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Alive in the Flood
04:59
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ALIVE IN THE FLOOD
Got my staff, my pilgrim’s hat
Swarming words come lightning fast
To make it brief and concise
I’ll be precise
I’m everywhere
A single soul needs 10,000 lives
To leave the delta far behind
Am I cursed or blessed
Cause what’s bursting from my chest
Is everything, everywhere?
I’m alive in the flood
Thunder cracked our delta home
10,000 lives were made to roam
Is life a train or a weather vane
That takes its aim
From everything, everywhere?
Alive in the flood
I can’t hold the rain
When the sky explodes
I’m in the flood, let me roll
A whisper missed, these swollen ears
I clutch the fog and you appear
So call and lead me where it went
Don’t relent
I’ll go anywhere, everywhere
Alive in the flood
I can’t hold the rain
When the sky explodes
I’m in the flood
Alive in the flood
I can’t hold the rain
When the sky explodes
I’m in the flood, let me roll
I’m everywhere
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Lost Lullaby
03:49
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LOST LULLABY
Lost lullaby
Hear my mother cry
Lost lullaby
'Cause robins have to fly
Don’t leave me alone
Lost lullaby, hear my mother cry
Lost lullaby
Nest inside my ear
Lost Lullaby
When new love reappears
Don’t leave me alone
Lost lullaby, nest inside my ear
When I get home let’s laugh again
Don’t let it end, sing me to sleep tonight
Lost lullaby
Hear my mother cry
Lost lullaby
'Cause robins have to fly
Don’t leave me alone
Lost lullaby, hear my mother cry
'Cause robins have to fly
Goodbye lost lullaby
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Rise from the Mud
03:57
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RISE FROM THE MUD
Rise from the mud
Love’s sinking spark
I’ll hold on tight until the fever drops
Rise from the mud
It’s grinding in my heart
Feel my cage vanish in the waves
Fly up
I want out
Fly up
Let this ash mingle with doves
In my blood, Rising from the mud
Rise from the mud
Uplifted hands oh, oh
Hear my plea, make this fever pass
Fly up
I want out
Fly up
Let this ash mingle with doves
In my blood, Rising from the mud
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Hipster Cripple
05:28
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Plutonic Friends
07:47
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PLUTONIC FRIENDS
I was rolling in my sleep, then awake. In despair, then elated. A spirit entered me and I felt majestic like an eagle, then vulnerable like a tadpole. The cold night air switched on and I saw my brother and I holding down the backyard, heaving stones, lighting fires, burning letters, smoke rings singing. But, the bridge I had always known, where is it? It was just under my feet. The river we had treasured drained in an instant, the sky swelled. A thin man entered to my left. He said. ‘Why cry now?’ I went blank. I showed dumb strength and roared into the emptiness. He said. ‘Why cry now? It’s over.’ He waved above my head, motioning to someone I couldn’t see. I said, ‘but I’m not ready to go. It’s too early. Let me speak to him once more.’ He gently lifted my chin and I felt foolish. Then a curious wind spoke to me. “Be still. More Friends are on their way.” A new love said, “Be with me,” I said, “I will.”
Then I was standing beneath a star smeared sky, my back to a deep lake, all around me I was in the company of friends. And while I was there my tongue trembled. Did they come to me, or me to them? What draws us together? Why are we here? Calling them ally or foe made was irrelevant, even those entering my life seemingly to do harm, to bring risk, for they are both and neither! We meet, we retreat, but do we bow in respect? Oh, how I manufacture imaginary hardships where they don’t already exist, and then coddle and worship them! There is no luscious harmony without real hardship, and it’s spread before me. You who bring gifts of growth through trial, doubt and courage, through your very existence – welcome Plutonic Friends!
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We Can Make Things Right
04:07
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WE CAN MAKE THINGS RIGHT
Late night soft and low
Hear your heart
Up and overflow
Feel it start
Out of the shelter of night
One step can make things right
There’s a curve in every line
And the words we said
The fears that fell behind
Can come up ahead
Out of the shelter of night
To the edge where we just might
We, we can make things right
You and I with one step tonight
Let’s, let’s make it right
Yeah we, we can make things right
Out of the shelter of night
Looking up it comes into sight
We, we can make things right
You and I with one step tonight
Let’s, let’s make it right
Yeah we, we can make things right
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Find Out or Fit In
03:21
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FIND OUT OR FIT IN
Fate shot me to your door
Will this die where it did before?
All things fall apart
Is this more than I can take?
Don’t let me hesitate
Cause I can’t hear my heart
Find out or fit in
Find out or fit in
Find out or fit in
I’ve got to find out
Living’s safe in camouflage
Blending in to this mirage
The game I’m forced to play
Your love captured me
You see what I can’t see
And dare my heart to say
Find out or fit in
Find out or fit in
Find out or fit in
I’ve got to find out
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THE SAD SAD SOUND OF GOODBYE
The sad, sad sound of goodbye
Shadows, sing our hymn
I’ll try to let you sleep until its dawn
Mesmerized by your breathing
But there’s and earthquake chanting
The sad, sad sound of goodbye
Daybreak, roll aside
Where’s my mind, was it driven from the light?
Let me go, my love’s wasting
I feel my backbone bursting
The sad, sad sound of goodbye
Oh truth trembles, let it flutter, the tremors come together
This sudden shudder won’t last forever
Wake up, heed this good, goodbye
But there’s and earthquake chanting
The sad, sad sound of goodbye
Goodbye
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Robert Moses and the Harmony Crusaders Oslo, Norway
Robert Moses and the Harmony Crusaders - Oslo, Norway based six-piece rock/Americana/slightly psychedelic
band.
Latest album 'Leaving, Longing, Love' produced by Bendik Brænne, released 1 October 2021.
Album 'Plutonic Friends' out February 2018 produced by Anders Møller and Torgeir Waldemar. And 'Self-Developing Country' released September 2013 produced by Freddy Holm.
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