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Angel Food

by Sarahtonin

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1.
Survival 04:02
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Survival Alarm six AM I don't know where I am As I work I pray Time will stop on Saturday I fall into the future Hanging from the past The change comes slow But the time goes fast Survival Survival Survival Tell me, is that all? A child dances by I just stand and sigh I'll work 'til the end And start it all again Tell me Tell me Tell me Is that all?
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Supernova 03:55
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Supernova In the sky Every night Alone in the deepest dark Is a pinpoint of light In the cold, cold silence It burns With dreams that a distant love From a time long ago Will return Shining blue-white Through light years for you I'll be a Supernova If you want me to Don't want to stay So far from you Hoping my beam still gets through
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Hydrogen 03:36
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Hydrogen The world is full of forests The forests full of snow The snow is full of water The water H2O Hydrogen, oxygen, atoms and galaxies A sea of energy A shining constellation A sparkle in my eye Millennia between us My head is full of sky There's Truth and Charm and Beauty And Strangeness everywhere The closer we examine The more there's nothing there Eight billion tiny humans Upon the tiny Earth And every tiny human A breathing universe
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Байка́л 03:49
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Байка́л (Baikal) Old folks call her The "Pearl of Siberia" A friend to all life Bears to bacteria The Great Blue Eye of the forest opens wide With Earth's wild family nurtured at her side Dark or light in heat or cold She brings the water Precious as gold Deep as clear sky sapphire blue Hear her song for you Twenty-five million years ago, stones tell The Earth cracked open and three hundred rivers fell Three hundred miles long Deeper than a mile The oldest, deepest lake Is a planet’s smile Day or night in heat or cold She brings the water Precious as gold Deep as clear sky sapphire blue Now she sings for you O Байкал Святое синее море O Байкал Останься диким вечно
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Rainshadow 03:22
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Rainshadow The little old man inside my head Breaks into my daydream to remind me he's dead A tired old soul, afraid and alone Trying to find his life, trying to hide his bones Above the bay, making love in the sky We see two eagles dancing like they'll never die I hear you say, "They mate for life" Four innocent little words that tear the evening open Like a knife A honey bee, a sunny day, Floats flower to flower like a fairy at play She comes to a stream, shallow but wide Bright blossoms dancing on the other side She starts across, she flies too slow A sudden gust lands her in the water below She catches a branch adrift in the stream She holds tight to the wet bough and sails from flower to flower In a dream Rainshadow You found my hiding place You saw behind my face And when I broke your heart I tore my tired old soul apart The faces glow like neon nights I fade into the darkness and admire the lights The morning comes, we say goodbye I'm leaving you alone there and it makes me cry A pretty red barn, a field so green The most amazing mountains that I've ever seen I have a dream that when I die I come back as a barn owl and ride your shining forest Through the sky Rainshadow
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Who? 03:00
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Who? Give us hope, give us peace, ease our pain Give us light, give us fire, bring the rain Let it fall Keep the old green world Rolling 'round and 'round Stars without a sound Till the day of reckoning Comes to call Give us time, give us place, let us be Keep us well, make us whole, set us free Free to love All the world's beauty Trying to hold it all inside Long enough to hide Long enough to face the void Up above Who are we all praying to? For all we know it's me and you Behind the veil Only shadows behind the veil World gone mad, mad as hell, save us now Love is loss, love is hard, show us how Shine a light In the dark places where we hide our fright Strong enough to fight Strong enough to be alone in the night Only shadows
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A Dream for a Song 02:51
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A Dream For a Song Grandpa, the fireplace, and me Shine out from each globe on the tree Enraptured by comfort and pride I vaguely recall having died Sister and daughter and wife Reflections of somebody's life Possess me from grandfather's knee Alone with the truth at age three Deep in my childhood I traded a dream for a song Wouldn't it be nice to find out I was right all along How can a soul be at ease With so many people to please? I'm thrown to and fro like the sea I'll be in my head if you need me
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This Train 03:36
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This Train So you made some plans To build a life so grand Now your dreams are found Chained to the ground Beneath all the lies Your sad disguise Is no surprise They're your dreams, your chains Get on board this train Well now the train we’re on Is headed for the dawn Of all the sanity You ever hoped your eyes would see Are you sick and tired Of being sick and tired Of seeing sick and tired People running a world With no hope at all No life at all No future at all? Well now the train we’re on Is rolling for the dawn Of all the sanity You must have thought Your eyes would never see That sanity We long to be They're your dreams, your chains Get on board this train
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Mr Science 03:49
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Mr Science A boy of five in one New Hampshire town Lies face up on the grass seeking a scare Imagines what is up is really down Falls out into the blue ocean of air I'm so tired of the common Give me that supernatural phenomenon That even Mr Science can't explain When young Maria feels her body change Lamps books tables and chairs tremble and turn Deep eyes expose her secret world so strange Objects meet with her stare, smolder and burn A haunted mansion in a thunderstorm Sounds like heaven to me, when do we go? Predictability's an awful bore Please, just one little ghost, or UFO
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Rivers 02:52
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So hard to say goodbye So hard to say it's over Oh, but it is How did we do the magic Building a dream from rainbows? Rainbows will come and go Like rivers rolling down Dancing their own way through the trees We carve our lonely paths Knowing we're still joined at the sea Don't want to say goodbye Don't want to say it's over Oh, but it is Not going to say . . .
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Sometimes 03:51
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Sometimes Sometimes I wish that I could give you a day in her shoes Her man is gone Her children crippled for life Or worse By you and your greedy schemes and your lies Somebody dies When you lie Somebody dies Freedom! Freedom! Sell me freedom And tell me you'll defend me from evil Thousands dead and gone And the lying goes on and on and on Sometimes I wish that I could send you directly to hell Do not pass go Do not collect anything From me For I've had enough of you and your lies You say it's a dog-eat-dog world And I'm sure you believe that's true But it's only a dog-eat-dog world Because of cold-hearted, money-grubbing, back-stabbing Body-bagging, frightened little dogs Like you
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You Can Always Change Your Mind 02:52
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You Can Always Change Your Mind As I sit here smiling Like a Mona Lisa Underneath my smile There's not moment's peace I've got a wad of "Why bother?" About the size of Texas Throbbing in the middle of My solar plexus Today I wonder Will I see tomorrow? Then the little angel Popeye On my shoulder Tries to tell me life is more Than pain and sorrow Come on, come on, it's all in your mind And you can always change your mind All the lifetimes lived and loved And lost on Earth here Why on Earth would any soul Come back to birth here? Swimming in the deep end of Regrets and losses Gotta mute my fear To hear what joyful awe says Tonight I wonder Will I see the morning? Then a good little witch called Wendy Flying on her Hoover Waves a magic microphone And sings a warning Come on, come, it's all in your mind, etc
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Acting Like a Child 02:27
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Acting Like a Child Any time you turn a corner On the streets of any town In the halls of any grade school You can see them running around Crazy apes all over the playground On the sidewalks running wild Thank god there's a a pill For acting like a child Little Andy won't pay attention In the classroom he's so bored So he draws and battles monsters With his magic invisible sword Now the teachers want to play doctor A prescription has been filed The problem is clear: He's acting like a child Emily's in tears The girls at school are mean She's so alone and hopeless The pain of being thirteen Requires paroxetine And a good amphetamine Emily goes into a closet Takes a shoe box off the shelf Finds her daddy's gun inside it And she aims to end herself As her finger squeezes the trigger She forgets she ever smiled A high price to pay For acting like a child
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Lonesome Travellin' Song 04:00
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Lonesome Travellin' Song Say goodbye Uh so long Time to sing a lonesome travellin' song Au revoir See ya 'round Can't live forever in a one horse town Sorry I can't stay But I won't be far away And we'll sail all day, we'll sail all night We'll see our destination in the early mornin' light Adiós Uh farewell Time for me to ride that dusty trail Well, don't cry It's OK I'll see you again another day Time to sing a lonesome travellin' song I'll be back again before too long

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This is my 2nd album, years in the making, thanks to numerous problems and interruptions. It's a mixture of old songs and new, from "Hydrogen," written in 1971, to "Rainshadow," written last year. Most of the songs are songs my bands did over the years -- the others are songs I thought also fit the idea of the title, Angel Food, which is that art, music included, is sustenance for the soul, or food for our "better angels." Of course, that means I'm referring to my own music as art, but I'll leave that up to the listener.

Now it's on to the third collection, As the Fly Crows, which hopefully won't take another ten years.

© 2022 S J Burke

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released February 16, 2022

All songs written, recorded, and performed by Sarah Jane Burke, with "You Can Always Change Your Mind" and "Байка́л" co-written by Brenda French, and "Survival" co-written by Richie Benton.
All drumming is by Ryan McPhaill, except "Rainshadow" and "Lonesome Travellin' Song," which are programmed by the composer.
All flutes are played by Sarah Tiedemann.
Awesome blues harmonica on "Survival" by Joe Powers
Cover painting by Michael Sowa

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Sarahtonin Portland, Oregon

Sarah Jane Burke began playing piano at age five. She had a handful of piano lessons, but is mostly self-taught. She took up guitar at about age 11, mostly inspired by The Beatles, and other "British Invasion" acts. She began writing songs at around age 12, playing in bands at 13, and by 17, she'd taught herself to compose full scores. She's been composing, recording, and performing ever since. ... more

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