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我是樂凡I am Le Fan
02:48
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歷代祖先
我是阮樂凡
我現在人在很遠的所在
也不知你聽得到無
感謝你幾百年來辛苦打拼
與對我出世到長大的保庇
讓我一世人可以自由做我想做的事情
我是樂凡
我的老母姓鄭,是鄭家在台灣樹林的第七代
祖先是從河南滎陽,搬去福建泉州的河洛人
我爸爸家姓阮,爺爺從海南島木棠村
因為戰爭逃難到越南,然後搬去台灣
我在柑園長大,周遭都是農田
我記得小時候常在水稻裡面撈蝌養青蛙
還有跟阿嬤在她的的菜園子裡面種菜
我也記得媽媽跟我說他小時候的故事
在我們家旁邊的那條水溝裡面釣魚、抓蝦、撈蜆仔
大約我十歲的時候吧
周遭的田地慢慢開始蓋工廠
鋪水泥,變成了鐵皮屋
那本來清澈的水溝也被染成了深紫色
沒有生命了
When I was 11 years old we immigrated to Turtle Island
Right now I am on the traditional territories of the
Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples
Where I currently am living, creating, learning
And unpacking what it means for me to be here now
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The Lesson
04:08
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I asked the eagle for advice today
About how to spread my wings and fly away
And throw all caution to the wind
Take a leap of faith and jump right in
I heard a mother whisper to her babe
The first steps are the hardest ones to take
It's okay, if you shake
Get up and try again, you'll find the strength
So be mindful, be brave
Don't be afraid of change
You'll find the reason for your pain in time
Be grateful, be great
And don't forget to play
Go out and find what makes you feel alive
And do it for the rest of your life
I still have some questions for the ocean tide
Like how to come and go, and fall after I rise
Learn to sway, ride the waves
Let the moonlight lead the way
So be mindful, be brave
Don't be afraid of change
You'll find the reason for your pain in time
Be grateful, be great, and
Don't forget to play
Go out and find what makes you feel alive and
Do it for it for the rest of your life
The less I speak, the more I grow
The more I learn, the less I know
'Cause I don't know anything at all
And I don't know anything at all
But to be mindful, be present, and live in every moment
Don't forget compassion and be kind
Remember the lesson, that everyday's a blessing
Go out and find what sets your soul on fire
And do this for the rest of your life
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Omens and Signs
03:48
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I believe in omens like seeing a pair of ravens
Flying overhead as I'm standing at the edge
With my arms wide open facing the ocean
Saying mama if you hear me
Can you please answer my questions
Like why am I here
On this ride in the atmosphere
Sometimes it's not so clear
Where's the way through all these fears
I have read the signals like the passage of an eagle
Who leaves behind a feather
To mark the winding roads we travel
So I will go the distance over rivers and mountains
Singing mama if you hear me
Can you please answer my questions?
She whispered inside my ear saying
"Child don't you worry dear
At low tide go walk on by
On reflections like a mirror"
When I did that's when I realized
I'm walking on the sky
I'm dancing with the wind
And the heaven that we search
Is nowhere but on earth and within
So I listen to the wisdom of the trees
To grow tall I must dig deep
Look to the stars and bend in the breeze
Spend my whole life reaching towards the light
That's why I am here on this ride in the atmosphere
With time it's becoming clear
What to do with time left in these years
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Fate緣分
01:00
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我以前以為
my questions about the world would be answered by now
but they got more complicated and
大部分的時候我其實根本不知道
what’s going on
what’s going to happen
or what to do about it all
and all I can do is follow
那一線的希望
connecting synchronicities
like open doors, familiar eyes, numbers,
frozen moments,
and encounters that whisper:
這是緣分.
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Coast to Coast
02:58
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Looking at clouds upside down from between your legs
The hair falls around your face
Forget the ticking wooden clocks and running out of days
This love will find a way
From coast to coast
From land to sea
The winds may change
This love will find a way
So count the constellations of the freckles on my face
And wish upon the brightest star
Draw a map that leads to just where you are
and this love will find a place
From coast to coast
From land to sea
The winds may change
But this love will find a place
So lay your head down now on the pillow case
And dream of blue birds over rainbows
With a rope tie forget me knots all around my waist
Take my love and keep it safe
Take my love and keep it safe
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Howl On
04:07
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Fly my loves leave those long gone days behind
Your body couldn’t cage your wild heart and your mind
Soar across every galaxy in space
Sail across the milky way and I’ll see you there someday
If you run over the green grass fields to where I cannot follow
Over mountains that I thought were only molehills
Will you jump a little higher than your legs can carry you
And howl on the dark side of the moon
Ah oooh~
The night sky just got a little brighter
as you flew a little higher another star has found
A place amongst the moss on heaven’s ground
To rest the tender head of an angel looking down
If you run over the green grass fields to where I cannot follow
Over mountains that I thought were only molehills
Will you jump a little higher than your legs can carry you
And howl on the dark side of the moon
Ah oooh~
Say your last goodbye, send it down a river
It’s okay to cry, nothing lasts forever
Say your last goodbye, send it down a river
It’s okay to cry
Nothing lasts forever
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Rain to the Sea
03:07
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Let the pouring rain wash it all away
Let it wash away the dust from my shoulders and my face
Let it wash it all away
Let it wash it all away
Let it wash it all away
Let the crashing waves wash it all away
Let it wash away the dust from my shoulders and my face
Let it wash it all away
Let it wash it all away
Let it wash it all away
Will you help me take the weight
from my shoulders for a day
So I can stand up straight to see clearly
Sometimes the world around can get so heavy
And I cannot feel the ground underneath my feet
While I’m in your embrace
Will you take up my pain
In your white fingertips
And take it to the sea
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Something in the Deep
02:38
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Where did we come from?
Where will we go?
The sea erases lines drawn in sand by sticks of men
Waves have been taking footsteps since they were made on land
The rain, wrote stories through mountains,
painted skies, spun rivers and signed stone,
in places the sun has never known.
So how can words written on white paper,
with ink that blooms into dead flowers
rule over a world that cannot be owned?
Where we came from?
Where we will go?
有和在深處? (what’s in the deep?)
There’s something in the deep
水體之底 (beneath bodies of water)
We know
故事,歸屬,家鄉 (stories, belonging, home)
Home
大地中央 (center of the Earth)
河流到海洋 (from rivers to oceans)
In our bones
Listen
你聽的到嗎? (can you hear it?)
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Bodies of Water
03:47
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Have you ever wandered the lands of your ancestors?
Do you hear them calling from the center of the earth?
Do you feel alone, far away from home?
Darling don’t you know, you carry all their hopes
Oh my brothers and sisters
Does blood really run thicker
Than these bodies of water
That hold us together?
Take a moment to remember who paved all these roads
Under our feet on this journey to create a new world
Which wings made the winds that blow to these distant shores
So we can finally tell these stories they couldn’t before
Oh my brothers and sisters
Does blood really run thicker
Than these bodies of water
That hold us together?
Oh my brothers and sisters
Does blood really run thicker
Than these bodies of water
That hold us together?
So run, run, run
We ain’t done
So run, run run
We’ve just begun
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In a room of empty clocks and plastic plants,
with no windows or doors,
just one desk lamp
with a switch that says:
ON
or
OFF
How does time pass?
In a corner there’s a bed
that you can ignore or dream in for
as long as you’re awake.
Would you miss change?
To anticipate, to fear
wishing to stay
miss what won’t return
and be,
the only thing that’s unpredictable
and absolutely certain.
How would you know
without comings and goings,
which things are, have been, and always will be?
Where will you go to dive in from different shores
the abyss we return
to end, begin,forget, remember,
and move through in slow motion?
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We are perfect free from sin
From the moment we begin
We are children of the mother
Let us use her medicine
Free the birds from the cages awaken the magic
Listen and hear it in the beat and the music
It’s here with a message you’re nothing but perfect
Listen and hear it the calling from Spirit
Remember how we’re meant to be wild and free
Connect to the ground beneath our bare feet
We’re like the roots that grow in the concrete jungle
Splitting through the road on our way home
You are perfect free from sin
From the moment we begin
We are children of the mother
Let us use her medicine
I’m down to the very last second overthinking it
Wishing a river would run over me
cause nothing’s sinking in
I need oceans,
cause I’ve been floating on the surface
Gliding, hiding, the world’s got me nervous
I need medicine, I need medicine
Lose your mind and enter the vortex
Follow the trail of the white rabbit
Into a land where the clocks all
Tick without both hands and
See that time is an illusion
Let it fade away
There’s no such thing as separation
We’re all made up of space
音樂,草藥,舞蹈,祈禱,(music, medicine, dance, prayer)
治癒世世代代的恩怨,創傷 (healing generations of resentment, trauma)
土地的小孩 (Children of the Earth)
破病都是用祂的藥阿 (Heal from illness with It’s medicine)
記得家鄉/remember home
是在遠方/is far away
身在何處/where you are now
地歸原主/return the land.
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Van Lefan Vancouver, British Columbia
Lefan樂凡 is a multidisciplinary artists born and raised in Taiwan, and currently based in Vancouver,
BC
Her music is inspired by the natural world.
From the ocean waves, blowing winds, plants, and animals.
Through art, music, and movement, Lefan shares the lessons she's learned in her journey, and the experiences from her heart space.
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