1. |
Tides
03:11
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The tides they come quickly
And now I’m not the only one
Who moves across the jetty
The waters they accompany me
They’re dancing with the sunlight
On the surface of their body
And it’s high tide
Tide has rolled in
It’s that moment when
The pool is full
And it’s just before
It’s about to roll back out
Then my fisherman
Come and catch a blue fin
While the sea retreat
That’ll be the day
When I can date Easter or Mardi Gras
Without a calendar of the Moon or Sun
That’ll be the day
When I can predict a Jubilee
When I can guess it
Before it comes
Ain’t knowing when it’s coming, no
It’s knowing when it comes you’re packed to get going, so
When the moon is full
And the East Wind blows
On a Summer night
Grab ahold your love line
Go join the call
Of the parade in song
With your dancing shoes
And your party dress on
Cause it’s high tide
Tide has rolled in
It’s that moment when
The pool is full
And it’s just before
It’s bout to roll back out
Then my fisherman
Come and catch a blue fin
While the sea retreat
It’s high tide
Tide has rolled in
Then my fisherman
Come and catch a blue fin
While the sea retreat
Then my fisherman
Come and catch a blue fin
While the sea retreat
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2. |
Blue Family Carol
04:10
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“From the foothills to the Catskills, my blood spills Appalachian.
My people sailed Atlantic Avenue to Eastern America
Started in New England, moved down to the South,
Wed and planted the seeds of a Blue Family on a Druid City Drive”
Beneath these Oaks my Grandma spoke, “Mama - one of these seeds
Had daughters and sons - of 4 of us children, the oldest one was me.
Then I had my own three, your mother the baby, then came you and your brothers
Your maternal trail’s full of many tales of branches on your tree.”
Her story lines the map of my heart
Planted in an Alabama garden
It marks the memory and pain
Of our childhood-days, the canopy of our family life
From the live oak, to the magnolia, we are an arboretum
And we grew up here together and weathered hurricanes
Gathered round at Christmas, swam in summertime
Mourned in times of loss, danced in times of shine, shared whiskey in the evening light
And around the table, we’d share the fables - some we’ve heard before
Bout aunts and uncles, and cousins, and legends of our family lore
Spoke of parents’ behavior and how it was taken with the ones they bore
And we laugh and we cry and we live and we die together on this drive
These stories line the map of my heart
Planted in an Alabama garden
It marks the memory and the pain and the beauty of
Of our childhood-days, the canopy of our family life
Woah, Blue Druids
Life’s passages, we all go threw em
Let’s sing a carol
To our special love
Our branches tangle into
One another
And just like my grandma said so
When your time comes to go
In our memory and blood
In our love and our words
We will carry you on
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3. |
Applied Love
03:09
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Winter time
Come easy
Can Spring Be Far Behind?
And I wanna know
Is it warmer there?
Warmer than the year before?
I don’t know how to love you
It feels we’re miles apart
Looking out my window
You’re like a distant star
Oh I, can’t seem to see your view
It’s fully different than mine
Seems the golden rule
Didn’t get it right
Applied love
Isn’t giving you
What I would want
Applied love
Doing unto you
The way you want it done
Was it not, so lovely
In the gloaming, before night
When I built a fire
And threw a flame for you?
Smoke drew your name across a
Blue cobalt sky
But you did not see it
You were cleaning up a mess i made
Inside our house that evening
I gave you, something I’d want to see
But not the thing that you needs
Space to rest, space to relax
Applied love
Isn’t giving you
What I would want
Applied love
Doing unto you
The way you want it done
Applied love
Isn’t giving you
What I would want
Applied love
Doing unto you
The way you want it done
How do you wanna be loved?
Let me learn the language to love you
How do you wanna be loved?
Let me learn the language to love you
How do you wanna be loved?
Let me learn the language to love you
How do you wanna be loved?
Let me learn the language to love you
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4. |
Talk Talk Talk
03:56
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Damn dude, I think you just earned a medal
for the most gross-words-a-minute
in a single monologue
masquerading as a 90 minute conversation
this an indication of who you are
it’s not the subject of the words you speak
that says anything at all
what’s exposed is your obsessive attempt
to make a framework where you’re in the right for all that you’ve done
and not done
and it’s evident you’re not aware of this all
not big enough to say what underlies your talk
Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Unlike your words that try and muck up and cloud the water
My words are H20, they magnify what’s under
After showing my sea shore,
You showed up like a cloaked-up king
Claiming all of my treasures
Throw spears at my delicacies
Your generosity, it was a trap
What was given was not, it was a debt
Your friendship was counterfeit, it was straight fool’s gold
You a lie! you a lie! you a lie! Prince John, you are not to be trusted
Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Cause you’re not brave enough to say what you’re afraid of
You’re not brave enough to say if I have hurt you
You’re not brave enough to hear if you have hurt me too
You’re not brave enough to tell the truth
And I’m saddened by the loss of what we were once
Disappointed cause I thought that we were golden
And the 180 had me mad confused
The 180 had me mad confused
You’re not safe
And you’re not inspiring me
Now that this is clear
This means you lose your seat
Dethroned! Dethroned! Dethroned! Dethroned! Dethroned! Dethroned!
With my Irish goodbye
You lost your seat in my life
Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Talk talk talk
You say nothing at all
Talk talk talk
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Volumes on volumes
Volumes on volumes
Volumes on you
Volumes on you
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5. |
Beast Inside
03:23
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I don’t wanna play games with you
But now I’m trapped by a Beast inside
Orbited around me
and it caste itself around my mind
Opening my mouth
and all my actions leave a wreck behind
I don’t wanna play games with you, no
I don’t wanna play games with you, no
Didn’t wanna be prey but gave in
When the whirlwind passed me by
Should have run the other way
But stopped to dip my toe inside
Now I’m fully hemmed in by a
Beast that’s rendering me blind
Didn’t want to be prey but gave in
Didn’t wanna be prey
What is it that coaxes me back
To life?
Did I get free by my own will
Or did my opponent decide
To let its talons release me?
I cannot remember the exact moment
I went from trapped to free
My beast is a trap of my insecure fear
My beast is my hurt acting as anger
Throwing a fit
My beast is a trap of my insecure fear
My beast is my hurt acting as anger
Throwing a fit
And I’ll hurt you
When I’m hurtin
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6. |
Gaea's World
04:46
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On a mountain top I see
Gaea’s world below me
The water trickling down the creek
Is beautiful from my high high peak
I hear the resonating sounds
The chorus of the glorious land
Sings you are not an I or me
You’re not alone, you are a We
I join and echo in the sound
The vista and my spirit one
And in these moments I am free
Free of my my, free of my Me
And in these glimpses
I lose all my senses
Satellite beams me
Views from outside of here
Thank you infinancy
Thank you infinitely
Your Truly,
Infinite in Me
On a mountain top I see
Gaea’s world below me
The water trickling down the creek
Is beautiful from my high high peak
I hear the resonating sounds
The chorus of the glorious land
Sings you are not an I or me
You’re not alone, you are a We
And in these glimpses
I lose all my senses
Satellite beams me
Views from outside of here
Thank you infinancy
Thank you infinitely
Your Truly,
Infinite in Me
Infinite in
Infinite in me
Divinity, I pray to you
Divinity, I give thanks to you
The divine in me, is the divine in you
Nature you’re divine
I give thanks to you
Divinity, I pray to you
Divinity, I give thanks to you
The divine in me, is the divine in you
It’s our nature
We’re divine
Give thanks to you
Give thanks to you
I give thanks to you
I give thanks to you
I give thanks to you
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7. |
Wanna Be
03:42
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Woke up to a day that was my nightmare
Couldn’t see where
To put my foot down
I couldn’t take a step
All I saw was fear
I don’t wanna live this way
Feel trapped in my own body
I don’t wanna think this way
My mind’s not
My mind’s not safe
I don’t wanna be myself no more
Break me from the cage that holds me
I don’t wanna be this house no more
Get off me, get this off me!
Quicksand
Moving takes me deeper
Deeper deeper down and down
Cool breeze
I can’t feel it
All I see and feel’s the cloud I’m in
Analysis paralysis
My own mind
Ties knots that it cannot untie
I try to run
I try to get outside
But where I go
There am I
I don’t wanna be myself no more
Break me from the cage that holds me
I don’t wanna be this house no more
Get off me, get this off me!
Though I can’t see out I am made of will
And I know I have the desire to live
Look at all the branches are offering
Getting off my mat and I’m going
When I feel the magnet pull me backwards
Don’t feel better
Just might feel worse
I step forward
I take action
I plant seed inside my garden
Oh god I’m overly overwhelmed
From this tragic fear more tragedy
Then I close my
Eyes and imagine
Where I’m at peace
Where I’m happy
I just wanna be at home
My joy
Is to stay in and tend my garden
Dance around the room with my favorite song on
Take care of all the space within
I just wanna be at home
My joy
Is to stay in and tend my garden
Dance around the room with my favorite song on
Take care of all the space within
I love my house
I love my self
Give thanks for my life
And my well
I love my house
I love my self
Give thanks for my life
And my well
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8. |
My Blue House
04:44
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Born as a child
I awoke a woman
Big spirit inside
Big bias viewpoint
Where is the world without me?
I don’t know
I’ve only my blue house
And views from her windows
So I’ll make a home
Where that child may grow
And what if I have a daughter?
Will she be an artist?
Will I deliver her my winding river?
The river’s wide, Lord knows I feel it
After a swim wise to emerge
Sit quietly at the shore
Sit quietly
Leave alone
I hear the monsters knocking at my door
I’m screaming back
“You will not come in!”
What’s the use in shouting answers for?
I was at peace I was sitting there writing
Uh Oh! Fight violence with quiet
Uh Oh! Stay calm, stay sitting there writing
My mother’s anxiety is not my own
I sit at the feet of the Katsura tree
Upon its skirt of green
I dance, I sing, I laugh, I play, I love, I write, I sing
I dance, I sing, I write, I play, I breathe, I let it be
I dance, I sing, I write, I play, I breathe, I let it be
I dance, I sing, I write, I play, I breathe, I let it be
I dance, I sing, I write, I play, I breathe, I let it be
I dance, I sing, I write, I play, I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
I breathe, I let it be
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9. |
Nothing But Time
04:06
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I’ve got nothing but time
Nothing but time and space
Say I
When it seems
There isn’t enough
But it’s not a thing
It’s not anything
It’s nothing
It’s everything you are
If time were a train
I’d ask it to race
It’d beat me time
And time again
It leaves my loved ones
Behind
In places I can’t find them
Wears itself out
Its engine runs thin
I’ve got nothing but time
Nothing but time and space
Say I
When it seems
There isn’t enough
But it’s not a thing
It’s not anything
It’s nothing
It’s everything you are
There’s more living
When I slow it down
When I speed it up
I lose time
But it’s not a thing I have
It’s a thing I ride
It’s a thing I shape
When I take flight
All memory
All imagination
All the moment
All in one
All memory
All imagination
All the moment
All in one
Tomorrow’s my birthday
Yesterday’s the day I died
It’s always all the time
It’s always all the time
I’ve got nothing but time
Nothing but time and space
Say I
When it seems
There isn’t enough
But it’s not a thing
It’s not anything
It’s nothing
It’s everything you are
I’m it
I don’t spend it, I’m it
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10. |
Beauty
02:12
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The thing about beauty is
I don’t want it to go
I don’t want you
To leave me
I love you too much
Beauty is you
The thing about beauty is
Hurts when it’s gone
It hurts when you leave me
Don’t want you to go
I love you
I don’t wanna lose you
But the thing about beauty is
I never do
To know you
Is to always have you in my heart
To always have my dear one
Dancing in the kitchen after dark
Cooking up a pot of curry
Coriander, cumin, turmeric too
Curry smell in the kitchen
There’s you
Cause even if you’re in another room
Across the country
Or can’t be found on Earth
I still feel you
You are always with me,
Beauty!
Cause beauty don’t go away
Beauty don’t go away
Cause beauty don’t go away
Beauty don’t go away
Beauty don’t go away
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11. |
Don't Wash My Grave
05:24
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And when I die
Take me Upstate
Take me to West Texas
Fly me to the Gulf of Mexico
Don’t need my body there
No ashes necessary
In these gardens of my soul
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it get closer to home
To the earth
Where it’s from
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it age out
Let it fade
Let it grey
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it get closer to home
To the earth
Where it’s from
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it age out
Let it fade
Let it grey
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it get closer to home
To the earth
Where it’s from
Don’t wash my grave
Let the life lie on it
It looks nice
With some life grime on it
Don’t bleach that stone
Let it age out
Let it fade
Let it grey
It is well
With my soul
With my soul
It is well
Nothing can take my peace
It’s floating above me
My halo
I’m an angel, Lord knows
A little god,
divine and I will die
And when my time comes
Won’t hold the house
I will let it go
I will let it go
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12. |
Reprise
01:48
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The thing about beauty is
I don’t want it to go
I don’t want you
To leave me
I love you too much
Beauty is you
I just wanna be at home my joy
Is to stay in and tend my garden
Dance around the room with my
Favorite song on
Take care of all the space within
Sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing sing sing with me
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing with me
Sing sing sing sing sing sing with me
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Divinity-vinity
Sing with me!
Sing with me!
Sing with me!
It’s high tide!
It’s high tide!
Sing with me!
Last four
Sing with me
Sing with me
With me
I give thanks to you
Give thanks to you
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13. |
Back It Up
02:43
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Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Join in the circle, let’s link up
It’s good to be with you
Now take the center
Take a solo
Dance it looks good on you
Celebrate
Celebrate your body
Celebrate
Celebrate your body
Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Now take the center
Take a solo
It’s good to be with you
Twisting around
With your freestyle
So good to dance with you
Celebrate
Celebrate your body
Celebrate
Celebrate your body
Dance, it looks good on you
Dance, it looks good on you
Dance, it looks good on you
Sing, sing sing sing with me
Sing, sing sing sing sing with me
Sing, sing sing sing sing with me
Sing, sing sing sing sing with me
Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Back it up!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
Get a beat goin!
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Celeste Krishna & Monarchs Birmingham, Alabama
Celeste Krishna is a Southern expressionist music artist, songwriter, and producer originally from Birmingham, Alabama, who is now based in Brooklyn, New York. With an ensemble of musicians she calls “Monarchs,” Celeste creates a range of poetic songs that have musical notes of Van Morrison, Lauryn Hill, and Björk. ... more
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