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Trees of Light at Dawn
06:01
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Instrumental
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2. |
Watcher of the Trees
05:30
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WATCHER OF THE TREES
It’s coming to me
In the gentle morning mist
Slowly as the tide
On desolated northern shores
The silver waving grass
Opens its arms without realizing
It’s still waiting
For winds, rains and shadows
And it’s breathing
Along the streams
Among the trees
In the wind it’s living
Whispers of its name
‘Watcher of the Trees’
Heard beyond the fires
And the beating drums
From the highest hills
Fall in lots of smiles and tears
It’s still waiting
For winds, rains and shadows
And it’s breathing
Along the streams
Among the trees
In the wind it’s living
In a whole life
Searching for the light
The tiring battles
Haven’t discouraged
Watching over the world
So close to the sky
Forever sheltered
From the stormy weather
And it’s breathing
Along the streams
Among the trees
In the wind it’s living
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3. |
Trees
05:09
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TREES
Trees
The breathing of the Earth
Eyewitness in the sky
Words whispered by the birches
Written on wings of butterflies
Trees
Watching all those passers-by
Waters of rivers are running dry
Heartbeats heard in the dark
Stones of lands survived at times
Trees
Pierced by the rise of the morning sun
Entwined in the laborious spiders webs
The lymph leads back to coloured saps
Fireflies forsake them at their fairy rest
Trees
Shelter for the light of banished stars
Green arrows thrown down from heaven
Farmers angels dance nursing their roots
The devil cuts them showing human face
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4. |
Trees Are Blooming
05:44
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TREES ARE BLOOMING
The wind blows to me
I feel its faint breath inside
Slight crackles of campfire
Stories told by Mother Earth
Waiting for the sunrise
To warm me up through the trees
And being embraced by the sun
In the flurry of new born leaves
From the highest mountains
Glittering streams flow towards me
The milky way
Leads me where the peace lives
If I really gave everything
For a small house of wood and stone
Merry lives will be delighted
The harvest time is coming along
Show the light
Reveal yourself through the smile
Live the life all the time
Hold the line
Keep alive your inner flame
Change to have with to be
Turn the useless regrets away
Indulge yourself to what will come
The trees are blooming
Soon I will wear cherries on my ears
Running in the bright light
Of the sunny afternoon of June
The mothers' laughter
The ninth moon has been eclipsed
A shot of sickle
And a thousand butterflies reborn in the wind
Show the light
Reveal yourself through the smile
Live the life all the time
Hold the line
Keep alive your inner flame
Change to have with to be
Turn the useless regrets away
Indulge yourself to what will come
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5. |
The Beech and the Birch
04:32
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THE BEECH AND THE BIRCH
Earthbound by sturdy roots
I savoured the sirens’ song
Like a wooden Ulysses
Imprisoned in his own ropes
I got hurt trying to get close
I got close trying to cure myself
Uncharted waters of a deep sea
Feeble signals from a huge space
Sing me so that I can rest
Wake me so that I can be fed
Sing me so that I can rest
Wake me so that I can be enhanced
I’ll build up a house with open doors
Where you will be free of being free
In the spring by the gentle blooms
In the autumn of graceful upsets
I’ll build up a house with no walls
Where you will be safe from me
In the winter without sounds
In the summer of boundless songs
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STANDING STILL AS STONY TREES
She fights with despair
The cold raging waters
He asked her:
“can I play down by the riverside?”
The soundless joy
Of any afternoon in the summer
Was broken by
A sudden and blinding feeling of fright
Now she’s weeping tears of sand
Over her own beloved
One love of dreams
And bright stars hang up in the sky
Unceasing cries of help
Are lost in a sharp wind
While distracted guardian angels
Play at seek and hide
Standing still
As stony trees
In the forest
She would hold his hands warm along
The breath has gone away with the tide
Inside a fire’s burning
Inside the fire’s burning
She would hold his hands warm along
The breath has gone away with the tide
Inside a fire’s burning
Inside the fire’s burning
Standing still
As a stony tree
In the forest
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7. |
The Shadows of the Trees
06:04
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THE SHADOWS OF THE TREES
The light pierces the thick branches
It pervades you deep inside
All around
Dance lively dancers
A crimson heart
Flies to the hillside
An endless sea of pink flowers
Falling stars set fire in the skies
Open green fields
Guard wild horses
Regal Eagles
Glide from nightly clouds
The shadows of the trees hide stories
In their crib
Full of amazing dreams
You let oneself go dozed off and without shoes
Unaware that soon your carefreeness
Will be kidnapped
Droves of men
Encased in their ivory towers
An uncoloured world
Made so small and weak
A bird with broken wings
Lies in the indifference
The bringer of dreams
Collects him with disregard
But you’ll always be the old and big Tree
That watches over the Creatures and the Earth
Remaining in the silence of your own shadow
Luckily you are here and there
The shadows of the trees hide stories
In their crib
Full of amazing dreams
You let oneself go dozed off and without shoes
Unaware that soon your carefreeness
Will be kidnapped
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The Tree With the Spoon
05:39
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THE TREE WITH THE SPOON
I feel so well here
In the garden there are comfy wooden seats
Where we can sit down
Where falling into sleep somehow
Unmoved I witness to life going by
Drop by drop
The endless river’s flowing overtime
Spirit is lost in the rye
Look at that boy
Watch his sallow face
A scared swan
Under the fury of menacing waves
I marvelled at the sun through the trees
I picked up red flowers
And I held them in my hands
The light was bright in my chest
If I could have this memory of me
Now I’m stretching out to the stars
Touched the moon
I feed myself with a spoon
Look at that boy
Watch his sallow face
A scared swan
Under the fury of menacing waves
Look at that boy
Watch him in his darkest night
Still unaware
Only in the darkness a bright light shines
Fireflies, we are Fireflies
Into dark we shine just like Fireflies
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9. |
Trees in November
05:53
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TREES IN NOVEMBER
Here we are
Like trees in November
The glowing summer
Has wrecked under blue skies
We are going to face
Our longest winter
As the trees in November
Could we still wait
The colors of spring?
Here we are
Like trees in November
Now, while our love
Seems to be asleep
We haven nested
Among a tangle of branches
As trees in November
Could we never surrender
At the power of life?
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10. |
The Old ManTree
05:25
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THE OLD MANTREE
The shade of the old ManTree
Stretching out into the vesper’s light
The horizon is an invisible line
In the distance of a hidden time
The youth transcended and lived
Among winds, rains and shadows
In the cold wintertime now it looks sunny
Illusion of having given leads to safe place
The voice of the old ManTree
Tells the tales concerning human beings
They crossed the waters beyond the woods
In the ancient world before the flood
The youth hanging by a brittle twig
Swings like a red rag at the memory wind
Just like inside a fallen leaf and never forgotten
Lies the illusion to be survived at times
Small saplings once shrubs
Brighten the days still surprised by curious lives
The wise teacher says, doesn’t teach
The good student listens and so learns
It’s like this, season after season
Changes come without warning
As well as vanish the silent shades footprints
In the dim light of the Big Dipper
In the youth of the reckless wisdom
A brilliant World crowned by white Heather
Spoke to the Waters of the sea
The Fire in the sky
To the Air full of pollen
The Earth with its sprouts
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11. |
I Remember the Trees
04:43
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I REMEMBER THE TREES
I remember the trees
Forsaken
By branches and leaves
At the edge of the lakes
Among swarming of bees
Even before
The cathedrals of steel
I remember the trees
Lullabies whispered
Along glades and pools
On the slender cliffs
Torn by howling winds
Even before
The battles of the fools
I remember the trees
Faces carved
By the touch of a look
My Mother my Father
The existence of men
Even before
The writings in the books
I remember the trees
Thoughtful shadows
In my stolen childhood
Huge and magnificent
They are leading me at dusk
Now that I am a glow
A firefly in the wood
A glow
A firefly in the wood
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12. |
Anthem to Trees
08:27
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ANTHEM TO TREES
I wake up here now
As a small jellyfish
Drifting away
In a vast blue ocean
The horizons are lost
At nadir of a new world
In the endless succession of times
Shall I find abode in the Skies?
Moment has come
To go out to see the stars
Moment has come
To see the stars again
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Watcher of the Trees Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
1986 - 1992
The Electric Shields
(Vox&Hammond Organ, Piano, Harmonica,
Vocal)
1993 - 2002
Moonshiners
(Lead Vocal, Bodhran, Guitar, Harmonica)
2007 - 2011
The Laghel Day
(As Producer)
2011
Watcher Of The Trees
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