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MANY HEARTS

from TENDER AS WATER by Tom Ross

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Javanese gamelan underpins this tune, with its nested 5 rhythms. The proportions of big-small-big (in India, the damaru drum shape) show in different sizes in the diagram.

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Laughter is the end-
sound of your fighting
sound of your fighting

Go where you began
and come from what is done
You owe neither birth,
Death is a loan:
so keep what you found

Hear what your elders
say in the twilight, seeing you
hear what your elders
cry at dawn, seeing your
brave, thin soul:

Are you really lost?
Are you really lost?

Many hearts open mine
to make you wonder how
many hearts open mine?

to make you my window of peace
release the wind that turns so endlessly

Many hearts open mine
to make you wonder how
many hearts open mine?

to make you my window of light
release the wind that turns so endlessly

Let it untwine
see its design

Wind blew night down the chimney
scattering still warm ashes
cold she woke in her chair
but found her eyes in anger
what she dreamt was glowing
but became grey to remember

children trick-or-treating
could hardly be as appealing
his face was brighter than fire
that would have shown him stealing
never to reveal the will-o’-the-wisp in his heart

House to house the wind blew
and woke every lady sleeping
each had felt a dream of
many hearts open mine

Just like you listen
in one ear, out the other
but never stop to tell how
many hearts open mine

east, south, west, north, center
the directions they are five
weather takes me everywhere to make you my window of peace
and everywhere I give
centering is all right release the wind that turns so endlessly
but wind keeps me alive

Laughter is the end-
sound of your fighting
sound of your fighting

Go where you began
and come from what is done
You owe neither birth,
Death is a loan:
so keep what you found

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from TENDER AS WATER, released February 7, 2016

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