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Magic Rising (Album)

by Willowjack

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a jewel case with a beautifully designed 12 page book of lyrics, personally signed by Willowjack. Includes 2 bonus tracks, "Yesterday's Children" and "Bad too Long"

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1.
Magic Rising 03:50
Magic rising holding, hiding All on the inside Silent, golden pure heart woven All on the inside I don't know what it is that makes the feelings grow Time moves fast but heaven moves so slow and I should know... Magic rising, your perfect heart is beautiful and true Can you hide it so wonderful and new? Will you conjure me magic, burning pure heart yearning All on the inside The forests are the keepers of the heavenly fires Whispering secrets that could never be denied I'm breathing, on the inside... Magic rising, your perfect heart is beautiful and true Can you hide it so wonderful and new? Will you conjure me a love? Will you conjure me enough?
2.
Didn’t I give you fire when I lay in your arms Moved you from the chapel for the strangest of charms To understand the night the lion and the monkey do Didn’t I give you secrets when I lay in your bed Cursed beneath the comets in the trees where we lay And passion turns the night, And weighs down the moon Sundown, Lion's den A monkey dances where noone dares and cries: "O, shall I take a chance and tomorrow dream another dance? when no-one makes me feel like you do!" Didn’t I give you magic when I lay in your heart Way before the moonbeams tore the strangers apart To understand the night The lion and the monkey do Didn’t I give you fire when I lay in your head Saved you from the dark where we lay naked, afraid Making the night Rain down in blooms Sundown, nightingale A monkey dances where monkey dares and cries: "O, shall I take a chance on another dream, another dance? When no-one makes me feel like you do" Sometimes I feel like the devil inside It pulls me up and drags me out, impure my desire But it’s you that I want to dance the impossible Your mind is wrong like a heavenly pyre Forgive your heart, your head is weak, your flesh is on fire But Juno I want To dance the impossible In the garden Lion stares while Monkey spies another there and cries: "O Shall I take a chance till tomorrrow comes... Noone makes me feel like you do!" She's got me where she wants me
3.
She never answers against the rush yeah she smiles when it gets too much she’s got four questions about ABC in her pockets her dreams are everything Oh-sha-la someday The clouds will break Oh-sha-la Sunday She’ll get over it In the backstreets she holds the line draws a teardrop against the sky she’s got four answers about the turn of the dice she gets up early and comes home every night Oh-sha-la someday… Like a world that shakes you up she knows how to take you up like changing history she knows how to lift your day Oh tonight she's gonna fly... Oh sha-la Sunday Her clouds will break Oh-sha-la someday The clouds will break, the gods will play Oh sha-la Sunday She’ll get over it
4.
She Glides 04:38
Hey Mr Mister Mr Bang Pow absolutely shy Wild dizzy dizzy, dizzy pulse Through your passion flower eye She’ll be making your fantasy Don’t it make you feel better? She’ll be picking up roses when she comes She closes her eyes comes thru the sky, she glides She, smoother than rainbows everybody says so she glides Wild when she comes she’s a flash, a shady miracle of love Well I understand the breeze But I’m hot enough to tease the sunrise Purple gold purple high she’s a dancer in disguise And a little bit of stormy rain flowers while the sun bursts And the summer hits the sky She’ll be making your fantasy Don’t it make you feel better? She’ll be picking up roses when she comes She closes her eyes... She understands she’ll hold your hand She’ll try to turn a man into a mouse She comes to me, to hold up tight I say my love will rescue me She closes her eyes, comes thru the sky, she glides She, smoother than rainbows, everybody says so, she glides
5.
I couldn’t hold it, much like a dream I couldn’t dance to your scene It was ever so much incomplete But hold on – that isn’t true You’ve got to witness another Before you sink into something new And please, give me your concentration I’m not mad enough to go on Please, your heart is ever changing Get into something new And feel the power Lust like a harlot on indigo sheets Moving all the chairs to the top of the stairs Then moving down again But time, time that isn’t true You’ve got to fight for your lover before you sink into Something new My lil Blue flower My appetite
6.
Dance Always 04:12
One dark and lonely Summer As I took myself from grace She held a silver clover I felt my heart's embrace Then she walked in thru the morning As if she had the time And I lay all those Summers over And we danced all night And we danced all day, and we danced always Like mercy in the moonlight For the years I could not change And we danced all night And we danced all day Though my heart was an omen And my knees were torn and stained The starlight trembled like naked spies Those songs we never noticed We danced on thru the night Her lips so lonely Wild berry veiled And through those precious roses We danced our days And we danced all night And we danced all day Til night-time came to meet us Full of shells and frillied lace And we danced all night And we danced all day Though I thought I heard weeping On the moonbeams faraway And we danced... And we danced all night And we danced all day Like mercy for the broken For our fears and all our fates And the stars looked over blindly As she looked me in the eye And whispered laughing madly "All our years are rushing by" And we danced...
7.
When I go to Andalucia I’ll be where I’m oft fond to dream In tall grass with my senorita With daisies and shells in her hair There’s whiskey and gin in Luscia The sailors say strong as can be The ladies are wild as the sea-o But soft as the warm summer breeze And at night I’d dance with my true love Winds would carry love through the garden And she’d colour me with her laughter Until her flower gives way I’ll never be late for the moonlight I’ll always be there by your side But if ever you think we should marry I’ll tremble and kiss you goodbye However could you dance with another When my very heart yearns to find A soothing gentle breeze through your cherry garden Until your flower gives way The winds won’t stop to blow Through rains and northern floes The captain, he still says no The barman is drunk and the docker’s asleep at the show But when I go to Andaluscia I’ll be where I’m oft fond to dream In tall grass with my senorita By the dream of the green cedar trees Come on carry me crystal water Come on carry me over the sea Come on gentle breeze be my true love Soothe and carry me over the sea Come on destiny be my father Soothe and carry me over the sea Come on carry me crystal waters Until her flower gives way Until that far off day
8.
You’re right no passion no crime No sorrow no pleasure, no fight Never look back, feel it Open your eyes your summer will shine Ride, ride, ride the charlatan night You’re a dark rose your summer will shine Go lay your queen on the tracks lean hard upon the wheel Get up and dance to the music till you feel more and more Your summer arise In through the sky, into the night You with the beauteous creatures while I get through the night Line, line, no passion no crime No sweetness, no terror, no life Just once, feel touched Open your eyes, your summer will shine Into the sky, in through the night You with the beauteous creatures while I get through the night It’s terrifying, this magical light You with the beauteous creatures while I get through the night Lust don't leave me.
9.
New life new hope new skies new soul new life to know you rock and roll you‘ve got the dope you‘ve got to change it you‘ve got to save your soul you‘ve got to cheat with me trouble’s in your mind somewhere beneath your faith you‘ve got to steal the boat you‘ve got to set the sail you can't seem to fake a sun blessed avenue you‘ve got to read the book I got a place for you you're careless in your love the secret's in your sign you‘ve got to see the day shining in the night... Changes whenever you want to re-alight my heart you‘ve got to change me Sunlight whenever you want to re-ignite the stars you‘ve got to change me In skies I awoke to see you down on your knees I have seen the face of hope you‘ve got to beautify me as god is in your hands the devil's in your blood before you feed the noise you‘ve got to celebrate... Angels whenever you want me, now I know what I know you‘ve got to change me Sunlight whenever you want to share a light from my heart you‘ve got to taste me And when I see your sweetest tenderness I’ll be an angel for your smile the strength in you might bring me happiness the strength in you might bring me borderline and though I’ll never feel your tender kiss it's like begging for your smile this strength in you might bring me happiness strength in you might bring me borderline... Angels whenever you want me butterfly my soul you‘ve got to change me Sunlight whenever you want to stay alive to my heart you‘ve got to taste me And though you say your days are gonna see the light before you change your world you‘ve got to change your mind here beneath the sun you‘ve got to seal your heart before you save your soul you‘ve got to sail the dark... I just ever wanted to crucify me every single day to get what i need the only thing i wanted was to do what i please so crucify me
10.
Look up, see the sky born of grey Where words that twist are blown away Look up, as if this was born to be The eyehole where the raging beast will lie In a world where hope parades The innocence we face This burning fire will softly rage And will overcome so look out... See the world, it’s cold and dark But that’s no way to wake your sleeping heart In the morning sun an iris we’ll find And we’ll be born again on all sides And though the world is silver and gold Kiss the promises whispering slow Cool water breathes fire on the soul And memories do lie …that’s why, that’s why Watch out That’s why, when you want to cheat your still dreams solemn-sweet I’m just a man who’s always on the street I will be woken up on moving arms so strong And I will be there Together you and I Well's the man whose world has faded I just won’t wait Feed the fire let stealth remain Anyway it goes, I will be there To overcome, true love comes All your days, hold your faith, I'll love you till I die All your days, hold your faith, until the day we die
11.
Sometimes it gets so hard to care And sometimes it gets so hard to understand Feeling, breathing, the picture within Feeling, breathing, the picture we made Windward blue sailor, on colours we rise I know how to get through summer Till water comes to cover our goodbyes… Captains and artisans, all lost at sea Playgrounds and carousels while I kiss this kissing dream Sometimes a lover’s touch will die Breaking hearts and you and I divide Dance on blue oceans, on dolphins we ride The azure new world of the strange sun Windward blue sailors through all we shine To hold you once in darkest jade To play, to hide… Captains and artisans, all lost at sea Playgrounds and carosels while I kiss this kissing dream Way up in the sky, a seabird flies… Windward blue sailor through all we shine Windward blue angel on colours we ride But water so cold we came ever so close To feel it come of age Water so cold we came ever so close To fall upon the treasures that you hide Captains and artisans, all lost at sea Playgrounds and carousels, while I kiss this kissing dream

about

The album “Magic Rising” is a celebration of our intrinsic connection to the earth, the forests, the seas, the stars, the mystic.
It traces a direct line to our ancestors, all the way back to the primitive: magic, fire, earth. It's about being amazed, and our yearning for love.
It's tinged with sadness too, that innocence will inevitably be lost and that with every breath we are all coming closer to the end.

credits

released August 13, 2021

Donal Byrne: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Drums
Colin Moore: Violin

Special thanks to Tina McLoughlan (accordion) and Ray O'Brien (mandolin) on "Andalusian Dream"
Mark Jordan (bass) on "Magic Rising"
Alwyn Walker (bodhrán) on "No Passion No Crime" and (flamenco claps) on "Lil Blue Flower"

All songs copyright Donal Byrne

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Willowjack is a collaboration between Irish songwriter Donal Byrne and co-conspirator violinist Colin Moore, combining a wide range of musical influences from rock and pop to soulful acoustic melodies, exploring our connections to the earth, the forests, the seas, the stars, to embrace the mystic. ... more

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