Songs of Innocence and Experience

Songs of descent and renewal from Aotearoa to Zion

These songs from cycle of the sacred union, the descent and unveiling apocalypse. They are the transmission of a hidden tradition, an empowerment of love and reconciliation.. They are intended to reveal the unexpected and chaotic as much as the harmony of order to evoke the living presence.


New tracks using Dulcimer and Vietnamese instruments:  Shadows of your Mind    Pandora

Nuclear Apocalypse between Iran and Israel: The Mahdi Refrain

Browser-playable Mp3 Tracks - Lyrics and Tabulature below. - Full quality on CD
Tracks in bold availaible on the internet.

 Parousia

Track 1: Black Rose

Track 2: The Gaia Anointing

Track 3: Hymn to the Epoch

Track 4: To Shekhinah

Track 5: Opening the Mercy Gates

Track 6: Song of Songs Wailing Wall

Track 7: Resurrection of Magdalen

Track 8: Dialogue of the Savior

Track 9: Song of the Biosphere

Track 10: Sakina Lament

Track 11: 'Elohim

Track 12: Woman at the Well

Track 13: To Shakti

Track 14: Set Love Free

 Tane

Track 1: The Song of Tane

Track 2: Overflowing Love

Track 3: Kohiti Rose

Track 4: Prisoners' Dilemma

Track 5: Uncertainty

Track 6: Shadows of your Mind

Track 6b: Pandora

Track 6c: Unleashed

Track 6d: Deja Vu

Track 7: Piece of What was to Be

Track 8: Free Love

Track 9: The Descent

Track 10: Your Sweet Honey

Track 11: Eurydice

Track 12: Hazelwood

Track 13: Marriage Song


Fire & Flood

Tibet - Tibet

The Mahdi Refrain

Track 1: The Well

Track 2: The Pain of Love

Track 3: Malaysian Divorce

Track 4: Marriage in Paradise?

Track 5: The Web of Life

Track 6: Hall of Mirrors

Track 7: Terminator Genes

Track 8: Tsunami

Track 9: By the Waters of Love

Track 10:Christo (Maria Sabina)

Track 11: Thunder on the Plain

Track 12: Beware the Milk of Paradise


The excellent Six-string dulcimer made personally by Stefan Sobell in 1976 forms the nucleus of all Niño productions.

Chords usually in Mixolydian as above. Relative to C: 0.0.2 = 2.3.4 = 4.5.8 = C, 0.1.2 = 1.3.5 = 5.5.8 = Am, 1.2.4 = 4.4.7 = G,
4.4.6 = Gm, 1.1.3 = 3.4.5 = Dm, 5.7.9 = D, 2.2.4 = Em, 0.1.3 = 3.3.5 = F, 7.7.9 = Bm, etc.


PURCHASE

CD 1: Parousia

Black Rose (mp3 download) YouTube: Black Rose Nuclear Apocalypse
Chris Jan 2006 (lyrics, dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, vocals),
Christine (vocals), Doreen Bell-Zotan (lyric sources)
The Messiah's Blog on the lyrics

Black Rose

11.9.9 6.4.4 10.8.8 5.3.3
9.6.6 6.4.4 8.5.4 5.4.3

13.11.11 9.6.6 12.11.10 8.6.5
11.9.9 6.4.4 6.4.3 8.5.4

14.12.12 10.8.8 13.11.11 9.6.6
12.9.9 11.9.9 11.8.8 10.8.8

I am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily of the valleys.
As the lily among thorns,
so is my love among the daughters.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons.
I sat down under his shadow with delight,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He brought me to the banqueting house,
and his banner over me was love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples:
for I am sick of love.

Just as we know that there are briars
surrounding the most magnificent gardens,
moats around castles, walls around mansions,
security systems and all

so the Torah has it defences
to keep unwanted trespassers out.
No Gentile has ever been admitted
and no one ever will.

Imagine a 'theif' has broken into your house
and stolen your very most valuable jewel.
he has no idea how much it is worth,
or where to claim the best price.

If you have the least humility or decency
you will realize this gem can never be yours,
and you will not attempt to hock it off
from a street stall at a cut price.

You are doing untold damage to yourself and all creation
posing as a spiritual thief, 
nothing but a shameless pillager
plundering a pearl beyond price.

So here I am the thief in the night
the lonely candle and the light
A bridegroom whose wedding is celebrated
when I have not taken a wife.

And know full well, if the goodman of the house
had known the hour that the thief would come,
he would have watched, and never suffered
his house to be broken through

So be ye therefore ready,
and trim your lamps and gather your oil
for the son of humanity cometh
at an hour when ye think not.

I do not know why the White man
has been created with a spiritual dearth.
Logical and intelligent, but of all human beings
most lacking in spiritual worth.

I have great compassion. It must be so terrible.
Living as a spiritual parasite,
stealing the sacred traditions of others,
the holies of the elect.

The abysmal emptiness in the White man
has  driven him to conquer and to destroy
to engage in all sorts of perversions,
thinking they're a spiritual ploy.

I don't need some delusional Gentile
to immortalize a daughter of Zion
my immortality is sealed and delivered
no matter if I sin or err ...

I will always be brought back into the fold.
This is the promise the ancient one made
to the children of Avraham and Sarah
a reward for them alone.

No wannabeing gentiles can ever change it.
I am closer to God even in my sin,
than you can be in your heights of purity. 
so you can take it up with Him.

Devorah, you are a living wonder,
but don't condemn yourself so effortlessly.
Unsought immortality can come to leave us 
naked and ashamed.

For here I stand a thief in the night
In my darkest hour you are my light
A bride whose wedding is unconsummated
who I have loved all of my life.

Open unto me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled:
for my head is filled with dew,
and my locks with the drops of the night.

I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my spikenard flowed out to him,
and my fingers dropped with sweet smelling myrrh,
upon the handles of the lock.

Look not upon me, because I am black,
because the sun hath looked upon me
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for thy love is better than wine.

Can you imagine anything more disturbing
than 'opening' to five astute young witches
who enter the marital feast at midnight
to celebrate their sensual delight?

And when the cup runs to overflowing,
five more virgins also toil,
begging for one's loving touch,
to replenish their midnight oil?

Could anything be more inspiring
to make one feel the flame grow higher?
To rise again right from the dead?
No more to be lamented!

Some songs can never be unsung.
We just can't get them out of our head!
No matter how hard we try to be free,
there's no end to the blasphemy.

You can hear it echoing from the cliff tops,
whispering through the tumbling waters
in our tears of sorrow and joy,
that these things have come to pass.

The Gaia Anointing Scopus, Mount of Olives, Millennium Eve. YouTubeVideo  Audio(mp3)
Chris King, Jane King (reading), Rohan King (piano Gaia suite 1st movement)

Gaia Anointing

The spirit of God is upon us
the spirit of Gaia is within us
because they hath anointed us
to sing good tidings unto the meek
they hath sent us to bind up the brokenhearted
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of prison to them that are bound

to proclaim the acceptable year
to comfort all that mourn
to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion
in Palestine, in in Sidon, Syria, Arabia and the world
to give unto them beauty for ashes
the oil of joy for mourning

the garments of love for the spirit of heaviness
that they might be called trees of compassion
the planting of the divine
that all might be glorified
in the abundance of wisdom

and we shall renew the old wastes
and we shall restore the former desolations
and we shall repair the waste cities
the desolations of many generations

they hath clothed us with the garments of salvation
and I as a bridegroom decketh myself with ornaments
and I as a bride adorneth myself with jewels
for as the Earth bringeth forth her bud
and as the garden causeth the things that are sewn in it to spring forth
so shall harmony and fulfillment spring forth
among all the nations

this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Hymn to the Epoch       YouTubeVideo  Audio(mp3)
Chris King Dulcimer, keyboard, blues harp, vocals (Aotearoa).
Sarah Tov, Jane King vocals, Tania Susskind violin (Jerusalem)

This is a song pronouncing the Requital of the patriarchal epoch sung on the Mount of Olives on Millennium Eve. It was inspired by a Greenpeace campaign against nuclear weapons and the twelve 'apostles' the pillars of the Kohititanga Marama 'first appearance of the moon' movement, representing the twelve tribes, which have become 'world asherim', having lain weathering on a beach for a century awaiting the prophet who would come when people would play the harps in the new moon'.

Hymn to the Epoch

2.2.4  5.5.8  5.7.9  2.2.4
1.2.4  3.4.5  3.3.5  4.4.7  (2 x 2)

5.5.8  3.4.5  1.2.4  0.1.2
4.5.8  6.8.9  6.6.9  8.8 10  (2 x 2)

Why punish Eve for the fear of her Wisdom
when all you can do is lay waste to this place?
Why do you stand with your thumb on the button
ready to press it to end the human race?

Why did you have to unleash Armageddon?
Why did you have to make nuclear war?
Why did you circumcize all your daughters?
Why did you stone them and say they were whores?

Why did you shut them in houses and nunneries,
naked in brothels, imprisoned in veils?
And why did you slaughter the bridegroom of summer,
a light to the gentiles, hanging on nails?

Why the six hundred year long Inquisition
and why did you burn every witch at the stake?
Why did you burn all the groves from the temples
and cut out the tongues of the women who spake?

Do you hope that Trinity will undo the holocaust?
That two hundred warheads are a dove-call for peace?
Why do you punish the daughters of Palestine
when marriage to the land can then never take place?

Do you not realize you are torching the forests?
fishing the oceans, polluting the streams?
Did you not understand when you set up Chernobyl
that long bitter waters would flow through our dreams?

Can you not see we are shredding the garment?
The desert of life is a difficult birth.
The time has now come, the asherim are calling
lying on a shore at the ends of the earth.

This is my hymn to the future of Zion
the crown of your fortune, the seal of your strife
your tenure on earth comes from loving your neighbour
as flesh of your flesh and the love of your life.

This is the love song of Sheba and Solomon,
this is the life hymn of Heaven and Earth,
this is the marriage of Kingdom and Garden
throughout our generations.

The Resurrection of Magdalen (mp3 download)
Jane King, Chris king (reading) Rohan King (Gaia Suite 4th movement)

The Resurrection of Magdalene
Jane King

I have sailed in desire and
flowed in passion
in the ark, the arms
of Love.
So rare,
like the dawn of the day you climb
only once in your life
the highest mountain
is my soul's spouse.

And I have witnessed when
professing to love Him
you have in your fear
of the awakening
transported him body and soul
to a bloodless heaven,
rejecting the throbbing
in your own sacred heart.
Seeking desire
without the responsibility
of perfect fulfilment.

I have come here to remind you.
You are Him, and I am She,
and we
the ark of the world.
We must not transport to the void
but sweetly plant
in Earth,
our love so rare

We cannot escape through worship
our own conscious destiny.
Our meeting and our embracing.
For the Renewal of all life
lies in this sacred realm,
and that rare stranger in the garden,
the immortal Beloved,
is also Yourself.

Dialogue of the Saviour (mp3 download)
Chris & Christine vocals, Chris Composition, dulcimer, lyrics, keyboard, Chinese violin, bells. Eyal Loz (Dumbek, didgeridoo)

Dialogue of the Saviour

Played to dulcimer slide tuning GG DD A#A#.

G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Gm 12:15:19 - Dm 7:10:14
Fm 10:13:17 - Cm 5:8:12
D#m 8:11:15 - A#m 3:6:10
C#m 6:9:13 - G#m 1:4:8

Cm 5:8:12 - Gm 0:3:7
A#m 15:18:22 - Fm 10:13:17
G#m 13:16:20 - D#m 8:11:15
F#m 11:14:18 - C#m 6:9:13

10:13:17 - 5:8:12
8:11:15 - 3:6:10
6:9:13 - 1:4:8
16:19:23 - 11:14:18

15:18:22 - 10:13:17
13:16:20 - 8:11:15
11:14:18 - 6:9:13
9:12:16 - 4:7:11

8:11:15 - 3:6:10
6:9:13 - 1:4:8
16:19:23 - 11:14:18
14:17:21 - 9:12:16

13:16:20 - 8:11:15
11:14:18 - 6:9:13
9:12:16 - 4:7:11
7:10:14 - 2:5:9

6:9:13 - 1:4:8
16:19:23 - 11:14:18
14:17:21 - 9:12:16
12:15:19 - 7:10:14

11:14:18 - 6:9:13
9:12:16 - 4:7:11
7:10:14 - 2:5:9
5:8:12 - 0:3:7

16:19:23 - 11:14:18
14:17:21 - 9:12:16
12:15:19 - 7:10:14
8:11:15 - 3:6:10

9:12:16 - 4:7:11
7:10:14 - 2:5:9
5:8:12 - 0:3:7
15:18:22 - 10:13:17

14:17:21 - 9:12:16
12:15:19 - 7:10:14
8:11:15 - 3:6:10
6:9:13 - 1:4:8

7:10:14 - 2:5:9
5:8:12 - 0:3:7
15:18:22 - 10:13:17
13:16:20 - 8:11:15

A: Thunder - Perfect Mind

'Look upon me you who reflect upon me 12
and you hearers hear me
You who are waiting for me
take me to yourselves.

For I am the first, and the last. 5
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore, and the holy one.
the virgin and the wife.

I am [the mother] and the daughter.... 10
I am the barren one, and many are her sons
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband....

B: En/lightning El-Niño

Look upon me you who reflect upon me. 15
For I am alpha and omega,
the divine and the blasphemer,
Ba'al Zebul and the Holy Ghost,

the Father and the Son of Man. 8
I am the father of my mother
and it is my wife who begot me
or ever I was born

I am the Bridegroom 13
whose communion is celebrated
and I have not
taken a wife.

Break 6, 11, 16

A: I am knowledge and ignorance.... 9
I am shameless and ashamed.
I am strength, and I am fear....
I am senseless, and I am wise. ...

I am the silence that is incomprehensible 14
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
The voice whose echo is reverberating
the thunder that intoxicates.

I am the one whom you have pursued . 7
I am the one that you have seized.
I am the one that you have scattered
and you have gathered me together.

B: I am the word made flesh 12
and yet the bread of life.
I am the good shepherd
and yet the paschal lamb.

I am the true vine 17
and yet the sprouting rod.
I am the fisher of men
and yet the eye of the storm.

I am the lightning uniting heaven 10
and earth in rains of plenty.
I am the light of the world
and the darkness at noontide.

Break 15, 8, 13

A: The union and the dissolution. 18
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I am the shameless one
before whom you are ashamed.

Though sinless, I am the root of sin. 11
The solace even of my labour pains.
I am the meaning of the word
and the very sound of the name.

I am the one whom they call Life 16
and you have called death.
In my weakness do not ever forsake me,
nor ever fear my power.

B: Split a piece of wood and you will find me there 9
Lift up a stone and you will find me there
for I am the light above the All
and to me did the All extend.

I am not your master but you've become drunk 14
from the bubbling stream that I have measured out
and whoever discovers this interpretation
will never experience death

I am the one who returns to loosen the bands 7
and open the prison to them that are bound.
I am the din that is unendurable.
The epiphany of miraculous dread.

Break 12, 5, 10

A: I am the intimate companion of the savior. 15
He would come to kiss me on my mouth
He asked them "Why do I not love you,
as I love the one who permeates the All?"

I am lust in [outward] appearance 8
and yet I'm the very soul of discretion,
for many are the forms ...
and fleeting pleasures

which men embrace, till they become sober 13
and go up to their resting place.
And there they will find me
and live and not die again.'

B: I am the one who is called Truth, 6
and I am cast upon the face of the earth.
I am the one who you have despised
and yet you love me all the more.

Why do you curse me and honour me? 11
Why do you consume and sanctify me?
Why do you leave the body hanging there
when the fire is already alight?

I bring you to weave, the garments of salvation 16
and offer you the requital of true love.
In our blood flows the fruit of the Tree of Life
and in our flesh the healing of the nations.

Finale 9, 14, 7

Song of the Biosphere (Originally produced a month before 9-11) YouTubeVideo  Audio(mp3)
Chris King
, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
Original link July 2001

Song of the Biosphere

5.5.9-5.5.8  4.4.8-4.4.7  3.3.7-3.3.5  2.2.5-2.2.4  1.1.4-1.1.3

5.5.9 (c8) 4.4.9 (c8 7-5 4) 1.1.4-3.3.4  3.3.5
9.9.12-9.9.11  8.8.12 (c11 c10-9 c8) 4.4.8-6.6.8  6.6.9
4.4.9 (c8 6) 3.3.8 (c6 5-4 3) 0.1.3-0.0.2  0.0.0
3.4.5  1.1.3  3.3.5  2.3.4  1.1.3-0.0.2  0.0.0-1.0.1  1.1.2
3.3.5  1.1.3  2.3.4  1.1.3  0.1.2-0.0.1  0.0.0-1.0.1  1.1.2

you tell us tales of hollywood
of stars wars and the common good
you told us global warming
was a litany of lies
factory chimneys were the prize

you claim all living creatures
are your intellectual property
you fail to ratify every treaty
which doesn't give you more
have I heard this all before?

when it comes to the final struggle
jihad of the biosphere
there's only one true rogue nation
the great American shaitan
big brother, you are Uncle Sam.

if you take them away
how can we find what we came for?
what can you say?
when it's all our future lives that you play for
walking in the twilight
down in the valley of shadows
when will you comprehend
the damage you have wrought
... in your indiscretion?
can we undo
the death trance you have set in motion?

will you discover
the fabric of love that ignites us?
can we embrace
the ocean of life that unites us?
all our lives long
this journey has been our destination
if we get this one wrong
will there be any chance for restoration
if we waste the last shoreline
can there be any way to resurrection?

don't you know that we
have all been dreaming
... that the dark days are coming
when the cowboy appears
and brings home our fears?
can we rend the veil of tears?

can we touch the sky?
can we fly so high
we'll pass right to the other side
and never fall in flames?
will we ever be the same again?

we'll become the living soul
the primal source the shining goal
the beginning and the end of life
the happiness and the pain
can we bear it all again?

Sakina Lament (for the intrinsic violence at the source of Islam) YouTubeVideo  Audio(mp3)
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.

Sakina Lament

5.5.8 (c8-9-8 7 7-8) 4.4.8 (-c10-9-8 7 7-8)
3.3.8 (c5-7 8 7 5) 4.4.7 (c5 4 4)
9.9.11 (c11-12-11 10 10-11) 8.8.11 (-c13-12-11 10 10-11)
6.6.11 (c9-10 c11 c10 c9) 8.8.10 (c9 c8 c8)

3.3.5 (c6-5 6 4 4-5 5) 1.1.3 (c5-4-3 3 3-4 3)
6.6.9 (c11-10-9 c9-10 c9) 4.5.8 (c10-9 8 8-9 8)
3.3.5 (c8-6-5 5 5-6 5) 1.1.3 (c5-4-3 3 3-4 3)
6.6.9 (c11-10-9 c9-10 c9) 4.5.8 (c10-9 8 8-9 8)

Oh al-Llah, did the prophet blaspheme you?
Why have they taken your name in oppression?
Are Ninety-nine names of a god of destruction
the merciful, compassionate All?

New York, New York, why did your sky fall?
Osama bin Laden is this inspiration
to bring a destruction, not on the guilty
but family, children and all?

Did you not understand that for life to abide
the love flower to blossom, the life tree to flourish
we all need healing, to feed all the hungry,
and not flaming genocide?

We know that the capital machine is corruption,
that the winners take all and the losers are trodden on.,
that this is not a true way of compassion,
not wholly civilized.

We know green pastures are crumbling to desert,
the waters of life and the tree are neglected,
that justice is blind in the power of the dollar,
as the towers of investment grow higher.

We know we can all become a great Satan,
embracing violence, instead of compassion,
when we think we are right, have God on our side
and set out to rule the whole world.

Do you imagine that imposing Shariat
would make the world naturally compassionate?
Why can't you see that imposing on anyone
is contrary to divine law?

Why behead the Jews of Medina
when all that they did was to argue and bicker?
How can you claim Jerusalem is Holy
when the daughters of Sarah are defiled?

When the peace of Sakina spoke at Hudaybiyah
she uttered to heal - to make the world holy
she sang as Shekhinah - from the canvas of Sarah
so we could at last become whole.

Muhammad, why did you then murder Sarah
on the first fateful day that you came into Mecca?
Why did you not heed the song of Sakina
the singers tongues cut from their mouths?

Oh Islam, why crucify al Hallaj
just for declaring the truth - "ana al Haqq"?
Why can't you see there is no final prophet
in a living regenerating world?

Why did you make all your women wear burqah
just to conceal the prophets many lovers?
Why is a woman only half of the value
of man, possession or beast?

Why can't you trust men to set eyes on women?
Why can't you allow all mothers and daughters
to make their own minds up quite freely
in the unveiling the Quran prophesied?

Why was it stated by al Bukhari
that the prophet Muhammad at one time lamented
that the world would never become complete
till the women of Daws wiggled free?

Why did you curse al-Llah's triple daughters,
al-Uzza, Manat and and al-Lat first and foremost
from times long ago in the deserts of Sinai
the divine and wisdom, together forever?

Why did you have to leave for Medina,
Why did Khadja expire from her hunger?
Why did you think that the angel Gabriel
would speak to you with Satan's forked tongue?

Why did you put a death curse on freedom
why can't each person choose what they believe in?
Why threaten every believer with death
if they also love Mary, or Elizabeth?

Why do you not drink the waters of Hagar
out of whose spring sprung the palm trees together,
why do you not feel the pain of Aisha?
and the love of Fatimah?

When is the time come to light up the candles
of peace in Sakina of plenty together
so that all the world's paths can finally gather
whole in the gentleness of peace?

The time has now come for the flight of the dove
to bring back the olive, to unchain the grove,
to throw all the gates of mercy wide open
so that the world can be one.

The time has now come for us all to replenish
and cherish the Earth's generations forever
in the warmth of the heart that can never be broken
in the light of the love that is life.

'Elohim (Gypsy Spirits mp3 download)
Chris King:
Song & lyrics, dulcimer, keyboards, ova.
Heath King: Bass, rhythm and lead guitars, djembes.

Living on the Open Road

3.3.5  5.5.8 (a7 5)
0.1.2  1.1.3 (c2 3 2) 0.1.2 (a0 1 1 0 1 0 1) 5.5.8
5.5.8  2.2.4
0.1.2  1.1.3 (c2 3 2) 0.1.2 (a0 1 1 0 1 0 1) 5.5.8

1.1.4  3.3.5 (a4 3) 4.4.7  5.5.8 (a7 5)  (x 5)

We are living ... on the open road
and we are carrying ... such a heavy load.
The arms of destiny ... are open in despair,
cause man is killing the creatures ... and poisoning the air.

Can you find us ... when you're hiding?
Can you see us ... when you're flying?
Can your hear us ... when you're lying?
Will you be us ... when you're dying?

We are whispering ... across the heavens
and all the creatures ... they echo in reply.
We are the very blood ... of the tree of life.
We are the void and the shining light.

We are the eternal gypsy spirits of the universe.
We have been here since it all began.
We will outlast its final passing.
We are here to free the heart of man.

We have always ... been living together
We've been lovers ... ever since time began
We have only met ... this very moment
It's so surprising ... to find out who I am

We are the lovers, not the haters,
nor the breakers, but the makers.
Not terminators, but creators,
generators and sustainers.

We are the healer, ... we are the seer,
We are the laughter ... we are the golden.
We are the dreamer ... the deepest sleeper
We are the nagual ... we are the garden.

The Woman at the Well (mp3 download)
Chris King Dulcimer, keyboard, flute, lyrics, vocals

1.2.4 5.7.9 3.4.5 2.3.4
1.2.4 2.3.4 1.2.4 5.7.9
5.7.9 2.2.4

2.3.4 1.2.4 4.4.6 3.3.5
0.0.2 0.1.3 0.0.2 1.2.4
1.2.4 2.3.5/1.0.1

Unsuspected Love

I've lived a life of freewheeling freedom
and had my pick of many pretty women,
but never once in such a long time
have I been so affected.
What can it be, this thing that's happening to me,
so unsuspected?

I was parched, when I saw you sitting by the fountain
in the shade of the fig tree, after noon-time.
Your well was deep and you gave me living water,
my thirst unrequited.
You passed me your cup. I'll forever drink again.
Reunited.

When we lay beneath the branches in the garden,
I discovered you possess a deepest wisdom.
It's the way you move, the way that you smile,
the way you cry out in ecstasy.
Is the snake coiling around us?
Has the sacred fruit found us
naked, wild and free?

They say that you've taken many partners
and now you're here living with no husband
and yet you're the virgin of the bridegroom
caught in adultery.
Let the man without sin cast the first stone.
Shalaam Salome!

To Shakti (mp3 download)
Chris King: dulcimer.

Set Love Free The portal song - for Jane (mp3 download)
Chris King: Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.
Rohan King: Piano and bridge composition. Heath King: Drums.


Set Love Free
(A#)

2.3.4  4.4.6
3.4.5  4.4.6  3.3.5-0.1.3  0.1.3-0.0.2-0.0.0
7.8.9  5.6.8
5.5.8  3.4.5  2.3.4  0.0.2-1.2.4

8.8.10  7.8.9  5.5.8  4.5.7  3.3.5  2.3.4  0.1.3  1.2.4  (x 2)

Piano bridge: ACF G#CF GCD# A#DF (D# D G# G G#-F)
A#DF G#C#F G#CF A#D#F (G# G C# C C#-A#)

What did you dream?
What could you see?
Was the river flowing?
Was the ocean rolling,
restlessly?

Did you see signs of rain?
Was it after the flood?
Was the land milk and honey?
Was the springtime bursting
out in the bud?

Were the forests green?
Were the oceans blue?
Was there snow in the mountains,
the sky clear and shining?
Is it true?

How could we know?
How can this be?
Is there no relent
from this steep descent
into mystery?

All my life I've been waiting
longing to see the moment arrive
when love runs wild and free forever,
carries us away.

I know I've always loved you
long before we ever knew.
The truth is we have both been flowing
towards this very day.

Can we reach the other side?
Is the portal open wide?
It's the place of no return.
Is this the rite of passage
in the floodtide?

Did you see the lightning strike?
Can you hear the thunder roll?
Know the storm is coming?
Feel the winds arising
and the sea's call?

Can you see the way ahead?
Does the passage look clear?
Is there room in the ark?
Is the rudder secure?
There's a breeze here!

Let the waters flow!
Unfurl the Tree!
Cherish the Fruit.
Replenish the Earth
and set love free.

How could we know?
How can this be?
The night keeps calling,
my life keeps falling
on this destiny.


PURCHASE

CD 2: Tane

The Song of Tane (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals), Eyal Loz (didgeridoo, tablas)

The Song of Tane

8.4.4, 7.4.4, 5.2.2, 4.2.2
9.5.5, 8.5.5, 4.1.1, 3.1.1
11.8.8, 10,8,8, 88788744.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3, 33233200.0.0

You say we should comingle
so intimately, the separation 
of sky and earth would be reunited 
in our primal fusion.

9.5.5, 8.5.5, 5.2.2, 4.2.2
10.6.6, 9.6.6, 8.4.4, 7.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3,
5.2.2, 4.2.2

But you bridle for a freedom
so elusive, so boundless
we would both become 
lost, even to ourselves.

8.4.4, 7.4.4, 6.3.3, 5.3.3,
9.5.5, 8.5.5, 4.1.1, 3.1.1
11:10:10:11:10.8.8, 8788744.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3, 322-33-2200.0.0

Caught between life and death
we know no final unravelling
but the essential immortal, entangled loom
of nature's hour of splendour in the grass of love.

Break

9.5.5, 8.5.5, 5.2.2, 4.2.2
11:10:11:10.8.8, 87874.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3,
5.2.2, 4.2.2

So my dew, my myrrh on the lock,
in the, fullness, of our differences
let's push the sky so gently
just far enough from earth

87787.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3,
11:10:10:11:10.8.8,
8788874.4.4

That we can roll, like the thunder...
under the covers of our love,
that in our comingling, ...
our all-too - restless offspring

10.6.6, 9.6.6,
9.5.5, 8.5.5,
8.4.4, 7.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3,
322-33-2200.0.0

who struggle in the night
and wrestle to see the light
who fall in love at first sight
may also come to pass their time
of splendour under the fronds of love.

8.4.4, 7.4.4, 5.2.2, 4.2.2
9.5.5, 8.5.5, 4.1.1, 3.1.1
11.8.8,10,8,8, 88788744.4.4
6.3.3, 5.3.3, 33233200.0.0

Break

You say we shouldn't linger
in the throes of our final rapture.
Don't tell me that the dance is over
long before it has even begun.

Break

8987(7/8)87.4.4
6860.3.3
4543(3/4)3.1.1
3(3/5)4320.0.0
9:10:9(11/10)9(9/10)9.5.5
88*(8/10)98(7/9)870.4.4
6(6/8)65(5/6)5.3.3
57540.2.2
10:11:10(12/11)10(10/11)10.6.6
99*(9/11)10:9(8/10)980.5.5
7(7/9)76(6/7)6.4.4
68650.3.3

Overflowing Love (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, lyrics), Christine Fielder & Chris King (vocals) Arlene Rees (lyric sources)

 

Overflowing Love

3.3.5 (c5 6-5) 5.5.8 (c10-9-8) 4.4.8 (c7 8-7 7 7-8-7) 4.4.6 (c6 8-6) 3.3.5 (c5 5-6 5)
9.9.11 (c11 11 12-11) 8.8.11 (c11-10 10 10-11-10) 2.2.4 (c5-4 4) 1.1.4 (c4-3 3 3-4-3)
6.6.9 (c11-10-9) 5.5.10 (c10-9-8) 3.3.5 (c8-6-5) 2.2.5 (c5 4)
1.1.3 (c3-5-3) 0.1.3-0.0.2  0.0.2-0.1.3-0.0.2-0.0.0
1.0.1  4.0.4  1.1.1  3.3.3  4.4.4 (harmonic)

love with you
love surround you
love abound you
love beside you
love inside you
love startling
love sparkling
love all-consuming
love slowly burning
love abiding
love enduring
love ephemeral
love eternal
love alluring
love delicious
love lubricious
wild breezes blowing
love overflowing

my love to you
your love around me
love confound me ...
love abound me
love astound me
your love inside me
love astride me
love so startling
this love is rattling
love incandescent
love's shadows darkening
love gently smouldering
love never mouldering
love awakening
love reflowering
love residing
love confiding
sensual knowing
love overflowing

love between us
love reuniting
love disquieting
love infernal
love enticing
love rapacious
love salacious
love capricious
love suspicious
love sustaining
love ensuring
love desirable
love surprising
fragrant, flowing
new love glowing
love bestowing
a passion growing
love overflowing

Kohiti Rose (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)

Kohiti Rose

5.5.8  3.3.5
2.2.4  1.1.3  3.4.5  3.3.5  5.5.8

9.9.11  6.6.9
5.5.8  4.4.6  6.8.9  6.6.9  9.9.11

kohiti rose
you fragrant flower
flying from forever
right across the ocean
such a cool way she glows

kohiti rose
new moon rising
sitting by the pillars
on the beach at iwitea
is this the way love grows?

kohiti rose
wild naked mindfire
ice on the glacier
flames in the water
every way the wind blows

kohiti rose
no dissipation
only half a man
thrown out of kali's kitchen
that's the crazy way it goes

oh she knows
and she shows it too
you'd better watch out
better sing and shout,
one hell of a problem she'll pose

kohiti rose
sent from a power
first and last
shameless and boldness
silent, remembered all of those ...

thunder perfect rose
eve in the garden
lilith flying bareback
shakti unrelenting ...
its just the wild way she flows

kohiti rose
my hyphal ecstacy
tumbling into
your azure eyes
all messed up in the throes ...

kohiti rose ...

Prisoners' Dilemma (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals) Lyric sources:
Jane King, Arlene Rees.

Prisoner's Dilemma

8.5.0 (AbcabcAc) 4.2.0 (Abcbcbab) 6.4.0 (AbcabcAc) 3.1.0 (AbcbabcA)
5.5.0  2.2.0  4.4.0  1.1.0
5.8.0 (Abcabc) 2.4.0 (AbcabcAc) 4.6.0 (Abcabc) 1.3.0 (AbcabcAc)

Christine's in the kitchen
researching sexual friction
falling into our affection
so ecstatically entwined.

Living in uncertainty,
courting high fidelity.
Are we gatherers and hunters
or just serving double time?

Lying on our bed of roses
how come this thing could be so good?
Is making love like rabbits
making up for stolen crime?

Passion and betrayal,
deceiving trust in jealousy.
Is it the prisoner's dilemma
to play such a lethal game?

A projection for your fantasies
or is She one who stands to challenge -
shake the foundations of everything
on which your existence lies?

This is mutual annihilation!
Breathless with anticipation
longing to worship the holy grail
in your mountains of loving spice.

"i do not know if this is 'right' ...
for my presence to cast a shadow
when by my very existence i stand
to undermine another???"

You know she was beside herself
autistically aflame.
She left here, in sheer desperation
when you took off on that plane!

Tides in the affairs of men,
women seeking covenants.
Sewing wild oats by day
in the witching hours of night.

Chris sends to Arlene,
pictures from the shoreline.
A few more turgid twists
to this tangled tale to come. 

Arlene, she says nothing,
Just writes to Jane disclaiming
"I just don't know
what to say to this man". 

"no calculated silence!
I've been very busy ...
I hope to get back to you
by tomorrow or sometime ...

your post deserves focus
and full attention ...
and my focus and attention
are otherwise engaged"

Jane has 'little more' to say.
She simply casts it all away
into the spinning story's play.
I can't believe it to this day!

"You really broke my heart you know
You never really loved me, so
you never recognized
the deepest nature of my love."

"Why did you spill the beans to her?
Is nothing between us sacred now?
Rose Marie you set us free,
I heard it down the vine!"

Magdalen and Thunder Rose,
Adam and Eve between the groves.
Is there anybody here who knows?
Or is my head just spinning?

Children in the playground
caught in a passion play's round,
believing we're all standing
here on sacred ground?

You've never been able to commit
to love one single woman's gift,
looking for every woman
is to be only half a man.

Are we talking love incarnate
or expendable detachment?
Were these volcanic primal fires,
just a tamer love that fades?

Are you just casting off old garments
in your serial monogamy?
Is there something on the highway?
The significance evades!

Was this an icy comet closing in?
Deep impact?
Are you sure this act of grace was just
a personal affair?

Cosmic merging? Thunder mind? 
naked awareness wonder kind ...
Shakti tell me Is THIS the way
the universe began?

Uncertainty (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)

Uncertainty

5.5.8 (AbcabcAc) 4.4.7 (AbcabcAc) 4.4.7-2.2.4  2.2.4
5.5.8 (AbcabcAc) 4.4.7 (AbcabcAc) 4.4.7-2.2.4  2.2.4
5.5.8 (-c9 8) 4.4.7 (c7-8 7) 4.4.7-2.2.4
5.5.8 (c10-9 8) 4.4.8 (c7 7 7-8 7) 2.2.5 (c4 4 4-5 4 2)

1.1.3 (c4-3 3) 3.3.5 (c6-5) 2.2.4-0.1.2  0.1.2
2.2.4 (c4-3 3) 4.4.6 (c8-6) 3.3.5-0.1.3  0.1.3

3.3.5  1.1.3  0.1.2  2.2.4  3.3.5 (c7 8) 4.4.7 (c9 8 7 7-8 7 5-4-5-7)
5.5.8 (c10-9 8) 4.4.8 (c10-9 8) 3.3.8 (c5-7-8) 2.2.7 (c7-5-4) 1.1.5 (c5-4-3)
0.1.2 (c2-4) 3.3.5 (c5-7-8) 4.4.7 (c9 8 7 7-8 7 5-4-5-7)

4.4.6  3.3.5  0.1.3  2.3.4
6.6.8  8.8.10  7.8.9
6.8.9  4.5.8  3.3.5  4.4.5
3.4.6  3.3.5  1.1.3  4.4.7
3.4.6  3.3.5  3.3.3  4.4.4  8.8.8  3.3.3  4.4.4

Was it singing such a wild song
that threw us into this
uncertainty?
When all our lives long
weve been here together
in good company.
Do we ride the great wave now?
Cast on an ocean current
that has set us free?
What winds do we sail on?
What signs do we follow
on this restless sea?

I have always been searching
far out on the horizon,
when the day was clear.
Restless in the morning
searching beyond the borders
just to find you here.

Is it so surprising
that the pains of love still linger
while the gains are new.
Tangled twists of fate,
so long and complicated ...
Seems there's no way through.
Haven't they always tried so hard
to tell us that
"It all comes down to you?"
We never expected
things to be so simple
love could be so true.

(CHORUS)

We never expected
to meet here by chance
in such a strange affair
Unmasked and exposed
in the lightning's embrace,
touch wood in mortal fear!
Is this the sacred union
are these the fires of fusion
that are flickering near?
Has Shakti found Shiva
has the kundalini serpent
entwined us here.

You know its a pleasure
to have known you all my life
Sister-spouse, sensual partner,
ecstatic charmer, nemesis lover,
goddess-resplendent, nubile, pregnant
mother superior, mystical wife.

Christine, Christine,
has it all been a dream?
Children running through the bushes
standing beside us.
taller and stronger,
slipping into the future,
setting off on a journey
into the sunset.

(CHORUS)

CHORUS

Have we been trying not
to face this music
all of our lives?
Or is it
just a case of fate
catching up with us?
Were we foolishly swinging
on a tightrope?
Did we slip and
fall in love?
But this is no emergency,
not a bloody tale of strife.
Just our wedding aniversary
on the other side of life.


Vietnamese orchestra: The koto-like Vietnamese Dan Tranh (centre) and the haunting Dan Bau,
or monostring chordphone (bottom) are used in "Shadows of Your Mind"

The Shadows of your Mind (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh (Vietnam), Dan Bau (Vietnam), percussion.

 

Ariadne

The time that I first saw you
you were walking under a storm cloud.
Your eyes the colour of twilight.
Your long hair flowing wild.

You shake me to the marrow.
If you spit out every sinew,
I'd be there at the shoreline
for the scent of your bouquet.

There is an endless longing
in the wind that blows forever
on the rivers that entwine us
in the shadows of your mind.

Pandora: The Song of the River (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Dan Tranh (Vietnam), Dan Bau (Vietnam), Percussion.

lo.med.high

0.0.2 2.3.4
1.1.2 2.4.5
1.0.0 8.8.9
1.1.0 8.9.9
0.1.(2-3-1-2) 5.(5-8-4-5).8
1.1.1 5.4.5
1.0.5 4.4.5

5.5.8 5.4.5 5.8.9
4.4.5 2.3.5 5.5.5
5.4.5 5.8.8 2.3.5
5.5.5 4.4.5 5.8.8

5.5.(5-4-8-4) 4.4.(5-4-9-4) 1.1.(5-4-0-4) 0.0.(5-4-9-4)

Pandora

when I saw your shadow, your hands were flowing
beyond the islands, a passion was growing
from that moment, I have been hungering
lost in the wilderness, found in the opening

you wandered through the glade in the morning
light on your hair, set all the birds flying
heavy with wildflowers, the laughter was echoing
down in the valley a rainbow was shining

then came a breeze, the aroma of sandalwood
camphire and cinnamon, jasmine and absinthe,
scent of your ointments, the lure of your spices
music of your laughter, the echo of your silence

the bracing coolness of your ardor,
the intimate conflagration of your ecstasy,
the very persistence of your fleetingness,
the utter tranquility of your fury

the curve of your lips, the swelling of your breasts
the nectar of your furrows, the fire in your soul,
the inner mounting flame of your desire
the eloquent intoxication of your sexiness

we are stepping out into the river
we are slipping down into the whirlpool
we are dancing round and round together
entwined as serpents, giddy as dervishes

you know that we have both lingered here before
we know that we have wandered beyond the shore
you know that we have recklessly changed the score
nothing will ever, be the same for evermore

 

when i saw you coming, long strands were blowing
along the shoreline, wild tides were flowing
from that instant, i have been thirsting
to drink from the deepest pools of your yearning

you passed through the crowd in the evening
the light of your countenance, shone like a beacon
people fell silent, all heads were turning,
your eyes were smoldering, my heart was burning

the sound of a distant thunder was rumbling
flashes of lightning, tall trees were swaying
the wind came gusting, grasses were bending
creatures were moaning, clouds were descending

when i felt the flame of your desire
nothing could keep me from your incandescence
when you were naked in the rapture of your innocence
I became the helpless victim of your presence

warmth of your affection, the longing of your loneliness
the fullness of your womanhood, the emptiness of your void
the inscrutable mystery of your moodiness
the enchanting nature of your sensibility

we are coasting out on the horizon
skating far beyond all known borders
into the teeming chaos of uncertainty
with only the glint of a knife edge to guide us

you know that we have crossed this flood before
we know the ferryman is waiting on the other shore
the box is wide open and we can never close the door
and nothing can never ever, be the same no more

Shakti Unleashed (mp3 download)
Chris King: Lyrics, Vocals, Composition, Dulcimer, Keyboard, Percussion.

Shakti Unleashed

5.3.3 10.8.8 9.6.6
13.11.11 10.8.8 8.5.5
11.9.9 10.8.8 6.4.4
11.9.9 10.8.8 5.3.3 (V1) or 9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9 (V2)

6.4.4 9.6.6 8.6.5-5.3.3 8.6.5-9.6.6-8.6.5-5.3.3
3.1.1 5.3.3 4.3.2-2.0.0 4.3.2-5.3.3-4.3.2-2.0.0 (C1&2)

Verse 1
Shakti, Oh Shakti, did you really take us flying?
When you came out in the moonlight, where all the owls were crying?
On that wild and windswept hill top, where tangled trees were swaying
the crickets softly chirping, the grassy breezes playing.

Chorus 1
I'm forever hearing echoes of the sound of your laughter
I shall always be loving you for the silence of your wonder
I drink to the deepest sensation of our knowing
I thirst for the perennial springtime of our growing

Verse 1
You threw off all your garments and stood there in your nakedness.
Your nubile breasts were swaying, your tousled hair wafting fragrances
Resplendent in your rapture, enchanting in your innocence
Radiant in your splendour, inscrutable in your sentience.

Chorus 2
When I look into the water, I see your face there smiling
I shall never stop loving you for the luminance of your being
I long to be consumed by the intimacy of our embracing.
I am yearning for the friendly fire of our comingling

Verse 2
You hugged me and embraced me and cried out in your ecstasy,
confided to me intimately, overflowing with your plenty,
that in this very instant, as the ocean surged beneath us,
the Earth had become anointed, as Shakti had been unleashed!!!

Chorus 1

Verse 1
I looked in your eyes with wonder, forsaken, cast asunder
by your all-consuming luminance, the delirium of your laughter.
The emanations and vibrations, of the living incandescence
of your holy and abundant, captivating presence.

Chorus 2

Verse 2
Lifetimes passed between us in the labyrinths of our being;
the endless tides of oceans, the unending winds of fates.
The storms amid the rainbows, as we passed beyond the shoreline.
Though I've known you forever, the mystery never abates.

But a Piece of What Was To Be (mp3 download)
Rohan King: Composition, grand piano.
Chris King: Dulcimer accompaniment.

"It is completely melodramatic, though in a way that was the intention. It's sorrowful and yet somehow incomplete, but I suppose most importantly it's a song of passion and a song of love. Well ... that's what it is to me anyway ( not wanting to sound too pretentious and all)" - Rohan

Free Love (mp3 download)
Chris King (dulcimer, keyboard, maraccas), Christine Fielder & Christine Fielder (vocals), Heath King (percussion, bass).

Free Love

3.3.5  5.5.8
5.5.8  4.4.7  3.3.5
2.2.4  3.3.5  5.5.8

2.3.4  4.5.7
4.5.7  5.7.9  2.3.4
7.7.9  8.8.10  10.10.12

Free love, feel so free.
Crazy love. Love below from up above.
This is wild, should we flee this crazy love?

Oh you've got me on your wavelength!
You've scattered me, I'm flying free,
without any shadow on the ground.

Shall we dance together, at high noon?
In the sun, in the rain, in the twilight, in the moonlight,
in the darkest hour .. of midnight?

And the dawn rolls in with thunder,
casting all our dreams asunder,
as driftwood thrown up on some high wave.

I will always have need to love you.
I shall swear to you forever
my fidelity and devotion all my life.

We shall bless the Spring with showers.
May flowers bloom and the forests ring
with ech-oing laughter and marital sighs with no goodbyes.

Free love, feel so free,
Crazy love. Love below from up above.
This is wild, so free, crazy love!

Deja Vu (mp3 download)
Chris King (dulcimer, keyboard, percussion, dan bau)

8.5.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1
5.3.3 2.0.0
4.2.2 6.4.4

10.8.8 6.4.4
9.6.6 5.3.3
8.5.5 4.2.2
6.4.4 3.1.1

11.9.9 8.5.5
10.8.8 6.4.4
9.6.6 5.3.3
8.5.5 4.2.2

6.4.4 3.1.1
5.3.3 2.0.0
4.2.2 6.4.4
9.6.6 10.8.8

3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 2.0.0 2.1.1
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 2.0.0 2.1.1
3.1.1 4.2.2-5.3.3 9.6.6 10.8.8
6.4.4 8.5.5-9.6.6 5.3.3 5.4.4
6.4.4 8.5.5-9.6.6 10.8.8 11.9.9

Deja Vu

Is this deja vu a groundhog day?
Will the morning melt our troubles away?
Have we just been dreaming our future,
or caught in an endgame of fear?

Are we going to have a rude awakening?
Is this shadow a menace overtaking us,
or are the dark heavy clouds we are seeing,
just an illusion of night?

I threw off the covers and went out to the kitchen
and turned all the lights on and looked out the window
but all I could see was an endless desert
and a dust cloud blowing up a storm.

I walked right out to the edge of the garden
where the sunset makes the bushes glow golden
but when I looked down, I stood at a precipice
half a mile and ten stories high.

Can we find the way
to waken and break the deadlock of this nightmare
Can we find the key
to unlock the portals of fate?
Can we find the courage
to dispel our darkest dreams of destruction
Can we find the love
to turn our night into day?
Can we climb the ladders
into the heavens and bless this world with rainbows
Can we find the focus
to learn to be here now?

Are we awake, or are we still drowsing?
Caught in the drunkenness of too much carousing?
Can we drag ourselves from our infatuation,
long enough to let in the light?

I thought I was walking down by the ocean
and when I saw you, your dark eyes were shining
I ran and embraced you and looked down deep
into the abyss of your eyes.

I framed the urgent and ultimate question
where is the way we can get back to Ixtlan?
You shook your head, smiling at my foolishness
as I gazed up into the skies.

All at once came a gust of sea breezes
and cool salt spray spattered my body
As I felt myself shooting up faster,
I saw myself floating below.

Can we find the passage
to lead us right back into the dream time
Can we loosen the knot
to unbind the bundle of life?
Have we found the secret
to throw wide open all the doors of perception?
Can we find the intimacy
to turn scorching day to cool night?
Can we descend down deep
into the labyrinth that unfolds the future
Have we (be)come from forever
just to stand here now?

The Descent (mp3 download)
Chris King:
Lyrics, vocals, dulcimer, keyboards, pan pipes, ova;
Heath King: Bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitars, copper-bottomed pots, glass bowls and chopsticks.
Rohan King: Lead guitar (short break).

The Descent

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4.4.8 (c7 8 9 9-8 7 8-7)
3.3.7 (c5-7 8 8-7 5 7 5)
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1.2.4 (c4-5 4-4)
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3.3.5 2.2.4 1.1.3
0.1.2 (c3-2 0 0-2)

Oh my love
I can hear you calling
things don't look to good
if we don't take the warning
the sky is dark,
the air is choking
and the grass is dry

We'd better move fast
before it's too late.
There's no time left
to get things straight.
The final act is passing
all the lights are on.

If we put one step wrong,
this could be our last song.
If we don't seal the peace now
and get our act together,
we're already into free fall,
we could have no future at all.

Oh my darling
I really love you.
I'll always
be dreaming of you
and even though we're
no longer together,
I'll keep you in my heart.

Darling I'm sorry
if I hurt you
I never meant to forget you
I always wanted
to give you a good life
and not this breaking up.

Right from the very start
It was you who gave me my heart.
You were always the wise one,
tell me how to turn the tide now.
Tell me how to undo the fall,
to bring back life for us all.

Your Sweet Honey (mp3 download)
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, keyboards, percussion, vocals)

Your Sweet Honey

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0.1.3  1.2.4  3.3.5  4.4.7
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Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby!
Your sweet honey drives me crazy!
Oh yeah!
Don't you know I'm gonna love you baby?

Spring is bursting on the highway.
A sunshower is falling in the valley.
We go sailing,
we go flying
Sea drops were falling,
when you came laughing
Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby! ...

At sunset you took me to the meadow
to see your dark hair falling all around you.
To feel
your soft breath rising
and then
to chase you through the moonlight.
Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby! ...

Oh you know I was born to love you baby
and I don't ever mean to say maybe.
Though I've searched
the whole world through.
Never found a lover
who can sway me like you.
Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby! ...

Oh you're one in a million lady,
a team of wild, wilds horses couldn't sway me
Only a god, child
can move so fine.
And I'm glad to say the flame's
burning all the time.
Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby! ...

A dust cloud is blowing by the penthouse,
The children are caling from the ghettos
Though empires may be crumbling
And all I know
is endless travelling
Oh you know I'm gonna love you baby! ...

Eurydice (mp3 download)
Chris King:
Dulcimer, Andean flute, African Xylophone, Mucapata*, Percussion, Keyboards, Lyrics, Vocals. (*thumb piano, mbira or sansa)

Dulcimer tuned to FF CC DF extra DF fret at 1#

Riff on DF
0 1# 3 4 4 u (bend) 4
6 8 6 4 3 1# 8 9
8u 6 6u 4 33 4
etc.
1# 3 4u
1# 3 4u
1 u 3 4/0 4/0

Bridge on FF CC
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Slide
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6.6.6 3.3.3 4.4.4
6.6.6 8.8.8 9.9.9
9#.9#.9# 11.11.11 12.12.12 14.14.14 16.16.16 17.17.17

Eurydice

Have we been slipping closer to the edge?
Skating on thin ice
a minute to midnight.
Fiddling while Hollywood burns.

Cast out in exile, living so free.
In this diaspora,
is there to be
an unveiling now?

They tell tall tales of wonder
about illusion and nirvana
But all I can see among this plunder
is desolate samsara.

Was eating stolen fruit such a mortal sin?
Have we been locked outside the gates of heaven?
Is our all too heady sexual tryst to be forgiven?

Have we been falling, all of our lives?
Tell me is this fickle mirage paradise?
Have we been spun a tangled tale of deceit and lies?

Did you think we could hide in a bed of roses?
Caught in the spotlight
in delicto flagrante
dancing the tango of love?

Reluctant subterraneans
lost on an endless journey
crossing dreamtime

Is there any way back to Ixtlan?
Did we pay off the ferryman?
Eurydice?
Have you read the signs?

Can we find our way back from the dead of night?
In this endless labrynth where is the thread of life?
If the nightmare is ending,
how do we know the dream will survive?

Living in the physical world
Caught by Samsara
is there really any answer
but to pay respects to the girl?

Shakti can you tell me now
is this life and death dance to your liking?

Are these waves of ecstasy
Simply overflowing all around us?
Sacred succubus!

Is this an embrace or are we scattered?
Have all the glassy ceilings just been shattered?
Isn't this just the highest noon that ever mattered?

Hazelwood (mp3 download)
Chris King: Song, Instruments. W. B. Yeats: Lyrics.

Hazelwood (from The Song of Wandering Aengus)

2.2.4  5.5.8  5.7.9  2.2.4
2.2.4  5.5.8  5.7.9  2.2.4
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2.2.4  5.5.8  5.7.9  2.2.4

I went out to the Hazel wood
because a fire was in my head
and cut and peeled a hazel wand
and put a berry to a thread
and when white moths were on the wing
and moth like stars were flickering out
I put that berry in a stream
and caught a little silver trout.

And when I'd laid it on the floor
and gone to set the fire aflame
something rustled by the door
and something called me by my name.
It had become a glimmering girl
with apple blossoms in her hair.
She called me by my name and ran
and faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
in hollow lands and hilly lands
I'll find out where she has gone
and kiss her lips and take her hands
and walk her through long dappled grass
and pluck till time and times are done
the silver apples of the moon
the golden apples of the sun.

Marriage Song (John Riley - traditional ballad) (mp3 download)
Chris King: Pan pipes, dulcimer, keyboards, ova. Arwen King: Flute. Heath King: Bass, Chris King & Christine Fielder (vocals)

"We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced;
we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept". - Luke

This time round we shall pipe for you in the sacred marriage of fertility. Traditional marriage marches are a processional celebration with pipe and drum. John Riley celebrates the Dionysian sailor of the deep salt sea departing for seven years, and returning to kiss the bride three times.

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5.5.8  2.3.4  2.2.4
3.4.5  5.5.8

There once was a maid who lived in a garden.
Strange young man passed her by.
He said "Maid will you marry me?"
This then sir was her reply.

"Oh no kind sir I cannot marry thee.
I have a love who sails on the sea
and though he's been gone these seven years,
still no man shall marry me."

"What if he's in some battle slain,
or he has been drowned in the deep salt sea?
What if he's found another love
and he and his love both married be?"

"Well if he's in some battle slain,
then I will lie when the moon doth wain
and if he's been drowned in the deep salt sea
then I'll be true to his memory."

"And if he's found another love
and he and his love both married be
then I wish them heath and happiness
where they dwell across the sea"

He picked her up all in his arms
and kisses gave her one two three
saying "Weep no more my own true love,
I am your long lost John Riley."


PURCHASE

CD3 Fire & Flood

Tibet Tibet Chris: lyrics, vocals, duclimer, keyboard and bass, peercussion YouTube Video

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10.8.8 7.4.4 5.3.3 2.1.0
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3.1.1 5.3.3 7.4.4 8.5.5

Tibet - Tibet

Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World
Have we "knocked the bastard off", or is another story to be told?#
Why is the Dalai Lama speaking "Cultural genocide"?
Can we climb the highest mountain when your children are denied?

Tibet, Tibet did you come under the yoke
of the Chinese empire in a communist cloak?
Your cities are swelling with business men's pride,
while your country folk are peasants cast on the outside.

There's an ancient stone pillar in the Jokhang square
In the centre of Lhasa if you've ever been there.
It's written in Tibetan and Mandarin too
and it spells out a message to me and to you.

It says each will respect the land of the other
and never encroach on the other nations border.
This treaty was struck in 821 AD!
Tibet, Tibet when will you be free?

Tibet, Tibet we will always be with you
in your time of hardship, in your darkest shadow,
flying prayer flags of freedom, even in the dead of night.
In this Oympian stuggle there's a Tao to the light.

Tibet, Tibet, we stand with you today!
The high ground of enlightenment, pillar of the middle way,
the jewel in the lotus, "Om Mani Padme Hum".
"Don't let them do that to you". - So goes the song*.

# Comolungma is Everest. Hillary said "We knocked the bastard off! when he first climbed it.
*Bjork shouted Tibet Tibet after singing "Declare Independence" in Shanghai.

The Mahdi Refrain (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
A dire warning on the apocalyptic nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel.

Chris King (composition, lyrics, vocals, dulcimer, percussion, keyboard, crotales, chimes). Iranian voices, including Iran's current president, Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Rafsanjani, an ex-president, and Amir Taheri, a former executive editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. Israel's response is from Israel's current formal president, Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin. The final response is from Christo Rey.

The Mahdi Refrain

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3(4-3-2).1.1 (3.3.1 3.1.1)
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8(10-9-8).5.5 (8.8.5 8.5.5)
10.8.8 (10.10.8 10.8.8) x 2
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9(9-10-9).6.6 (9.9.6 9.6.6)
5.3.5 (5.5.3 5.3.3) x 2

This said the Ayatollah Rafsanjani
'the use of even one nuclear bomb
inside Israel will destroy everything.'
On the other hand, if Israel responded
with its own nuclear weapons,
it 'will only harm the Islamic world.
It is thus not at all irrational
to contemplate such an eventuality.'
This said president Amadinejad
"Oh mighty lord, I pray to you
to hasten the emergence of your last repository,
that perfect and pure human being,
the promised one that will fill this world with justice
the promised one that will fill the world with peace,"

My main mission is to "pave the path
for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi,
may Allah hasten his reappearance."
On the last day I was speaking, one of our group told me
"When you said 'in the name of Allah,'
I saw a light coming and surrounding you
and protecting you to the end."
"he saw a green light come from around me,
and I was placed inside this aura,"
"I felt myself the atmosphere changing,
The UN were looking as if a hand was holding them,
and they had just opened their eyes
Halleleuyah Alhamdulillah!"
All praise belongs to al-Llah,

"The establishment of the Zionist regime
was a move by the world oppressor
against the Islamic world,"
"There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks]
will wipe off this stigma from the face of the world."
As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
"Anybody who recognizes Israel
will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury,"
"They've created a myth in the name of the Holocaust
and consider it to be above God,
above religion and the prophets."
"The near future will be in the hands of Islam",
"The Zionist regime is a dying tree,
and soon its branches will be broken down."

"We believe that Iran is trying to buy time
so it can develop a nuclear bomb,"
"Iran is a clear and present danger."
A nightmare for the international community
This is "tantamount to a crime against humanity".
"Iran presents a danger to everyone"
and it can also be wiped off the map."
"The combination of fanatical ideology,
a warped sense of reality and nuclear weapons
is a combination that no one can accept,"
"Ahmadinejad represents Satan, not God,"
"History knew how to denounce madmen
those who wave their sword and acted this way
ended their careers accordingly,"

If they have a little bit of a brain,
they would not commit such a mistake,"
Iran is a powerful country."
"If you committed this big crime,
then give a part of your own land in Europe,
the United States, Canada or Alaska,
so that the Jews can establish their country,"
"If your civilization consists of aggression,
making oppressed people homeless,
suffocating the voices of justice
we say that we hate your hollow civilization,"
"History has shown that when Muslims become powerful,
they do not use their power to the detriment of others,
but use it in the service of peace and tranquility"

Islam has four times as many young men of fighting age
as the aging populations of the decadent crumbling West
the Imam's return will coincide with an apocalyptic battle
between the forces of evil and righteousness.
If the infidel loses its nuclear advantage,
it could be worn down in a war of attrition
at the end of which surrender to Islam
would appear to be the least bad of options.
"If Jesus were present in the world today,
who would be facing him and who would be following him?"
God willing, Jesus would return to the world
along with Islam's holy prophet, Imam Mahdi,
and wipe away every tinge of oppression,
pain and agony from the face of the world,"

They say the Mahdi will teach Jesus to pray in Mecca
They claim the Mahdi will take Jesus to the Ka'aba.
"I emphatically declare today's world, more than ever,
longs for just and righteous folk with love for all humanity;
and above all longs for the perfect human being
the real true savior who has been promised to all peoples
who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood
across the planet, far and wide"
"Oh, Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures
and you have ordained their guidance and salvation.
Bestow upon a humanity that thirsts for justice,
the perfect human being promised to all by you,
and make us among his followers
and among those who strive for his return and his cause."

"The arrogant superpowers and the Zionist regime
invested all their efforts but their pride has been trampled
"With God's help now, the countdown button
for the destruction of the Zionist regime
has been pushed by the hands of the children
of Lebanon and Palestine, ...
By God's will, we will witness
the destruction of this regime in near future".
"This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive.
those who created it can take it away themselves.
They should not let things reach the point of explosion
If an explosion occurs across international boundaries
It will also burn all those who created [Israel]
over the past sixty years".

A statement repeated three times is never an accident
"They want to wipe out Israel ... Now when it comes to destruction,
Iran too can be destroyed
[but] I don't suggest to say an eye for an eye,"
"Israel would defend itself under any condition
but Iran is a danger to the world, not just to us."
"Under the UN Charter, all members have undertaken
to refrain from the threat or use of force
against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any state."
"We can prevent all of this threat,
without resorting to weapons of mass destruction
if there will be unity," But If the crucial moment comes
and they are incapable ...then they endanger their existence

Instrumental break

If you want me to come and pray with you at the Ka'aba
Then first renounce the archaic tribal law of Sharia
Invite every one of us to come in the name of our own religion
And terminate the scorched Earth theology of submission.
There will never be harmony until we can live in freedom
From domination and violence, in the name of utopian vision.
Cease the atrocities of martyrdom and the slaughter of the innocents
And live your days in merciful and compassionate coexistence
The apocalypse is the unveiling of matrimonial reunion
in which men forsake their violence and learn to live with women.
Stop the the death fatwas, and stoning women for adultery
and trust them in their sovereignty and love them in their liberty
For this is the way the generations of Earth will survive in splendour
And bring to men the ecstasy that paradise hungers after.

The Well (mp3 download) - YouTube Video: Part 1 - Part 2
Chris King (composition, dulcimer, percussion, bells, violin, ugumbo (gourd & bow)

The Well

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1.1.3  0.0.3  0.0.2  1.1.2

don't you know the night is coming?
can't you hear the flowing wind?
haven't you read the signs in the sunset?
don't you know the time is in?

can't you tell that everything's changing?
can't you see beyond the world?
can't you get below the surface?
put your bucket in the well?
put your bucket in the well?

can't you find the eye of the hurricane?
don't you know we're in free fall?
haven't you ever heard of impermanence?
can't you be the void?

have you discovered we're in transformation
everythings free free beyond the wall?
can't you hear the echoing silence?
put your bucket in the well?
put your bucket in the well?

didn't they tell you the last waltz is over?
didn't they say it's the close of the ball?
haven't you heard it's the end of the journey?
the future lies waiting inside us all

have you completed your metamorphosis?
the dove with the olive healing this hell?
feel your way down to the stillness?
put your bucket in the well?

didn't they say the dark leads to dawning?
didn't they tell you the springtime would come?
paradise travail right at your doorstep
will you awaken, before the damage done?

The Pain of Love (mp3 download) - YouTube Video
Song for the travail of Zion and the healing between Israel and Palestine
Chris King, Dulcimer, keyboard, lyrics, vocals, percussion.

The Pain of Love

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Oh the pains of love!
Oh what is it ...
we are fighting for?
For the joys of love!

When will the healing come?
When will the season of growth begin?

What cruel kind of music
to die on the street?
In the blood of the martyr
the good wine flows cheap.

Oh the pangs of love!
Who are we?
What are we here fighting for?
For the gains of love?

When the banners are flying
all's fair in love and war
but when the time of weeping comes
there's no time left in store.

Too insane to love?
To be an olive branch,
or just a cursed fig.
For the claims of love.

Heaven have mercy.
Compassion on our lives.
Do you call this passion love,
or is it genocide?

Oh the sighs of love!
El Niño ... is this oscillation
too extreme to bear?
Bleeding wounds of love!

You have to know it breaks my heart
to see you tear it right apart.
Is this total annihilation?
Scorched Earth or fertile ground?

Is to love such a tectonic upheaval?
Is this engagement suicide?
Is this close impact all too lethal?
Is there no tomorrow in the tsunami of our love?

Oh the strains of love!
Where is our sense of survival?
Or is this angst the shock of free fall?

On the wings of the dove.