Bone Poets Orchestra is a fantastic group of genius musical artists out of the Seattle, WA area. I was tuned into them by Dan Mohler, our Seattle based Bassist and dear friend. I was slow to realize the wondrous magic of their music and lyrics which has seeped into my blood drip by drip and now has turned into a roaring dance of life – my life! How did they know? How did they know my thoughts, feelings, and deep thoughts about this road we are all on? How do all artists know such things as they tap our ears with their rhythms and fill our bodies with their wings of flight for which we have no words? Well, to put it bluntly, that is why they are artists and that is why we need every last one of them especially now with the way the world is turning and spinning and looking for its way.
ENJOY!!!!
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* A paragraph from the insert of their latest work BELLADONNA SMILES:
“STANDING on the seductive cliff edge, playing with our brains, we stare into the sun a bit too long and are blind for awhile. It’s a cheaper lesson than it could be – Belladonna stands there next to us, wondering if we’ll fall or fly…and we just step back a bit and go on, reminded that there are things that matter, things that have nothing to do with the cliff edge. Living is a transformative experience; summer camp is temporary. The stuff that matters is here, now, in the ground of our being. A reliance on truth, on the casting off of delusions.”
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* A printed lyric listed below from one of my favorite songs on BELLADONNA SMILES:
PENNIES FOR OUR EYES (Track 9)
Another dollar, another day, forced to waste the hours away
But doing time collecting our pay, never cured the broken hearted
Who among us wrote the rule, that makes a human being a tool
When like good money and its fool, we all will soon be parted? Oh….
Bankers live and bankers die, by usury that bleeds us dry
They’ll have us working all our lives just to spur the boatman’s labors
Loan us dollars loan us dimes, we’ll surely pay you back sometime
Loan us pennies for our eyes oh will you undertaker? Oh…
On and on, life is long
How to hold on tight when it’s bittersweet
On and on, but when it’s gone, it isn’t long at all
On and on, life is long
Learn to love and learn how to keep your feet
On and on, but when it’s gone, it isn’t long at all
But it’s lonely on your way………
It’s lonely on the way
It’s lonley on the way
It’s lonely on the way
It’s lonley on the way
It’s lonley on the way………..
A begger offered a wealthy man, a wizend apple from his hand
Who’s the poor one man for man – both are caught in history
One has money, one has time, both can say “All this is mine”
Gentle, vicious, cruel or kind life if full of mystery
On and on, life is long
How to hold on tight when it’s bittersweet
On and on, but when it’s gone, it isn’t long at all
On and on, life is long
Learn to love and learn how to keep your feet
On and on, but when it’s gone, it isn’t long at all… Whoa.. yah… a…
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* CLICK to Listen PENNIES FOR OUR EYES:
http://www.bonepoets.com/09_Bone_Poets_Orchestra_Pennies_
for_Our_Eyes.mp3
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* And finally you can find out more about the BONE POETS ORCHESTRA AND take a listen to all the songs on BELLADONNA SMILES here:
http://www.bonepoets.com/listen.html
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Thank you Christopher Bingham – Composer, Sue Tinney – Vocals, and the rest of your cast of characters for sharing your wonderful souls and truths with us through the making and giving of your music.
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Please share your contemplations, thoughts and feelings on this song and it’s inherent wisdom and truth! 🙂
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