fat bright prism beam of light thrown down straight
Lays there throbbing while it waits
Stepping in to seal the beam. Fast metallic hammering
Focus, jolt, lines bend, eyes roll back
Hinging and heaving. The forces cycle on. The glue is gone
The thing is loose rolling on and on and on
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13. |
Uptight Meat
04:05
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It’s high time you get to know your vegetables
Know them well, they’ll treat you right when your meat lets you down
They will be there, they will be there, they will be there!
Shiny and bright! Lookin’ good! Whereas your…
Uptight meat is full of anguish
Clinging fast, fast on bones
The last defiance before surrender: you’ll have to pull hard
Get your teeth in it and pull!
Easy going in the garden. Just add water: here they come!
To the surface and the sunlight: gifts right from earth to you
No! They’re not cold cuts! You’ll have to rinse them
Still safer though than head cheese ever was…
Uptight meat for dinner again, get it out of the freezer!
It’s a pleasant thing very peaceful, to be alone with that cold silent beef!
(Silent beef, holy beef)
The vegetables are rolling over
A dance they do on your cutting board
Slice ‘em up or eat ‘em whole
See how many you can put in your mouth
Or stuff a bunch up your shirt
I wouldn’t try that with a live cow!
Uptight meat in your grocers freezer
How log’s it been there?
No one knows
The USDA has approved it
So it should retain it’s color, until you get it home
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9,999 Santa Fe, New Mexico
9,999 is an umbrella for original musical projects and experiments created by Kevin Miller of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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