Evensong
(Dave Tate)
It is the evening when the song to me is sent
In silent revelling
unspoken sacrement
and all around me breathes
the witness
of presence
let no condition hold the love we all bestow
The heavy headed watch
the greener grasses grow
and in this fantasy
of past and future woe
let it go
I wander - love will bring me home
Come to me lovely
you're gone without a trace
ain't that the way it goes
Simplicity is written in this play
Smile as soft as
Light or Dark as
Near and Far I'll roam
Right or wrong...
I'm home
Left a Mark
(Dave Tate)
It is the evening when the song to me is sent
In silent revelling
unspoken sacrement
and all around me breathes
the witness
of presence
let no condition hold the love we all bestow
The heavy headed watch
the greener grasses grow
and in this fantasy
of past and future woe
let it go
I wander - love will bring me home
Come to me lovely
you're gone without a trace
ain't that the way it goes
Simplicity is written in this play
Smile as soft as
Light or Dark as
Near and Far I'll roam
Right or Wrong...
I'm home
Maria
(Dave Tate)
Maria - Every womans heart you hold
I can't see us, but that's not important anymore
Some days I'd lye around
and lie around to myself
and worry when my mind says
I must please you
These days,
that's not important anymore
And all the parts of me that would always go unfed
For fear of being made a fool
on a stage inside my head
and yet all the while,
almost everything I'd said had been a line
It's been difficult this growth,
but we've passed the slickest road
When the lamplight does runout
I will have you faith to guide me
Winters eyes can melt my
heart and mouth
So I break these bonds,
Maria
Help to unwind me
I'll walk with you always,
keeping you company
when you grow cold,
The only thing we've learned
is that we know nothing
so trust in our hearts
and just
Go
It's been difficult this growth
but we've passed the slickest road
Time this lifeline to be cut
as I know it cannot hold me
yet some evenings
I still feel your touch
and my soul Ignites
Maria
Every womans heart you hold
The Faucon
(Dave Tate)
"Faucon" is old english for Falcon. "lully lullay, the faucon has born my mahk away" is an excerpt from a 13th century poem by an unknown source.
Many choral pieces and a handful of art songs are based on this text, including Brittans "Corpus Christi Carol" which Jeff Buckley brought into the public eye on his LP Grace. In my song, not a cover of Brittans work but an original using some references of the old text, I use one line from this poem, and the rest has a personal meaning to me of death and rebirth, it is not limited to, but contains elements of the wikipedia explanation below
- Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found in a manuscript written around 1504 of an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The predominant theory about the meaning of the carol is that it is concerned with the legend of the Holy Grail. In Arthurian traditions of the Grail story, the Fisher King is the knight who is the Grail's protector, and whose legs are perpetually wounded. Another theory is that the text is an allegory where Christ, referenced in the Crucifixion, is a wounded knight. One recent interpretation is that it was composed about the execution of Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, whose badge was a falcon. However, since Anne Boleyn was killed in 1536 and the earliest copy carol yet found is from 1504, this is most unlikely.[1] English composers Peter Warlock and Benjamin Britten have both used the carol in composition and applied it to those that died at war. Warlock's setting dates from 1919 and Britten's (the fifth variation in his opus 3, "A boy was born") from 1933. Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley included his interpretation of Britten's work on his debut 1994 album, Grace. About his version Buckley said, "The 'Carol' is a fairytale about a falcon who takes the beloved of the singer to an orchard. The singer goes looking for her and arrives at a chamber where his beloved lies next to a bleeding knight and a tomb with Christ's body in it."[2]...Glossary faucon: falcon mak: mate, love bare: bore, carried
Has the Faucon born my mahk away
It was written on the stone where he once lay
And yet upon cherabims golden hills
I wandered through the night
and prayed lord god to alieve my fear
and let my breath be light
Lully Lullay
Enwrought upon cherabims golden hills, I hold my head
in your light and pray lord god to alieve my fear,
and let my breath..
Has the faucon born my mahk away?
It was written on the stone where she once prayed
Son arise on Cherabims golden hills
I hold my heart in your light
and thank lord god for being here
to let my breath
be
light
Light was Low
(Dave Tate)
Light was Low
I've got this feeling
that I'm never going to
get over you
We shook the earth
when we made love
yeah - made the mountains move
Early in the evening
when the nightbird sings
Standing underneath
what was my home
Watching with new eyes
my soul takes wing
to the unknown
Like a photograph that shows
the way that things once were
We could set that down my love...
Step inside of me
I stir
Light was low that evening
when the nightbird sang
Standing underneath
what was my home
Watching with
new eyes
My soul takes wing
to the unknown
Yeah there's a part of me that longs for you still
A part of me that will not
move
I will rise on the crest
and fall in the wake of you
Luna
Harmony
(Dave Tate)
Harmony in sweet rhythm
coalesce around my door
to the day is given
New tonight
My solitude restored
Than I don't want it anymore
She watches the window
Waiting for a birth
Same way as the winter
hangs her heart on earth
Than I turn from the question
to loose my mind in mirth
Can you see the seed is growing?
Do you hear it echo?
Do you know the tale we're sewing?
The way it goes -
Harmony
We're watching the way I'm walking
Let loose in the sunrise
The wind she is veiled in talking
Let the mother rise
In Harmony
Rose
(Dave Tate)
I had a dream about an Indian princess
Long love and the softest heat
A woman who knew
She ran through the woods with me
and we bathed in her mercy
That the world in the eyes of love
may emerge from you
The silent reveling
saving the sinner
pull me out from the fear and the desire
I am embellished by you
holy as water
Like a piece of me I didn't know I'd lost
'till your heart met mine
You know that I am
Don't let these seeking eyes disguise
Slip into your hands
Watch as the pain turns into light
Rose I am wading in you
Listen through the stars
From ashes rise into the beauty of your heart
Rose I am wading in you
written in the stars
From ashes rise into the beauty of your heart
And I weep because the
Ice around me
Is beginning to dissolve
Like Water
(Dave Tate)
When the wind of change
comes blowing
I got it going
through my head
See we are but a phase in knowing
yeah
And your vision shakes from rocking
You gotta put your mind at ease
And as you think
the stakes get higher
well please.
Going over
what was yesterday
Letting go of
the past
Good love
Surely
Meant to integrate at last
You feel like water
Rushing - or my home
Come
Rebuild it with me baby
and count me as your own
I know it's hard to see
beneath the fantasy
of what the world calls love
but
freedom
I will always sing your song
And in the end it's over you
nothing personal baby
Just gotta move where my feet go
for love of us open up the noose
high as trees
we blow along
Always trying to seek the message
take two steps
back than one ahead
all those stones
won't shield you from me
Familiar two
are bringing
The answer dancing in my bed
align - you bring the message home
Going over
what was yesterday
lettin go
of the past
Good love
Surely
meant to integrate
at last
In to Mercy
(Dave Tate)
Now
the dream of you lyes still
my home
my soul
my will
We came togeather by the stream
I ask you what it means
Oh lord
Where the moon
sank sweetly into mercy
and the Sun rose
burning overhead
When the wind
blows gently
into this dream
My love
Innocent again
Go now if you must
hiding from the road
that found our love
Sun on the wash of seasons past
Your light
tonight
In a dream of good love past
You have a home in me
and with it
everything
see me
I'm dreaming
dreaming sweet dreaming
dreaming
I'm dreaming of our love
Where the moon sank sweetly
into mercy
and the sun
Rose
burning overhead
When the wind
blows gently
through my heart
my love
The Solitude of Here
(Dave Tate)
There was a time I swore I knew you as clear as my own head
and every lie you would see through to everywhere we met
and now I pray my sky as often
as I dreamed of worlds I saw
and the Ice of Iceolation
soon began to thaw
If I could bathe myself in silence
the bluest blue I'd be,
clinging to the secret
that I have yet to see
and if I hang myself on laughter
or dry myself in tears
loose myself forever
in the solitude of here
And how I love to long you
with everyone I am
but I am praying to a statue
of a woman I don't have
and If I've ever felt emotion,
If I've ever writhed in pain
than I must know the darkness
will come around again
Surely
May 24, 2011
Woke up this morning
You were lying next to me
didn't sleep to much last night...
In a place I'd been
with a change in the scenery
I may have guessed you'd change your mind
You are a tune
deeply sung
You are the feeling in the words
See through the mask
That I take off
to finally go beneath the hurt
I didn't even know was there,
fear I've held all these ages
Cunning me was unaware
and now I'm falling fast
Where I'm alive
and incapable of worry
Where I'm alive
and in love with you
Surely
