1. |
Tiny Galaxies
03:33
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Pick the telescope up, you’ll see infinity
Constellations lit up, impossibility
Don’t look down the other end
You’ll see miniature worlds and tiny galaxies
In the sub-atomic dreams of our deities
Now the magnifier’s in place
Open your eye in outer space
And with your spyglass in the universe
You’re zero gravity, oh
And blinking on the dust of nebulas
Stars fading, burning out
Planets you don’t even know the names of
Planets, you don’t even know their names
Put the telescope down, it makes your eye look wrong,
Can you hear the countdown? The pan-galactic song
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2. |
My Guitar Is A Spaceship
04:09
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Unending, ascending, sending love from Planet Gong
Quaking, shaking, awaking pan-galactic song
Oh my, so high, third eye strobing on and off and on
Then all is love and my guitar is a spaceship
So climb aboard, ’cos my guitar is a spaceship
Unending, ascending, sending love from Planet Gong
Quaking, shaking, awaking pan-galactic song
Oh my, so high, third eye strobing on and off and on
Then all is love and my guitar is a spaceship
So climb aboard, ’cos my guitar is a spaceship
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3. |
Ship Of Ishtar
08:33
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Ship of Ishtar
Ship of Ishtar
Onward, guided by Venus she rise
Queen of Wonder
Sails the earth blood,
All asleep, she daughter of the sky
Ship of Ishtar
An angel’s song
Sat in splendour
Crown you queen of the universe all
Constellations all around her
An angel’s song
An angel’s song there
Ship of Ishtar
Hold of many worlds under your sails
Sacred cargo
How much longer?
Spirit bright from the stars, do you fall
Ship of Ishtar
Aboard!
Aboard, now
Ship of Ishtar
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4. |
O, Arcturus
03:55
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Faster stardust, rush now at us
All eyes turn blind
Mother cosmos, her arms and clusters
She’s bending laws of time
Drink deep of the golden helix
Caress o’ the naked sky
Shape our future, sunbeam conquer
Ship of Ishtar
Dwellers deep in mirage and madness
Won’t save this troubled star
Dwellers deep in mirage and madness
Won’t save this troubled star
All untangled, Ursa Minor
Ten light years gone!
O, Arcturus, she’s now imploding
And won’t spare anyone
Fall away, telescope discarded
Which end did you put your eye?
All matter now be gone
Voyage forth onwards and inwards
Universe and ego die
With love from Planet Gong
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5. |
All Clocks Reset
04:09
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Unending, ascending do we rise
Brave heavens unfold before our eyes
Unrivalled, set we this fleet a-sail
Both gods at large and monsters at our tail
All starward, propulsive are we fire and water
Electric vibrations at the speed of light
And forces, so ancient, fixed and never changing
Now coursing kinetic mainline outta sight
Mainline outta sight!
Mainline outta sight!
Then all of the planets
And matter in flames
All evaporated
You don’t know their names
In the dissolution of all sense of self
I fought for a while against control of my known self
And in singularity, mind and spirit met, oh
Was time concertina’d then?
Did all clocks reset?
Did all clocks reset?
All clocks reset
Did all clocks reset?
Monsters at our tail
Did all clocks reset?
All clocks reset
Did all clocks reset?
Mainline outta sight
Did all clocks reset?
All clocks reset
Did all clocks reset?
Monsters at our tail
Did all clocks reset?
Would all clocks reset themselves now
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6. |
Choose Your Goodess
06:49
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Ruler of the sky
Opens her growing, all-ever-knowing eye
Web of fate, of fire
Goddess of the tides, queen of desire, her
Deathless, web of fate
You, orb of wonder, pull me from under, elevate
Torch of wisdom, hail
And gods at large surrounding us, monsters at our tail
Spirit bright from the stars, unseen by radar
Eternal slumber lay, mother and daughter
O silver wheel reflecting, ruler of the water
Slumber eternal lie, daughter and mother
Circle of gold, illuminate the other
Spirit bright from the stars, unseen by radar
Golden bells, evening star, idol from afar
Love the sun you nurse of all. Spellbound all enthral
Don’t look down, don’t ask how, choose your goddess now
Torch of wisdom, apparition of light
Hail, she empress of the night
O goddess of the tides
Orb of wonder and the season of life
Lunar cycle are we tied
Silvery all, her eye
Ruler of the sky
Ever knowing eye
Holier than thou
Choose your goddess now
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7. |
Lunar Invocation
04:34
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*(Multiple choice)
Lucina
Europa
Artemis
Diana
Isis
Phoebe
Ishtar
Hecate
Selene
Rise
Over the waves, blazing torch, are they beaming
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8. |
Asleep Do We Lay
04:16
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Reflecting, she bathes me
She’s in my eye
Her kisses are salty
Ascension eternal, she rise
And under the waves, half-alive, were we dreaming?
So deep, drowning
Fathoms long
Her body of water
Gills now breathing either way
Under the waves, half-alive, were we dreaming?
Down in the depths, all asleep do we lay
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9. |
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Pick the telescope up, you’ll see infinity
Constellations lit up, impossibility
Don’t look down the other end
You’ll see miniature worlds and tiny galaxies
In the sub-atomic dreams of our deities
Now the magnifier’s in place
Open your eye in outer space
And with your spyglass in the universe
You’re zero gravity, oh
And blinking on the dust of nebulas
Stars fading, burning out
Planets you don’t even know the names of
Planets, you don’t even know their names
Put the telescope down, it makes your eye look wrong,
Can you hear the countdown? The pan-galactic song
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10. |
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Unending, ascending, sending love from Planet Gong
Quaking, shaking, awaking pan-galactic song
Oh my, so high, third eye strobing on and off and on
Then all is love and my guitar is a spaceship
So climb aboard, ’cos my guitar is a spaceship
Unending, ascending, sending love from Planet Gong
Quaking, shaking, awaking pan-galactic song
Oh my, so high, third eye strobing on and off and on
Then all is love and my guitar is a spaceship
So climb aboard, ’cos my guitar is a spaceship
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Gong in 2023 features the longest running line-up of this legendary international psychedelic band, comprising members hand-picked by founder Daevid Allen, intending that his mystical vision continue, constantly evolving and expanding its core sound.
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