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0:00/3:59
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0:00/6:27
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Dancer in the Sky 4:470:00/4:47
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Baby Mine 3:210:00/3:21
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At Night 7:510:00/7:51
Lyrics by Lady Shaula
(these were on a website that closed - I'm collecting them again here).
They'll be in bits and pieces while I accumulate them once again - and save them in several places this time!
Freight Trains
Freight Trains are falling from the sky and I think I might die tonight
Boulders crashing through the air, bombs like trees falling everywhere
The forest is falling, upwards downwards and side to side and do I dare
Look out of my window I stay under the covers and wait for morning light
v.1 There's a sliver of moon with the darkest light
near the winter solstice longest night
and an arctic blowtorch heads from across the sea
and instead of turning when it hits the land
it does something the bureau doesn't understand and it heads
straight towards me
and you can feel that it's gonna be such a storm
so you get ready like usual to keep the house warm
and you tuck the animals and the kids in tight
and reassure them that everything will be all right
and the lights give a flicker and then they go dark
but that's expected up here in a forest park
and the mighty Mountain Ash trees keep me safe
in my forest home
I know this place
Freight Trains falling from the sky I wonder if tonight I'm gonna die
Boulders flying through the air, disguised as trees landing everywhere
The forest is falling, upwards downwards and side to side nowhere to hide
Look out of my window I stay under the covers and wait for morning light
and God can you keep my children safe tonight
I'll keep vigil till the morning light
and I'll join my spirit with the mighty trees
and try to hold fast this deathly breeze
{instrumental]
and a kookaburra calls out the sun is here
it's the longest darkest night of the year
and against all odds somehow I'm still here
and another distant bird answers the call
and we know that some of us didn't fall
and it's gonna be time to look outside
and find out how many of us died
and it doesn't seem possible we all got through
but at the very least I know that there was me and you
and as we step outside hand in hand
I'm shaking my head
I don't understand why my house is still standing surrounded by freight trains
smashed to the ground.
The forest is falling
Freight Trains VERSION TWO
Freight Trains falling from the sky I think I might die tonight
Boulders crashing through the air, bombs like trees falling everywhere
The forest is falling, upwards downwards side to side. Do I dare
Look out of my window Stay under the covers. wait for morning light
v.1 Sliver of moon, darkest light
Winter solstice longest night
Arctic blowtorch heads across the sea
Instead of turning as it hits land
Something the bureau doesn't understand
it heads straight towards me
Skin can feel it's such a storm
Get ready like usual, keep the house warm
Tuck the animals and kids in tight
Reassure everything'll be all right
Lights give a flicker then go dark
Expected up here - forest park
Mighty Mountain Ash trees keep me safe
My forest home I know this place
Freight Trains falling from the sky I wonder if tonight I'm gonna die
Boulders flying through the air, disguised as trees landing everywhere
The forest is falling, upwards downwards side to side nowhere to hide
Look out my window stay under cover wait for morning light
God can you keep my children safe tonight
I'll keep vigil till morning light
Join my spirit with the mighty trees
Try to hold fast against this deathly breeze
{instrumental]
kookaburra calls out the sun is here
After longest darkest night of year
Against all odds somehow I'm still here
Distant bird answers call
Some of us didn't fall
Time now to look outside
Find out how many of us died
Just not possible we all got through
all I know is there's me and you
Step outside hand in hand
Shake my head don't understand
my house still standing surrounded by freight trains
smashed to the ground.
The forest is falling
[Copyright Salathe Music - Composed by Shaula Salathe after the natural disaster of June 8, 2021 in Mount Dandenong, Australia]
SLOWLY BY SLOWLY
I look across at you in the middle of the night
Your features undefined by a distant light
and I know each feature of your face
and understand we're one
and angels we have heard on high
smile at what's begun
and slowly by slowly you steal my heart
v. 3? I glance at you in a room I know so well
My mind finds comfort in your warm sweet smell
and we talk a little of the past
and fill the room with dreams
and I wait for your smile of angel beams
and slowly by slowly you steal my heart