1. |
Whisper's Song
03:51
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Navigate
Without fear
Retrace the path that led you here
Travel light
Be yourself
The only forms of Cosmic wealth
Earth is so
Minuscule
Manifest
Your molecules
In the stars
Of brightest days
The things you did I’ll love always
Until you died
Your face glowed
Your blackberry eyes and smile showed
To that state
Of true peace
Your sweet soul
You let release
With one last verse
Of your last song
The tunes you sang I’ll carry on
Until like you
I'm in peace
Eternal souls from Earth released
Your next life
Has begun
In the light
Of other suns
Many things
From you I’ve learned
I hope I helped you in return
Up beyond the
The toil and strife
You’ve climbed into the afterlife
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2. |
A Land Where No One Dies
02:56
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From the surface of our planet
The stars seem far away
But don’t ever let them fool you
Into dreaming the mundane
After all a little photon
Like the ones that we’ll become
Time dilates for them to forever
It’s no sooner here than gone
So when all of your matter
Has all gone
Decayed into a plasma of
Quarks and gluons
To all the time and trouble you’ll be numb
When you turn to gauge bosons
Your journey has just begun
There will still be things that carry
From the old to the new eon
Things that computation can’t do
And things you can with Boolean
When the stars are born tomorrow
Where the Cosmos is brand new
All the ways we’re put together
Will be so again it’s true
And you and I will smile
in the suns
The light that shines tomorrow
Does so for everyone
The best times started without
Dollar one
And so go on forever for everyone
So where we live’s a land where no one dies
No meaning’s ever lost from where and when we’ve cried
And every treasure granted
Or denied
Is explicit and implied and fully dignified
It’s a land where no one ever dies
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3. |
The Spaceship of Theseus
01:43
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All of these atoms
All these particles and waves
They’ve been assembled
In exactly the same way
And some day
All these positions
That we find all these things in
Get back together
When our life again begins where ever
In the depths of endless space
lie worlds exactly like this place
Across the gulf of great unknowns
Where souls of treasured friends have flown
When that switched is flicked
Every box is ticked for we are
More than our feelings
So much more than flesh and bone
Everything that makes you you
Strings or Plancks or quantum truths is
just an episode
Of permutated modulated code
Like a mode
The Earth though beautiful is not our home when we
Look to the night and stare
Out at the suns up there
And wonder when and where
And how we’ll be aware
And how through death we will live up there
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4. |
Whisper's Garden
02:16
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Whisper my darling
You’ll soon be singing with the starlings
Where you’ll fly
In the sky
When I die I’ll find you
Whisper my darling
For now you’re sleeping in your garden
Water that flows crystal clear
I thought you might like to be near
Where Whisper darling
The river flows around your garden
And my eyes
How time flies
When you’re feeling happy
Whisper my darling
I love how you were always smiling
Say to our small friends you’ll see
Thanks for the joy you gave me
Whisper sweet darling
You never were afraid dying
Or the rain
Live again
You’ll remain my sister
Whisper my darling
Tonight you’re sleeping in your garden
Whisper my darling
You’ll soon be singing with the starlings
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5. |
On a Sunny Day
01:46
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On a sunny day
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6. |
Mrs Pebble's Wheel
02:51
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7. |
I Would Die For You
02:39
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I would die for you
Supply in you
The sky back to blue in all its magic
Suns and stars and galaxies that shine upon you face
Bless your heart and soul and mind with every form of grace
The Seeds that you sow spread out farther than the sea
Say I’ll catch one
I will give to no one
My last chance that someone
To my life came on that breeze
When you look into my heart I’m sure that you will find
All the ways that we could smile until we have to die
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8. |
Make Believe
01:57
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Make believe
In the wildest of your dreams
Plant the seeds of your
Wishes now and see
Keep moving forward
Through the ever driving gale have
Faith in tomorrow
Tarry not and avail yet so
With your brain
Not the winter nor the rain no and
not the pain
Has to lasts in this domain
Winter turns to spring
And so does everything
Turn the wheels of our journey which will be never be complete
Love and other things
That make us dance and sing
Our songs live on
Ever after we have gone
So many planets and so many things to see
Like sadness in beauty life is often bittersweet
When we lift our eyes and look past all the lies
Of the dark clouds that gather and we see the clear skies
No one really dies
We just spread our wings and fly through
Time and space
Take the lessons of this place
Interlace
Interface
With the universe embrace
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9. |
All Along the Way
01:48
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Somewhere in our universe I’ll see you again
You can bet I’ll see you in another life
Though we might look different I will know you at first sight
By the special shining of your light
I’ll will hold so tightly to the things to me you gave
But I won’t hide or lock them away
All your love and lessons I’ll keep proudly on display
They’ll make me smile all along the way
From the day we met our lives were bound eternally
In each other’s hands
Far enough we travelled to learn we’re on the same
Despite our separate plans
In this world of worries we did well to get so far
And what a way to go that lies ahead
Though it may be distant just follow that North Star
It will lead you to a feather bed
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10. |
Travel Lightly
02:27
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Life’s an ocean of great tides
Anyone will bring you life
Anything can make you see
Life’s too short to disbelieve
In the world within your dreams
Not till death when you will see
Travel lightly on that night
Know no pain before your flight
Overturn the hidden truth
No more may it hinder you
Every step you take from here
Leads you to skies blue and clear
Rubiks' cubes and anecdotes
Take the time to know yourself
Sort the fiction from the fact
From the scene and from the act
Know the words that you must say to
Other souls along the way
Greater than the fear of death
Is fear of life: the great regret
Some may tell you that some day
All your sins then you must pay
Me I choose not to believe
Those accountants when we leave
On our way to start again and
If you search within your brain
Looking inwards past the stars
Beyond this Cosmos of ours
On that hazy distant shore
The sight will leave you wanting more
Smiling knowing that you’re safe
To travel lightly on your way
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11. |
Just a Spark
04:48
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We don’t need to make believe life’s
Full of Narratives that weave
The greatest stories they achieve
Great twists that make you laugh or grieve
In your mind you’ll find a door that
Leads us all to so much more and
Sends true peace right to your core and
Spreads our wings to rise and sore far
Up beyond your abstract thoughts where
Better than to owe is nought and
Wait until it can be bought this
Is the lesson life has taught me
Then the battle you’ll have fought and
Into shape your soul you’ll wrought then
Look what spring has gone and brought you
Not to starboard not to port but
Dead ahead upon your course where
Ebbing forward from the source so
Go dead slow or stop the horse seek
Grace that asks not for remorse for
Every life is just a spark
A momentary pause of dark so
There was no need for the ark but
Noah never knew of quarks or
Like the quantum world below where
As above is how it goes and
Time dilates from fast to slow by
Inner Clock workings that grow us
All the while within that night then
Only do we see the light when
Wrestling till we get it right not
Trusting just our sound and sight
Consciousness is defined thus and
Though we complain moan and fuss it’s
Our perception should adjust made
From and going back to dust so
Never mind the polling booth for
All the systems based on truth are
Just a spark to death from youth I’ll
Raise a toast, gin and vermouth
Nothing’s perfect not just yet but
what a gift is ours to get with
Out much effort or regret
When off we cast our chains and let
Our feet take strides towards the next
Chapter in space and time’s project
The chance to offer up our best
Inner tyrannosaurus rex
The beast from whence your sprint came
By now you’re so less weak and lame
But not as alpha in your game
As you will be when you reclaim
But you first must age and die for
Every spark must say goodbye but
Not before it shines so brightly
Like a diamond in the sky see
Life is property to rent but
Not to buy not 1% for
Time is wasted when it’s spent in
Counting all that discontent so
Each and every living thing
Alive right now should stop and sing for
Music takes away the sting
Of being a spark vibrating string and
Music makes you see beyond the
Waves that dance with magic wands and
With the Cosmos corresponds to
Reap the joy when it responds with
Just the message you so need to
Be from your old shackles freed but
Mortality will mislead you
Into thinking you agreed to
Sign a pact to die as soon as
Morning night or afternoon comes
Undertaker, friends commune and
Gather funeral platoon
But as you know the truth of it now
Use your brain and heart and whit for
Life’s a spark: it doesn’t quit till
Life rise next morning permits you
Wake perhaps your memory it
Starts again but you and me are
Still connected to that tree
Our ancestor reality
Is that life is just a spark where
Deep down in the deepest dark when
Upon your next phase embark I’ll
See you there my fellow spark
Like the day that dawns again
Like the sea becomes the rain
Then the streams the rain sustains and
So again you’ll grow your brain for
Sparks like us are temporary a
Lease of life to build our dreams so
Use life well always believe
The truth’s beyond your widest dreams
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12. |
See You in Another Life
01:48
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The destinations in your dreams
Transcend what we from here perceive
Anything you make believe
Like lucid dreams can you conceive
Try your best to hold on to
The things you long for to be true
They will help you to break through
And then some day I’ll follow you
Buckle up and hold on tight
And smile at death upon that night
Everything will be alright
I’ll See you in another life
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13. |
Providence and Nemesis
05:39
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Take a moment out to help a little one
Whose chances were as slim as midnight shining sun
Or soldiers helpless facing firing Lewis guns
Whose mothers cry for Providence to save their sons
For a second stop and see
Be the Providence they need
Transcend dimensions for free
Newton’s third law escapee
Each equal opposite the apogee of grace
Goes to the god and creature at that time and place
Persist and never think that there’s an end to space
Or reason not to stop and stoop and slow your pace
And as you go out of your way
With kindness let another day
Live a creature foundered may
It could speak to you would say
“Thank you friend if not for you
A Capulet or Montague
Like Wellington at Waterloo
Providence to me are you”
When the day will come and surely come it will
The cost to keep your wheels rolling up the hill
You must take your turn to ask your cup to fill
From dying in the dirt you’ll want yourself to kill
To care for someone else’s needs
Is truly free from vanity
Selflessness in word and deed
Generous and void of greed
Of course the formulae for Providence are vague
And nuanced at the best of times upon life’s stage
But choose a part to play that gives you as you age
The grace to give and give always and then your wage
Will be the providence you gave
To be a god unseen offstage
No audience to give you praise
For being the Providence that saves
That picked that creature from the grave
A life so delicate you saved
To nemesis you could have waved
But Love you ushered to your days
That lie ahead and when your time will come to die
I trust the Providence you were to little lives
Will seek you out and find you on your final night
Will stop and stoop and scoop you in the hand of Life
Nemesis or Providence
Use your bloody common sense
Grace turns out the best defence
You gained a pound and spent one pence
You knew that it was you lay helpless on the path
Although not out of fear of nemesis’ wrath
You saw the likely horror in the aftermath
And lent the helping hand of Providence Empath
Love and hate the twins of fate
One chooses us and cannot wait
All depending on that date
You stopped to help without debate
An act can magnify in planes
Not disclosed by thinking trains
Of matters threatening to the sane
Who conform to their hearts and brains
And if you go before I get the chance to be
A giant in the spirit world and you can see
Me needing help please stop and go upon your knee
And cup me in your hands be Providence to me
And like Divine help comes to me
Quench my thirst when I’m thirsty
Animals know what I mean
When fleeing Fate’s cruel destiny
When Providence will deal to you the same as you
The very choice you made to help the helpless through
Then knowing what you chose but then you always knew
That all along back then the moment brought to you
Landing right upon your plate
The guarantee of Saving Grace
Sometimes Chance and sometimes Fate
Is how Life unwinds in this place
Each time each one came to you
Appearing as a door or two
To stand and stare or walk into
And love was what you chose to do
It was you who lay there in that bitter sand
Counting down your breaths before a mortal man
Stopped and stooped and made a detour from his plan
And for a minute of his time he lent his hand
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14. |
Song to Honda
01:32
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15. |
They're Building a Leat
02:45
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On the bank of your river I see that they’re building a leat
For the mill that will turn like the wheel that you moved with your feet
Time as we know like the flow is a one way street
That’s what We’re told by the women We try to defeat
Sundown calls all of us back to our beds
As a million free birds fly over our heads
When it's all done and said
And our last tear is shed
The sky turns to red
Greener is grass so they say on the opposite side
But the rushes and reeds where you lie grow so high how they thrive
Glued to the ground were you fingers while you were alive, but so
Wide are the wings that you spread now you take to the skies
Sundown calls all of us back to our beds
As a million free birds fly over our heads
When it's all done and said
And our last tear is shed
The sky turns red
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16. |
Where Did Simon Go?
01:48
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Where did Simon go?
Is my semantic so
Or do I want to know
About the status quo
Are we just embryos?
Of feelings high and low
On archipelagos
Each life and planet so
Our eyes see in slowmo
Each second undergo
24 staccatos
Of red to indigo
Like Michelangelo’s
Bespoke portfolio
The aspect ratio
Aurora stereo
We dream more than we know
And reap more than we sow
But when I feel low
Barber's Adagio
The notes they seem to flow
To where they need to go
To gift me grace that grows
And works it’s magic glow
Henry David Thoreau
Broadcast to radio
Is like a Dynamo
Of hope for tomorrow
On Walden pond he rows
In beauty overflows
But Walden’s studio
Is on our patios
A stream that overflows
A heart that gives will grow
So where did Simon go?
It matters not for me to know
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17. |
From This Spec of Dust
00:47
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I could turn my face all day to the sun
As the Earth spun
And feel it’s clockwise movement as I thank you for the things you’ve done
But now the time has come again
For me to ask you’ll lift the strain
And lead me to the peace I need
For all this weight to be released
I’ve learned to trust
From this spec of dust
In the things we cannot see but be they must
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18. |
Song to Death
05:32
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To all humanity my friends
From every love letter was penned
At ever bar that hope attends
I’ll stay until the bitter end
In the face of unkind odds
Without requests to any god
To all lone wolfs I smile and nod
My fellow friends the road less trod
Will take you round the mountain pass
But not in search of greener grass
Or ends to all your chores and tasks
But dusks on days towards your last
And anchored to the chain of truth
To gain again nothing but youth
Not vain nor rude and not uncouth
But brave and meek though long in tooth
If anybody knows on Earth
How much true life is really worth
A century since childbirth
Is not enough before rebirth
I recall now my elders words
As timeless as the songs of birds
The gate keep got down when he heard
Me utter the correct password
A Message long and void of fear
Accounting all I viewed from here
Limited by eyes and ears
And biased feelings soon to clear
Mind and Heart before I die
May all my memory survive
So who I’ll be won’t be denied
For want of wisdom by and by
As for my foes I’ve come to learn
That hating them is fools’ concerns
Misguiding mortal souls to burn
In toil that offers no returns
On my bed of death I claim
The only thing in me that’s slain
Is all the fear within my brain
The only thing that caused me pain
Now nothing is the sting of death
If we’ve one life don’t fear or fret
One life that’s lived without regrets
Is all you really need I’d bet
But still I like to make believe
The greatest stories yet to breathe
Lie far beyond what we perceive
Until from Earth we die and leave
I Disparage the door of death
It’s not the greatest of my threats
That haunted me or make me sweat
In Devon Cornwall Somerset
And every face in memories
Are only smiling now I see
And All their stories they gave me
Like cream on first and cups of tea
Just before I say good bye
Before I transcend to the sky
“Be yourself” is all I cry
Now my old friends I’ll leave to find
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