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A little daydream sends me slowly off to sleep
Meeting memories and those around the table that I can’t keep
As the sun greats the night breaking the magic of the dark
The writer of your reason takes his place to make his mark
In many ways I know there’s something just beneath
Where hidden secrets live known to the chambers of your heart
It’s only a beginning and how many stories start
Police the people keep and them from going wild
Formed in their image as a child
Held up high
And now all the gods have died
Poisoned by words that colonize
There’s no opposition, paradox, where’s the tension?
So, I’ll put on the face you want me to
I’ll walk this way and sing songs for you
and even though I’m hurting
You won’t know it, of this I’m certain
That’s just what masks do
The king is sick and requests fabric and a ring
No dragons will be slain today, the hero’s after other things
Like how to hold a daydream in the palm of your hand
Encountering adventure and things you cannot understand
I’m a fool, I’m a riddle, I’m really quite obtuse
I’m a soul trying to take flight wearing a gilded concrete suit
Held down by forces known within the chambers of my heart
Creating and obstructing my desires from the start
The greatest joke that anyone has ever tried
Placing wisdom within those who search outside
And up high
And now all the gods have died
Poisoned by words that colonize
There’s no opposition, paradox, where’s the tension?
So, I’ll put on the face you want me to
I’ll walk this way and sing songs for you
and even though I’m hurting
You won’t know it, of this I’m certain
That’s just what masks do
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Interlude I: Mercury
03:29
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Descend
05:49
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Holding it all in, wondering,
If he might be going crazy
He’s leaving you to know
More about the Underworld
And all the Hell that’s been created
Nothing means nothing
Though he searches in the dark
A hundred thousand mothwings
And each night he’ll burn one off.
With a heart that’s true
And though he might be crazy
As the stars depart from vie
Abandoning hope
The misanthrope falls now
Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes him over leaves him out of control
Falling through to get down to the dark
Abandon all hope
Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes you over, leaves you out of control
Wandering through interludes of the dark
Can’t fight the feeling it’s unmanageable
It takes me over, leaves me out of control
Can’t fight this anymore
Can’t fight the feeling that I’m out of control
It’s taken over it’s unmanageable
I’ll follow you down into the dark
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Interlude II: Pluto
05:41
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Listen
03:39
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Listen
Feel it all
Separate in two
There’s nothing quite like a name
To contain difference between me and you
Something to run away from
Somewhere to run to
Caught between what you find and what you leave behind you
No one can know
So let it go
Settle Down – Listen to me – Settle Down
No better time than opposition
For discovering the truth
The game is set for competition
With no book of rules
No one will know
So let it go
These answers are hiding
Inspiring the finding
Though always unknown
So move in slow
I can’t hear what you don't say
Discover something new
For kindness there’s a price to pay
Settle down and listen too
I don’t mind waiting
I don’t mind at all
There’s nothing describing
What will always be hiding
Though still waiting after all
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Interlude III: Janus
04:25
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Embrace
06:24
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Days and nights move so quickly
They don’t even consult me
I want to know more about their view
I wonder what it’s like to be
In a cosmic routine
Though every day in new
The sun rises right on cue
And the moon is not far behind
As she patiently waits in line
Reflecting the light of another day
Held in a cosmic embrace
Holding it all
Holding it all
Just some old memories, of how life used to be
So much more simple then, the wonders of the beginning
The truth is I just couldn’t know
What goes on outside those doors
And I want to go back in – to escape the pain of living
And then I’ll know, how this should go
Standing upon the silent shore
Longing to hear a comforting voice
Speaking to me in familiar tones
The secret is under feet held within the stone
I can feel the cold and know the truth
No written word can possibly soothe
The warm voice from long ago is gone
A discovery to be made alone
And even though I’m waiting for the day
When time doesn't have to unfold this way
When the moon stops waiting in line for the sun
Holding, holding what I fear knowing
The secret that churns rock into sand
Eternity, is something I just can’t understand
This won’t stop the wishing that I always do
Hold me keep me from feeling lonely too
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Spirit and the Trickster Houston, Texas
When a singer/songwriter and a classical pianist meet in the field of Jungian psychology, the result is a genre-bending collaboration dedicated to the exploration of archetypal themes, alchemical process, order and chaos, dreams and consciousness, and the confusing beauty of paradox. ... more
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