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Ramon
02:43
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RAMON
I leave my body in my warm, soft bed 'til I get back again
I take my mind and force it to unwind, go wandering.
The freedom that affords me is so nice to have no price
I guess some day I won't get back again
Will someone notice or care then?
I meddle in affairs which seem so immaterial
The Karma that produces seem so real.
I hope to balance it all out but it takes some time
I guess some day I won't get back again
Will someone notice or care then?
(repeat)
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2. |
Dark City
04:19
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DARK CITY
I have adventures sometimes when I'm sleeping
I travel places where my kind can't go
To a city in a dark and a strange world
I follow streets to a universe I don't know.
And when I listen to the message hidden so
All I hear is my voice singing soft and low.
Sometimes in my Dreams I witness such things
That when I'm awake I wonder how
Prisoners of Karma, men wander on blindly
Lost at the cross-roads the progress is so slow
And when I listen to the message hidden so
All I hear is my voice singing soft and low.
I have adventures sometimes when I'm sleeping
I travel places where my kind can't go
To a city in a dark and a strange world
I follow streets to a universe I don't know.
And when I listen to the message hidden so
All I hear is my voice singing soft and low.
All I hear is my voice singing soft and low.
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3. |
Daytime
03:53
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DAYTIME
I've been Dreaming in the daytime again
And I felt all Creation spin
Then I saw the great big flaw in it all
In brightest light the darkest night seems to call.
I went out into the deepest Dark
Where the Light is a tiny spark
Tried to learn the secret of it all
Why in brightest Light the darkest night seems to call.
Darkness keeps all the Light within
That's what makes all Creation spin
So I saw the great big flaw in it all
In brightest Light the darkest night seems to call.
I've been Dreaming in the daytime again
And I felt all Creation spin
Then I saw the great big flaw in it all
In brightest light the darkest night seems to call.
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4. |
Universe Of Dreams
03:17
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UNIVERSE OF DREAMS
I can sail by pale moonlight in a universe of Dreams
Write the story on the sides of my ship
Which I leave to go ashore to my lives
And neither Earth nor Water, Fire nor Air I follow.
Slowly I have learned to shape and control where I go
Know the streets and roads I choose to travel
To experiences and to lifetimes
And neither Earth nor Water, Fire nor Air I follow.
I can sail by pale moonlight in a universe of Dreams.
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5. |
Unique Eventuation
03:42
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UNIQUE EVENTUATION
Somehow I know that these winter days
Will be seen in tender ways
When they're in the long last past
Connecting up the first and the last
Living out unique eventuation
Helping to create the situation.
Some day we'll clear up this murky haze
Combine out whole effort, and ways
Will be found for all to progress
To move along and clean up each mess
Living out unique eventuation
Helping to create the situation.
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6. |
Carrion
04:22
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CARRION
I've watched the world so long and lived so many years
And what I've seen no longer feels good
The beauty of the Earth is being sacrificed
To the dragons, to the dragons of our minds
We're the carrion, the carrion left behind.
The goal of humankind, it seems, is to fragment
Into the tiniest of pieces
And yet convince ourselves we're doing very well
We're the carrion left behind
By the dragons, by the dragons of our minds.
I've watched the world so long and lived so many years
And what I'v seen no longer feels good
The beauty of the Earth is being sacrificed
To the dragons, to the dragons of our minds
We're the carrion, the carrion left behind.
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7. |
Chaos
02:24
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Instrumental
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8. |
Magic Lady
05:08
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MAGIC LADY
Hey Magic Lady, with smoke in your eye
You haven't lived yet, but soon you must die
Years pass and ages fly by in your Dream
And you keep thinking your own is supreme.
Every time you grab for your chance
You remember why it is you can't dance
When the bright, clear Light hits your eyes
Causing you to wake with surprise,
Causing you to wake with surprise.
Hey Magic Lady, your fate is like mine
Weaving along like a crazy, blue line
Slowly we're learning to progress and grow
In retrospect though, our pace is so goddamned slow.
Every time you grab for your chance
You remember why it is you can't dance
When the bright, clear Light hits your eyes
Causing you to wake with surprise,
Causing you to wake with surprise.
Hey Magic Lady, with smoke in your eye
You haven't lived yet, but soon you must die
Years pass and ages fly by in your Dream
And you keep thinking your own is supreme.
Every time you grab for your chance
You remember why it is you can't dance
When the bright, clear Light hits your eyes
Causing you to wake with surprise
Causing you to wake with surprise.
Every time you grab for your chance
You remember why it is you can't dance
When the bright, clear Light hits your eyes
Causing you to wake with surprise,
Causing you to wake with surprise,
Causing you to wake with surprise.
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9. |
A Beacon
04:57
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A BEACON
When you came to your senses last Thursday
Decided to set yourself free
So you cut all the apron strings
And you cried down on bended knee
And you cried down on bended knee.
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright
Will has to lead through desire
And Heart has to balance all that fire
While Spirit must endeavour how to plan
And Body does the actions that it can
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright
Now, you tried on some new things
And you found that some don't fit
And if you look ahead the briefest time
Your life may have turned to shit.
Yes, your life may have turned to shit.
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright
The evolution can't proceed
Led by anger, guilt, and greed
So then the power slips away
Though attempts are made to pray.
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright
So you reconstruct some reality
Decide that was not really home
Just a place you stopped along your way
On the road you're forced to roam.
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright,
Each life's a beacon in the night
Most lights are waning, few grow bright.
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10. |
Destiny
03:09
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DESTINY
The bad luck rained down on you
You thought that you could not get through
To your destiny.
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter.
So, with intent you changed your style
Came to believe that all the while
It was going so well
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter,
Really matter, really matter.
The bad luck rained down on you
Your thought that you could not get through
To your destiny.
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter
Really matter, really matter
Then you learned that the things that you do
That the things that you do really matter
Really matter, really matter, really matter.
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11. |
Just See
04:43
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JUST SEE
If you picture night when you can't see a Light
Floating all alone in a black velvet sea
Will this be the end of the message you send
Or is it a new way to be?
All that earthly sunlight pushing back the dark night
Will you see your mind as the key?
Does it come from outside or become from inside
Do you know or do you just see
Do you know or do you just see?
Do you feel the might or just go on and fight
Keeping all your thoughts on your versions of me
Framing all that's real on the guilt that you feel
Letting time exact it's high fee?
All that earthly sunlight pushing back the dark night
Will you see your mind as the key?
Does it come from outside or become from inside
Do you know or do you just see
Do you know or do you just see?
All that earthly sunlight pushing back the dark night
Will you see your mind as the key?
Does it come from outside or become from inside
Do you know or do you just see
Do you know or do you just see?
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12. |
Space Frog Jazz
05:42
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Instrumental
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Gary Deatherage Creston, British Columbia
While my more polished songs usually gravitate to II Cosmic or Howling Wannabes albums, the Deep Dude albums often provide homes for simpler songs, songs that are topical, or ones that are somehow different than usual for me..
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