Songs of the Mystic

[doppelganger]

Yes, it's a girl's pop song, but the lyrics are really fantastic, so sue me.

Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten"

I am unwritten,
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten, yeah

Oh, oh

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines, oh yeah yeah
We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way oh, oh

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
the rest still unwrittrn

(Gospel)
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live you life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

 

[Willamena]

Bend down low, let me tell you what I know, yeah
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know

Oh! fisherman row, you reap what you sow
Oh, tell all I know: you've got to let me go

And all you've got to do (bend down low):
let me tell you what I know, yeah
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know. oh yeah!

You keep on knockin', but you can't come in.
I get to understand you been living in sin
Walk right in, honey; sit right down,
I will keep on loving you and play the clown

But bend down low. I'll tell you what I know.
(Bend down low.) Let me tell you what I know.

You keep on knockin' but you can't come in.
I get to understand you been livin' in sin,
But if you love me, woman, walk right in.
I've got a notch for your safety-pin,

But bend down low, baby, let me tell you what I know;

Bob Marley
​

 

[Troublemane]

YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult: Astronomy (Imaginos Version)


Astronomy


by Sandy Pearlman, Joe Bouchard and Albert Bouchard
©1988 S. Pearlman, Inc and B. O'Cult Songs, Inc.

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman’s face
Reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away

Come Susie dear, let’s take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you’ll soon be married
And you’ll want to know where wind comes from
Well it’s never said at all
on the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar

Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!

Four doors at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door’s let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it

Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!

In hellish glare and inference
The other one’s a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Or the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never, never, never, never, never warms

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie Nurse and Susie Dear
Find themselves at the Four Winds Bar

It’s the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me

Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey!

Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don’t forget my dog
Fixed and consequent

Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey!
Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey! Hey—hey hey!

Astronomy…a star
Astronomy…a star
Astronomy…a star
Astronomy…a star
A star!

 

[Troublemane]

YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult: Magna of Illusion



Magna of Illusion


by Sandy Pearlman, Donald Roeser and Albert Bouchard
©1988 S. Pearlman, Inc and B. O'Cult Songs, Inc.

Cornwall and the harbor
Where witches went mad more than once and
Until this day
In dreams at least
The lighthouse at Lost Christabel
Squat and hugely tilts
Upon the strand where Grandad’s house was built
And having stood the test of time
The starry gale the bloody tide
Grandad’s house though gaped with hooks
And filled with books
Could stand no more until
A certain prophecy
Once read—now stood
Before the world fulfilled

Now of these books in Granddad’s keep
Some of them were new but mostly they were old
And the oldest was a scroll
A prophecy that read
When the riddle begins
The story will end

August the First 1892
And in the guise of destiny
Granddad quit Cornwall
“I’m a captain of a ship
My ship is charmed and called Plutonia”

Stories on land, storms at sea
’Tween 1892 and ’93
When Granddad sailed for Mexico

Ships charmed and ordinary
Sailed the glidepath to the sun
And when the sun proved false
As it always does
Some of them would be lost
And some would sail back home
It was no star
But a magna of illusion
I mean by that
The mirror found
In the chamber of jade grown like a seed
Deep within the ground
The mirror found
By one man
So on and off again
He sailed the Europe’s rim
On and off, off and on
Until his time had come
Through tears and smiles
The last domain
The rods of broken crystal
On and off and off again
Until his time had come
Late to the story that had been
But early to the riddle not yet begun

August the First 1893
The charmed ship Plutonia
Sailed like a ray into Cornwall
And none too soon it seems

That night the Captain’s granddaughter
Would celebrate her birthday
“I’ve come a long way,” said the Captain,
“From Lost Christabel this night.
Accompanied by my dog familiar,
To blast your rafters with my surprise.
Granddaughter, It’s a foreign mirror
Taken from the jungle by crime!”

Stories on land, storms at sea
’Tween 1892 and ’93
When Granddad sailed for Mexico

When tables collapse
And floors have filled
And the party’s over, it’s all over
Sea-dogs and rockers will dwell on doom
I’ve warped the stuff of ground
What seems to be is not
Behind closed eyes
Realize your sight
Mine, granddaughter, proves a surprise
More light than sun,
more dark than night then
More a snare than lust

 

[Troublemane]

YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult: Subhuman (Imaginos Version)



Blue Öyster Cult


by Sandy Pearlman and Eric Bloom
©1988 S. Pearlman, Inc and B. O'Cult Songs, Inc.

I am becalmed in virtue
Lost to nothing on a bay of dreams
Warm weather and a holocaust
The tears of God flow as I bleed

Left to die by two good friends
Abandoned me and put to sleep
On a shore where oyster beds
Seem plush as down
And ripe enough for the Luxor dream

Recall the dream of Luxor
How fluids will arrive
As if by call or schedule
Resume through the morning tide
Where entry is by seaweed gate
And plan the plan of dreams
To lose oneself in reverb
In all that is and all that seems

So ladies, fish and gentlemen
Here’s my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea

The oyster boys are swimming now
To claim me back from the dead
The creatures back from vertigo
They fear to fall but haven’t fell
Will reclaim tries and try again

The oyster boys are swimming now
Hear them chatter on the tide
Of the lost and language lost
Hear them chatter on the tide

We understand, we understand, we understand
And so do I
We understand, we understand
But fright is real
And so am I
So ladies, fish and gentlemen
Here’s my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea

The entry to lost vestibule
Opens on the bay
An instant shape of mercury
Lost and then retained
An instant is an eyelash
Caught on the tide
Imaginos!
Below this bay
And then besides…

The oyster boys are swimming now
One deal is what we made
Forest keys and whirlwind cold
Green trees too and keys of gold
Even locks that won’t explode
When the skies become a scroll
Having lost its interest
See that’s the deal we made
Just to join the Öyster Cult
The Blue Öyster Cult

We understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult

We understand, we understand, we understand
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult
We understand, we understand, we understand

 

[Willamena]

Love Calls You By Your Name
~Leonard Cohen

You thought that it could never happen
to all the people that you became,
your body lost in legend, the beast so very tame.
But here, right here,
between the birthmark and the stain,
between the ocean and your open vein,
between the snowman and the rain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

The women in your scrapbook
whom you still praise and blame,
you say they chained you to your fingernails
and you climb the halls of fame.
Oh, but here, right here,
between the peanuts and the cage,
between the darkness and the stage,
between the hour and the age,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

Shouldering your loneliness
like a gun that you will not learn to aim,
you stumble into this movie house,
then you climb, you climb into the frame.
Yes, and here, right here
between the moonlight and the lane,
between the tunnel and the train,
between the victim and his stain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

I leave the lady meditating
on the very love which I do not wish to claim,
I journey down the hundred steps,
but the street is still the very same.
And here, right here,
between the dancer and his cane,
between the sailboat and the drain,
between the newsreel and your tiny pain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

Where are you, Judy, where are you, Anne?
Where are the paths your heroes came?
Wondering out loud as the bandage pulls away,
was I only limping, was I really lame?
Oh here, come over here,
between the windmill and the grain,
between the sundial and the chain,
between the traitor and her pain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

 

[Willamena]

There For You

When it all went down
And the pain came through
I get it now
I was there for you

Don't ask me how
I know it's true
I get it now
I was there for you

I make my plans
Like I always do
But when I look back
I was there for you

I walk the streets
Like I used to do
And I freeze with fear
But I'm there for you

I see my life
In full review
It was never me
It was always you

You sent me here
You sent me there
Breaking things
I can't repair

Making objects
Out of thoughts
Making more
By thinking not

Eating food
And drinking wine
A body that
I thought was mine

Dressed as Arab
Dressed as Jew
O mask of iron
I was there for you

Moods of glory
Mood so foul
The world comes through
A bloody towel

And death is old
But it's always new
I freeze with fear
And I'm there for you

I see it clear
I always knew
It was never me
I was there for you

I was there for you
My darling one
And by your law
It all was done

 

[doppelganger]

The Killers, "Human"

I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart...
Cut the cord

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You've gotta let me go

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight?
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know is your heart still beating

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer

You've gotta let me know

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human
Or are we dancer?

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Are we human
Or are we dancer?

 

[DreadFish]

This is really probably just a love song, but in the words of my dad, you can turn about any love song into a song about God, and this song definitely expresses my experiences seeking The Divine.

'Make My Mind' - Screaming Trees



Take a minute just to breathe
Take a minute 'till I'm wide awake
And I'm searching' once again
And the sun has left the sky

And you're on my mind
And you're on my mind

Take a second to believe
Just a second you won't have to wait
Don't ya turn your back on me
I couldn't look into your eyes

And I don't know why
And I don't know why

But I'll try again on another day

You make my mind
Just wanna leave this world behind
You make my mind (2x's)

Let the silence creep in
(Let the silence creep in)
In the silence I'm awake all night
Just searching' once again
(Searching' once again)
Well could i reach you in the morning light

If I closed my eyes
If I closed my eyes

Well you're here right away

You make my mind...(2x's)

You're on my mind
I'll try again on another day

And I don't know why (2x's)
If I close my eyes (2x's)
Well you're here right away

You make my mind

 

[Flow]

The end of the song "Suppers Ready" by Genesis.

And it's hey babe, with your guardian eyes so blue,
Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true,
I've been so far from here,
Far from your loving arms,
Now I'm back again, and babe it's gonna work out fine.

Can't you feel our souls ignite
Shedding ever changing colours, in the darkness of the fading night,
Like the river joins the ocean, as the germ in a seed grows
We have finally been freed to get back home.

There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying with a loud voice,
"This is the supper of the mighty One",
The Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
Has returned to lead His children home,
To take them to the new Jerusalem.

 

[Caladan]

The music @ the end of the movie Gladiator where just before he dies he sees the Elysium Fields and finds peace with his wife and son always makes me cry mystical tears...

...otherwise, I would have to say no.

That would be 'Now We Are Free' by Lisa Gerrard.

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YouTube - Gladiator theme - Now We Are Free - Lisa Gerrard

 

[Random]

That would be 'Now We Are Free' by Lisa Gerrard.

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YouTube - Gladiator theme - Now We Are Free - Lisa Gerrard

Yes, that's it. Beautiful. Thanks Caladan.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

"The Carpenter," by Nightwish has a kind of mystical Christian quality to it I really like.


[youtube]oVE9hZxM9tc[/youtube]
YouTube - Nightwish " Carpenter "

Who are you? Man condemned to shine a salvation
Throughout the centuries.

Why? Was the wine of the grail
Too sour for man to drink.

The carpenter
Carved his anchor
On the dying souls of mankind.
On the tomb of this unknown soldier
Lay the tools of the one who for us had died.
Tools of the carpenter.

The one they lick
The same old sick
Dream of their precious saviour.

Kiss them deep
And make them weep
Over promises of eternal peace.

The carpenter
Carved his anchor
On the dying souls of mankind.
On the tomb of this unknown soldier
Lay the tools of the one who for us had died.
Tools of the carpenter.

I hear you
Through the symphonic voices of nature;
The purity I could never doubt.
They tell me to lie on the grass
And observe my saviour,
The one crucified to the chirping of birds.

The carpenter
Carved his anchor
On the dying souls of mankind.
On the tomb of this unknown soldier
Lay the tools of the one who for us had died.
Tools of the carpenter.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I know Meg has already brought up Loreena McKennitt, but I think her entire album "The Mask and Mirror" ought to be inserted here.

Here's one song by her I've been listening to more often as of late. "The Dark Night of the Soul". It's cheating just a little bit since the lyrics are actually by St. John of the Cross, but I think it's so beautiful.

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Upon a darkened night
The flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest

Shrouded by the night
And by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyes
While all within lay quiet as the dead

Oh night thou was my guide
Of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them into the other

Upon that misty night
In secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
Without a guide or light
Than that which burned so deeply in my heart
That fire t'was led me on
And shone more bright than of the midday sun
To where he waited still
It was a place where no one else could come

Oh night thou was my guide
Of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them into the other

Within my pounding heart
Which kept itself entirely for him
He fell into his sleep
Beneath the cedars all my love I gave
From o'er the fortress walls
The wind would his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
Caressed my every sense it would allow

Oh night thou was my guide
Of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them into the other

I lost myself to him
And laid my face upon my lover's breast
And care and grief grew dim
As in the morning's mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Another gem from Loreena McKennitt. Full Circle -

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Stars were falling deep in the darkness
As prayers rose softly, petals at dawn
And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear
So calmly you were calling your god

Somewhere the sun rose, o'er dunes in the desert
Such was the stillness, I ne'er felt before
Was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you
In your heart, in your soul, did you find rest there?

Elsewhere a snowfall, the first in the winter
Covered the ground as the bells filled the air
You in your robes sang, calling, calling, calling him
In your heart, in your soul, did you find peace there?

 

[Gentoo]

Moody Blues: Eternity Road

Hark listen here he comes
Hark listen here he comes
Turning, spinning, catherine wheeling
For ever changing
There's no beginning
Speeding through a charcoal sky
Observe the truth we cannot lie
Travelling eternity road
What will you find there?
Carrying your heavy load
Searching to find a peace of mind.
You'll see us all around
You'll see us all around
Turning, spinning, catherine wheeling
For ever changing
There's no beginning
You're so very far from home
And so very much alone

Travelling eternity road
What will you find there?
Carrying your heavy load
Searching to find a peace of mind.
Travelling eternity road
What will you find there?
Carrying your heavy load
Searching to find a peace of mind.

 

[ericoh2]

Here are a few that I think have a mystic theme .

Moody Blues "Nights in White Satin"

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Letters I've written, never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.

'cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.

Gazing at people, some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going through they can understand.
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

And I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Letters I've written, never meaning to send.
Beauty I've always missed, with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.

'cos I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.
'cos I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you............

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YouTube - The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

Death Cab For Cutie "Soul Meets Body"

"Soul Meets Body"

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what its like to be new

Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
where they’re far more suited than here

And I cannot guess what we'll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
And not one speck will remain

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

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YouTube - Death Cab For Cutie "Soul Meets Body"

 

[ericoh2]

Here are a couple more.

Boston "Don't Look Back"

Don't look back, a new day is breakin
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind where I get taken
The road is callin, today is the day

I can see, it took so long just to realize
I'm much too strong not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around

I finally see the dawn arrivin
I see beyond the road I'm drivin

It's a bright horizon and I'm awaken
I see myself in a brand new way
The sun is shinin, the clouds are breakin
Cause I can't lose now, there's no game to play

I can tell there's no more time left to criticize
I've seen what I could not recognize
Everything in my life was leading me on,
But I can be strong

I finally see the dawn arrivin
I see beyond the road I'm drivin

Don't look back, a new day is breakin
It's been so long since I felt this way
I don't mind where I get taken
The road is callin, today is the day

I can see, it took so long just to realize
I'm much too strong not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around

I finally see the dawn arrivin
I see beyond the road I'm drivin

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YouTube - Boston - Don't Look Back

Collective Soul "The World I know"

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on
I drink myself of new found pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why

Are we listening
To hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one...into one...

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I know
Oh it's the world I know

I drink myself of new found pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why..don't know why...

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I know
Oh it's the world I know

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I know
Oh it's the world I know

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YouTube - Collective Soul - The World I Know (Video)

 

[Willamena]

A Dream Like Mine, Bruce Cockburn

When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can take you down
When you've got a dream like mine
Nobody can push you around

Today I dream of how it used to be
Things were different before
The picture shifts to how it's going to be
Balance restored

When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations

Beautiful rocks -- beautiful grass
Beautiful soil where they both combine
Beautiful river -- covering sky
Never thought of possession, but all this was mine

When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations

 

[mikeward62]

try 'mysics annonymous' - an ep website