1. |
A Stone at Dawn
04:01
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a stone at dawn
cold water in the basin
these walls' rough plaster
imageless
after the hammering
of so much insistence
on the need for naming
after the travesties
that passed as faces,
grace: the unction
of sheer nonexistence
upwelling in this
hyacinthine freshet
of the unnamed
the faceless
on this day
earth shall ring
with the song
children sing
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2. |
130
03:30
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3. |
Riverside
04:18
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Sit with me
Sit with me
Sit with me
Be my riverside
I am slipping by
No matter how tight
You hold me
I am slipping by
Sit with me
Sit with me
Be my riverside
There’s a hint of sky
Theres’s the play of light
The deep unknown
That you see in my eyes
Sit with me
Sit with me
Be my riverside
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4. |
All Wrapped Up
04:07
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You’re all wrapped up
Why, why, why
You’re all wrapped up
Fly, fly, fly, fly away
One thousand birds in a tree
And you’re all that I’ve got
Saint Theresa in a
blue green sweatshirt
Ceci n’est pas une pipe (this is not a pipe)
If you know what I mean
One thousand birds in a tree
And you’re all that I’ve got
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“ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“this is not a pipe”) refers to a painting by Magritte of a pipe accompanied by the text
“ceci n’est pas une pipe
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5. |
25
00:38
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6. |
Garden
03:41
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What is this, this garden
Whose hands dug damp earth
to plant it here between us
This tangle of ivy
Lovers, wrestlers Siamese
tumbling into sunlight
Cool lily grace
Clover giggle
Blush of the waking rose
Root deep aroma of knowing
Still wondering
We wander out into this
summer morning
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7. |
Orange Sun
03:24
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8. |
Robin
04:46
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hear the broken chord
we stumble and we yearn
search the charred remains
of the controlled burn
o, the robin pays a visit to hell
hand held up
i’m calling, i’m calling
o, the robin sings “all will be well”
hand held up
i’m falling, i’m falling, i’m falling
now the prairie is grown again
the eagle plays the dove
complacency’s coup of this land
but still the broken chord
o, the robin pays a visit to hell
hand held up
i’m calling, i’m calling
o, the robin sings “all will be well”
hand held up
i’m falling, i’m falling, i’m falling
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9. |
Brother Angel
03:30
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I am chasing brother angel
Round the table in the bright meadow
With his palette of graceful colors
Catching them is like catching smoke
Stick figure lovers in a sidewalk picture
Pastel bright and child’s touch bold
We will swim this sky blue river
With hallowed fish: black and gold
Someone gave me this sweet, sweet orange
When I taste it I’m ten years old
With my father on the road home from Kimjeh
Oh the love that makes this sweet world roll
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10. |
Sandro
05:05
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Sandro this beauty is catching me off guard
I’m lost in the current
I always reach too far
into the dark
I’m coming up empty
this beauty holds the key to my heart
A waxed winged flying fool
Climbs too close to the sun
The gardening angel
picks up a plow and moves on
The beauty holds the key
to my heart
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11. |
1969
00:49
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12. |
Twilight Rise
04:38
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Twilight rise
in blue light I wake
too your singing
I open my eyes
to find
that I’ve been dreaming
If night is forgiving
Dusk is you singing
Like a ghost
in the trees
your sweet voice
is weaving
a veil of goodbyes
the final embrace
the leaving
If night is forgiving
Dusk is you singing
Pedro’s guitar
is calling
like that Picasso
Mary, she cries
the melody says
what she knows
If night is forgiving
Dusk is you singing
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13. |
1970
03:20
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14. |
Love Song
04:28
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I wish to settle deep in you
like heaven sunk in pond water
Eyes flowing into eyes flesh into flesh
Our lives both on fire
Though I am left all alone
You share my breath, racing in my blood
O flower that blooms in my soul’s darkness
In one with me, and yet a distant land
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15. |
959
09:59
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16. |
Fading
06:28
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Fading
Rising into the light
I held your hand
As we climbed that winding road
Into that strange paradise
I still call home
Fading
Rising into the light
Now I hold your hand again
As you climb that road
Into paradise
You’re going home
Fading
Rising into the light
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tim lowly & baby mountain Chicago, Illinois
Tim Lowly is a Chicago based musician, visual artist and art professor.
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