Gaia Consort

This Pagan band out of Seattle is about as good as it gets. What I mean is: Gaia Consort not only delivers magical, sensual and powerful tunes--but they are top-notch polished and professional.

Their current website home is http://www.bonepoets.com/
To buy their CDs, you need to go to the old website http://www.gaiaconsort.com

Lyrics and chords

from the "EVOLVE" CD:

Evolve

Drawing Down the Moon

Lyrics and chords

from the “CIRCLES” CD:

Just Because

Move to the Country

The Rede (Do What Ye Will)

Secret of the Crossroads Devil

"Evolve"
by Christopher Bingham (01/08/04)


Am G/B C Bm
(chant) ...Vita edo-ceo Vitam edo-ceo Vitam edo-ceo Vitam edo-ceo

(note: “Vita edoceo vitum” is Latin for “Life teaches life”.)

Am
1. Life teaches life
G/B C Bm
We are a glance in a great eye watching
Am
Life teaches life
G/B C Bm
through every mind the seed is passing

Am G/B C Bm
CH: Life teaches life teaches life teaches life
Am D Am
Life teaches life one thing: Evolve! (Chant)

2. Four billion years of evolution
A lifespan's the froth on windswept tide
Peel off the fears and savage delusions
And wave after wave of the old gods die (CH)

3. Deep in the seed that moves between us
The shape of the meaning as cells combine
The weave of the dream before we see it
Leaves trace elements of your hand in mine (CH)

(orchestral interlude)

(repeat v. 1 & CH)

4. A strand in the web of all existence
Revealed in the joy of a midnight kiss
Spanning the centuries of starlit distance
Or so it would seem on a night like this (CH)

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“Drawing Down the Moon”
by Christopher Bingham (late Aug 2002)

intro: Am C G/B, Am C G/D (repeat)

Am C G/B Am C G/D
1.Gaia softly turning - Luna never sleeping Am C G/B Am C G/D
Mama Moonlight heavy with a belly of dreams that's almost foaling Am C G/B Am C G/D
Night bloom take me under - Night skin taste of wonder Am C G/B Am C G/D
Night kiss stir the hunger, lapping the dark with tongues of silver

Am G F G
Ch: So much time we circle the sky with one wing beating
Am G Fma7 Looking for a light that's true
Am G F G All our lives we're chasing the night like it's never ending
Am G Fma7 You the Sun and I the moon


2. Raise your chalice, woman - Push my blade in deeper Sweet your tongue on mine like the fruit of a tree that's always blooming Huntress bring us visions - Cleansing fire within us Stoke the pounding dark with the fire of stars all cast in shadow (CH)


(instrumental CH)


Am G
CH2: Once in the month in a place made secret
F G Better for us all if the moon is full
Am G Naked in the rites to show our freedom
F G Free is the love that we offer too

Ours is the ecstasy of being Walking in the beauty of the great green Earth Ours is the touching of the mystery Ours the experience of death and birth

Ours is the liberating voice of nature Knowing that there isn't any more than this Ours the ritual of love and pleasure Ours the delivery of the five fold kiss

3. Drawing down the moon. Drawing down the moon. Drawing down the moon. Drawing down the moon.

(CH)

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“Just Because”
by Christopher Bingham (January 1997)

Intro: A(+2) D E (repeat)

A D E
1. Do you ever wonder whose face makes the moonlight? A D E
Do you ever look up and find your face there? A D E
Is it any wonder we find ourselves laughing A D E
With your tongue at my lips and your hands in my hair? C F G
I don't need a reason to savor the Mystery. C F E A D E
All we need to is open up one eye...

2. I don't need a savior to keep me from tumbling
I'll only kneel for my lover's delight
I don't need a church man to show me what's holy
When I see you in the doorway surrounded in light
I don't need a guidebook to paint out my story
I don't need a road map to find my way back home...

Bm D B E D E
So why? Tell me why! How long? How long?
Bm D E What if "why" is just because?

3. I don't need a doctorate to speak with authority
40,000 years we've been painting in caves
I don't need an answer to each of my questions
When the nape of your neck just won't let me "behave"
I don't need a bible to swear on my conscience
I don't need a stranger to know I'm not alone
So why? Tell me why! How long? How long?
What if "why" is just because?

4. I don't need a downbeat to dance in this moonlight
With the drum in my bones I'm naked here too
I don't need a lighthouse to find my over
Filled to my brim with the wanting of you
I don't need a maestro to count out my measure
I don't need a songbook to howl up at the moon
So why? Tell me why! How long? How long?
What if "why" is just because?
I don't need a reason....

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“Move to the Country”
by Christopher Bingham (May 1998)

G 320033 C2 X32033 G/B x20033
Intro: (Chorus 1x w/o vocals)
G C2 G/B
CH: We're gonna move to the country
G                     C2 G/B With a half-a-dozen lovers G                   C2 G/B
I'm gonna move to the country
G C2 G/B (D) Aw honey squeeze on over
G C2 G/B 1. We'll leave behind the city and with it our doubts
G                             C2           G/B When we get to where we're going we'll    hoot and shout G                 C2     G/B
And we'll hold each other upside down D C2
And we’ll shake the concrete out G C2 G/B
We'll be totally independent, we'll be off the grid G C2 G/B
'cept for the solar power we'll sell back to the Feds G C2 G/B
And we'll make some half way decent art
D C2
Between the gardening … & the sex, when we… (CH)
2. We'll find the hundredth monkey and our ideas will spread Even born again Fundie's will find sense in their heads And we'll have Woodstock every weekend And invite the Grateful Dead We'll barter for the tools and the extras we need Let the fictional economy go to seed 'Til some genius at the FBI discovers that Pot is just a weed! and he moves to… (CH)
(Funky organ instrumental)
3. Every note we sing in harmony will be in tune We'll plant organic gardens in the nude And we'll trade away our given names For ones like "Ravenchilde" and "Moon" Everybody on the planet will make peace with their past Every man, woman child will be one at last And we'll set fire to the mortgages When the major banks collapse. And we'll… (CH)
G C2 G/B We’re gonna move to the country (4X, last time a capella)

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The Rede (Do What Ye Will); By Christopher Bingham, Autumnal Equinox in Seattle (09/23/96)
G C G
1. I've been blessed with many lovers and I'd grant the same you C G D
Though I suppose I'd skip a broken heart or two G C G
I confess that I am troubled by that pious vocal few G C D
When they cross the line and tell us what to do Em C G D Ah but life's too short for all this worry - I offer myself to you whole Em C G D (su4)
Life's too long for lies to carry any more weight in this world
C G C G
CH: And it harm none, do what ye will C G D
As the circle has bound us, bound we are still C G C Em
Though the bottle be empty, may the cup remain filled C D G
And it harm none, do what ye will
2. I will call the four directions, I will cast a circle here I will put my feet upon the holy ground In the shadow there reflected I will find and face my fear And we all know there is fear a'plenty round Ah but life's too short for all this worry - I offer myself to you whole Life's too long for lies to carry any more weight in this world (CH)

3. Every act of love and pleasure is a prayer along the way
With everything between the living Earth and Sky
When it's all of life we treasure through the endless spinning days
In our actions you will know us by and by
Ah but life's too short for all this worry - I offer myself to you whole
Life's too long for lies to carry any more weight in this world (CH 2X)

(tag on last CH: repeat last line)

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“Secret of the Crossroads Devil”

10/29/98

G D/F# Em C D

I have seen the Northern Lights
G D/F# Em C D

Looked out my window at just the right time
G D/F# Em C D

I'd been waiting for a sign
G D/F# Em C D

When green and golden, they filled the night sky

Now this vision it was mine
But which direction, so much to ponder
I would take a little time
I've waited this long, why not longer?

C /B Am C D