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Open The Gates

by Eoghan O' Keeffe

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1.
Compassion 03:44
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
2.
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
3.
My Scott 04:06
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?
4.
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
5.
Winter Looms 03:30
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..
6.
Remember 03:51
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
7.
Fairies 03:17
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
8.
Waterfall 05:26
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..
9.
Confidence 03:56
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
10.
Love & Fear 05:12
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
11.
Other Realms 04:37
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?
12.
Desert Rain 03:44
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

credits

released March 20, 2020

All songs produced, mixed and mastered by Brian Casey of Wavefield Recording Studios, Cork, Ireland.

All drums/percussion performed by Christoph Dammann except for on Other Realms, Heiko Eser (Djembe, shaker & Drum Kit).
Additional percussion by Peter O Sullivan on Compassion.

All flute parts performed by Claire Supervie with backing vocals on Fairies.

All piano, keys, synthesisers and bass parts performed by Brian Casey.

Margaux Banderier performed saxophone on Remember with Dale Holland providing sound design on Confidence, Fairies and Love & Fear.

Deirdre Archbold with backing vocals on Love & Fear and Clare Sands provided strings for Other Realms.

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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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