• all time favourite - healing - music

    Passion over Pain

    Oldies but Goldies – ich habe Uriah Heep wieder ausgegraben.

    Choices

    I was walking alone thru a side show
    With passion and pain on each side.
    Something inside me was calling
    For a chance to stay alive.

    At the time I didn’t know what was calling
    As my head was buried in grief.
    Today I heard what was crying.
    My FREEDOM calling me

    And we all make our choices
    Like a blind man feels his way,
    And the choice I’ve made is simple:
    Passion over pain.

    When I got to the end of the side show
    And looked back to where I had been,
    My eyes filled with teardrops of loneliness
    For the ones who will never be free

    And we all make our choices
    Like a blind man feels his way,
    And the choice I’ve made is simple:
    Passion over pain.

    I thought of the children in the side show
    As they wandered around so confused.
    Some day they’ll make their decision
    But which one will they choose?

    And we all make our choices
    Like a blind man feels his way,
    And the choice I’ve made is simple:
    Passion over pain.

    Uriah Heep: Choices https://youtu.be/XBojreRyubk

  • Loreena McKennitt - lost - music - song

    The Mystic’s Dream

    The Mystic’s Dream (Loreena McKennitt)

    A clouded dream on an earthly night
    Hangs upon the crescent moon
    A voiceless song in an ageless light
    Sings at the coming dawn
    Birds in flight are calling there
    Where the heart moves the stones
    It’s there that my heart is longing for
    All for the love of you

    A painting hangs on an ivy wall
    Nestled in the emerald moss
    Eyes declare a truce of trust
    And then it draws me far away
    Where deep in the desert twilight
    Sand melts in pools of the sky
    Darkness lays her crimson cloak
    Your lamps will call, call me home

    And so it’s there my homage’s due
    Clutched by the still of the night
    And now I feel, feel you move
    And every breath is full
    So it’s there my homage’s due
    Clutched by the still of the night
    Even the distance feels so near
    All for the love of you

    A clouded dream on an earthly night
    Hangs upon the crescent moon
    A voiceless song in an ageless light
    Sings at the coming dawn
    Birds in flight are calling there
    Where the heart moves the stones
    It’s there that my heart is longing for
    All for the love of you

    „Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.“ (Edward Bulwer Lytton)

    Trenz and Ailanreanter among the stars

  • Eivor - music - song - Trøllabundin

    Trøllabundin

    TRØLLABUNDIN (Eivør)
    Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg
    Galdramaður festi meg festi meg
    Trøllabundin djúpt í míni sál í míni sál
    Í hjartanum logar brennandi bál brennandi bál

    Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg
    Galdramaður festi meg festi meg
    Trøllabundin inn í hjartarót í hjartarót
    Eyga mítt festist har ið galdramaður stóð

    Translation:
    Spellbound
    Spellbound I am, I am
    The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
    Spellbound deep in my soul, in my soul
    In my heart burns a sizzling fire, a sizzling fire

    Spellbound I am, I am
    The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
    Spellbound in my heart’s root, my heart’s root
    My eyes gaze to where the wizard stood

  • music - orchids - winter

    Kilroy and some happy plants *g*

    After reading that my orchids would be used to 12 hours of daylight in their natural habitat and considering that the plants raised here might be content with 10 hours, too, still those rainy winter days must be too short, so to speak.
    They do still grow, but very very slow. So I have now decided to borrow them my lamp from my „worktable“, which has a „daylight spectrum“ light in it. It is not a true plant-lamp, but it is better than a simple lightbulb and it sure is more light. If I keep it on from when I get home to when I go to bed, they do get some extra five hours each day. Am now curious if it will show any results. (If so, I might consider to buy them a plant-light)
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    Of course I am secretly hoping that this will speed on the blossom that I am waiting for on the Phal. Zoro Amato. *looks innocent*

    And something to watch- I stumbled across some 80’s favourites on CD lately. „Mr. Roboto“ by Styx is sure one of mine. Here I found an awesome orchestra version of it on youtube:

    Enjoy!