Camphor (2-disc advanced promo)

All Of My Mother's Names

Experimental instrumental piece.

The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection

siddha kunjika stotram

(The song which gives the key to perfection)

siva uvaca (siva said)

smu devi pravaksyami kunjika stotram uttamam yena mantraprabhavena candijapah subho bhavet

(Listen, Oh Goddess, while i elucidate the excellent song which gives the key to perfection. By means of the brilliance of these mantras, the meditation of the goddess Chandi becomes easy)

na kavacam nargala stotram kilakam na rahasyakam na suktam napi dhyanam ca na nyaso na ca varcanam

(Not the armor, nor the praise which unlocks the bolt, nor the praise which removes the pin, nor the secrets: neither the hymns, nor even the meditations, nor the establishment of the mantras into the body nor the offering of worship and adoration)

kunjika patha matrena durga phalam labhet
ati guhyataram devi devanamapi durlabham

(The recitation of the mantras which give the key will grant the fruits of the recitation of the glory of the goddess. Oh Goddess, this is extremely secretive and difficult even for the Gods to attain.)

gopaniyam prayatnena svayoniriva parvati maranam mohanam vasyam stambhanoccata nadikam
patha matrenam mohanam vasyam stambhanoccata nadikam
patha matrena samsiddhyet kunjika stotram uttamam

om aim hrim klim camundayai vicce om glaum hum klim jum sah jvalaya jvalaya jvala jvala
prajvala prajvala aim hrim klim camundayai vicce jvala ham sam lam ksam phat svaha

namaste rudra rupinyai namaste madhu mardini namah kaitabha harinyai namaste mahisardini

namaste sumbha hantryai ca nisumbhasuraghatini

jagratam hi maha devi japam siddham kurusve me aimkari srsti rupayai hrimkari prati palikwa

klimkarf kama rupinyai bija rupe namo stu te camunda canda ghati ca yai kari varadayini

vicce cabhayada nityam namaste mantra rupini

dham dhim dhum dhurjateh patni vam vim vum vagadhisvari
kram krim krum kalika devi sam sim sum me subham kuru

hum hum humkara rupinyai jam jam jam jambhanadini
bhram bhrim bhrum bhairavi bhadre bhavanyai te namo namah

am kam cam tam tam pam yam sam vim dum aim vim ham ksam
dhijagram dhijagram trotaya trotaya diptam kuru kuru svaha

pam pim pum parvati purna kham khim khum khecarf tatha

sam sim sum saptasati devya mantra siddhim kurusva me

idam tu kunjika strotram mantra jagarti hetave abhakte naiva datavyam gopitam raksa parvati

yastu kunjikaya devi hinam saptasatim pathet na tasya jayate siddhir aranye rodanam yatha

om aim hrim klim camundayai vicce
om glaum hum klim jum sah jvalaya jvalaya jvala jvala prajvala prajvala aim hrim lim camundayai vicce jvala ham sam lam ksam phat svaha.

The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection

Originally released on the bonus CD of the Everything and Nothing tourbook.

Praise (Pratah Smarami)

Text is traditional. Music by Shree Maa, arranged by David Sylvian.

Wave (version)

instrumental version

Mother And Child

Shadows form knights and pawns
Upon the squares
Blood is drawn up from the well
Secret signs brought the crime
Right to your door
An innocent guilty as hell

Oh, the cot is open wide
Damp with milk and honey
Gone the mother and the child
In Jesus name

Should they be waiting there
On my return
I may run into their arms
Walking on a razor's edge
Unconcerned
Game is lost again
I'll never learn

Plight (version)

short, remixed version

Upon This Earth

(Voice of J. G. Bennet)

Looking by chance in at the open window
I saw my own self seated in his chair
With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead,
Unkempt hair.

I thought that I had suddenly come to die,
That to a cold corpse this was my farewell,
Until the pen moved slowly upon paper
And tears fell.

He had written a name, yours, in printed letters
One word on which bemusedly to pore
No protest, no desire, your naked name,
Nothing more

Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year?
But the vision was not false, this much I knew
And I turned angrily from the open window
Agaist at you.

Why never a warning, either by speech or look,
That the love you cruelly gave me could not last?
Already it was too late: the bait swallowed,
The hook fast

Upon This Earth

Upon This Earth contains a reading of the Robert Graves poem The Foreboding which can be found in any selected edition of the poetry or in his collected poems (cassell p,95). The reading is by Robert himself and is taken from an album of his readings on a label called Argo, long since passed.

Big Wheels in Shanty Town

Dolphin, faced for the crime
The birthday of time

Big Wheels in Shanty Town

Cindy Crawford lost a law-suit for using the track Big Wheels In Shanty Town in one of her work-out videos.

The Healing Place

(Voice of Joseph Beuys)

that has to be the age of overcome
the systems which are on the ceiling
which are on the run to destroy
human kind's nation
human kind's inwardness
human kind's ability
what for me is a true capital
and which is a side effect
last not least destroys the nature and us

The Healing Place

Features voice of Joseph Beuys.

Camphor

Originally released as track on the Everything and Nothing tourbook bonus CD.

Plight

Full title: Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)

Mutability

Full title: Mutability (A New Bginning Is In The Offing)

Premonition

Full title: Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)