1. |
Tuva on Rye
04:40
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2. |
Untouchable
03:40
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You give me no reason
I search for the rhyme
A moment suspended in time
Fades as I open my eyes
The air won't respond to my cries
It all seems so random
And up in the air
It just doesn't seem to be fair
I don't care if it's right or it's wrong
I turned around you were gone
So untouchable
I'll build a fire
For my survival
And burn these pages
Of history
So I won't have to see
What never was meant to be
It seemed like the world
Had turned upside down
The last time you blew into town
I vaguely recall it was cold
The day I found out you'd been sold
So untouchable
I cannot defend myself to the wind
The will 'o the wisp it twists and it bends
It takes away all I hold dear to my heart
And expects me to start all over again
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3. |
Gone Forever
04:56
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It wasn't so long ago
She was around
All of the time
So familiar yet so elusive
He gave her an angel to wear
But she didn't need it
She already was
And she was free now
Wherever free is
She may as well be gone forever
A head full of strange ideas
And what would he say if
She came back today
How could he keep her near
He finds it hard to relate
She loves from a distance
Longer than time
An alien creature
An alien culture
He said she heard a voice
Inside her head
And then the voice got so loud
She obeyed what it said
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4. |
Seven Years
03:57
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You look into the mirror and
Don't like what you see
And you smash your fist into it
Just to test the theory
It takes a long time to go away
Seven years they say
And your life has become shattered
You reached the point where boredom
Settled in like the plague
And all the time you wasted
Left you burning with rage
And it takes a long time to understand
Seven years to mend
It's an itch that keeps on scratching
The bars on the window
The marks on the wall
Seven years to ponder
The sense of it all
It takes a long time to understand
Seven years to mend
The vultures couldn't wait until you were dead
They left behind your essence
Hanging by a thread
And it takes a long time to grow it back
Seven years in fact
But the soul's not so elastic
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5. |
The Big Picture
03:52
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One day I wandered into a gallery
It must be my love of art
I sauntered down the hallways
It felt like a maze
And then I found it all by itself
The big picture painted by
Someone who'll never tell us why
If you're impatient so am I
Don't want to wait until I die
I returned many times to the gallery
Paid my admission fee each time
Kept getting lost in the hallways
Forgetting the way
Till I found it again all by itself
One day it came to me in a flash of light
All of the pieces seemed to fit
So I lectured to passersby
On the meaning of
The symbolism in the big picture
But they just turned and walked away
Too many opinions they said
And haven't you heard
The artist is dead
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6. |
Egyptian Eyes
03:35
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Framed upon my memory
For a split second
You were my eternal lover
Features refined
Egyptian eyes
I take it upon myself
No shifting blame
The animated images
They move too fast
Plagued by indecision
Blurring the field of vision
Could it be more unlikely
Then how am I to explain you
If you have nothing to lose
And you have time to spare
Slip your fingers through the shutters and
Touch my heart
Then disappear
Then disappear
Then disappear
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7. |
Venus and the Fly
03:13
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She plays upon the sensitive ones
That can't say no
Tries to get you in her clutches
And won't let go
I believe she's finally got you
Up against the wall
You could even say that you've been
Caught with your fly down
You follow temptation
And nothing's the way that it appears
What would you do if you found yourself
Staring down her throat
Venus and the fly
A word of caution to the wise
If you're caught off guard
You find yourself in her territory
You best run far
You gotta make your own decisions
A code to live by
This could be another case
Of Venus and the fly
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8. |
Dare to Lose
04:01
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Why is the grass always greener
Nothing is quite right right here
I long for a land with no fences
A land where there is no fear
I take things for granted like you do
There's plenty of time where that came from
Why don't we just tie our rafts together
And search for the distant shore
Climbing the walls often feels like
The garden is only for the chosen few
You'll never know what you're missing
Only if you dare to lose
They maybe love will refuse
But if you dare to lose
Then maybe you'll gain the world
Only if you dare to lose
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9. |
The Flip Side
00:50
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10. |
The Science Project
03:47
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Chemistry is such that
It can cause a great explosion
Or cure the world of all its ills
Except for love's illusions
You bought up all my theories
A cut and dried transaction
Went somewhere else to use them
Leaving me with calculation
We were experiments gone wrong
Poisonous and flammable
Causing pandemonium
Downright incompatible
Kids
Don't try this at home
When half a brain is damaged
The other will compensate
So where were you when I needed you
When my schemes turned out half baked
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11. |
Heart Overboard
03:57
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It's not so simple
But it's simple for me
If you risk emotion
Can't be risk free
I tried to tell you
But you could not see
You had a future
But not with me
Was it Mother Nature
Who caused this stormy sea
Heart overboard
It couldn't be avoided
I was at the helm
The circumstances
Did overwhelm
Was it accidental
Or did you choose to go
Or did you get some help from me
No one will ever know
Perhaps someday they'll find you
When you wash up on the shore
As for me I will return
To the life I knew before
Was it Mother Nature
Who caused this stormy sea
Heart overboard
It was Mother Nature
They'll never suspect me
Heart overboard
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13. |
On the Ganges
06:17
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On the banks of the Ganges
The women are washing
Every day naked wide eyed children play
All the men gather together and pray
On the banks of the Ganges
The weak become strong
The aged are young
In a vast congregation beneath the sun
Where the dead and the dying are one
On the Ganges
Everything has always been this way
On the Ganges
Everything will always be this way
Be this way
Time goes by with invisible motion
Current turns from this river to the ocean
And the universe unfolds as the Ganges flows
On the Ganges
The cycle ends and is begun
On the Ganges
The cycle ends what you've begun
And you're the one
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14. |
Freedom to Go
04:27
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As vivid as it may seem
In that vaguely familiar dream
The borderlines do bleed
Into the dawn
And gravity pulls you down down down
Though sorrowful it may be
A weeping willow tree
Provides us all with shade
Whispering low
It wishes it had somewhere to go
Your patch of land is bare
Not blooming
Fallout is in the air
There's nothing to hold you here
You have the freedom to go
Plenty of room left to grow
You have the freedom to go
Your patch of land is bare
Not blooming
Fallout is everywhere
And nothing can hold you here
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15. |
Regret
04:47
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Charisma is so compelling
Potential for tragedy high
The meek wonder what they'll inherit
Is suffering justified
Something is so familiar
A feeling of dread in the air
When is that crucial moment
A failure to recognize
Reason is somewhat cloudy
And errors are made easily
Ages pass by without warning
Somehow the guilty remain
Why are we so determined
So eager to learn the hard way
Perhaps if it weren't for this lesson
We wouldn't be here anyway
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Kiva Simova Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadian Kiva Simova is a pioneer of overtone singing (2 pitches from 1 voice) blending it with jazzy pop, experimental, world, accompanying herself on keys, tours globally solo, teaches overtone singing online & public workshops, improvises live and on recordings with well known artists incl. Tanya Tagaq, Jennifer Berezan. Has 3 solo CDs. Was tour member of Crash Test Dummies '94 world tour ... more
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