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Newts and adders
00:52
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A childhood of rue,
rowan, bracken and brecon beacons.
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Kerridwen
04:41
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Now long and long ago,
in the days of merlin and arthur,
there lived a woman of power.
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G'iday
01:52
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G'iday sweet potato.
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Op Shop
01:35
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If yr glad rags have lost their smile,
and the shag is long gone from your shag pile.
If yr life is polyester and you couldn't give a darn.
If yr living in the city or down on the farm.
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Bees
04:47
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To be or not to bee.
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Moulting Lagoon
01:30
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Hey listen,
to the sandpipers,
the snipe the oyster catcher,
red beak and ready.
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Jellyfish in space
02:36
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Jellyfish in space wrap the air with their embrace,
and pirouette with ballerina grace.
Surrendered to gravities slipstream of stars,
that pluck the living light.
They have no eyes to see,
to gage and scheme the passing dream,
of shapes.
Sun's rise to carve a day,
no go or stay, nor name to hail,
or second to tick the time away.
There is no time!
Jellyfish in space,
swim the soup of biologies race,
glow with phosphorescent trace.
Bubbling primordial green,
activates a galactic expresso machine.
Jellyfish in space,
one day find their resting place.
Accupunctured by primal light,
programmed for fight or flight
awakens now the sleeping cell,
and the archetypal crier rings a bell,
hear ye hear ye,
one second left and all is well.
From here on thru it's up to you heaven hell,
and the bell tolls a knell.
Protons, electrons, positrons,
small but all on call,
spinning now like the harlequin jugglers coloured balls.
Traces an orbit in photon phase, yr cosmic memory neva erased, locked in countdown with boosters ablaze.
!), ( ,*, &, ^, %, $, #, @, !,
We have liftoff,
a pineal flicker,
a blue print carbon copy, photostat jellyfish
swims inexorably earthward,
bravely onward,
ceremonially forward.
Whirlpool to spiral,
helix descent.
Tumbling to matter,
through tunnels of jewels.
From deep down the diamond mine of d.n.a.
Encrusted crystalline fine,flicking tail and man of war sail.
To fulfil desire again and again.
First breath to death,
and feeding fuel to fire as the flames crackle higher.
On the dear old battle field of time.
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I am Am i
01:40
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If i am that i am,
that i am i am.
Therefore i must be, you see, i think!?.
But am i flesh or mind,
unzip my skin and what do you find?.
Am i senses taste, smell,
ears, eyes, hands as well?.
Am i anything at all,
good, bad, answers,
questions, happy, sad?.
And when i crumble back to clay,
do i go, do i stay?
I'm just looking for my face in the cosmic spin,
do i end,
did i begin?
What about judgment,
criticism too,
i don't like him,
but i do like you.
Am i this idea that i have of me,
a bird in a cage singing to be?.
So am i skin,
black white,
am i darkness,
am i light?.
Was i just then or here and now,
hindu, sufi, zen or tao?.
What about the elements,
earth, air,
in water and fire,
do you find me there?.
Am i personality,
or a never changing reality?,
tangled up in space and time,
turning reason back to rhyme.
So am i ego,
there you go,
a bubble that you see.
Or am i the ancient, future moment eternally?.
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Hare de la Lune
01:23
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Ah, hare de la lune,
mad as march you are.
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Satyam Sam
03:01
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There once was a man,
sam satyam.
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Waltzing to Mullum
02:51
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Once a jolly hippy,
camped with his mull and bong.
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Basil
06:34
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Once upon a pineapple sage,
rosemary and thyme,
there was a fellow called basil.
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Wilberforce
02:57
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Here i lie,
wing commander,
claude wilberforce watkins.
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Axolotyl
03:56
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An alchoholic axolotyl,
crawled out of his pond and took to the bottle.
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Water
01:17
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Water, water you remember it all,
a real shapeshifter with total recall.
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General Chaos
02:39
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General chaos here,
it was the summer of 42,
or was it the winter of 93?.
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Urban Shaman
01:49
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I'm an urban shaman,
used to be a barman,
i'm so cool i'm no fool,
i don't need a car man.
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Ryokan
03:30
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Long ago and far away,
on the islands of japan.
Lived a hermit monk named ryokan.
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Therapy
02:56
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Iv'e tried re earthing.
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Astro illogical
03:22
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Now i'm just your average kind of guy,
with cancer in uranus.
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Saturday nite fever
03:42
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Whatever happened to the good old diseases?.
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The Wyrdd
03:52
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Early one morning,
on a beach lit by a crescent moon,
i met a man who told me a story.
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23. |
Greenman
06:46
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Shivakti Byron Bay, Australia
A sonic salad of homegrown songs, toe tapping tunes, evocative verse, melodic grooves, healing drones, harmonic overtones, fun, laughter, wild nature and tales of the ancient future -NOW. Shivakti are Russell, Mayinda & friends. ... more
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