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Pandora
04:27
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Pandora
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
The four winds blew
Giving life to me
Bones and mud
Made my body
I am alive, breathing
Here on Olympus
The home of the gods
The home of the gods
Chorus
The beginning, being created
The plaything, the mate
For the demi god of man
Epimetheus
It is strange being alive
Looking out and seeing
This wondrous place
Yet I am alone
This place is paradise
It’s utter perfection
Yet I am kept apart
Yet to complete my role
Chorus
Bridge
The gods who created me
Say they are donating
Some gifts to me
To help me on earth
I have a feeling
I cannot explain
Just a feeling
I’m the plaything of the gods
Bridge 2
Chorus
Outro As verse
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The advice
05:54
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The advice
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
My dear Pandora
The box you have been given
Is your wedding gift
From Zeus himself
Just remember
What zeus told you
And the promise
You made, Pandora
Chorus
Don’t for get the promise you made
Unless the gods tell you
Don’t open the box my dear
Don’t open the box my dear
My Hermes, I thank you
I didn’t know
That the box was
From Zeus himself
I will treasure it
Keep it safe
and honour
the promise I made
Chorus
Bridge
My dear Pandora
The box you have been given
Is your wedding gift
From Zeus himself
I will treasure it
Keep it safe
and honour
the promise I made
Chorus
Outro
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Epimethus
03:19
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Epimethus
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
I have been told
not to accept gifts from Zeus
But Pandora is so wonderful
She’s to be my wife
I am enthralled
Excited beyond compare
She is so beautiful
The gods gift to me
Chorus
She is here
She has come
Down from Olympus
Down here to earth
Pandora is happy
She’s Zeus’s gift to me
His gift to the world
And she is now my wife
In my eyes, She is perfect
Has all the talents
She carries a golden box
With the key around her neck
Chorus
Bridge
She doesn’t know why
She has been given the box
She’s not lying to me
She realty doesn’t know
Life is wonderful
Together, united
Live here forever
here is paradise
Chorus
Outro
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On earth
04:04
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On Earth
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
Chorus
Here am I, descended to earth
Among the race of man
The wife of Epimethus
The demi god of man
Named by Zeus, Pandora
The all gifted one
To spend my time, here
The paradise, paradise
Handed just one more gift
The golden box from Zeus
Glowing and wonderful
But why, but why?
Chorus
Just one command
Never open the box
But keep it safe
Until the gods, let me know
And so it sits
under a cover in the corner
The glow subdued, muted
Just sitting there
Chorus
Bridge
Just one command
Never open the box
But keep it safe
Until the gods, let me know
Time passes, life goes on
The box sits, doing nothing
Quietly, enticing, tempting
Difficult to ignore
Chorus
Outro
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Gift of Hera
05:44
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Gift of Hera
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
There sits the box
In the corner there
Hidden under a drape
It’s just sitting there
Chorus
The gift of Hera
Not so much of a gift
The curiosity, inquisitively
Of needing to know
A wedding gift I was told
To celebrate my wedding
The golden box
But what does it contain
My mind won’t settle
I’m driven to know
What is inside?
What’s in the box?
Chorus
I’ve got to know
To sate the longing
Of the unknowing
To put it all to bed
The endless questions
Every time I set my eyes
On the box in the corner
It’s calling to me?
Chorus
Bridge
I need to know
I need to know
Does this golden key
Do what I think
There is only one way
To cure my curiosity
Fit the key in the lock
And slowly turn it
Outro
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The opening
06:26
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Aftermath
06:16
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The opening
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
Chorus
I cannot stand this
I’ve got to know
What does the box contain
Despite the promise I made
Pull the cover off
The golden glowing box
Seems to sing to me
Happy, to see the light
Wrench the chain
with the golden key
From my neck
And the key begins to sing
Chorus
Nervous As the key slides
into the lock
Turn the key
And the lid is free
Hands sweating
Gripping the edge
The lid is quite slick
And warm to the touch
Chorus
Bridge 1
Ease the lid open
A hiss and the smell
hits me right between eyes
Blinding me
Bridge 2
My eyes water
As the wind flows free
Horrified by what I’ve done
The lid I slam shut
I’m horrified
I’m transfixed
By what I have done
By what the gods made me do
But it’s too late
All have flown free
Death, sickness, greed
Anger, passion, famine and hatred
Chorus
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Hope
04:10
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Hope
© 2020 Alice Brown/Pyramid Musik, words and music by Alice Brown
I reopen the lid of the golden box
Everything seems to have gone
Yet, there is a small kernel
That is hope, left alone
It’s there alone, so fragile
Would crumble into dust
In a stiff breeze
but yet, its there, there
Chorus
Hope is the one thing
that keeps us going
There is always hope
something to cling to
In the darkest times
The light at the end of the tunnel
Hope need nurturing
Otherwise it will fade
Hope needs you to believe
That it is there
Staring at hope
Daring to believe it’s still there
Time to release, hope to the world
The antidote, to the other plagues
Chorus
Bridge
The final atonement
Done and she is free
On the eyes of other condemned
But hope is now free
Chorus
Pandora closes the lid
Like a genie out of the bottle
Mankind now has to face
the seven deadly sins
But yet there is hope
Outro
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Alice Brown Inverness, UK
Alice writes and performs all her own songs known for her use of a 12 string guitar. While she learnt to play at school, it has been in the last few years that she took her music to a wider audience.
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