Live at Carnegie Hall
PROLOGUE (Vocalise) OCEAN GYPSY Tried to take it all away Learn her freedom just inside a day And find her soul To find their fears allayed Tried to make her love their own They took her love they left her there They gave her nothing back That she would want to own Gold and silver rings and stones Dances slowly of the moon No-one else can know She stands alone Sleeping dreams will reach for her She cannot say the words they need She knows she's alone And she is free Chorus: Ocean gypsy of the moon The sun has made a thousand nights For you to hold Ocean gypsy where are you The shadows followed by the stars Have turned to gold, turned to gold Then she met a hollow soul Filled him with her light And was consoled she was the moon And he, the sun was gold Eyes were blinded with his light The sun she gave Reflected back the night The moon was waning almost out of sight Softly ocean gypsy calls Silence holds the stars awhile They smile sadly For her where she falls Just the time before the dawn The sea is hushed The ocean calls her Day has taken her and now she's gone Chorus No-one noticed when she died Ocean gypsy shackled to the tide The ebbing waves were turning Spreading wide Something gone within her eyes Her fingers lifeless stroke the sand Her battered soul was lost She was abandoned Silken threads like wings still shine Winds take pleasure still make patterns In her lovely hair So dark and fine Stands on high beneath the seas Cries no more Her tears have dried Oceans weep for her the ocean sighs Chorus CAN YOU UNDERSTAND Dollars down the penny drain Frozen in the clouds Dream away the last of pain In waterfalls of sounds Float across the icy pools Leaves with curl and sway Now your mind is floating cool And you can find the way Can you understand you can really understand When the darkness comes you still shine Open up your eyes and make the day shine sunshine now Open up your dreams and and make the way shine sunshine now Can you understand you understand Can you understand you understand Open up your life and make your lifetime sunshine now Open up your soul and make your lifeline sunshine now Can you understand you understand Can you understand you understand Dancing without moving now Growing with your soul One with all around you now Related to the all Purple mist around your hair Eyes are fading blue Smiling into everywhere Love is coming through CARPET OF THE SUN Come along with me Down into the world of seeing Come and you'll be free Take the time to find the feeling See everything on it's own And you'll find you know the way And you'll know the things you're shown Owe everything to the day Chorus: See the carpet of the sun The green grass soft and sweet Sands upon the shores of time Of oceans mountains deep Part of the world that you live in You are the part that you're giving Come into the day Feel the sunshine warmth around you Sounds from far away Music of the love that found you The seed that you plant today Tomorrow will be a tree And living goes on this way It's all part of you and me Repeat chorus two times See the carpet of the sun See the carpet of the sun See the carpet of the sun See the carpet of the sun RUNNING HARD Running hard towards what used to be Losing ground in changes sliding endlessly Reaching out for mirrors hidden in the web Painting lines upon your face inside instead Sounds so bad the music's flat on every line Songs of blackened lace know you're dying all the time Sounds so bad you let the music take your soul Slipping through the day Lose the only way you know Running hard towards what used to be Losing ground in changes sliding endlessly Reaching out for things you want to see Find reflections of insane reality La la ... Running hard towards what used to be Losing ground in changes sliding endlessly Reaching out for shadows passing through See the dark around is coming down on you MOTHER RUSSIA Pays the price, works the seasons through Frozen days, he thinks of you Cold as ice but he burns for you Mother Russia, can't you hear him too? Mother's son, freedom's overdue Lonely man, he thinks of you He isn't done, only lives for you Mother Russia, can't you hear him too? Punished for his written thoughts Starving for his fame Working blindly, building blocks Number for a name, his blood flows frozen to the snow Red blood, white snow He knows frozen rivers won't flow So cold, so true Mother Russia--he cries for you Ooh ooh ... Bah dah dah dah ... Punished for his written thoughts Starving for his fame Working blindly, building blocks Number for a name his blood flows frozen to the snow Red blood, white snow He knows frozen rivers won't flow So cold, so true Mother Russia--he cries for you SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE "The Sultan" Sultan king cruel majesty Ordered that his women die A single night this for all his wives Takes his pleasure then their lives And so for many days with the dawn The sultan had his way Wives were put to death His name on their dying breath Then one day as the evening came Sultan sends for him a wife Choose her well charms I wish to see Bring her, send her in to me Then came Scheherazade to his side And her beauty shone Like a flower grown Gentle as he'd ever known Scheherazade bewitched him With songs of jewelled keys Princes and of heroes And eastern fantasies Told him tales of sultans And talismans and rings A thousand and one nights she sang To entertain her king She sings, Scheherazade, Scheherazade, etc "The Young Prince And The Young Princess As Told By Scheherazade" And you would cause the sun to see your light And then be shamed You cover darkness with a thousand secret flames With your love, oh my love, oh my love, my love And I would cause the winds to blow a hundred different days And bring the perfumes of the gardens of the ways Of your love, oh my love, oh my love, my love Crystal and the clay, nights and the days All on the prince's seal Eagle of the sky, lion of the earth This is what the seal is worth, what the seal is worth Holds all of the dreams of a man Tapestries, wishes of man, pictures and visions of man The spirit of the soul of the man And he would vow to love her for the rest of all his days "The Festival" Sheherazade this day is yours The bearers of your gifts now all around you stand The finest silk made in the land Is waiting for your choice It shimmers at your hand Sheherazade your life is one You have today the sultan's love The people watch you step into the sun Stalls and bars of every kind Food piled high on woven leaves for all to eat Drums and flutes at every turn The music winding, twisting through the crowded streets Caravans from far away bring people laughing People come to see the sultan in Baghdad today Scheherazade her name is known Her tale is told The sultan let her life be spared The festival begins this day To celebrate her fame The people sing her praise Stories sung, the crowds are dancing To the music and the entertainment all the voices sing The people call to see the king The sultan smiles His story just begun The sultan and Sheherazade are one Scheherazade, Scheherazade She told him tales of sultans and talismans and rings A thousand and one nights she sang to entertain her king She sings, Scheherazade, Sheherazade, Scheherazade, etc. ASHES ARE BURNING Travel the days of freedom Roads leading everywhere Come with me now and show how you care Follow the dying embers Cross on the paths that they lay Breath of the past the earths yesterday Chorus: Clear your mind maybe you will find That the past is still turning Circles sway echo yesterday Ashes burning ashes burning Colours are fading starlight Silver the way to find Walking the shadows, there in our mind Changing the order slowly Leaving the mist of time Fingers are holding fragments of mine Chorus Imagine the burning embers They glow below and above Your sins you won't remember And all you'll find there is love Ashes are burning brightly The smoke can be seen from afar So now you're seeing how far Ashes are burning the way Ashes are burning the way