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Apri le luci e mira
08:03
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Italian:
Apri le luci e mira
Il mio costante affetto
Per te il mio cor sospira
E non l'intendi ancor
E in tacita favella
Co' soli miei sospiri
Ti scopro, oh Dio, la bella
Fiamma che m'arde il cor
English translation:
Open your eyes, and see
My constant affection
For you my heart sighs
Yet you still are unaware
In a silent speech,
With only my sighs
I find you, oh God,
The beautiful flame
That burns in my heart
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Beyoncé
02:15
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Dear Beyoncé,
Sometimes I feel aloneth,
And thy music comforteth.
Do you ever think that you're
like everybody else?
Just another human farting around
this damned world?
'Cause I can identify with that feeling.
Yours.
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When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow’s form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change as is false women’s fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created,
Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure.
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For Shame (Sonnet 10)
02:47
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For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lovest is most evident;
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate
That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire.
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self, for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
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Celine, Mariah, Whitney
03:08
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Dear Celine Dion,
When you sing about love
Do you ever think, what is love?
Dear Mariah Carey,
If I can't rely on my body
Can I trust mine own pertheption?
Dear Whitney Houston,
Doest the soul remain after the body dies?
Does it?
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7. |
Pluto
04:31
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Jupiter, bad June
You know my arms ache
And I've organized my face
Sweet sun sister, moon
Seasons have shown
How your providence
takes shape
My little eye shadow
Bruised by the moon's paddle
Lipstick eyeliner replaced
Charon, the fog lifted
Messenger dwarfism
Let's leave evidence to rest
Pluto, silly goose
Why did you hide
Behind covenants of shame?
Smooth and splendid abuse
Won't you tell me
How to deal with my own?
Sworn by Persephone
How melancholy
She waits forever in your kiss
Loneliest passageway
Orbiting cast-away
Beat your beauty at your breast
Don't surprise me
You monster, you mastery
Make your very last request
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Saturn
03:42
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Melancholy creature
Paranoid secret
Hypothetic victim of prediction
I'll consume the child that trails me
The youngest of children
A cannibal addiction
Innocent victim
Bite mark, body part
When in secret siege we eat them
Tell me I'm evil
A Capricorn creature
A chemical addiction first incision
Take this body bloodshed for you
Tell me I'm evil
Invisible people
Continual affection for my action
Vampire creature first born seeker
Ah ah ah, now
Tell me I'm evil
Tell me I'm not the name of love
Tell me I'm evil
Tell me I'm not the face of god
Where there's joy I bring you trespass
Where there's light I bring you darkness
Where there's health I bring affliction
Where there's hope I bring misfortune
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Mercury
05:02
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And all that I've known to be of life
And I am gentle
You ran off with it all
And I am faithful
And all that I felt within my arms
And I am weightless
You ran off with it all
And I am speechless
And all that I've said to get it right
And I am confident
You ran off with it all
And I am steadfast
And all that I thought to be precise
And I am consequence
You ran off with it all
And I am sorry
And I am sorry
And all that I've known to be at peace
And I am desperate
You ran off with it all
And I am restless
And all that I've known to be of love
And I am gentle
You ran off with it all
And I am desperate
And all that I dream
Where do you run, where do you run to?
And I'm evidence
And all that I dream
Where do you run, where do you run to?
And I am faithless
And all that I dream
Where do you run, where do you run to?
And now I am messed up
And all that I dream
Where do you run, where do you run to?
Carrier friend, where do you run?
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10. |
All Limbs Are
03:29
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Do your shoulders long
To fold into the arms of your papa
Close, strong
The missing figure is somewhere within they say
But how do we get there?
And who's gonna raise us till we find it?
If our hearts beat cold, will they skip them?
I'll draw the family tree
Right side up so ancestors rise with me
All being, a new growth lineage carrying
The scars of our fathers
By branching upon them growth beyond them
In the masculine sacred unfurling
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11. |
Hide and Seek
04:23
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Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking, feeling
Spin me around again
And rub my eyes
This can't be happening
When busy streets
A-mess with people
Would stop to hold
Their heads heavy
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung
Before the takeover
The sweeping insensitivity
Of this still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
(No you won't catch me around here)
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mmm, what'd you say?
Mmm, that you only meant well?
Well, of course you did
Mmm, what'd you say?
Mmm, that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Hmm, what'd you say?
Hmm, that it's just what we need
You decided this
What'd you say?
Hmm, what did she say?
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid sweet-talk newspaper wood cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
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12. |
Once Upon Another Time
05:33
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Once upon another time
Somebody's hands who felt like mine
Turned the key and took a drive
Was free
Highway curved, the sun sank low
Buckley on the radio
Cigarette was burning slow
So breathe
Just yellow lines and tire marks
Sun-kissed skin and handle bars
And where I stood was where I was to be
No enemies to call my own
No porch light on to pull me home
And where I was is beautiful
Because I was free
Once upon another time
Before I knew which life was mine
Before I left the child behind me
I saw myself in summer nights
And stars lit up like candle lights
I make my wish but mostly I believed
In yellow lines and tire marks
Sun-kissed skin and handle bars
And where I stood was where I was to be
Once upon another time
Deciding nothing good in dying
So I would just keep on driving
Because I was free
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Megan Cox Johannesburg, South Africa
Megan Cox is a classical and contemporary vocalist and multi-instrumentalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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