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Threads
03:04
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Verse 1:
Beyond memory a key in hand
I traveled from a distant land
My soul trembled as I entered the maze
To meet the creature I hoped to slay
You gave me a red ball of thread
To retrace my steps when the monster was dead
My sword struck right my sword struck true
Then I retraced my way back to you
Chorus:
Tangled Threads or Perfect weave
Is it real what we perceive
Or illusion we can't control
No one can really know
Tangled Threads or Perfect weave
Shall I stay or shall I leave
Always searching for the one
Who can make us feel whole
Verse 2:
Invisible threads are the strongest ties
Reaching back to ancient times
Ancestors and people we meet
All connected All can teach
Threads may tangle but never break
They lead you to your destined fate
We all have a story each one unique
Red threads connect all you will meet
Chorus
1/2 Instrumental Verse:
Chorus
Always searching for the one who can make us feel whole
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2. |
Burn With Me
05:46
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Chorus
Burn Burn With Me
Burn Burn With Me
Burn Burn With Me
Love's not Going to Save Us
No, Love's not going to Save Us
It's what we need to save
Bridge
If the future is an apocalypse
Who is going to survive
The fighters or the lovers
Verse 1
We all die eventually
The real tragedy is forgetting how to live
Being lost is so close to being found
What's more terrifying? The Frightened or the Fear
Chorus
Bridge
Verse 2
I think God loves the sinner's best the fire of our passions burn so bright
Our pain makes us strong enough
Old scars and despair become like armor
Half Chorus
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Serpents
04:27
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Verse 1:
Her hair reached down to her waist
She'd grown eyes just like a snake
A crack of darkness for the pupil in her eye
One hand was curled and black as a crow
From the time she was bitten for the debt that she owed.
Chorus:
She takes out her serpents to pray
Her Prince of Diamonds her Queen of Red Rust
They talk to her in whispers and tell her what to do
They have judgement in them and they have love
Verse2:
So Judge Me she said to the snakes
She said Take me I've found my belief
The serpents were listening and the Copperhead struck
Sand rushed through the hourglass on its back
She felt the poison flow through her and the sickness boil up
Chorus
Verse3:
Her heart went black and rock hard
It stopped once then started again
When the life flowed back in her she knew that she was strong
The knowledge rang true in her soul
She knew she was the poison and she knew she was the power
Instrumental Chorus
Chorus 2:
She takes out her serpents to pray
Her Prince of Diamonds her Queen of Red Rust
She bowed to them in freedom and thanked them for her life
They have judgement in them and they have love
They have judgement in them and they have love
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Underground Holocaust
03:25
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I want my records back
And the Motorcycle key and tank Sprayed with green eyes
The Owls talk to me
But I swear in secret To ascend from within
An underground holocaust
I live with you
Iron Hand
In the pit of the wind
The moon rises at the ankles
A laughing horse Pulls the piano into the sea
If you have a home
You want to know what you want to be
With a look at the passage
To ascend from within
An underground holocaust
I live with you
Iron Hand
In the pit of the wind
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Mirror of the Sea
03:12
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I remember my youth
The feeling that I could last forever
Outlast the sea
Outlast the earth
A moment of strength and romance
The glow in the heart that with every year grows dark too soon
Faith is a myth. Beliefs shift like mist on the shore
Thoughts vanish and words die
The memories of yesterday
are as dim as the hopes for tomorrow
Suffering without the shadow of a reason
The Years Thunder By
The Years Thunder By
Oh the glamour of youth
more dazzling than the flames of a burning ship
A magic light
Leaping bravely to the sky
Only to be quenched by time
more cruel more bitter than the sea
A Life passes in the twinkling of an eye
Nothing remains 'cept a clod of mud
Love and regret walk hand in hand
In this world of changes
Swifter than the shifting of the clouds
Reflected in the mirror of the sea
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6. |
I Search For You
03:25
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From One Place to Another
From the Frying Pan to the Fire
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
Backwards and Forwards
From Here and to There
Don't know where I'm going
Could be anywhere
People look in my eyes
and sense my despair
Instrumental
From One Place to Another
From the West Coast to the East
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
Inside and Outside
In Dreams and Awake
I'm messed up
I'm mixed up
How long must I wait
People look at my face
and turn the other way
Instrumental
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
I Search For You
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7. |
Gathering Light
02:52
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A murder of angels amassed in the sky
Their milky white flesh glowed when their robes came undone
They held glistening flowers
Their hair was on fire
They sang songs in the night to honor the sun
Gathering Light to Discover the Universe
Gathering Light to Discover the Universe
Creatures and Gods aligned in the sky
Guiding the way for those left below
Stories of heroes their armor agleam
Infinity filled with galaxies' glow
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8. |
Fire Walk With Me
03:47
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The Owls are not what they seem
Where there's no sense there is no feeling
Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flame
The angels won't help you they've all gone away
The tender boughs of innocence burn first
When the wind rises all goodness is in jeopardy
One Chant Out between two worlds
Fire Walk with Me
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
Fire Walk with Me
Fire Walk with me
Fire Walk with me
The answer is within the question
The whole universe is one bright pearl
There is no need to understand it
The angels will return and you will weep with joy
Black as midnight on a moonless night
Secrets are a dangerous thing
One Chant Out between two worlds
Fire Walk with Me
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
Fire Walk with Me
Fire Walk with me
Fire Walk with me
I have no idea where this will lead us
But I have a definite feeling it will be a place
both wonderful and strange
Fire walk with me
Fire Walk with me
Fire Walk with me
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Breathe
04:15
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Hand me down space dust
Wayward matter split apart by Sunlight
Spread throughout the universe and come back Together Again
Bridge
Respiration is at its core Reciprocation
Respiration I hope leads us to Restoration
Chorus
Sacred Chanted Prayers
Six Seconds In
Six Seconds out
Prayers and Mantras
Six Seconds In
Six Seconds out
Verse 2
To Breath is to absorb ourselves in what surrounds us
To take in little bits of life
Understand them and give pieces of ourselves back out
Bridge
Chorus
Instrumental Verse
Verse 1
Spread Across the Universe and Come back Together Again
Spread throughout the Universe and Come back Together Again
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10. |
Not Just an Echo
02:36
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Some Days I feel like a human being
Some Days I feel more like a sound
I touch the world I'm not just an echo
A Song Can Be a Bridge or the Ground We Stand On
I miss you more than I remember you
Loneliness is time spent with your soul
You Listened just like an Animal
With no illusion of being in control
I sing to myself to keep from falling
Life without you is like a song without ears
Some Days you have to stop to keep on going
Sooner or later we all face our fears
Instrumental Verse
Some Days I feel like a human being
Some Days I feel more like a sound
I touch the world I'm not just an echo
A Song Can Be a Bridge or the Ground We Stand On
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11. |
Beauty Has Come Again
04:24
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Verse 1:
Beauty has come again
Father Sky and Mother Earth
Mother Earth is here beneath my feet
She catches the rain sent by Father Sky
Chorus:
I walk held between the Sky and the Earth
A tiny drop of humanity
Mother Earth supports me in her endless Love
Even when No One Else Does
Verse 2:
Beauty has come again
Father Sky and Mother Earth
Father Sky forms the space above my head
He sends warmth and light in the day
He sends calming darkness in the night
Chorus
Verse 3:
Father Sky holds up the Sun, the Stars, and the Moon
Granting all things life through the falling rain
Over the mountains, forests and plains
Inst Chorus
Verse 4:
Mother Earth holds the rain in ever changing rivers and oceans
She hums trees and flowers into life
Carves valleys and builds Mountains High
Chorus
Beauty has Come Again
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A Light Coating of Rust
03:22
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A light coating of rust on a bright chrome exterior
Dazzled you touch sliding your fingers down
What's behind the facade
all we see is a pretty face
Reflecting what we desire
without substance without meaning
To be able to live without ghosts in your bed
To be able to live without ghosts
The surgeon's blade tries to erase time
Create a pretty display
Can't change what's inside
What's behind the facade
all we see is a pretty face
Reflecting what we desire
without substance without meaning
To be able to live without ghosts in your bed
To be able to live without ghosts
We all turn to dust
Can't get any simpler
Who do you trust
to be free or a prisoner
Instrumental
To be able to live without ghosts in your bed
To be able to live without ghosts
A light coating of rust
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She had jet black hair locked into dreads
Hung with brass crescent moons and puka shells
Bright spots of color stood out on her cheeks
She sang songs about angels just before they fell
She was a girl in search of interpretation
Chasing dreams impossible to draw
The rapture of understanding nothing at all
With no need to follow the Law
Instrumental
Her entire world was covered with graffiti
For no one to own or buy
High enough to even touch heaven
Her tags were designed to defy
She had jet black hair locked into dreads
Hung with brass crescent moons and puka shells
Bright spots of color stood out on her cheeks
She sang songs about angels just before they fell
She was a girl living life in overdrive
Infected by illegal sales of pain
leaning on poetic exploitations of youth
She offered up a mirror to explain
She had jet black hair locked into dreads
Hung with brass crescent moons and puka shells
Bright spots of color stood out on her cheeks
She sang songs about angels just before they fell
She sang songs about angels just before they fell
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Oracles in Poet Blouses
04:32
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We hold Music in our Hands
We see Magic with our Eyes
There is Beauty in the darkness
Neath a terrible disguise
Oracles in poet blouses
Wave their hands into the sky
Selling silly superstitions
On how we should live our lives
Every dream that mortals dream
Whether Sleeping or awake
Comes from God, the Universe
Trying hard to communicate
Synchronicity rules chaos with an iron hand
The more your soul awakens the more you comprehend
We hold Music in our Hands
We see Magic with our Eyes
There is Beauty in the darkness
Neath a terrible disguise
Oracles in poet blouses
Wave their hands into the sky
Selling silly superstitions
On how we should live our lives
Instrumental 1/2 Verse
All my Prayers pour out as feelings
Sounds like bells crashing in the wind
All my addictions and temptations
For all men love to sin
We hold Music in our Hands
We see Magic with our Eyes
There is Beauty in the darkness
Neath a terrible disguise
Oracles in poet blouses
Wave their hands into the sky
Selling silly superstitions
About our future lives
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Puzzles
02:35
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Puzzles found in lumps of clay
Forged by hands yet unseen
Stumbling blindly in the dark
Awake or only dreaming
Awake or only dreaming
The past turned into fiction
The day you forgot who you were
Then has always been right Now
Here is already there
We are part of each blade of grass
We are part of every rock in the stream
We are part of each drop of rain
We are everything
Behind the darkness of closed eyes
I focus my inward gaze
The outside world is forgotten now
Like stars erased by the light of day
Like stars erased by the light of day
Like stars erased by the light of day
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Pilgrim
03:30
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When you no longer know where to turn
Your journey has begun
The tides will pull you down the high road
Underneath a setting sun
Underneath a setting sun
How far does forgiveness reach
How far does forgiveness reach
How far does forgiveness reach
As far as prayers allow
As far as prayers allow
On a long and winding road
it's easy to loose the way
Sometimes there is a price
you're not prepared to pay
No, you're not prepared to pay
Instrumental
On the path to the deeply real
A voice calls to my soul
Obstacles are the tests of Gods
You are never in control
You are never in control
How far does forgiveness reach
How far does forgiveness reach
How far does forgiveness reach
As far as prayers allow
As far as prayers allow
When nothing is behind you,
the beginning is ahead
When nothing is ahead of you,
you have come to the end
you have come to the end
you have come to the end
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Brent Godfrey Gowen, Michigan
Brent Godfrey is a singer songwriter based in West Michigan. He collaborates with musicians from all over the world on the
Kompoz music networking website to record his original material.
Brent may be seen at open mics and music festivals around the area.
Brent also makes his own cigar box & license plate guitars, cigar box ukuleles, and canjos for performance.
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