This Day Is New

THIS DAY IS NEW

I see the light
Falling on you
Fresh as the morning dew

Lift up your face
Open your heart
This day is new

I see all of heaven
Endlessly blue
Offering its light to you

Lift up your face
Open your heart
This day is new

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I see the light
Falling on you
Fresh as the morning dew

Lift up your face
Open your heart
This day is new

I see all of heaven
Endlessly blue
Offering its light to you

Lift up your face
Open your heart
This day is new


Lift up your face
Open your heart
This day is new

This day is new
This day is new


The Naked Flame

THE NAKED FLAME

Before time was I knew you
In a red earth dream
Come back to me
And speak my name

How I long to hold you
In my embrace
And feel once more
Your naked face
Touch me
Taste me
Breathe my name
Cover me
Corrupt
This naked flame

Take me
Wound me
Undo all my shame
Suffer me
Save
This naked flame
Before time was I knew you
In a red earth dream
Come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me my love
And speak my name


The Other Side of the Wind

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

I can almost see their faces
Floating beyond my mind
Somewhere beyond the sea mist
Just the other side of the wind
Somewhere beyond the sea mist
Just the other side of the wind

Here the painted eland dreams
Footprints across the sky
And the salt-leached light
Oh it teases the mind’s eye
The salt-leached light
It teases the mind’s eye

Hear the sound of salt and silence
Things growing slow
And the rhythm of a rubbing stone
Against the sea’s ebb and flow
And the rhythm of a rubbing stone
Against the sea’s ebb and flow

There’s a white bone taps a taut string
A note that haunts the mind
If you listen you will hear it
Just the other side of the wind
If you listen you will hear it
Just the other side of the wind

Just the other side of the wind
…Just the other side of the wind


Jessie

JESSIE

I love you Jessie
That’s all I ever want to say
I want to write it in the sky
Hang a banner from the bridge
Across the west-bound highway

Paint a billboard full of roses
A thousand roses just for your smile
Going to set my love in neon lights
Flash it out bright neon style

Graffiti your name on every wall
Stay up all night
Write a love song in Italian on the pavement
All around the City Hall

Run a P.A. System to the rooftop
Of the Mount Nelson Hotel
And have Ferguson there with his mouth harp
To play a blue villanelle

Lean out into the night
Pray to every star I see
Tell them how I love you
How I love you – Jessie

It’s not a secret
This fire you light in me
How could I hide such a flame
When it burns-
Oh how it yearns to be free?

Day and night I hear your heartbeat
Carry the sound of your name inside of me … . inside of me
You turn me upside down girl
You turn me upside down

I want the world to know
I want the world to know
I want the world to know
I love you -
Jessie


Tango Man

TANGO MAN

Shall I play you a song, Mister
A song of sorrows
Of all my wanderings
And all my empty tomorrows

All my dreams are broken, Mister
What dream shall I play on
My torn coat, my hungry legs
Or my sad bandoneon?

Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river

Shall I tell you of despair, Mister
Of broken desire
Of a fever that burns
Without the fire

Or shall I dance, Mister?
Shall I play my bandoneon?
Shall I play you a love song, Mister?
What dream shall I play on?

Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river

Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river

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