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Pulse Code
04:56
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Chalk and ink pen on board.
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Atonement
06:49
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Atonement
Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilised men, we had no kind of prison. And because of this we had no delinquents. Without a prison there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he could not afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would in that case receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilised to give to give great importance to private property. We didn’t own any kind of money, and consequently the value of the human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, and therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in a bad shape before the white man arrived, and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that, so they tell us, are so important for a civilised society.
(By John Fire, Lame Deer. Native Indian chief.)
Upon suffering beyond suffering, the red nation shall rise again, and it shall be a blessing for a sick world, a world filled with broken promises, and separations. A world longing for the light again. I see a time in several generations when all colours of mankind will gather under the sacred tree of light, and the whole Earth shall become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of Unity among all living things. And the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this Wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at the centre within you, and I am in that place within me, we shall be One.
(Crazy Horse talking to Sitting Bull.)
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Kevin Roberts wrote the lyrics and sang this song.
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Lapse
03:15
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Snake Angel
05:48
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John FB Tucker
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Soliloquy
02:29
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Blake
04:28
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William Blake.
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Dolphin Moon
05:26
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Dolphin Moon Grant leonard Aspinall.
How we love your Dolphin Moon
The parting of the waves
The shore where our future lies
The grass among our graves
Let me take you to the sea
Where we float so merrily
And smile and wave on lost souls saved
The parting of the waves
Oh, Dolphin Moon sing th tune
let me see thee lie
Dolphin Moon not too soon
no more tears goodbye.
How we love your Dolphin Moon
Down the hatch old friend
Can't wait to see you again when the pain is at an end.
Dolphins sing your melody, the prisoner's sufferings ceace
Just for a glimpse of a Dolphin free surfing on the Ocean sea
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Shoot the Moon
As a child I saw the Sun. As a man my life has just begun. They wage their wars into the night, When there’s no difference in the black and the white.
Shoot the Moon and I’ll stay a while. Play the tune and I’ll sing like a child.
I’ll never believe in what they say. You know its wrong to take someone’s freedom away. Why should we forget it all, while our brothers and sisters are beaten ‘till they fall.
Shoot he Moon and I’ll stay a while. Play the tune and I’ll sing like a child. Shoot the Moon and I’ll stay a while. Play the tune and I’ll sing like a child
So I look out on this Land, I see a system that I don’t understand. Why is it there, how can It be One day soon you’ve got to set your people free.
Shoot the moon and I’ll stay a while. Play the tune and I’ll sing like a child. Shoot the moon and I’ll stay a while. Shoot the Moon and I’ll die like a child
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Seclusion
02:06
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Portrait of you.
04:28
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Portrait
Its time to look forward for you and for me, ‘Cause I’ve spent my time so foolishly, as ten years went past before I was free, now we spend our time in sweet harmony.
So, sit before me and love me true and I’ll paint my portrait of you
I was hopelessly lost on a path filled with gloom, looking for something to fill in the room. I was sick in the head I was tired and confused, and my heart was a vacuum that had never been used.
So sit before me and love me true and I’ll paint my portrait of you.
Where the sea washes over a beautiful shore much richer in colour than it had been before.
The sea is as clear as the time we first met Its clear to me now and its going to get clearer yet
So sit before me and love me true and I’ll paint my portrait of you.
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No Ordinary Planet,
No Ordinary Planet, revolves 'round the sun.
With our hands in our pockets, we say....
"My God, what have we done?"
There's a hole in the ozone.
Mother Earth is caught home alone
Factory landscapes and monochrome, and the fish in the rivers have gone.
No Ordinary Planet, some of it still blue and green.
Some species are extinct we haven't even seen.
Set alight to the Ocean calling for you and me.
Whales and dolphins are calling out...
"When's the day you're gonna set us free?"
I Need your Love,.
I Need your love.
I Need your Love and I Need It NOW.
Another road building Nightmare...Fire rockets at the SUN
The Golden age of the credit card, being so pleased at what we've become...
And when the dust finally settles, and you can see straight through it, If what you're doing destroys it all... then you just don't do it...!!
I Need your Love.
I Need your Love.
I Need your Love and i need it now
No ordinary planet from the cradle to the grave.
We can't just sit around saying to each other...
"Look at this mess that we've made."
Planet Earth is still calling out.
Crying in the face of us falling out.
Hey, You, can you hear me now?
Hey, You are you with me now?
I Need Your Love
I Need Your Love
I Need Your Love
I Need Your Love
And i need it now
And i need it now
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Grant Aspinall Monaco
Paintings, Video and Poetry on:
grantaspinall.co.uk
Poetry also on:
'Write Out
Loud' writeoutloud.net
All proceeds from selected videos and all limited Edition C.Ds are donated to the
Mental Health Foundation.
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