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—> INSTR VERSE intro - (pause!)]

( // what do stories mean, in the end?
why does change always come? //
what have you to give if you don’t have a friend / be it earth or the face of the sun )

VERSE 1:
***START
firebird spreading your wings
out of the darkness light flashes
born from a circle of flames
rising again from the ashes!

CHORUS x1:
// catch me as I rise, like the sun! //
seeing all beings as one.


VERSE 2: (vox on octave:)
time on the tips of her wings
bright burns the jewel on the water
flying so fierce as she sings
I am the holy one’s daughter!
4x

CHORUS 2x:
// catch me as I rise, like the sun! //
seeing all beings as one.
// catch me as I rise, like the sun! //
seeing all beings as one.




[big break/pause to fingerpicking]
INSTR. VERSE

BRIDGE: LOUD
time is a wedding band rolling away
now that the morning has come;
truth is a door at the end of the day;
mystic and wide as the sun! // (x2)

OH, LAH DI DUM… (x2) [VAST]
OH, LAH DI DUM… (x2) [VAST]

VERSE 3 [soft] :
are we like stars in the sky?;
burn for a moment then darken?;
out of the dust that remains
countless new stars will awaken!

(VERSE 1:)
firebird spreading your wings
out of the darkness light flashes
born from a circle of flames
rising again from the ashes!

[CHORUS

?(—> INSTR. VERSE?)

// what do stories mean, in the end?
why does change always come? //
what have you to give if you don’t have a friend / be it earth or the face of the sun


?[—> INSTR. VERSE?) (as needed.)

CHORUS: x2 [BOLD]
//catch me as I rise, like the sun!
seeing all beings as one! (x2)
//catch me as i rise, like the sun!
seeing all beings as one.
...seeing all beings…
4x

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OUTRO:
… x4 Firebird spreading her wings!...]

END
[--> repeat BRIDGE ]

CHORUS:
catch me as I rise, like the sun
seeing all beings as onnnn-e.

LAH DI DHUM...

catch! me as! i rah-ah-ahise, like the sun;
seeing all beings as one.
seeing all being as
seeing all beings as one - one!