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Melusina
04:51
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Melusina, Melusina
Melusina, Melusina
Your longing is a bitter salt upon the sea
Your tears are drying crystalline between my toes
I want to touch you but I cannot see your face
Just your serpent’s tail slipping through to worlds I’ll never know
You seek the simple joys
You give the taste of something more
But oh, they can’t contain you
And you slip away in silence out beyond the door
Don’t let it slip away, don’t let it slip away
Melusina, Melusina
Melusina, Melusina
Melusina, I know you hunger to get through
But our slavery to reason does not welcome you
What mighty song is poised upon your lips
A pearl beyond all price at our fingertips
Through beauty and through sorrow
We crack the masks of certainty
We travel on, enraptured by the mystery
Our senses overcome with majesty
Don’t let it slip away, don’t let it slip away
Melusina, Melusina
Melusina, Melusina
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Trail of Prayer
03:29
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I run until I cannot breathe
Out among the trembling leaves
The cliffs plunge into the silver sea
The branches drip their sacrament
Resin frozen in descent
A benediction captive in a tree
My feet caress the earth
The votives burn and lay us bare
Give life to those who dare
Give life to those who walk the trail of prayer
The brooding moods of sea and sky
Shimmer through her storm swept eye
Casting shadow over all who yearn
Sorrow shrouded in the vines
Promise of more hopeful times
Poems dreamed amidst the candles burning
My feet caress the earth
The votives burn and lay us bare
Give life to those who dare
Give life to those who walk the trail of prayer
I wander wild through this wide open world
Out at the edges of things I cannot change
Wistful and weary I wait for a welcome
Into the arms of the seelie and the strange
My feet caress the earth
The votives burn and lay us bare
Give life to those who dare
Give life to those who walk the trail of prayer
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Fire in the Head
04:44
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Fire in the Head
(Words/Music by Sharon Knight & Winter)
High upon a hill
Before the shrieking of the wind
I lay my spirit bare
At the feet of untamed things
Amidst the crumbling stone
Where time-worn gods have lain their hands
I walk the night alone
To claim the magic of this land
When the bright glory comes
I will feast with the shining ones
When the bright glory comes...
The screaming hag that rides the wind
Will rip the soul right from your skin
The hollow hills will swallow you
And flay apart your mind
To win the kiss of the gifted ones
We risk our lives on the mountain front
There’s some wake mad, and some wake dead
And some will rise with a fire in their head.
The fire mountain burns
Thrust up from primordial sea
A thousand glittering pools
Reflect the shape the destiny
The giant sits his chair
To test the seeking soul below
He sees you striving there
To claim which way your fate will go
At the crimson blush of dawn
I will sing my victory songs
At the crimson blush of dawn I’ll sing
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Lagan Love
06:05
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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
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Song of the Sea
06:22
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One by one I cast my stones to the ocean
Every one a shard of memory
I have born my trials with honor and duty
Now I cast my soul to the sea
I long to return home to the halls of the Mighty
Where golden goblets overflow for me
Where the ever living dwell in endless summer
And strip my earthly cares from me
I cast my soul beyond the silver horizon
Adrift upon an otherworldly sea
The pearly net is opening before me
The many gifted poets welcome me
I will sleep in bowers of Rivendell beauty
With songs of heroes light upon my lips
Every kiss a wellspring of renewal
No defeat shall claim me
I cast my life away like stones on the ocean
Weary from the sorrows of my past
I am bruised but I have never been broken
I am come home at last
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Sharon Knight Oakland
Festival favorites Sharon Knight and her longtime collaborator Winter perform a mythic-Celtic style, which they call "Neofolk Romantique; songs for poets, adventurers and lovers of mystery". They tour internationally several months of the year, bringing their fantastical tales of love and magic to festivals, cafes, and homes across the land. ... more
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