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River Siren Song
04:52
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My lover and I we gaze at the sky. There on the wall come the nightfall. Our thoughts intertwine, his kiss is on mine. Who will he be? When will he be? Where will he be? I send this river siren song downstream. My lover and I asleep in my bed, awake to the cry of the Kingfisher blue. You open your eyes and holding my breath I see him in you iridescent sky blue. I send this river siren song downstream. Oh Child of the Wild could you be he? Beard of Stars I will him to be. I ask of the moon. I wait until June. I wrote him this song before he came along. I send this river siren song downstream.
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Will I Find You
04:22
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will I find you in a song when time and tide tells the truth? In a sound, a song, a sigh. A note sustained beyond the sweetness of its worth. Will you open up your doors, find out where you've been, find out what you've seen. Will I find you on the wild white waters of a wave, when you ripple cross the sand and sink below the stones. My word is my spirit, body and being and it is yours. I can hear your echo, a voice so sweet and low. Are we sleepwalking, sleeptalking, falling into nature's source?
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Imbolc
03:18
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Your heart is mine, a lunar line spun out make a spell entwine. A silver thread from her head, a moonbeam touched my dreams and then you led me here. Unravelling thread a complex web. Our past is past. Love me for wat we are instead. A heart floats on, up as a dove. Leave me in this present time and let me lay my head. Hold my gaze a steady flame leads me where I'm led again. In my mind I am the tree. In my heartwood the flame is filling me. Until the morning time when the wind blows through the trees, sing me this melody. Catch leaves and think of me. Just for a time. Don't ask me why. Throw stardust in my eyes. Roots deep and boughs stretched high. Where gardens grow all deep with snow. Take a chamber choir on wires. See how the echo flows.
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Falling Twice
02:52
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Two meadows hence to watch entrancing firelight. Mothlike draws her in, twirling, whirling, burning. Sooty smudges cross his skin. Sun-kissed strong and golden. Drawing closer she tumbles into uneven darkness down divots deep. Own healing hands to try spiritual heavenly powers. Celestial tall oak-strong. Lifts her leaf like willow wisp laughing. Drawing closer she tumbles into uneven darkness down divots deep. Moonlight dazzling days, Bacchus emboldened, and so aloud she says the moon and you fantastic. Drawing closer she tumbles into uneven darkness down divots deep.
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Broken Wing
02:07
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It makes little sense these days in our emancipated ways to be ruined by a man with his wicked tempting ways. Like Tess of Derbyfield. It makes perfect sense it seems when the hero of your dreams scoops you out of the hole you're in and set your heart a race to win. In moonlit grassy fields. Are you Angel Clare with your long fair hair? Or are you the evil Durberville? A songbird with a broken wing attracts the hawk, an easy prey. The lady with the broken limb attracts the man an easy prey. The woman with the lonely heart attracts the broken lonely man. One's good sense goes out the door when lying broken on the floor. Lift your hopes up to the night and you see a shining knight without a sword and shield. All the senses overflow. You forget all that you know when love takes you by the throat and makes you sing every sweet note and everything you yield. The songbird with the broken wing attracts a hawk an easy prey. The lady with the broken limb attracts the man an easy prey, the woman with the lonely heart attracts the broken lonely man.
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Sweet Child of Mine
04:10
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Sea Dream
04:38
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You had a dream about me in which some secret notes were sent. A message in a bottle under the ocean so it went. twixt he and me and thee the go-between. Tangled twisted love under the sea. The beautiful sea. Will you wait for me? Oh will you wait for me? And then one day my message went unclaimed on the sea bed. Whlst silts and sands were twisting the note unclaimed remained unsaid. And so so sad the silence made me feel, that my imagination could be real. Oh answer me. Will you answer me o will you answer me? Oh messenger what news have you from far far far across the sea? Your love became a pirate and he travelled far away from thee. Oh messenger don't leave me now I pray. Perhaps you'd like to stay another day. Oh stay with me. Will You stay with me o will you stay with me?
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Ghost
05:39
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I mourn my love though he is not dead he has gone and leaved me. I mourn my love though he loves me not. He's a ghost to me. And every morning when I awake I think of his face, and every morning when I awake I keep my eyes closed. Come back to me. I want you still. Why? I don't know. Feels like I always will. I can't let you go though it makes no sense. Even wrote you letters. No word of reply though you are not dead. A ghost, no better. I think of the times when I told the truth and you bid me not say. Hold back with your words for we should not start as I'm going away. Come back to me. I want you still. Why? I don't know. Feels like I always will. I can't let you go though I sometimes try. There is hope in my heart. Someday you'll come back and you'll tell me why and then we'll never part. And every morning when I awake I think of your face. And every morning when I awake I keep my eyes closed.
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The Maypole Song
02:21
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You are There
03:15
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Knowing you are there. Down the hill in your lair. I'm so pre-occupied with you. I look but I can't see my own reality. In my mind's eye I'm with you. Do you feel me, can you see me too? Your sweet kisses could come easy, and yet, no. Light me a candle at both ends and will I burn your fingers and toes and everything in between. What I'm thinking no-one knows.
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Moontide
04:07
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I'm dragged by the tide. By the moon, she draws me out, way out in the bay ebb and flow. And I like to drift where I am borne, and I like to sink way down. But you keep me in your sight. And you keep my keel upright. And you set my course back to the light.
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Moon River
01:29
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Swamp Spirit
03:49
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Honeysuckle nectar sweet suck your stem between my teeth. Sun through oak and ivy winde. Set me on this path to find. Hare you stand so tall and straight. Lead me through the 5 bar gate. Guardian Knight on darkest steed guide me on the way I need. Oh swamp spirit come to me. I offer you the juice of the apple tree. Take some alabaster stone. Carve it in the image of your own. Oh wood pigeon you sing so soft. Gaze I up the clouds aloft. Sacred swamp the flies all dance. On your surface me entrance.
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Daughter of the Water England, UK
"If this was an album instead of a 3 track EP it would be on the list for AOTY 22”
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"Daughter of the Water is a magical world weaved in reflections and gently rocking waves wrapped in banjo swells and ethereal vocals (folksong.co.uk)
"...Sarah’s voice is like the waves upon the beach, or the laughter of the deep. Reminds me of the flowers swinging in the dusk" (Ai-Da ROBOT).
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