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Compassion
03:44
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I’d give anything to make you happy
I’d give it all for things to stay the way they are
I just want to hold you fast in my arms
But I can’t change the way that you make me feel
And I really want to make this real
Something’s pulling me away
Into the night and on through the day
Jesus of Nazareth walked among his fellow man
He walked his own path
While those closest couldn’t understand
He could have been anything
But he chose to be the sun of man
So let me hold his hand and we’ll understand
The compassion written into our souls
And let me hold your hand and we’ll understand
The compassion written into our souls,
Our souls, our souls
Just show us now how to let go
I’m standing at the crossroads
The future is an open palm
She whispers take my hand now and
We’ll dance until we no longer stand
No more to the people of power
No more meeting every demand
Show love for the creatures of this earth
Who live just as they are
Stand up for the people who love so well
And the power of an open heart
And let me hold his hand and we’ll understand
The compassion written into our souls
And let me hold his hand and we’ll understand
The compassion written into our souls,
Our souls, our souls
Just show us now how to let go
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2. |
Lemon Honey Girl
04:52
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Lady keep me clean and hold me
Know that I need your love
To be more
Must watch the roots of all the healthy seeds
Not let the bad ones come to weed
Relearn to focus for more than a tick
Belong to the manic age that never learned patience
I was about to rest but then I held the fort
Loan from the pure a little more
Smile alone to dancing beat
Hear the voice of another soul that reels
Lemon honey girl keep me clean
You don’t know how good you are to me
Lady keep me clean and hold me
Know that I need your love
To be more
I bring the fork you the knife
We’ll eat meals we couldn’t otherwise
Have all the freedom but what is it without her
Bask in the light of the concurred nothing blur
Je t’aime fade from iced window
Our time here is up
I’ll see you in the snow fields
But it still ain’t enough
To keep me sane, to keep me whole
Safe from the cold
Lemon honey girl keep me clean
You don’t know how good you are to me
Lady keep me clean and hold me
Know that I need your love
To be more
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3. |
My Scott
04:06
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My soul why’d you jump back in
Before I was ready to begin again
Causing me so much pain
Can’t you see that I’m thin, down here slithering
With a wound deep within
The blade is still sharp in my mind’s eye and heart
I wasn’t supposed to depart so young
This fear that I hold from a long time ago, must die
To the underworld depths with the owl on my left
And the night vision sight
And why did they creep in the dark with your cease
Did your mind have your faith on a leash?
When you counted your numbers with your soul gone asunder
Did the logic eat your love?
My Scott you denied the flow, waking up dead is no way to go
Now just let me be
Teach me from your cage, the wisdom of the sage
And now just let me breath
My Scott you have suffered much more than enough
One should never feel so alone
But I am you, you are me
Let’s clip the cord that keeps my light from going home
My light from, my light from, my light from going home
And why did they creep in the dark with your cease
Did your mind have your faith on a leash?
When you counted your numbers with your soul gone asunder
Did the logic eat your love?
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4. |
Open The Gates
02:50
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I see you everywhere where nothing was before
I won’t keep you waiting cos I can’t take this anymore
Used to be much easier to shut out all these aches
Drown them in a bottle or forget them in a haze
But the bond is so much stronger interwoven
No longer can I be a man of longing
No longer can I be a man of lust
Not sure I ever was
But you stole me nonetheless
And all I ask is
You keep me in your positive and
Treat with me with tenderness
Open the gates and let me love you in full flow
Open the gates and let me love you..
You can be my daffodil in a spring of snow and storm
I’ll bring you in out of the cold and keep you safe and warm
My waters may run very deep but you’ll learn just how to swim
Even in my deepest oceans you’ll find a magic cavern
with your name emblazoned above and
I dare you now to brave the flood
Open the gates and let me love you in full flow
Open the gates and let me love you
Let me love, let me love, let me love
Let me love you in full flow
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5. |
Winter Looms
03:30
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Winter looms without you
A trip down the rabbit hole
Alice and malice and a nasty surprise
There is bad in us all
One cannot deny
Nails have gone short and no hair to hide
I’m out in the open, sea, blood, die
A rupture so deep that a tear tears a hole
And I fight with my selfish to let you know
It’s not us, but I..
The films don’t lie
Summer blooms without you
I’ll take a bow to sunshine due
But it won’t speed the clock tick tock
Nor will it let me forgive this knot
Oh paradise let me dive and arise to find
Those bright blue eyes
It’s not us, but I
And the films don’t lie
Winter is without you..
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6. |
Remember
03:51
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I remember so little from when I was a child
Could you show me a little of what I did with all this time
Does it still exist somewhere in my mind
Will I find any measure of truth along this line
Not this time..
Come back to the breath and let go of the rest
Let me see just what I need and nothing else
If only I could keep every smile that I’ve seen
In a little jar on the shelf
It glistens and gleams every time
I quieten down myself
I remember the feeling of acceptance and warmth
But the rest is so hazy, fluid and lost in the storm
What does it matter now, now that we are here
There are faces anew to admire and revere
And always the past will remain in some way
Locked inside of insoluble chains
Come back to the breath, and let go of the rest
Let me see just what I need and nothing else
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7. |
Fairies
03:17
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Poor old Tom long ago
Walking lone down the road
His attention is caught
In a field by a ring
But his vision is blurred
By the weight of the drink
That he carries in his blood
So he decides to go in
As he nears he can feel
The time start to shift
And he knows he should run
But his mind runs thin
Come and dance with us softly
We can heal all your sin
We are creatures of light
We are creatures within
Tales are told of old Tom
He lost ten years of his life
In a fort by the hills
That everyone now avoids
He reappeared one day
To find his family gone
They had left for the States
Cos they couldn't carry on
Living in hope of old Tom
Walking in the kitchen door
Now he sits in his pub
Singing his own folklore
Come and dance with us softly
We can heal all your sin
We are creatures of light
We are creatures within
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8. |
Waterfall
05:26
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Thoughts eroding with an endless space
Of water falling between the gold and grey
So much forgotten about the beauty of life
If you stole our presence now return it in kind
Slip sliding through the jungle
Maintaining style along the way
This waterfall reminds me
To keep on for the better day
And it may take a long time for the river to find it’s way
To the ocean, to the ocean..
Cherish the colours that you cultivated
A moment buried in the bliss
Found with the answers you never could have wished
Comes the crashing in a deeper pit
Filled with the love that shapes us into gold
Finally something to take us from our toll
Sometimes we struggle crashing into rocks
Sometimes we waterfall majestic in our lot
And it may take a long time for the river to find it’s way
To the ocean, to the ocean..
Where all our hopes are up in storm
Where we wish to be reborn
To the ocean, to the ocean, to the ocean..
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9. |
Confidence
03:56
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Before confidence there is only dreams
I walk now at night and see through the gleam
A world of surfaces gone baron
Before confidence there are floors
Now I prey eyes that walk me through doors
Not a droplet in the ocean
Not a seagull in sight
Everybody is looking for ruin
All you have to do is lie
In the brittle brush I feel the rage
Purging through the bitterness of sage
Late night when your eyes are dark
And you're far from who you are
Why not melt into the mold
Pining panes of glass unclothed
Loom so sweet the awkward drops
Of water born of north
But mischief rays of laser heart
Keep us warm and fervent so hard
To find a place to stay
Humble and light
Before confidence there is fiction
Amounting your loneliness page by page
Rent a life until we role our play
Hear me sing hear me pray
But I don't know what I am praying to
Now tell me do you?
This may be the best way to be
Open to mystery
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10. |
Love & Fear
05:12
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Ran to the bus to find a cold shoulder
Burdened with stress from a week overloaded
I tear you away from a stranger in dark
And fight through alarm
Dawning the pawn there is more on the board
Then your weary old war
Spending no hours on his beautiful queen
She’ll bask in her fury
Forgive me my sloth while you were on watch
Let’s bury the bum
Four hours in the morning and I have been lost
A beauty awakes me from lucid a knot
I beg on your hands and taste a young tear
Stand on the corner of her love and her fear
I see in those fibres of blue in you
A wistful ole whisper from the moon
This one is needed, this one is fair..
Stand on the corner of her love and her fear
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11. |
Other Realms
04:37
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I used to spend all my time you see
In another world not here nor me
Dream began as soon as eye arose from the haven
Dream hath end as soon as they close again
I can feel an itch coming over me now
I haven't left this sober maze for days
Is it right to feel more at home
In the other realms?
Follow leads but every second I fall
From the place where all the norms are called
Fear from the reasonable is keeping me afloat
Look to the ceiling but not ready for the show
I can feel an itch coming over me now
I haven't left this sober maze for days
Is it right to feel more at home
In the other realms?
Laying on my back seeking to banish all thought
But find it hard now that I cannot fall
There was a time that I could slip into a stream
And stay forever in a constant clean
But it fades…
I can feel an itch coming over me now
I haven't left this sober maze for days..
Is it right to feel more at home
In the other realms?
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12. |
Desert Rain
03:44
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Have you ever seen the desert rain
When the flowers bloom and the land persuades
Short and cut, competition craft,
We witness this and know we’re daft
There is a list and we are the rare
We rest in common with careless air
So take a still and burn the blue
For there is nothing without you
For years and years, in heat, in doubt
The cloud, the form, the sprout
Chroma come blow in the draft
Bring on brio at last!
There is a list and we are the rare
We rest in common with careless air
So take a still and burn the blue
For there is nothing without you
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Eoghan O' Keeffe Cork, Ireland
Irish singer song writer, Eoghan O Keeffe, released his debut album Open The Gates in 2020.
His music aims to
create a space where listeners can experience moments of self compassion and kindness. His influences include indie folk, rock, and world music.
More recently Eoghan has expanded on his guitar playing styles including elements from Flamenco, Bossa Nova, and Latin American music.
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