Snippets of Lyrics
The bed where I sleep—the sheets are of light.
My head on the pillow—both of them light.
The curtains, the stars, the dark of the night,
The beloved I hold—all of it light.
[‘The Fast’ on the album Seen & Unseen]
Snippets of Lyrics
I tried to imprison you in some realm high above.
But you were in my heart and always making love.
I know I don’t know it and yet I know I do.
Did I keep this fire lit or was that up to you?
[‘Up to You’ on the album Remember]
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We want to meet the soul of this place Cumbria, to feel the heart that beats beneath its rocks and laughs in its becks. We want to sing of the Grail quest and the inspiration that lit up the Romantic poets, to sing of that Celtic spirituality so green and strong here. But we also want to be as broad as the Atlantic, taking in America, the crackling old blues records, the counter-culture movement, and moving back east again, past Europe, into the Bosphorus, to take in those timeless, eastern sounds, and whirl with the dervishes who are the custodians of the heart. We sing to our Beloved, to our human beloveds and to the Divine Beloved, sometimes to both at the same time, as well as to the crazy sycamore trees. And we wish to speak out against the tyranny of the financial elite, for justice, liberty, and love. And, as Rumi urges, we wish to come to the root of the root of our Self.
Special thanks to Mima and Chris Stamatopoulos for their gorgeous violin and viola, ST and uzma taj for their lovely voices, and Julia A. Katarina for her vocals and liquid oud.
