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WHERE EVERYTHING IS MUSIC
We’ve fallen into the place where everything is music.
Strumming and flute notes fill the atmosphere.
Even if the harp of the world should burn up
There’ll still be a hidden instrument, here.
So the candle flickers, and goes out.
We still have this flint, and a spark.
This singing art is a sea wave
Grace, a pearl on the ocean floor.
We’ve fallen into the place where everything is music
Poems reach up like spindrift on the sand.
Flowering from a root we can’t see
A seashell I hold now in my hand.
So the candle flickers, and goes out.
We still have this flint, and a spark.
This singing art is a sea wave
Grace, a pearl on the ocean floor.
We’ve fallen into the place where everything is music.
Everything, everything is music
Everything, everything is music
Everything, everything is muse...
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A Crystal Rim
03:11
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A CRYSTAL RIM
The Earth lifts its glass
to the sun
and light pours in
A bird comes and sits
on the crystal rim
and from my forest cave
I hear singing…
An emerald bird rises from within me
and sits
on the crystal glass
I have left that dark cave forever
my body is blending with his
Now I lay out my wing
as a bridge to you
So you may join us
singing…
The Earth lifts its glass
to the sun
and light pours in
The Earth lifts its glass
to the sun
and light pours in
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Only Breath
04:15
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ONLY BREATH
Neither Christian nor Jew nor Moslem, nor Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen
Not any religion or cultural system
I'm not from the East of the West
Nor out of the ocean nor up from the ground
Not natural or ethereal, composed of elements at all
I do not exist
Nor belong to this world or the next
I did not descend from Adam and Eve
or any origin story
My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless,
Neither body nor soul
My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless,
Neither body nor soul
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one,
And that one call to and know,
The first, the last, the outer, the inner,
Only that breath breathing
Only that breath breathing
Only that breath breathing
Human being
Human being
Human being
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Twins
02:56
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Twins
I will tell you and you will tell me
and we'll tell each other
laughing
of our unforeseen steps
in this life we live
and we'll tell each other, laughing
of the tiny forests
in the heart
and the ethereal bird
in our voice
I will tell you, and you will tell me
and we'll slowly open
the immense fan
of ocean that we've never seen
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Song for Nichiren
05:48
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SONG FOR NICHIREN
You came into my life from a thousand years ago
And many thousands of miles away
You gave me this chant and you gave me this shrine
And with these I polish the mirror of each day
polish the mirror of each day
Rice cakes on my windowsill
And a basket of fruit
Moon growing full
As it crosses the sky
Heron unfurling wings
To fly
These I give to you
As these you give to me
As I polish the mirror of each day
These I give to you
As these you give to me
As your sun burns my sorrows away
And I think of you now, alone on your island
As I am alone on mine
Together we’ll bring fortune from a distant shore
As your life is joined to mine
Life joined to mine. . .
You came into this life a thousand years ago
And many thousands of miles away
You gave me this chant and you gave me this shrine
And with these I polish the mirror of each day
Polish the mirror of each day
Polish the mirror of each day
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Brian Campbell Montreal, Québec
Brian Campbell is a song-poet, dexterous finger-stylist, and impassioned, heart-felt singer. A widely published poet, Campbell has several critically acclaimed collections to his name. On stage he is relaxed and natural, an entertaining storyteller who spellbinds with his songs. He performs regularly, mostly in the Montreal area. To learn more about him, see campbellmuse.com ... more
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