01 Captain

02 Star That I See

Prison

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1. New York
2. When Love's a Stranger
3. Lady Bird
4. Someone to Lift the Blue
5. Erin and the Storm

When Love's A Stranger Full Stream

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Side A
1. King of the Undead
2. Hunter
3. My Own Way Down
4. Glory Be
Side B
5. Learning and Forgetting
6. Clara June
7. That We Are

Peninsula Full Stream

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I jumped cause I thought that I could land safely
And I fell down when I crossed, cause I was too hasty
Up ahead I was lost, when the ground came up and ate me

It was nobody’s fault, but I didn’t want to blame me
So I pointed a finger at my lot and the law on down to all the demons that would chase me

around, all around, and on my way down, my own way down

Drank whiskey for my pain, cause then life was good and easy
But then something would nag and pull at the back of my train, and I end up drowning myself in some pity
laze around for a day maybe two, but then end up getting kind of angry

Take it out on some damn fool who thought that he was better than me
and I’d point my finger and yell about my lot and the law on down to all the demons that chased me

around, all around, and on my way down, my own way down

Woke up and was sore in the jaw, with some feeling but I couldn’t name it
Ground was wet with thaw of a winter where spring hadn’t came yet
self satisfied smile, I could show them all, cause I had a train to catch

I jumped cause all of them thought that I would never make it
No one to hear the train whistle call in the early morning where an unmarked grave was set

around, all around, and on my way down, my own way down

Stuck with all the ghosts that wander around and the demons that had chased him
wait to claim those with minds fraught and unsound, make use of their anguish
or those with cravings for power and greed for more ground, we can just call them all politicians

when they have everyone else to fault, as long as they get to hold on to all of their pieces
hide in their ledgers and inside of the law on down to the demons that possess them

around, all around, and on their way down, their own way down

My Own Way Down

I pulled my string, though I held no mark, I stood poised and ready.
From beyond the veil I watched, and though many came, I never let fly, my weapon held steady.
Hunters hunted, some would comment, “Is he hunter?   Why does he not kill then?”
While I aged they said, eat, you grow thin.  I said for this I am not hungry.

Then late one moonlit evening.  I had a vision, or maybe death, or just dreaming.
I saw my mark from beyond the veil, tasted victory but an untried hand will often fail, my shot went wild and the    kill was left standing.
I saw my companions, the hunters, take aim, at what to them was just another kill, with practice and taut release it fell.  Each shot merging and dying.
The mark was no longer unknown, from beyond the veil, but an entity spread out and encompassing.

In my time as hunter.  Reminded of the lessons of release and kill and plunder.

Then I felt root, tasted water, was the flower.  I knew blooming and wilting.
When I awoke, it was with body and with voice.  Good for moving and to sing.

All the while, reminded of my time as hunter, paralyzed in a perfect stance waiting for plunder he says,

I don’t need your love, you’re not worth my art.”  And stands there poised with his string.
I don’t want your love, you’re not my mark.”  While he waits in his perfect stance at the ready

All the while, reminded of the flower, the lessons of root and release, the song and shower, where he says

I’ll move for you, let go, my mark, you feed me well, I’ll bloom and I’ll sing.
I shoot for you, my root my mark, I’ll feed you well, I’ll bloom and I’ll sing.

  Where it blossoms it is spring.
  Where it blooms there is hunting.
  Where it flowers someone pulls a string.
  In their release there is merging.

Hunter

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You thought that i was someone you could inspire you
Give some meaning, some direction, somewhere to put your energy into
outside all the questions you’d been having about your life and the choices you had made, someone to lift the blue.

For my part, I liked the circles that you ran in.
Thought I could meet some new people and make some good connections.
And I liked the way it felt to be out and have people see that I was the one who was with you.


Back when we first met and I was hesitant, but at night I’d fantasize about you.
I wasn’t stringing you along, I just wasn’t sure of what you wanted or if I wanted to be that for you.
But then that afternoon at your house, I had you take off all your clothes and you came while I watched, well that really turned me on.

The way you liked to be used, even though it was dirty, it was still sacred.
We both held our opposites and for both of us it was good to know that we could claim them.
I always knew that in the back of your mind you were comparing me to some ex lover, and even though I wasn’t the same man a part of you was just trying things over.

I wouldn’t say the magic wore off, just that our natures changed and we balanced.
Now I see you in a different light, with members of your extended family calling every other month looking for handouts.
Everyone keeps looking for this thing that they can’t name, some answer, and that’s probably why it won’t find them, cause they can’t see their problems.

And I’m not ashamed about anything I’ve done, to me it’s just another story.
Feel the same way about my accomplishments, they’re just an easier refrain in certain company.
And I’m glad for a time where we could both fill a need we thought was real, and that after the spell broke it turned into compassion and love and reverence.

Someone To Lift The Blue

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Inside of me, a song of leaves and wind, of romance and a river’s winding ways.
A troubadour with tales of fated meetings and missed chances, of fall and lost friends and memories.
If I’ve done wrong, if I’ve caused you any harm, let me say again I’m sorry.
But I’ll still walk, make mistakes and move along, cause I’m not one to hold on to regretting.
 
Sometimes a home has a lonely haunting feel, another time it will buzz electric with magic in the air.
Sometimes a mind plays tricks, another time it reveals the many mirrors where I like to turn and stare.
Where I can see myself as a large imposing man, with long pockets and a gentleman’s tweed coat.
I see myself as a small man with hungry, reaching hands grasping at a world made of smoke.
 
Sometimes I tell a lie and say a things ok, though it eats at me and festers in my heart.
I find that thoughts can be weapons in their own way, intent to find an end to that which they would start.
And on which side I stand, my triumph or defeat, typically I’m none too proud.
But if from an empty hand, it’s fate that pulls to meet, I find I learn my own true ground.
 
.
So if there’s a song of wind in leaves and romance, a rivers depth and winding ways.
It’s not me, or if it is it’s only happenstance, just another voice inside the play.
So if I’ve done wrong, if I’ve caused you any harm, let me say again I’m sorry.
But I’ll still walk, make mistakes and move along, cause I’m not done with learning or forgetting.
 
There’s a love and gratitude to call my home,
And it’s to that place I’m headed
I’ll still walk make mistakes and move along
With one sun rising and another setting

Learning And Forgetting

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In the cold rain coming down
And a ground that’s wet with leaves fallen
Into that well I drown
With eager eyes that wait with longing
To frame that picture lest my senses run aground
I must commence with drawing
Or swallowed up in the sounds
Enter my harmony my calling
 
We Sing  Ohh, Ohh Ohh
Glory be
 
To know that I’ve got friends around
Feels like a family gathering
To find teachers who would raise my ground
And guideposts on a path to keep walking
There’s a lover here to wrap around
A depth and light that’s always shining
Swaloowed up inside the sounds
Enter my harmony my calling

My fate and choices this time and place the puzzle that I found
All the pieces that I’m gathering
Get that put together and for a moment feel proud
Before the next one goes scattering
It may be a summer season or like this cold rain coming down
Sometimes the yoke, sometimes the ox, sometimes the one who’s driving
Swallowed up inside all the sounds
Enter my harmony my calling

Glory Be

Christmas song based on this photo, and some criticism about my beard.

Lyrics:

Grew a great big beard for you, got myself a fine green vest
put on a red cap too, this year I'll be my best
just watch these pointy shoes shake and move

I'm going elf style for you...

But you tell me I'm a fool, what can I hope to achieve, what will I possibly do?
A red capped bearded freak, pointy shoed buffoon
You say my style's uncool, but you can't stop this groove

I'm going elf style for you... I'm going elf style wild for you...

You may not see the magic, but it's there and it glows inside my heart
you may see this all as tragic, but it's here to play it's part
so watch it shake and move, that joyous tune

It's going elf style wild for you...

so feel it shake and move, that joyous tune
that's full of love
that joyous tune
so full of love

It's going wild for you... It's going elf style wild for you...

so feel it shake and move

Going Elf Style For You

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1.  Come Find Me
Come to me, Come to me love / Walk with me, Walk with me love 

So by me, So by my side / And if you care to turn, I swear I’ll shine / And when lost of way, There will be a light

So find me, So guide me love / So try me, And guide my love

Again and again Deeper in you / Again and again Come into you.
Then she loves me, I love her too.
Come find me… I search for you

2. 7 Nights
You'll be coming to me for 7 nights and 6 days / I'll drink your love, but I'll first fill your cup / For now, for us, this is enough.

I've saved your letters in a box, but it's your kisses that have been notched / deep inside my heart /  This is our love, this is our love / This, our love, it is enough.

You came to me for 7 nights and 6 days /  You filled my cup, you drank my love / Though it was winter it was warm enough.

3.  Darling
Darling, come and walk beside me / Your hand in mine, watch the world you see / Darling, bring your horses to me / Teach me to ride in the sun by the sea / In grace with this garden where we bloomed into being.

You can take your time, we can wait for spring / I don't mind if it's slow in opening / Darling, when you lay beside me, and I feel your skin in the space between /  With movement so graceful, I take in a fragrance that's sweet.

Now we ride, you can say we are free / Feel the wind, and the ground beneath / When endless horizons inspire, what vision do you see?  / Without power to choose there's no destiny / We open into love, and it blooms with ease.

4. In Praise

I couldn’t have dreamed you up, but you came into my heart / And I loved you then, from the very first start / With a heart so soft, simple and contained / Woman to love. To be a man, this is my aim

With a start that’s so full of trepidation, and though I try for caution, 
I’m helplessly drawn towards you / And the trembling that arises when I feel you first in my arms, then onto that ledge where just beyond lies something new / Into that great unknown, into even greater depths a chord is struck and it rings / Through me and unto you, to me and unto you, the harmonies

They ask me, “how can I wait so long?” / How.   Can I wait.  So long. / With so many tiny steps, so many wandered ways that brought me to this place / So many stumbled steps, so many fumbled ways that brought us face to face

How could I ever doubt now the efforts that we’ve made
Into your love, I come, into your love, and it radiates
With a heart that’s pierced and a breath that moves with the tide
To love the one who loves the one to one, the love that’s mine

In praise
It prays
In praise

5. Little Buds
Springtime sun / Shine down on me / With the air so sweet / And flowers are blooming / Can’t hold this feeling / Gonna take you on home with me

Birdsongs ringing / Up in the trees / With little buds rising /The branches are shanking / With love songs and singing /Gonna take you on home with me

My heart calls out / With love so sweet /To smell this flower / Get down on your knees / I can feel it comin / Gonna take you on home with me

6. Farthest Shore
Alone we will row / Cold wind it can blow / Hold on to a love so close

To welcome the touch like waves upon / To feel as such like waves upon /
To kneel as much like waves upon the shore / Ohh, the farthest shore

Ohh, how I reach for more / Ohh, in her cradle her bough /Ohh, in her nature I strove

To welcome the touch like waves upon / To move as such like waves upon /
To kneel as much like waves upon the shore / Ohh, the farthest shore

The Moon hanging low          Change in the tide
No secrets to know                But stars in the sky

And humble My heart

And the sun it will rise / And we’ll bathe in the light / And we’ll breathe in the light / The sacred light

What I sailed for, a kingdom of light came down

Yes, My Love, I Am Reaching

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Darling, come and walk beside me
Your hand in mine, watch the world you see
Darling, bring your horses to me
Teach me to ride in the sun by the sea
In grace with this garden where we bloomed into being.

You can take your time, we can wait for spring
I don't mind if it's slow in opening
Darling, when you lay beside me,
and I feel your skin in the space between
With movement so graceful, I take in a fragrance that's sweet.

Now we ride, you can say we are free
Feel the wind, and the ground beneath
When endless horizons inspire, what vision do you see?
Without power to choose there's no destiny
We open into love, and it blooms with ease.

Yes, My Love, I am Reaching

Darling

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Springtime sun, shine down on me
with the air so sweet, the flowers are blooming, 
can't hold on this feeling,
gonna take you on home with me

Birdsongs singing, up in the trees
with the little buds rising, the branches are shaking,
with love songs and singing,
gonna take you on home with me

Heart calls out, with love so sweet
to smell this flower, get down on your knees,
I can feel it coming, 
gonna take you on home with me

5 - Little Buds

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Alone we will row
Cold wind it can blow
Hold on to a love so close

To welcome the touch like waves upon
To feel as such like waves upon
To kneel as much like waves upon the shore

Ohh, the farthest shore

Ohh, how I reach for more
Ohh, in her cradle her bough
Ohh, in her nature I strove

To welcome the touch like waves upon
To move as such like waves upon
To kneel as much like waves upon the shore

Ohh, the farthest shore



The Moon hanging low Change in the tide
No secrets to know But stars in the sky

And humble My heart

And the sun it will rise
And we’ll bathe in the light
And we’ll breathe in the light
The sacred light

What I sailed for, a kingdom of light came down

Magical Beasts

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