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The Green Lion
03:41
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The Green Lion Music- Silent Bear Lyrics- Arthur Lothstein
You Start out with lead but you end up with gold
Like the tail of the peacock like the philosopher's stone
Like the chemical wedding like the Green Lion’s roar
What you become you were once before
Solve et Coagula all things live in threes
But in the furnace of dreams the four merry will be
It’s about transformation, purification, election
Beware of the puffers the goal is the gold section
The Four Stages you pass through each one has a color
You begin with Negredo and you end with Rubedo
Mercury’s the dissolver and also the water
In the end you become your own son and daughter
You’ll meet unicorn’s and ravens and tail eating serpents
Swans and toads and Saturn eating his children
Cooked in the bath until the white doves arisen
Black suns and skeleton's and maybe a bear?
Solve et coagula I’ll tell you what it means
The golden flowers in the furnace of dreams
It’s the king and the queen it’s the golden seed
The androgyne the new Adam and Eve
The Four Stages you pass through each one has a color
You begin with Negredo and you end with Rubedo
Mercury’s the dissolver and also the water
In the end you become your own son and daughter
You start out with lead but you end up with gold
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Dusty Day
04:05
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Dusty Day Written by Silent Bear
Lose yourself in Dusty Day
Fall into the fire
Cut yourself on broken glass
tangled in the wire
Swing your partner, Dos- e- doe
Lose her in the meadow
Walk downtown to cop your jones
fall into your fear
Chorus:
Lose yourself in Dusty Day, all your dreams will go away
Lose yourself in Dusty Day, all night rider ( repeat)
Swinging from the tree of life
caught on broken branches
borrow from the rolling bone
tricked by circumstances
lose your job, lose your home
lower your defenses
Searching for your long, lost child
Riding down the freeway
Chorus:
Bridge:
When you say your going to stop, when you say you don't stop
When you say your going to stop. Blood thicker then time
When you say your going to stop, when you say you don't stop
When you say your going to stop making them deals
Lord, I know just how it feels. Feels!
I just want to show you my love is real. Real!
I just want to up and see you smile. Smile!
I just want to up and see you smile. Smile!
I just want to up and see you...
Lose yourself in Dusty Day
Lose yourself in Dusty Day
Trouble downtown, shooting in the alley
lead me to the water won't let me drink ( repeat 2X and out)
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The Ghost of Freedom
04:28
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The Ghost of Freedom Written by Silent Bear
There's a crack in the liberty bell.
Where the Ghost of Freedom rings
There's a big white house in the center of town
Where the fallen angels sing
There's a crack in the liberty bell
Where the people stand divided
They went over the line and committed a crime
and Behold the tower fell
Chorus:
Cold dreams and ashes are flying toward the sun
Cold dreams and ashes are fading one by one in the
Light of the sun
There's a crack in the liberty bell
Where the soldiers are still dying
They sent them to war to even the score
but both sides bled in red
There's a crack in the liberty bell
Where the locusts are all swarming
He turned the water to blood and drowned them in the sea
and Behold the raging flood
Chorus:
There's a crack in the National Soul
Where the world is overturning
They built their estate on a burial ground
and now the Ghosts are rising up
There's a crack in the liberty bell
Where the Native shrills are chanting
On the edge of the night in the core of a dream
You could hear that tolling bell
Chorus:
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In the summer that I was baptized,
My father held me to his side,
As they put me to the water,
He said how on that day I cried.
We were prisoners of love, a love in chains,
He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain,
with the same hot blood burning in our veins,
Adam raised a Cain.
All of the old faces,
Ask you why you're back,
They fit you with position,
And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac,
In the darkness of your room,
Your mother calls you by your true name,
You remember the faces, the places, the names,
You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain,
Adam raised a Cain.
In the Bible Cain slew Abel
And East of Eden he was cast,
You're born into this life paying,
for the sins of somebody else's past,
Daddy worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain,
Now he walks these empty rooms, looking for something to blame,
You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames,
Adam raised a Cain.
Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream,
Adam raised a Cain
Freedom
"Freedom"
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from my home
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Sometime I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometime I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometime I feel like I'm almost gone
A long way form my home
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Hey, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya [ad lib]
I gotta telephone in my pajama, and can call you from my heart
I gotta telephone in my pajama, and I can call you from my heart
When I need my Brother, Father, Mother, Sister
When I need my Brother, Mother, Father, Sister
Freedom...
Adam Raised a Cain- Written by Bruce Springsteen( Universal Music Group OBO Bruce Springsteen ASCAP)
Freedom- Written by Richie Havens ( Stormy Forest Productions Inc. ASCAP)
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In the summer that I was baptized,
My father held me to his side,
As they put me to the water,
He said how on that day I cried.
We were prisoners of love, a love in chains,
He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain,
with the same hot blood burning in our veins,
Adam raised a Cain.
All of the old faces,
Ask you why you're back,
They fit you with position,
And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac,
In the darkness of your room,
Your mother calls you by your true name,
You remember the faces, the places, the names,
You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain,
Adam raised a Cain.
In the Bible Cain slew Abel
And East of Eden he was cast,
You're born into this life paying,
for the sins of somebody else's past,
Daddy worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain,
Now he walks these empty rooms, looking for something to blame,
You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames,
Adam raised a Cain.
Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream,
Adam raised a Cain
Adam Raised a Cain- Written by Bruce Springsteen( Universal Music Group OBO Bruce Springsteen ASCAP)
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