In the spring my dreams streamed out 
From sea to shining sea, oh sibylline
Now petals drop down one by one
She loves me, loves me not, oh one by one

- Oh teach me how to laugh and how to cry
- Oh break chains of the past and we will fly
- And we'll fly

Sheet music at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HNA-OEN4prFmsjGf_iJRXlqBXHqvLg4L/view?usp=sharing
2nd album, song 8

ONE BY ONE

I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you
What I need the most - sweet romance with you 
Like a pilgrim in a foreign land 
I keep moving on to forget the past 

Whatever I say, whatever I do 
Is no use in reaching you

Music score at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sVr8cei2eXbyOxouT7Hw_U3y3LU-o_ui
2nd album, song 12

GHOST OF A CHANCE

Pulled from the reservation to get an education far from home
Scars of desolation seeking annihilation, dope mojo
Met you at the station, rehabilitation, methadone
I clung in desperation, you dispensed salvation to my soul

 - Pilar Dolorosa, Pilar Gloriosa, Amazona
 - Pilar Lagrimosa, Pilar Furiosa, Hiawatha

Where there's no inspiration there's constant altercation, weeds are sown
I shrank from affection, you found a new direction on your own

Song image a detail from work by 18th century Mexican painter, Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera
Sheet music at https://drive.google.com/open?id=17BlgSCjwQc90oeeZHzfaGqhlJQYi7JZM
3rd album, song 1

PILAR

- Hold your hand out in the fire
- Pour your heart out in desire

Why am I alive (when you hide) within a whirlwind? (then destruction)
Nothing's meant to be (when you shine) whatever they say (then salvation)
Everything must go (hold your love) everything you know (so close)

Why am I alive (when you conceal) within a whirlwind? (dissipation)
Nothing's meant to be (when you reveal) whatever they say (consolation)
Everything must go (hold your love) everything you know (so close)

Sheet music at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ut-jEyBOKcqHZI4-OSlg_zvnveVUzHNB
3rd album, song 2

WHIRLWIND

Float the tide to the sea
All the signs point to Jesus
Float the tide to the sea
Roll over me, free

Left my dreams in a sack
On a street in Savannah
Left my dreams in a sack
Don't care to look back

- Stolen kisses, stolen dreams
- Never what they seemed to be

Had our day in the sun
Found rest in your shadow
Had our day in the sun
Everything's undone

Sheet music at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RFfHxpOylWHDF72Y-QGMiiiLMPqb3vuO
album 4, song 1

FLOAT THE TIDE

The Hawaiian words that begin the song are the state motto, which I translate in the second line. The literal word order would be: "Preserved shall be (ua mau) the life (ke ea) of the land (o ka aina) in justice (i ka pono)."

Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono
The life of the land shall be preserved in justice
So hush baby hush, don't you cry
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina
Ua mau ke ea oi

Sheet music at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1USXROd1PW8SGC7BvIcrXvHHn19UZsiT2
album 4, song 4

UA MAU

Lazarus came back from limbo
Pale as death, his arms akimbo
Spouting prophecies no one would believe
Lazarus, Lazarus, may you find rest

Lazarus the misbegotten
Left behind and soon forgotten
Spouting prophecies no one would believe
Lazarus, Lazarus, may you find rest

sheet music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eYDiDb1ZCuBvHhfAN1H0IHaMUAvhMTKF/view?usp=sharing
5.3

LAZARUS

I took a drive by the riverside to find a place to hide for awhile
I parked the car, heard a waterfall, never saw the waterfall at all

- How did you know what I didn't know? 
- When did you see what I didn't see?

In my dreams we have soft wings, float over everything below
We come to land on the warm sand, we are holding hands once more

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fn5CuGiSRc-2DdA8LS1V4WdPEm5ZROM2/view?usp=share_link
5.6

WATERFALL

Away, away in your everlasting arms

Take me swiftly when I go
Lord, I don't know how I'll hold on if it's slow
How I'll hold on, how I'll hold on if it's slow
Away, away, take me swiftly when I go

Kiss me gently when you leave
You can see all the things I can't achieve
All the things, all the things I can't achieve
Away, away, kiss me gently when you leave

In your everlasting arms
All the wrongs melt away with the dawn
Melt away, melt away with the dawn
Away, away, in your everlasting arms

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/197aO9BJsbC7NZ9zsJR5A5A1EGtg_Yz-D/view?usp=share_link
5.11

IN YOUR EVERLASTING ARMS

Almost blue, almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you, almost

- All the things that you promised with your eyes I see in hers too
- Now your eyes are red from crying, almost blue

Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as a fool who only aimed to be...

Almost blue, almost touching you will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true, always

Almost blue, almost you, almost blue

Cover painting by Ariane Hagl.
Sheet music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KVvWCBya3x7CaiOvZCt5GiHQPzof_dKZ/view?usp=drive_link
6.2

ALMOST BLUE (Elvis Costello cover)

Can you hear the sound deep under ground?
Can you hear the sound?
Can you find the way to the light of day?
Can you find the way?
Rising water, living spring, lift me higher, set me free

Photo of Punahou ("living spring") School - hala tree on island in the Lily Pond, monkeypod tree behind it. 
Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L1JcvCqa9hUlpXyAedEr5aL-1iPfuFQy/view?usp=drive_link
6.11

LIVING SPRING

- At the final, at the final hour
- In the desert blooms a desert flower

We drive the cattle riding purple sage
Look for water, lost in wonder as the light fades
We sit our horses under purple skies
Wind dies down, we turn around and watch the moon rise

We reach the Rio flowing slow and red
Stand the middle in the swirl bowing our heads
We can't wade the same river again
So they say, but you know it's just we who have changed

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/19jHIgCvieCGpgicFmY5wN7MJ_jvlWzGj/view?usp=drive_link
7.1

DESERT FLOWER

Weland the elfin lord made magic rings and magic swords
In the heat of his forge
He traveled towns to show his wares and met a maid with golden hair
By love he was ensnared

- Revenge was on his mind, he couldn't walk but he learned to fly
- Love and freedom clashed in his breast but in the end, his love he left

He gave his love a magic ring that made her laugh and made her sing
But she was vowed to the king
The king made Weland a slave, he had him crippled in the legs
Weland longed to escape

Cover photo a detail from the Franks Casket, c.800 CE, in the British Museum
sheet music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_Par5fBAJb0xSN5XnRf2YqZRq8x9cSw/view?usp=drive_link
7.2

WELAND THE ELFIN LORD

She seeks bad luck to hurt herself
It isn't hard to find
She is beautiful, you can see, with the heartache and struggles
Of a troubled mind

Let love drip down sweet and heavy like the honey from a honeycomb

She undermines everything good
It never seems to be right
When a child, seashell in her hand, hears the ocean roar far away
The ocean hears the child

Let love drip down sweet and heavy like the honey from a honeycomb

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xAEJV86dvw9YaqeHz-19opJf-uoxL7mF/view?usp=drive_link
7.3

LET LOVE DRIP DOWN

You're gonna be a big star 
I know you're gonna go far 
You're gonna have the big lights 
I know you're gonna shine bright 

- Since the world was new there's only been one you to do what only you can do 

You're gonna have a big heart 
I know you're gonna find love 
You're gonna be a mother 
I know you're gonna suffer

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwVT88e-L-zi2RByw7E4gO093wjuvSmb/view?usp=drive_link
7.6

SE DERRUMBARAN

She wasn't purified by the fire
The chasm inside just grew wider
There wasn't anything you could say
To keep her from slipping further away every day

- You went up high above ground
- You went up, she went down

In the eastern sky - morning grey
You haven't the strength to pray for her to stay

She wasn't purified by the fire
The chasm inside just grew wider, you can't find her

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNvaRU6huy4uQBNSUFFVxHvPbs3m1KVX/view?usp=drive_link
8.3

THE CHASM INSIDE

Hidden treasure of Zerzura
Golden sands naked in the sun
Cool water rising from the deep
Her caresses full of majesty
- Gilf Kebir, Jabal Uweinat, open my heart

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D3_-hAqCHNmIk_wzUcWqqp0PY2oDvBSS/view?usp=drive_link
8.12

ZERZURA

We were cool in the past, hung with Jack Kerouac
We were beat, we were Zen, Alan Watts was our friend
Rode with Neal Cassady further on LSD

Down to Mexico where the life is slow, died in San Miguel
Long ago now, too long ago

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGY-1bfAXjt16XnzGsB97DF-He62i62x/view?usp=drive_link
9.1

WE WERE COOL IN THE PAST

an americana twist on Nick Drake song

When I was young, younger than before
Never saw the truth hanging from the door
Now I'm older, see it face to face
Now I'm older, got to get up *clear the place

Then I was green, *green as the hills
*Played all day while the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
Thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh so weak in *my need for you

original lyrics:
*clean
*greener than the hill
*Where flowers grew and the sun shone still
*this

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJP5DQ5kElYMjezDS3sIoZIgFB2hXBd8/view?usp=drive_link
9.2

PLACE TO BE (Nick Drake cover)

- Lift your head little child, a small voice speaks inside
- When you were falling then love was calling you

You gave up and fled, tottered on the edge, came up to the end
You sank in the dark, felt your beating heart, found a place to start

You went through the door, nothing anymore like it was before

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1In6YCGqub43AJfSFZ08dLGFQm-PgN63_/view?usp=drive_link
9.3

LOVE WAS CALLING YOU

You wandered so far from home
You rode down the trail alone
The vast desert swallowed the heart of your soul
I didn't know how far you'd go
I didn't know how long you'd roam
The shriveling marrow deep in my bones

- Lover, one and only
- Deserts, high and lonely

cover art by Mark Demsteader, "Vortex"
sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qe118FTbRhqO0jBpVrW--rmvWFezii5v/view?usp=drive_link
9.4

HIGH AND LONELY DESERTS

I hung from the tree nine long windy nights
Wounded by a spear, sacrificed myself where no one knows

Fasted from all food far above the ground
Took hold of the runes, for you I fell down where no one knows

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ox3bqkL_XarW9dmqn4XLq9_mDeYwOyt-/view?usp=drive_link
10.1

RUNATAL (Odin's Rune Song)

Strike on the rock now Moses 
Don't strike twice 
Heart to heart water from the rock 

Hold tight and cry now mama 
Don't hold too tight
Heart to heart water from the rock 

Clear water flowing down out of the stone

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JW1yNy1goQkyj8OTjOX8Et_xgoQ-RDD-/view?usp=drive_link
10.2

WATER FROM THE ROCK

Snowflakes slowly falling from the sky
You hear singing by the riverside
You see dancing in the firelight

Hidden treasure lies beneath the sand
She appears and takes you by the hand
She leads you into the promised land

Ramparts are falling, you hear her calling
Oh-oo Oh-oo, calling you now
Pretense is over. only surrender
Oh-oo Oh-oo, surrender now

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q-lBtLfwhYkBcKvYtUFy9e40s0oNaYv1/view?usp=drive_link
10.4

SURRENDER

My arrangement of 1940 song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke

Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny
Makes a bee think of honey just as I think of you
Imagination is crazy, your whole perspective gets hazy
*Soon you're asking a stranger if he knew what to do

Have you ever felt a gentle touch
And then a kiss, and then and then
Find it's only your imagination again, oh well

Imagination is silly, you go around willy-nilly
For example I go around wanting you
And yet I can't imagine you'd want me too

*original lyrics: "Starts you asking a daisy what to do, what to do"

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bR9qn1paoTO7ifVyv3looakgm8CD4Nh3/view?usp=drive_link
10.5

IMAGINATION (cover)

When the days were long
And the nights were warm
We saw the break of dawn
When we were young and strong

Rode the whole day hard
Worked the ranch and farm
Till the sky turned dark

Didn't see it coming
You not around
Only the faint sound
Of when the days were long

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/14x-UskbrZTRWFjkMvjEK1cOj7QreykGh/view?usp=drive_link
10.8

WHEN THE DAYS WERE LONG

Queen's Prayer (Ke aloha o ka Haku - The Mercy of the Lord) is one of many beautiful hymns by Liliuokalani (1838-1917), the last monarch of Hawaii. As she writes in her own hand at the bottom of the sheet music: "Composed during my imprisonment at Iolani Palace by the missionary party who overthrew my government. March 22nd 1895" She dedicated the hymn to her niece and heir-apparent, Victoria Kaiulani. My arrangement and translation of the first two verses.

O kou aloha no aia i ka lani
A o kou oiaio he hemolele hoi
Ko'u noho mihi ana a paahao ia
O oe ku’u lama kou nani ko’u koo
Amene

O Lord, thy aloha nui is deep as the sea
So full of loving kindness and thy tender mercies
Imprisoned by my foes, O how I thirst for thee
Be thou my guiding light and haven of peace
Amene

Original sheet music with notes in the Queen's own hand: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-dgFdb9AwEWdGMxZzVyRzZFdW8/view?usp=drive_link&resourcekey=0-A_4d3JTqOmqLkQsM47Q3GQ
my sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V8bUD7teruPuSZ_pb5uY7E840agXnvpr/view?usp=drive_link 
10.11

QUEEN'S PRAYER by Liliuokalani

Ua ua Nuuanu
Uwe uwe Nuuanu
I'm crying too

Rain rain my Nuuanu
Cry cry my Nuuanu
I'm crying too

Nuuanu shining rain
Nuuanu shine again

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RpW6z6_mnAGY07r-i-f3LWhlzRHItroA/view?usp=drive_link
11.2

MY NUUANU

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vLHZ4AtE6mMh9Z3z8q95vLPj9FGNA1R9/view?usp=sharing
11.3

THE TIN MAN'S LIFE JOURNEY (instrumental)

Psychedelic Indie Folk Gospel 
love longing loss alienation nature spirituality dying transformation
Produced with Cubase on Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 
and MuseScore for digital sounds and sheet music

WAZEE

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