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Siren Songs

by Sharon Knight

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    A collection of 5 listener favorites spanning 3 albums!

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1.
Melusina 04:51
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Lagan Love 06:05
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
5.
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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released September 1, 2016

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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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