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Rise Up, Bright Sun

from Avalon is Risen by Leslie Fish

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A hymn for the Winter Solstice, this is also an effective magickal-working song for stopping rain, meant to balance my Rain Ritual songs. Heheheh. I’ve learned, the hard way, the truth of H. P. Lovecraft’s famous saying: “Do not call up any that you cannot put down.”

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Rise up, bright sun; bring back the days again.
Rise up, bright sun; show us your face again.
Come calling the leaves back into the trees.
Come breaking the ice-floes out of the seas.
Rise up, bright sun.

Rise up, bright sun; give us your light again.
Rise up, bright sun; chase back the night again.
Come driving the iron-gray out of the sky.
Come gather the winds and hammer them dry.
Rise up, bright sun.

Rise up, bright sun; give us our lives again.
Rise up, bright sun, ’til spring arrives again.
Come burning the snow to rivers of rain.
Come turning the ice to oceans of grain.
Rise up, bright sun.

Rise up, bright sun; your children call to you.
Rise up, bright sun; our futures fall to you.
Forgive us the days forgotten to fear;
We know it too well this time of the year.
Rise up, bright sun.

credits

from Avalon is Risen, released June 10, 2012
Margaret Davis: backing vocals
Shira Kammen: fiddle
Kristoph Klover: backing vocals, octave mandolin & percussion
Nada Lewis: accordion
Mark Ungar: upright bass
Kevin White: backing vocals
Rob Wilson: bodhran

Song © 1985 Leslie Fish

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If there's one name that's practically synonymous with filk (Science Fiction folk music), it's Leslie Fish. Leslie has written literally hundreds of songs covering almost every subject, from the space program ("Hope Eyrie"), to Star Trek ("Banned From Argo") to urban life, history, and space fantasy ("Carmen Miranda's Ghost"). ... more

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