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Song of the Sea

by Sharon Knight

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    Immediate download of 11-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

    An otherworldly blend of Celtic traditional and original songs featuring soulful Celtic vocals and mythical themes, set in a lush instrumental tapestry of mandola, violin, acoustic and electric guitars, Uilleann pipes, whistles, piano, keyboards, and percussion
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1.
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
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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
3.
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
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The Well 02:23
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Siren Moon 04:43
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…
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I wander alone, seeking out mystery, Wandering where the wild things roam I have heard tale of poets gone mad With the wine of the muse on their tongue Break bread on the shore filling my cup Devotion spills from my heart The natural beauty surrounding my senses Keeps tangling through me as art It breaks my heart wide open, the singing of the stones I fall to my knees at the song Of music on the breeze I fall to my knees at the sound Of the singing of the sea No beauty surpasses the song of the soul Lies hidden in cavern and sky She answers the call of the yearning inside Although she may never say why Sit still in the silence, can you not hear The laughter that ripples and hums Salubrious praises ring out from the earth Rejoicing the light of the sun It breaks my heart wide open, the singing of the stones To watch the red wine sunset, explode in velvet tones I fall to my knees at the song Of music on the breeze I fall to my knees at the sound Of the singing of the sea
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The blacksmith's daughter loved a sailor Dark as dusk on a haunted eve With a devil's smile and a sparkling eye His black heart won her loyalty Too long his skills went unrewarded So he turned rogue on the salty sea Rich gifts he brought to his beloved They did delight her mightily A pirate's love is not for keeping He soon must heed the song of the sea "Take me with you" she was pleading But he would not risk his bonny He promised her his safe returning With treasures more than she'd ever seen The love they made was brimming over And sealed their bond most fiercely With three years past her soul was hearty made strong by what she knew would be When seven years were past and over Her weary heart grew gloomy One night despair washed over his darling And lulled her into a fitful sleep Wherein she dreamt of ghostly galleons And a fearsome captain heading the fleet "It's glad I am to see me bonny" Spoke the voice of her love so dear "The royal army's finally claimed me They've hunted me for many's the year" "Though my life is robbed from me Not for me the fires of Hell Now I'm the dreaded Captain Blackheart This ghostly form has served me well And if you'll meet me at the edge of twilight At the crossing where the three roads meet We will sail beyond life's borders And reign upon the open sea" And she has met him at the twilight At the crossing where the three roads meet And she has boarded the ghostly galleon And kissed her love most gallantly And in the deepest black of night When the veils grow ghostly thin You can hear the bold marauding Of Captain Blackheart and his pirate queen They say that when the siren's singing When the moon has ringlets three You can see their ghostly galleon And gather treasure from the sea
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King Willie 07:03
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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

about

This album pays homage to my deep, abiding love of the sea. It is my home and the source of much magic and inspiration in my life. May this music carry that inspiration to you!

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released January 1, 2005

Sharon Knight - vocals, octave mandolin, acoustic guitar, keyboard, bodhran
Winter - acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keyboard, vocals
Gari Hegedus - violin, mandocello
Jeffrey Chin - piano, strings on Star of the Sea, Captain Blackheart
Shay Black - guest vocals on May morning Dew, Capt. Blackheart
Todd Denman - Uilleann pipes
Jeff Obee - bass
Lee Neal - drums

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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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