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Shadow of the Citadel
5. Hurricane (on the edge of seven) 9. Dancing with the Flutemaker (instrumental) Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All rights Reserved
The Changing of the Guard comes just once in your life Tell me how the old Guard knows That time it has taken its toll on the bones Out o’r the stars we must flow, yes Out o’r the stars we must flow
You watched the sun rise and set each day The world goes on with its work But one time I knew you when you were so young Feet planted solid to earth, yes With a quick strength and a broad shouldered girth
Chorus: Oh the summer time brings you around And flitter of the whippoorwill, simple enough It gets you on your feet again, but life is tough For an old boy bent and grey from years of hangin’ around
On one moonlit evening, alone at night We drew plans up to conquer the world I never did see you looking so right In your midnight repose near the fire, yes While planets and universes whirled
When I first found you lying quite lifeless I knew you had taken your leave A warm October evening, the wind sadly singing As you floated your soul on the breeze, yes As you floated your soul on the breeze
The Changing of the Guard comes just once in your life To this truth humble men hold Now you glance from afar, and you smile if perchance The new Guard’s enactment’s so bold, yes The new Guard’s enactment’s so bold Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All Rights Reserved
Oh, in late evening, steady as a flame In my heart for loving you I lift my song, and float it in the wind And the flame and the incense glows
Don’t cast aside the quiet of the hour And the voice of the nightingale Tonight you can tell me secrets from your heart, And I’ll try not to be afraid
Spoken: Bring me the bell, the flute, the harp, Oh send me to the sea Time passing, a dream, a life of art, with paint like falling leaves
Oh watch the winter, a film of life gone by With steady gaze, find a brand new start Tonight you can test me, I’m even to the task If morning brings your surrendered heart
Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All Rights Reserved
Late at night, in June I favor, thoughts of you when first we’d meet Your hair fell down in curious laughter, in morning light our hearts were born To face the world from then together, come what may we’d ever hold Ring the bells and shake the rafters, touch my brow your story’s told
School days, wine, and late night talks, and music playing overtime It’s true they say your heart was with me the day I looked into your eyes Take my soul, it’s gladly given, shower me with your love divine Since the morning’s just out over the hill, guess I’ll just stay the night
In decade’s verse we’d fall together, our children grew to womanhood, In fields of love and times ever after, I think these days on growing old You’ve carried the burden of our world on shoulders small but strong and true It’s been just too damned long since I sat down and wrote a song for you
Did I let you into my world, did you think the choice was mine? And, by the way did you ever know there’s miracles showin’ in your eyes? I tell you this ‘cause I can’t bear to have you not know how I feel There’s dreams enough to change our world, it’s only you who makes it real
Have I told you how I love you, have I knelt before your eyes? When you breath your sweet love on me, I could be in paradise Going down to Sunset City, hoping there to greet my guide A one-way visit, that’s just the way, I think we should spend our time
Words and Music by Jane Sytek © 2005 All Rights Reserved
Oh Avatar I long to hear the echo of your flute So Play, Play on Pierce through the mist of shadow-land and gloom You call across the river But I’ve lost sight of you Lotus of Love I long to hear the echo of your flute
Enchant the woodlands and the canyons with your song Entice the stones and field mice ‘till they sing along Cradle my storms and reckless passions in your palm Dance through my dreams and guilded visions all night long
Lacing the air with sylvan magic with your sound Cascading astral music, I’m inward bound Amid the crosses that I lay upon the ground I see light instead of darkness all around
And I’ll float over the water, ‘till I’m lost in You Give me the sweetness of your honey, I’m wanting You Sift all my reason with compassion, I’m glimpsing You Take all my memories and my sorrows, I’m beholding You Take all my memories and my sorrows, I’m beholding You
Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All Rights Reserved
I’ve been caught in a hurricane Oh for some time now What’s come over me? The wind was lifting mother and child, they smiled as they sailed for me
I wonder what time it is down south Are the preachers singing about us both? “Francis and Clare, or Barnabus and Angelique” ? In later days we’ll scribe our distance, we’ll wave as we sail, the sea
Chorus: Island Times, bring both waves And sunny days, always I remember your early days I knew your name when you were a child When we were lost, parted by time Now here you sit on the edge of seven, with me
Now we try to sit On the edge of a flowing mystery When the time is coming ‘round and ‘round and ‘round And the storm brings with it All of our history In later days……..
Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All Rights Reserved
Riding on a stallion near the end of the world Where the ocean and the lightning meet You looked in my eyes and you called me by name And the fire in your eyes told me everything
You smile in love, the storm gathering from above, you play “scare” with me
I knew the answer would come to me If I could only keep respect in the scene But I’m no director, there’s no plot in this play And justice to the villain’s twenty riddles away
You smile in love, the storm gathering from above, and you dance with me
Chorus: Does anyone remember warrior’s names in the morning When they’re storming the gates all night? Seven wild horses stand tame in the morning But the Horseman retreats in fright Does anyone remember warrior’s names in the morning When the Horseman retreats in fright?
The stars say the time is now my love For the world’s heart to miss a beat Move if you want to the end of the tale Archers flying arrows in perditions war
You smile in love, the storm gathering from above, and you dance with me
Chorus
I chose the hinterland where eyes could not quite see And I looked to find a reason why you played games with me And it seemed to me that you could tell what my heart seeks And where I need to be
Oh I know time for our being here is growing old And we feel a sense of disbelief as the “clay” goes back to soilBut I stand here looking at the time (well spent) that we have tried To reach the Gold
Words and Music by Rick Davies © 2005 All Rights Reserved
I wonder where your heart is now On this day of innocence I woke to find that you had flown ‘tis one day longer than the last we tried Oh in waiting for your call, I wonder where the hoping goes, I think of things I might have done, to bring you home, to give you joy I wonder ‘bout the dream you’re on, I hope for you a happy one I think today I’d like to be, alone in thoughts of you and me
Rain is falling at my door So much harder than it fell before This sonnet that I sing for you My love is sent, and love is true I wonder what you’re thinking now, do you remember the times before? The clock was my old ally then, I’m open now to better ends I wonder ‘bout the dream you’re on, I hope for you a happy one, I think today I’d like to be, alone in thoughts of you and me
A Haunted LookWords and Music by Jane Sytek ©2005 All Rights Reserved(Inspired by a trip we made to hear Mother Teresa address a group in Louisville, KY) We traveled so far to hear you speakOld and frail you seemed to meBut when you spoke your words split the air
Such very important tongues were struck As dumb as wizards down on their luck Made clean before intense love so rare
Big words and actions the world reveres Of politicians and kings and seers Who wave and pose within publicity’s glare
But in an instant their deeds are done It’s harder to face the morning sun Endlessly giving, when no one seems to care
Chorus: Take heed of the eastern prophecies, their promises may be ours to keep But we fly toward the flame, an endless sea, of doubt desire and wrong
Will we ever be wise in our present time? Do dusty old books still claim our minds? Read them clearly to help us to find, a journey not so long
A haunted look a desperate eye
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