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What Will You Be?
03:41
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Do you know,
What you are?
Or how you seem,
From a distant star?
Alive encircling,
So many ones,
Who are you?
What will you be?
Who are you?
What will you be?
Could be fire,
Could be green,
So many things,
You have seen.
Could be blue,
Could be sea,
And many more,
You’ll surely be.
We’re always yearning to become,
Never more than what we were.
We’re circles returning,
We are circling ones.
Who are you?
What have you been?
You are beauty,
You are sublime,
A speck of light,
In a sea of time.
One bright moment,
In some vast dream,
Who are you?
What have you been?
Who are you?
What have you been?
I recall your gleaming,
Jeweled and white,
So many ways,
You’ve turned through night,
I’ve watched you breathing,
You are alive,
So many days,
I’ve watched you rise.
Could be fire,
Could be green,
So many things,
You have seen.
Could be blue,
Could be sea,
And many more,
You’ll surely be.
You’ll surely be.
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2. |
Quiet Dark
05:36
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3. |
Five Years (David Bowie)
03:57
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4. |
I'll Show You the Night
04:28
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I'll Show You the Night
By Anne Carol Mitchell
A wall of dark from east to west,
Falls upon the Earth to rest.
When the Earth sleeps it’s not the end,
It’s how night begins.
Night begins as a planet’s flying,
Round a star that’s slowly dying.
In a sea of many,
Endless, countless lights.
Where will you find shelter,
When there’s no light to guide you home?
Where is the North Star?
Polaris, where did you go?
A planet spins from west to east,
Around a star that burns light has ceased.
Stars they burn, souls they yearn,
For deep, dark night.
Where will we find shelter,
When there’s no light to guide us home?
Where is the North Star?
Polaris, where did you go?
When you grow lonesome,
For starlight.
I’ll wrap you in a blanket,
I’ll show you the night.
Show you the night.
I’ll show you the night,
Show you the night.
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5. |
Endless Countless Lights
02:36
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6. |
Another Shade
04:32
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Another Shade (Salmon Song)
By Anne Carol Mitchell
Once I was another shade,
Lean and silver bright.
Tasted waters followed waves,
Knew this was my time,
To become.
Felt my will and heard the call,
To the kindred bay,
Pressed my shape against the waves,
Knew this was the way home.
When I first felt the change,
Into another shade.
Deepest hunger was received,
By another grace,
To become.
Heard an echo within,
My river body say,
“Leave the salt, leave the sea
Find your way home. “
You’re all I want,
You’re all I need.
Your arms around,
Your body surrounding me.
At last I was received,
Into the river’s hue.
Silver bright turned to green,
My body knew,
It had begun.
I returned to be,
The water’s deepest shade.
Into roots, into leaves,
This was the way home.
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7. |
Fire (Joy Harjo)
03:34
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Fire
by Joy Harjo
a woman can’t survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night winds
who will take her
into herself
look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am the continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the mountains
a night wind
who burns
with every breath
she takes
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8. |
Light Is Changing
02:28
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9. |
Sun Come Up
03:12
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10. |
A Time of Green
04:27
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Brightdarkdawn Sebastopol, California
Brightdarkdawn is songwriter/composer Anne Carol Mitchell. With intricate guitar and nature-based lyrics, the music brings listeners more beautifully into narratives of Earth’s deep time
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