Safety Dance (A Charm Of Protection) EP

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1.	Safety Dance (A Charm Of Protection) 04:30	lyrics	buy track
Safety Dance (A Charm Of Protection) Square the circle, mark the line mark as safe and mark the time. Run and run, the charm is spun The chance has come; the chase of fun. Water, fire, stone and air dance the way your feet declare Fire and air and stone and water according to the natural order — As it is done, so shall it be and we shall dance by our decree — Upright in aspect, cheek to cheek expressing of the deeper need — by stone and water, air and fire — ‘tis horizontal in desire. We can dance as we shall choose your friends I fear we needs must lose for if the dance your friends decline then shall they be no friends of mine Round and round the charm is wound let music sound on ancient ground May it surround as it resounds and so confound the Blacken'd Hound Round and round the charm is wound we shall hoe-down in every town By courage found on Sussex Downs I bid thee, Spirit: be unbound! Everything has lost control. Mark the sign from pole to pole. One and all, look at your hands. Everybody take a chance. Darkness lift! Goodbye kiss. Cast this Black Dog into mist! Fire, water, air and stone — the time has gone, the spell is done — Round and round the charm is wound —
2.	The Safety Dance (Bishops Without Mitres iteration) 03:31	info	buy track
3.	The Safety Dance (Bishops Without Mitres Or Song Sheets iteration) 03:31	info	buy track

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Dedicated to Mr Richard Snell, who remains Manic.

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Safety Dance (A Charm Of Protection)

Square the circle, mark the line
mark as safe and mark the time.
Run and run, the charm is spun
The chance has come; the chase of fun.

Water, fire, stone and air
dance the way your feet declare
Fire and air and stone and water
according to the natural order

— As it is done, so shall it be
and we shall dance by our decree —

Upright in aspect, cheek to cheek
expressing of the deeper need —
by stone and water, air and fire —
‘tis horizontal in desire.

We can dance as we shall choose
your friends I fear we needs must lose
for if the dance your friends decline
then shall they be no friends of mine

Round and round
the charm is wound
let music sound
on ancient ground

May it surround
as it resounds
and so confound
the Blacken'd Hound

Round and round
the charm is wound
we shall hoe-down
in every town

By courage found
on Sussex Downs
I bid thee, Spirit: be unbound!

Everything has lost control.
Mark the sign from pole to pole.
One and all, look at your hands.
Everybody take a chance.

Darkness lift!
Goodbye kiss.
Cast this Black Dog into mist!
Fire, water, air and stone —
the time has gone, the spell is done
 
— Round and round
the charm is wound —

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released June 15, 2020

Being a cover version of 'The Safety Dance' by Men Without Hats. Music and original lyrics: Ivan.

Safety Dance (A Charm Of Protection) also includes a fragment of 'Hoquetus David' by Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377).

New lyrics and arrangement: Paul A Murphy.

Sunex Amures: keyboards, vocals, guitar, bouzouki, bass, electric guitar, thigh-slapping, programming and cover artwork.

Paul A Murphy: assistance and illumination on Tracks 2 & 3

Joanne Lewis: "…dansez!" on Track 2.

Recorded in Sussex during lockdown, June 2020.

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Sunex Amures Brighton, UK

Sussex sea-board sorcery.

Paul A Murphy: bass, bouzouki, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, vocals, seance, programming, tape wrangling, percussion.

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