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Ghostlines
05:26
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These ghostlines leading nowhere
To the static in my head
Ghostlines, a fading heat sign
To a heart bled away
Oh I tried to become someone
Who didn't need to cry
Still I'm drowning in these unseen tears
Shed by ghosts beneath my eyes
I'm living in this ghost town
Of stories long since past
Littered in this ghost town
By an end that moved on
Oh I tried to become your possession
Carried past goodbye
Still I'm haunted by the unsaid words
Sung extinct before their time
All this phantom time
Shadows of desire
Languishing lines that light leaves behind
Am I your phantom limb left behind?
Remembrance is a specter
Abundance fossilized
A vigil my desert body keeps
In a wake held for your sea
Oh I tried to release my ravaged needs
From the bondage of desire
Still I'm starving for your shaded kiss
Left parched upon my lips
All this phantom time
Shadows of desire
Languishing lines that light leaves behind
Oh you're my phantom limb left behind
Left behind
All my love left treading numb
Left to search my invisible face in your mirror
Oh I am here
I'm still here
I'm still here
Call me from these shrouded years
Name the ghost you've denied
The ghost you've denied
The ghost I've become
All this phantom time
Shadows of desire
Languishing lines that light leaves behind
A phantom limb left behind
These ghostlines leading nowhere…
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2. |
Paris
03:30
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In you my time unravels
In you I'm found
Or maybe I'm remembered
In the dance that winds the stillness
Your glance upon this moment
Was weighted by the years
Drown in this desperate silence
By a world that tried to hold you
I see you
Beyond the mask you must wear
Beauty's curse
You shine like those suns
That crest the break of time
Formless waves in the dark
You offered me the pieces
Discarded on the way
Cut from my branches bleeding
In a garden of tangled roses
You spill beyond the edges
Of what is safe to know
I am the wind that follows madly
Deeply your freedom
I see you
Beyond the past you must wear
Beauty's curse
You shine like the suns
That crest the break of time
Formless waves of light
Let the notes between us sing
Oh, let us be who we'd be
Who we'd be without time
Time is a golden apple
A choice without choice
There is no place beyond you
You're the song and you're the singer
I see you
You're the ripples of light
That laugh upon my sea
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3. |
Secrets
04:41
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All of these treacherous beats of my heart
Filling those caverns that long to forget
I cradle your trembling words
So wild within my chest
All of these secrets take refuge in my heart
Shadows seeping through my futile walls
Still living is this tangled shame
Still healing oh my heart is not a weapon
It's not
No, it's not a weapon
Left in those tide pools displaced by time
Orphans of longing, the ghosts of the mind
Tears transmute this harried pain
Like blood within your wine
All of these secrets are tearing you apart
Murmurs slipping from your harrowed heart
Still needing absolution
Still crying oh your heart is not a weapon
It's not
No, it's not a weapon
Rise on these smoke-filled wings this phoenix you hide
Freed from its bony cage, the heart on its pyre
Fly far from these ashy veins
The bitter past to die
All of these secrets, the refugees of time
Heartquakes searching for a reason why
Still longing to protect you
Still loving oh, the heart is not a weapon
It's not
No, it's not a weapon
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4. |
Immortal
03:15
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What life is life immortal?
When years are glancing thoughts
And love is naught but ashes
On graves the past has lost
What terrible gods have we become?
Gone from the mirror
Reflection nothing but shadows of
The tumbling wind
Our crumbling tears
The dust of my heart
Lonely like a virus
Caught in blood I just can't sate
Falling, always falling
From that one moment of grace
Oh let me go
Oh let me fall
Oh let me become
The tumbling wind
Your crumpled tears
The dust of your heart
To live beyond the measure
Is worlds I cannot know
No one should live to see
Their ideals turned to stone
Please let return passion to time
Rosy-lipped day, heady desire
If just one moment until
The tumbling wind
Such crumpled tears
Make dust of my heart
The tumbling wind
My crumpled tears
The dust of my heart
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5. |
Clay
03:24
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Clay hands, clay hearts
Fragile in beauty
Clay dreams falling
Falling shards to ground
Oh father, father I tried my best
To make real the life of this flesh
I'm molded and sculpted by you
For this spark, I die
Die over and over again
Clay thoughts, clay fears
Shaped to be brittle
Clay jar filling
Filling with hope to be more
Oh father, father I tried to be
All that you made me to be
I tumble, descending from you
For this spark, I die
Die over and over again
Oh father, father I'm more than just
Rolled dust, tears of a golem
For knowledge, I slip down
Hollowed casts and break
Clay shame bleeding (Clay shame, clay need)
Clay need heeding (Graceless and dirty)
Clay will numbing (Clay will crumbling)
Clay ties crumbling (Crumbling, dust to mouth)
Oh life of fire, forgive of me (Oh father, father I've bled all my nails)
This sentient heart (Clawed earth and rusted blood)
Alluvial fire (Scoured by this fire, I'm cracked)
Cracking all that I thought I could be
Know me, father
Love me, father
Break down these chains (Let go of these chains)
That I might die (That die, die over and over again)
Die over and over again (Clay hands, clay heart)
(Fragile in beauty)
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6. |
Frozen
04:39
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Time stood still in our breaking
Shards of shattered will
In our breaking, all was still
So still
In the silence of complacent years
Lays the carnage of winter's tears
In the silence of these cares turned to fears
I sleep with your heart still singing
The blood of my dreams
I can't breathe
Because I'm frozen without you
I whisper to the wind my longing
Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me.
Breathe, fill me.
Touch me. Heal me.
Sing, move me.
Love me. Call me. Come back to me.
I'm unfilled in my waiting
Empty of you still
I am waiting, heart unfilled
Oh until
In the wasteland of these withered words
Parched and lonely, still unheard
In this wasteland I'm inert
With empty hurt
I wish to ignite rebirthing
The world keeps on turning
Just not me
Because I'm frozen without you
I whisper to the wind my longing
Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me.
Breathe, fill me.
Touch me. Heal me.
Sing, move me.
Love me. Call me. Come back to me.
Restart my heart
Promise me summer again
Breathe our story into these frozen
Words of mine
Find me. Free me. Melt me. Need me. Hold me. Thrill me.
Breathe, fill me.
Touch me. Heal me.
Sing, move me.
Bend me. Break me. Map me. Make me.
How I want to be warmed by you
I was yours from the start.
Touch me. Heal me.
Sing, move me.
Love me. Call me.
Come back to me.
Come back to me.
Frozen without.
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7. |
Selkie
03:02
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Selkie man with eyes like the sea
Peel your skin of tenuity
Seven tears for seven years
I've cried to bring you to me
Hear the song of the Dan-nan-ron
Heed the call of the deep
Let the pull of the lilting tides
Sing the dark 'o' the sea
Selkie heart that crests with the tides
Crashing surf of your landless cries
I've seven years to tame your tears
To claim your wild-sung moonshine
You have run with the shadow tines
You have swum the seas of many eyes
You have turned salt cheek to the rage of time
And come to wrack beside
Selkie dreams are a dulcet sleep
To you my earthly cares I'll cede
Seven years of spellbound tears
Such enchantments you shall make
Call me home to your Sulle Skerry
Touch my pain with your fears
Change the face of these lonesome years
Recall that sea back to me
Sing the song of seals and sigh
The seafoam sounds of your ancient rhyme
For Selkie tears have brought me here
But love is the skin that binds
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8. |
Helen
04:19
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They called me the torch
And in the minds of men
My beauty was a curse
A wager to be won
So how do the towers of Ilium
Burn so bright?
Burn so bright
A thousand reasons to let you go
Sail on ravenous seas
I'd rather die with a living heart
Than live without
Live without
You seeing me
They deemed me dangerous
Needing to be caged
Held hostage to his greed
But a wild Nemean beast cannot be tamed
I would not be worn
A pelt upon his pride
If only he had seen beyond my face to me
Oh how do the towers of Ilium
Burn so bright?
Burn so bright
A thousand reasons to let you go
Sail on ravenous seas
I'd rather die with a living heart
Than live without
Live without
You seeing me
What choice is there in choice?
When freedom is the game
A rose upon your lips
A brand upon my name
To call the echoing pain
From all-consuming time
What of me remains but the choice made that day
To sail to the towers of Ilium
To burn so bright
Burn so bright
A thousand nights in your ruined arms
I sailed on ravenous seas
A heart escaped from its gilded cage
Won't live without
Live without ever being seen
They called me the torch
And in your eyes alone
The truth of that day
My heart took its choice
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Away
04:34
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In the land of the dying sun
The girl, she stands
On the plains of her bloodless heart
She has come undone, the tattered sum
Of this stardust love
Let away be thy name
Cross the sea carried
By the lonesome waves
Of disparity
Away, you are so far away
The words have all been sung
Every sad note wrung
From her storm-cast eyes
She pulls the ship-wrecked tides
With her siren sighs
Of what's left behind
Let away be thy name
Cross the sea carried
By the lonesome waves
Of disparity
Away, you are so far away
Oh so far away
On these yesterdays
She casts her washed up spells
To lay so far away
Let away be thy name
Cross the sea carried
By the lonesome waves
Of disparity
Away, you are so far away
Away, you are so far away
She calls the guarded deep
For the air can't hear
The weight of the words she keeps
She holds the leying lines
Of dissolving time
'til they find again
'til they find again
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10. |
Goodbye Lullaby
03:29
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The past is empty of promising to be more
All our battered wanting
Won't open these sealed doors
The grief was silent
It wasn't this old space
I was the one outgrown
Pushing wings beyond
Beyond this place
Goodbye lullaby
All these years are falling
Falling
Gone and left behind
My lucid becoming
Goodbye lullaby
The words are spilled, seeping forgone
Calling their bones is just a broken song
Today's my chalice
The grail of what can be
So goodbye lullaby
All these years are falling
Falling
So gone, so left behind
Goodbye lullaby
Alchemy's tears are yesterday
Flown away
Cracking within the life held for me
Let this pastiche gone
Open me to more
Oh childhood's over (I am born)
Goodbye lullaby
All these years are falling
Falling
So gone and left behind
My lucid becoming
Goodbye lullaby
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Sora Calgary, Alberta
Sora is a World/Celtic singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her engaging stories straddle the realms of mythic and modern. Her transcendent voice will carry you on journeys of time and place.
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