Gateway to Faerie
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Spirit flight
Underneath the waves
Tide rise
Longing eyes
In dusky ocean caves
Water glistens
In specks of gold
Beneath a henna sea
Fluid, moving
My soul longs
In ocean depths to be..
Chorus:
On and on, always unfolding
Unfolding out of my past
And my soul is ever
Awakening...
Awakening from
Light to life to light again
Cloud light
Storm lit night
Raindrops grace the skies
Breezes play
On chimes of wind
Rivers slowly rise
Patterned flashes
Of ions race
Cascade from sky to sea
Charged, excited
I feel the pull
of storm-dark energy...
Chorus
Moon light
Dark earth night
Snowflakes fill the air
Tree white
Branches high
Longing to be there
Snowflakes shimmer
In silver haze
Upon a crystal hill
Shining, glowing,
My spirit cries
To dance among them still
Chorus
Green light
Of second sight
Filters through the leaves
Lush green
Of in between
Where deeper magic stays
Time unfolding
From long ago
In forest dark and deep
Senses reeling
A feeling
Of promises to keep...
Chorus
(Interlude... vocals without words...)
Twilight
Gold half light
Between the night and the day
Hidden wonder
From under
A space not so far away
Blue lights dancing
In a hidden glen
With magic I have known
Sudden knowing
I'm going
And never again to be alone...
Chorus, double to end
© Elvendrums 1999
Chorus 1:
So many lines
Of some old rhymes
Are running through my head
They blot out the present by recalling a past
That never really was
For the Past can change as days go by
The memories fade away
And those moments, dear no longer here
Just part of yesterday
Yesterday seemed so simple
When my spirit was asleep
Black and white Good and Evil
I had no promises to keep
Looking deep into a mirror
I saw an old familiar face
Began my quest to find the Other
A futile, outward searching chase
Chorus 2:
My soul comes from other times
You see it in my face
All of us are Humankind
But not all human race...
I lived a world of isolation
Never fitting, never free
Looking everywhere for answers
About the differentness of me
Memories in dreams and stories
Truth unfolded, line by line
Fiction seemed oh so familiar
To the stories in my mind
Chorus 1
My family told stories
About the way the world should be
Some rang true and others hollow
like the hollowness of me
In my heart I held a secret
Hidden where no one else could see
In my searching , silent moments
Still invisible to me..
Chorus 2:
My life changed when I knew magic
Stepped back whole into my past
Saw the face within the mirror
Knew my Otherness at last
Bright new world of love and laughter
I accept myself at last!!
Chorus 3:
Our lives are made of Yesterdays
That play out in our minds
They scar the present by repeating a past
Till a different life we find
But the future will change as we awake
Accept ourselves and stay
With our memories dear
We belong here
Embracing yesterday...
Chorus 2: (repeat three times to the end)
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(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows...)
Out of darkness into light
(Shadows, Shadows)
Silence at daylight
(Shadows, shadows)
In between the places deep
(Shadows, shadows)
Pray my Lord, my soul to keep
(Shadows, shadows)
Not all is darkness
Not all is light
Not all revealed in
Pale moonlight
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
In the dark my hearts desire
(Shadows, shadows)
Come to light in passion's fire
(Shadows, shadows)
Deep inside you hold the key
(Shadows, shadows)
Magic luck and mystery!
(Shadows, shadows)
Nothing for granted
Nothing you know
Can truly prepare you
For a trip down twilight road
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
Dark in dusk you see us there
(Shadows, shadows)
Flickering lights are everywhere
(Shadows, shadows)
Bwbch pooka, banshee sprite
(Shadows, shadows)
Clearly seen with second sight
(Shadows, shadows)
Not all revealed and
Not all is hid
Magick will take you
To places where the fairies bid
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
We dance in circles dance in rows
(Shadows, shadows)
Secrets only fairy knows
(Shadows, shadows)
Keep the dreams that you hold dear
(Shadows, shadows)
If you believe they will appear
(Shadows, shadows)
In war and passion
Not all is fair
Come dance here with us
And you know we'll take you there
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
All the stories told are true
(Shadows, shadows)
All of this could come to you
(Shadows, shadows)
Treasures money gold and wealth
(Shadows, shadows)
Comfort happiness and health
(Shadows, shadows)
All those who venture
to see the fae
Must keep their wits about them
Or they will be led astray
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
One more thing we say to you
(Shadows, shadows)
Wicked faeries are real too
(Shadows, shadows)
Not all sweetness, not all light
(Shadows, shadows)
Some that bark will also bite!
(Shadows, shadows)
fairies are living
just same as you
In another dimension
Careful or they might break through!
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
Many humans seek them still
(Shadows, shadows)
To bend the fairies to their will
(Shadows, shadows)
To make them toil for human gain
(Shadows, shadows)
Then wield magic once again
(Shadows, shadows)
Magic that's taken
has quite a price
If not given freely
You'll meet some fae that aren't too nice!
(Shadows., Shadows, Shadows, Shadows)
Balance, balance everywhere
(Shadows, shadows)
Earth and water fire and air
(Shadows, shadows)
Power increased, power lost
(Shadows, shadows)
The benefits will set the cost
(Shadows, shadows)
Not all is darkness
Not all is light
Faerie will dance in
Deepening twilight
(Shadows, shadows, shadows, shadows...)
© Elvendrums 1999
I am a sailor
And I sail the seven seas
I am the son of a selkie they say
Never at home on land, always alone I am
I am the one who lives on the sea
Waves on the water
foam on the waves
emotion, creation
the waters you crave
The ocean, hypnotic
She rises and falls
Spiraling, swelling
So sweetly she calls
You're going home again!
- break -
My mother a mermaid, my father a sailor
He left on the water one bright summer day
I watched and I waited
He never came home again
Left me alone to make my own way
Sun on the ocean
Salt in the air
Play in the tide
On a beach somewhere
Step in the water
Swim from the shore
Live in my waves
Forever more
You're going home again!
- break -
My mother she longed
To go to the sea again
Pined for the ocean, her life in the sea
She found her skin, then went back home again
Left me on land to long for the sea
Wind on the water
waves on the sea
Look in the water
My face you'll see
Caught by the fisherman
Stuck on the shore
I found my skin
I am human no more
I'm going home again!
- break -
My spirit of ocean, my body of land, I am
Never at home when I touch the shore
I sail the seas in search of my past I am
Out on the sea, I'm free once more...
Waves on the water,
Break on the shore
Tides pull you into
The waves once more
Late in the evening
Smell of the sea
Ebb and the flow
That will set you free
You're going home again!
- break - (double)
Round:
I am a son of McMan Mclir I am
I am the son of a selkie they say
I sail the ocean in search of my past I am
I am the one who lives for the sea
I am your mother
I love you still
Come to the water
Come stay with me
Never forget
Your life is an island
You come from the water
You'll go there again...
I am the life
I am the power
I am the one
That crashes to shore
I am the spirit
God of the ocean
I am the father
And you are of me
© Elvendrums 1999
You knew it had to happen
Those waking dreams could not conceal
Your memory took you to a doorway
The secret garden there was real.
Chorus:
Come to the gateway to faerie
Wandering in wildness
You find yourself alone
In the woods so dark
A circle is hidden...
Could this be the magical gateway?
Your life has begun to change
So much is happening by chance
Your shaky random movements
Fit the patterns of a dance
Chorus:
You've found to the gateway to faerie
To the edge of the circle,
The animals there dance
Watch their claws and paws and shiny sparkling eyes
They call me to step through the doorway
Explain away your feelings
You are no longer in control
The bridges you left burning
Have been built back into your soul
Chorus:
Step Through the gateway to faerie
I walk into the circle, they welcome me to dance
I'm dancing, world is spinning
In the world beyond the gateway to faerie...
Nothing is wrong with you
Some things weren't meant to be controlled
It isn't practical to want too much
To grasp for more than you can hold
Chorus:
You've found the gateway to faerie
In the circle there, inside you no longer feel alone
Dance as rat as bird as squirrel and fox and dance as badger
More yourself and much more awake, alive
You limit your desires
To ones that fit your simple plans
Put down your limitations
Hold destiny within your hands
Chorus:
Step through the gateway to faerie
In the circle, I'm dancing; they all want me to stay
But I know I can't stay here forever
Cross the circle or never go home again.
Everything that you can see
The emptiness that had no name
The dreams, desires that seemed like fantasy
Begin to rise up from the flames
Chorus:
Step through the gateway to faerie
From the circle step, their eyes and paws a distant dream
I hold the memory inside with knowing...
I know that I hold the key...
Perception is your limit
You cannot hold what you can't see
Some of the things you thought were ashes
Now glow with perfect clarity...
Chorus:
You've found the gateway to faerie
Forever you can return you know you have the key
In the woods so dark the animals are dancing
And you hold the gateway to faerie
Come to the gateway to faerie
The gate way to faerie
Gateway to faerie
Come to the gateway...
To faerie...
© Elvendrums 1999
Born into life from the earth below
Spinning from starlight to dusky glow
Enfolded secrets we long to know..
You are...
Mist in the morning begins to rise
Fills us with longing for open skies
To fly once again amid joyful cries
We long...
Deep in your spirit the Dannan glow
Connects us to places we long to go
In soul in energy you will know
Who you are...
From seven directions
From magic within
Faster than light
The eternal spin
Sweet breath of Gaia
Soul from the sky
Welcome you home
With a joyful cry
Always be magic
Always awake
Dance to the music you make!
Always...
Dance to the music you make!
© Elvendrums 1999
Stories tell of iron
As the metal fairies dread
It's the rending of the earth
That does the deed instead
Humans once lived lightly
Took only for their need
Now they hoard and gather
Each one in his greed
Chorus:
Blood from the earth
Bleeds on the land
How can our children understand?
Faerie and human
One soul in two
It's not what we are
But what we do...
Iron and agriculture
The raping of the earth
Who can truly measure
What a field is worth?
Plants in co-creation
Once blessed by faerie hands
Now grow weak, polluted
And no one understands
Chorus
Faerie sought by humans
Enslaved to magic make
What was freely given
Now the humans take
Cities grow from forests
Replacing all the trees
How many subdivisions
Does it take to please?
Chorus
Chorus in Quenya Elvish:
Serce kemenello,
Siranna I nore
Hinilma hanya
manen?
Edhel ar firya,
Er fea mi atta
Eala ma nalmet
Ea ma karlmet...
Chorus
Fairy work will falter
When magic loses Will
The shining ones go hiding
They are hiding still
Our wills mined, like iron
Returns us to the wild
Makes our home a paradise
for fae and human child.
Chorus:
Blood from the earth
Bleeds on the land
How can our children
Understand?
Faerie and human
One soul in two
It's not what we are
But what we do.
It's not what we are
But what we do.
© Elvendrums 1999
You already know all the words to this one! It's instrumental!
© Elvendrums 1999
In the darkness where we don't go
Lives a creature that scares us so
It's where the goblins of our minds do roam
Evil forces and the things you don't know
Chorus:
On the dark side... you turn the day into night
On the dark side... you turn the wrong into right
On the dark side... you make your life into hell
On the dark side... you're so bad you can't tell
I met a goblin that took me down
Inside a cavern deep underground
Inside glowed an eerie green light
That made me shiver with delightful fright
(Chorus)
I asked the goblin why he led me here
He said to me "You must face your fears
The time is coming when you'll need the power
To construct the magic watchtowers."
(Chorus)
He showed me magic of darkest portent
To fill me up with evil intent
I embraced the darkness, but I couldn't see
The awful things that were happening to me.
(Chorus)
Then I met a reflection of me
I realized that it shouldn't be.
He said " You're me and you must do as I Will
I'll give you power and forever you'll be:"
(Chorus)
"A white-light fluffy bunny no longer you'll be
and when the sun sets you'll see goblin in me
So watch the shadows for things that you fear
I'll be behind you and forever you'll hear:"
(Chorus)
© Elvendrums 1999
You never try to reach beyond
What Reason would demand
We walked out and through the gate
And left you where you stand
Magic in our hands, we hold
But your hand's still a fist
Don't look beyond what you believe
And know not what you missed.
Chorus:
It's the way of knowing
The Shaman inside
Gathering storm
Where great truths hide
The message of silence
sent without word
The secret unspoken
The lesson not heard
Wisdom comes from you, I said
The truth is deep inside
If you can't hold the reins and lead
At least hang on and ride.
Reality is just a word
For what we make appear
How can you pretend to hide
From energy so clear?
Chorus
Fairy magic's call is wild
It's lure is deep and strong
Waters hide the currents
Bring you Back where you belong
You are not the first to stand
On shores ringed with regret
It doesn't mean you'll never sail
But you just aren't ready yet
Chorus
Once you've sailed the ocean
Out past your island reef
You'll find the greatest magic
Rises up from your belief.
The more you see out past the shore
The more aware you'll get.
Your life is an island
Surrounded by regret
Chorus
© Elvendrums 1999
You already know all the words to this one! It's instrumental!
© Elvendrums 1999
See, this song HAS words, but Nerethel hasn't put them on, yet. Go give him a piece of your mind...
© Elvendrums 1999
