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Soft Wind, Clear Sky
05:08
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Is this love, is this love, is this love,
Floating to me in a dream?
Is this love, is this love,
Filling all my life with meaning?
I thought that You were far away from me,
but tonight I feel no distance,
I see You standing in the tall sky,
as I touch You to reach on high.
Won't You let my heart, my heart stay still,
A sweetness in the near distance,
The words I thought to utter now lie still,
And in my mind just thoughts of You.
Is this love, is this love, is this love,
Flowing through me in a stream?
Is this love, is this love,
Filling all my life with meaning?
Your soft wind takes my heart by storm,
I find a stillness at the centre
And pass through worlds I never dreamed of,
I see You come and let the darkness die.
I love to call You in the morning,
A light that's forming in the clear sky
Touches my heart like a soft hand,
And takes my mind to reach on high.
A love more than you can imagine,
Will not hear the voice of reason.
The joy is echoing around me,
And all you'd done, I thought, was smile.
Is this love, is this love, is this love,
Floating to me in a dream?
Is this love, is this love,
Flowing through me in a stream?
Is this love, is this love,
Filling all my life with meaning?
This love, this love,
What is it, what does it mean?
Baba Nam Kevalam
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Winds of Change
04:31
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Can you feel the wind, it stirs my soul and lifts it high to
catch a glimpse of heavens distant sky, lead me on towards my
home.
Await the One, with loves' sweet pain burning patterns in my
heart to weave a space between the stars, there You are.
Can You feel the stillness, of the cold before the dawn,
the calm before the storm about to break and bear us on towards
Your light.
Can you feel the wind awakening your hearts,
it may be gentle but it's true
Can you see the new dawn breaking through the darkness,
is it happening to you?
I love Your smile, it takes my heart in a tender loving hold that
tells me never to let go, not fade away from loves true flame.
I see Your tears like diamonds falling catch my heart to cast
down my despair, I need not fear the darkest night.
A thousand winds have borne us high then died their fury gone to
set us down just one stage further on towards our home
A thousand suns have shone their light on our long struggle, fed
the flame of hope that never dies, that leads us on...
A thousand times, the leaves have turned burnt orange, fallen
spinning, still our journey seems to have no end, in the wind I
hear Your call.
Can you feel the wind awakening your hearts,
it may be gentle but it's true
Can you see the new dawn breaking through the darkness,
is it happening to you?
Will You be my love, I'll wait for You though the world may pass
away and only You and I remain, I'll feel the same.
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Trying to Stop the Rain
05:15
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When I look into Your eyes,
I see that You are wise beyond my words
When I look into my heart,
I feel that it is deep
Yet you are there,
Watching every beat.
And I can keep up no more disguise before you,
You know me too well
When I'm near you I feel an endless joy within me
It's like trying to stop the rain
I don't try to turn away, It's like trying to stop the rain.
Watch the way that life unfolds,
Will the warmth of love grow cold?
Then all the pain and anguish
Turns to gold.
And in the end, the flowers of the spring
come flowing like the dawn
That changes all my moods
I don't try to turn away
It's like trying to stop the rain.
And I can keep up no more disguise before you
You know me too well
Now I'm near you I feel an endless joy within me
And I'll never know sorrow again
'cause you came and all my world is changed
And I'll fall down into your arms,
fall down into your arms,
fall down into your arms, forever.
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The Fire Dragon
03:29
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Can I tell You how I love you ?
More than words can ever tell
Even now the blissful vision's
passing,
Leaving me forever caught within
Your spell
The magic of Your light
surrounds me,
even when i cannot see
The clarion call of Your
trumpets blowing,
Has finally come to me
Like a Fire Dragon in the
darkness,
Your sweet light is cast all
about
May I worship You my Fire
Dragon?
May I fall upon my face before
You God?
May I serve and play some small
part in Your game?
May I strike a blow for Truth?
May I be Your tool and bring to
all Your light?
May I sit in Your sweet lap
forevermore?
None of these things do I really
want my Lord,
It just sounds so nice to say
Just to please You Lord that's
all I want today,
Just to love You more, that much
I will ask, I know I may.
Can I tell You how I love you?
More than words can ever tell
Even now the blissful vision's
passing,
Leaving me forever caught within
Your spell.
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Give My Heart to Africa
06:03
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I wrote this song for a series of fund raising concerts for Ananda Marga relief work in Africa during the famine in Ethiopia in 1984. It is dedicated to the children of the African Sahel belt who, are suffering one of the worst famines in human history.
A desert twilight,
the landscape anxious
The trap of fortune,
send me your voice upon the wind.
Your mother sleeping,
The hunger creeping,
The stars are weeping,
And all of your angels weep as well.
Sometimes I lie beneath the sky, watching the stars go by,
Sometimes I lie beneath the sky, watching the worlds being born,
And now I lie beneath the sky, watching the people awaken to
Love, what love is this I feel?
The child’s cry echoes across the world,
Give my heart to Africa,
To all the children there,
Waiting for love
children are the same everywhere,
I see their eyes shine in the dark,
I see their smiles lift up our hearts,
I feel their tears tear me apart.
Your voice is in the air ,
Stand in the sun,
Fall in the shadow,
And I never really knew who you were.
Love, what love is this I feel,
The child’s cry echoes across the world
Give my heart to Africa.
Love what love is this I feel,
the child’s cry echoes across the world.
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Even the stones are burning now,
You dare not wait to count the cost,
Long have your wooded slopes been bare,
How will you know if all is lost?
Memories of your village that burned,
I watched you die, caught your eye as you turned,
And tried to run but like the sun going down,
Your life’s blood ebbed away.
And you said:
"Never kneel down to your enemies my friend,
I held a post I could not hope to defend,
But victory will come to us in the end,
Oh how I long to see my family again.
Again and again the bombers come,
Fields and towns engulfed in flame,
I saw not a single soul alive,
How can the innocent survive?
We retreat, rebuild our cities underground,
But we'll return to claim our homes once again,
With all our hearts we will defend them to the grave,
From barbarians with weapons from a future age.
And though they bomb us till the fields turn to stone,
And though our children’s' children never return home,
And though they hunt us underground in the war zone,
We will never kneel down."
See the refugees long trails in the dust,
Forgotten wars in distant lands.
Even the stones are burning
Even the stones are burning
Even the stones, the stones are burning,
Even the stones are burning.
And they said:
"Never kneel down to your enemies my friend,
You hold a post that we will held you defend,
And victory will come to you in the end,
How you must long to see your family again.
Even the stones are burning
Even the stones are burning
Even the stones are burning
Even the stones are burning
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Children of Romania
03:52
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Who'll love you when they see your empty eyes,
You dare not reach beyond this blank disguise.
Who'd weep for you if you went to war
One child’s death won't matter, there are fifty thousand more.
Children of Romania, to watch you makes me weep
As I leave my heart remains here
And I think that I will keep on crying
Something's wrong, your tiny hands won't reach for mine,
I understand, you cannot bear to take the chance
That I might lead you on another lonely dance.
children of Romania, to watch you makes me weep
As I leave my heart remains here
And I think that I will keep on crying
I'll love you though you can't return my smile
Don't try to force it, it sometimes takes a while
Let's see if I can teach you how to play
I watch your little face, trying to see what you will say
children of Romania, to watch you makes me weep
As I leave my heart remains here
And I think that I will keep on crying
children of Romania, to watch you makes me weep
As I leave my heart remains here
And I think that I will keep on crying
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Ocean of Tears
04:16
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I am calling, can you hear me?
I am crying, can you see me?
I am searching, can you find me?
As I've searched now for ten years with no reply.
I remember one gray Antarctic day,
I lost my mother whilst fleeing from a killer ship
An explosion then hearing her last agony
As she disappeared in a spreading sea of red.
I am calling, can you hear me?
I am crying, can you see me?
I am searching, can you find me?
As I've searched now for ten years with no reply.
I have swum beneath the ice and roamed across the sea,
I have sung far reaching songs you could not hear,
But in case I'm not the only one who's left alive,
I have to go on searching till I die.
Perhaps I'm not the last, I may never know,
If another whale sings a song like mine.
Who are these that come destroying us without a cause?
I did not believe in demons till today.
Oh take me far away, to where my friends are now,
In the ice-blue sea, where the sea lions play
I recall those days, there were others then,
We were few but I was not alone.
Will I ever see one of my own kind again?
If I never see one of my own kind again,
When I'm gone from this world we will all be gone,
And you can dance on the ocean of our tears.
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Warriors of the Rainbow
06:33
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The sky is clouding, the grass is fading,
People in anguish, the dark is rising,
The earth she writhes beneath the claws of the minds that are poisoned,
Her children tossed on the waves of cruel desire and corruption.
It could be you, don't shrink away from the need of the hour,
Don't turn away from the hand stretched in pain of your mother.
Her name means freedom, her body earth green,
Her blood clear water, her voice is birdsong.
The earth cries out, can't you hear, take your courage in hand now,
Our deeds must speak of the love for all beings waxing strong now.
We can't allow the heartless ones to destroy this great wonder,
Slaughtering whales, felling trees, with no thought for the future.
Here rule the demons, they love no creature,
Their words are poison, they weave dark futures.
Gather all ye who love the world from distant lands beneath the tall sky
Gather all ye who love the world from distant lands beneath the tall sky
In visions past I have seen you awake the spirit moving
In visions past I have seen you awake the spirit moving
Gather all ye who love the world from distant lands beneath the tall sky
In visions past I have seen you awake the spirit moving
And now the wind is shifting, the tide is turning,
The mist is rising, a rainbow forming.
Warriors of the Rainbow, the stars are calling,
Warriors of the Rainbow, the trees are falling,
Warriors of the Rainbow, the spirit dying,
Warriors of the Rainbow, the world is crying out in pain
And I shall never rest in peace till this cruel reign is ended
And all the children of the earth shall be free, her wounds all mended,
your time has come, make the earth green again, don't delay now,
Victory has been foreseen for the people who do.
Warriors of the Rainbow, create new Eden
clear rain a'falling, blue sky unending,
Unfearful faces, starlight revealing,
Small creatures dancing, glad voices singing,
Free children playing with chains that are broken,
Warriors of the Rainbow, the future lies within your hands.
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10. |
Call My Name
04:50
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How can I talk to You with words that none might hear?
Why did You leave without me?
Now You have to come,
Don't leave me alone.
When will I walk with You upon Your secret shore?
How do You know that I will always dream of You,
Always wait for You?
When my heart is full I can find no words,
For my thoughts are scattered like the wind,
Won't You call my name? Bathe my heart in flame,
Take me back with You where I belong?
Won't You call my name?
Won't You call my name?
Won't You call my name?
Won't You call my name?
How can I talk to You when You just turn away?
Why did you leave without me?
Now You have to come,
Don't leave me alone.
When can I walk with you upon your secret shore?
How do You know that I will always weep for You,
Always dream of You?
How I love to speak to the silent one,
For I hear an echo in my mind.
How I love to gaze through endless space,
catch a glimpse of light no longer there,
How I love to feel the touch of Your endless grace,
Once joy eclipses who's to say what echoes are?
And then close at hand I see Your smiling face,
And I understand suddenly,
Where Your voice has gone, hidden in your song,
Flowing on and on endlessly.
Flowing on endlessly,
Flowing on endlessly,
Flowing on endlessly,
Flowing on endlessly.
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Shanti
05:10
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There's a rumour comes from ancient scriptures,
Like a beacon lighting up the future
Words of wisdom long forgotten,
Wake the silent singer deep within us all.
There's a song I'm told that has no music,
And an ocean without waves,
There's a peace that passeth all understanding,
And I long to find it so.
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean.
Fan the bright flame burning ever upward
light the darkness with your shining hands,
illuminate your deepest fears, and drive them away,
cast all shadows from your minds.
Dare to face the pain of honest searching,
Let the flame rise upward,
How I long for understanding,
How I long to love you all.
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean.
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean
Shanti is the ocean of divine peace, is the ocean.
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Dada Nabhaniilananda California
Dada Nabhaniilananda, originally from New Zealand, is a yoga monk of Ananda Marga, The Path of Bliss. Through his music and songs he seeks to connect us with the source of love within and remind us of our connection to to all life. He had his 15 minutes of fame in 1992 when he appeared on stage with the Dalai Lama before 10,000 at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Brazil. ... more
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