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Blood & Gum Leaves
04:25
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Blood & Gum Leaves
All the dreamers are dying
Where I sit by the lake
I can see them climbing
Up a rainbow coloured snake
Towards the stars of their ancestors
I see them wander away
Across the sands of time they go
We'll never see them again
I see their blood in the billabong
Why must there be so much wrong with man?
I pray one day we can get along
And find the strength in ourselves
To shake hands with our brothers
So want not for yourself, but others
Cos there's only ever love
Beneath the colour of your skin
Or the clothes you're living in
I hope one day we learn the way we've been
Is just destructive
And we must give back our lands;
Our lives and tribes in the end
Blend into one in the setting sun
For all the things that we've stolen
You know they'll never forget
And all the wrong that we've done them
We're bound to answer for this
But I have found the solution
For all the debt that we owe
We've got a lot we can give right back
So that our culture can grow
I see their blood in the billabong
Why must there be so much wrong with man?
I pray one day we can get along
And find the strength in ourselves
To shake hands with our brothers
So want not for yourself, but others
Cos there's only ever love
Beneath the colour of your skin
Or the clothes you're living in
I hope one day we learn the way we've been
Is just destructive
And we must give back our lands;
Our lives and tribes in the end
Blend into one in the setting sun
I see the gum by the billabong
And a surer shift in the sand
Now believe that we all belong
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Sun, Salt, Sand & A Man
05:52
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Sun, Salt, Sand & A Man
I want to see terracotta roofs in the morning
While the sun comes up behind the castle on the point
You know there's not many things that I could want more
Than to surround myself with the water and sunshine
Oh you know they say that money comes to those
That focus on things they love; without stress there comes progress
And that's why I've come to the conclusion
That the summer's gonna see me on an island in the Med
When I rest in the sea, the salt heals my body
And I know I'm not the only one
Who's a man of the sun
Someday the summer's gonna see me
On both sides of the world
I'm the sun, salt, sand and a man
I'm dreaming bout rivers running through the mountains
And the moon up above us as we jam around the fire
Know I'm witnessing my life as it begins
To take the form I want; it grows with every word I do write
Here it feels like all the people are so real
It restores my faith in our breed and humanity
And that's why I've come to the conclusion
That the summer's gonna see me with a place to lay my head
To rest in the sea, the salt heals my body
And I know I'm not the only one
Who's a man of the sun
Someday the summer's gonna see me
On both sides of the world
I'm the sun, salt, sand and a man
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Winter Rain
04:50
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Winter Rain
Winter rain, wash my gutters clean
Keep me sane, and off the sorry street
It's not unlike you to keep me in at night
I know you well, and you know me right
Some day soon, when you're coming down
I'll find a way for me to get around
But you know till then, and you know it good
I'll be at the door in my riding hood
Winter rain, you know my bed is warm
Still I've got my boots inside the dresser drawer
And you know they make, make me want to leave
I'll flee this goddamn prison cell one day, you'll see
And when I do you know the sun will shine
And these walls will breathe a heavy sigh
But what good is sun, even without the rain
If you let the weather always make you its sorry slave?
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A Reason, A Season Or A Lifetime
We're all students of the world
Our lives take different journeys
In light of us learning
Our pages keep turning
And forward we walk to peace
Never repeat a rhyme when it's time
To carve your own lines
Cos a friend is a fine form of change
And they make you look at yourself
Like a book on the shelf
You must dust yourself off and dive in head first
Into the limitless love of this vast universe
I'm here with my mind wide open
And I met you for a reason or maybe a season
To help each others' hearts unfolding
Let go, let flow and you never really do know
But sometimes, while living in the sunshine
We find a soul who's here to guide us
It's our choice to learn from those who grace us with love
Some will teach you for a day, others longer than a lifetime
Now I'm calling out with the truth
To be you and always pursue all the goals in your soul
That are bursting on through to daylight
Where you're bound to find
Freedom in the air and loving everywhere
I'm here with my mind wide open
And I met you for a reason or maybe a season
To help each other's hearts unfolding
Let go, let flow and you never really do know
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Rivermouth
04:58
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Rivermouth
Take me down to the river
Walk me slow through the gum trees
My open mind is a lighthouse now
As we paddle back downstream
Heading towards the ocean
The human life is a discourse
From true love and devotion
Sitting on this board makes me stop and pause
On my way to the Rivermouth
Gonna find people singing
And swell lines rolling in
Into the coast I love the most
It all makes sense at the Rivermouth
Yeah you know this place is golden
And I want to grow old round here
On the coast I love the most
Build me a home in the gum trees
Plant me some plum trees too
And maybe me and you
Could wake up early every morning
Jump straight out of bed
Without a care for our weary heads
Run down the tracks in the sand, be part of the land
Yeah we could swim in the ocean forever
Gonna find people singing
And swell lines rolling in
Into the coast I love the most
You'll find me down at the Rivermouth
Yeah you know this place is golden
And I want to grow old round here
On the coast I love the most
On the Rivermouth, yeah my soul is heading south
To the Rivermouth, oh I'd love to live around
The Rivermouth, know my feet grow into the ground
At the Rivermouth
Darling I think it sounds
Like we're moving down right now
To Margaret's town
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New Moon
04:15
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New Moon
And as the sun slips behind the clouds
I'm wondering if you can hear us now
We're all singing for you - hope we're right on tune
The tide is going out and like it you are leaving too
I can see down to the point where I was today
Riding triple over head to wash away the pain
But now I'm tearing up and struggling to get it out
It's hard to sit here on the sand and know you're not around
But then I think about the way that life always goes
And how you're swimming with us now in the cosmic flow
Now all there is has got to come from somewhere in the start
And that knowledge is a gift for all our heavy hearts
So like the sky changing colour you are changing form
While all the people that did love you here have come to mourn
Take your time, but remember in your mind
That with every sunset you see a new moon rise up
Now the sky is growing dark and stars are coming out
While a greater sense of peace inside I have found
And while it's tough for all of us to simply just let go
I realise we'll see you on the other side
And like a river you are roaming into newer lands
That mirror lines on the palms of both your human hands
I see your light, and it's shining ever brighter
Now you see the sunset and a new moon rise up
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Water Bones
07:00
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Water Bones
The Power fills us up with an everlasting love
That manifests in amazing ways
But how can we be reborn when we fossilise the forms
That keep us trapped in the cloudier days?
Now rise on up out of slumber
And treat yourself to a better experience of life
Cos all you hear is just the same songs being sung
By the blind ones who sleep there, cold in their prisons
I hope you all are listening
My water bones lead my soul
Out into the ocean where I find my home
Despite the cold, I can control all my emotions
When I open to the overflow
So I ride down to the point
Where I always do enjoy the very best of our Mother's melody
And as I sit down on the sand I let the universe flow through my hands
And open up my soul to everything She's telling me
Now nature is the connection; it keeps us all from forgetting
That we're all part of one world, one song
Singing bout the happier days before the wars begun
To make us think that we're all alone
When in fact from the same tree all our single seeds are sewn
My water bones lead my soul
Out into the ocean where I find my home
Despite the cold, I can control all my emotions
When I open to the overflow
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Blue Child Collective Margaret River, Australia
A Fluid Groove collaboration born from the West Australian coastline, Blue Child Collective's easy-flowing, conscious song craft "evokes the gentle rhythms and roaring freedom of Australia’s seaside" (Happy Mag).
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