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1. |
i am snow
06:54
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I Am Snow
(Findlay / Ledger / Rogers)
I am snow
Just the rain that froze the white carpet under your feet
Yes I am snow
As I tumble and roll on a silvery wind as my steed
Sometimes much lighter than air
This harmony waiting to be shared
I am snow
As your dream seeds are sown I conjure my spell while you sleep
Yes I am snow
I’m a rainbow of hope
In my silence there’s peace once a year
Much colder for a short while
But long enough to see the wonder and magic I weave
Much colder for a short while than dew upon a rose
But there’s beauty in all that is frozen
I am snow
I’m the fire that glows on the cheeks of your love when I appear
Yes I am snow
I’m the smile you chose as you formed angels out of my freeze
Much colder for a short while
But long enough to feel this wonder and magic is real
Much colder for a short while
Yes, long enough to see this faery tale wintery scene
Is calling for you to believe
I am snow
Though its soon I must go
There’s a child in your heart waiting to breathe
So gather all those you can
This harmony needs to be shared
I am snow
Though it’s true I must go
Be in peace
Be in love
Go without fear
© & ℗ 2016 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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2. |
Bitterness Burnt
05:02
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Bitterness Burnt
(Findlay)
Came in as no-one
Leaving as someone powerless
You were the sole one
Helpless you were alone
I want to get by
I want to return
I want you to fly
Only bitterness burnt
How do I get there?
How do I pass?
How could you leave
Without looking back?
Left him for to grow
Untainted by his shadow
Blamed him not for it all
Too well learned a man to fall
I want to get by
I want to return
I want you to fly
Only bitterness burnt
How do I get there?
How do I pass?
How could you leave
Without looking back
Heard all you had to say
Though it changes not a thing today
Forgiveness is so much to ask
But it's time to let go of the past
I want to get by
I want to return
I want you to fly
Only bitterness burnt
How do I get there?
How do I pass?
How could you leave
Without looking back?
© & ℗ 2004 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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3. |
The Eyes of The Forest
03:20
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The Eyes of the Forest
(Findlay / Josh)
I have seen you cutting down trees
Trees that were planted to aid you to breathe
And I’ve seen you pluck carelessly
Fruit yet unripened and discard their seeds
Over mist through leaves, I have seen
Change in the fields where corn once once stood in sheaves
Scattering poisons tainting our earth
No salute to life’s cycle, no hope of rebirth
© & ℗ 2000 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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Dark Eyes / The Dreamer’s Wake
(Findlay)
With dark eyes and a frozen heart, his ropes un-roven made
In the half light of a hunter’s moon, neither fog, nor the tempest phased
Aweigh his anchor made, for a shore that ships doth break
For the man knew a finer life would there, if the seas allowed his fare
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
With her green eyes and blood red heart three sirens captive made
A daughter, a child of man, her life to the waves enslaved
Away she’d wish the days, for a storm to liberate
And as free as the mountain winds she’d make,
If the seas her binds would break
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
Come the sea dare your ship to sail
By the morning light you’ll wear a skin grown pale
In earthen rapture you’ll be carried away
By night the rocks will render shreds your sails
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
He dreamed he touched her and she turned away
A siren’s laughter in the dreamer’s wake
She feared her touch would turn him to stone
But for as long as she feared she’d always be alone
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
She could fear that land is where the stars do drown
But with her warrior’s love she’d never be alone
It’s the kind of love that would bend not break
The kind of love you cannot forsake
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
O! la-dee-doh, dah-ah-dee
Come my love let me your burden bear
And with gentle breath fill this sail with air
One more gust and we’ll be carried away
Carry me love to the dreamer’s wake
She said carry me love to the dreamer’s wake
With dark eyes and a frozen heart…
© & ℗ 2016 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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5. |
Winter Winds
02:17
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Winter Winds
(Denny)
Winter winds they do blow cold,
The time of year, it is chosen.
Now the frost and fire,
And now the sea is frozen.
He who sleeps he does not see
The coming of the seasons,
The filling of a dream
Without a time to reason.
When she walked through evil
O'er the paths of broken illusions,
Carefully now she lives,
For she has mended her confusion.
© & ℗ 1970 Sand Denny | Warlock Music Ltd.
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6. |
Winter Is King
04:52
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Winter is King
(Findlay)
Berries are frozen
Out in the Holly again
Laurel is glistening
Winter is whispering
He is king
A delicate crystal mask
Charming each blade of grass
Branches all coral cloaked
Tattooing the rosy snow
The Sun is low
I will not run
Can’t wait to meet
The monarch of the season
Crowned as the liege
Of snow deep
Icicle mornings
Venus is still calling
Luna is queen of the sky
And Winter is king tonight
Burn fire bright
© & ℗ 2005 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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7. |
Day Thirteen: Sign
03:04
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Day Thirteen: Sign
(Lucassen / Findlay)
Fate has come to warn
That you far to long forsaken her heart
Move to the truth
Breathe the sunlight burning in her open arms
Break the chains that
Bind you to a past that feeds these bitter days
Seize your only chance
Follow the stars that beckon you
Through blackened skies
© & ℗ 2004 InsideOutMusic | All rights reserved
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8. |
Above The Blue
05:34
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Above The Blue
(Findlay)
That Crystal Throws glass shadows home
When the day is long
Rain on the city, men are weary
A silent blue
A wind blows, the summer knows
Your time with us is through
The world goes spinning round again
As the dream dust covers you
Blue butterflies danced in her eyes
When they fell upon you
Painless and pretty, far from weary
A thousand moons ago
A red rose, a thistle chose
For to love in truth
The world goes spinning round again
As the piper calls their tune
Our somber drive
Late blossom sighs
Today we must be strong
Eyes full of pity
A rose is weary of shadows long...
Through the window, a thistle knows
To ashes many years must fall
The world goes spinning round again
But something here is waking up...
And I won't ask again if the rainbow has an end
For shimmering with truth
Across the way was solid proof
An eve of summer rain
We laughed away the pain
And there above the blue
Rose the angel that is you
© & ℗ 2008 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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9. |
Shrinking Violet
08:27
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Shrinking Violet
(Findlay / Josh)
Safe until the darkness falls
To loneliness a demon calls
Creeping in, arousing my fears
To breathe a language that no one else hears
Can I cope alone tonight?
The shrinking violet I've become inside
To you I may seem insecure
But did you know me what I was before?
I remember dancing as a child
A careless confidence danced with me
Whatever happened to the sun?
Only seemed to notice when it had gone
Lead me back to where it seems
I danced alone in sunlit dreams
Unafraid to play with fire
With a view through a child's eyes, naive and wild
Can I cope alone tonight?
The shrinking violet I've become inside
To you I may seem insecure
But did you know me what I was before?
I remember dancing as a child
A careless confidence danced with me
Whatever happened to the sun?
Only seemed to notice when it had
If I ever meet again with her
Could I tell her I could live with her?
If I ever meet again with her
I will tell her I could live with her
I will cope alone tonight
I'll fight these demons that I've tried to describe
I won't be so insecure
I will show you what I was before
I will dance then as a child
A careless confidence will dance with me
I'll be warmed there, by the sun
You would notice when I had gone
© & ℗ 2000 Heather Findlay | Black Sand Records | All rights reserved
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The Snows They Melt the Soonest
(Trad)
The snows they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
(Am) (F) (Am)
The corn it ripens fastest when the frosts are settling in
(Am) (F) (D) (Am)
And when a young man tells me that my face he'll soon forget
(Am) (F) (D) (Em)
Before we part, I’ll wage a crown, he's fain to follow yet
(Am) (F) (Am) (Em) (Am)
And the snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing
(Am) (F) (Am)
And the swallows fly without any thought as long as it is spring
(Am) (F) (D) (Am)
And when spring goes, and winter blows, my love, then you’ll be free
(Am) (F) (D) (Em)
For all your pride, to follow me across the raging main
(Am) (F) (Am) (D) (Am)
And the snows they melt the soonest when the wind begins to sing
(Am) (F) (Am)
And the bee that flew when summer shone, in winter cannot sting
(Am) (F) (D) (Am)
I've seen the young man’s anger melt between the night and the morn
(Am) (F) (D) (Em)
So it's surely not a harder thing to melt a young man's scorn
(Am) (F) (Am) (Em) (Am)
So don’t you bid me farewell here - no farewell I'll receive
(Am) (F) (Dm) (Am)
For you will lay with me my love and kiss then take your leave
(Am) (F) (D) (Am)
And I'll wait here till the moorcock calls, and the martin takes the wing
(Am) (Dm) (F) (D) (F)
For the snows the melt the soonest, when the wind begins to sing
(Am) (Dm) (Am) (Em) (Am)
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11. |
Gaudete
03:59
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Gaudete
(Trad.)
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!
Tempus adest gratiae
Hoc quod optabamus
Carmina laetitiae
Devote redamus.
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!
Deus homo factus est
Natura mirante,
Mundus renovatus est
A Christo regnante
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!
Ezechielis porta
Clausa pertransitur
Unde Lux est orta
Salus invenitur
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!
Ergo nostra contio
Psallat iam in lustro
Benedicat Domino
Salus regi nostro
Gaudete, gaudete!
Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete!
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Making Music with Heather Findlay, Odin Dragonfly & Mantra Vega since 2011
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