The Wyld Olde Souls: Lyrics

	ARRIVAL (I. Vale)

	Wisdom was once far from your reach
	in an age of confusion you'll find
	no relief from emotion or passage of time
	while forever searching the depths of your mind

	Oh don't try to wander away from your path
	the twisting and turning will pass
	believe me, my friend, you've been here before
	you walked the tightrope straight through the door

	Come hither the children to the land of the few
	the proud and the privileged will bow
	foregoing the leisure and the comforts they knew
	in the eye of the storm you've come into view

	Oh dance, dance on the mountain
	release the chains
	the light shines within you
	and the tides wash away the pain

	Abandon your armor and put down thy sword
	the white flag waves windy once more
	flowers in the desert will rise in the spring
	you water their roots with the wisdom you bring

	Oh dance, dance on the mountain
	release the chains
	the light shines within you
	and the tides wash away the pain
	the tides will wash away your pain

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	SILLY BIT OF SENTIMENT (T.Brake/B. Crane)

	I am evening
	I am the book to be closed
	I'll not follow you
	for I am the river that froze

	Hold me closer than the wind holds the trees
	fill my lungs with your breath so I may breathe
	show me the sun as it appears in your eyes
	I'd match the blue in them with any summer skies

	I am evening
	I am the book to be closed
	I'll not follow you
	for I am the river that froze

	Cheap storytellers say my magic has died
	it's not me who's falling, it's only my eyes that cry
	my hands are moving but my mind stays quite still
	I give you my emptiness like a cup I ask to fill

	I am evening
	I am the book to be closed
	I'll not follow you
	for I am the river that froze

	Sitting, drinking, refilling my sorrow
	each fear of today just a memory tomorrow
	I walk my path and I feel above my head
	I query my questions, can't remember what's been said

	I am evening
	I am the book to be closed
	I'll not follow you
	for I am the river that froze

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	DREAM WITHIN A DREAM (E.A. Poe/Christiano)

	Take this kiss upon the brow
	and in parting from you now
	this much let me avow
	you are not wrong who deem
	that my days have been a dream
	yet if hope has flown away
	in a night or in a day
	in a vision or in none
	is it therefore the less gone?
	All that we see or seem
	is but a dream within a dream

	I stand amid the roar
	of a surf-tormented shore
	and I hold within my hand
	grains of the golden sand
	how few yet how they creep
	through my fingers to the deep
	while I weep while I weep
	O God can I not grasp
	them with a tighter clasp
	O God can I not save
	one from the pitiless wave
	is all that we see or seem
	but a dream within a dream

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	THE TOWER (M. Reil)

	Can you see the watchman there on the tower
	Can you see them protecting her life
	Can you summon your legion to break down the walls
	And reach for her from the inside

	Can you dance to her music that steps through the mines
	Can you keep up with the rhythm and time
	Will you dare to be bold and insist on the song
	And see if she just won't decline

	Will you dance with she so you can be
	More than a mark on the wall

	She looks out her window and catches the sun
	The shadows creep up her walls
	Compelled by her reason she turns from the light
	And sees nothing that weren't there before

	To continue your journey you must face the one
	That lies in the corridor of time
	A re you willing to travel with the heart of a fool
	And a master of reason and rhyme

	Moving from room to room to find the moon
	Oh it seems like a dream floating in between
	Flowing with what can't be seen

	Can you see the flowers that grow by the edge
	of a pool in the garden of night
	When you look past the beauty and into truth
	You can see the shadows she hides

	Do the stars shine bright in the face of fright
	Will you face the fear and draw her near
	Will you see her out when the walls come down
	Will you say that this tower's no more

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	THE ORACLE (M. Reil, R. Reil, I. Vale)

	When what has been meets what lies ahead
	wisdom mingles with the shadows of the unknown
	and the Traveler arrives in the new world.
	She sees the reflection of herself alone, a ripple in a pool,
	and is filled with loss.
	The rains of sorrow obscure even familiar visions.
	Mourning for an old self left behind,
	she drinks from the pool and enters into a dream
	"Look again, with eyes closed," says a voice within.
	The dream echoes of childhood
	and reveals the transience of all things
	and the more she tries to hold on,
	golden grains sli[ through her fingers.
	Finally, trapped in a citadel made of doubt and fear,
	the prisoner turns to the Oracle within.
	Beyond conscious thought, essence makes itself known
	No longer defined by
	barriers of time and space
	the infinite light force floods into soul.
	Self-realization is the ultimate wisdom.

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	THE SUN GOD (D. Corby)

	High on a mountain top
	up there, where the wind can blow free

	I saw the Sun God
	smiling down on me
	He was the Sun God
	smiling down on me
	He was the Sun God

	Cool was the morning breeze
	like fire was the touch of his hand

	He was the Sun God
	and he came to me
	He was the Sun God

	Ten billion years ago
	Mother Earth gave her love up to the sun

	Lay with the Sun God
	that her children might be
	He was the Sun God

	High on a mountain top
	up there, where the wind can blow free

	I saw the Sun God
	I saw the Sun God
	I saw the Sun God



Poems from the Astral Plane

	1. Arrival
	2. Silly Bit of Sentiment
	3. Dream within a Dream
	4. The Tower
	5. The Oracle
	6. The Sun God