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The Path of Ashes

by Clarity

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Ashes and All 04:37
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come stand up front, i want you ashes and all come stand up front, let me cast off your pall 'cause in these arms galaxies turn to foam 'cause in these arms all your sins turn to gold 'cause child, these arms, they don't let go come dance with me, let me cradle your fear come dance with me, my heart leaps like a deer i've missed you, child, i wipe the tears from your face i've missed you, child, i gift you every grace i've missed you, child, missed your embrace when the sun goes out, i'll give you a song when there's a drought i am rain on your tongue when bread runs out fresh honey will flow i'll be the breath enfleshing your bones i am a spring, you are more than you think your hands reach out; come to my heart and drink why do you weep? i have crowned you with love why do you weep? every star is a sun why do you weep? love will rise with the dawn when the sun goes out, i'll give you a song when there's a drought i am rain on your tongue when bread runs out fresh honey will flow i'll be the breath enfleshing your bones come stand up front, i want you ashes and all come stand up front, i have hallowed the heart i'll stand with you, i'll pray with you, i'll weep for you, i'll die for you when the day runs down i'll still love you then where pain is found i am there to the end when the dark falls down your fire i'll tend it's then you will know that I AM oh, that I AM and i will be what i will be yes, child, I AM and i will be what i will be ashes and all i want you ashes and all
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Anchor 04:27
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it's cold here, i smell earth and the sea i am starting to regret coming here what was i thinking? help, the water's deep catch me oh, the sea is rough, my daughter will you be my anchor in the storm? will you hold me through the night? will you carry all my fire home to port? can i trust you with this light? are you ready to be filled with all the stars? will you help me bear this love? i am ready to be born it's dark here, i fear my fragility trapped in flesh and blood and bone and mortality born and now dying, how will i ever sleep? hold me oh, the world is cold, my mother will you be my anchor in the storm? will you feed my hungry mouth, and will you go without to keep my body warm? can i trust you with this life? are you ready to be pierced unto the heart? i will help you bear this love i am ready now to grow oh, the flesh is weak, my mourner will you be my anchor in the storm? will you weep before my end, and will you bear my broken body to the stone? can i trust you to let go? are you ready to be shaken to the core? you have helped me love this earth and i am ready to come home oh, the soul is free, my children i will be your anchor in the storm i have laughed and i have wept and i have known your love and i have known your scorn can you trust me to be there? are you ready for the truth to bring you home? every heart will know this love are you ready to be born?
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Ezekiel's Bones 04:55
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and she goes, and she goes and she goes falling down into the valley and the bones are all a pearly white and she spreads her flames across the landscape and the bones are like stars in the night and your voice was so sweet i was scared my ears would bleed but your singing put to sleep a thousand suns and your breath on my cheek and the melting of fear and your whisper that erased a thousand years and she goes, and she goes 'cause she said "raise your voice to this valley" and the bones are all the saints asleep and i know your breath will overtake me and the bones are all the sinners' fears and your breath, oh, so sweet i thought it would split my cheek but your whisper put to sleep a thousand fears and i lie at your feet, in the melting of fear and your arms that have undone a thousand tears and she goes, and she goes yes, i will prophesy yes, i will prophesy yes, i will prophesy i am nothing without you i am nothing without you nothing without you and she goes, and she goes and these bones here asleep will remember how to breathe and the sun will remember how to rise and this valley will know spring and these mountains all will sing and when all is dust again they will blow free and she goes, and she goes
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Baptismal Anthem 02:56
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so let the rain come crashing down and blossom rust flowers on your crown so now just toss it to the ground the ringing out, the sweetest sound there is no gold beneath the deep there's only sunset and the sleep but know that death can only dream of how it feels when you begin to see so take her hand and spin her in, your bride to be you will see that she is not to be feared so fill your lungs and make the drop and feel your ashes, like a rock there's no escape, they'll pull you down until the hand that reaches out the hand that reaches, pulls you in the hand that peels away dead skin the hand that wrenches you awake the hand that promises to make you breathe so take her hand, begin the dance, her breath is sweet you will see that she has been redeemed and when you taste her here today there is no need to be afraid we are together and we say, "receive your light" and when she takes you in the end you can receive her as a friend and every seed of love you've sown will shine so bright let her take you in her arms, become a seed let the love within your heart become a tree
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Still 05:19
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abraham, the ball's in your court abraham, life is short serial disappointment takes you down to the pit father, what do you want from me? father, what could you want from me? be still be still be still, oh, and know me jacob, see what you have received jacob, see every star come with me and wrestle this dream angels hold your fear father, what things you've done for me father, what do you ask of me? be still be still be still, oh, and know me oh, child, be still child, be still job, be still ezekiel jonah, be still, isaiah, be still moses, wait, don't run away moses, wait, hear me out you're afraid, but hear your heartbeat i am there in the silence father, i fear your voice in me father, how could i even speak? father, we danced beside the sea but father, we are bent down by fear father, how can we be who you want us to be? oh, hoy adonai oh, i love you, be still i love you, be still amos, be still samuel, be still isaac, be still elijah, be still sampson, be still aaron, be still david, be still adam, be still
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Canticle 03:34
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twilight walk through autumn cloisters shut the door, i can't be seen lock the gates and snuff the lantern only then will all be peace the moon is new, it trickles on my feet the stars, the blue, the lord my soul to keep tap, tap, oh, tap the lattice through the slats your voice a-tumbling hands, fingers, work the latches "come, my love, oh, come away come, my love, to holy play" midnight lips, i taste you breathing in my window silver skin draw me out, take off my armour teach me how to let love in the waxing moon is dripping, slipping through the metal mask locked upon my face unlock, unbind, unravel call me out and let me go spin all my tears to laughter like lazarus, my time is now i climbed right out the window followed you into the night white dress and curly brown hair chase my love a thousand miles gather stars to see her smile spill my blood to give her life in the twinkling firefly meadow came to you upon my knees wept to hold you, can't let go, you drew me up upon my feet you kissed me deep your breath is sweet sweet against my ear i come to you so broken and you always knit me up so many tears unspoken "no, my love you are enough hush, my love, you are enough"
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Ko amar Adonai 03:46
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walking through the city streets, the people passing by empty bellies, hungry hearts, reaching to the sky what's the use of praying if the bread is locked away? strolling through the dusty fields, counting every rib priests and lawyers laugh and drink, and teach me to forgive and sell my wife two turtledoves for every child that lives huldah, light the candle, take my fingers like a child it's time to play a game before the kings and risk their fire kneeling in the market square, the people stop and stare my toy soldiers march along a city wall laid bare forty days and forty nights, the sun will fall from heaven screaming by the palace walls, the guards kicked in my head dogs will lick these bloody stones where jezebel fell dead shaved my head and lost my voice, they go about their days micah, hold my hand, i'll write god's name down in the dust it's time to pull out all the stops, i can, i will, i must jeremiah, give me strength, the well is dark and deep it's all becoming clear they won't be waking from their sleep oh help me, adonai oh help me, adonai oh help me, adonai stay with me, adonai lying on my broken side, the dark is dropping down in the twilight heartbeat i'm waiting for the sound the awful, awful sound, the chariots, the sound the bleeding lunar howl, the axe is swinging down huldah, light the candle, take my fingers like a child it's time to play a game before the kings and risk their fire micah, hold my hand, i'll write god's name down in the dust it's time to pull out all the stops, i can, i will, i must ezekiel, it's not the end, the river leads us home tear it down and build it up again thus says the lord
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Ararat 07:08
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ararat, my silent friend as a child i thought your height would never end used to hear your voice on the clearest night winds ararat, you were so close your breath still warmed my lips ararat, i walked your roads i could see for miles from the height of your pinnacle then one day you turned grey and the rain came crashing down i strained to hear your voice but the storm just drowned it out if i sewed up the sky would i stop this fear from drowning you out? if i swam through the silence would i hear your voice? now you're a thousand feet below deep and dark and i'm too scared to follow still hear your voice on nights when the ocean's like glass but it's become alien to my ears, it's hard to sense that tenderness under that deep blue my mind is swollen i don't trust these depths send your tides to pull me in take my breath away with your gentleness ararat, the raven tried the dove just trusted the wind to bear her high i'm flying day and night all across this empty sea and the sky is turning blue again but your peaks are still beneath where can i go to rest my weary wings? where can i go to hear you sing? if i sewed up the sky, would it stop this fear from drowning you out? if i swam through the silence would i hear your voice? ararat i know your peaks will dry old friend i've left my boat behind
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Emmaus 05:09
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night starting to fall shadows turn blue, grow tall feet, sandals are dry wish i could fly back home follow this road to somewhere shelter ahead, will they have bread? my friend, don't pass me by join me here, won't you help me pass the time with good conversation it's dark, my friend, come in pour me a glass of your wine tonight i feel so alive have you heard what they say? it's a new day for those who are wanting friend, tell me your story where were you born? why are you traveling alone? we'll walk this road to somewhere i'll light the way please won't you stay with me? friend, don't pass me by join me here, won't you help me pass the time with good conversation it's dark, my friend, come in pour me a glass of your wine tonight i feel so alive there's something about you i just can't explain there's some glow about you, won't you tell me your name? we'll walk this road together there's shelter ahead, i'll bring you bread my friend, don't pass me by stay with me, won't you help me pass the time with good conversation it's cold, my friend, come in i'll pour a glass of your wine why do i feel so alive? my friend, don't pass me by join me here, won't you help me pass the time with good conversation it's dark, my friend, come in pour me a glass of your wine why do i feel so alive? i've never felt so alive
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Jairus's Daughter 03:51
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little girl, how did it come to this? little girl, open your eyes they left you lying here between two worlds a child not quite full grown unfinished, cold, but not unloved little girl, the teacher comes to set you free little girl, the holy comes to raise you up before you heard my voice i saw you playing with your dolls alone and perfect in a shaft of sun unfinished, just begun the battles and the wars will all be yours, and after's, and before's for now yours is to love and laugh at every shadow i don't protect you from their hands it's not my way to keep you silent and unchanged un-aged, unbroken, unrefined and oh, you will be tried little girl, you will be tried with words and glances, catcalls and commands but strength to stand will come within your heart refined by fire to shine little girl don't be afraid little girl, god knows your name little girl, talitha cum little girl, talitha cum and when they called me to your bed it's not as bridegroom but as friend not head of household, home corrector, or inspector of your hem it's as the one who calls you out of silence to reclaim yourself it's as the one who made you to become your own little girl, talitha cum
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Bells 03:19
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bells are the lanterns that call my heart home bells are the shelter away from the storm bells are the promise that nothing can harm bells are the essence of her you are the silence that challenges me sing me a lullaby, carry me to sea on the horizon, the moon stands alone turn my bones to bells you are the fire in a valley of bones i am the broken and wandering soul we are together and you are my home she is my compass and star prophet, my heart is afire with your dream sing me a cyclone, carry me to sea on the horizon, the stars are reborn turn my bones to bells turn my bones to bells and sing through me sing through me you are the silence that challenges me sing me a lullaby, carry me to sea on the horizon, the moon stands alone turn my bones to bells
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Firefly 04:49
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midnight, garden full of night and the hiding of your eyes moonlight, left behind all light and i have never seen you cry i'm sorry, this wasn't what i thought it would be this terror, this silence chasing every angel from me i'm sorry, how can we reweave this story to be the love that we wanted, the glory, the love, the sweetness moonlight and i'm fast asleep fireflies are holding you if i hid you in these flowers would your face still burn so bright? if i had, would they have found you here next to me with tears dry on your face haunted by the poison, the nails i'm sorry, how can we reweave this story to be the triumph we wanted, the glory and sweet release i'm sorry erase me deface me destroy me i'm sorry i'm sorry, this wasn't what i thought it would be betrayal, this silence chasing all of heaven from me i'm sorry, how can we reweave this story to be the love that we wanted the love that sets the world free firefly, watch here every night be the one to bear him light firefly, here where my love lies be the first to see him rise
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Te Lucis (Alt Vespers) 01:19
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behold the lightener of the stars ascending crests of clouds and sky celestial choral voices sing throughout the cosmos they will ring o christ thou refuge of our love then why should we not join the song with saints and angels hovering 'round no sweeter hymn can e'er be found o son of graceful mary bright o spotless rose, sing lullaby no greater joy to me can be than in your arms to ever lie amen
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Now the Green Blade Rises 02:15
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released March 31, 2016

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Clarity Vancouver, British Columbia

Clarity is Vancouver's original punk Celtic harpist. Beginning as a traditional musician in teahouses and churches, Clarity returned from a year in Norwich, UK having broken new ground with the rock band Crosshair, branching out to heavy metal, punk, Goth, and their own introspective, spiritual compositions. ... more

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