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Tender Wonder

by leopard zeppard

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    Listen to the album or download all 12 songs on "Tender Wonder" for free! You will be asked for your email but it is just for my curiosity! Each track has lyrics and a little tale about it...enjoy and "let me know" - leopard xxx

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Reality? 07:07
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"Reality?" as performed by Leopard Zeppard yes, stay in touch with reality, won't you? 'cos if you stay in touch its easier to touch the ones around you. yes, stay in touch with reality, won't you? 'cos if you stay in touch you can touch the ones around you. fantasy's all very well when your lost out in the woods the things you say the things you do only making sense to you but don't loose touch with reality, will you? it's true you must love and trust your imagination the tool that bends and shapes your creation the tool that is no tool, that boundless nation go on head first chasing your dreamy horizons! but believe in the love you have alway felt even when love seems to pelt you in the head not in the guts or through the eyes reaching out to touch it feels like miles... whoops! here come the ridges of pain and the slough of cynicism but don't be too hard on yourself your only human. and out of field scathing judgement and 'constructive' criticism but remember you're tired and probably coffee wired and they're not out to get you! but believe in the love you have always felt even when love seems to pelt you 'round the head not in the guts or through the eyes reaching out to touch it feels like miles... now reality is hard to define, its in the mind most of the time, but its an illusion we share and its everywhere so stay in touch and reach out and touch (and here some advice:) be with it and move it, laugh with it, play hard with it be soft all the time and vulnerable, let it show and let them know that the times we're together are as precious as the sunrise in the morning and every morning be in wonder at all you have and all you do 'cos its all you have and its never quite as good or quite as bad as it could be believe me and where ever you go well thats your home and the stars above you mean you're never alone and the lines of time are a book of wisdom you have to take with you but don't loose touch with reality breathe into your body feel the earth 'neath your feet and the air on your face and the time and the place will be one and the same with you you, you ,you , you.... (oh! go on then!) c 1996/2010 andrew j. williamson
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Traveler song 04:26
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Traveler Song written performed and produced by Leopard Zeppard a traveler, looking for friends and a home and security is still a traveler with no where to go come lay down beside me with my bridges behind me blame my age and say i don't know. the tide, patterns keep repeating all the anger in history compelled to find some where to flow but nor blind this time or drunk on innocence just filled with the bitter goddess, Hope. a stone, dragging down the witch and a boy in his labyrinth can't climb out of his own kaliedoscope. A deviant's mind finds a more deviant kind and the roots of all this deep below... deep below, deep below. c 1996/2010 by andrrew j williamson
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Spirit Walker 05:36
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Spirit Walker as performed by Leopard Zeppard spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song oh! spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song now i have this dream won't let it go that where ever i wander my song's the road so spirit walker lead me on along the pathways to the land of song i'm tired of thinking about what's going on i want to loose myself in the land of song spirit walker lead me on away from this valley to the land of song oh! spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song spirit walker lead me on along this river to the lake of song i wanna go there so bad i want to see and feel i want to float above the ground of sound i want to live there i'll take that chance i'll sing i'll dance to the lake of song the sun reflecting on the surface so wide bathe in watery whispers when i let myself plunge so spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song away from this valley so far away from home glide down to the river to the land of song oh spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song la la la la la la land of song la la la la la la land of song la la la la la la la la laaaa do do do do do do do la la la la la laaaa spirit walker lead me on across the ridges to the land of song c 1998 2010 andrrew j. williamson
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Always in Heaven (now!) 07:04
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written performed and produced by andrrew j. williamson for woodroot music c 1996/2010
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Philosophical Song 03:13
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Philosophical Song written produced and perfomed by Leopard Zeppard How many blades of grass must I watch grow? just one for a very low time... How many cuts must i see sawn? as many as you like just so long as they rhyme... And how many trees must I fell... just to keep myself warm? There is still time to relearn everything and watch the trees grow through the cracks in the road. We can walk everywhere, eat herbs and weeds, not fight birth and death and see the clear rivers flow. Well that blade of grass just grew and grew and I found myself in the garden And those cuts i made, well some of them were true and I found myself I built a little shelter. And the trees I felled had already seeded themselves, the forest will go on and on, the forest will go on and on. There is still time to relearn everything and we got to let the trees - just grow. c 1998/2010 andrrew j. williamson
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Love Me with Nothing 04:21
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Love Me With Nothing as performed by Leopard Zeppard you're my CD player, my color TV you're the rotating shelves of my tape library you're my favorite movie in the VCR you're the airbag that hides behind the wheel of my car you're the coffee grinder first thing in the morning the weather channel promising the weather is warming you're the blender that blends at the touch of a button the waste disposal that grinds my left overs to nothing so, love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all that I have in this world love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all of my heart.... you're my mock aquarium plastic shower curtain the junk mail that promises ten thousand bucks for certain you're the nuclear power in my microwave you're the lo-fat, lo-cal of my meatless entree but love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all that I have in this world love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all of my heart.... you're the door bell that chimes te yellow rose of Texas the security gate that we fit to protect us you're the late night large pizza we'll phone-in — delivered! you're my extra cheeeeese - and my free twelve ounce soda! so, love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all that I have in this world love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all of my heart... (rpt) well I think my song needs one more verse more consumer durable to tell you of my love but the credit card company just called round and the buggers took everything that I owned so, love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all that I have in this world love me with nothing, love me with nothing and I'll love you with all of my heart... c 1998/2010 andrrew j. williamson
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Going To Anyway 06:07
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Going To Anyway as performed by Leopard Zeppard on his album "Tender Wonder" well I'm going to anyway do you want to come with me don't know where I'm going do you want to come well I'm going to anyway do you want to come with me don't know how I'm going to get there love to have you along got life and learning in mind got a healing touch in hand got a strong vibrant heart want to spend some time? got a little work to do got some changes to go through it'll be more fun with you glad our paths coincide but if ever one of us must go some other path to follow some new shining goal hear another spirit call then I'll send you off with a smile support your first difficult miles keep you in my heart for a while meet you in some other form well I'm going to any way don't know where I'm going embrace the not knowing and embrace you too yes we're going to anyway so let's get started yes we're going to anyway why not come with me c 1996/2010 andrrew j. williamson
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www.iloveyou.com 04:54
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www.iloveyou.com as performed by Leopard Zeppard ten million smiling Mona Lisa's across the cosmic photocopier but this moment can't be downloaded I'll receive if you press send my head still overflowing - I never could say when into eternity clicking scrolling down till the home page ends www dot I love you dot com ten thousand fiery chariots could be a' comin for to carry me home i worked out what I want to say please don't put me on hold a fleet of screaming fire engines a thousand screaming fire men my yearning arms surrender this flaming desire I can't pretend www dot I love you dot com our very own personal blinking Jesus more info than could ever be known this urge os elemental touch stirs the chaos of the soul our tongues were made for tasting, there's power in a kiss our bodies are electric and fractal a carress www dot I love you dot com i'm tired of all the chatter, animated pixel-ated and morphed this message is throught the ether via the psychic satellite of love It just feels so easy when you hold me in your arms my eyes can see beyond me and the magic in your hands I feel the magic in your hands I feel the magic in your hands I feel the magic in your hands I feel dot com an eden of flowers, a maze of the sharpest thorns couldn't ever dispel my passion or hide the raging in my bone c 1998/2010 andrrew j. williamson
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Shaman Song 04:04
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Shaman Song as performed by Leopard Zeppard on "Tender Wonder" Gentle tender shamn I'd do anything for you my love I promise on this moutnain side will always be in my heart. And you can see in my heart and I can see your eye in the sky teach me to love my friend beautiful man, my brother. Sweet strong beautiful man, I sing my prayer for you. My love I promise in this wide desert where you become earth and sky. Magnificent earth and sky spirit I'm a small part of you, my love I promise in in this moment eternally old becomes new. Gentle tender shamnan I'm a small part of you my love I send under the silver light, the silver light of the moon, your love i feel under the silver light, the silver light of the moon, our love we share under the silver light, the silver light of the moon. c 1998/2010 andrrew j. williamson
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Old Man's Footsteps 06:45
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Old Man's Footprints written produced and performed by Leopard Zeppard i am walking through the desert i see the old man’s footprints i kneel where I am standing i know he has been here not long before looking to the horizon the afternoon sun burns above me i think he walked straight into that star a cloud swirling gold so close i feel i could stroke it with the back of my hand i climb aboard, i am not alone we see the old man’s footprints walking straight into a stone… we gaze in wonder as the stone becomes a mountain wander lightly in her meadows always following his path a stand of silver aspens softly invites simple smiles feel the deep love of trees you’re gazing at the high peaks… where the old man is sitting pure as the snow listening to the spirit clouds warm in the cold i want so much to reach him embrace his silent wisdom love your brave rich body but he needs to be alone… i feel a distance, io cannot comprehend it i want so much to rend it but you’ve heard the old man’s call in a far distant woods, sad, but shielded by the tender embrace of a canopy of leaves i see the old man’s footprints, reflecting the half moonlight in the dark mulchy soil…. i am alone but these footprints are everywhere i go they are his, they are yours’ soon… they’ll be my own andrrew j. williamson c 1996/2010
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Goddess Song 04:41
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12.
Brothers Song 08:46
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Brothers Song as performed by Leopard Zeppard i remove the mask from the man, i have no desire to conquer thee i return like a river to the sea i feel myself sink into the sand i hold your vision in my hand we stand as brothers on the ridges of the mountain, drinking like shepherds at the edge of the stream, leaf dappled light reaching for the sky feet firm on the deep dank earth for strength to be alive. we stand still bodies, together and unafraid, feeling slowly while the forrest around us changes roots branch leaf bark spirit and foundation caress and mingle as one intimate creation i remove the mask from the man, i have no desire to conquer thee i return like a river to the sea i feel myself sink into your skin i breath and let the feeling in communing with each other in moments our breath minlges memories merge and moments meld for all time, together we remember, never forgetting - we are one i am the chile within the man i only want to hold you i return like a river to your sea i feel myself skin into your sand i lift my eyes heavenwards gently swaying in the breeze earthed against the raging wind sapping up the life of spring bathing and reflecting in sky fire shifting shadows on a changing moon bejeweled with stars like spirit dust embracing and exchanging wholly life force tenderly returning to the soil i remove the mask from the man i have no desire to hurt you i return like a river to your sea i feel myself sink into your sand i hold your vision in my hand i breath and let the feeling in i lift my arms heavenwards i love you all i can c 1998/2010 andrrew j. williamson

about

This is "Tender Wonder."
An album of twelve songs recorded on Noel and Lysa's eight track tape recorder in Athens, Ga. back in April 1997. Mixed onto a hand held boom box, and then digitized on Goatboy's computer a year later. It is a delightfully and deliberately lo-fi song experiment of wit and wry observation as well as a heartfelt tour around a simple yet wide emotional landscape.
An early digital desktop music recording venture (using "cooledit") featuring a beautiful wooden alto recorder found buried in an old chestnut log barn.

Most of these songs were written between 1994 and 1996, although Traveler's Song was written the night I came back from my only Glastonbury Festival in 1990. www. iloveyou. com is an updated version of an earlier song also. The others are amusing and heartfelt responses to discovering the beauty and richness of life at Short Mountain Sanctuary. I set out to write positive songs which also acknowledged the balance of sadness as part of the full experience of life.

The album is very much dedicated to our dear friend Russell Morgan. We chased about the USA together, and then we watched him pass with AIDS. Some of these songs are directly about him and his profoundly altering love in my life.

For a while the recordings felt unfinished. I imagined other musical parts and re-recording vocals, many of which I had intended as scratch vocals to return to, but was not able to. Soon after I took a summer trip to New Mexico and California. A year later I recorded fresher versions of "Love me with Nothing" and "www. iloveyou.com" and knew the project had gotten as far as it could. Over the next few year I pressed two hundred copies, got some covers made using Jai's photography, sold a few and gave many away.  Over the years I have come to deeply appreciate the naivete and unabashed joy of the whole album and I have been told many times that copies of the disc are treasured.  

Now I consider the album a "Faerie Classic" conjured out of a certain time and place, a time of transition into a being of hope, of heart-centered communication, willing to share both our love and our pain. Over a dozen years after its initial conception, and ten years after the last copies were made I am proud to make this collection available in a download-able form.
If you like Tender Wonder and would like more Leopard Zeppard check out homemade music videos on you tube and see what's floating around on my space.

love leopard xxx

credits

released October 31, 2010

written performed and produced by Leopard Zeppard
recorded Athens Ga. April 1997
first released on woodroot records 1998
Lysa Sullivan plays flute on Shaman Song and Traveler Song.
Thanks to Noel, Jen and Matt, Micheal, Goatboy and all the countless loved ones who have in some way allowed the love and music to flow
original cover photos by Jai S. and
cover design by Zan Christensen, rabunda.com
digital cover photo little andrew yarmouth funfair 1973

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