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Scheherazade
03:59
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Spin me a tale for your life
And make me believe again
Take me away from this farce
Of monstrous and kingly vice
How I want you to love me
To love me unbound
How I want you to need me
To need me unfound
Beneath your fabled sun
And your scorpion moon
I need you to want me
Beyond this savage world of sand
I saw through your cunning plan
A rapture of dancing words
Your honey voice, nomad eyes
The dervish wind to my fire
How I want you to love me
To love me unbound
How I want you to need me
To need me unfound
Beneath your fabled sun
And your scorpion moon
I need you to want me
Beyond this savage world of sand
Oh thousand nights forgive this murderous pride
That morning betrays
Oh maybe my life will be redeemed to know
To know
To know that you love me
You love me unbound
To know that you need me
You need me unfound
How I want you to love me
To love me unbound
How I want you to need me
To need me unfound
Beneath your fabled sun
And your scorpion moon
I need you to want me
As much as I want you.
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2. |
Hiraeth
03:17
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When home is a fragment of parchment
When home is a wisp on the wind
When all that anchors is a banner inside
Words without a place
Everything changes
Leaves kiss the ground
Everything wears down
The decay of sound
That longing so desperate
It tears you in two
Hiraeth, the songing
My memory once knew
The branched paths lie twisted and broken
Roots clutch our forsaken time
When blood calls to wander unsated
Twining soul to find
Everything changes
Leaves kiss the ground
Everything wears down
The decay of sound
That longing so desperate
Your bones torn in two
Hiraeth, the songing
My memory once knew
Remember the call
Remember the scent of the loam dark soil
Remember, remember, remember it all
As everything changes
Leaves kiss the ground
Everything wears down
The decay of sound
That longing so desperate
Your bones torn in two
Hiraeth’s the songing
My memory once knew
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3. |
Hero
03:25
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Hear the call, lay down your love
A world in need his shadowed creed
Journey’s long, questioning done
Face turns from the sun
Still my trembling hands
Stay my living thoughts
Stab my crumbling heart
My nature’s heart
My poet’s heart
Does the hero cry?
Does he gaze upon the stars
And pray for a day
When his sword song is never heard?
Does he silently lay flowers on that grave
Where his monsters and childhood
Pass beyond the day?
Voice unheard, all seems so wrong
Wondering how such hate is love
Clashing words carve out that space
Fear wrought and he’s won
Still my trembling hands
Stay my living thoughts
Stab my crumbling heart
My nature’s heart
My lover’s heart
Does the villain cry?
Does he gaze upon the stars
And pray for a day
When his sword song is never heard?
Does he silently lay flowers on that grave
Where his monsters and childhood
Pass beyond the day?
His eyes were blue
The colour of my youth
I thought they should be
As black as the sea
Does the hero cry?
Does he gaze upon the stars
And pray for a day
When his sword song is never heard?
Does he silently lay flowers on that grave
Where his monsters and childhood
Pass beyond the day?
Does the hero cry?
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4. |
Savage
03:38
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Your simian heart pounds so savage
It teems with longing
Jungle, it roars in your veins
Lusting, wild it's songing
Dance with the night my gypsy
Dance with the night
I want to dance with your ecstasy
And die as I come alive
The fire, it flows through your limbs
Winding heat is captured
Secrets that ripple from hips
Holding me enraptured
Dance with the dark my gypsy
Dance with the dark
I want to dance with your ecstasy
And die as I come alive
Savage the wild entices
Savage the heart's devices
Savage the drums are pounding
Savage the fire is sounding
Take me
Oh come to the sacrificial edge of love
Your succulent eyes lure me
Into their hungry bower
Sensual tears, lushly lipped
Of me devour
Sing to the night, my siren
Sing with the night
I want to sing with your rhapsody
And die as I come alive
Your sinuous back arches
Coils to the sacred holding
Sways to the flesh flowered beats
Piercing cries that smolder
Sing to the night, my siren
Sing with the night
I want to sing with your rhapsody
And die as I come alive
Savage the breath is gasped
So savage within my grasp
Savage the pulse crescendos
Savage my heart surrenders
Take me
Oh come to the sacrificial edge of love
Savage, so savage
Savage
Savage
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5. |
Mermaid Song
04:57
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I wanted you to save me as I once saved you
There are no saviors when one is not two
My voice is all tangled in the depth of that sea
Where my crumbling Atlantis mourns silently
I can’t regret this love like water
I can’t regret the heart that led me to you
You gave me the sun
You gave me the air I’ll relinquish
My mermaid’s song undone
Her name was the prayer I danced to be near you
It was your kindness that was my ruin
The price had been paid but love can’t be bought
Oh you named me friend and all was for naught
I can’t regret this love like water
I can’t regret the heart that led me to you
You gave me the sun
You gave me the air I’ll relinquish
My mermaid’s song undone
What is love if it can maim?
I won’t sacrifice your trust to my pain
I’m not a dagger to taint the past with blood
The moments with you were infinity had
No regrets
Love is not love if it regrets
I gave you my heart
You gave me the air I’ll relinquish
And sea foam I’ll become
My mermaid’s song undone
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6. |
City
03:28
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‘Neath the cacophony there is a living beat
A heart that never sleeps
Held in the honey walls, secrets and gargoyles
A lover’s harking hall
Oh sweep me away, lead me astray
Within your winsome arms
Lift me on the wings of your symphonic din
Like the rush of breathing
City under my dreams
Light at the seams
Holds a spilling halo
Music, rapturous tears
Speaks as a seer
In the tongue of fallen angels
Take me further
Temples of fractured high kissing a weeping sky
And crowned in sun break gold
Night, a reflection of smoke in the vestibules
Of every waking door
Oh teach me to pray on the autumnal grey
For nothing but witching hours
Lost in the delicate skin of your cobblestone mist
And your seeking pleasure
City under my dreams
Light at the seams
Holds a spilling halo
Music, rapturous tears
Speaks as a seer
In the tongue of fallen angels
Take me further
Strangers in marble halls
A dance of colliding starts
Furtively dream of stars
Oh let me be changed by the shadows and veins
Held by your seabound walls
Trace the ruins renamed, these morphing refrains
Oh they sing enraptured, chaos captured
Take me further
Take me further
Take me further
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7. |
The Tower
03:37
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your golden hair
Tumbling, fumbling from your fairy tale
Hold through these witching years
A tangle of fragile tears, so lost
You thought that I could not hear
Your lonely song
Oh I know your fears
For you’re locked in this tower of feeling
With no key
No door
You’ve waited all twisted and plaited
To become so much more
You wait for a prince to come
But who shall he save you from, yourself?
No one can gift you freedom
It’s a window cut through beauty’s ransom
Oh you’re locked in this tower of feeling
With no key
No door
You’re waiting all twisted and plaited
To become so, so much more
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down this hurting cage
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let go this binding gauge
Rapunzel the tower is yours to change
One day these shadows long
Will fall to your brilliant song, I swear
We all wander blind for years
Only to open and see so clear
No longer this tower of feeling
With no key
No door
Don’t wait all twisted and plaited
To become so much more
You are more.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your golden hair.
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8. |
Hold
03:52
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Love, dry your eyes
I hold you inside
Let all of this beauty fall
Let it fall through you now
Cast off the mantle of Atlas
And let me hold your sadness
The offering hand
Bridging the sky and the land
Darling I know how you’ve cried
Shuddering chasms of mind
Oh there is nothing to say
To chase such shadows away
So I will hold on
Hold on with you
Courage, it seems
A never ending bleed
What use is vanquishing the night
Only to be blinded by the light?
Sometimes it’s living each bated breath
To find yet another left
The heart pounding still
Is your true strength of will
Darling I know how you’ve tried
To banish all those cracks that you hide
No I won’t let you go
Into the darkness alone
So I will hold on
Hold on
Darling I know of your tides
Filaments of moon spun desires
Held in your long, deep sea
Is such knowing of me
Please won’t you hold on?
Hold on with me
Love dry your eyes
I hold you inside
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9. |
Piper
04:02
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There was this note hung in my bleak sky
A wavering star, trembling, like wandering lullabies
So beauty is flawed
Gossamer wings torn from the light
Still, there to find
You are my piper, a luminous sound
The offering of frailty in your wounded song
A choice in the darkness to stand or to fall
I choose a life of meaning
I choose to stand and bleed for love
Oh for love
To live though the world was on fire
There was this night I finally saw you
Beyond all the veils of meaning, naked of pride
Opened your hands, their delicate thorns
Such savage desire
Pain cannot hide
You are my piper, a luminous sound
The offering of frailty in your wounded song
A choice in the darkness to dance or to fall
I choose a life of meaning
I choose to stand and bleed for love
Oh for love
To live though the world was on fire
Oh dance like the world was on fire
Kiss me, sing my name
Let my heart be glass
And love though the world was no more
You are my piper, a luminous sound
The offering of frailty in your wounded song
A choice in the darkness to dance or to fall
I choose a life of meaning
I choose to stand and bleed for love
Oh for love
To live though the world was on fire
There was this note
The call of freedom
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10. |
Proof of Life
03:19
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I thought your love would make me real
Give me a heart, not just this space
Waiting for filler and messy parts
Waiting for more
Could I be real without you?
You were the door
The passageway to tomorrow
Lots of strange ways to be made
Some were so sharp, clockworks and ire
Me, I was soft, velveteen
Plush doesn’t break
Maybe I’m real without you
There’s still a door
A passageway to tomorrow
These wounding tears falling for you
Proof of a life, the moment I knew
You weren’t my savior though I loved you true
Gifts sometimes hurt
And I was real
Oh I was real
I am real without you
I was the door
The passageway to my tomorrow
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11. |
Moving On
04:13
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I didn’t know that dying would be so hard
I couldn’t know the light would fade away
When I would not let you go
And now I’m lost to time
Close your eyes darling
And let me lie with silence
I’d tell you I’ll be there when you wake
The truth we know, morning is gone
And I cry in shades of grey
I need to move on
Move on
My yearning heart isn’t strong enough
To hold you through the veil
I didn’t want for you to live this dead life
Where I am gone but ever presently
And my voice, the static loop of echoes
Requiem of fallen leaves
Let me go, release me
That I might know freedom
I’m bound in chains of memory
Forgive of me this selfish need
To love you beyond my dust and bones
I need to move on
Move on
My yearning heart isn’t strong enough
To hold you through the veil
I don’t deserve your pedestal
Please don’t keep me this way
Remember me, but let me fade
The ashes of day
I need to move on
Move on
My yearning heart isn’t strong enough
To hold you through the veil
To hold you through the veil
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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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