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The Going Prayer
the sun goes up
the sun comes down
I can't remember my name
(When my mama goes I pray She rides the wild wind)
I can't remember if I ever found my way back home
(and when my daddy goes I hope that I will cry for him)
I put it all into a million little bottles, sent them out to sea
Surely one will find its way back to me
(until there's nothing more of him)
The sun goes up
The sun comes down
And as my holiest of truths
dissolve before me
may I be there by my side, eyes open wide
till at last my heart and hands come untied.
So when this body no more can hold the high tide,
I can fall into the sea
arms open wide
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Goddess Androgyny
04:06
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Goddess Androgyny
Sky puddles dancing in rippling rings
recall they were once but ethereal springs
Oh, what a day
to be living our dreams
A thousand miles down inside you, little one
You will find me
Goddess Androgyny
lying lonely as a messenger can be
Goddess Androgyny
In a bottle
in the middle of the swirling sea
Goddess Androgyny
Goddess Androgyny
Hurry, set the angels free!
Goddess Androgyny
Easy, see the angles, three
Water, birth me
Goddess Androgyny
Goddess Androgyny
A thousand miles down inside you, little one
You will find me
Goddess Androgyny
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Lonesome Goldmine
04:16
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Lonesome Goldmine
Trust light
Embrace spring
Ask the rose where the sacred moment lies
lingering inside a little blue universe
like brilliant broken sky windows
singing perfumed decay
The time is soon
The dream is you
One
languid
eternity
Go on, go planting seeds along the hungry roadside
Go on, go walk with your demons
Bring back a piece of the inside
Are you a kind man?
Are you a con man?
Are you a madman?
Are you no mans land?
Are you dry land for a woman lost at sea?
Or are you just a man
orphaned by a world that showed you war would set us free,
an undulating puzzle piece in my yearning memory,
beautiful abstraction that almost fits
inside me?
When I first heard, it was whispered in the wind chimes
When I first could see, it was written plainly as a child’s rhyme,
pure and glaring:
Be caring
Dearest, be caring
Be daring with this loaded heart you seep through
Hyper sensitive
All contestable
With incentive madly questionable
I call to you:
Go on
Go on
Go on
Go planting seeds around your lonesome goldmine
Paint yourself a garden; let the stars shine through
It all repeats in time
my unknowable you
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Babya
05:16
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Babya
I went to the bible
I went to the bottle
I went to the end of the line
Nowhere could I find, nowhere could I find
that sweet Babya, baby of mine
Babya Babya Babya Babya
baby of mine
Babya Babya Babya Babya
sweet little baby of mine
I smell like a sailor, spring love like a mother
and little my heart couldn't find
Come lay your bones in me, into the earth of me
sweet Babya, baby of mine
Babya Babya Babya Babya
sweet little baby of mine
I climbed up the ladder, the heart of the matter
I met our successors, so fine
They stood on our shoulders like ten thousand soldiers in love,
in our perfect design
Yes, my young, yes, your young
sat down with the problem
They saw it and called it divine
Come lay your bones in me,
into the earth with me
sweet little baby of mine
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Father Bones
04:28
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Father Bones
When you come home, Father Bones
leave a light on for Little Wing
Beyond you, beyond me
Her homilies sing through the trees
whispering a love I can almost believe,
can almost conceive
Do you have a story to tell
of the night the stars fell
down the mountainside?
Shot in the dream, life opened wide
(river of sighs down the great divide)
In blindness, believing, spinning and weaving
She carries on beating in you and me
I sit with you listening
silently
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Shadows Live
03:36
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Shadows Live
Come to the mirror Ruby
don't be shy
don't be shy
Look at me, look, look at me
You know why
you know why
Shadows live under your dress
A holy mess
Run to the river Ruby
little lies in your eyes
Hear the mirror singing clear and wise
See your eyes
Shadows live
Undo your disguise
Come to the mirror Ruby
kind surprise in your eyes
See the river singing clear and wise
See your eyes
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Daddy Longlegs
Daddy-ah-da-Daddy-ah-da-Daddy-ah-da
Daddy Longlegs
Ruby, Little Ruby calling
cuckoo!
cocoon me
Daddy Longlegs in my bones
woke me on the telephone saying
“Love my little honey suckle
how she makes me chuckle
when she buckles”
Time cries out for everything
in his wild imagining
Winter, autumn, summer, spring
half lost, half remembering-
Apple tree or apple seed
apple seed or apple tree
all is nothing, all is free
All is nothing
All is free
All Is Love- the song we sing
Daddy-ah-da-daddy-ah-da-Daddy-ah-da
Daddy Longlegs
Ruby, Little Ruby calling
“Tu est mon petit ami”
Through the keyhole sirens ring, terrifying golden glean:
All is magic, all is seen
all is magic, all is seen
through the dark wood flooding spring
All Is Love- the song we sing
All is Love- the song we sing
Daddy-ah-da-daddy-ah-da-Daddy-ah-da
Daddy Longlegs
Ruby, Little Ruby calling…
Dance with me beyond the screen
all is love the song we sing
Carry home the tired dream
into the ocean, done and clean
Winter, autumn, summer, spring
going, going, gone indeed-
apple tree to apple seed
apple seed to apple tree
apple tree to apple seed
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Lullaby
05:42
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Lullaby
Darling one, forgive my pain
You are perfect as the rain
Everything that you contain-
down, down, down
trimmed and pressed into a name
angel of space
but you remain unspeakable
sacred words unsung
and even as we come undone
down, down, down
you’re still the one
down, down, down
who broke my heart open
angel
Perfect one, there is no stain
All dreams wash out in the rain
Deepest joy and darkest pain
down, down, down
run together
angel
down the drain
of space
but we are un dissolvable,
ancient as the sun
and surely as the rain will come
down, down, down
you’re still the one
down, down, down
who showed me how to hold the night,
so fragile
in the moonlight
down
down
down
down
down
down…
down
down
down
down
down
down…
down
down
down
down
down
down…
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Annie Ellicott Tulsa, Oklahoma
Annie Ellicott is a jazz vocalist, songwriter and interdisciplinary artist. In recent years, she has expanded her creativity through acting, voice over, audio book narration, video production, album production, stagecraft, and performance art.
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