Toltec Jon Anderson 1996 All songs written by Jon Anderson except *Quick Words* co-written with Luis Perez *Building Bridges* co-written with Eduardo del Signore *Ave Verum* written by Worlfgang Amadeus Mozart PART I -------------------------------------- The Book Opens --------------- -------------------------------------- Quick Words (Talk-Talk) --------------- Sixteen, sixteen Going on thirty-two It's a delicate time That of knowing Yet understanding nothing Then being alone Twenty-one Be no clearer yet Yet the first steps Looking for the mystery school Talk, talk is easy Talk talk whatever it takes to know that Talk, talk is crazy Only can you be alive from looking within Your heart and soul Talk, talk is easy Easily we get to coming Easily we get to knowing Quick words Sharp tongue Fascinate Aglow Bright sky Quick words See how We fly This storm This love Electrify Quick words We surely testify Quick words, quick words Quick words, quick words Eighteen, eighteen, age of innocence Thrown away to the wind Just like a pilgrim Twenty-one, be the key of life Realizing how it suddenly is delivered Shall we play the game, I ask, I'm willing to learn Teach me of this wilderness easily Walk me high as I walked the mountain Hand in hand in mystery light Afraid of nothing, nothing can touch me Never speak to me I'd be the dumb one of dreams Made passive by this searching for wonder It abounds all around the screens It procreates this very day I'm astounded that I didn't know Talk, talk is crazy Talk talk whatever it takes to know that Talk, talk is crazy Only can you come alive from looking within Your heart and soul Talk, talk is easy Easily we get to coming Easily we get to knowing Talk to me so clear This bulge in our open space Is dreaming by the spell by my seeing Tis the sound of thunder makes me cry I believe I'd laugh until I die Transform all these messages of freedom Distant as a distant star He climbing the sky Suspended on the waterfall of reason He would shout the will to rescue me And whisper words so easily I'm eighteen and I don't believe I'm twenty-one and I cannot see Listening in the power of silence Talk talk is crazy One word and I'm running for the President of Life Talk, talk is easy Just as if you're meant to believe every word they're saying to you Talk, talk is crazy Only can we find ourselves from searching within Talk talk is easy Talk, talk whatever it takes to know that Talk, talk is crazy Baby! Just as if you're meant to believe every word they're saying to you Talk, talk is easy How we decide on the giving of power. Quick words Sharp tongue Fascinate Aglow Bright sky Quick words See how We fly This storm This love Electrify Quick words We surely testify Cool wind High clouds Bright sun My sky Quick words Sharp eyes Do justify This earth This sea This planet life Quick words We hear them Everyday Sing it to the south of me Sing it to the north of me Sing it to the eastern soul Holding me in the western world How we get along This pilgrim's way In search of Castenada And the worlds of tomorrow -------------------------------------- Shall We Play the Game --------------- -------------------------------------- Semati Siyonpme --------------- (phoenetic) Ay co mana bay daba sima Ay co mana bay daba sima Sah bay day batama manah kabay Pa nay dabida bay say no nay Sing it to the south of me Sing it to the north of me Sing it to the eastern song Holding me in the western world How we get along This pilgrim's way In search of ? In the world of tomorrow PART II -------------------------------------- Good Day Morning --------------- Good day morning brother eagle Good day wonder sister sky We walk hand in hand with one love We walk through this ancient land Good day weather father evening Good day wisdom Mother Life We walk hand in hand with your world We fly through this ancient land -------------------------------------- Leap Into the Inconceivable --------------- Of all the new, new numbers Shouted out beside the mountain Glowing in the night I couldn't see so clear I'd run the risk of hoping Everything was all right Then it hits you Flashing faster than Even words are no longer valid Or reasonable in this life The choice is mesmerising, Contemplating, Castaneding every fear But if the fear subsides I take a chance and leap into the inconceivable Wake me quickly Wake me stealthily Wake me quickly Wake me up into the real world again See me fly to escape this earthly conversation True to form again To extend the quietest regions As we venture to forbidden regions As before the sun That dominates my movements higher We expect it all to justify Of all the new, new numbers Shouted out beside the river Flowing in the night Make no mistake in taking chances As you leap into the world of now Safe religion at last declining you All is One Redefining your every move again Building a bridge through where The ship of Life pulls in Building a bridge to set you free We will walk this true believer Here to honor life Be the strength of love And all you're meant to be We all agreed to meet This long hot summer, long ago At last this song could be replayed They say through fascination All in all this invitation For if we die tomorrow Never knowing the truth There'd be no real reason To life without hope Without feeling this Precious true gift To be able to see Then finally come home -------------------------------------- Song of Home --------------- (phoenetic) La Say oh day go toe ma Say oh see go joe ah Do wa you wandaree Do wa te mandaree Shalom La Tay oh day go joe ma Tay oh see go joe wa Do wa you wandaree Do what you wandaree Shalom Crue Do ah ka baby who Who He ah oh he ah Aha daddy song Trow Say oh day go jo ma Tay oh see go jo ah Do wa you wandaree Do wa you mandaree Shalom -------------------------------------- Building Bridges --------------- Surely like you say the more we realize Surely there'll come a time for letting go (before leting go) Come a time building bridges Come a time mending all that is Now we build the bridges that we walk upon Now we breathe the peace that connects us (us) Speaking with the voice of understanding Singing in the rhythmic science of the sky The earth is waiting for a season change To set the role of cross-culture wisdom Better sounds you choose never let you down Then you might easily turn around. Now we build the bridges that we walk upon Now we breathe the peace that connects us (us) Speaking with the voice of understanding Singing in the rhythmic science of the sky Of the sky Good day morning brother eagle Good day wonder sister sky We walk hand in hand with your love We walk through this ancient line Good day dreamers always dreaming Good day moonlight all is form We dance hand in hand with one love We walk through this ancient land Now we build the bridges that we walk upon Now we breathe the peace that connects us us Speaking with the voice of understanding Singing in the rhythmic science of the sky Surely like you say the more we realize Surely there'll come a time before letting go Come a time building bridges Come a time mending all that is Ooh yeah yeah yeah Ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Now we build the bridges that we walk upon Now we breathe the peace that connects us us Speaking with the voice of understanding Singing in the rhythmic science of the sky -------------------------------------- Sound and Color --------------- The spirit moves as I spiral inwardly I have read about it Don't ask me questions How do I turn around on the spot? Sound can acknowledge and reveal The very nature of the body line Color coexists as a meter to the soul Sound can acknowledge and reveal The very nature of the body line Color coexists as a meter to the soul So you don't need an excuse to be happy Just forgive and forget So you don't need an excuse to be happy Just forgive and forget They say the mystics they live in the clouds And they prob'ly love it They say the mystics they live in the clouds And they prob'ly love it Yes they prob'ly love it Yes they prob'ly love it -------------------------------------- Longwalker Speaks --------------- Longwalker Speaks The rattle is a voice given to us by Mother Earth She can't talk to us like we talk in a voice So we have to create a voice for Her That the people will hear. So who did we go to? We didn't have the knowledge As humans Because we're limited as to our abilities In the spiritual world But because Mother Earth deals with life and death Every second that the clock goes around That she's so familiar That we take the elements How do we get them? We have to go to the thing live So we go to an ant hill And there's a ceremony and there's song There's prayers that go with it And we ask the ants for help And in asking them for this help They bring us stones From where ever they collect them We don't ask them where It's enough that they bring them to us We collect these stones And we put them in these rattles And, uh, fifty-two of them Each one is a voice from the past And the people say "Man, they laugh at that" And I say "Laugh if you want, but, listen... While you're making fun, open one ear To reality. Let the other one be happy, and destructive" So, the stones that the ants bring When we lay our people to rest in the natural way Not in a coffin, but in a natural way The little creapers and crawlers come And they distribute our body Evenly, back into Mother Earth We become one with Her We become productive See.. uh.. we're using We never leave We go back to the earth And "dust to dust" they say In due time We're blown into the atmosphere We come down in rain and snow And this rain and snow is absorbed By all creation again It goes into the water We're drinking it agian We're eating it again We become productive So how can Man not save our own brothers With creation? We are just one massive cell With so much energy and beauty That the short time on the physical form It's such a sin, a waste to tie it up in all the destruction This is the voice that is going into each little stone We put in that rattle All this power, knowledge, energy Then..... PART III -------------------------------------- Maazo Maazo --------------- (phoenetic) Maazo maazo Nasca tilespi naazo Saca tay no co blanco Say wah tee mung my bay Weeee! --------------- [The lyrics of MAZOO are wrong because those lyrics are in spanish. -ANA MARIA] Mazoo mazoo, r½scate el espinazo, s½cate un ojo blanco, saguata ma mai bey -------------------------------------- Enter Ye the Mystery School --------------- -------------------------------------- Ave Verum --------------- See through this teaching life Shines around my being Out in the mists of timelessness I see your face Hold me closer now Each and every feeling now is come At last this majesty is God Hear me through your love See me in the light you are Hold me closer to the earth And all that gives (And all that is) Now I feel your true light Now I see your pure light Now I hold this love within my heart Is come God of love of light will shine Is come is come at last <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Ave Verum Corpus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave, ave, verum corpus natum de Marāa Virgine. Vere passum, im molatum in cruce pro homine. cujus latus, perforatum un da fluxit sanguine. Esto nobis prae gustatum in mortis examine, in mortis examine. [Changes to Mazoo and Ave Verum contributed by ANA MARIA] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> (Transcribed by *m*) From: celeste@bright.net (merry celeste) To: yesman@smartlink.net *YESMAN* He [Jon] emailed me last night!! I am still glowing. He sent me the last line of Quick Words (Talk Talk). I hereby submit my percieved version of the lyrics of Toltec for your archive, except for that last line which comes from the source! love for now, *merry* <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> [Modifications contributed by Ramiro Bonilla] [Longwalker's words transcribed by Lee] [Additional Longwalker transcripts are in file Longwalker.txt]