Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Performed Tuesday, August 11th at Opening Bell Coffee in Dallas, Texas.
Hear more at soundcloud.com/helenaruthmusic!
Lyrics:
Alphonse speaks like a riddle-writer
Hair blond, but burning gold in the sunlight, oh
Reckless fortune, oh, Alphonse
You shape-shifter, thought-sifter, oh, half-listener
Alphonse moves like a snake on the highway
Flash bonds and acrid smoke in the twilight, oh
Reckless fortune, oh, Alphonse
You star-wisher, toad-kisser, oh, half-listener
How reckless of fortune,
To think we’d be rid of you so casually…
You and fortune,
A more careless pair there’ll never be
Alphonse speaks like a riddle-writer
Hair blond, but burning gold in the sunlight, oh
Damn our fortunes! Oh, Alphonse
You shape-shifter, thought-sifter, oh, half-listener
How reckless of fortune, oh, Alphonse
You star-kisser, dream-fisher, oh
Alphonse…
Performed Tuesday, August 11th at Opening Bell Coffee in Dallas, Texas.
Hear more at soundcloud.com/helenaruthmusic!
Lyrics:
Alphonse speaks like a riddle-writer
Hair blond, but burning gold in the sunlight, oh
Reckless fortune, oh, Alphonse
You shape-shifter, thought-sifter, oh, half-listener
Alphonse moves like a snake on the highway
Flash bonds and acrid smoke in the twilight, oh
Reckless fortune, oh, Alphonse
You star-wisher, toad-kisser, oh, half-listener
How reckless of fortune,
To think we’d be rid of you so casually…
You and fortune,
A more careless pair there’ll never be
Alphonse speaks like a riddle-writer
Hair blond, but burning gold in the sunlight, oh
Damn our fortunes! Oh, Alphonse
You shape-shifter, thought-sifter, oh, half-listener
How reckless of fortune, oh, Alphonse
You star-kisser, dream-fisher, oh
Alphonse…
![Circlejourney illuminated [broadway]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iX9lVXqmcsg/mqdefault.jpg "Circlejourney illuminated [broadway]
From i l l u, an Illuminated remix album. Free download [with TWO bonus tracks, available nowhere else] here: http://helenaruth.com/illu
Lyrics:
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i know what the city lights
do to the night sky,
when no one’s looking
but i can’t decide...
‘cause though i crave the constellations,
the fog above my head, illuminated...
i dont know how to phrase it
it’s not a dream
and i want to see everything
and i want to breathe easily
and i want to let the night sky bleed
its blacks and blues down into me,
like a moon-bleached tapestry
and i want to see everything
and i want to breathe easily
and i want to let the night sky lean...
its dappled flank down upon me,
like a flawed philosophy
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‘cause i’ve seen what the city lights
do to the night sky.
i keep an eye, out...
i can’t decide,
somehow.
‘cause though i crave the constellations
glass towers above my head, illuminated...
i don’t know how to phrase it
and though i crave the constellations
the rain, about my head, illuminated;
i’m not sure how to say it...
i don’t know how to phrase it...
it’s not a dream...
● ⦿ ◉ ⦿ ●
and i want to see everything
and i want to breathe easily
and i want to let the night sky bleed
its blacks and blues down into me,
like a moon-bleached tapestry
and i want to see everything
and i want to breathe easily
and i want to let the night sky lean,
its dappled flank down upon me...
like a flawed philosophy.
◎ ● ⦿ ◉ ⦿ ● ◎
credits:
from i l l u, released June 22, 2017
mix & production Circlejourney circlejourney.net soundcloud.com/circlejourney
lyrics, melody, & vocals Helena Ruth helenaruth.com
track art Helena Ruth
space photography sourced from NASA image libraries and edited
Creative Commons License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
illuminated [broadway] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is an arrangement of the Illuminated lyrics & melody by Helena Ruth.
Illuminated lyrics & melody by Helena Ruth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at helenaruth.com/about.")
