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As i went out merrily
03:45
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Hallelujah! said the dove
as she drank from the bowl of the winds
I’ve been caged, I’ve been caged for so long
though its winter whoa it feels just like spring
My tits are dancing, my tits are singing
Filled with milk, oh filled with joy
And all the animals say my name
When I start to bang on the drum
Ring a ling Talitha kum
Please understand this
If we keep to the beat
We’ll make it alright
Ring a ling Talitha kum
Please understand this
With the flick of the wrist
Blacker than night
Im aroused by every sound
A river of honey runs down my legs
Go tell the blue jay go tell the lark
Im ecstatic suspended in mid air
I am open, lotus, creator, destroyer,
Babylon Jerusalem, dynamo, jewel,
Jupiter, watermelon, firemelon,
I am child, I am child, I am king!
Ring a ling Talitha kum
Please understand this
If we keep to the beat
We’ll make it alright
Ring a ling Talitha kum
Please understand this
With the flick of the wrist
Blacker than night
There’s no beginning and there’s no end
It will come back all over again
And all the dreaming and all the sorrow
And all the love and all the mambo.
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A seed
04:03
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Through a crack inside my mind
I can feel something coming out
Like a vessel into space
Waving its hands across the universe
Reaching out towards the possibilities
That lie beyond the veil
“Do you realise the miracle that is that we can spend some time?”
You said as we drank some beers sitting in the park that night
And looked away… away…
This thought fuelled by my heart
Became a wish that pierced the skin
This thought fuelled by my heart
Became a seed that pierced the skin
Of it all
Through the thick and through the thin
I hope that I can be there for you my friend
Until the end
Through the dark and through the light
Through silence and through sound
To be in you my friend until the end.
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Pristine
04:30
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Everybody’s dead in the future (get it on)
There’s no point in meeting you there (pretty one)
But if you get to the other side pristine (get it on)
Then I would sit and endlessly stare (pretty one)
Let it out
Come on in
Hold it down
Lift it up
And take it all away, Make it go away my dear
Cut the heads of the emperors
And take it all away
Take it all away, make it go away my dear
And i`ll bow down
I still feel the desire (get it on)
Burning up through the flesh (pretty one)
If your house is on fire (get it on)
Do you stand still in the flames? (pretty one)
Let it out
Come on in
Hold it down
Lift it up
And take it all away, Make it go away my dear
Wake the giants from the ashes
And take it all away
Take it all away, make it go away my dear
And i`ll bow down
The dead stare at me through the trees
Look at me now I am shining.
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Woman
05:56
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Woman
What else can I say?
I’ve seen through your fire
And I’ve seen through your rain
Woman
What else can I do?
Maybe I don’t deserve you
But I can’t stop thinking of you
You move me and I move through you
And nothing can ever defy you
Woman
What else can I say?
You flow and cannot be contained
Like things that cannot be contained
You flow and cannot be contained
And im swept away
Woman
The world can be strange
But with you
I don’t feel afraid
Woman
Your mouth is my wine
You’ve made me a drunk
And im never satisfied
And I can smell you in my mind my dear
The dogs are barking in the night
My eyes are foggy and I can’t let you go
Woman.
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Waltzing the tide
05:43
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She was the moon and I was riding her glow
Waltzing the tide waltzing the tide
She carried madness and I let myself go
Out in the night out in the night
But I left a trail of breadcrumbs
To find my way back home
And when I followed it back
It just led me to your door
so I just went there and knocked
Just waltzing the tide
What really happened I just can’t recall
Only the smile
only the smile
A bedlam of birds from drunken trees are a flowing
Down from the palace my sorrows they seem to be calling
And no matter how many times
I try to get back home
Somehow I always wind up
Knocking at your door
oblivious to it all
Just waltzing the tide
Just waltzing the tide.
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Light of the moon
04:13
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Something stirs in the darkness
Something that seems to be
A naked shadow twitching and
Flopping its purple wings
Something shrieks
I think its a part of me
I lick my wounds and jump this ship
Unleashed into the night
And I feel like major tom
along these dirty streets
as I drift
There by the light of the moon
My friends
There by the light of the moon
The river meets the sea
There by the light of the moon
They said I joined the circus
That I was a juggler at heart
That I flew with the owls
And took the swans for a ride
They say that im a hustler
They say im a fool
That I am a walking danger
That I am a power ranger
But I guess that I just don’t know
I just spin around and dream
There by the light of the moon
I weep
There by the light of the moon
I fade into the sea
There by the light of the moon
There by the light of the moon
I sing
There by the light of the moon
Dance over the roof my friends
There by the light of the moon
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La niebla
05:10
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Y ya no se ni en quién creer
Ni que es verdad ni que es mentira
Si nada vale nada
Quién va a lamerme las heridas
Y a veces siento que esta niebla no soy yo
Y me elevo por encima
del ruido que hace el miedo al crecer
Entre los pliegues de la sangre va enredado
El veneno que espera como flor en la noche
Y somos la película
Y la vida sigue igual
A punto de estallar
Y a veces siento que esta niebla no soy yo
Y me elevo por encima
del ruido que hace el miedo al crecer
Entre los pliegues de la sangre va enredado
El veneno que espera como flor en la noche
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Somewhere
04:34
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Is there any place we can go
Just to have some fun?
The pharisees are selling their gospel
Going from door to door
They deal with fear as their currency
To fund their laws
And now everybody’s putting up flags out
On their front lawns
I wonder how they’re doing in Cuba
Or in Mexico
A place where we don’t have to be
always on the run
Who knows maybe our bodies are just a metaphor
But until we know for sure
Can you take me somewhere fun?
Somewhere where we can dance
Take me somewhere warm
Somewhere where we can be closer
With no shame at all
And although some can pretend
Like they know whats going on
Still the man in charge it seems like
Could use a little fun
(So can you take me)
Somewhere where we can dance
Take me somewhere warm
Somewhere I could get to hold you
With no shame at all
And though death is on our heels
Still the night is young
And id like to think that we are
Still able to love
And to look at ourselves in the eye
And to let it all go for a while
To believe that we can be much more
Than this image that gets
in the way of you and me
Somewhere where we can dance
Take me somewhere warm
Somewhere we could hold each other
With no shame at all
And though death is on our heels
Still the night is young
And id like to think that we are
Still able to love
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Charles Lavaigne Madrid, Spain
Charles Lavaigne is a Dominican singer songwriter living in Madrid. His music is rich, crazy and sometimes overwhelming. His songs and albums take the form of a musical roller coaster ride through many styles and places delivered with honesty all the way. So buckle up and let go. ... more
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