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Tears from the Sun
09:06
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TEARS FROM THE SUN
Prayer
Oh Father, protect us
Show us your mercy
Guide us safe to the shores
Of all our hopes and dreams
We set sail with hope and promise
We set sail at his command
Tides and courage drive us onward
Searching for the golden land
Warming smiles greet our arrival
Curious strangers from afar
Banners blaze with lions and angels
You can’t fight history
Who you are
Chorus
Pray for the ones that you’re leaving behind
For the treasures you’re hoping to find
New worlds
Dream of the stories yet to be told
As we march for the cities of gold
Tears from the Sun
Conquistadors, Santa Maria
Peoples kneel in our domain
Replace your gods now with the true one
In golden cities
Ghosts remain
Chorus
We set sail with hope and promise
We set sail with joyous song
Steering by a broken compass
With no sense of
Right or wrong
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2. |
Crimson Sky
05:53
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CRIMSON SKY
A still voice in a turning world
The rising of the tide
A full moon in a tortured sky
Soon you must decide
Chorus
Touch the Crimson Sky
Feel the reason why
It burns of true emotion
Kill the ghosts inside
They have always lied
While words remain unspoken
Walk through cold remembered gates
Devotion lies inside
Choose now by the waterfall
Memories cast aside
Chorus
Dreams become so real
You begin to feel
Furnace of desire
Burns you in the fire
Chorus
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3. |
Capture Light
07:26
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CAPTURE LIGHT
My home, Venice, 1534
Painting like no one else before
Creator, Unequalled, Palaces adorned
Colours dance to my revealing score
Jacopo sit with me
Listen to what I tell you
Look to the world of wonders
Learn all that I show to you
Let your eyes see the truth
Search for the soul inside you
Reach for the skies above you
Then boy you will capture life
Constant creation beauty without joy
Candles burn this darkness will destroy
Endless preaching killing all my dreams
Hope in chains nothing as it seems
Master it is time to leave
Free to live my own life
See the world of wonders
That you always showed to me
Let your eyes see my work
Search for the truth inside you
I reach for the skies as you do
Chase my dream to capture light
My home, Venice, 1592
Memories disturb my attitude
He cursed me, So long, forced to work for free
I made my stand in bitter rivalry
Tiziano hear me now
I needed to live my own life
Live in the world of wonders
That you always promised me
Did your heart feel my pain?
You were the one who left me
I reach for the light and still do
Chasing dreams to capture light
In the light, in the light
In Paradise
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Ancient of Days
07:52
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ANCIENT OF DAYS
The past has gone, let it go
Live in the moment, as the rivers flow
The sun will climb across an endless sky
True deliverance no question why
Pre Chorus
Cross the bridges
Choose a path on the hidden track
On the journey to intuition
No turning back
Chorus
Speak to the mountain, Talk to the forest
Starlight and sunlight leading the way
Call to the valley, Sing to the heavens
The ancient of days
Waiting watching treasures to find
Curious travellers of a single mind
Times have come when dreams amaze
Clearer vision of the ancient days
Pre Chorus
Chorus
The sun will climb across the sky… ancient of Days
Waiting watching treasures to find
Curious traveller of a single mind
Waiting watching treasures to find ancient of Days
Waiting watching treasures to find
Curious travellers of a single mind
Times have come when dreams amaze
Clearer vision of the ancient days
Chorus
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One Race
06:11
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ONE RACE
Watching all the flags that fly
Against an ever darkening sky
Waiting calm before the storm
Hidden cries, a false golden dawn
Run for the line
Run for your life
Hearing the noise the crowd
A people’s hope a nation proud
Emotion in disguise
Can hope defeat the lies?
It is here, it is time, it is now
I start one race
How did I get here so far from home
This boy from Ohio standing alone
So many people want me to fail
Even my family question my faith
A world is waiting one race to be won
Now I am ready
Wait for the….Gun
Now back home the gold turns rust
A president dictates mistrust
One chance is all you need
In good we must believe
It is here, it is time, it is now
Can we be one race?
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Dreamcatching
07:04
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No Man's Land
06:13
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NO MAN’S LAND
Now a sleeping city
Glow of night beneath an opal moon
And distant sirens calling
Near to the far side
Strangers dance a cold staccato beat
And life is just like quicksand
In no man’s land
Chorus
As the snow melts high on the mountain
Water turns to spring
Stream becomes a life giving fountain
Songs of youth to sing
As the river flows to the ocean
Sea returns to rain
And the tears fall onto the mountain
To begin again
Look around the city
Take the subway to paradise
The people living in the shadows
Wait the light is dawning
Now I think I understand
It’s time to rejoin the river
This is no man’s land
Chorus
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Seaglass Hearts
05:09
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SEAGLASS HEARTS
Castaway dreams in a world passing by
Torn and adrift two lost souls asking why?
Empty eyes no answer you walked out the door
Storm-beaten broken washed up on the shore
The tides are changing now
Carry, Carry us home
Blue Hearts of glass
Edges smoothed by the sea
Fair winds and fortune they
Brought you to me
And of course you know I loved you
Right from the start
Stay close to me and our two Seaglass Hearts
The tides are changing now
Carry, Carry us home
One call one answer
Two hearts together
Free and forgiving
Forever in this light
Let me put my arms around you
Let this perfect Love surround us
Sharing in this life, this lifetime
Forever in this light
In sieme
Per sempre
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