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Cut the nightmares from my body
And burn them with the medical waste
Burn the hairs from my skin
And cut eyebrows in my face
Take the toxins from my system
Put the pills beneath my tongue
The doctors keep my money
But the hormones keep me young
The world may burn around me
The boundary may be crossed
Death may tap my shoulder
And all may seem lost
At midnight as the present
Approaches critical mass
Just one thing is certain
That this too shall pass
If glamour is resistance
And mystery my guide
Beauty is my weapon
When there is nowhere to hide
Let the dream become real
And the real become dream
Let the chrysalis twist
And break at the seams
Let the chaos feed my evolution
Let the phoenix rise again
Let the chaos feed my evolution
Let the change come from within
Can’t stop the world from changing
Old legacies destroyed
Obsolete and screaming
On their way into the void
They call my life a protest
An existential threat
To traditions being vanquished
By the peerless Internet
But I see no shining future
Just the now to trust
I can’t trust in fucking Facebook
Not Google, or Elon Musk
Not Wal-Mart, not Chevron
Coke, or the NFL
And not Trump, or the fucking government
Or any other demon in this hell
Rearrange the deck chairs
And play the violins
Race off to the lifeboats
And eat the one who wins
The rats have fled the shipwreck
Sharks arrive at dawn
Capital is everything
And everything is wrong
Let the dream become real
And the real become dream
Let the chrysalis twist
And break at the seams
Let the chaos feed my evolution
Let the phoenix rise again
Let the chaos feed my evolution
Let the change come from within
Navigate the sea of information
At your fingertips, on command
Illuminate the world with your creations
Let the children understand
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Lay me down into the stream
Give me back my memory
And then I'll wake up in
Another time and place
You can follow close behind
But take care to open your mind
And see what happens when
You break into space
Yeaaaaaaah, whoaaaaa
Your love is giving me life
Hear the rushing wind alive
And feel the radiating fire
You are connected to
Something with no name
Feel it coming closer now
I don't know why, I don't know how
But everything, my love
Is happening again
Yeaaaaaaah, whoaaaaa
Your love is giving me life
To call the bolt of lightning
From your lips to sing
A rolling crack of thunder
To light the fire in your veins
'Til when you're cut
You bleed out an inferno
A galaxy of shifting skies
Dance the rainbows in your eyes
Beyond the dream alive
In the afterglow
Within the love I have for you
Lay the love you have for me
Another lifetime in
The universe we know
Feel it coming closer now
I don't know why, I don't know how
But everything, my love
Is happening again
Yeaaaaaaaaaah, whoooaaa
Your love is giving me life
Your love is giving me life
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3. |
Illusionary Kingdom
03:51
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The shadow on the wall
Walks up to you to say
Hello, how are you
Do you know what you are?
I and all my friends hear you
Thinking out your problems
You drink to kill the voices
That the pills can't keep away
And live between the worlds
Of your eyes and your visions
And wonder long and hard
Which is which
You search to find the edge
Of this illusionary kingdom
The dream life
Just as real as this
And love can help you remember
That we came here to learn
And nothing is lost, no one forgotten
You know, you're not alone
No, not alone
Breathing in the smoke is when you
Feel the revelation
Of nothing
And everything at once
You shine out through a neon world
Beyond all your senses
With patterns
Blooming in your way
And cry out at the end of time
Until you finally realize
That heaven
Was always here and now
And all the kingdom lives
For you to see through this illusion
And know us
As we are
And love can help you remember
That we came here to learn
And nothing is lost, no one forgotten
You know you're not alone
No, not alone
No, not alone
No, not alone
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4. |
Ghosts of Tomorrow
04:29
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Dance, you know they love to
Dance, oh they feel it and
Dance, just close your eyes
I see them too
Sing, you've got to let yourself
Sing, 'cos everybody can
Sing, you just let your love
Sing through you, oh honey
All your life you wondered how you knew
All the things that come to you
All your past lives screaming out to you
All the wild dreams, they're all true
They're all true, yeah
They're all true, true, true, yeah
Live, despite it all, hon
Live, it's never easy just
Live, like only we dare
Live today to
Dream, you know we're living this
Dream, just let it come to you
Dream, and now you're dreaming
This melody, oh honey
All your life you wondered how you knew
All the things that come to you
All your past lives screaming out to you
All the wild dreams, they're all true
They're all true, yeah
They're all true, true, true, yeah
Ghosts of tomorrow are calling out to play
Ghosts of tomorrow and yesterday
They're always with you, so don't be afraid
Every day is today
A chrysanthemum unfolding in fields of infinite light
In the space beyond time where all dreams are manifest
In endless waves of liquid pearl shimmering amidst the void
Like neon creatures of the deep sea shining out among
Livid negative space in the thoughtscape of tomorrow
All your life you wondered how you knew
All the things that come to you
All your past lives screaming out to you
All the wild dreams, they're all true
They're all true, yeah
They're all true, true, true, yeah
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5. |
The Third Wish
04:03
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I awake at midnight
In the pentagram
With a beautiful witch
And no memory of the days before
She is ageless
A ritual of one
Wears the colors of the earth
And smiles like the sun
She has a star on her temple
And an ankh on her chest
She points to an hourglass
Between my breasts
And she says,
"Now your third wish,
What will it be?
What will it be?"
What will it be?
What will it be?
I'm not ready
I ask her, "What happened to the first two wishes?"
She says, "The first was to become what you are,
The second, to forget what you were
And now your third wish, what will it be?"
I ask, "Will you teach me what to wish for?"
Tongues of neon fire scream from out her whips
And shards of living lightning spill from out her lips
Streams of liquid starlight pour from out her eyes
Snake across the dust, and arrive
Sweet and fragrant on my tongue
What will it be?
What will it be?
I'm not ready
A burning flush of quicksilver at the base of my spine
And the starlight rises vertebrae by vertebrae
Until it pours from out my eyes as well
The colors of the earth
Become the colors of the sky
And the Goddess steps forth
She adorns her forehead
With terror and fearsome radiance
At dawn we climb the mountain path
And arrive at the gate of wonder
She makes an offering and speaks this prayer
"You made me to ask a question
And I made you to answer."
What will it be?
What will it be?
I'm not ready
The gate opens, and we pass beyond
To the Palace of the moon
And the Goddess fills her seat
In honor of heaven, and she says
"The moment that you know yourself
Is living in your future
And the distance from your heart
Is ebbing as you learn to listen
As you grow and as you glisten
In the light behind the door
The radiance alive
And singing from those distant shores."
And she says, "Your third wish, my love
What will it be?"
What will it be?
What will it be?
What will it be?
What will it be?
I'm ready
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Feathers Wise Brooklyn, New York
Feathers is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She began writing music as a young teenager with her home-built PC and Scream Tracker 2. She studied music in College and dropped out to transition. She found her voice singing at queer piano bars and around Radical Faerie fire circles. After many episodes of marginal living, she landed in Brooklyn in 2016. ... more
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