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Any Wishing Star
03:54
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I wish for the world its wounds to heal
That soon we feel as one
I wish for the world, for eyes to meet
Our hearts to beat as one
Build a life worth living
Where forgiveness is for giving
And banishment forbidden
For kindness is our mission
I wish for the world
It’s so easy to get downhearted
Trouble everywhere you look
But we have to finish what we started
Write a different ending to the book
It‘s so easy to feel defeated
When the day ain‘t even started yet
Many dreams still need to be completed
Many promises we can‘t forget
You may not have gone the farthest
But far enough to see the light
You may not have caused the darkness
But it‘s up to you to make it bright
Any wishing star that comes to light
Wish for things to turn out right
That everyone has what they need
So when they try their dreams succeed
For sun to shine and rain to fall
May thoughts be kind, wish love for all
You may not have gone the farthest
But far enough to see the light
You may not have caused the darkness
But it‘s up to you to make it bright
Be the wishing star that comes to light
Work for things to turn out right
So everyone has what they need
And when they try their dreams succeed
For sun to shine and rain to fall
Let thoughts be kind, show love for all
Starlight, star bright
First star I see tonight
Wish I may, wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight
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Silent, still, to survive
Words in my mouth I cannot speak
I ache to go, I yearn to thrive
Through these tired eyes
The path looks steep
But I’m still alive
No one here but me
I’ll do this on my own
Maybe fly away
I save myself
What came before I cannot say
I carry with me loss and lack
A life that’s left in disarray
A journey on an endless track
Trudge it every day...
Can I sit and hold my past a while?
Can I feel and not succumb?
Can I look into this open wound
Or just keep existing, tethered, numb
Can I process pain, begin to trust
In the person I’ve become?
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The Edge Of Shame
03:26
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A corridor of tiny rooms
Vespers floating up the stairs
Hearts that beat within a womb
Loneliness has its own prayers
We are on the edge of shame
We are told what’s right and wrong
When we let conscience decide
In the end, the shame is gone
A lock of hair kept in a box
Time didn’t mend - time has been cruel
Her voice still wavers when she talks
It wasn’t her who made the rules
Nothing hurts my heart as much
As when you cannot meet my eye
It’s all of us who have done you wrong
Looking back, we question why
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You stifle, I cannot breathe easy
You use me, I can find no rest
You want to walk this line beside me?
Tread lightly, tread lightly...
I am the rolling sea, you are the heavy stone
This is the highest tide that I have ever known
I wish you’d treasure what we have here
There’s only so much I can take
I love you, still I need to warn you
Tread lightly, tread lightly...
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Oh the people would gamble
Their own wife and children
Oh the people, indiscreet
Vivid dreams of velvet riches
Cloaking all that’s incomplete
Penny arcade
A fantasy that keeps on fading
Fifty to one, look at them all lined up
The girls in fur coats
Stuck in Travolta Falls and
Always leave them wanting more
Vacant eyes in empty faces
Tired fingers feed machines
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Small, yet heavy
Form unsteady
Not quite ready, lacking voice
Strains and stresses
Silence presses
Heavy burden, weighty choice
It only takes a silence
To sense no one has seen us
To stand by and do nothing
When tragedies begin
It only takes a silence
To build a wall between us
A moment of inaction
And then divisions win
Jo mie kaik’ virret unohi
Kaik mie laulut lakkaelin
Hiljaa, hiljaa nuohinainen
Hiljaa, hiljaa hiitelästi
[The Finnish text could be translated as follows:
I’ve forgotten all the hymns
I’ve stopped singing all the songs
Quiet, quiet young woman
Quiet, quiet quietly]
Fretful, guilty
Cannot un-see
Bystander regrets abound
Be the ones who
Rise, speak out to
Lift each other, make a sound
If we can break the silence
We’ll know that they have seen us
We’ll rise up and do something
When tragedies begin
If we can break the silence
No walls will come between us
United voices gaining traction
Division cannot win
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Quand le brasier se lève
Qu’il boit le nectar, la sève
Quand l’arbre se dessèche
Il hurle au ciel sa détresse
Quand la mer vidée s’écroule
Que les déchets noircis la soûle
Le vent murmure sa peine
La colore d’un noir ébène
Souffle souffle, vent de folie
Souffle souffle, sur ma terre
Souffle souffle, sur ma mer
Souffle, sur nos vies
Je veux revoir mon ciel
Le prendre dans mes bras
M’enivrer de son miel
Son nom comme un mantra
Tu es belle ma terre
Tu es tendre ma mer
Je te veux comme amant
Comme tu étais avant
Translation:
When the inferno rises
Let him drink the nectar, the sap
When the tree withers
He howls to the sky his distress
When the empty sea collapses
That the blackened waste makes her drunk
The wind whispers its pain
The color of an ebony black
Blow blow, wind of madness
Breath breath, on my land
Breath, blow on my sea
Breath, on our lives
I want to see my sky again
Take him in my arms
Get drunk on his honey
His name like a mantra
You are beautiful my land
You are tender my sea
I want you as a lover
Like you were before
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You, you are my roof
And my cornerstone
You are the proof I am not alone
You explain me
Teach me where I’m from
Entertain me
Help me to belong
You sustain me...
You, you are my hope
When I feel confused
You help me cope
When I’m sad and bruised
Just one more before bed
Calm all the mess in my head
And we can pretend
Things work out in the end
Weave and mend and darn
Each fable and yarn
You, you lift my mood
Help me make a plan You do me good
Do the best you can
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I dream we learn to fly
No more you and I
Freely flutter
No tears from the sky
We yield like water
Water’s strong
Flow like water
And know we belong
Release anxiety
Nature leads the way
Accepting quietly
All life’s disarray
This carefree spirit
Finds delight
Feels compassion
Love taking flight
I dream we’re everything
No more them and us
Simply living
Happy emptiness
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An open door, a cup of tea
I sit down and you sit with me
A touch to reassure
It’s a mountain, not a contour
Leave be, though broken
No words need spoken
Just listening
Not much to look upon
A moment, then it’s gone
A space to hold
To let unfold
Not a great grand gesture
No shining armour
No final answer
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Deadlines loom across the town
People packed in airless rooms
Something crashes, heads stay down
Far away, a poppy blooms
Far away, a poppy...
Headlights swarming in the sound
Windows glitter in the distance
Whisper pink, feel the ground
Far away from blissful ignorance
Far away from blissful...
Aching to be home, to be held
Aching to be home, to be held
I’ll keep to my myself
And find a quiet corner to drown it out
An unforgiving floor
Beside the scarf left behind
And yesterday’s headlines
Can’t reach you, wish you were near
Aching to be home, to be held
Can’t reach you, wish you were near
Aching to be home, to be held
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In The Long Run
03:34
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As if somehow they’d kept him safe
They fastened it with two small locks
Three letters, and a sketch he’d made
They sent his things home in a box
She builds a box inside her head
She packs herself up safe within
No violation touches now
No desecration counts as sin
Time moves fast in the long run, don’t it
Time moves fast in the long run
Time moves fast in the long run, don’t it
Time moves fast in the long run
Bodies float upon the sea
That once hoped for a better life
Human, just like you and me
Daughter, father, brother, wife
Another sacrifice to war
Collateral, a little child
They laid her in a tiny box
Another life destroyed, defiled
It’s not enough to ask the question
When will these horrors cease?
Boxes pile up all around us
’Til we commit to peace
Come rest a while
Beyond the pain and fear
Find warmth and comfort here
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Kim Edgar Edinburgh, UK
“Intense and thought provoking” (The List)
“Heart stopping…our very own Tori Amos” (Sunday
Herald)
“An inspired empathy” * * * * * (Fringe Review)
Fuelled by a passion for social justice, folklore, and feminism, Kim Edgar crafts keenly observed details of people’s lives into powerful, understated songs that reach out and touch listeners.
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