Circle of Sparks Lyrics
GHOST EYE
(Maxym/Selkye)
I’ll walk with you, I’ll
walk with you home tonight
This mood I’m in, let’s shed our skin in the twilight
This gate’s all rusted and this old house is falling apart
This lock can’t be trusted and this old story just hangs on
my heart
Come with me to these ghost-eyed rooms
One eye sees rain and the other sees ruin
While the dust devils make midnight at noon
We’ll be the hammer, the bell, and the broom
Here in this house, been empty so long
Let’s sweep all the sand back where it came from
There’s smoke in the canyon with no rain in sight
The snake in the riverbed is weaving a trail in the moonlight
Come with me to these ghost-eyed rooms
One eye sees the rain and the other sees ruin
While the dust devils make midnight at noon
We’ll be the hammer, the bell, and the broom
I’ll walk with you, I’ll
walk with you home tonight
This mood I’m in, let’s shed our skin in the twilight
This mood I’m in, in the twilight, the twilight…
HELICOPTER
(Maxym)
I thought you were my Helicopter
To pick me up and put me down
In a brand new and exciting place
In a brand new and exciting town
I thought you were my adventure
I thought you were my open book
You really liked the letters I sent you
I really liked your crooked good looks
I need a change
(I could get in my car but the river’s flooded the road)
I need a change
(The rain feels cool on my face, the wind feels so cold)
I need a change
(You can’t stop the water from where it wants to go)
I need a change
(Sometimes I wish I was that river, oh…)
I used to find little notes in my pocket
We’d sit on the porch, warm our skin in the sun
We used to leave the door wide open and never lock it
We’d talk all night ‘bout the things we’d done
I thought you were my adventure
I thought you were my open book
You really liked the letters I sent you
I really liked your crooked good looks
I need a change….
Oh, we’ve been living here for years, we’ve
been holding it down
Oh, we’ve been planting the same seeds
We’ve been digging the same ground
I need a change…
ONE SUMMER
(Maxym)
One summer night under the window open wide
I thought I saw you walk
I thought you were living so far
Some place with her name I can’t recall
I wonder sometimes if you wonder like I do at all…
I tried so hard to hold you
I tried so hard to let you go
You knew then that I knew you didn’t want it like I wanted
it so…
Remember the time you stayed with me for a while
We watched the winter rain from the sofa inside
Remember the time I flew to see you once, or was it twice
We went for that long, long, long drive
One summer night under the window open wide
I thought I saw you walk by
I tried so hard to hold you I tried so hard to let you go
You knew then that I knew you didn’t want it like I wanted
it,
Oh I wanted it so…
I wonder sometimes if you wonder like I do at all
I thought I saw you walk by…
HERE
(Maxym)
The wind blows skin so warm, the earth smells sweet
The water moves so slow, so slow…beneath our feet
Here…Here…Here…Here…
There’s
nowhere else we really need to be
and nothing, oh nothing we need to do
And time will have to wait another day when I’m here with
you
Here…Here…Here…
Let it go, Let it go, Let it go
Let it go, Let it go, Let it go
There’s always this, there’s
always that
There’s always what you’re hoping for
There’s always if, there’s always when
There’s always what you’re longing for
What will be will be
What was, was what came before
I don’t pretend to know, I don’t pretend to know
I don’t need to anymore
Here…Here…Here…
Let it go, Let it go, Let it go
Let it go, Let it go, Let it go
SO MANY LIGHTS
(Maxym)
There are so many lights in this world
They can block out the moon and the stories of stars
So many roads in this world
So many planes and busses and cars
Oh…rich
knowledge of the land
Oh…rich knowledge of the land
There are so many people in this world
who see money as God and women as money
And so many guns in this world
So many bombs and many hands bloody
Oh…rich
knowledge of the land
Oh…rich knowledge of the land
There is so much beauty in this world
The reddest sun, the darkest eyes
And so much bounty in this world
The taste on our tongues
The richest surprise
Indigenous life…not alone
Aboriginal rights…not alone
African plight…not alone
Babies cry…not alone
Elders wise…not alone
Ancient rite…not alone
Magnificent sight…not alone
The darkness…the light…
MIND AND THE FIRE
(Maxym/Anthony)
I am the Bone
I am the Skin
I am the Mind and the Fire
I am the Stone
I am the Feel
I am the Wave and Desire
Fire….Fire….Fire….Fire…
I am the Mind and the Fire…
Before Nothing I AM
Before Woman I AM
Before Space I AM
Before Time
Before Water I AM
Before Man I AM
Before Mother I AM
Before Mind
Fire….Fire…Fire…Fire
I am the Mind and the Fire…
I am the Bone
I am the Skin
I am The Mind and the Fire
I am the Stone
I am the Feel
I am the Wave and Desire
Fire….Fire….Fire….Fire….
I am the Mind and the Fire…
TROUBLE
(Maxym)
I could put up some wallpaper and try to cover these walls
Try to cover the stains in the bedroom and the halls
I could try to make it look real pretty and try to make it look
real nice
I could even cover them once and then cover them one more time
A Wise Woman once told me You gotta kick this trouble real good
You gotta drive it on out from your old neighborhood
You gotta tell Old Trouble- Don’t you live here no more
Don’t blow through my window, don’t walk, don’t
you walk through my door
I could whitewash the fence and plant roses in the yard
I could smile for the camera and pretend this life’s not been
so hard
But it’s a sticky situation that I find myself in
It’s a game that I choose not to play and I don’t care
to win
Oh West Wind, will you do a favor for me
Will you blow these memories over the Mountains out to the Sea
And ask her if she’ll take them and swallow them with the
tide
I want nothing more to keep, and I want nothing, nothing more to
hide
I could put up some wallpaper and try to cover these walls
Try to cover the stains in the bedroom and the halls
I could try to make it look pretty and try to make it look real
nice
I could even cover them once and then cover them one more time
Wise Woman told me You gotta kick it real good
Gotta kick this trouble right out of your neighborhood
Oh I’m not afraid I’m not afraid no more
Cause trouble can’t find my window, and it can’t find
my door
(Trouble, Trouble, do what she said)
EVERYTHING
(Maxym)
What’s
this spell you conjured up
What’s this potion you slipped into my cup
It’s making me spin round in this circle of sparks
with lightning in my feet and a fever in my heart
What’s this spell you conjured up
What’s this potion you slipped into my cup
It’s making me stop and fall down on my knees
with a flame in my belly
and the taste on my tongue so bitter and so sweet
Oh the difference between you and I
Like the parched earth and the darkening sky
When water meets the desert plain
Desert blooms with the desert rain
This much I
know, you’re
everything
Oh, you’re everything
This much I know, you’re everything, everything
What’s
this spell you conjured up
What’s this potion you slipped into my cup
It’s making me stop and fall down on my knees
with a flame in my belly
and the taste on my tongue so bitter and so sweet
Oh the difference between you and I
Like the parched earth and the darkening sky
When water meets the desert plain
Desert blooms with the desert rain
This much I
know, you’re
everything
Oh you’re everything, everything
Oh you’re everything, oh you’re everything…
THE RIVER
(Oryema)
Paint me a picture of a river
and let it flow
just let it flow
it will flow and wash away our differences
and love will grow
You have the power to deliver
so let it flow
When I dip my hand into your water
I feel your soul
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
I'll do the fire by your river of melted stone
you can drink the silver of my moonlight
as our fire burns
the fire burns
I'll slide inside your silent water
like polished stone
then break the surface with a shiver
while the river flows
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
Paint me a picture of the river
and let it flow
let it flow
all across the deserts and the mountains
we'll let it go
let it go
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
Nafikiliya Koruba Shamba
