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the Heart of You
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The Heart of You ~ David Rowan
I don’t know – what light made this life for
I don’t know – what I’ll learn from this arduous road ...
I don’t know – how to rest this thirst to know more
I just know – my heart hears a distant calling
‘you really know – divine love is behind you
you really know – your true self is your soul
‘you really know – the love you’re looking for … is in the
Heart of you ….'
From sorrow – we learn to walk with kindness
From shadows – we lean into the light ...
From deeds we sew – shaping tomorrow
As you grow – your history passes calling
‘you really know – a lifetime is but a fleeting moment
you really know – home awaits your Soul
you really know – the love you’re looking for … is in the
Heart of you …'
And pain you know – makes bitter of this world of beauty
And pain you know – burns a flame across this land
And pain you know – grows into forgiveness
Time to know – here … your higher voice is calling
‘you really know – divine love is behind you
you really know – home too awaits your Soul
you really know – the love you’re looking for … is in the
Heart of you …'
The love you’re looking for
The wealth you’re hungry for
The life you’re looking for
The goal you hope to score
The height you’re reaching for
Praise you need so much more
Strength to find the summer’s door
Wisdom’s path your feet to walk
The eye of kindness at your door
The confidence to shine and soar
All the love you’re looking for … is in the
Heart of you …
© David Rowan 18th December 2007
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Starchild
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Whatever you believe about how the universe came into being, one thing is for certain: there was a mighty noise …
Starchild
Like me
You are a being of light
A stardust seed
Like me
You are a light child
Beautiful and free
Like me
You are still learning
Express the real me
Like me
Your power’s growing
Flow with your energy
Like me
Like me
You're healing inside
Your inner mind
Like me
You've inner vision
Wisdom beyond time
Like me
Your love is haunting
Joy is your alchemy
Like me
Your evolution bursts with love and energy
Like me
The wind will guide you
The Earth will set you free
The fire of love will burn
As waters cleanse your heart within
Pain is a season
Like sunshine and like rain
Love is the reason
To rejoice in life again
Like me
© David Rowan - lyrics 1999, music 2010
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Qualia
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In 2010 I got my first midi-keyboard; I play guitar and haven't got a clue how to play keys or piano, and I had nefver used midi or a seqencer before. I started playing around and 24 hours later, this is the result ...
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the Haunting
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The Haunting
How can I walk away ?
How can I just say goodbye ?
Your laughter still rings from pictures in cold empty rooms
What can I say when you cry ?
You tell me you love me
Plead me to stay
Your face haunts my mind
A price for the guilty to pay
Love is blind
Yet changes its colours
Seasoned in time ...
If love comes to fall
Still hearts touch above
Deep inside me
Forever,
the haunting of love
What does 'destiny' mean ?
It brings us so close
Tears us apart
It's always the wrong time to tell you
'I must break your heart'
I live for your love
But no day is ever the same
Love moves the strong
So how can the weak be to blame ?
Love is blind
Yet changes its colours
Seasoned in time ...
If love comes to fall
Still hearts touch above
Deep inside me
Forever,
the haunting of love
© David Rowan 1986
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Jenna's Song
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Blue Jazz dancing ...
05:27
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From the Sea of Time ...
02:45
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In 1984, I wasn’t in a band ... our old keyboard player was though, and he’d just bought the new Yamaha DX7 and wanted to see what it could do – but he couldn’t play that well. His new band’s sax player could though, and he thought it would be interesting to see how my intuition would interact with his classical training; we were all called Dave. I went round Dave Frances’ house and found he wasn’t just a sax player; he had a baby upright grand in his bedroom and played cello and trumpet as well – I felt intimidated because I can’t read a note. So, I suggested an experiment; we sat back to back and played a chord each in turn, and made a private note of what we were playing, so the other person could only go by the sound, and not go to where they thought they ‘should’ go ... to his surprise, we created a chord sequence which should not work and within 3 hours of trying it at different speeds we had recorded and written an instrumental we both like. It was recorded on a twin tape deck, and built up a lot of hiss, so please excuse the quality ...
I had been to Stonehenge for the first time just two months before and we came up with felt how I felt in the very first moment I saw it. I had written a poem with a title I thought he may like, and we named the piece of music after that.
From the Sea of Time
A river flows,
The path of destiny
Through the valleys of despair
Past the glades of new spring
Where two dreamers dance the ripples
As the moonlight pulls the tide
Washing away the lovers
Out to the sea of time
© David Rowan, 1984
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the Fugitive
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When I was 18 I auditioned for an experimental band called, 'Thrill Device', in Iver: 1980. You'll find a couple of theirs on this album, anyway, in 1981, without my knowing, the band sacked the keyboard player, Dave Balchin, and I soon followed ... :(
We started our own thing in the summer of 1981 and I knew a bass player form a school punk band, Andy Button and he bought Greg, the amazing drummer from Bray along too. It was months before we found the most suitable of unsuitable singers, so for a time, we honed a sound from playing instrumentals.
The Fugitive stood out. It began as a jam of fragmented bits of songs and experimental ideas with a different bass player and drummer and then, found its feet when Still Motion fell into place.
This recording was done with just a simple cassette tape player balanced on a window sill in a corner of the room. No sound checks were taken - it is just a recording of a moment ...
A moment I will always view very fondly
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Pan Spirit
06:05
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Pan Spirit
Feel it calling
Wild and haunting – deep in my soul
The White Thorn is coming – delight of the eye
The glade is bursting, thirsting for life
It’s time – let free; your highest desire
It’s time – let free your mind to soar higher
It’s time – a fire burst from the spark
It’s time – to love, open your heart
Wind softly sings it
Trees bustle with it
Your heart can feel it
Pan Spirit ... !
Feel it stirring
Wild and moving - deep in your soul
Honey flows from the tree of the world
Sweet love on the wind; petals unfold
It’s time – let free; your highest desire
It’s time – let free your mind to soar higher
It’s time – a fire burst from the spark
It’s time – to love, open your heart
Your heart can taste it
Mind incantates it
Yearning embrace it
Pan Spirit ... !
It’s the fire of life force everyone knows
It’s the twinkle in your eye – the thrill of life flows
It’s the flame of desire – the life in your hand
Lo Pan ! .... *
Lo Pan ! .... *
I am thy mate - I am thy man *
Goat of thy flock, I am gold , I am god, *
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. *
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks *
Through solstice stubborn to equinox. *
Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man, *
In the might of Pan. *
In the might of Pan. *
Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! *
Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! *
Yearning to feel it
Move with the spirit
Your heart beats with it
Pan Spirit ... !
© David Rowan, 25th February 2010.
*extracts from Hymn to Pan, by Alistair Crowley
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Dance around the Sun
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When planet Earth is blue ...
World turns into the night
Weary bones find softened down
Silent owl takes to flight
Smaller feet run underground
Dreamers reach for something new
Your mind drifts away into the blue
The stars light the way for you
When planet earth is blue ...
Clouds bring a shadowed ground
But in human hearts, darkness is found
In fear we lose our inner sight
Love takes cover underground
Modern city orange lights
Bring darkness to the gloom
But the stars are a light for you
When planet earth is blue ...
Morning stars bring thoughts to mind
But dreams are woven in the night
Leave fear behind at street-light’s door
And wonder with the stars tonight
Heroes cast into the sky
Wisdom’s path – alight with stars for you
The stars reach down to you
When planet earth is blue ...
© David Rowan, December 2009.
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Stray Birds
04:29
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Stray Birds
Life is the crossing of the sea,
where we meet in the same narrow ship.
In death we reach the shore,
and go to our different worlds
What you are you do not see - you see your shadow
We read the world wrong - and say that it deceives us
Men are cruel – but man is kind
We read the world wrong - and say that it deceives us
missing the sun you also miss the stars
Chorus:
My life doesn't follow the curve,
thoughts whirl around me like stray birds ...
my path finds a parallel world,
like stray birds ...
My life doesn't follow the curve,
thoughts whirl around me like stray birds ...
my path finds a parallel world,
Sirens call me, like stray birds
My heart is home - homeesick today,
for the one sweet hour
Across the sea of time
We live in this world - when we love it
I cannot choose the best - the best chooses me
We read the world wrong - and say that it deceives us
Men are cruel – but man is kind
We read the world wrong - and say that it deceives us
missing the sun you also miss the stars
Chorus:
My life doesn't follow the curve,
thoughts whirl around me like stray birds ...
my path finds a parallel world,
like stray birds ...
My life doesn't follow the curve,
thoughts whirl around me like stray birds ...
my path finds a parallel world,
Sirens call me, like stray birds
Song concept and choruses © David Rowan, December 2012
Verses and title inspiration © R Tagore, ‘Stray Birds’, Published; Forgotten Books. Sourced, Amazon 2012
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18. |
8 Cups
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8 Cups ...
Years roll past
Lives pass by
Watching you grow
Sets a glow in the sky
Of my world, it’s better
Together my friend
Bonds of affection
Sometimes stretch and bend
Two years now, tears have dried
Two friends now, affection and pride
When life is tough, there’s a catch to the fall
8 cups standing, we two friends stand tall ...
© David Rowan, May 2013
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the Sweetest Spot
There’s a beautiful place, in this beautiful world
Where my fears and troubles worry me not
I can feel my soul sing, my heart unfolds
At the sweetest spot ...
A dappled path through a tunnel of trees
Sweet honey due, upon the breeze
The beauty of all mother nature sees
At the sweetest spot
Wise old badger
Cunning fox
Sunlit eye
forget me not
haunting moon
and wild cry
my heart is held by soft green moss
an inner light shines at the sweetest spot
sacred grove and ancient stone
pay no heed to the paths we roam
my heart hears the calling, my feet return home
at the sweetest spot
© David Rowan, May 2013
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David Rowan Wiltshire, UK
Astrologer, Musician, Psycho-Social researcher, MAP master practitioner and trainer, Stonehenge historian & archeoastrronomy guide, Writer, Cook - MA & Msc
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