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All the Love

by Moss Bliss

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A Boy and His Dog (tune "A Boy and His Frog" by Tom Smith, also cf. "A Boy and His Dog", short story and movie, by Harlan Ellison Life is unfair, so they tell me Because they think I wouldn't know. They only can see a cheap pornflick At the evening picture show They say, "That worn-out film is so tired, "And the flickering's beyond belief -- "Down in front!" they exclaim; it's all true, I suppose, But where else can they see a girl's briefs? What would I do without you there beside me? How would I ever have sex? How could we hunt without your mind to guide me? How did I get in this mess? You could never just do the expected I was just a tough kid in a fog But you spoke to my brain, and then had to explain -- Blood and Albert; a boy and his dog. How could I ever have lived in that city Tied down and wired up and tubed? I went down to screw a few women But it ended up me being screwed. But that Junie girl helped me escape it Even though we got near blown to bits They chased us all over the City And I got some great views of her tits. No one can make me what you did No one can walk in your fur No one can make me forget you We've got to eat something for sure I just can't let it be over But Junie would leave you this way So I'll stand up, and make a decision And, though not quite in your voice, I'll say: I will stay here and we'll all have a cookout. There's so much more she can give While I light the fire, you will be there beside me; As long as I feed you, you'll live. She always asked if I knew what love is, And I always just answered, "Sure." But it wasn't a waste, 'cause she sure had good taste -- Broiled, that is. I know what love is. A boy loves his dog. copyright ©1993 by Gerald L. Bliss.
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All the Love in the World Moss Bliss Janie was born into a family, everything always seemed gentle and fine As she grew, Daddy looked at her differently, and he looked at her all of the time They started to have little secrets, things he told her nobody else could ever know When Jane reached 14, she was pregnant, and everyone blamed Cousin Joe Marcus at 10 was found in an alley, broken up, nearly dead, bleeding and bruised They found him a new home, they dressed him up nice, and he watched his new mom be abused And he sometimes was happy, and sometimes he cried, and all the kids thought he was stupid or strange They told him he just wasn't normal like them, and kept waiting for him to change They needed all the love, all the love, All the love, all the love in the world Marcus and Janie could change in a flash from bright, sunny children to babies in tears The people around them would comment to how they seemed swallowed by dark, unknown fears And one day, they found Marc and the preacher in bed, and Janie lay limp in a tub full of red And, written in blood, in the hand of a child, "I love you, Dad" is what it said... They needed all the love, all the love, All the love, all the love in the world There are millions of blades finding tender young skin, millions of pills used to quiet the tears Millions of needles for dulling the pain, and their cries falling on deafened ears Millions of children are born into fear, while so very few are born into love Millions who were hurt go on to hurt others, the cycle just gets one more shove They needed all the love, all the love All the love, all the love in the world The fear stays with you, the pain does too, 'till you heal, or can't feel any more, or you die There's something that edges you over a brink, or something you just have to try And it isn't because you love them any less, or because you just think they can't love you at all, But mistakes get made, and the debts don't get paid, and you're nailing your soul to the wall And you need all the love, all the love All the love, all the love in the world Loneliness covers the world that you live in, and you just want to give up, but somehow you don't You try to find others and help them to love, just to find a kind word in their throat And then you remember, and just want to die, but you still know there's something you're hanging on for And you think if you help enough other souls heal, they won't see the blackness in yours And you need all the love, all the love, All the love, all the love in the world And I need all the love, all the love, All the love, all the love in the world... copyright 1998 by Mordewis ap Llys (Gerald L. "Moss Bliss) (completed 8/5/98). All Rights Reserved. It is unfinished, because I don't know how to finish it yet. Consider it another cry for help. It was written for my daughter Chandra, my best friend Jared, myself, and many others of my friends.
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Blood Love 03:23
Blood Love Moss Bliss You lay in your lover's arms Feeling the lust rise, ever warm Helplessly captured by her charms Knowing your life is past Wet, wet is your silent pain Life drains slowly from your veins She will love you all the same Darkness will fall at last You rise now from your bower New blood moves through your tower Plunge yourself into her flower Wet unto wet we pass Mouth melds to tender skin Feel her blood now flowing in Know that others call it sin Laugh as you both cheat death Rise, fed in heart and flesh Feel life flow strong and fresh Yours and her souls do now mesh Breathing her every breath Climb now to the dark, dark night Ever higher in your flight Growing in your unholy might This is the life we cast You lay in your lover's arms Feeling the lust rise, ever warm Helplessly captured by her charms Knowing your life is past Copyright © 2006 by Gerald L. "Moss" Bliss (6/17)
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not my song to divulge. You can find them online.
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...not mine to publish
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Every Day of the Year Mordewis Gaeafbran ap Llys Chorus: And I love you every day of the year And you know that I want this to be clear And on every page of your calendar Under every date, in gold embossed, It says "I love you so. Always, Moss" Hear me, oh my dearest loves, as I write this song to you, But I also write it to everyone; All the loves I've ever known, all the wishes in my heart, And to my Best of Friends, and my Shining Sun. (Cho.) Those of you who couldn't trust what you saw in front of you Have helped me find and heal my blackest parts. May you find this touch of love opens you to deeper sights, Pass it on to other loves and heal your hearts. (Cho.) Now I know I'm just a gate of someone else's love through me, And I always know that she will not let go. Everyone is beautiful, even in their darkest place, Trust, and trust again, in Will, and let Love grow! (Final Chorus) And I love you every day of the year And you know that I want this to be clear And on every page of your calendar, Written under every date, in gold embossed, And written on your Heart of Hearts, you'll find an endless psalm, And it says, "I love you so. Always, Mom." copyright ©1998 by Gerald L. "Moss" Bliss, written 8/12/98.
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Fifty Years Ago Mordewis Gaeafbran ap Llys Fifty years ago, I was in my uniform Looking in your eyes, they never seemed so beautiful before So large and warm Your face, your form I didn't know I wanted so much, fifty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, fifty years ago Fifty years ago, when my father handed me Into your strong hands, I thought you were the gentlest man I'd known To be so kind The date was blind I didn't know I wanted so much, fifty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, fifty years ago Forty years ago, while our sons were growing, Life was very hard, but still our love was showing that we cared A house and yard, I worked so hard But you were still so beautiful, forty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, forty years ago Forty years ago, the children were out learning Keeping up our home, and now our love was yearning for some time To be alone Our Faith had grown And I was so in love with you, forty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, forty years ago Thirty years ago, our older son had left us All our many friends and faith in God had kept us feeling strong We had our days We found a way And I was still so close to you, thirty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, thirty years ago Thirty years ago, nothing seemed to matter Many of our plans simply turned to water in our hands But I held on We still had one And I was even closer to you, thirty years ago I never knew I loved you so much, thirty years ago. Fifteen years ago, when my body faltered It was touch and go, but you were always right there by my side And I survived Your eyes alive My heart was healing in your hands, fifteen years ago I never knew I loved you so much, fifteen years ago Fifteen years ago, when your heart was breaking Holding our son close, I think that I have never prayed so hard Our friends were there God heard our prayers I never knew I needed so much, fifteen years ago I never knew I loved you so much, fifteen years ago Fifty years have gone, I look upon your beauty Through the years, we've grown, never feeling duty was a bond That dream of home A place I've known with you I've had the life I wanted fifty years ago I never knew you'd be this beautiful, fifty years ago I always knew I'd love you so much, fifty years ago Fifty years ago ©1998 by Mordewis Gaeafbran ap Llys (Gerald L. Bliss) (7/27). All Rights Reserved. This was written for the 50th Anniversary of the marriage of my parents, Alfred P. and Mildred A. Bliss, February 23, 1999. (Alternate verses are to be sung by Dad and Mom, the last verse together with some alternation on lines.)
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available elsewhere
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not my lyric but they can be found on the Internet
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The Last Wolf words by an unknown author and Mordewis ap Llys music by Mordewis ap Llys Chorus: Last night, the last wolf died And she didn’t go down easy, she committed suicide She was fenced in, she was fettered, she was anything but free But the spirit of that last wolf lives in me... Wolf’s soul was born for freedom, though her body did despair When it tasted the pollution in the water, in the air And she dream-spoke, “I must die now, but this foulness cannot stand “I will pass my howling spirit and my Earth-love to a man.” (cho.) After dreams of green, deep forests, in the morning I awoke I opened amber-yellow eyes on landscapes blurred by smoke And my heart was filled with howling; in a snarl, my lips were curled As I woke up to the ruin that we’ve caused upon this world (cho.) We are piling up the garbage higher than the highest mount * While we keep on spending billions to improve the body count * We are losing children daily, dead from hunger and disease With a billion homeless people huddling from the winter freeze. (cho.) We are cutting down the forests that produce the very air We have reach the point that there is no fresh water anywhere And the wasted heat that we pump out will make the world too warm * And I howl to see that people still don’t realize the harm (cho.) The people must become aware of what it costs to live * Although our world’s worth dying for, it’s not worth dying with And if we don’t change our future, starting with this very day You will make a barren planet, there’ll be no one left to pay # (cho.) You who say you serve the people and who do the peoples’ will As you serve your own best interests and you sit upon your kill You best had heed my howling, and you’d better know your ground * Or you’ll find me on your body, and your body won’t be found. # (cho.) How many wolves are dying as we watch the Earth be raped? # How many humans howling as we tear through your red tape? # You should guard your pets and lovers, as we sing our howling tones # We shall reclaim the Earth, if we must plant it with your bones # (chorus) * original line modified by Mordewis # complete line written by Mordewis copyright ©1998 by Mordewis Gaeafbran ap Llys (Gerald "Moss" Bliss). All Rights Reserved.
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Mother Forgive Them Mordewis ap Llys Remember the burnings, the hangings, the shame, Your dying in prison defending the Names Remember the taunts and the curses and stones, The smell of your flesh and the snapping of bones But you cannot remember the tears their God shed As He counted the millions of dead. Mother, forgive them. You swear now it never shall happen again As you gather your strength and you sharpen your pen But the Earth does not heal sowing bones into blood; New life comes from seeds planted deep in the mud The lesson we've taught them these thousands of days Is that they could not bury our ways. Mother, forgive them, and teach us to love them. Do not play the game -- we could all learn to hate. Remember the Laws: Threefold will be out fate. The freedom to hate is no freedom at all But love, trust and memory will cause it to fall And never forget the old women who died Without ever knowing we cried . . . Mother forgive them, and help us to teach them What we do . . . and what they've done! copyright ©1998 by Mordewis Gaeafbran ap Llys (Gerald "Moss" Bliss). All Rights Reserved.
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Raven and Crow Mordewis ap Llys Worn from the years, but young in his heart Flying from legend appears Winter's Crow Wisdom and beauty are found in his bearing Plumage as white as the new-fallen snow Into his flightway comes a young Raven Knowledge came early, a thirst to be slaked If she is less beautiful, no one could offer New legends are sure to grow up in her wake Chorus: Raven and Crow, wingtip to wingtip Black against white, with a rainbow between Singing a tune that a songbird would cherish All of a King and his beautiful Queen Raven alights and appears as a woman Touched by the Goddess, as any could see "Come to me, Crow, I call you quite gently: "Mordewis your name is, and my love to be." Laughing, the Crow calls, "Dearest Irysa, "Always the past, and forever ahead." Coming to her as the man she remembered, Kneeling and bowing his beautiful head (cho.) "Rise now, my love; kneel never before me," Drawing him up and closing the rift "Always the Lady brings us together "Let us lie down now and reverence the gift." "Thanking the Lady, and thanking your offer, "Never will I give to Her what you've kept. "No dan controls us," he said to her softly, "But if you would have me, I gladly accept." (cho.) Moss and Irysa look up from their desktops Seeing each other as if it were new Caught in their crystal computers together Learning their love through their archetypes grew Now they walk out to the Circle together First with electrons, and then touching skin Goddess awaits to rejoin them forever Raven and Crow, a new time to begin Final Chorus Raven and Crow, wingtip to wingtip Black against white, with a rainbow between Singing a tune that a songbird would cherish All of a King and his beautiful Queen All about Moss and Irysa, his Queen. copyright ©1998 by Gerald L. "Moss" Bliss (Mordewis ap Llys) (5/17), All rights reserved. Note: dan is a Keltic word which can be taken to mean a variety of things, including "fate", "karma", and either good or bad fortune, depending on context, and often is used to describe "old business" between people from past lives.
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Not my song, find the lyrics elsewhere
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Scale 03:11
http://www.hwaet.org/Songbook/Scale.html
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available elsewhere on the Internet
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http://www.xocolatl.com/kathy/lyrics/GIANTS.html
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Ghost 04:40
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to In our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret That gets whispered in a hush When I wake, the things I dreamt about you Last night make me blush When you kiss me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like a piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me I'd walk into the fingers Of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close I'm in love with your ghost Unknowing captor You never know how much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it A cry to be free I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me I would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels This bitter pill I swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worse than most In love with your ghost You are shadowing my dreams (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost)

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