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The Woven Woman
04:20
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I fell from the sky,
down into a basket,
a basket made of arms,
the woven woman,
the woven woman.
She lay me down in a hole,
buried me with her soil,
the soil of her soil,
the woven woman,
the woven woman.
Breathe in deep, breathe in beauty until you are full. x2
An echo runs deep,
an echo digs a well in me,
an echo carries remedy,
of a girl from the ground.
Breathe in deep, breathe in beauty until you are full. x2
Down, down, down, take me down, down, down
to a world I used to know (x2)
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Dear Daughter
04:31
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Dear daughter, dear dear one,
you come you come from the mountain
We called you in and you came to be,
it was all too easy, too easy
Dear daughter, dear, dear, dear one,
we just wanted to fall into the fantasy
I wanted to do it, believe me,
to believe in our love,
to believe in our love, oh
Daughter my daughter, what a lesson I learned
I am buried in the backyard with you
And if I could, I would swallow the ground
Back in-to my womb, ohh, oh, oh, ohhh
The angel she told me, you were a demon in disguise,
that you weren’t meant for me, oh no
I swallowed her words just like the pills that they gave me
So I wouldn’t feel, anything, anything
And then you were gone and I was driving
Half-way, half-way across the country
Said goodbye to the life that i was living
It was all too easy, too easy.
Daughter my daughter...
But its too late, its too late, I am changed I am changed
It’s too late, it’s too late, I am changed, I am changed
I am opened I am scraped, I am changed, I am changed
I am older, I am wiser, I am changed, I am changed
Dear daughter you come from the mountain,
and that’s where you’ll go now
You’ll grow into a beautiful oak,
oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
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Coyote
03:42
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Yesterday, I saw a coyote, saw a coyote, on my way home
There she was, on my doorstep, waiting in darkness for the one
Poet, painter, prophet of heart, sing a song for me. X2
Yesterday, I saw a deer, I saw a deer, on my way home
There she was, on the highway, waiting in darkness for the one.
Poet, painter...
Yesterday, I saw the bed, I saw the bed, of river run dry
There she was, grasping at ground, clinging in drought
As she burned to the sky.
Poet, painter...
Yesterday, I felt my lungs, I felt my lungs, cut from my chest
All the trees, cut into pieces, waiting in pieces, on a truck bed.
Poet, painter...
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Ai Ee Ai
04:00
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My heart is a mountain, where the dreamers come to pray
Weaving songs from the shadows
Ai –ee –ai, ai yay
My heart is fire, echoes a hundred drummer deep
That beat until the morning light
Ai- ee- ai, ai yay x2
Wake, wake, all the sleeping dreams
Take them from the mountain and back to the sea
Wake, wake, all the sleeping dreams
Take them from the mountain and back to the sea
And back to the sea, ai ee ai
My heart is a river, where the lovers go to sleep
And remember with their bodies
Ai –ee –ai, ai yay
My heart is a dark sky, with clouds of endless stars
And wisdom as old as time
Ai –ee –ai, ai yay X2
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Skyhunter
03:57
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Keep ringing the bell
playing the tambourine
and calling for
that light
something inside
something holy inside yourself
The heart is like that, sacred and ruined
once it has known the divine (x2)
Now, now your eyes
look broken without god
Fly, around the sky
circle your sweetest moments with love
The heart is like that, sacred and ruined
once it has known the divine (x2)
Needing to kiss his face again...
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Somewhere in Africa
04:32
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Once I knew a girl named flower.
She grew from a seed in the ground fertilized by her mother.
Every single day, she grew a little bit a little bit towards the sky,
Dreaming of the day when she’d jump over her little town and fly.
Once I knew a boy named Jack.
He lived with his mother and his sister and his grandmother
In a one room shack.
And he was the smallest little boy in his class.
But his funny little voice lifted him tall and he made all the other kids laugh.
These are the people in my dreams,
Memories that seem like they never happened to me. X2
My friend flower, she’s just like any other girl.
Wants to be the singer in a band that tours all around and round.
Every night she prays to her mother buried down in the ground
And once a week she does the washing in a bucket
Just like any other girl.
My friend Jack, he’s just like any other boy.
Likes to save his cash to buy candy after class from the corner store.
Every night he lays down a mat to go to sleep on the floor.
And once a week he takes a bath in a bucket, just like any other boy.
These are the people in my dreams,
Memories that seem like they never happened to me. X2
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A Child Like This
03:02
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I’ve never seen a child like this
with fire in her eyes like this before, oh no
I’ve never seen a child like this,
with fire in her eyes like this before, oooo
I’ve never seen a child like this,
with fire in her eyes like this before
And I wish I was still a child
Oh, I wish I was still a child
‘cause when I was a child like this
I never wanted to be a child like this
I just wanted to grow up
But growing up is so hard so hard
It feels like a dream but its really really hard to make a life
and I have yet to succeed, yet to succeed
At making all my choices right
But when I see a child like this
With fire in her eyes like this
I don’t want her to grow up
‘cause she smiling, and she’s giggling
so hard that she can’t stop
and now she’s snorting on the floor
and I can’t help but pick her up
and give her a hug
I miss you my friend, I’ll always remember you
I miss you my friend, I’ll always remember you
Youuuu
‘cause I’ve never seen a child like this, like this, like this before
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Oceanrider
04:14
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To believe like you believe,
I would sail across the sea,
and fly above all my fears.
I kissed the current and wind on your lips,
and felt the freedom of an open sea.
I would drink the ocean to live a life so free. (x2)
To believe like you believe,
guides a dreamer to the dream.
You mapped me in arrows on my skin.
Now I dream of oceans that I have never seen,
never seen.
Only know from the sea salt on my pillow,
on my pillow,
and now I crave ocean sea,
and now I crave ocean sea.
I would drink the ocean to live a life so free. (x2)
I fell in, I fell in love, I fell in love with the thought of you. (x2)
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Across the Sea
04:13
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Across the savanna and under the willow tree,
where time paints stories in sun across the sky,
a town made of tin that blows over in sand storms,
into open lands,
where everyone's hands are rough.
Now I am 50 hundred thousand feet across the sea,
Now I am 50 hundred thousand feet across the sea.
I wonder if anyone will remember me,
now that I'm 50 hundred thousand feet across the sea.
Eucalyptus cactus on my jog as the sun sets.
I run through the farmer's land at the end of town.
Looking up at the expansive sky, never seen it shine like this before,
open up my arms and pray it'll never change.
Now I am 50 hundred thousand feet across the sea...
I wish I could say more, I'd give you all my memories of the two towns.
What I am digging for is a word to describe pure paradise.
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Leah Shoshanah Chicago, Illinois
Leah Shoshanah is a singer-songwriter, a carrier of Jewish song, an indie-rock bandleader and a yoga teacher. Daughter to a classical musician and visual artist, her songs paint stories of home and family, with the fire of a traveler's heart and the desire to build a better world. ... more
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