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Intro
02:03
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Jenny
03:39
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Jenny takes care of the flowers at her husband’s grave.
His body is gone but love won't fade.
So many are gone into the sea looking for an escape.
Swallowed by waves but these smiles remain.
She planted roses in the rain.
She wanted love to remain.
She found a new home, and her name was changed.
Along with the years she felt forced to accept the same.
The children grew up and then forgot their past.
But around the grave sorrow won’t last.
She planted roses in the rain.
She wanted love to remain.
credits
released July 11, 2016
Music: From a Distance
Lyrics: From a Distance and Lou Richards
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The Crossing
04:25
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From A Distance
04:32
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection
I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me
I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips
I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams, you have no end
I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain
(Lyrics based on a poem ascribed to the Persian poet and Sufi master Jalal al-Din Rumi, d. 1273)
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So you sigh in front of the mirror, and cloud the surface
keep your breath, like a diver, deep in the water
Your face is no eternity, only a reflection
Don’t be dead, asleep or awake, don’t be anything
What you most want, or you travel around
Wishing to find, is waiting for you
So lose yourself as lovers would do
And you’ll be that
((Lyrics based on a poem ascribed to the Persian mystical poet Farid al-Din ‘Attar, d. ca 1221, see: iranicaonline.org/articles/attar-farid-al-din-poet)
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Come
03:36
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Knock, and I'll open
Vanish I'll make you shine
Fall, and I'll raise you
Be nothing, I'll turn you into everything
And come whoever you are, water or fire.
(Lyrics based on a poem ascribed to the Persian poet and Sufi master Jalal al-Din Rumi, d. 1273)
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Unwavering Love
03:00
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The night might follow the day
or my home turn into dust
And everything on earth disappoint me
But I won’t change my love
But I won’t change my love
Have I your love? What more can I attain?
You are a king. To your place no road leads
I’ve had enough of loss; I’ve had enough of gain.
Have I your love? What more can I attain?
(The first four lines of this song are the English rendering of a poem by René Roty, Paris 1906 -1994, “Pèlerin de l’Éternité”: La nuit peut succéder au jour / Ma maison tomber en poussière / Et tout me décevoir sur terre, / Je ne changerai pas d’amour. See René Roty, Pèlerin de l’Éternité. Paroles et poèmes sur la quête de Dieu, éditions Gnôsis, 2013)
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Fingers
01:44
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So you sigh in front of the mirror, and cloud the surface
keep your breath, like a diver, deep in the water
Your face is no eternity, only a reflection
Don’t be dead, asleep or awake, don’t be anything
What you most want, or you travel around
Wishing to find, is waiting for you
So lose yourself as lovers would do
And you’ll be that
(Lyrics based on a poem ascribed to the Persian mystical poet Farid al-Din ‘Attar, d. ca 1221)
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