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Dear ones (and twos!) here is another song I hope you like, it's titled
'Before you knew what love was'
the very capable Michael Bradford wore the engineer's cap (though as you might expect he wore it backwards) and approached the bass strings with a -hush- which was better than a -huh?- Sananda fingered and fiddled with all the rest! (and when he wasn't resting he was avoiding premature cresting!)
I wrote it in 1990 for an artist called Maxi Priest, but record company politics kept the exchange from being made. At the time they 'dreaded' the possibility... other artists over the years approached me about the song but since I was in Sony lockdown (go directly to jail and do not pass Tommy Mottola) decided to avoid more politics and kept it instead. Now it is yours and you can do what you want with it, a relic of time liberated, a prisoner of the communications war (which is always about the control of your mind, your souls' pearl) and now free to dance and skip joyfully over the Web of life that is increasingly connecting us all, just as the tree of life does.

your Maitreya!

ps A wonderful Italian artist by the name of Luisa Corna may record and release this song at some point provided of course she gets through the usual major label crap, that all Artists must endure these days.
Thank God I am FREE!

BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT LOVE WAS

My love is like fine wine
So I let her breathe
we settle into silence
With the greatest ease
My love's like a chalice
so I lick the bowl
in quiet preparation
for a life time roleBut if I slip up
she shakes my tree
by not letting me forget
when she says to meI was loving you
Before you ever knew what
Love wasMy love reads like poetry
Taken line by line
though her rhyming meter
throws me every time
My love is a flower
Of a different breed
and her fertile ground
waits for my mystic seedbut do I get it
if I lose my way
soon I do regret it
when I hear her sayI was loving you
Before you ever knew what
Love wasbut do I get it
if I miss a beat
soon I do regret it
when she says to meI was loving you
Before you ever knew what
Love was

A requiem for fading fireflies
That float around a dying flame
The changing form of all my certainties
The shape of Grace is undulating

The finger roll of fates mood indigo
OM shekinah candle burns
Mercy me and my psychology
'Here' is not where it used to be

Mike Bradford played Bass and engineered
Sananda did the programming and played the other stuff!
Written, arranged and produced by S. Maitreya

These two songs are for you! On the 30th of June, for the first time (contrary to past perceptions) I shall step in to my manhood by taking Francesca Francone to be my
Mrs Maitreya. Both of these songs I dedicate to her and all the women who have ever taken a chance that their love could salvage a man from his own disaster. They are also
Dedicated to both of our mothers Frances and Daniela and to our Divine Mother whose children we all are.

At random glancing within your eyes
They hypnotize me deeply
The faded sunset explains to me
The sympathy of Angels

The still silence that spirits wear
I see you there inside it
The sparkles dancing above your head
Is skin you've shed now Sacred

The cool september that I once knew
I see in you completely
We belong together like space and time
Like beats and rhyme
It's Sacred

Hail Mary full of Grace
I will surrender to you
Love has me in my place
Patiently waiting for you

Even if I'm wrong
I have learned that faith
Can bring me power
And I have grown strong
Standing in the stillness
Of the hour
'cause my heart
is your heart

Soul Mama full of light
I am indebted to you
Your wisdom gives me sight
Patiently waiting for you

Every little thing
That I've ever learned
Has kept me going
And that is why I cling
To the song I sing
And the peace of knowing
That my heart
Is your heart

Hail Mary full of Grace
I am enraptured by you
Stay with me as I run my race
Patiently standing by me

Hail Mary full of Grace
I will surrender to you
Love has me in my place
Patiently waiting for you

Engineered by Mike Bradford
Mixed by Dave Way
Programmed by Mike who also played Bass and Keyboards
Guitar: Louis Metoyer
Sananda: Harmonium, Keyboards, Percussion and Vocals

Dear friends, over the last easter week, I scratched my heart and these two songs fell out!
They concern many of our feelings about the recent war, they are called:
'DADDY CAN I HAVE A WAR?' and 'SHE KNOWS I'M LEAVING'
I recorded them in the beautiful hills of Florence - Italy in a studio called Larione10.
They were intended to be what they are: raw and primal because war is raw and primal.
I dedicate them to all soldiers everywhere and to those who grieve for them.
I would also like to dedicate this to the spirits of Joe Strummer and Nina Simone.

Daddy can I have a war?
I had no army before
Let me finish off what you never did
And sell it off for the highest bid

Maybe maybe maybe
The time has come
To spare the mother's babies
Who'll come back numb

Daddy can I have a war?
Our hardware must be paid for
Military mamas dishing the lead
The same hands that tuck 'em in bed

Maybe maybe maybe
The time is here
To spare the father's children
Who'll disappear

Daddy can I have a war?
Because I speak for the Lord
We must remember to preach
(Except turn the other cheek)

WRITTEN, ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND PERFORMED BY SANANDA MAITREYA
ENGINEERED BY MATTEO ROVATTI
MIXED BY SANANDA AND MATTEO
INSTRUMENTS WERE: PEARL DRUMS, EPIPHONE VIOLA BASS, GIBSON BB KING
'LUCILLE' MODEL 335, FENDER TELECASTER CUSTOM, FENDER RHODES ELECTRIC PIANO, WURLITZER ELECTRIC PIANO AND KURZWEIL K2000.
THE AMP WAS A FENDER TWIN REVERB AND VOCAL WAS A PRONOUN!

she knows I'm leaving
and might not come home
we may lose pebbles from our family stone
I'll do my duty
I won't back down
But in truth, I'd rather stay around

Please Lord
Can we come to our senses
Lord
And start mending our fences
Lord
And look through much brighter lenses
Lord

she knows I'm leaving
and prays that she
can root the branches of our family tree
my mother wears
her worries in her hair
but these are the thorns that the rose must bear

Please Lord
Can we come to our senses
Lord
And start mending our fences
Lord
And look through much brighter lenses
Lord

WRITTEN, ARRANGED, PRODUCED AND PERFORMED BY SANANDA MAITREYA
ENGINEERED BY MATTEO ROVATTI
MIXED BY SANANDA AND MATTEO
INSTRUMENTS WERE: GIBSON JUMBO CUSTOM ACOUSTIC, KURZWEIL K2000,
VOCALS



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