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Snake Eyes, the Whale
08:25
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The diplomat with no country
The robber with no store
The one-eyed entertainer (undertaker) keeping score
With the dice in the palm of their hand
Shaking it around, afraid to let it land
Chorus:
For what will happen if it lands on Snake Eyes?
What will happen, what will happen?
We will all be called to rise, we will all be called to rise
Snake Eyes
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And the gymnast at the cinema
She launched a thousand ships
With her cast of entertainers
All of them were doing tricks
The worn out skull
The peace patrol
The emptiness in the looking glass
And the gun still warm has no soul
Has no soul
But you and I we know
The ones with soul
Chorus
Snake Eyes is a Whale
Number 45810,001-00
Came upon the shore of Coney Island, Jones Beach
One of those places where my little feet used to run as a child
Baby on the beach
I was born half wild
Baby on the beach
I was running playing on the beach
That 30 years later Snake Eyes would die on
The big whale
How did she die?
Oh big whale
I see you eye to eye
This is part of my religion
I call you god
You are flying in my heart of gold of your love
Everything you do is gold of the sea holy
Holy sunlight
Carry me
Holy holy
Whale as my god
That is what guides me
And what keeps me up at night
Cuz what have you done to my whale?
What have you done to my whale?
You let it get all undone
Snake Eyes
Chorus, variation:
The undertaker with the dice in the palm of her hand
Shakes it around, afraid to let it land
For what will happen if it lands on Snake Eyes
We will all be called to rise
We will all be forced to rise
Snake Eyes
Stand one with the whale, stand one with the Earth
Snake Eyes
Come gather with me at the ocean side
Where we must hold a funeral and a ritual of reclamation
In the name of Snake Eyes
The diplomat has no country in the dystopia of Planet Earth
The diplomat has no country in the name of god and country and dirt
The diplomat is lost in the cornfield looking for a sign
That he'd read that morning on his long bike ride
And the high priestess
On the bicycle she passes me (a skull)
And I call out -
"Please turn around
I have something to give you
A rosary: Queer and jeweled and poetry"
"I'm going north" she says
"I'm going north, I'm going to DC
Going to march in the streets
Cuz they dont give us what we need.
Gonna march in the street
Wanna join me?"
I say "Next time,
Please forgive me
I am in the middle of writing a song
And I feel like it's gonna take a little long
Gotta finish this 1-2-3
This is ancient contemporary poetry"
And I'm singing my songs to the wind
Cuz that's who I want to win
Earth Divine
If we cared for Earth Divine
Carry
Care for Earth
Divine
It will land on Snake Eyes
If it lands on Snake Eyes
When it lands on Snake Eyes
It will land on Snake Eyes
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2. |
Human Humane / Medley
09:03
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This is a song for my people
The ones who dance and sing
The ones who go by the name
Human Humane
Whatever happened to our dignity?
That we carried like a flame
We were proud to be part of the Harmon-Eeee
You see human humane
If you add an E you get something
Human Humane
You add the E you get Harmon-Eeee
Human Humane take the train downtown
Human Humane play a show downtown
Human Humane make it all seem like a party
Human Humane plant the garden so pretty
This song is for my people
The ones who dance and sing
The ones who make such poetry
With their rainbow leaves
Human Humane
I gotta keep calling out your name
Cuz otherwise we get human insane
If you dont add an E to the human
You get insane
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What was going in his brain
When he took that plane
And went up into the sky
So high
He broke through the atmosphere
One night, one night, one night
I was dancing with myself
Pouring sage tea
And we were all just running scared
Because of reality
Because of the way we made the world
Falling apart
Boy boy boy girl
We are spinning something fierce
And we are taking the street of pearls
And I never wanna tell you again that I'm sorry
For all the terrible things I've done
Now I know the word for that and it's gaslighting
You're gonna tell me it was me I was the one
When you set the whole world on fire
You cooked the oil right into the bone
And I want you to now go retire
Go find a better happy home
On some other planet
Please go now
Cant handle you no way no how
There's a long distance runner asleep in the vineyard
And the sun's going down on the herd of sheep
Just in the farther meadow from where I do right now speak
Wine and goats and sheep and horses, horses, horses
Horses jumping real high
Real high
Sometimes they jump into the sky
But usually only at night and with their third eye
This is an old ritual for me
It is so sacred I can see
It lets me speak in poetry
Which is all I wanna do
Cuz it's the only language that is blue and green and yellow and blue and green and yellow and blue and green and yellow and blue and green and black and white and all the colors of the day and the night and the earth and the strand upon the sea...
I am watching the wave take me
It takes me down
Takes me down but then I am up
And then I go higher
And higher
Into the cloud
Into the sky
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3. |
Take It Easy, Go Slow
06:16
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Take it easy
Go slow
Slow it down
Go easy
There's no need
To act the clown
We're all racing to the end
But there's no end
There's no end
So we're all racing in a line
That gets crossed every time
Take it easy
Go slow
There's no need to go so fast
Where you going
Don't you see you're already living in the past
Going so fast
Can't ever slow down
Don't act the clown
Take it easy
Go slow
Maybe then you will know
The method of getting off of the ratwheel
After you feel like it's time to get off of that bumpy bumpy ride
Going in circles upside down
It's hard to sit down when you're strapped into a seat
That's going 40 miles an hour
Or maybe you're going 8000 miles a minute
I dont know anymore
I dont feel like I belong in it
Whatever the hell
We have done
I think we all need to stop the run, the run, the run
And take it easy
Go slow
Nowhere we need to go
It can all get so much
Carole sang about it too
It can all get so much
Dolly knows it's so true
It can all get so much
Where we gonna lay our head
I understand the burning questions
And I know I don't have answers but instead
I can offer you a song
That reminds you
To go easy
Slow down
No need to play their game of clown, clown, clown
It's all in the math
It's all in the sun
It's all in the tree
It's all on the run
Don't you see how unsettling this can be
For all of us who are sensitive beings
Human Humane
Take it easy
Go slow
This is permission for you to just go easy
Stare up at the sky for as long as you need
Go and sit beneath the tall tree
Go and sit beneath the small tree
Go and sit with any tree
I am begging you, I am begging you
Go easy
Slow it down
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Come come and let me see
The beauty of what needs to be free
Come come and I will show you things
That sparkle more than diamond rings
Come come I see a star
Beckons to me from afar
I have been a pilgrim
My mind comes undone
Tired feet always on the run
Hey hey come sit with me
I am down on my wounded knee
The stories that i tell thee
Were once upon ancient poetry
That now blooms in tree
Sacred in infinity
But broken in half
Like a cloud without a sky
I am the wind and my breath is the night
Come come and let me see the beauty of what needs to be free
In spoken word
In poetry
No labels here, nothing severe
Only love
Only care
Only ways to make our sweetness dare
Dare dare
For more sweet
More sweet
For we are such flowers in the garden during the war
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Helene Augustine Virginia
A way to channel the never-ending rush of rhyme and melody. A musical project for the visual artist Jennifer Nagle Myers. Explorations following the continuous line from ancient to future, our own inherent collective and personal queerness, liberation, voice, piano, communication, communing. Good spirit. Look for all ways to express love and sending out the signal that art is all this and more. ... more
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