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This track sets up the story of the album - an American musician and an English poet following their hearts to their Beloved.

Gabriella chose the lyrics from my ghazal "Beyond Doing" to make this song, and its key phrase/ experience "Heavenly Moon" as the title. Hafiz prefix's gave us our album title.

lyrics

"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." (Hafiz)

I catch your eye out of space-time, a breathless poise out of mind;
A pearl I lost and have long sought, but never dreamed I could find.

"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....."

I dance with you in my mind’s eye, and pour a rose for your mouth,
Or sip your kiss at a drunk's bar where vision comes to the blind.

"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....."

This love that draws me is so true, I lose my grip on the false:
It calls my heart from a jungle where lovers hunt but don’t find.

"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." (Hafiz)

This love that draws me is so true, my heart is aching to steal
A pearl for you from my life's shell, a nightingale from the wind.

"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....."

This love that draws me is so true, a heavenly moon in June
And bunch of red roses comes calling; I want to leave me behind.

credits

from 6 Degrees Of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love (50th anniversary album), released January 31, 2019
Lead vocal and guitar - Gabriella
Voice and drums/handclaps - Gareth

Hafiz's prefix sums up the entire story of my life and, from the sound of it, Gabriella's too.

The picture shows Gabriella at Meherabad.

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The Baba Lovers England, UK

The Baba Lovers are an Atlantic-transcending duo: English poet Gareth Calway and American singer-songwriter Gabriella Tal. The Beloved is Avatar Meher Baba, whose favourite poet was Hafiz and whose favourite poetic form the ghazal (a Persian love lyric). We met in India at the Meher Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar in 1994 and wrote a couple of songs. We reconnected online in 2016 and wrote an album. ... more

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