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Hallelujah ~ Jeff Buckley

Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen ~ version Jeff Buckley

I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well, it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth,
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
But from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor (you know/yes)
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a/some victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Well, there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too?
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody/at some one who outdrew you
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Live at Nulle Part Ailleurs September 8th 1995

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley

November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997

Mars energies

From M. Kelley Hunter's Cosmic News: Balancing Act newsletter:

"One is from James Kelleher (www.jameskelleher.com). This is actually an extract from some of his commentary on a major factor of the last Full Moon. I share it because it struck me as so significant a moment, when MARS ON THE NORTH NODE IN SCORPIO signaled a strong energy current of intensity and transformation that set a tone:

"Mars is the planet of assertiveness, energy, and ambition on the positive side. On the negative level, it represents anger, warfare, injuries and enemies.
Rahu is the planet of compulsion and obsession on the negative side. On the positive side it represents innovation, revolution and change."

Mars is now in Sagittarius, directing the energy like a long distance runner. But that powerful Scorpio moment is worth noting, as we are contending with major Scorpio themes with Saturn and the North Node there."

To subscribe to Kelley's newsletter go here.

Ain't No Ash Will Burn

Lovely John & Lisa...

John Smith performs "Ain't No Ash Will Burn" with Lisa Hannigan 
on a boat in Baltimore, West Cork. Filmed by Myles O'Reilly.

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Soundcloud ~ John Smith ~ Ain't No Ash Will Burn - Walt Aldrige

      Ain’t No Ash Will Burn :: Walt Aldridge

      I have seen snow that fell in May
      And I have seen rain on cloudless days
      Some things are always bound to change
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      You say this life is not your lot
      And I can’t be something that I’m not
      We can’t stoke a fire that we ain’t got
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      In every life there comes a time
      When there are no more tears to cry
      You must leave something dear behind
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      There is one lesson I have learned... ...
      There ain’t no ash will burn
                                                —  lyrics: help from here and Old Sledge

Gone, Gone

     Gone, Gone
     Grey Revell ~ Crazy Like An Ambush

     run run screaming at the sun
     couldn't've done better if i won it in the lottery
          run run faster than a gun
          gonna find my baby and i'm gonna have a family
     run run till the running's done
     gonna play guitar and make money off her pottery
          fun fun underneath the sun
          we're gonna have a baby and we're gonna raise it right

     gone gone every thing is gone
     maybe now i'll find someone i love and have a family
          dumb dumb everyone was dumb
          slaving for a dollar in the name of nationality
     bomb bomb thank you for the bomb
     you vaporize the idiots you send 'em to infinity
          run run till the running's done
          i'm gonna find my baby and I'm gonna treat her right

     gone gone every thing is gone
     couldn't've done better if i won it in the lottery
          run run till the running's done
          i'm gonna play guitar and make money off her pottery
     bomb bomb thank you for the bomb
     you vaporize the idiots you send 'em to infinity
          run run screaming at the sun:
          "i'm gonna have a family i'm gonna do it right"

Good tip from an HP tv add! Another good find through an add — last year's I Am..., Nikon's add with music by Ben Cooper.

Thine Self & Any Man

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”   — Shakespeare