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Neptune's Garden
04:10
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Neptune's Garden
I tried so hard to find you
In the grove of olive trees
Through the turrets of the castle
But you hid yourself away.
It’s a simple thing to think of
And the hardest thing to do
When you’re heart’s completely flustered
And you know you cannot choose.
And your beard is growing lichen
And you give a stony stare
But your eyes never leave me
They follow everywhere.
And I think, if I’m crafty
I’ll turn, and see you move
But though I try, I cannot
And so, I guess I lose
So leave you to your cool
Green mossy pedestal
Where heart sick girls toss coins
While they sit and tell
You all about their sorrows
Brave knights that never came
Abandoned by true love
And forever curse it’s name
And I have just enough wisdom
To know I cannot stay
But you, fain to follow
Where time can melt away
The minutes and the hours
Like you have never seen
A far different world
Where you have never been
Words carry on the water
And are picked up by the wind
For thousands of years
On and on they spin
So sleep now my sweet love
Let the waters sing your song
Long after my passing
Long after I’m gone.
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Chimera
05:39
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The Chimera
She is a Chimera, a fantastic beast of dreams
Foolish, or fabulous, with no place in reality
She lives among the clouds where the air is rare and thin
A lion’s head, sharp goat hooves, and the tail of a serpent.
And when she gets riled she tends to breathe fire
And burns everything that she sees
That’s why she lives amongst eagles and marmots
Such creatures that just let her be.
They all danced in circles around, dance around
Like a serpent chasing its tail
Allemande with the left, promenade to the right
Bow down, balance me, bow down.
Long ago, before the sun had retreated to its cave
And before the moon had lost any chance of being saved
She lived in the world, just like anyone you see
And no one saw her lion’s head, her tail or her cloven feet
As they whispered their prayers to biscuits and wine
And Madonnas in lovely white veils
With a passion more frightening than anything else
They were lost on the labyrinth trail
They all danced in circles, around, dance around
Like a serpent chasing its tail
Allemande with the left, promenade with the right
Bow down, balance me, bow down.
Then in, a trying time, people did desperate things
Blind with fear, they could not hear
The message Peace would bring.
And so the shields of prejudice were raised by many hands
Only war, and nothing more, burned across the land.
The Chimaera was frantic to turn back the tide
But alas, there was little she could do
So in bitter defeat she made her retreat
And off to the mountain she flew,
They all danced in circles, around, dance around,
A serpent chasing its tail,
Allemande with the left, promenade to the right,
Bow down, balance me, bow down.
She is a Chimera, a fantastic beast of dreams
Foolish, or fabulous, with no place in reality
Place in reality.
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Deer Parade
04:06
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Come Now Children
How did this happen to you
It's true, you’ve gone insane
And yes, there's millions to blame
But if we play that game, it's such a shame
Melting ice caps, rising oceans,
Do you all know how to swim?
Don’t delay another moment
Or you’ll take it on the chin
Well, come, now, children
You know what you must do
Clean up the mess
Do the best that you can possibly do.
You’ll push me ‘round the bend
Straight to the end, ‘til I’ve nothing left but to
Send you all to your graves
When you’ve still time to save
Your sorry asses
It’s not really hard to fathom
Just how much this means to you
You yourselves are now the hazard
Look how much you have to lose
Come, now, children,
You know what you must do
Clean up the mess
Do the best that you can possibly do
'Tsk tsk, impossible task?
Why would I ask? If it were so
I give credit where due, now it’s up to you
It’s time to be true
Don’t try to fix someone else
Your concern should be yourself
You’ll be done before you know it
Then there’s treats, just don't blow it
Come, now, children,
You know what you must do
Clean up the mess
Do the best that you can possibly do.
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Hero
04:25
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Hero
You raise your little boy as best as you can
Next thing you know he’s a full grown man
Maybe in body, if not in mind
No direction but lots of time
So he’s out on his own and times get tough
Whatever he does it’s not enough
Maybe lose a job, maybe fail in school
Maybe some lover makes him feel a fool
Then in steps good old Uncle Sam
Telling you he’s got just the plan
Gonna see the world, get your college too
We’re gonna make a man out of you
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be a man
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be man
He wants to be a hero
The president says it’s all white or black
And right around the corner’s a terrorist attack
But as the lies and deceptions grow
It’s ever apparent, we reap what we sow
Our paranoia spreads like a fan
Over all the lost boys in Neverland
And here in the twenty-first century
It’s getting harder to figure what to believe
But somehow you must accept your son
Body of steel, cold hard gun
As he ships away to war
Pray you’ll understand what it's for
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be a man
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be a hero
He wants to be man
He wants to be a hero
God bless America
Land that I love
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Travelers
The mist moves in from Africa
On a night we won’t sleep
A silvery slick of moonlight
Still stretches ‘cross the sea
And we are just two travelers being who will be
And no one knows our whereabouts
As it should be
The rain is moving from Spain
On a night we won’t sleep
The sun’s a golden molten river
Stretching ‘cross the sea
And we have come 10,000 miles
To see who we can be
We shall be travelers all of our lives
Like migrating birds we will follow the seasons
We’ll cross the wide oceans, deserts and prairies
We’ll go where we want go for what ever reason
The birds are singing midnight songs
We’ve never heard before
We’ve been cast upon this very
Distant different shore
Two fools, two wandering miscreants
Happy to be free
And no one knows our whereabouts
We shall be travelers all of our lives
Like migrating birds we will follow the seasons
We’ll cross the wide oceans, deserts, and prairies
We’ll go where we want go for what ever reason
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Tutto Va Bene
I like my morning cappuccino
While sitting in a sunny cafe
I like my vino Italian rosso
Della casa, per favore
I like my sea warm and blue
And the sand soft and smooth
Give me good cheese, give me good bread
I’ll be molto bene ‘til I’m dead
It’s like they say, la dolce vita,
In Italiano life is much sweeter
Amore mio, voglio bere
Un po 'di vino rosso con me.
What could be better, than Italian sweaters
When the evening starts to chill
And watching women in stilettos
On cobblestones is quite a thrill,
The prosciutto and pecorino
Are absoluto divine
The ravioli con tartufi
It’s molto bene all the time
It’s like they say, la dolce vita
In Italiano life is much sweeter
Amore mio, voglio bere
Un po 'di vino rosso con me.
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A Few Important Things
04:00
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A Few Important Things
I am alone now
I have no mother
I have no father
They’ve passed on
I find myself now
To be an elder
But I still remember being young
Believing I could fly
Not knowing I could ever die
Thinking I had a few important things to say
Shining like gold coins
In the depths of the sea
Like a pearl in an oyster
Like a magic key
To the treasures of our sweetest dreams
Waiting to be found
Try to remember every night when we lay down
Sometimes I want the whole truth
Give it to me straight
I want to feel the passion
Don’t make me wait
And some days it’s too much
Just getting out of bed
Can’t stop trouble
Talking in my head
Do we ever really get it?
Ever understand?
Ever know the meaning?
Unravel all these plans?
From what I’ve got figured
We never really do
Just hope you find the kindness of friends around you.
I am alone now
I have no mother
I have no father
They’ve passed on
I find myself now
To be an elder
But I still remember being young
Now I know I can’t fly
And someday I’ll surely die
But I’ve still a few important things to say
Shining like gold coins
In the depths of the sea
Like a pearl in an oyster
Like a magic key
To the treasures of our sweetest dreams
Waiting to be found
Try to remember every night when we lay down
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Mere Mortals
03:55
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Mere Mortals
When you’re a mere mortal you often complain
Just how fast time can go by
But can you imagine how it must be
When you’re a lowly Mayfly
You’re born in the morning, by noon you’re a teen
By five you’re an adult you see what we mean
You spend the night mating, then laying eggs
Only to discover by morning you’re dead
Twenty four hours, twenty four hours
Mating and mating, and meeting and mating
Meeting and mating and then laying eggs,
Meeting and mating, meeting and mating
Meeting and mating and then you are dead.
We are mere mortals
And we won’t live forever
We are mere mortals
Prawns in a bigger game
We are mere mortals
Trying to make our way
Knowing that today might be our
Last day.
You might wake up one morning
To find everything has changed
What you thought was set in stone
Has all been rearranged
So you pray to Jesus, maybe Krishna
Buddha is good too,
And hope that somehow in the end it
All makes sense to you.
We are mere mortals
And we won’t live forever
We are mere mortals
Prawns in a bigger game
We are mere mortals
Trying to make our way
Knowing that today might be our
Last day.
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Castles of Sand
No other place was mine it was the closest to
Wherever my deepest self was found
I could be running blind, from the craziest escapade
And always there was a sense of solid ground
But that was the strangest thing, there was no solid ground
For my place was built entirely of sand
On an earthquake fault, sand as white as salt
Sitting on the edge of the bay
You know it’s not just black or white
Or day and night, or dark and light
Or what you give, or what you take
Or how you move, or what you make
They built her house, of redwood trees
Ancient ones, 500 years or more
And anchored it with ocean stones
That held it through a thousand storms
The winds had tried their very best
To blow the thing right out into the waves,
Yet wood and stone had stood their ground
And time and time again she was saved
You know it’s not just black or white
Or day and night, or dark and light
Or what you give, or what you take
Or how you move, or what you make
Dreams are shaped by shifting tides
Hissing waves, the seagull’s cry
The haunting mists, the lion’s call
The brilliant sunrise through the fog
And what comes must surely pass
We like to think we’re constant as the moon
And yet by nature ever changing
And lonely as the calling of the loon
You know it’s not just black or white
Or day and night, or dark and light
Or what you give, or what you take
Or how you move, or what you make
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11. |
Night in Viterbo
03:55
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Get up and tango. Or whatever. Pour yourself a glass of wine or other favorite beverage, and enjoy. Ciao!
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Maggie McKaig Nevada City, California
I'm a singer-songwriter, guitarist, accordionist, composer, poet, essayist, playwright. Since 2009 I've led World music
quartet Beaucoup Chapeaux. With my partner of 45 years Luke Wilson we raised two sons, made seven albums, and grown veggie gardens and fruit trees on five acres of never ceded land once occupied by the Nisenan Tribe near Nevada City, CA.
Photo by LeeAnn Brook.
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