In Love & Light Lyrics

if you want to
i could stay
but i don't want to
get in the way

if you want to
i would stay
i don't want to
get in the way

find out what it is all about
doesn't catch my eye

find out what it is all about
doesn't catch my eye

you'll doubt that
you'll go without
any bitter lie


you, why don't you say and do
i won't be around
* that you will lie on
you take anything you can make
into something else
* bitter lie
anything you take
as long as you will
that you will lie on

diamond
little sparkle
charcoal love
little sparkle

diamond
little sparkle
charcoal
love

Charcoal Love
vocals and words by
Laura Burhenn
*second voice

if you want to
i could stay
but i don't want to
get in the way
if you want to

i would stay
i don't want to
get in the way

find out what it is all about *
doesn't catch my eye *
*
*i could love you
*your lips, bit of heavenly

*you stay
*i'll say
*anything anything


you, why don't you say and do *
*you can rely
*that you will lie on
you take anything you can make *
into something else *
*bitter lie
anything you take
*you can rely
*that you will lie on

diamond
little sparkle
charcoal love
little sparkle

diamond
little sparkle
charcoal
love

Chagrin Perdu
Vocals and Words by Lou Lou Ghelichkhani

translation:

In your life, all you are required to do is Breath
You are put face to face with your demons
Stare in their eyes to see deep inside your self
Misery....a fragile future....it is all part of your life...
Just close your eyes and let go
All those looks don't see who you truly are
they barely know you they are themselves..
It is life....breath
Don't roam in those dark alleys...
People want you to keep your heart light and your voice " si coquette"
Let them believe what they want...no one speaks your tongue
Alors take your voice even higher
Forget how much you have suffered....
No one saw that by changing....you cruised for a year
In life....never let them tell you that your love is not real
For on this earth ..there are only strong courants.....
that help your blood flow...

So Long
Vocals and Words by Laura Burhenn
Lyrics excerpts taken from Laura Burhenn's "Lullabye" from her album "Wanderlust" © 2004 Laura Burhenn www.laboratoryrecords.com

Come here for a second
Won't you step inside
I want to share a secret
I've been trying to hide
It's a bit of a bother
and it's causing me some pain
and I'd like to roll it up and throw it away

So long farewell
I'm not keeping something that's not doing me well
So long it's time
To pack it all in a letter and say goodbye

Come here for a second
Won't you step inside
I'd like to share a secret
I've been trying to hide
It's a bit of a bother
and it's causing me some pain
so I'd like to pack it up and send it away

So long farewell
I'm not keeping something that's not doing me well
So long it's time
To pack it and let it just...

Come here for a second
Won't you step inside
I've got a secret
I've been trying to hide
I'd like to take a minute
Just a minute of your time
And let you see the pain
I've been trying to hide

So long it's time
to pull the night in our wings
leave a little behind

So Long my little butterfly
just pull the night in your wings
and we'll say we'll say goodbye

Come here for a second
Let me take your time
I'd like to share a secret
I've been trying to hide
It's been such a bother
and it's causing me so much pain
I'd like to pack it up and send it away
so stay for a minute
let me get this off my chest
let me apolgize while I digress

So long farewell
I'm not hangin on to something that's not doing me well
So long it's time
To take the night in our wings and say goodbye

Lagrimas Negras -- Black Tears
Tradaditional Folk Song
arrangement by H. Ives
Vocals by Susan Oetgen
* lyrics by Bobi Cespedes

translation:

Even though you have abandoned me
Even though all my illusions have already died
Instead of cursing you with justified bitterness
In my dreams I cover you with blessings

Chorus:
You want to leave me
I don't want to suffer
I'm going with you, my holy one
Even if it costs me death

*But very clearly, I feel, my dark one,
And one day you will know, too
That I loved you with total faith
No one else could ever love you more than me

I have seen in those eyes
Black tears, my love
Black tears like mirrors
That reflect my own sorrow

Oath to the Muse
from the Hippocratic Oath
H. Ives/S. Oetgen

translation:

...I swear by the physician Apollo and the spirits of health and remedy, and the universal gods and goddesses, I will perform according to my ability and judgment, the following Oath...

...I will endeavor to provide help to all according to my ability and judgment and will do no harm to anyone.   Neither will I give anyone fatal medicines, or harmful advice.   But I will serve the purity and sanctity of my life and art...

Te Dijo, Te Quiero - I Tell You, I Love You
Vocals and Words by Susan Oetgen

translation:

When I tell you that I love you,
You can see it in my eyes
I don't say it without believing it
Without love, I have no voice
I tell you that I love you
Because I want you to listen to me
For I always sing whatever I feel

Background:
Sleep, child
Tomorrow the whole family will be here

Ilera Okan
Vocals by Susan Oetgen
"An offering of honor and respect to the African ancestors. Ashe."
Vocals based on the traditional Orisha melodies for 'the spirit of illness', 'Healing Babalu Aye', and the 'Spirit of Love & Femininity' represented by Oshun.

Qui Regna - Here Reigns
Vocals and Words by Susan Oetgen
acoustic arrangement also appears as "Asleep Under Apollo" on Likeness to Lily's "Solitudes Dollhouse" www.likenesstolily.com

translation:

Each day - long and slow
The voice of the sun sings and I hear
Sounds of fever, shining noises
I'm burning in so much heat

Here the god Apollo still reigns
Conquers the body and turns everything gold
Where is relief from so much splendor?
I look for rest in dreams of love

Midday, star's apogee
Shade of palm - so calm and lovely
Yesterday, tomorrow, life languishes
Without whole-hearted loving

Inside Out
Vocals and Words by Dierdre duBois

as if were imposible you could be
underground
if there were one more word there
would be sound
and did you call for a little more purpose
around you
and when you looked just a little more closely that's
when i found you. . . .

and ive seen
all the colors of the world
around you

as if it were impossible i could
ever doubt you
and silly i be although
i found out
that if the world were a little more perfect
and about you
until i walk into your door
inside out. . . .

ill need
all the comfort in the world
with out you. . . .

Hide and Seek
Vocals by Sophie Moleta
words from thich nhat hahn’s poem
‘untitled’ from his book “teachings on love”
p. parallax press, berkley, ca

everything
being rock, being gas, being mist, being mind,
being the mesons travelling among the galaxies
at the speed of light,
you have come here, my beloved,
and your blue eyes shine, so beautiful, so deep
you have taken the path traced for you
from the non -beginning and the never- ending.
you say that on your way here
you have gone through
many millons of births and deaths.
innumerable times you have been transformed
into firestorms in outer space.
you have used your own body
to measure the age of the mountains and the rivers.
you have manifested yourself
as trees, grass, butterflies, single celled beings,
and as chrysanthemums.
but the eyes with which you look at me this morning
tell me that you have never died.
your smile invites me into the game
whose beginning no one knows,
the game of hide- and- seek