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Lighthouse

by The Alkemist

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Compass 04:45
You can follow the map in your mind But dont you ever leave your compass behind It's buried deep in your chest Beating along with every single breath
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Lord knows there's some Things I wish I'd never done The guilt's so bad, I feel afraid It could blacken out the brightest day Will my sins be forgiven? I try to be a better man, Every day hard as I can But sometimes I still fall from grace Trying to hide out somewhere safe Will my sins be forgiven?
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They'll suck out every last drop Go ahead and refill your cup Cause when it's all dead and gone It wont matter if we were right or if we were wrong She is in pain Watch her life as it drains Mother Earth will always take care of herself And if she has to, she'll wipe us out If we don't want her to have to start all over again Then we could come to her defense
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Vilcabamba 01:45
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It was a happy time, a happy time We squeegeed our third eyes and went outside Went to the meadow down by the sea We frolicked in the grass and swam in the creek The sun was out and the weather was warm We thought that nothing in the world could do us harm But then the sky turned black I started thinking I should be heading back I got that voice and all I could here Was that tricky little demon deep inside my ear The date slipped away and time disappeared Seconds turned to minutes, to hours, days to years I see the golden age has risen and it's soon about to crash Those left will huddle 'round the fire burning all their cash I see past the crash and the death of the sun Is there hope for the souls of everyone? The future has been written in the past We know nothing is lost but nothing lasts Then outer space fades away And everything cycles back to the day So I zip back on my earth-suit, keep on walking on down the road Heeding all the lessons that the little helpers show Sometimes words get sticky when we give 'em all our energy All we have to do now is be to be free Maybe we got more than one life but there's no way to know I'll try to survive in this one and stay inside the flow Sometimes words get heavy when we let 'em through our door Once we give 'em the time and space, they'll knock us down on the floor Maybe we got more than one life but there's no way to know I'll learn to love in this one and stay inside the flow Try and stay inside the flow Inside the flow
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Levi 05:09
He said I'm going to the woods, he said I know I'll feel well again I need a little fresh air, just to clear my head The next day that boy was seen, he was brought in by the RCMP Dead, they shot him in the back, oh ya they shot him in the back How do you explain that? How do you explain that? They got away with it, like the officials always do The boy had psychosis and the cops knew Oh ya and they knew, he was unwell and they knew He said I'm going to the woods, I know that I can feel well again I need the trees, the fresh air, to clear my head He said I'm going to the woods. I know that I can feel well again I need a little fresh air, just to clear my head And then they shot him in the back, oh ya they shot him in the back How do you explain that? Tell me, how do you explain that?
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Memento Mori 06:47
As we walk along this road of life We can become more comfortable With all the pain, death and the strife 'Cause when we see That when we're gone we're finally free That's the moment when we can really start to be
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All I need is a little bit of splendid isolation. And all we need is a little bit of splendid isolation.
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The Moment 07:58
The moment that you think it's all coming down Is the moment that you see what you have found When nothing 'round you is as it seems Or you're living in a nightmarish dream Walk towards the light, it is safe Put that darkness back in it's place This moment here is all that we have And a faith in something we don't understand Sometimes you feel like you're falling down in a well Reach out for the first rung, go and pull yourself out Go and pull yourself out The farther that you fall from, the love deep in your heart The harder it is to crawl your way from the dark Crawl your way from the dark Follow the love in your heart It is your lantern in the dark Follow the love in your heart It is your lighthouse in the storm Follow the love in your heart

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released June 21, 2017

All songs written*, recorded and mixed by Jay Myers at Farm House Studios in Fort Fraser.
Final mixing touches and mastering by Brandon Hoffman at Gnome Grown Music.
Eagle calls and singing on Tracks 1 and 13 by K'atsiz and Subulya.
Artwork and Photographs by Jay Myers.

*Except King of The Faeries (Irish traditional) and the charango interlude by Jessiquita Madrid.

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The Alkemist Fort Fraser, British Columbia

The Alkemist is a one man band based somewhere in the hidden forests of Northern BC. Playing a variety of instruments such as guitar, banjo, fiddle, drone flute, kick drum and a bone rattle boot, The Alkemist weaves fist pumping, boot stompin' dance tunes with dark and enchanting soundscapes to create an environment perfect for kickin' up the star dust or blissing out in the mind's eye. ... more

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