Be warned, this is an early attempt at impromptu recording in the places I find myself.  As such, it includes a great deal of strange sounds and background noises. For those who, like me, love Godspeed You Black Emperor, you may appreciate the backtracks; to the rest, avert your ears!

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LYRICS

How do you do 
when the rain gets under your skin 
leakin’ tidepools like it’s a whim 

And what do you say 
when it’s all gone sideways and fools 
and your heart won’t beat with the rules 
little beckon like a shoot on the path 
you’re pushin’ past these boulders 
pushin’ past these boulders 

And how do you do 
I think the rain has somethin’ to say 
little message in a bottle to pray 
all your grievin’ for the healin’ of time 
let it run like rivers 
and they will flow as the following leads ‘em 
touching’ roots of the bodies beneath ‘em 
as a bundle to the future be given 
little beckon like a shoot on the path 
we’re pushing’ past these boulders 

Let it run like rivers 
let it run like rivers 
your tears are healers 
so let ‘em run like rivers

The Code of the Flowers

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LYRICS

Who’ll fetch the water? 
will it be your great grand-daughter 
my darling 
who’ll fetch the water? 

What will be it’s course 
from the source how will it find us 
my darling 
what’ll be the course? 

and who will call the rain 
feel it fallin’ to our skin 
from a welling deep within 
who’ll call the rain? 

and who’ll strike the drum 
when our thundering heartbeat needs it 
when the feet gotta pray it down 
who’ll beat the ground? 

who will speak in truth 
and where will they walk it, show us 
how my darling 
who’ll sow the truth 

and where from will it bloom 
to the story as we shape it 
for each other, brother sister 
what we choose 

this breath we been given 
this life we are tending 
this garden we are seeding 
for the ones yet to come 

Oh who will fetch the water 
will it be your great grand-daughter 
my darling 
who’ll fetch the water? 

I’ll fetch the water 
And I will be the course 
and I will call the rain 
I will call the rain

Ayla Nereo - The Course

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LYRICS

This day was like any other 
any other day this one like another 
castle briars bristle-stickin’ 
keeping the inside inside, tight like a bird in fright 
‘fraid to let go and lowly go let it go let it 
go go go go go go — 

“go!” said the light before me, and 
“wait”, said the siren’s plaintive cry, 
and “look!” said the smoke 
“look I am sudden ruthless and 
hurriedly burning you” 

And the people were scrambling for their lives 
and the people were scrambling for their lives 
and the people were scrambling for their lives 
and the drive by fires brought water to my eyes 

You stirred me deep as you burned me sweet 
and then piece by piece I let it blaze in 

We walk as though we know where we’re steppin’ 
We go as though we’re the ones in charge… 
Help me remember 
as i’m running, I’m running 
remember as I run by you too 
quick to fire blink 
quick to burn brick home 
up and gone 
up and gone… 
Help me remember 
it can be gone so fast 
help me remember 
all that has gone past 
help me see 
i am here just to hear how to be 
i am here just to hear how to be 
i am here just to hear how to be 
i am here how to 
i am here just to be 
just to simply Be 

When we’re all just scrambling for our lives 
help the drive-by fires bring water to our eyes… 

Castle briars bristle-stickin 
keeping the inside inside, tight like a bird in fright 
‘fraid to let go and lowly go let it go let it 
go go go go go go — 
“Go!” said the light before me, and 
“Wait”, said the siren’s plaintive cry, 
and “Look!” said the smoke 
“look I am sudden ruthless and 
hurriedly burning you” 

When we’re all just scrambling for our lives 
help the drive-by fires bring water to our eyes…

Ayla Nereo - Drive by Fires

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LYRICS

Hum inside my heart a little while 
come closer with the honey of your song 
your dance is a code is a pathway to what’s given 
I am learning how to listen 

Hum inside my heart a little while 
from you comes the honey of my song 
tender to the tendrils blooming color taste and longing for 
you who kiss the petals of my reach 

Our minds send us farther than our legs can carry us 
but your flight weaves the membrance of our step 

So we give our voices 
so we give our voices to the ones who’ve left us 
So we give our voices 
to the ones who cry in silence 
So we give our voices 
so we give our voices to the ones who’s speech is 
runnin’ under soil beneath… 
Subtle in… 
Subtle as your flutter beat lung beat run beat 
hum… 

Hum 
inside my heart a little while…

Ayla Nereo - Hum

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LYRICS

Sun leaves the day 
we forgot our bones till we’re kissed with the breathless 
cold, and the light 
we forgot these colors die with the darkness 
dark, in the dark… 

Faith, run away 
I have chosen to be bound by these towers 
saved it is safe 
we forgot the shape of the question still forming 
blind, it is blind 
keep me safe these castles 
feeling feels fearsome bold, 
it is bold, and I hold the rungs 
of the ladder I’m climbing in the 
dark — in the dark 
we forgot these colors die without the light 
this is light 
we forgot to look till we see only absence 

Sitting before the moon 
she asked for a vision 
bless me with sight 
and all came in swift and soon 
words to the wisdom 
blessings of tongue 
and tangled ‘tween life and grave 
grave was the pulling 
life was she calling 
tangled ‘tween life and grave 
allowing herself to become all her fears 
at once was she life and grave 
allowing herself to become all her fears 
at once was she life and grave 
allowing herself to become… 

Sun leaves the day 
we forgot our bones till we’re kissed with the breathless 
cold, and the light 
we forgot to look till we see only absence 
dark, in the dark 
we forgot these colors die without the light 
this is light 
we forgot the shape of the question still forming

Ayla Nereo - We Forgot

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LYRICS

Once you free your sight 
once you be for life 

We are… 

When I dream, I dream in white, of 
bells and birdcage, boat dock sun and the 
cargo spice of what's to come 
like the images come one after one 

But this time, it was night 
the moon it lilted brightways sharp and the 
words to sleeping drifters dance as 
though to fall from page alive… 

When the 
light fell down was a wild burn 
like the night said, it could be learned 
with the journey you took a chance 
to forget when you start the dance… 

Did the hairs on the neck of time 
stand straight with me speaking their name 
and the pride that can make us blind 
does it simply fear being shamed 
oh the branch, is it known by seed 
how it comes to be… and 
do the blooms know their righteous power 
the beauty of being Seen 

Oh the pride that can make us blind! 
does it simply fear being shamed 
and the tide in it’s ever-pulling 
would naught but by breathing be tamed 
oh the thought is it known by speech 
how it comes to be… 
and do the colored blooms know their righteous power 
the beauty of being Seen… 

When I dream I dream in flight 
the swells and stills of all that’s come and the 
setting forth our kindred sum 
a point in a constellation 

When the light fell down was a wild burn 
your mission forming with every turn 
to assemble and piece it whole 
to remember this dance we woke 

The beauty of being Seen…

Ayla Nereo - Wild Burn

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LYRICS

Take my prayers, take them out to sea 
may the waters of all worlds ye meet 
here given to you and here released 
here given as it was given me 

And I listen to the waterfall fallin as a waterfall down 
it comes like a waterfall fallin like a waterfall down 
listen to the waterfall fallin as a waterfall down 
it comes like a waterfall fallin like a waterfall down 

If you make a big enough wave it’ll come back to greet you…

Ayla Nereo - Waves

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LYRICS

She spoke, “there is a beacon becoming” 
and I dove into a sea of stormy winds wail 
their might was mighty swift and running 
(every which way) 
“stay with it, child you’re changing” 
she sang, 

Sister sun your ivory tongue is flowin’ like the waters run and all my thoughts jump into 
feathers abound fall on the page down, feathers abound fall on the pages 
Sister sun your inner lungs are spinning shapes alive and wove in vision 
praying, pray our spirit, turn, our heart’s’ll become 

(and what these words do 
and what these words do…) 

Sure as flight (and a dash unruly), and faster than the breath you’re heaving 
your wild (as a righteous fury) can be led or be leading 
inside, what a maze of ladders, so you look and look a while (every which way) 
this fire, by the burn of-our grandmothers, shapes the way of your choosing 
so stay, stay with it, daughter you’re creating this 
and every sound you give make sure you’re aiming it 

Sister sun your ivory tongue is flowin’ like the waters run and all my thoughts jump into 
feathers abound fall on the page down, feathers about fall on the pages 
Sister sun your inner lungs are spinning shapes alive and wove in vision 
praying, pray our spirit, turn, our heart’s’ll become… 

You got flames for wings, and at the 
stake is the claim of your wild speech 
fake is the flurry try to keep you in a bind, 
shake shake shake it off like the way the dragon ride 
out of your cave you’re a beast of another dawn 
like a wake on the current that her voice will 
carry you for another lifetime 
keep your sight set right, leadin with the 
sound of the the arrow, fly 

(and what these words do 
and what these words do…) 

Sister sun your ivory tongue is flowin’ like the waters run and all my thoughts jump into 
feathers abound fall on the page down, feathers abound fall on the pages 
Sister sun your inner lungs are spinning shapes alive and wove in vision 
praying, pray our spirit, turn, our heart’s’ll become

Ayla Nereo - Ivory Tongue

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LYRICS

My brother lives in a jungle concrete 
like a belly gone to rumbling 
only wants a taste of the sky 
wind and fire, setting the seeds 
for the son of his son come with him 
one day to come 
My sister, her hands are raised 
for the stakes are high and she knows it 
and I am singing for her vision 
singing for her vision 

This is not mere speech 
all we seek is here where we stand and 
shape as clay, turning tides dug deep and 
wider still to hold what comes 
and wider still to say 

We'll never be moved from here 
our lives will live in the seeds we've sown 
calling what's coming clear 
our will is held in the gardens we've grown 
as light from the sun we can give 
as rivers meeting can become one 
walk toward the call of this 
and plant it deep for the ones to come 

One day 
none shall be imprisoned 
for tending the land 
for feeding our children 
One day 
we will cherish the soil 
valued more than gold 
its value more than gold 
One day our hands will raise 
for the way we walk and how we own it 
and I am singing for this vision 
singing for this vision 

This is not mere speech 
all we seek is here where we stand and 
shape as clay, turning tides dug deep and 
wider still to hold what comes 
and wider still to say 

We'll never be moved from here 
our lives will live in the gardens we've grown 
calling what's coming clear 
our will is held in the seeds we've sown 
as light from the sun we can give 
as rivers meeting can become one 
walk toward the call of this 
and plant it deep for the ones to come 

My brother live in a jungle concrete 
like a belly gone to rumbling 
only wants a taste of the sky 
wind and fire, setting the seeds 
for the son of his son 
to come with him one day 
taste the roots he was born from 
pass him the story how all 
hands came together as 
one

Ayla Nereo - Seeds

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LYRICS

Look at the river as it winds down the 
rise like a tear goin’ down cheek-side creek 
to the body of blood, salty golden 
holding’ the life of our own, though we do not 
look…

Ayla Nereo - Look at the River

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