Pele's Body
music and lyrics by Green Huse
Pele is the goddess who controls volcanic activity in Hawaii. The fecund jungle of the tropics inspired this song of desire, lust, and the exploration of the senses…a perfect place for a seduction… or an epiphany?
I love you, you know it's true
I don't wanna do what I'm supposed to
I wanna corner you, I wanna follow you
I wanna take you where the sun will roast you
where the sun will roast you
See the water down there and the rocks below?
the white waves crashing against the black of Pele's body
against the black of Pele's body
With the wind you are flying with the wind you are flying
With the wind you are flying with the wind you are flying
Then we will walk through a valley of jungles
of muddy streams and feral horses
When you kissed me there, I just wanted more Is there a chance for us darling
or will my romantic heart
sink you like a stone?
Are we just too different, or are we just enough,
are we just enough to teach us what we need to know?
Then we'll go to where waterfalls dance on hot skin
and ripe guavas roll into open hands
Even the insects and rotting fruit smell like life
and we are just animals breathing in the ripeness of this newborn land
this new born land
But in a place like this that I could still feel so separate from you
you are trying to escape your childhood, I'm trying to make mine last
I look at you I see an open sea; you look at me you see the face of your mother
I look at you I see the future, you look at me you see the past.
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Thinking Like This
music and lyrics by Green Huse
Green falls into the trap of comparing herself to others, seeing herself as inferior and less interesting. She recognizes the power of negative thought patterns and chooses to shift and choose self-love rather than self-sabotage.
I watched you from across the room, you were light and full of life.
You were making everybody laugh.
I wished it was I who could command such attention,
But I hold myself in.
What did you do to get so much confidence?
Did you get more protein as a child?
Did they expect more from you because of who you were?
Are you still trying to prove them all wrong?
If I keep thinking like this
everything that I have's gonna walk right out the door.
If I keep thinking like this
everything that I have's gonna walk out the door.
Normally I keep it locked up inside,
but sometimes it just knocks way too loud,
and I wonder if there's anything useful there,
and it all comes rushing like a flood.
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I just want to love myself so strong,
that I never doubt my worth.
I don't think I'm asking for too much.
It's what I deserve, it's where we all belong.
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Your Kitchen Table
music by Green Huse, lyrics by Sophia West
A poem written by the late Sophia West. She is sitting at Green's kitchen table in the troubling confusion of unfulfilled desire and unspoken boundaries. She reflects with strong words and poignant images on her reality.
Your kitchen table is under the window
yellow light on plums and apples.
Sometimes we sat there, the air carved our bodies out of space
while you wished I were more powerful.
You thought I was a bag of apples brought up from a bin in the cellar
Crisp sometimes and sometimes mealy, soft
and sometimes sweet, refreshing.
Your tongue curled back in your mouth, hoping I'd please you
Knowing you couldn't rely on me.
I thought you were a house that I wanted to live in, never could find the door,
instead I climbed down chimneys, squeezed through windows,
every entrance but the most direct.
Looking for welcome, I wandered in you
Waiting for the alarm to go off.
I sat down at your piano and played a chain of hesitating chords,
And in the next room listening you heard
my tentative music
You tried to be, you wanted to be
Your kitchen table is under the window
Yellow light on plums and apples
The air is full of tenderness and power
Colliding in the space between us,
Leather and Chrome
music and lyrics by Green Huse
Green revels in the compelling feelings for her new found romance, a biker currently on a road trip. Inside the time and space apart, she realizes her own thrill and excitement of falling in love and wonders how it might all turn out.
I'm thinking of you flying, riding on your bike,
cutting through the blackness, flesh, leather and chrome.
I think of how well I fit in your clothes,
and I think of how well my hand fits in you.
Oh darling how did this thing happen?
this fire in my veins, this crying in my heart.
You're not who you were yesterday.
I wondered if you'd call me, you could be anywhere by now,
north of Fresno, south of the Bay.
Well I know I shouldn't worry, cause you are probably
feeling free and wild like a shooting star.
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Will this feeling fade?
Will the mirror break?
Will we lose the pieces?
Your voice sounds like honey to me, even through this long thin wire.
You say you've been writing to me, well this song's for you.
I'm thinking of you flying, riding on your bike,
cutting through the blackness, flesh, leather and chrome.
Beautiful Angel
music and lyrics by Green Huse
In a moment of intimacy, someone very close to Green shares the weight of a heavy secret. Green processes the burden of knowing too much about her friend and weighs it against her deep admiration.
So you're scared
You're thinkin' I might leave over this
Well you say, it's happened before
Well I'm scared too
What if I do something stupid like, leave over this?
I think I told you, how much I like you
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Every sign's got another side
You don't see what you don't see
Every symbol can be misinterpreted
It only means what you want it to mean
Do I sound like a jerk?
I know you've heard all this before
But I don't know what else to do
I just have so many questions about
who you are and what they'll think of me
About the fence you've been a walkin'
You've been in places I've never been
You'll be in places I'll never be
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I don't know if I'd have the strength
to go through what you did
To come through such a beautiful angel
To come through with that light in your eyes
As if you were a gorgeous gift to me
Yeah right like I could
ever hold you that tight
But in the end what does it really matter
You're still the same person I fell for
While your mind can soar so high
Your lips can bring me to my knees
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But in the end I don't think it's gonna
make much difference to me, to me, to me
Jumping into the Sun
music and lyrics by Green Huse
The song you sing as you realize you have freed yourself from some self-constraining belief, feeling, or other personal cage you didn't realize you were participating in. There is an optimism that days are getting better. It's the song you hum as you run through the field, skipping and laughing under a bright blue sky.
Jumping into the sun
I got no worries today
And I hope it lasts for an hour
I hope it lasts all day
I hope it lasts through the night dear
Makin' love till the break of day
I don't care how it's done
I dreamed I was the lucky one
The shadow passed over me last year
I'm through with that, I am my mirror
I jump right through that ring of fire
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La La La La...
Ooo Ooo Ooo...
Yeah...
Jumping out of my bed
I've got a clear clear head
And I hope it lasts for an hour
I hope it lasts all day
I hope it lasts for a life time
Dancin' singin' through my days
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I swear it's getting clearer
Clearer every day
The glass will break before me
And I'll be on my way
And I don't care how it's done
I'm sure I dreamed I was the lucky one
The shadow passed over me last year
I'm through with that, I am my mirror
I'll jump right through that ring of fire
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Reel You In
music and lyrics by Green Huse
This song was actually used successfully as pure seduction; Green's not saying by whom or to whom. Though Green doesn't advocate dishonesty in relationships, when the hormones are rushing, it sure can be tempting to just go for it if necessary (!)
So you say you've got a girlfriend
And that you're monogamous
You say it as if it's just a matter of fact well
Why shouldn't I trust
I guess you're saying that you're not interested
And I should disregard that sparkle in your eye
You gotta get home to that girlfriend
It just wouldn't be right
If I could just brush your lips with my fingertips
If I could just get you to shut up
If I could just reel you in real slow
Nobody has to know
What are you so afraid of
Would it be so bad to be free
Do you think you'd feel like you were dyin'
Maybe you'd feel like you were bein' born
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Don't you think you've come to far to give it up now
Don't you think you've worked too hard to let it go now
I know it seems like nothin' ever changes
But the one thing I know
Is that every....thing does
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First Time Again
music by Green Huse, lyrics by Root
With a lyric written by co-writer Root, First Time Again chronicles a missed opportunity. What do you do with the desire you must hold that cannot yet be expressed, and may never be?
Where are you? It was so hard to leave.
But now I see you've gone; what if I had begged
to spend the night in your breath, floating in and out of dream,
a night the length of eternity,
with more waking dreams, than dreaming,
just the way I've dreamt.
Is this comedy or tragedy when I'm laughing till I cry?
My heart is overflowing; you're in my mind, but out of sight,
when it feels like the first time again.
So where have you gone? To the corners of the bay
to hang low with the moon,
remembering who you are, or who you've been
or who I am to breathe or beg or dream?
as she tips us a toast to all us lonesome lovers
who dared too late to beg or dream.
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It doesn't serve me to be small, at least not well.
Although I feel you're lost, it can't compare to what I've gained
But what the hell and I supposed to do
when it feels like the first time,
It feels like the first time,
when it feels like the first time again.
Train
music and lyrics by Green Huse
Green sat down at the piano one day and wrote, "Train". The words convey an emotional state of perennial longing, sung by a ghost in eerie eternal isolation.
They say there's a train,
there's a train a comin'.
Oh, they say there's a train
there's a train a comin'.
But I don't see no train,
I just see the big sky filled with grey.
Do you see
do you see those birds aflyin'?
Oh do you see
do you see those birds a flyin'
on the horizon?
Oh can't you see, can't you hear
can't you feel them weave and hum?
Oh baby when you comin'?
Oh baby when you comin'?
Oh baby when you comin' home?
You see I miss your honey kisses
when I'm here all alone.
I got myself open
waiting for that whistle to blow
I got myself open
waiting for that whistle to blow
But all I hear is the wind
and it don't touch me no more
They say there's a train,
they say there's a train
acomin' round the bend
Well howcome I can walk
through walls now,
no one sees me,
and I can't feel the rain?
Catch Me Falling
music by Green Huse
lyrics by Green Huse and Sonia Wozniak
Sometimes a particular sunset, the bloom of a flower, or a memory can bring pure ecstasy when one realizes the supreme blessing it is to be alive and conscious. If God is nature, this is a gospel song.
How can it be that the sun only rises once each day
How can it be that the moon spins with my heart
How can it be that I can talk with the rain?
How can it be that the mountains are purple and blue
How can it be that the trees dance without moving
How can it be that the desert bursts in bloom?
Catch me falling (don't ask me why)
Catch me falling (don't ask me why)
Catch me falling (don't ask me why)
How can it be that the sun can shoot right though my skin
How can it be that we lie silent and beaming
How can it be that my heart will always hold a place for this?
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How can it be that the sun only rises once each day
How can it be that the moon spins with my heart
How can it be that I can talk with the rain?
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