By
ANN MORTIFEE
THE COMPLETE
LYRICS
MYSTERY
By Ann Mortifee/Paul Burton
I
know you
I see you
In your every mood
My eyes look
In and out of you
Over you
I'm always
Watching over you
Everything you say
And do is mine
I'm the one
Who walks toward you
I'm the stranger on the path
I'm the keeper
Of the garden
I turn around as you go past
I'm the one
Who sits beside you
As you laugh beneath
Your Banyan tree
I touch you
In your sense of wonder
And mystery
I touch you
In your wildest pleasure
And agony
I need you
I always
Will receive you
And when you call
I always will appear
I hold you
My love
It will unfold you
Your life will bloom
Like a flower in my hand
Never you'll know the reason
Never you'll understand
In the face of your truth and treason
My love expands
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
SILHOUETTE
by
Ann Mortifee/Paul
Burton
We met at midnight
Down by the turnstyle
You tossed a coin
And then took me home
The lonely grey owl
Flew through the moonlight
Into the strange light
Down in my soul
There in the straw
Your hands rough as burlap
You opened your arms
And I let you in
The lonely grey owl
Winked from the rafter
I lay there after
Alone with my soul
Silhouette
I will never forget
The light and the bird
In its flight past the moon
It was over too soon
You lifted my face
And spoke of the gypsy
You cast a charm
Containing my name
The lonely grey owl
Called to the dark sky
I heard the moon sigh
Down in my soul
Silhouette...
Sometimes at midnight
I go to the turnstyle
I seek your face
And I call out your name
But the lonely grey owl
Winks from the rafter
I think I hear laughter
Laughter
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
JUST
ONE
VOICE
By Ann Mortifee/Valley
Hennell/Doug Edwards
A single note becomes a song
A single tree becomes a forest
A single voice that's clear and strong
Can turn into a worldwide chorus
Just one voice
One single voice
If you say you can
Then you can
A single moon turns the tide
A single seed becomes the harvest
A single sun within the sky
Keeps the whole world spinning for us
Just one voice
One single voice
If you say you can
Well then you can, you can
And I can see a window opening
I hear a voice from deep inside of me
It is the dawning of a daring sunrise
I feel the urge to step outside
And here within the radiant laughter
We'll make a dream and send it reeling
In the magic of the ever after
You and I are one, and we are simply
Just one voice
One single voice
If you say you can
Well then you can
A single drop becomes the rain
A single step becomes the journey
A single heart that tries again
Can change the course of history's turning
Just one voice
One single voice
If you say you can
Well then you can, you can
Just one voice
One single voice
If there's just one voice
Let it be yours and mine
( Mabela Music/Edsel Music/Inaudible Music 1984 PROC)
SADNESS OF THE TRIBE
(Ann Mortifee/Paul Burton/Declan
O'Doherty/Terry Frewer)
Savannah
in the dead of night
Creatures in the dark
Hyenas keep their distance
From the carrion of the heart
As fearsome as the panther's eye
The sadness of the tribe
A star for everyone of us
The shine of heaven's tears
Deathbirds fly between them now
The sadness is so near
Relentless as the lion's hold
The sadness of the tribe
The warrior will not shield his eyes
His arms are open wide
Do not hide the sadness of the tribe
The woman in the village knows
Her tears are not her own
Do not hide the sadness of the tribe
Eucalyptus in the dawning mist
Fires are burning low
A barefoot girl goes from the hills
To where she does not know
Crying in the morning light
The sadness of the tribe
The warrior...
Africa
I've stood in your rain
I've stood in your heartland
Africa
There's nowhere to hide
The sadness of the tribe
Is the sorrow of the world
Startled pink flamingoes rise
Into an auburn cloud
While crowds of barefoot wanderers
Live only where allowed
The madness of captivity
The sadness of the tribe
The warrior...
( Mabela Music l984 PROC)
TAKE
ME
BACK
By Ann Mortifee
There's
a room I seldom go to
There are cobwebs 'cross the door
Where scores of silent memories
Lie scattered on the floor
The window panes are broken
The walls are cold and bare
And hidden in the shadows
Someone's waiting there
Take me back
Take me back
Through the sadness
Take me back
To the love
Take me back
I could live with the madness
Take me back
To your heart
Your face forms in the half light
Your voice floats through the hall
I call out in the darkness
But only stillness falls
We gave away the wonder
When first we felt the fear
Now the room is closed and shuttered
And noone ventures near
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
BRIGHT
ENCOUNTER
(Ann Mortifee/Paul Burton/Declan
O'Doherty/Terry Frewer)
You
lost your vision
You turn to midnight
You gave your sight
To the Golden Idol
You were the angel
But now you're falling
Just like a star
But there's no wishes calling you
Out into your life
Into the bright encounter
Crying out for life
The bright encounter
All your companions
You trade for silver
You sell your soul
To buy their silence
You lie alone now
A Judas lover
A jaded kiss
That won't surrender
Its life into the light
Into the bright encounter
Crying out for life
The bright encounter
From the night, the light is shining
Though you hide
The brightness always is calling you
A promise broken
Can't be forgotten
The word was spoken
And your heart remembers
You see the lightning
And wonder why
Within the thunder
You can hear your own voice
Crying out for life
For the bright encounter
Crying out for life
The bright encounter
In the night the light is shining
A voice is calling out your name
Though you claim to seek no glory
Though you hide
The brightness always is calling you
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
HE'S
MISSING
YOU
By Ann Mortifee & Paul
Burton
The
shimmer of leaves
In an endless blue morning
He sits alone in the shade
Surveying the land
You shared with him daily
He watches the poplar trees fade
And oh, he's missing you
The hum of the bees
The darting of swallows
It all reminds him of you
Sometimes he smiles
Remembering secrets
Known to only you two
And oh, he's missing you
The smell of the hay
The scent of the roses
Echo a far away time
Your eyes were so blue
Your hair was still flaxen
When he said, "You'll always be mine"
And oh, he's missing you
Sometimes at night
I hear him whisper
And I know he's talking to you
I know that he waits
Quietly listening
For you in his solitude
And oh, he's missing you
Missing you
Missing you
All the world is missing you
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
MAGDALENE
(Ann Mortifee/Paul Burton/Simon
Been)
The
ancient lamplight glows
For Magdalene's show
A love as old as men
She takes the war from them
Each night he walks alone
Across the cobblestones
And though he never stops
His footstep sometimes slows
His soldier heart is like a memory
Now he walks her street
A lonely sentry
Time goes by to a beating drum
No, you can't go back
To where you're coming from
When darkness shrouds the streets
Sometimes their eyes will meet
And then he turns away
There's nothing they need say
She's seen it all before
Some sad unsettled score
A love as old as men
She takes the war from them
Somehow their sorrow makes her braver
Now she forgives
As he forgave her
Time goes by to a beating drum
No, you can't go back
To where you're coming from
She takes her place beside the window
But he won't look back
Though he knows her eyes still follow
Time goes by to a beating drum
No, you can't go back
Once you have gone
You can't go back
It's gone
No, you can't go back
To where you're coming from
(1983 Bassman Music Canadian Publishing Mabela Music l984)
YOU'RE
THE ONE
(Ann Mortifee/Doug Edwards/Declan
O'Doherty/Terry Frewer)
Take
me to the ocean, darlin'
Walk beside the sea
There's something in the way you move
That always pleases me
You're a wave washing over my heart
And I say
Darlin' you're the one
Walking in the mountains, darlin'
Underneath the trees
There's something in the way you laugh
That frees me like a breeze
You're the wind blowing into my heart
And I say
Darlin' you're the one for me
The wonder of a sunrise
On a hazy summer day
As we lie beside the river, liquid flowing
Knowing that our love
Will turn the darkness into light
Oh, darlin', you're the one for me
Take me to the meadow, darlin'
Lie beneath the stars
And then we'll drift up through the galaxy
Past Jupiter and Mars
You're the space opened up in my heart
And I say
Darlin', you're the one for me
( Mabela Music/Edsel Music
1984 PROC)
FEELINGS
OF LOVE
(Ann Mortifee/Declan O'Doherty/Terry
Frewer)
There
are feelings that I know
Feelings down where they don't show
Hidden deep and dark, down low
Feelings of love
There are places where we go
Silent places where doors close
And we leave the world, you and I flow
Into the love... into the love...
And it leads me on
To somewhere I've not known
To somewhere I've not known
These feelings of love
They come to take me home
They lead me on and on
In the hush of the warm glow
The distant song of the oboe
Weeping softly as we moan
Feelings of love
In the silence where we meet
The only sound is a heartbeat
Rich and ancient and so sweet
Feelings of love... Feelings of love...
And it leads me on
To somewhere I've not known
To somewhere I've not known
These feelings of love
They come to take me home
They lead me on and on
These feelings of love
Are something I've not known
They never let me go
These feelings of love
They come to take me home
To know I'm not alone
( Mabela Music 1984 PROC)
BRIGHT ENCOUNTER
Produced by: Declan O'Doherty
for All Hands Music
Arranged by: Declan O'Doherty/Terry Frewer/Graeme Coleman
Musicians: Terry Frewer
Graeme Coleman
Kat Hendrikse
Tom Hazlitt
Robbie King
Jim McGillveray
Spider Sinnaeve
John Jones
Declan O'Doherty
Vocals: Ann Mortifee
Terry Frewer
Jane Mortifee
Recorded at: Little Mt. Studios, Vancouver
Blue Wave Studios, Vancouver
ESP Studios, Toronto
Engineered by: Lindsay Kidd, John Krawchuk
Brian Campbell
Mixed by: Dee Long
ANN MORTIFEE MANAGEMENT
Jabula Records
Box 9l699
West Vancouver, B.C.
V7V 3P3
(604)926-4602 PH/FAX
