Caravan of Dawn
The Levins
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Caravan of Dawn - Album notes Produced by The Levins Engineered, Mixed, Mastered by: Mark Dann/ Mark Dann Studios NYC/Wood- stock, NY Lyrics and music by The Levins (except Silence: Carl Sandburg poem, “To Know Silence Perfectly.” Story I Can Hear,- Inspired by Joseph Campbell and William Blake “Eternity’s in love with the productions of time.”)
Caravan of Dawn - Album notes Produced by The Levins Engineered, Mixed, Mastered by: Mark Dann/ Mark Dann Studios NYC/Wood- stock, NY Lyrics and music by The Levins (except Silence: Carl Sandburg poem, “To Know Silence Perfectly.” Story I Can Hear,- Inspired by Joseph Campbell and William Blake “Eternity’s in love with the productions of time.”) MUSICIANS: • Julia Bordenaro Levin- vocals, harmonies, piano • Ira Scott Levin- vocals, harmonies, acoustic guitar, 12 string on #4 • Mark Dann- bass on #2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, octave mandolin on #2, baritone guitar on #3,6, and 7. electric guitar on #2, 7, 8, 10. • Sean Dixon- percussion on #1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, drums on #7, 8 • Dirje Childs- Cello on all tracks except #7 • Chris Marshak- Drums on #1,3,4 • Pat Falco- Bass on #1,3,4 • Dan Brantigan- trumpet on #9,10 • Steve Gorn- Indian flute on #4 • SONGS: • ONE 3:51 The Story I Can Hear • TWO 4:55 Caravan of Dawn • THREE. 3:24 Let ’s Be Big • FOUR 3:34 Leela • FIVE 4:01 Silence • SIX 4:17 Indivisible • SEVEN 4:24 Life Comes Pouring • EIGHT 5:18 Sing Along • NINE 5:17 Sorrow Inside Joy • TEN 2:53 Brighter Day Album design: Brody Lowe | www.brodylowe.com Acoustic Music Agency/Barbara Roehrer www.goodacoustic.com The Levins: thelevins@yahoo.com www.TheLevinsMusic.com To all of our beautiful fans, families and friends, we are so grateful for you. All of your love and support has been poured into this music and helps us to carry it out into the world. Special thanks to: Sidney and Sally Levin, Marilyn Bordenaro, Barbara Roehrer, Mark Dann and all of our inspiring musicians, Dr. Andrew Vidich, Peter Kasturas, Ellen and Billy Dreskin, Joanne Holland and Scott MacPherson, Karen Taylor Mitchell, Judy Chess, Susan Katz, Andy Susman and Mary Sheehan Larrick. A special nod to Joseph Campbell, Sister Mary Arnold Staudt, Lao Tzu, Ram Dass, Mary Oliver, Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky. And to all those who are dedicated to usher- ing in light. “Be the Particle and the Wave”- The Levins © 2019 All Rights Reserved. ASCAP
CARAVAN of DAWN ALBUM (2019 release) LYRICS The Story I can Hear (inspired by Joseph Campbell) Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 If we see it all as literal it might end up in a fight, But if we see it as a story, it might work out alright. Alright! Let's go out to meet the modern, willing to embrace See the gold inside the dust... Be the change that's taking place. Hey hey! Pre chorus : I long to tell the story I can hear. One that fills my eyes, opens up the skies. Chorus: Not just for believers or those that think it's true- But that holds me in its arms as it reaches out for you. Reaching out. Reaches out for you. Something beyond name - something beyond measure Sings inside this temporal house built of pain and pleasure. Inside understanding shines the poet's rhyme: "Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” Alright (- William Blake) Pre chorus and Chorus: Bridge: We’re busy telling stories, Meanwhile life plays on. It’s listening to our verses It sings all of our songs - One song / our songs Sings all of our songs. One song/ Our songs. Chorus
Caravan of Dawn - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 Side by Side- wide as the horizon. Giddy as a bride, the universe inside them. There’s a caravan of dawn, lighting up the curve, always moving on... Breaking up the darkness with an aviary song. Singing: “Beauty has claimed you. Seasons have changed you. This moment reveals you. Nothing conceals you!” Lighting up the streets, lighting up the fields. Splash the sky in streaks, of azure, lilac, gold and teal. “Beauty has claimed you. Seasons have changed you. This moment reveals you. Nothing conceals you!” Gather up all of the broken hearts. Put them in a river of seamless starts. Set them in motion, lighten their burden. Head for the ocean, flowing out over, Away from the falls. Rising like mist, until they can’t recall... not being kissed by sunbeams. “Beauty has claimed you. Seasons will change you. This moment reveals you. Nothing conceals you!”
Let’s Be Big - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 If Al were here, I’m sure he would agree, if you want to move around at light’s velocity You’ve got to think big, as infinity. So, take the afternoon and come along with me. Chorus: Hey! Let’s be big today. We’ll travel all around chasing troubles away. They’ll never see us coming. They’ll wonder why they’re humming. Come on, what ya say? Let’s be big today. Sitting on a moving mountain of gold. Riding out past everything that I’ve been told. Internal navigation, blindsided by degrees. The fear of not succeeding was defining me. I’d rather think big. So I’m getting out of my way. Out into the open where it’s not so gray. Chorus Bigger than heart-ache, bigger than strife. Breaking the chains of darkness and light. When I am in tatters and about to cave, in elementary matters, be the particle and the wave. When you’re scared and loose your way- be the particle and the wave. Stand and be brave- be the particle and the wave. Chorus Hey! Let’s be big today. We’ll travel all around chasing troubles away. Bigger than heart-ache, bigger than strife. We’re breaking the chains of darkness and light. Be the particle and the wave. Hey! Let’s be big today. We’ll travel all around chasing troubles away. They’ll never see us coming. They’ll wonder why they’re humming. Come on, what ya say? Let’s be big today.
Leela - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 Leela's got her face on the magazine. Leela's got her face on everything that you've seen. Dancing on the streets of the Champs-Élysées, Out beyond the lights of the Milky Way. Leela, Leela play. Leela, Leela play. Blinded by the lights of the paparazzi. Singing the song of the new born baby. Leela tends the sick in the heart of Bombay. She’s lifting the ocean every time she waves. Leela, Leela play. Leela, Leela play. She's the ivy on the wall. Leela, Leela play. She's the rise and fall. Leela, Leela play. She’s the answer, she’s the call. Leela, Leela play. She’s the impulse of it all. Leela, Leela play. Riotous elation, a mother's lamentation, river flowing drowning daughter, hand that pulls her from the water. In hopeless darkness Leela shouts: “No one puts this candle out!” Leela, Leela play.Leela, Leela play. Leela, Leela play.
Silence - lyrics from “To Know Silence Perfectly” by Carl Sandburg Music -The Levins, © 2019 There is a music for lonely hearts. Nearly always If The music dies down, There is a Silence Almost the same as the movement Of Music (almost the same) To know silence perfectly is to know music.
Indivisible - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019
It’s like knowing the password when I see you. A secret part of me opens to greet you. When I see the gleam still in your eye, I could laugh until, until I cry Wondrous strange, in the midst of all this change... Chorus: Indivisible, our bond Invisible in plain sight. Indivisible, our bond, Sending never-ending songs into the night. No need to recreate the past. Open the endless part of us that lasts. The loyalty our love affords, finds the notes and forms accord. Wondrous strange, in the midst of all this change... Chorus
Life Comes pouring - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 Without warning, the skies are pouring. But I don’t need a reason to complain Cause I can find fault with just about anything, again and again -again and again. But even when things aren’t going my way. I can smile on the grayest of days CHORUS: More than I can understand, I’m cheered on by the rain. Even in darkness, moonlight on the land, soothes me like a sweet refrain. I thought I knew, what dances all around me & the troubles that confound me through the day. But holding on tightly, thinking of what might be, leaves the child I used to be no time for play. Even though, I’m riding in the hourglass, I can stretch these moments as they pass.. on .. by. CHORUS Life comes pouring into everything. Sometimes it’s bound to overflow All within a sigh, or the turning of the trees, watching sorrow as it goes. CHORUS: Round inside the sound we go, learning to sing the song again. Round inside the sound we go, learning to sing the song whose end, we’ll never know.
Sing Along - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 With nostalgic conviction we gather for the legend. He hits the stage and smiles from within. And points the way to where we’ve been. His banter leaves us hazy, he’s gone out there completely. When he speaks he’s crazy but then he sings so sweetly. It makes us wonder where he’s been, Makes us wonder, wonder where he’s been. We all long to sing along with you. Give us something we can hold onto. He’s left the sadness and the cynical yoke. He’s laughing at punch lines but we don’t know the jokes. (We don’t know.) His logic makes no sense, we strain to catch a strand. The concepts are too dense. When he sings we understand. If you sing, we’ll understand. We’ve been waiting, waiting for so long. We all long to sing along with you. Give us something we can hold onto. “How can I speak to you of freedom with everything I’ve seen? I stand here before you like a broken figurine. So, I go to the stars, far away from the pain but when I sing it brings me back again.” “For I long to sing along with you. Give you something you can hold onto. I long to sing along with you. Give you something Do we come back again and again? Are we prisoners of fate? Do we fly past the horizon? I finally found an internal gate that opens up with song and guitar.” Here you are!- “I’ve been waiting for so long.” Here you are! “I’ve been waiting and waiting.” “Here we are.” I long to sing along with you. Give you something that will see you through. I sing along with you, I sing along, sing along...with you. Sorrow Inside Joy (Joy Inside Sorrow) -Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019
Sorrow, inside joy. Joy, inside sorrow. Navigate the ever changing ocean with the swallow. I cried, because I lost you. I lived, because I loved you. I laugh, because I knew you. I’m vast because you are with me. We all want to be happy. No-one wants to suffer. I am keeping myself open, to see what can occur. I have colored myself in before, with shades of certainty. This time, I won’t be so sure, I’ll keep a space inside of me.
Last time we talked on the phone, you said you were finally going home. I tried to read you a psalm, you said, “No, no time for that now.” “Be at peace. You don’t have to be my priest. I am past the point of fear. If you need me I’m here. I’ll always be here.” I cried, because I lost you. I lived, because I loved you. I laugh, because I knew you. I’m vast because you are with me. I have colored myself in before, with shades of certainty. This time, I won’t be so sure, I’ll keep a space inside of me. Sorrow, inside joy. Joy, inside sorrow. Navigate the ever changing ocean with the swallow. I cried, because I lost you. I lived, because I love you. I laugh, because I knew you. I’m vast because you are with me.
Brighter Day - Music and Lyrics The Levins, © 2019 It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. All of us were crowded in a public place, singing a song we all knew. As I looked around me from face to face, a vision of the future grew brighter. It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. I was standing on the tracks and I was dragging my heels. Until I looked up at the sky. A heartbeat of birds, like a wave on the sea waving hello and goodbye. It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. We sang in a room, we sang a new song. When it was through, we all sang along. We don’t need to wait for the end of the world. When we need a revolution, it’s right here, right now. right here, right now, right here, right now. It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. It’s a brighter day, brighter right away. It’s a brighter day. It’s a brighter day. It’s a brighter day. It’s a brighter day.