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by Sharon Knight

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A collection of recordings from several different albums.

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released 23 March 2011

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tags: celtic folk acoustic pagan rock Oakland

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Track Name: Star of the Sea
Here she comes, soft as a whisper of wild things
Bringing her siren songs for me to sing
Her charms ensnare me, they capture my senses
As twilight unveils the secret that stirs the hearts of kings

What praises I wouldn’t sing
For the bright star of evening

While there’s a song in my soul that’s worth singing
While there is passion to quicken my blood
I will follow the star of the sea
Until all her songs are sung

I’ve dipped my toes in the madness of muses
Who spin their tunes with strand of their shining silver hair
Now I dance, untamed, drunk in the houses of God, yea,
Singing until my voice is raw

Delirium has me in thrall
Is it freedom or folly

While there’s a song in my soul that’s worth singing
While there is passion to quicken my blood
I will follow the star of the sea
Until all her songs are sung

I’ve kept my dreams frozen too long
Waiting to wake them with song
It’s a tune I have known all along

While there’s a song in my soul that’s worth singing
While there is passion to quicken my blood
I will follow the star of the sea
Until all her songs are sung
Track Name: Siren Moon
Sailor sailor, you can’t escape the yearning
Once the siren, she has claimed you
Sailor sailor, she’ll get beneath your skin
And her rhythms ever pounding in your blood

You cannot let yourself give in
Your heart will never lead you home again
But there’s the burning in your mind
The need to quench your soul upon her wine

She will take you for everything you’ve got
And she’ll lead you to your ruin on the rocks

It’s a siren moon and the winds they wail
You ride full sail and free
But your heart rings with every song she sings
Now you’re lost forever to the sea

It’s a siren moon and the tide is high
Your spirit’s flying free
You never knew she had her claim on you
Now you’re lost forever to the sea

Sailor sailor, you’ve wasted half your life away
Following her countenance so fair
Your ships, your soul are cast away
For a glimpse of her shining seaweed hair

Like sticky poison in your mind
The madness of her music drives you blind
Ensnares you in her wicked dance
Oh sailor, you never had a chance

Was her music worth everything you gave
Was the beauty of her song worth a life enslaved

It’s a siren moon and the winds they wail
You ride full sail and free
But your heart rings with every song she sings
Now you’re lost forever to the sea

It’s a siren moon and the tide is high
Your spirit’s flying free
You never knew she had her claim on you
Now you’re lost forever to the sea

Carry me, beyond the endless sea
where the music haunts, and the siren screams…
Track Name: Cross the River
I seek to cross the river
I seek to ride the serpent
I seek to bathe my tender toes in wisdom

Fill my head with life
I seek the thunderbolt to strike
Release the inspiration lies in every cell of life
Track Name: Bewitched
A woman left her house at night
With her whistles in her hand
And there she met with such a fright
Walking along the strand
Five grim men and a black dog stood
Raised up from the grave
“Until our story is understood"
Spoke one "We are damned to the devil’s cave”

Yo diddly yo de yo de ay
And the witch’s laughter on the wind
The witch laughs on the wind

There was a maid on shore spoke he
Who wished herself a lover
A man who’d come with us to sea
But he had no love for her
Then out we sailed all on the sea
She put a spell on out pathway
Up rose tidal waves one two and three
And we are cast away

The skipper he was old and wise
His ban sidhe song protects
He sang down the waves with defiance in his eyes
And so betrayed her hex
But the next time that we set upon the sea
We met with a fate more drear
Not one of us knew sorcery
And we all collapsed from fear

From the fear the spell took hold
The witch spoke her dismay
“One of you has broken my heart so bold
And for that you all shall pay”
From us then our lives she robbed
Cursed us by her tooth and nail
“The only way to break the spell,” the dead man sobbed
“Is to tell our woeful tale”

But we are such a gruesome sight
Our grief remains unspoken
All men before you ran away in fright
And left the curse unbroken
But now that we’ve our story told
We are then freed from hell
Bless you kind lady for being bold
T’is your ears broke the witch’s spell
Track Name: Berrywood Grove
Two lovers met gazes down by Berrywood Grove
In passion drenched hazes, ever deeper they strove
No truer lovers on earth were ever born
I tell you this truly as roses have thorns
And they burned up their sorrows
With the heat of their love

She gave him a lily, like to the scent of his breath
Laced in velvet chantilly, to invite his caress
They stepped into the circle of steel strong stones
Where the wind wails wanton and the moon softly moans
And they melted their sorrows
There in Berrywood's breast

They made true love there such as seldom is known
Their honeywine kisses could squeeze
Sweetness from stone
The elf-queen espied them as she sat on her throne
She smiled to herself as she dined all alone
For she knew that the seeds of renewal were sewn

Upon them she crept as they drank up the moon
Her silver hair windswept in a silken cocoon
She knelt down beside them and stroked their soft skin
A starlit circle she wound them within
Then she courted the sky with her heartwrenching croon

The lovers awakened to the faery queen's spell
Afraid and breathtaken, they knew the charm well
They gathered their blankets, their bottle of wine
Left nothing but memories of sweetness divine
Then they ran toward the meadow
Where her Highness did dwell

They entered her castle both lofty and cold
Her richly jeweled caverns a joy to behold
Her chamber they stormed as she sat spinning gold
They questioned her spellcraft, defiant and bold
Demanding she tell them what cannot be told

She answered their query with the voice of the bird
In a hum bright and merry the woods sang her word
"My children your love is more precious than gold
For with it the forest can never grow old
I implore you to stay till life's last breath is heard"

"We're sorry your Highness, we were destined to rove
For sweet freedom's fineness is essential to love"
But on their departure they left her a rose
To this very day in the circle it grows
And the blessings flow freely down in Berrywood Grove
Track Name: Lagan Love
Where Lagan streams sing lullabies
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair

And like a love sick lannan sidhe
She holds my heart in thrall
No life have I, nor liberty
for love is lord of all

And often when the beetle's horn
Has lulled the eye to sleep
I steal into her sheiling lorn
And through the doorway I creep

There on the cricket’s singing stone
She make the bogwood fire
And sings in sweet and undertone
The song of heart’s desire
Track Name: Phoenix From The Ashes
My eyes glitter sorrow as I watch you
Flee the burning cities of the war
Angels of destruction ride with fury
The warrior was our hero, now he’s rotten to the core

My heart crushed like velvet torn from our queen
Here she’s lying ravaged on the land
I tell myself there’s nothing I could do, no
but I cannot wash the bloodstains from my hands

I want to rise, rise, like a phoenix from the ashes
Crowned and conquering the shadows of my soul
Rise, rise, with my flaming feathers flashing
Rising from the shambles of the old

I curl myself around my desolation
Jewels of hope are shattered in my hand
Fields are black and water runs like poison
I summon up my courage but I don’t know where I stand

Beauty bears the scars of her betrayal
Still her noble spirit endures
Sharp of tongue she puts the challenge to me
Dare to taste the poison if you want to find the cure

I want to rise, rise, like a phoenix from the ashes
Crowned and conquering the shadows of my soul
Rise, rise, with my flaming feathers flashing
Rising from the shambles of the old

I want to rise, rise, like a phoenix from the ashes
Crowned and consecrated to the world soul
bring to life all the dreams I though were dying
Rising from the shambles of the old
Track Name: Serpentina
Serpentina strolls through spring showers
Licking drops of rain from face
Hair all matted down with flowers
Dress clings damp in fond embrace

Twisting blades of grass twixt fingertips
Eyes half crazed in siren swoon
Soaking stones in streams of storm’s linger drips
Lifts her voice in crimson croon

She is lilting, lilting, lilting,
Leading lovers’ hearts astray
I could give her pearls of wisdom
If she'd but turn her head my way

I would wrap her in wreaths of goldenrod
Bathe her in the morning dew
Tasting sweetly the pleasures of olden gods
Weaving old loves into new

We would bathe in moonlit meadows
Share our secrets under the moon
Dine on cakes and tea made from red rose
Drunk on a madness that ends too son

She is lilting, lilting, lilting,
Leading lovers’ hearts astray
She could give me pearls of wisdom
If I’d but understand her way

She is lilting, lilting, lilting,
Leading my poor hear astray
She could give me pearls of wisdom
If I’d but understand her way