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Ooh children, what's you gonna do when the world’s on fire?
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run to my door
[Spoken word] Children
You have lost your way
You find yourself at the foretold crossing
One road to death and fire one road to life in blue and in green, two paths
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Ooh sinners, what's you gonna do when the world’s on fire?
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run to my door
[Spoken word] You are not American
You are not American
You are not simply man
You are a fragment of a whole
Carrying but a small small role that multiplies with you Remember your instructions
At the end you too will return to soil
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Ooh kindred, what's you gonna do when the world’s on fire?
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run
You’re gonna run to my door
[Spoken word] You can join her in allegiance or perish in defiance but you will go to her in the end
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No Hiding Place
03:19
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Down here, oh down here
There is no hiding place down here
Youʼll run to the rock to hide your face
Rock cried out, no hiding place
Thereʼs no hiding place down here
Oh sinner man, you better run
Oh sinner man, you better run
Oh sinner man, you better run
Wake some morning, judgementʼs come
Thereʼs no hiding place down here
You go to the sea, and the sea cried out
You go to the mountain and the mountain cry Y
ou go to the ocean, and the ocean say lord
There is no hiding place down here
Down here, oh down here
There is no hiding place down here
You may run to the rock to hide your face
Rock cried out no hiding place
Thereʼs no hiding place down here
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4. |
My Wayʼs Cloudy
03:20
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Oh brethren my way
My way’s cloudy
My way
Oh send the ancients down
There’s fire in the east and fire in the west (Send the ancients down)
Among the damned among the blessed (Send the ancients down)
Oh brethren my way (My way, my way is)
My way’s cloudy (It’s cloudy)
My way (My way, my fire)
Oh send the ancients down (Oh brethren)
My way (My way, my way is)
My way’s cloudy (It’s cloudy)
My way (My way of fire)
Oh send the ancients down
[vocables]
I’ll tell you now as I've said before (Send the ancients down)
To the firelands we’re bound to go (Send the ancients down)
Oh brethren my way (Fire in the east and fire in the west yeah)
My way’s cloudy (My way, it’s cloudy)
My way (My way, my fire)
Oh send the ancients down (Oh brethren, I’ll tell you now, it’s cloudy)
My way’s cloudy (My way of fire, it’s cloudy)
Oh send the ancients down
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Mother
04:28
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Stars Begin to Fall
03:45
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Oh when you hear the ancients sound
Call the nations underground
And look out onto the land when the stars begin to fall
Oh what a morning brother
Oh what a morning brother
Oh what a morning brother
When the stars begin to fall
And when you hear the master groan
As he topples from his throne
Oh look out onto the land when the stars begin to fall
Oh what a morning children
Oh what a morning children
Oh what a morning children
When the stars begin to fall
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The Green Road
02:59
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[Spoken word] We have spoken of the downward road into flame; now, we speak of the green road.
You have become preoccupied with birth and death. The controlling of them. Convinced of your own evanescence, the making and ending of life is the greatest power you can conceive of. But it is a power beyond your grasp. You cannot destroy life; nor can you create it.
Life began in water, is sustained in water, and is joined in water from the first to the last.
In the water of the womb, two living bodies combine to produce a third. When the first two bodies decay, life continues in the third. It is neither created nor destroyed - merely changes its face.
All organisms are joined in one line of descent - in one single life, flowing through forms and eons uncounted, as a great river. The river rolls on, unbroken.
[sung]
Deep river
Deep river oh
Deep river
I wanna cross over in a calm time
[Spoken word] We Symbionts are those who swim the waters of the river, and have seen the vast life form of which we are part reflected therein.
You are just the fingertips of something - unable to grasp the wrist you are attached to, and unable, therefore, to perceive your connection to the greater whole.
We have come to remind you.
This is the final crossroads.
Only through the path of water - Through the path of life - Through the path of the Symbiont, will you find the green road.
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Live Humble
04:16
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Humble, yes humble
Humble yourselves the bell done rang
Humble, yes humble
Humble yourselves the bell done rang
Talk the glory and honor (Save freedom)
Talk the glory and honor (Praise the land)
Oh how secure and blessed are they who feel
Joys of pardoned sin
Should storms of wrath shake the earth and sea
Their minds have heavenly peace within
Bright days glide sweetly over their heads
Made of innocence and love
Softly and silently as the shades
Their nightly moments so gently move
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In the Garden
04:18
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I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
My own mother discloses
And she walks
And she talks with me
She tells me I am her heart
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known
She speaks and the sound of her voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing
And the melody that she gave to me
Within my heart is ringing
I stay in the garden with her
Though the night around me be falling
But she bids me go in a voice so low
Yet still I hear her calling
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Come Down Ancients
02:59
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Come down ancients and trouble the water
Come down ancients and trouble the water
Come down ancients and trouble the water
And let the saints come in
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11. |
Old Indian Hymn
03:19
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Glory to her the mother be
Glory to moon and sun
Glory to birds up on the wing,
To wild things where they run
Down from above the ancient ones
Have come into my breath
To speak of their eternal love
To warn us of the test
Hallelujah hosanna
Unto the ancients we shall cry
With confidence of soul
In hopes that may yet survive
When the final bell has tolled
Hallelujah hosanna
There is a stream that issues forth
From soil and from bone
A living stream both dark and deep
And strong as ancient stone
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Jake Blount Providence, Rhode Island
Jake Blount is an award-winning interpreter of Black folk music who has charted an unprecedented course through sound archives. In defiance of genre categories, revisionist histories, & linear time, Blount uses the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar & synthesizer to fashion an “Afrofuturist folklore” that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic & electric, artist & medium, & ancestor & progeny. ... more
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