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The Distance To Here - 1999

1. The dolphinīs cry
2. The distance
3. Sparkle
4. Run to the water
5. Sun
6. Voodoo lady
7. Where fishes go
8. Face and ghost (the childrenīs song)
9. Feel the quiet river rage
10. Meltdown
11. They stood up for love
12. We walk in the dream
13. Dance with you



1. The dolphinīs cry


The way youīre bathed in light
Reminds me of that night
God laid me down into your rose garden of trust
And I was swept away
With nothinī left to say
Some helpless fool
Yeah, I was lost in a swoon of peace
Youīre all I need to find
So when the time is right
Come to me sweetly, come to me
Come to me

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphinīs cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
Itīs in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

Oh yeah, we meet again
Itīs like we never left
Time in between was just a dream
Did we leave this place?
This crazy fog surrounds me
You wrap your legs around me
All I can do to try and breathe
Let me breathe so that I
So we can go together!

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphinīs cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
Itīs in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

Life is like a shooting star
It donīt matter who you are
If you only run for cover, itīs just a waste of time
We are lost ītil we are found
This phoenix rises up from the ground
And all these wars are over

Over
Singinī la da da, da da da
Over, come to me, come to me yeah la da da da, da da da
Come to me

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphinīs cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
Itīs in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

Life is like a shooting star
It donīt matter who you are
If you only run for cover, itīs just a waste of time
We are lost ītil we are found
This phoenix rises up from the ground
And all these wars are over, are over, are over, over

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphinīs cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
Itīs in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us



2. The distance


Let him come into the city
Let him find his lucky penny
Let him put it in his pocket
And shake it all around

Iīve been to pretty buildings, all in search of you
I have lit all the candles, sat in all the pews
The desert had been done before,
But I didnīt even care
I got sand in both my shoes and scorpions in my hair
I saw that

Oh the distance is not do-able
In these bodies of clay my brother
Oh the distance, it makes me uncomfortable
Guess itīs natural to feel this way

Oh, letīs hold out for something sweeter
Spread your wings and fly
My car became the church and I
The worshipper of silence there
In a moment peace came over me
And the one who was beatinī my heart appeared and

Oh the distance is not do-able
In these bodies of clay my brother
Oh the distance, it makes me uncomfortable
Guess itīs natural to feel this way

Oh, are we locked in to these bodies?
Letīs hold out for something sweeter
Spread your wings and fly
Oh, are we locked into these bodies?
Are we anything at all?
Letīs hold out for something sweeter
Spread your wings and fly
This distance is dreaminī
Weīre already there tonight

Let him come into the city
Let him find his lucky penny
Let him put it in his pocket
And shake it all around

Let him come into the city
Let him find his lucky penny
Let him put it in his pocket
And shake it all around

Let him come into the city
Let him find his lucky penny
Let him put it in his pocket
And shake it all around



3. Sparkle


Iīm gatherinī up my friends today
And those who recognize the face
As the vision that changed my mind
From hate to faith was as simple as grapes to wine

Iīm gatherinī up my friends today
All these hookers and soldiers and swine and would-be saints
All alone in their rooms that sparkle in their eye
Play a song that theyīll come outside

To see if love will overcome
If this love will make us men
Love will draw us in
To wipe our tears away

The day that I was so sweetly sung
By the wind and the thunder moved by "someone"
The feelinī of being lived was so strong
The giver became the gift, all one
The day that I was so sweetly sung
The wind seemed to whisper softly
"Oh son, donīt wait for the seas to part or Messiahīs to come
Donīt sit around and waste this change!"

To see if love will overcome
If this love will make us men
Love will draw us in
To wipe our tears away

Love, love, love
Love, hey, yeah
Love, this day now, this day that I was so
Sweetly sung, I know, I know that love will overcome

Love will overcome
If this love will make us men
Love will draw us in
To take our fear away, wipe our tears away

Love and all my friends are here
In the city I sing my song
In the face of the hooker, the soldier, the swine
I found it, I found it, I found love
Love will, love will, love will
Overcome
Overcome



4. Run to the water


Oh, desert speak to my heart
Oh, woman of the earth
Maker of children who weap for love
Maker of this birth
īTil your deepest secrets are known to me
I will not be moved, I will not be moved

Donīt try to find the answer
When there ainīt no question here
Brother let your heart be wounded
And give no mercy to your fear

Adam and Eve down the street from me
Babylon is every town
Itīs as crazy as itīs ever been
Loveīs a stranger all around
In a moment we lost our minds here
And lay our spirits down
Today we lived a thousand years
All we have is now

Run to the water and find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
Weīll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
These streets below the moon

And I will never leave you
īTil we can say "this world was just a dream"
we where sleeping now we are awake
īTil we can say

In a moment we lost our minds here
And dreamt the world was round
A million mile, a fall from grace
Thank God we missed the ground

Run to the water and find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
Weīll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
Yeah I can see it now Lord

Out beyond all the breakinī of waves
And the tribulation
Itīs a place and a home of ascended souls
Who swam out there in love

Run to the water and find me there
Burnt to the core but not broken
Weīll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon
With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
Rest easy baby, rest easy
And recognize it all as light and rainbows
Smashed to smithereens and be happy
Run to the water and find me there
Run to the wate



5. Sun


Let the world be the world
Let the dream unfurl
Let it run itīs own game
Let it dance with itself
I didnīt put it here
Gonna let it ride
Gotta master, crazy on the other side

Wakinī me up
I ainīt got no brains
I canīt trust my eyes
What goodīs a beautiful day
If you canīt see the light
I canīt find my fate
Well then I must be blind
With the force and fire of love
Thatīs taking over my mind
Wakinī me up
Obliginī me to the sun
Obliginī me to the sun

Sun sun, merciful one
Sun sun, yeah
Sun sun, wonīt you lay down your light on us
Sun sun

Let the world be the world
Let the girl be the girl
Let her beauty move ya
Let her dance be your guide
Let your hunger grow
But donīt eat the fruit "too low"
Keep climbinī for the kisses on the other side, yeah
Wakinī me up, obligin me to the sun
Obliginī me to the sun

Sun sun, merciful one
Sun sun, yeah
Sun sun, wonīt you lay down your light on us
Sun sun

All we need is to come into the sun
Weīve been out in the dark for so long
All I need, all we need, all I need, all we need, yeah

Sun sun, merciful one
Sun sun, yeah
Sun sun, wonīt you lay down your light on us
Sun sun, sun
Sun sun, sun



6. Voodoo lady


Light up a cigarette she said
And calm the fuck down
You got a serious side to you
In the whole world a frown
Now nothinī really mathers to me you see
Check out these holes in my gown
Let your eyes lose a focus a little
Let your guard calm down

I was thirsty for everything
But water wasnīt my style
Guess we might have to teach me something
Guess we might have to show me how
Now put out that cigarette she said
Somethinī ainīt right in here

Itīs tied to the both of us, I ainīt sure now, it isnīt clear
We could have been born helpless children
Begginī for our next meal
I could be a voodoo lady, just a classy hooker
Playinī the field

Classy holy hooker!!!
Hey! Iīve made up my mind, yeah
I came to see your sign
Disappear this morninī but come back tonight

Light up a cigarette she said and calm the fuck down
Relax and let your ears hear this beatiful song
Thatīs hidinī underneath the sound
Underneath the sound!!!

I made up my mind
I came to see you fly
Disappear this morninī, come back tonight
Voodoo lady, voodoo lady, voodoo lady

I was thirsty for everything but blood wasnīt my style
Voodoo lady, did I dream you up or are you for real?
Are you for real?
Are you for real?



7. Where fishes go


Yeah I found god and he was absolutely nothinī like me
He showed me up like some dime-store hooker
Who was plain to see

I couldnīt take it anymore so I went back to the sea
Cuzī thatīs where fishes go
When fishes get the sense to flee
Where you goinī now?
Whatīs your plan?

Yeah I found god
And he was absolutely just like me
He opened my mouth, looked down my throat
Told me I was thirsty
He said Ibeen, I been, I been
Been in this water all my life
Never took the time to breathe, breathe, breathe

Whatcha doinī in this darkness baby?
When you know that love will set you free
Will you stay in the sea forever
Drowninī there for all eternity
Whatcha doinī in this darkness baby?
Livinī down where the sun donīt shine?
Come on out into the light of love
Donīt spend another day
Livinī in the sea
Livinī in the sea, yeah

I couldnīt take it anymore
So I went back to the sea
Cuzī thatīs where fishes go
When fishes get the sense to flee
Breathe, breathe.

Whatcha doinī in this darkness baby?
When you know that love will set you free
Will you stay in the sea forever
Drowninī there for all eternity
Whatcha doinī in this darkness baby?
Livinī down where the sun donīt shine
Come on out into the light of love, child
Donīt spend another day, no no
Whatcha doinī in this darkness baby?
Come on out into the light of love
Come on out into the light of love, child
Donīt spend another day
Livinī in the sea
Livinī in the sea



8. Face and ghost (the childrenīs song)


You got it bad
You got it good
You saw the sun
Like you knew that you would
We gotta make this better
Gotta make this right
Ainīt no peace in the valley, baby
īTil the darkness turns to light

Can you hear that childrenīs song?
Can you take me to that place?
High above the lamentation up on the desert plane
Do you hear that childrenīs song?
Can you take me there?

Lost in the maya
Overboard in the sea
There was void and then that water broke
Then something called "me"
How a trip to the desert to look at the sky
Itīs like never-ending mirrors
Playing tricks on my eyes

Can you hear that childrenīs song?
Can you take me to that place?
High above the lamentation up on the desert plane
Do you hear that childrenīs song?
Can you take me there?

The face and ghost my guide, I must move on
Itīs the face of one ravaged by love
Itīs both dead and alive

You got it bad lover
No you got it good
You saw the sun
Like you knew that you would
In spite of my confusion
Up above all my pain
I gotta death grip on this vision
Here we go again

The face and the ghost my guide
I must move on
Itīs the face of one ravaged by love
Itīs both dead and alive
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Can you hear them singing?
Can you hear them singing?

Can you hear that childrenīs song?
Can you take me to that place?
Do you hear that pilgrimīs song?
Can you take me there?



9. Feel the quiet river rage


Always fighting the storm
Afraid to suffer the wound
All praise to that conscious one
Who always suffers the wound, child
Suffers the wound, child

Hey, suffers the wound!
Never turns from love
Give it up

Always try to explain
Afraid to lay naked in the sun
Heīs crazy, she dances in the light
The crowd cheers, they wonīt put up a fight

Hey, suffers the wound!
Never turns from love
Give it up

Until my heart is free to roam
She wonīt leave me alone
Saved by the river now, saved

Always fighting the storm
Buildinī shelter to house our lack of love
Weīre only here for a while
Tear it down and suffer the wound

Hey, suffers the wound!
Never turns from love
Give it up

Until my heart is free to roam
She wonīt never leave me alone
Saved by the river now, saved
never turns from love, never turns to hate
Until my heart is free to roam
She wonīt never leave me saved
never turns from love, never turns to hate

Always suffers the wound, never turns to hate, never turns to hate
Saved by the river now
Always suffers the wound, never turns from love, never turns to hate
An invisible mississippi, ganges or a nil
I can feel the quiet river rage
Forcinī my lips into a smile
Donīt believe that the world is empty
Just too noisy to hear the sound
I can feel the quiet river rage
And Iīm fallinī down
Saved by the river now
Saved, saved by the river now
Saved, saved by the river now
Always suffers the wound, never turns to hate, never turns to hate
Saved, saved
Always suffers the wound, never turns to hate, never turns to hate



10. Meltdown


Like himalayan cold winter
These jaws of kali yuga
Yeah itīs a crazy kind of cold
A lifeless slumber in a stranglehold
Yeah tibet, she canīt even touch this
Iīd rather freeze in her forests
Weīre in a spiritual winter
And I long for the one who is

Fire amongst the dreamers
You are in my heart

Like the sun on the icecaps
My only friend in the prison
The long lost meaning to the story, story
The divine and ancient wisdom
How could it be that youīve graced my night?
Like a pardon from the governor
Like a transplant from the donor
Like a gift from the one who is

Fire amongst the dreamers
You are in my heart
Fire amongst the dreamers
You are in my heart

In a place where everything dies
Itīs you I follow
See by the fire
Of my darlinī, yeah!

Fire amongst the dreamers
You are, you are in my heart

Like a pardon from the governor
Like a transplant from the donor
Like a kiss, like a kiss
From my darlinī, yeah!



11. They stood up for love


Naked lovers feel the blood beneath their vains
Electric nerves communicate
With tiny explosions through our brains
Who is this energy that never left or came?
Give rise to passion, the only glory of this human story

I give my heart and soul to the one
We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
Even scientists say, everything is just light
Not created, destroyed but eternally bright
Masters in every time, lord in everyplace
Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
In spite of the hate

Who put that flower in the barrel of that gun?
Who lit the candle that started the fire
Burnt down the fortress, the throne?
Who could house all the refugees in a single shack
Or a lowly bungalow?
Who lives in a different dimension
Free from the struggles we know?

I give my heart and soul to the one
We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
Even scientists say, everything is just light
Not created, destroyed but eternally bright
Masters in every time lord in everyplace
Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
They live in the light, we made it to the moon
But we canīt make it back
Waitinī on a rescue that never comes
Made it to the moon, but we canīt make it home
Maybe home is where the heart is given up
To the one, to the one

We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
They live, they, they stood up for love
Stood up for love, stood up for love, yeah
They stood up for love
Stood up for love, stood up for love

We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
Masters in every time
We spend all of our lives goinī out of our minds
Stood up for love



12. We walk in the dream


I was wrong, we are not these bodies alone
In a dream with a mind of its own
I, I know you long to be tethered
And tied to the heart of the one
The one that be layinī you down
On that ancient ground
Nothinī more to be found, ah yeah

Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love a thing in common was
We knew there was somethinī more
Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love
To hear the voice in the wilderness
The other side of the door
Somethinī more

I feel strong, Iīm finally at peace
The war is all gone, by no cause of my own
Like an eagle cuts through the air
No time for fear, faith in his wings takes him there

Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love, the only thing in common was
We knew there was somethinī more
Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love
To hear the voice in the wilderness
The other side of the door
Somethinī more

More than these
Women in the streets pullinī out their hair
Somethinī more, somethinī more than all the pain we feel
Somethinī more, more than we could dream of, all light
Love-bliss, no death and no fear,
No fear

Now we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love a thing in common was
We knew there was somethinī more
Yeah, we walk in the dream, but dream no more
To live a life in love
To hear the voice in the wilderness
The other side of the door
Somethinī more
I was wrong
Oh yeah, I was wrong



13. Dance with you


Sittinī on the beach
The island king of love
Deep in fijian seas
Deep in some blissful dream
Where the godess finally sleeps
In the lap of her lover
Subdued in all her rage
And I am aglow with the taste of the demons driven out
And happily replaced with the presence of real love
The only one who saves

I wanna dance with you
I see a world where people live and die with grace
The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
The stilness in your eyes
Convinces me that I
I donīt know a thing
And Iīve been around the world and Iīve tasted all the wines
A half a billion times came sickness to our shores
You show me what this life is for

I wanna dance with you
I see a world where people live and die with grace
The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
And lead us back to a world we would not face
In this altered state
Full of so much pain and rage
You know we got to find a way to let it go

Sittinī on the beach
The island king of love
Deep in fijian seas
Deep in the heart of it all where the godess finally sleeps
After eons of war and lifetimes
She smilinī and free, nothinī left
But a cracking voice and a song, oh lord
I wanna dance with you
I see a world where people live and die with grace
The karmic ocean dried up and leave no trace
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
And lead us back to a world we would not face
We would not face
We would not face
We would not face
We would not face
We would not face


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