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Hello Gorgeous
03:21
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“Hello Gorgeous” ©Ger Wolfe 2020
1. Hello gorgeous , is this where you hide when Winter cuts her old cold letters in the glass?
Silver- frosted grass
Hello angel, I have searched the streets and all the broken alleys, from the frozen past,
Emptiness at last
Sea wave / skywards / heart-worn / old-words
2. Goodbye sorrow all you gave us since you landed in our doorway is eloquence and loss
Is chance the coin you toss?
Goodbye absolute perfection , we who’ve struggled in your shadow, choose to go at last
Loose your brittle grasp
Freedom / calling /soaring / gliding /dancing / laughter / Bright-eyed / Wonder
3.Hello Gorgeous, is this where you go when sunshine sends you playing , in the tall tall grass?
Summer’s come at last.
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The Last Rose of Summer
05:50
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The last rose of Summer. ©Ger Wolfe 2020
1.The last rose of Summer lies down on the lawn, blue-skied forever long after the Fall
Out of the garden I’s banished to roam, over the estuary, the blood-dark foam
Because you held me in the evening , the road all quiet and the terror gone,
I hold a vessel of forgiveness, and flare a signal for our love, for your love.
2.Sirens are only just faded and worn, under the bridge still afraid of the dawn
Such a long journey and such a dark roadlonging for letters or a postcard from home
Because you snag out in the twilight, the coffee clouds and the radio on,
I hold a vessel of Redemption , and draw a symbol of a loss.
3.Digital memory , predictive verbs, acres of messages, bundles of words
Can’t even shadow the warmth of your hand
Down on the footpath alone now I stand
Because you held me in the evening, beside the ruined city walls, I am a vessel of our parting, the silent songbird when you call,
Because you held me in the evening, the road torn and the terror come, you are a vessel of our parting, the silent songbird I can’t call.
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A Call To Arms
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A Call to Arms- ©Ger Wolfe 2020.
1. You took my hand and led me out of time,
Into the hills and the mountains high
When I lay lost, my mind all gone astray
You shone a light into my dark
When only chaos was my vision and confusion shook a stick at simple ways un-complicated
2. The scattered earth, the broken consequence,
Of all that hurt and all this shame.
The shattered glaze, unspoken confidence
Of this one heart in it’s refrain.
3 .A blossom falls, something so intricate,
A call to arms, a flight of doves. A nation reels, intrusion delicate, A loss of charms, an idol down.
3. You took my hand and led me out of time,
Into the hills and the mountains high
When I lay lost, my mind all gone astray
You shone a light into the dark
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When we were farming land © Ger Wolfe 2020
I hold your hand the snow is on the ground
We walk rough land the evening shadows grow
Along the way we see the rivers flow
They come and go out of our view but still
You have your father’s face, his eyes and turn of phrase
You move your arms around just like he did, when we were farming land
2.I hold your hand the sun lights on your brow
Brightens your face the days are longer now
Along the way we hear creation groan
It weaves a blanket where the leaves are blown
Ch.
3.A Journey long a Winter on the road
So many steps tghe counting comes and goes
The rhyme of night and day all winter long
The climbing hill the calling birds of song.
No chorus here.
4.You hold my hand the years have come and gone
Left with this tune a half remembered song
Hope is a memory in the haze of time
One syllable alive a nursery rhyme.
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I won't forget your name
02:47
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I won’t forget your name. © Ger Wolfe 2020
1.Lost in a maze of sorrow, Bound by the chains of hatred and despair,
Caught in a web of violence, All because you believe this god of fear,
Look to the world of sparrows, Look to the world of children at their play,
Hear all this dancing music, Look to the river flowing through the day,
Look to the world of brightness. Look to the Queen of beauty on her throne,
This is the work of Wisdom, This is the ploughing sower and the sown-
The sun burns through the sky, The stars light up the night,
The truth it will remain, Like a river flowing across the earth, my love is
in your heart I won’t forget your name. No no I won’t forget your name
no no no forget your name
2.Scatter the seed of living
Nurture the growing kernel in the grain
An open hand for Giving, only to find man take a life again
Scatter the seed of beauty nurture the beating pulsing in the vein
An open heart Foregiving
Only to see man dim the light again
Look to the world of brightness……..
Can’t you see the sun burns in the sky,
The stars light up the night, The truth it will remain,
Like a river flowing across the earth,
My Love is in your heart, I won’t forget your name.
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I SeeThe New Moon
04:16
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I see the new Moon © Ger Wolfe 2020
I see the new moon, I hear an old song
Coming down the road children running down the road
Rain and the darker sky, clouds in the freezing night
All along the cold walking old among the cold
Footsteps and beating hearts, lost in the beating stars
Surely summer knows lover surely summer knows
Bells and the honey swarmed over the moon unborn
Blazing new the sun willow-waltzing everyone
Even in the dark brighter days will come
Even in the silence we sing a higher song.
Shadows and flowers lost paying the sunshine cost
Tides that come and go always tides to come and go
Silence the swallow tide, sings out a riddled rhyme
Morning noon and dark in the yawning noon of sun
Smiles and the bright blue moon we are the treasured song
Brighter days to come cuckoo brighter days to come
Even in the dark.......
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Colder Than The Winter
04:12
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Colder than The Winter ©Ger Wolfe 2020
1. Colder than the Winter, War comes like a flame,
Call back all your armies, Lie in your lover’s arms again.
Don’t destroy the seasons, with the blood offering you make,
Lie down in the garden, count all the stars above your head,
Warm and Gentle , warm and gentle.
2. Lips as red as roses, eyes as black as coal,
Voice is sweet as angels, could be the flowe’r among them all.
Streets and streets of rubble, sea on sea of tears,
Refugees on buses , trying to build that dream again.
Warm and gentle (soft and gentle but that’s a shampoo?).
3. Colder than the Winter, War comes like a flame,
Call back all your armies, Lie in your lover’s arms again.
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Something stirred a memory © Ger Wolfe 2001
written in Sharman Crawford Street probably around 1992
Something stirred a memory inside of me , spilled a jar of memory belong to me
Scattered on the kitchen floor , things that I thought lost before ;
In my mind I wondered as a child , where I hid my answer days unwind.
Cockle-shells and broken light-bulbs , coins and keys , rubber bands and timber buttons , I’m on my knees, speaking words I heard before , the echo of an open door ,
In my mind I wondered as a child, smelled the breath of horses , dancing wild.
As they fell they skipped and whistled on their way,
In my tracks I stopped and listened to what they’d say,
Scattered on the kitchen floor , things that I’d been looking for ,
In my mind I wondered as a child , under rock and pebble , dreams collide ,
In my mind I wondered as a child , where I hid my answers , dreams unwind….
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I am a Wave
02:39
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I am a wave- ©Ger Wolfe 2020
new words to the traditional song ‘The dying Soldier’
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I am a wave in dark and night
I shed all things to gather light
I shed all things, memory and more,
The debris lies along the shore
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I am a bird at skybound flight
I curve the globe in feathered bright
I curve the globe Horizon- wide
I skim the earth and salt blessed tide.
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I am a lamb , a snow white dove
The morning star of Guiding Love
The morning star that sails and flies
Through endless ages never dies.
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Walk The Long Road
04:12
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WALK THE LONG ROAD. ©Ger Wolfe 2020
Walk the long road oh child of the morning ,colour your steps every inch of the way ,orange for the sky and corn for your journey , rain for the earth and a song for your sail.
Beware of the thief who would dagger you smiling , down to the valley of carried-away, puts your soul in a bag and your heart in the river , your word in a pit and your hope blown away.
Words that are sweeter than honey will fall from his mouth , will fall from his mouth.
Carve your own rock , oh son in the moonlight ,follow your star to the possible end , bright as the spark that started your travelling , bright as the Son who waits at your road end,
Beware of the word that would scatter your memory, down to the abyss of an endless black night , put your seed in the ground and your chaff on the meadow , your word in a prayer in the valley of light .
Words that are sweeter than honey will stream form your mouth , will stream from your mouth. Words that are sweeter than honey , will stream from your mouth , will stream from your mouth .Will stream , will stream , will stream .
© Ger Wolfe 2020.
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Ger Wolfe Macroom, Ireland
Ger Wolfe's 9th studio album of original songs The Morning Star is now available in CD format here and from gerwolfe.com along with all the other full albums...'Word & Rhyme', The Ragged Ground', 'No Bird Sang', 'The Velvet Earth', 'Heaven Paints Her Holy Mantle Blue' , 'Fréamh' and 'I Have Been Loved' ... that's a great back catalogue to discover for willing listeners. ... more
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