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REDWOOD RINGS words and music by Paula Bliss
Lengthening like the redwood Reaching out madrone Balancing the light, the weight, the night, With days of play Full of surprise Of all of us Aspects all we must Let fly in the name of spirit body Everybody dance
Sound lifted Round rising Phrase gliding Through the air Inspiring Earth, sky, sound, water, fly Everywhere Everybody dance
Redwood rings Of fairies sing A chorus round Encircling Our dimmest lights Our softest song Our sweetest thoughts The love surrounds
Lengthening like the redwood Reaching out madrone
SLEEP IS PEACE words and music by Paula Bliss
Riding on clouds Of deep sleep breath We angels travel, we angels travel, We angels travel In time and space from our beds
Rolling over changing hemispheres Rolling over changing centuries As actor and audience we resolve And sleep is peace is sleep
The pure face on the pillow The first face on the pillow We angels travel, we angels travel, We angels travel In time and space from our beds
Rolling over changing hemispheres Rolling over changing centuries Rolling over changing hemispheres Rolling over changing centuries As actor and audience we resolve And sleep is peace is sleep….
SWEET MUSIC poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson music by Paula Bliss
There is sweet music here That softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids on tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from blissful skies.
Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labor in deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
There is sweet music here That softer falls That softer falls...
AMUSE US words and music by Paula Bliss
Chorus:
“Amuse us Muses Nine With stories Spanning all of time Poems and songs To guide us along The trail to Mount Parnassus Through the halls on Mount Olympus.”
Muses:
“We are summoned Through beg and call and prayer Through wistful dreams While floating on the cradle blue A stream Of soft focus Becoming defined.”
All:
And the muse’s gifts fall as rain Splash Ripple
Divine
TAKE ME BACK words by Paula Bliss music by Bob and Paula Bliss
forgive give for the love of us…
back lit standing in the bedroom doorway not knowing if you’re inside or out the field of trust either of us inside the love of us
take me back into your heart again please take me back into your heart into your heart again
the field of trust either of us inside the love of us
please take me back into your heart again please take me back
take me back into your heart again please take me back into your heart into your heart again
forgive give for the love of us
WISH I WISH words and music by Paula Bliss
These aren’t the stars that I saw from my crib The patterns are different ever since I slid From my old world to new On a river of blue High above my home Left my family alone
The smell from my kitchen Is reaching me here Mom’s cooking my favorite Wishing I was there
Her tears add the salt To my favorite dish I wish I could taste it I wish I wish
The birds that fly south, know their way home The fish swim up stream, to the place that they’ve known They follow the map that is etched in their hearts I wish, I wish, we were no longer apart.
I see the plume from my daddy’s cigar I hear him pacing “How could you have gone so far?” The cat is crying, rubbing up against his leg They look at each other and know the unsaid
The birds that fly south, know their way home The fish swim up stream, to the place they were born They follow the map that is etched in their hearts I wish, I wish, we were no longer apart.
WASHING WALTZ music and lyrics by Paula Bliss
In a light breeze from earlier days the clothes on the line danced in the sun. The hands of our grandparents pinning the corners of shirts, pants, and socks one by one.
From a basket full of beautiful wash come dancing clothes that are tossed and tossed by a wind so playful you never know when pant legs will leap and sleeves will blow.
The sun, wind, water will always provide a transformation from wet to dry, wet to dry…
Simple feels good It sounds so complicated But simple is fine It’s nature’s refinement Simple feels good It sounds so complicated But simple is fine It’s nature’s sweet refinement Sweet design
The clouds so full and dark with rain float over the mountains over the plains And drop their gifts one by one so our clothes can be washed can be hung up to dry Under a clearing blue sky Clear blue sky…
The sun, wind, water will always provide a transformation from wet to dry, wet to dry…
Simple feels right Simple feels good We’re taken care of Let’s take care too Simple is good It sounds so complicated Simple is fine It’s nature’s sweet refinement Sweet design
Under a clearing blue sky Clear blue sky
WINDS OF PALOLO words and music by Paula Bliss
Winds of Palolo blow Come air out my head Help the past go a roll...oh Fill me with jasmine instead Fill me with jasmine instead Pikake filling my head
Clouds rest on mountain tops high They could hang there all day And the ironwoods on top are inside Oh they blow me away To live here blows me away Clouds let go and go ocean way
My eyes are feasting on the green And my toes are dug into this deep red earth This amazing dirt they helps all this to grow
Winds of Palolo blow Blow the rains down to me Ah if I can grow like all this grows I’ll be the one I know I can be Stretching out like a monkey pod tree In the sun, on the earth, by the sea
Now’s the time and place is here Breathe deeply exhale the fear I’m so lucky to be breathing here… All surrounds, comes in and goes Fills me up and I let it all go…
Winds of Palolo blow Winds of Palolo blow Winds of Palolo blow…
REMEMBER words and music by Paula Bliss
What do I have to remember you by? The stars in the sky are like the light in your eyes The warmth of a fire when you're standing near The Mississippi's flooding with all of my tears
I stand by this river Watching life moving by Curving and bending 'til it's out of sight I trust that all rivers Run into the same Big ocean that brings us together again
What do I have to remember you by? Are we just fireflies a moment in the night? Can you hear the things I've always wanted to say? Can you still see me with your starry eyes today?
TRAIN TRAIN words and music by Paula Bliss
Train Train take me Out of this town Curving, then straight ahead, Rising up and down.
Train Train take me Open my eyes wide To wonders I’ve never dreamed of With lavender skies.
Tell Claude the Brakeman Slack on the job Let the train keep going Don’t ever let it stop No don’t ever let it stop!
Train Train take me Out of this town Curving, then straight ahead, Rising up and down.
When BC takes your ticket On the C & O Know you can go anywhere Anywhere you want to go Anywhere you want to go!
'Cuz this train we don’t have to jump We don’t have to run to get up speed Everyone here gets a seat All my friends, all my friends, all my friends and me!
Train Train take me Out of this town Curving, then straight ahead, Rising up and down. Rising up and down. Rising up and down. Train! Train!
DOVES words and music by Paula Bliss with Bob Bliss
The doves are starting to fill the sky Their white outlined by blue on high Each flap of wing sends a rippling ring Accompanied by coos - this sweet song they sing ...coo, coo...
If it’s imaginable It’s possible If you can see it It can be
The hawks retreat hearing sounds so sweet The crows, jays hide in the tallest trees As the blinding white that can only bring A new insight – a new beginning
If it’s imaginable It’s possible If you can see it It can be
The doves are starting to fill the sky Their white outlined by blue on high Each flap of wing sends a rippling ring Accompanied by coos - this sweet song they sing ...coo, coo...
If it’s imaginable It’s possible If you can see it It can be
If it’s imaginable It’s possible If you can see it It can be ...a land of loving peace
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