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picatrix is a grimoire of music and magic, spiritual rebirth and enlightenment.
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Picatrix
Footprints
One Fine Day
Superbad
Peterswell
Feeling Good in Every Way
Lay Lady Lay
How Lucky We Are
Daddy Stayed with Family
Near Death Experience
One Voice One Song
Sunshine Superman
Footprints
One night a man had a dream
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord
And across the sky flashed scenes from his life
And for each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand
And as the last scene of his life flashed before him
He looked back at the footprints in the sand
And he noticed that many times long the path of his life
There was only one set of footprints at the very lowest and saddest times in his life
And this bothered him
You said that if I followed you you’d walk with me all the way
Why when I needed you most would you leave me
And the Lord replied during your times of suffering
When you only see one set of footprints in the sand
It was then that I carried you
Do you believe I could desert you
Do you think that I no longer care
Do you think my love for you is no longer absolute
It shines for you when I’m not there
Why do things have to be so complicated
Why did you wander far from home
You face your desperate hours and your fears besieged you
But you were not alone
No one loves you the way I do
Did you think I had deceived you
Let you walk out in the rain
Do you think that I would leave you at the moment of despair
Alone in your pain
No one loves you the way I do
One Fine Day
One fine day I’m gonna be the best
One fine day I’m passing the test
One fine day I’m gonna shake off the blue
One fine day so much I could lose
One fine day from my birth till my grave
One fine day a journey of faith
One fine day I try to open the door
One fine day I love you more
Take me to the place
Communion of saints
Who long for your embrace
Till the end of days
One fine day I’m gonna make the news
One fine day I’m closer to you
One fine day when my virtue turns into stone
One fine day I’m not so alone
One fine day is the future transcendence
One fine day I’m taking a chance
One fine day to all of you that I adore
One fine day I love you more
Fine Day
I yearn for your caress
You make me feel that I am blessed
I’m on the road to happiness
Till the end of days
Superbad
You make me feel like I can fly
When I’m with you I feel alive
You wrote my name in letters ten feet high
You are the highlight of my life
You make me feel superbad
I’m super I’m bad
I’m superbad
You make me feel I’m in free flight
Can’t see the stars until it’s night
Until the fading of the light
You are the highlight of my life
You make me feel superbad
I’m super I’m bad
I’m superbad
Peterswell
Peterswell the sea is near
River stream the water’s clear
The rain is soft the atmosphere
Sings to me the mountain song
Peterswell the air is clean
Cumulus of white and green
A giant cloud making machine
Sing the misty mountain song
The old kings they are building castles in the air
Peterswell eternal grace
Sunshine warm upon your face
The exiles dream of their birthplace
Sing for them the mountain song
The story of this land is you and me
On the lay lines of antiquity
Conjure up a miracle we can believe
In the spectre of the old country
Seeing is believing castles in the air
Peterswell the decades turn
Forgotten people still they yearn
The diaspora have returned
Sing for us the mountain song
So drive across the M62
Leeds Manchester Liverpool
Dublin Athlone and Loughrea
And head out west to Galway Bay
Feeling Good in Every Way
Oh how happy we can be
Self-fulfilling prophesy
Let the music set you free
Twist and shout stepping out
Leave behind all the doubt
Let the music set you free
Feeling good in every way
Owner of a lonely heart
A single step the journey start
Let the music set you free
One more dance love surrounds
One last chance love abounds
Let the music set you free
Feel good in every way
Lay Lady Lay
(Bob Dylan)
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colours you have in your mind
I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay
Stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day
Let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty
But his hands are clean
And you’re the best thing
That he’s ever seen
Stay lady stay
Stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay lady stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
How Lucky We Are
Behold a story told
The mystery unfolds
The truth is out there
On the road
No pain no gain
After all it’s just a game
But the goal is the same
Living free forever young
For you the race has just begun
Someone’s daughter someone’s son
We shared we cared
Blissfully unaware
Of how good it can be
All the while I was searching for the truth
Hidden from view on the rue de la Luna
You on the other side of the avenue
Me at the other end of nowhere
Will we ever know
How lucky we are
I kept my head down
I went to ground
Homeward bound
Invisible man never seen around town
Trying hard to walk the line
The only crime is killing time
Feet on the ground
My head in the sky
Smiling faces different races
Drifting into open spaces
There’s good news on the airwaves
The truth is there to see
If you love somebody set them free
Loving you is all that I need
All the while I was searching for the truth
Hidden from view on the dark side of the moon
Can’t bear the thought that sometime soon
I ain’t gonna be around to catch you when you fall
How lucky we are
Reasons to be cheerful no need to be fearful
Optimistic till the end
Daddy Stayed with Family
Trying to make it some sense of it all
I’m scary I’m hairy I know the tooth fairy
I used to be a fashionista but now I’m through being cool
Superman Santa Claus a trampoline upon the floor
Making sure that little fingers don’t get caught in doors
I’ve been a clown been an acrobat a big bad wolf too
Been a teacher been a preacher all to entertain you
Mr Moo April fool a guardian whose heart was true
I was the first person to fall in love with you
Ready to serve and protect I’m alive and I’m direct
Asteroids I deflect the better I was the older I get
What go around come around I hear people say
Daddy stayed with family and it turned out ok
I didn’t know what fear was leaving you at the door
Letting go of your hand on the first day of school
I didn’t know what fear was
Safety gates upon the stairs Goldilocks and teddy bears
Trying to make some sense of it all
Donkey rides at Scarborough fair
Climbing to the higher ground just to know you’re safe and sound
Makes me glad I stayed around
And if that sun forgets to shine memories fade and die
Put your dream in mine look the world right in the eye
And try not to laugh
What go around come around I hear people say
Daddy stayed with family and it turned out ok
I’ve seen Mulan 50 times hey I know all of the lines
To the bedtime stories and the nursery rhymes
Can you spell Bolivia playing games of trivia
On the way to sundown park with Katherine and Olivia
Sharing those times made my heart sing
To me you are everything
From way back when in that world without end
I was your number one friend
Throughout the odyssey
Agony and ecstasy
I gave of my best
So you don’t have to guess
Who’s your daddy
What go around come around I hear people say
Daddy stayed with family and it turned out ok
Near Death Experience
What was only meant to be a chill out holiday by the Ionian Sea
Became a descent into ritual madness and ecstasy
At the hotel Eleon
Got a feeling something’s wrong
Maybe it’s the calm before the storm
At the Hotel Eleon
Can’t quite put my finger on
The sense of dread and oblivion
Near death experience
To prepare for the loss
The church doors were locked
And the mystery concealed
From the unorthodox
Pie in the sky
Eight miles high
The moon’s a balloon
And pigs can fly
Lightning crash, river of mud
Magdalena’s bar sheltering from the flood
Faustian wager written in blood
Higher or lower than the 6 of clubs
Sisters have mercy Helen of Troy 2 rows behind
Sisters have mercy any last prayers before we die
Sisters have mercy and now the end is nigh
Sisters have mercy 2 words be kind
Tail wind spin tipping the plane
If it’s time to die then why not today
Let me die once not a thousand times
Shock troopers breach hypothetical lines
If death has come there’s no-where to run
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Near Death Experience
Gasping for air clinging to life
With my last breath I’m staying alive
Levanta breeze became a hurricane
Pilot of my soul save the day
Near death experience
Living water
The rivers have burst
The precursor smile
The earth with a curse
And the outpouring begin
One life live it and let it live you
One Voice One Song
One voice
One song
One groove one love
One voice we speak
One mountain high
One river deep
All for one
One for all
Together we pray
Together we learn
Together we share
Together we grow
Be the change in the world
That you want to see
I’m no longer searching for something
That don’t yet exist
Picatrix playing tricks
Hidden magic
Turn yourself into the wind
And melt into the sun
One mind
One light
One dream
Sunshine Superman
(Donovan)
Sunshine came softly through my window today
Could’ve tripped out easy but I’ve changed my ways
It’ll take time I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine I know it
We’ll do it in style
When you make your mind up you’re going to be mine
Everybody’s hustling just to have a little scene
When I say we’ll be cool I think you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset do you remember when
I know a beach where baby it never ends
When you make your mind up you’re going to be mine
Sunshine
Any trick in the book
All that I can find
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you make your mind up you’re going to be mine
I tell you right now
Superman and green lantern ain’t got nothing on me
I can make like a turtle and dive you your pearls in the sea
Yeah yeah yeah you can sit there thinking on your velvet throne
About all the rainbows you can have for your own
When you make your mind up you’re going to be mine
