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LYRICS FROM Earth Spiral Water Sound

It's Always There
(by R. Goodhart)

Seek the world
In the morning when the world is waking
Seek the balance
In the heart of uneven silence
Play the wind
With the stir of a songbird singing
Or like an eagle
Rising high to a point of seeing
Take the winter
And let it melt into a deeper running spring
And let your words
Drift away like vapor trails

Hear a train
Call a far and moving memory
It's always there
Clearer than the secret held in silence
And deeper still
And clearer than the stillness that you wish to hold
Then from your breathing
Call the wind into waiting sails

© 2005 Rich Goodhart
2005 Mind Waves Music/BMI
Used by permission

Through The Window
(by R. Goodhart)

Through the window
Breathing colours of sound
With you nearer too
Hold the highest ground

High the sun-glow
Streaming cover of light
Glowing skyline
Turn the dream around

Deyah ahriah
Heh nanariah dey
Eh na hariah
Heh na deyah rey

So It Glows
(by R. Goodhart)

As the sun shines inside your eyes
So the new light won't accept your lies
Warming sun melting through the fear
Here in stillness rising fire

Running clear, near and through the trees
Morning sound light carry into me
I can feel your soul's inner golden flame
Hot shadow ray of energy

So it glows whole and wandering
Winter moon bright inciting imagery
Like your visions cast waiting to be known
Cold winter stone light memory

Hold me on to a higher sound
Restless swirling wind stirring sky of clouds
You know me much more than you know
Here alone just listen quietly

© 2005 Rich Goodhart
2005 Mind Waves Music/BMI
Used by permission

LYRICS FROM THE GATHERING SUN

Secrets Of The Sunrise
(Music: R. Goodhart/Lyrics: Mitch Elrod)

Fire reigns at the edge of the earth
And at the edge of the sky
Myth rains along the hills at their birth
Creates wild geese as they fly
Over silence and under silence
Whisper and rumble alike
Rhythm tumbles into liquid peace
Sees with the dancing of an eye

Now smaller birds swim across this view
Each feather features its own word

Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid

The cool meshing of patchwork fades
Clouds become firewood again
Sweeping landscape prefigures the night
Stillness is trance now gaze
Over silence and under silence
Whisper and rumble the days
Rhythm tumbles into liquid peace
Burns in the dreaming of the blaze

Now smaller birds swim across this view
Each feather features its own word

Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid
Rhythm tumbles into liquid peace

Lingering
(Music and Lyrics: R. Goodhart)

Speak to me
Silently
Clearingly
Patiently

Mystery
Entering
Silently
Gathering

Sing to me
Cautiously
Searingly
Lingering

Mystery, I wish to be listening
Entering, Then secretly falling
Silently, The dawn upon your wings
Gathering, The flowers you send me

Sing to me, A song before soaring
Cautiously, Then run away whirling
Searingly, I see you more clearly
      Lingering,
               Lingering,
                        Lingering,
                                 Lingering

Dearest Sister
a. Waking Graces (instrumental)
b. The Merging Waters' Song
(Music and Lyrics: R. Goodhart)

Dearest sister of the musing moon
Share a silence with your smile
Through your windows of revealing soul
Waits the birthing of a child

Play your light upon a wistful stream
Singing water's hidden words
Waking graces ripple through my dream
Whispered mist of passion stirs, passion stirs

Dearest brother of the burning sky
Seek a shaded walk of fire
Gather wisdom to release in love
Seed the sharing of desire, of desire, of desire

Carry fire to illume the course
Trail the merging waters' song
Cast a vision to invite the source
Call of longing draws you ever on

SoulFeverwise
(Music and Lyrics: R. Goodhart)

And I let it down into my darkest being
And I held it clear in unforgiving sun
And I called it out and to the morning spirit's thawing mist
This unrelenting fire blazing in my core

Will you make the well water rise
Still breaking waves swelling high
Tell me is my soul fever wise
Shake this fading veil from my light waiting eyes

And I let it out into my darkest night
And I held it warm inside forgiving heart
And I hope you will receive the clearing spirit messages
As I always call you with the trust of light

Will you let the well water rise
Still breaking waves swelling high
Tell me is my soul fever wise
Shake this fading veil from my light waiting eyes

Let the spirits guide you
Hold this magic in your hand
Let love unfolding honor you
As water washing sand

Let my spirit touch you
Like the rising mother sun
Your presence moves within me
Let your spirit body run, spirit body run

And you came to me with calling eyes of heaven
And we let it ride a teeming river's wish
And I called it out and to the nearer spirits' sweltered rain
This unrelenting love is raging through my soul

Will you make the well water rise
Still breaking waves swelling high
Tell me is my soul fever wise
Shake this fading veil from my light waiting eyes

Will you let your well water rise
Still breaking waves swelling high
Tell me is my soul fever wise
Shake this fading veil from our light waiting eyes

What Shall We Do? (including: "The Mourning Dove Song")
(Music and Lyrics: R. Goodhart)

Reaching in a dream, to hold a distant knowing
Held within a circle's shimmering sound
Doubt reveals the moment, secret words confer this sacred ground

What shall we do with all of our cages
When the bird has flown, his song has left the morning
What shall we do with all of our thorns
When the rose has gone, its petals feed the garden

Swirling through this world, of maya's golden pathways
Searching for imagined ways so grand
When what you have is always, morning space inside your hand

What shall we do with all of our cages...

Ever does the mourning dove, lament for his absent love
Sadly sending out his cry, calling to a silent sky
Does he hear it as we do, plaintive call in solitude
Or is it content refrain, softly singing serenade (2x)

Shining in your eyes, this love is bright and flowing
Take me to familiar grazing lands
And this touch is knowing, feel your face upon my hands

What shall we do with all of our cages
When the bird is flying free he's singing to share the morning
What shall we do with all of our thorns
With the roses all in bloom their flowers free the garden

Musing Moon Mystery School