Fire Flood Freedom - 2003

Lovely is love

Driving for hours
Silently rolling along
The sun was done sinking
When the radio kicked into song

Holes in the road
Like gaps in our conversation
You hit one so hard
There must be damage, that’s what you’re thinking.

Say love is lovely and lovely is love I say.

Suddenly there’s laughter
As some crazy thought enters your head
The air gets light
And I gaze at your silhouette

Lost in the country
Like we never intended to find our way
Thought turns to dream
And (the) dream puts a smile on my face.

Say love is lovely and lovely is love I say

Gave into time
A long, long, long time ago
You and I chancing seasons
Losing ourselves on the way home

Say love is lovely and lovely is love I say.

Time to sleep

Think I’ll hide from the world a while,
Underneath these sheets, in the corner of my room.
Space to breathe / Time to sleep
Time to sleep.

It’s as if you were here with me,
Laughing at the reality TV, and there’s always some
Space to breathe / Time to sleep
Time to sleep.

I wish I could take you by the hand
I wish I could lead you to the promised land
I’ll always give you space to breathe
And time to sleep
Time to sleep.

Do you have the seed, compassion for a people
In need, visionaries with a passion to reach out,
What is in your way? ME or YOU!

I wish I could take you by the hand
I wish I could lead you to the promised land
I’ll always give you space to breathe
And time to sleep
Time to sleep.

This is profound, a woman gives all that she has
Loose change compared to the rich, boastful man
And who gains?
FREELY GIVE…space to breathe and time to sleep

Moon came rising

The moon came rising again / its glow attracted my gaze
Thoughts won’t leave my head / like will you be okay
I’ll give you all that I can / would you promise me one thing
You’d love me for who I am / not all that I can’t be

I’ve been running some miles / trying to prove myself
Run til I am dry / disregard my health
I focus in on love / it brings me to my knees
I can’t stand its touch / it’s far too pure for me

And precious time may end this life
Yet grace shall still remain
They say that love just cost’ too much
And I tend to agree

The moon came rising again / its glow attracted my gaze
Thoughts won’t leave my head / like will you be okay
I’ll give you all that I can / would you promise me one thing
You’d love me for who I am / not all that I can’t be

And precious time may end this life
Yet grace shall still remain
They say that love just cost’ too much
And I tend to agree

The moon came rising again / its glow attracted my gaze
Thoughts won’t leave my head / like will you be okay

I have a fire

I have a fire / that will always burn
I have my desire / but it waits its turn
I have a seed / I shall always plant
I have a tree / its branches offer shade to man

We’re all longing for a little happiness
We’re all longing for a touch that will clean the mess

I have a question / that will always burn
I have an answer / but it waits its turn
I have my weakness / or maybe more than two
I have my secrets / my pride will hide them away from you

We’re all longing for a little happiness
We’re all longing for a touch that will clean the mess

I have a freedom / sometimes I lose it in my sleep
I have a reason / that never fails to bring back to my feet
I have a fire / I have a fire / I have a fire that will always burn

We’re all longing for a little happiness
We’re all longing for someone to clean away the mess…

Fire flood freedom

We live in a beautiful Country
We come from a beautiful land
My friends who lived here before me
Your ways I must understand

Cause I’ve been ignorant to your customs
And I’ve read misleading thoughts of white man
Please find forgiveness in your spirit
Your ways I must understand

“These times are ready for change”,
This faint whisper touches my ear
The seed has surely been planted
Are we so proud we cannot say we’re sorry?

Can you hear the whisper stirring up the soul?
Flames from a fire that refuse to give in
Start to scorch your conscience…
Burning off exterior, exposing what’s within.

Living, breathing country
Beautiful and sacred land
Happy, smiling faces…
Keep helping me to understand

“These times are ready for change”,
This faint whisper touches my ear
The seed has surely been planted
Are we so proud we cannot say we’re sorry?

FIRE, FLOOD AND FREEDOM
Water, blood and the flow of life
Pulling down all our pretence
Forcing us to realise…

“These times are ready for change”,
This faint whisper touches my ear
The seed has surely been planted
Are we so proud we cannot say we’re sorry?

Poems in the sand

Wouldn’t it be courageous, wouldn’t it be great
If the world could see, life isn’t all just a human race
and then all our waisted years
May have a chance to flower again

Won’t you risk your life, won’t you take your chance
Would you turn a blind eye, if death came to take you by the hand?
Fix your gaze straight ahead
Stop only for poems in the sand

Do you want to come on a holiday? Under a willow tree we’ll stay
Walk on the beach at night, live in the ocean by day
Then all our waisted years
May have a chance to flower again

Could we stop a world war by raising our hands?
Would you divert death as he stares at your fellow man?
Fix your gaze straight ahead
Stop only for poems in the sand

Strongest hand

Raise a man from the dead
Give him life like he’s never had
Raise a child, determine ones path
Reconcile what’s been broken apart

Heal the earth of her sins
Give a man bread when he’s starving
Show the lonely, that they have a friend
Offer the strongest, the strongest hand

The strongest hand (of love)

Take the dust from the earth
Create the living, give him worth
Tell the man that he is loved
Beautiful woman, created at last

To complete the perfect plan of god
The first temptation became far from the last
Yet showing the sinner - he has a friend
Offer the strongest, the strongest hand

We are free

Four years we were together
Times gone seems now forever
We’ll pass in the winter and we will fly to different shores
One day we may notice what all this time was meant for

Love comes, they say, only once in a lifetime
Yet I don’t know maybe it’s twice maybe even three times
I’m running now on a dark crowded street
And I’m chasing something I thought was chasing me

Wait just a minute. Wait just a minute
Now we’re free

When your memory fades and I’m lost in the tide
I’ll be by the river opening my eyes

To the seasons I drink of this wine
To life and to truth and to all that is there to find
I’ll walk from the river to be by your side
And I’ll know you forever on the other side.

Wait just a minute, Wait just a minute
Know we’re free

Sinking feeling

You’re holding me down, taking my breath, sinking feeling

You’re holding me down and taking my breath, sinking feeling

You’re taking me out, with the tide I am now sinking oh feeling

You’re taking me out, with the tide I am now sinking oh feeling…

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing

Closer to thee

Oh Valley deep, Mountain high
River that runs into the sea
I would trade my love, I would trade my life
Oh, just to walk closer to thee.

I found myself standing on sacred ground
Oh when the Lord he spoke to me
He said “friend take off your sandals, feel the earth beneath your feet
Come walk closer to thee”.

Oh Valley deep, Mountain high
River that runs into the sea
I would trade my love, I would trade my life
Oh, just to walk closer to thee.

Good will

“Creator of History” where are you travelling?
What is your pain? Where lye’s your joy?
Creator, friend, we’re like one in the same
For where there is one there will always be more.

“Creator of History”, hold onto that grace
What is your comfort? Where lye’s your fear?
Creator, friend, we’re all one in the same
Keep journeying on for the end is always near.

Oh how I love momentous occasions
When old paths meet and the table is filled
Food and music ignite conversation
We’re going back in time, times of good will.

“Creator of History”, where are you wandering?
What is your passion? Who is your love?
Creating a future for those not yet existing
How could we ever, ever mess this up!

Creator in me, the creator in you
Don’t bother to ask how we got here so soon
For it’s all relative in the nature of things
To open our doors and let the fresh air in.

Oh how I love momentous occasions
When old paths meet and the table is filled
Food and music ignite conversation
We’re going back in time, times of good will.

Spring this year

Spring brings on some color this year
And I let my senses breathe in.
I could not be lonely out here,
unless you were lonely here with me.

Clouds march in like – fashion from the west,
Urging me to stay and to witness
How beautiful it can be out here,
When I let my senses run free.

Da, da, da…

Can’t believe they’re bringing in machines
Can’t believe their cash focussed schemes
S’pose they’ve never stood here in the rain
As another season goes its way

I thank God for people that care
And don’t take for granted all we share
I pray for the forests and the sea
And that you would all wish to be free