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Faerietale
04:19
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Oh you’ve been so sad, for you dream
We are all moving on some dark old sea
But you won’t be lonely, I promise thee!
If you believe in the fairy tale
And if you’re hurt, and if you’re cold
You have need of a fairy tale
At your birth, until you’re old
You have need of a fairy tale
Over mountain, under stone
You have need of a fairy tale
Under sunshine, over moon
You have need of a fairy tale
After the Garden, Adam and Eve
Sang of a serpent in a dark old tree
But where we have come from and who we shall be
Lies in the riddle of a changing sea
And if you’re hurt, and if you’re cold
You have need of a fairy tale ...
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The Faerie Ring
03:04
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One here! One there!
One here! One there!
Ooooooh, prepare the fairy ring!
Ooooooh, prepare the fire dancing!
Be they wayward, be they straight,
Those fairy lanterns, they have no weight
One here! One there!
One here! One there!
Ooooooh, prepare the fairy ring!
Ooooooh, prepare the fire dancing!
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The Flight of the Owl
02:20
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Here in your feathers, so warm on wings
I could sleep forever, while they sing
It’s a long way, to my fairy ring
It’s the journey, it’s the flight of the owl!
When the owl flies, when the owl flies
He owns the night
When the owl flies through the dark night
All night, he flies in me.
Take me with you, over the stream
To the mountain where the moon gleams
Wild eyes seeing everything,
Beaks, talons, silver wings
When the owl flies ...
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Closing of the Lid
01:16
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Instrumental
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Something in the storm tells him
she would come tonight
When she does he won’t let her out of his sight!
He’ll not be a poor fisherman, she’ll make him a king,
so promised the merrow of the sea.
She had sea-wild eyes
in the palest face
Half hidden by golden hair.
She was green iridescence,
Shimmering water-form,
waves whispering everywhere.
Luty! Down in the deep we’re calling,
Luty, won’t you come back with me?
Luty, you are the one I came for
Luty, come into the sea.
All across the ocean
she would dance away his fear
Now he’ll never dare
to let her out of his dreams
Her eyes are the ocean
laughing through her hair:
Luty! Come into the sea …
Luty …
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Gypsy, Sailorking
02:33
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When I was your gypsy, and you were my sailorking
We two travelled and called ourselves free
But we have been captive of these ten centuries,
We are prisoners of old sea love.
If we travelled together, or travelled alone
In love was the only place we could not leave
And we laughed at the villagers when we ran free
That your love for the sea was your knowledge of me.
Give me seven seas for a sailor’s song!
All for the sea lord I knew:
Seven times seven lives I would long
For a pagan storm by a full moon
I’ll be away on a journey far
Whether he’ll follow or no
I’ll feel his laughter in every star
And his eyes in the waves so close
And I’ll be your gypsy, and you’ll be my sailorking
And we’ll travel an’ call ourselves free
But we have been captive of these ten centuries
We are prisoners of old sea love.
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Saltchild Lullaby:
And when you were resting, I gave you my love song
Saltchild born in the heart of the deep
And you and I knew when we called it our lullaby
that our two spirits would never sleep
The Seagiant:
Sleep, oh darling our Storm has passed,
dream of it all your life
Though your dreams might only come briefly true,
they last long after you die
Sleep, my Ocean my River my Rain,
safe in the Earth that loves you
rest my Hunger, down on the seafloor
till I return to wake you
I will return
Oh, look you’re so peaceful
just like some man who dreams on the seafloor
Oh! my Seagiant was beautiful,
you won’t forget me.
Sleep oh darling … I’ll dream of it all my life!
Though our dreams might only come briefly true,
they last long after we die
Sleep, my Ocean, my River, my Rain,
safe in the Earth that loves you
And I’ll rest my hunger, down on the seafloor
till I return to wake you
I will return to wake you!
Watch me return
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Luty's Death
02:25
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Instrumental
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Sleep, oh darling our Storm has passed,
dream of it all your life
though our dreams might only come briefly true
they last long after you die
Sleep, my Ocean my River my Rain,
safe in the Earth that loves you:
rest my Hunger, down on the seafloor
till I return to wake you,
I will return ...
Oh, look you’re so peaceful
just like some man who dreams on the seafloor
Oh! my Seagiant was beautiful,
you won’t forget me.
Sleep, oh darling ...
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Louisa John-Krol Australia
Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.
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