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A Little Time (Intro)
01:14
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Sun Princess, shine down on me
And teach me the ways of music and sweet harmony
Moon Princess, teach me to sigh,
And sing to me your dear lullaby.
The stars are so far away
They peek through the night,
And hide through the day.
They shine like the sparkles in your hair.
Moon Princess, can you hear me up there?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
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The Eternal
03:36
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Spoken Word segment [Joseph Campbell]:
The moon dies and is resurrected
It sheds its shadow as the serpent sheds its skin
To be born again.
The principle of life involved in the field of time.
The sun does not have a shadow within itself.
The sun is always radiant.
It's always a crisis when the sun is eclipsed.
Something eclipsed it!
The sun hasn't eclipsed itself.
And the sun both kills the moon,
But then becomes the mother
Out of whose womb the moon is born.
The dying moon, the resurrected moon, the three nights dark -
These associations are speaking the same old story of finding the eternal life within the temporal,
And that's the problem of our existence you might say
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Praise the Sun
04:58
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Praise the Sun
Light my sword on fire
For my battles to be won.
Raise a glass to the Moon
The princess who walks in my dreams
Will teach me to banish the nightmares and gloom.
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Prelude to a Moonrise
01:06
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Perchance to Dream
06:02
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I tuck myself in
And pray for some dreams
But just look up at the ceiling
And count the tiles and the seams
I look back
How I spent my day, such a waste of time,
And I've got to do it all again
When the clock strikes nine.
CHORUS
To sleep. To sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream.
My apartment
Is not the kind of place that has a view
Can't tell when the sun comes up,
Ain't no way to say, "Goodnight, Moon."
But I believe
In more than what's in plain sight
So I reach out to the Princess of Dreams
To climb inside my head tonight,
CHORUS
To sleep. To sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream.
Oh,
Won't you teach me to fly
And show me the way
To your castle in the sky?
Oh, dream,
Take me away,
And spare me
From the nightmare that's become my ordinary day.
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I felt so far away
But I gazed at the stars
And smiled at the day
I know
I will always get by
Cause I know I share a Universe
With beings much greater than I.
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Don't care if you hear me,
I see you up there.
I can see you.
I can feel you.
SPOKEN WORD:
(Segment of the "The More Loving One" by W.H. Auden [1907-1973])
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
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Sun Princess won't care when I'm gone
Though it's always been looking to you
That's helped me be strong
Moon Princess, I love your skies
I'll have you with me forever
regardless of whether or not you realize.
[Excerpt from "The More Loving One" by W.H. Auden]
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
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