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It’s not love that you give
It’s not life that you live
It’s not me that you see
It’s not love, it’s not love
It’s not truth that you speak
If it were, we’d see you were weak
It’s the back of a mirror
It’s not truth, it’s not truth
That you speak
How long, how long
Will the old, unwanted
Pain within our hearts
Rule our lives?
It’s not tears that you weep
It’s a trap in order to keep
Our eyes on your drama
It’s not tears that you weep
How long, how long, how long
Will the old, unwanted
Pain within our hearts
Rule our lives?
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We Need to Be Free
04:14
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In one day my world ended
But I still feel my heart
Beating deep inside me like a bomb
Our lives are shot to pieces
It was I who held the gun
Somebody had to end it and run
Please take this hell
Turn it into heaven
How can you not see?
We need to be free
This was not your average romance
Thought our love would never fail
Like two stars viewed from earth as one
Time reveals two separate trails
Now we’re reeling through the big blue
‘Til we land on new terrain
But I will go on loving you
Just the same
Please take this hell
Turn it into heaven
How can you not see?
We need to be free
Take this hell
Turn it into heaven
How can you not see?
We need to be free
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You Are Loved
03:53
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Body, you are safe and encircled by care
Gentleness is here now
Self, you are seen and you are not alone
Pain, you’re real and befriended
By a great compassion that can heal and honour
Your striving heart
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
Being, continue the whole cohort
Of fellow beings calls you on and
Will unceasingly
Spirit, flow on, downhill
Or up, flow on
Flow on
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
You are loved, have been loved
Will be loved, and will love
In all ways, without end
Without end
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4. |
Silver Stars
05:31
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Every time I see the sun burst through the prism, making rainbows
It reminds me I'm a child of the universe seeking miracles
Every time I see the rain fall on the front lawn in the afternoon
It reminds of the time my sister and I sat on the windowsill
With our legs hanging, out after the rain fell and the sun came out
And the sky was yellow and the air was earthy and the grass sparkling
Every time it reminds me of that time when I was a child of the universe
And so are you
All our friends will be here soon
'Cos our love, it is our guiding light
These shining silver stars, how they smile
Every night we dream of flying to be
With the ones we love
And so we dream
Every night I hear the echo of the canyon through my window
Making shadows of a monster within a monster that could make me a monster
But alas my little rainbow, she is watching from the prism in my eyes
Laughing gently like a poplar tree in the cold, cold wind on the Monaro Plains
Sweet little echo of a shadow of a whisper in the blood stream of this child of the universe
All our friends will be here soon
'Cos our love, it is our guiding light
These shining silver stars, how they smile
Every night we dream of flying to be
With the ones we love
And so we dream
And so are you
Shining silver stars
And so we dream
And so we dream
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I’m lookin’ back over my life
At all the choices I have made
It’s taken me so fucking long
To learn how to say no and trust myself
Things could have worked out differently
There are some things I know I could have handled better
But there’s nothing I can do
But escape from you and save my weary soul
Oh I’ll be here at the Ghost Ranch
Happily watching the moon dance
With the mountain as the sun comes around again
I’ll live my life like a soldier
Fightin’ time, gettin’ older
While my spirit opens up like a flower
I walk the desert dressed in black
The sky, a fading lilac canvas punctuated by the clouds
Falls into place in a silent womb-like space
inside my mind
Oh I’ll be here in the Autumn
By the fire in the Winter
All alone when the sun comes around again
I’ll live my life like a priestess
Singin’ hymns to the beauty that surrounds me
In this barren wonderland
As a Goddess in my own private universe
I’m spinning like a tumbleweed through town
I’ll be here at the Ghost Ranch
Every day is a new chance to watch the colours
as the sun goes down
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6. |
Little Child
04:57
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We are who we are, there’s nothing we can do
There is a little child forever inside you
Ooh if you want to, you can hold their hand
If you want to they’re waiting
For you to come around, ooh if you want to
Ooh we all had pain but I know some of us
Suffered again and again. How did we cope?
We held it in and blamed ourselves
We know what we know. We think we know it all
But we’re moving way too slow, gotta run towards the call
Ooh if you want to you can hold the hand
Of the child inside you and never let go, ooh if you want to
Ooh where have you gone? You’ve been asleep for so long
Under a spell cast by the world, it’s time to wake up!
Ooh we do what we do to make it through the day
But there’s someone inside you who knows a better way
Ooh if you want to you can hold the hand
Of the child inside you and never let go
Never let go
Ooh, hoo, hoo
If you want to
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7. |
Summer of Fires
04:19
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In came the smoke from the mountains
In came the smoke with the wind
Mixing the last breath of numberless lives with mine
With mine, with mine, with mine
Out went the ash with the ocean
Back came the ash on the tide
Drawing in coal-black along the whole shore - a line
A line, a line, a line
And we cry out as one voice alone in the dark, no reply
Only a fool would allow this to happen to our precious world
Now the ship has sailed and it’s time
To wake up
In came the dust from the dry lands
In came the dust from the plains
Carrying cries from the rivers and fishes, no more
No more, no more, no more
And we cry out as one voice alone in the dark, no reply
Only a fool would allow this to happen to our precious world
In the blink of an eye, we’re gone
In came the people in darkness
Down to the beaches and halls
From the burned heart flies an ember to kindle the call
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8. |
The Beast
05:21
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The beast he is warm
And he shelters me
From the bludgeoning storm
Late at night, by candlelight
We listen to the beat
Of the world. It’s so far away
I’m your Faraway Girl
I fantasise behind my eyes
About life on the outside
But I stay a little longer
Until I feel stronger
Strong enough to run
And leave my heart behind
The beast he is sweet
And he offers me such delectable treats
I can’t say no, and if I should go
He would be so alone
And I stay a little longer
Until I feel stronger
Strong enough to run
And leave my heart behind
Strong enough to run
And leave my heart behind
Strong enough to run
And leave my heart behind
Strong enough to run
And leave my heart behind
I don’t want to run
And leave my heart behind
I don’t want to run
And leave my heart behind
I have to run
And leave my heart behind
I have to run
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9. |
Inner Sky
03:58
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When you feel crazy
And you’re filled with pain
You can always remember
This refrain
Again and again
There is only
One true saviour
You’re lookin’ at them
In the mirror
Look behind those
Diamond eyes
The sun is shining
In your inner sky
Loving spirits I
Call on you now
Set me free from birth
Kiss my heart
Kiss my brow
As within, so without
There is only
One true saviour
You’re lookin’ at them
In the mirror
Look behind those
Diamond eyes
There’s a rainbow
In your inner sky
Inner sky
Inner sky
Inner sky
Inner sky
Inner sky
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Jodi Phillis Wollongong, Australia
Australian singer, songwriter, composer and artist, known for her work with The Clouds, solo albums and albums with The Dearhunters, Roger Loves Betty and The Glamma Rays.
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