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Sensual

by Meagan Chandler

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musically_inclined I keep listening to your Sensual album. Have to reset my patriarchal male attitude. OVERWRITE OVERWRITE OVERWRITE I'm slowly turning into a man of jello. Happy New Year. The first two chapters of Genesis are rewritten through the eyes of a woman.
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1.
Eve's Song 07:11
Eve's Song Bathed in starlight Life giving waters Naked Eden Almost touching Longing There's a cobra in my womb Curled around my spine Power enough to take this world apart Power enough to build it anew You see, I am Eve It's built into every cell Spiral codes, genetic building blocks Form my map since she fell. Eden is a memory and Eden is a moment fully alive Eden is at my fingertips, but I must battle I must struggle with that dive into temptation Oh Longing And the morning finds Adam my companion All serpents and apples are forgotten There is only meadow, stream, mint and sky Music stone and sun And now it's torture to be born on the other side of that temptation Gift of the body, Curse of the body's longing Y Adam brilla oro como el sol Hermano del rio somos juntos en el ritmo Me llenas, me llenas con tu luz Hechito como eres de agua y viento Twin soul - compañero de mi alma El tiene estilo y sabiduria de mundo Cuida el cuerpo y habla con su Corazon No tiene miedo del mundo espiritual Y sabe como volar y flow - agua y viento Tumble back to the ordinary after ecstasy For I have tasted Eden and then had to let it go
2.
Jacob's Ladder I get you mixed up inside me when I get hit by your arrows When you unwittingly sing to me in your car And show me the deepest melodies written in your soul And even though you don’t know it, You’ve gently disrobed my heart And left me there naked And then you are surprised when you see my tears How do I explain to you (What a funny game) That you are father, lover, brother and friend All tangled up inside me? A little girl’s string too full of knots A Jacob’s ladder too complex to unravel And sometimes I am desperate just to feel you Some part of me ready to melt If you will just look into my eyes If you will just fold me in your embrace And smile a little of your heart into me And whisper to me what hurt you And whisper to me why you love me And there are times when I’m desperate for your approval And times I just want you to see me, to hear me And there are times I want you to just take me now And times I wish you wouldn’t take me so seriously And there are times when I feel obliged to listen And times when I wish that you would speak And there are times that I flinch at your pain and your cold And there are times in your rage that I scream with relief.
3.
Persephone 06:03
Persephone You’re a hazy figure in the core of me Chasing me since birth through story I know you carry no bow and arrow This soul was made for the underworld And I choose to eat these pomegranate seeds And I choose to pick the apple from this tree Never was afraid of the dark Never was afraid to let go Too perfect to be more than inspiration What real man could ever live up to that expectation? You woo me with your betrayal And slay me with your redemption I feel you guard me, my dark angel smiling I feel you guide me, my pleasure and my pain Searching for my place in this world I follow you in deeper to my soul… I am a maiden sunbeamIn love with the night Shot from the house of daylightI bounce off the moon To dance in ecstasy Across the face of this dark earth
4.
Lost Boys 04:55
Lost Boys Oh, Lost boys Bring me to your leader I would have words with him Hoo! Deepest apologies You thought I was some kinda Tinkerbell And this party is a NeverlandOccasional maiden in distress And Captain Hook is a misunderstood savior Lost under the couch with memories of a father Lost in the ways you figured you failed Lost boy When she left cause you wouldn’t give her a ring When she left and took the kids When you only see them on the weekends When you work every day empty inside Lost boy When you run back to your herb When you play at being a rock star When you gamble the night away All those half finished projects and debts unpaid Lost boys Bring me to your leader I would have words with him Hoo! Don’t you shoot this Wendy-bird down out of the sky It’s an honour to meet the boy king himself Throbbing with longing on his fortieth birthday And I cry when I recognize your desire to die And the herb and your mind and the road and your kind have failed you In search of a crown Round and around and around and around Lost boy I still love you But might have to leave you Lost boy Don'tcha shoot this Wendy-bird down Tick tock my clock is tickin’ Soul of a women created below To beg and pull you to the other side To cry for you Yes I still love you
5.
Morning Rain 05:33
Morning Rain (For Yves) Morning rain My heart falls gently open I turn my face to a day that is cloudy and gray And so, so soft There's a place in between the waking and the dream The day and the night The play and fight Soft morning rain Sometime in fierce torrents Whip the pavement clean Shut down the tin roof city scene How much rain can I take? How much rain till it makes me fall... Silent In the sway and the grip of this moment Let the rain in my eyes meet the sweat of the skies on my skin There's a place in between the waking and the dream The day and the night The play and fight Soft morning rain
6.
Merciless Flowers Hiding in my bath tub Holding a flame in the palm of my hand I struggle to capture Exactly what I want to give And even in the midst of my fierce agitation The merciless flowers coax me into laughing. Let the water drain away Wash away all that's been And close the doors that no longer matter And open the ones within I feel the hunger Fierce and persistent Driven and agitated by the distance I have yet to go Before the round completes And I feel so vulnerable Like nails on a chalk board
7.
Daphne 05:13
Daphne Core of the apple carries the seed Medicine comes when the heart's made to bleed Sensual sanity, call of my cells Ancestors made of heaven and hell I dreamed that flowers poured from my mouth And my tears were potent seeds My feet sprouted roots After all my bipedal wandering And my arms and fingers branched skyward in prayer My blood ran thick, amber gold From a hole in my heart And from my womb a whole forest grew And the sun and rain kissed me often And the wind rocked me to sleep
8.
Sensual 05:44
Sensual (I taste you world) Salty sea and tears on my lips And bitter sweet chocolate chips The grip of fearful bile Soothed by a honey sweet smile And the gritty dust of the desert wind That washes out my mouth when I try to defend The taste of wine on your lips and mine Any more than the breath of morning haste And the aftertaste of toothpaste I taste you, world I see you, world Can you feel my gaze devour Your wild sunsets as they flower And caress your curves In the grain of the wood Before your timid shadows Over my eyes cast a hood? But when the morning boldly sparks her light on the dew The gold pierces my soul and I return with sleepy eyes to haunt you Curve of a brow Iridescence on a feather Even if your shattered rainbows blinded me We'd still be together (I feel you world) I breathe you, world Shock me out of my self-forged chains With your Lilacs and Orange blossoms Embrace me Faint soap on salty skin My cheek cries out for the icy kiss of the wind Ankles startled by the elusive flicker of feline legend A tendril of steam that curls up the spine And melts my shoulders as if to remind me Of the blood searing rhythm in the arms of the divine From the silky sweet heat of your skin against mine I'm listening, world Laughter of chimes in a ticklish wind That urge me like a reed in the breeze to bend And give in to the throbbing base line And let the rhythm guide my spine The singing of the waves making love to the beach The bubble of Babylon are mirrors that teach that Every sound is a voice That insists with merciless persistence There's always a choice Murmur of breath and heart beat lend the world its shape All the radical movements of the symphony that dance the living landscape I breathe you, world Tie me to the bed post Carrion breath And make sweet love to me Damp earth And fresh backed apple pie
9.
Wild Queen 05:29
Wild Queen Weave your hand into my hair Command me to my knees Bind me, mark my skin And gladly I will consent And you, my cold scientist My enraged lost hero From here on my knees before you I will serve you as no other leader ever has Walk with me in these sweet wicked places I assure you you've never seen likes of me before Walk with me in these sweet wicked places And as the mask falls away You'll at last know your place In sacred service to a Wild Queen Now kiss me. I offer you my tears The poetry of my suffering The song of my pleasure And the illusion of control I see your heart melt into my hands As I embrace this pain And with my black magic golden alchemy Transform it into ecstasy And in this way As I surrender my will to you It will soon become unclear Who is serving who For power taken will fall And power given with love will endure
10.
Old Soul 03:55
Old Soul (for Ben) I'll never forget the night you said to me "I don't want to be presumptuous But would you like to play with me?" And here we are just a few nights later And you offer me your arm Just like a true gentleman And just like a new old fairy tale You've concerned yourself with what it means to be man. And your old soul courts mine And your rough hand finds mine And the truths we lay upon the table between us Are raw and thorough Too soon the hours have slipped away And you're walking me back to my car And I could easily drift away Into the night and hide But you reach for me Your tender hands On my cheeks Leaning in And all the pain of past love affairs comes crashing And all the hurt I don't wanna feel again comes screaming I'm hesitating And you're waiting And my heart is daring me to try And your old soul courts mine And your sweet lips find mine And a new electric fire is burning in my veins And nothing will ever be the same again.
11.
Rewrite 05:45
Rewrite My mind is in a rage, a sort of self forged cage That’s looking for a useful message I’m longing for touch, longing to be held Wanting it so much, trying to meld My realities together To stay light as a feather on my feet To stay in the beat And not compete when it’s not necessary I throw down the gauntlet at the feet of my attachment and Write it like a sonnet that works like bullet And blows my shit away Knowing it will really pay to say out loud... Hey ah ah It's my way to play and Hey ah I strive to thrive and Hey ah ah living wide alive This lovely life Ditch past junk, tap into the funky baseline Whose heart beats just like mine As the words pour through I see me in you And own what’s mine So we can define the meaning of real love And leave behind all this finger pointing Head anointing self appointing hypocrisy And embrace the truth, this body like a sleuth Holds secrets to hope, a million ways to cope And find the forward movement, a divine groove sent To give us a shot at living true beauty Shit, it’s our duty to strive... It’s just a matter of time till I realign Break out of my prison, step into the rhythm Surrender to float on the musical notes And dote on the gods and goddesses of music And use it to spread this passion To spread self reflection On the wings of a my affection Takes us spiraling above up into the stars To reclaim the sanity that’s ours and Stream it back to the earth as we give birth To a whole new paradigm Why die for a cause if I can live my life to rewrite my own laws? ‘Cause every time I move from craving to grasping I dig myself a grave that I can’t last in Gotta learn to practice what I preach So I can gain the self respect to teach And serve this world in both word and deed By learning what it is I need to thrive Wide alive...
12.
I dreamed that flowers poured from my mouth And my tears were potent seeds My feet sprouted roots After all my bipedal wandering And my arms and fingers branched skyward in prayer My blood ran thick, amber gold From a hole in my heart And from my womb a whole forest grew And the sun and rain kissed me often And the wind rocked me to sleep

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After over a decade of wandering the globe, performing the musical styles of many cultures, and studying the rich wisdom of the human body, Meagan Chandler offers her first original album, “Sensual”. This playful, dark, magical music for shape shifters blends many musical styles, from dub, hip hop and electronic to exotic Mediterranean flavors and beyond, into an experimental pop journey that explores archetypal relationships and the vast terrain of the senses.

"May we all excavate our unique gifts and find the strength and inspiration to deliver them to this wild, beautiful world." -Meagan

www.meaganchandler.com

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released May 11, 2013

Compositions by Meagan Chandler and the New Mexico desert
Produced by Jeremy Bleich

Featuring:
Meagan Chandler (vocals)
Jeremy Bleich (bass, piano, MicroKorg XL, Casio cz-101, percussion, drum programming, guitar, tenor guitar, oud, string arrangements)
Paul "Feathericci" Groetzinger (drums)
Milton Villarrubia III (drums)
Derick Disterhoft (electronic rhythm)
John Rangel (piano, music box)
Sitara Schauer (violin)
Scott Barkan (lap steel and guitar)
Carla Kountoupes (violin)
Shanti Randall (viola)
JQ Whitcomb (trumpet, flugel horn)
Joaquin Gallegos (Flamenco guitar)

Recorded in Santa Fe, NM, at Kabby Sound by Matthew "Kabby" Kabakoff
And at Grasshopper Music by Jeremy Bleich
And at Studio Rangel by John Rangel
Mixed by Jeremy Bleich and Meagan Chandler
Mastered by Andrew Click Productions
Photography by Kate Russell and Robert Holmes
Graphic Design by Jasmine Quinsier

Executive producers: Meagan Chandler, R.M. Mehring, Golden Bridge
This album is funded in part by Kickstarter.com!

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Meagan Chandler Santa Fe, New Mexico

Meagan Chandler is a performance art alchemist and expressive arts educator. Her creative works invoke playfulness and depth. A broad array of musical styles from all across the world comprise and a passion for the mythic form the colorful pallet with which she paints her aural spells. ... more

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