1. |
For Love Itself
05:27
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Buckle up nice and tight
It’s gonna be a long long night
And I’m frightened
To show you all of me
But I’m on my knees
Offering
My heart and my body
Playing my part
In the bigger story
I’ll break in two
For love itself
I’ll break in three
For the mystery
Call me what you will
I will love you still
I’m playing the long game
Calling your soul’s name
Let me scream my ignorance
Hear my not knowing
I lay no claims to your path
Or where it is going
But I trust my prayer
I trust the things that brought me
Where I need to be
And to whom I must meet
Can you meet me there?
I’ll break in two
For love itself
I’ll break in three
For the mystery
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2. |
Shattered
05:22
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last night
I went to bed like a lamb
whispered “take me”
to an invisible man
I slept hard and fast
I slept down and out
I dreamt of death
the sea tossed me about
woke me at exactly four
woke me at exactly four
the loneliest hour at the door
the loneliest hour
the wild moonshine
the thinnest air
the strangest time
I don’t break so easily
but I’m longing for you
to break me in two
I don’t break so easily
but I’m begging to be
shattered
I’m begging to be
shattered
last night
I went to bed like a lamb
surrendered my gold
to an invisible hand
now here we are
I can see clearly far
beyond the edge of me
past the pain of
wrestling to be free
oh how I ache all the more
when I don’t break
oh how I ache all the more
when I don’t break
be a silly goose
be steady and fine
Just don’t be careful
with this heart of mine
I don’t break so easily
but I’m longing for you
to break me in two
I don’t break so easily
but I’m begging to be
shattered
I’m begging to be
shattered
go on, paint me into
one of your dreams
sing me into
one of your melodies
I don’t care anymore
this is what I came here for
to be an ocean
of devotion
to drown in the ocean of
my devotion
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3. |
Rouse
05:07
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over lands and seas
I can feel your body’s ease
as you drift through
paperback dreams
and this land quakes
unpredictably
still this land holds me
tenderly
and yet
from here
I long for thee too
for what you rouse
I can barely allow
I can barely wrap
my head around
my lands are quaking
at the thought of you
my seas are stirring
in a way that I’m not used to
for what you rouse
I can barely allow
I can barely wrap
my head around
just a flutter in my heart
sets my soul
pouring onto the pages
you’ve lit a flame here before
that burns
across the ages
and through the darkness
spilling from my center
as your spring turns to summer
I fall into winter
I reach for the thing I cannot name
the part of us that doesn’t change
that I started to remember
that unseasonably strange
and warm December
for what you rouse
I can barely allow
I can barely wrap
my head around
my reckless mouth
wants to shout
when
if not now?
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4. |
Listen
05:49
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listen
it’s time to turn the page
they said
let your cities burn
while you rest your sweet head
all that we’ve pushed down
and cast out
is rising up to be seen
is starting to shout
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
let all your filth
bubble up
show me your shame
so I can love it
and beyond you and me
the heavenly spheres
are aligning in the galaxy
and beyond you and I
the hole in the earth is whispering
to the hole in the sky
and all that we’ve pushed down
and cast out
is rising up to be seen
is starting to shout
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
I see your darkness shining
under your shadows
let all your filth bubble up
show me your shame
so I can love it
listen
it’s time to turn the page
they said
let your cities burn
while you rest your
sweet head
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5. |
Song for Jane
06:50
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I wrote a song for Jane
she taught me nothing stays the same
she said if it ain’t love let it burn up in flames
‘til nothing but the soul/truth remains
a bird flew down with a letter in its mouth
put a seed in her crown to help her figure it out
she gave herself to what’s below
so you could watch the flowers grow
she weighed a feather in her hand
against your heavy heart
made you wish you'd dissolve
and go back to the start
and she can hold the darkness true
she can hold the wilderness in you
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
I was stuck in the middle
'til I got out of the way
I was stuck in the middle
'til I got out of the way
oh Jane said I know
coz I’ve known from before
that destiny is knocking at the door
and there’s nothing left to do
I’ll be me and you be you
oh the heart might shatter and
the bones might break
and our bodies might sink
to the bottom of the lake
but in the end it’ll all be fine
nothing moves in a straight line
she gave herself to a bigger plan
she was more than a woman
more than a man
she was a symphony of dust
dancing with grace and trust
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
and then my world changed
I was stuck in the middle
'til I got out of the way
I was stuck in the middle
'til I got out of the way
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Ellowen
Irish singer-songwriter living everywhere.
Making music from the heart, from the dark, as self-pleasure, as alchemy, as medicine, as magic.
May this art inspire more.
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