Dream Poetry Visions

Leonard Cohen - What Is A Saint?

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.”
- Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)

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Kate Bush - The Line, the Cross and the Curve

Kate Bush - 1 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (Rubberband Girl)

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See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they’ve got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist…

A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the beat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I’d be back on my feet…

Kate Bush - 2 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (And So is Love)

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We let it in
We give it out
And in the end
What’s it all about?
It must be love.

We used to say
“Ah Hell, we’re young”
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.

What really matters?
It’s all we’ve got
Isn’t that enough?

All for love
Just for the sake of love.

Kate Bush - 3 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (The Red Shoes)

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With no words, with no song
You can dance the dream with your body on
And this curve, is your smile
And this cross, is your heart
And this line, is your path
Oh it’s gonna be the way you always thought it would be
But it’s gonna be no illusion
Oh it’s gonna be the way you always dreamt about it
But it’s gonna be really happening to ya…

Feel your hair come tumbling down
Feel your feet start kissing the ground
Feel your arms are opening out
And see your eyes are lifted to God
With no words, with no song
I’m gonna dance the dream
And make the dream come true…

Kate Bush - 4 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (Lily)

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Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the universe
From whom all things proceed
To whom all things return
Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun
Hidden by a disc of golden light
That we may know the truth
And do our whole duty
As we journey to thy sacred feet
- Recited by “Lily”

I said
“Lily, Oh Lily I’m so afraid
I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness”
And she said
“Child, take what I say
With a pinch of salt
And protect yourself with fire”

Gabriel before me
Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire.

Kate Bush - 5 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (Moments of Pleasure)

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I think about us diving
Diving off a rock, into another moment…

Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…

And I can hear my mother saying
“Every old sock meets an old shoe”
Isn’t that a great saying?

Here come the Hills of Time

Kate Bush - 6 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (Eat the Music)

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Split me open
With devotion
You put your hands in
And rip my heart out
Eat the music.

All is revealed
Not only women bleed.

What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.

Kate Bush - 7 of 7 - The Line, the Cross and the Curve (End + Credits w/ Red Shoes Mix)

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Kate Bush - Lily

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“Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the universe
From whom all things proceed
To whom all things return
Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun
Hidden by a disc of golden light
That we may know the truth
And do our whole duty
As we journey to thy sacred feet

Well I said
“Lily, Oh Lily I don’t feel safe
I feel that life has blown a great big hole
Through me”
And she said
“Child, you must protect yourself
I’ll show you how with fire”

Gabriel before me
Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire

I said
“Lily, Oh Lily I’m so afraid
I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness”
And she said
“Child, take what I say
With a pinch of salt
And protect yourself with fire”

Gabriel before me
Raphael behind me
Michael to my right
Uriel on my left side
In the circle of fire”

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John Lennon - Imagine

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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” - Black Elk

“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”

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